WHO Endorses 8 Projects to Tackle Neglected Diseases
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=who-endorses-8-projects-to-tackle-neglected-diseases
Leishmaniasis Under Microscope: Kala-zar, also known as visceral leishmaniasis (VL), is the most deadly disease after malaria, afflicting hundreds of thousands of poor people in tropical countries across the world. Image: US Army Africa/Flickr ...
Study: Cover crops can ward off soybean diseases
http://thegazette.com/2014/01/09/study-cover-crops-can-ward-off-soybean-diseases/
Research conducted in Illinois indicates certain cover crops left in the ground during the winter make the soil less vulnerable to diseases that attack the leaves and root systems of soybeans planted the following spring. The three-year study, funded ...
Physician Works to Educate Blacks and Others About Life-Threatening Diseases
http://www.afro.com/sections/news/Health/story.htm?storyid=81018
And as the director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, he spends his days searching out cures for some of the most common, chronic and costly maladies that plague Americans and making those discoveries accessible ...
Sexually-transmitted diseases spread in 2012
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/8/sexually-transmitted-diseases-spread-2012/
Gonorrhea rates rose for the third year in a row in 2012, and syphilis rates rose a ?dramatic? 11 percent, due to new infections in men, according to the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The third reportable ...
America's 'New' Diseases of Poverty
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-hotez-md-phd/americas-new-diseases-of-poverty_b_4557630.html
This month we celebrate the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson's 1964 State of the Union Address, when he declared a national war on poverty. But today the poorest people living in our nation still suffer from a group of unique neglected ...
5 Modern Diseases on the Rise Because of Factory Farming
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/5-modern-diseases-on-the-rise-because-of-factory-farming/
Dr. Michael Greger states, ?Previously unknown diseases are surfacing at a pace unheard of in the recorded annuals of medicine: more than 30 newly identified human pathogens in 30 years, most of them newly discovered zoonotic viruses.? Why is this ...
OIE launches web application on wild-animal diseases
http://www.bovinevetonline.com/news/OIE-launches-web-application-on-wild-animal-diseases-239258691.html
The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) announces the public release of a newly developed web application named WAHIS-Wild Interface, available on its website. This interface contains information on non OIE-listed diseases of wild animals, ...
Sailor's military service involved diagnosing exotic diseases
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20140109/ARTICLE/140109624/-1/news?Title=Sailor-s-military-service-involved-diagnosing-exotic-diseases
Stan Cohen was a ?selective volunteer? near the end of World War II ? a Brooklyn, N.Y., native who knew he would inevitably be drafted and decided to enlist. He joined the Navy in December 1944 and was assigned to work in a hospital laboratory, where ...
