Quick new approach catches scary diseases, CDC says
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/quick-new-approach-catches-scary-diseases-cdc-says-2D12024647
?We are all connected by the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe, and stopping outbreaks where they start is the most effective and the least costly way to save lives,? Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Philippines on watch for infectious disease outbreaks
http://www.irinnews.org/report/99556/philippines-on-watch-for-infectious-disease-outbreaks
Makeshift latrines, crowded evacuation centres and non-immunized children -- all potential conduits of disease. MANILA, 29 January 2014 (IRIN) - Health officials are on alert to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in areas stricken by Typhoon Haiyan.
AstraZeneca Ends Tropical-Disease Research
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303519404579352322664940310.html
AstraZeneca was among 13 pharmaceutical companies that signed up to a coordinated push in 2012 toward eradicating or controlling 10 neglected tropical diseases by 2020. Under the auspices of the U.S., U.K. and United Arab Emirates governments, the ...
Researchers reverse some lung diseases in mice by coaxing production of ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-reverse-lung-diseases-mice-coaxing.html
It may be possible one day to treat several lung diseases by introducing proteins that direct lung stem cells to grow the specific cell types needed to repair the lung injuries involved in the conditions, according to new research at Boston Children's ...
How Vaccine Fears Fueled The Resurgence Of Preventable Diseases
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/01/25/265750719/how-vaccine-fears-fueled-the-resurgence-of-preventable-diseases
For most of us, measles and whooping cough are diseases of the past. You get a few shots as a kid and then hardly think about them again. But that's not the case in all parts of the world ? not even parts of the U.S.. As an interactive map from the ...
Big data firm to help NIH's Undiagnosed Disease Program commercialize its ...
http://medcitynews.com/2014/01/big-data-firm-will-help-nihs-undiagnosed-disease-program-make-genetic-analysis-methods-available-others/
Share This Story. DNA data With help from a health IT firm, the NIH's Undiagnosed Disease Program hopes to make the sophisticated genetic analysis methods it developed to identify underlying causes of challenging diseases available to other institutions.
At least four Marlboro Men have died of smoking-related diseases
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-marlboro-men-20140127,0,5415405.story
Today, the reality about the Marlboro Man is darker: At least four actors who have played him in ads have died of smoking-related diseases. The latest was Eric Lawson, 72, who appeared in Marlboro print ads from 1978 to 1981. He died in San Luis Obispo ...
NJ health push targeting 'winnable battles' against chronic diseases
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20140129/NEWS01/301290018/N-J-health-push-targeting-winnable-battles-against-chronic-diseases
CAMDEN ? New Jersey is launching a five-year effort to tackle chronic diseases, the state's top health official said at Cooper University Hospital Tuesday. In its ?Partnering for a Healthy New Jersey? initiative, the Department of Health plans to work ...
