An Unusual Partnership to Tackle Stubborn Diseases
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/05/health/nih-joins-drug-makers-and-nonprofits-on-stubborn-diseases.html?hpw&rref=health
The National Institutes of Health, 10 large drug companies and seven nonprofit organizations announced an unconventional partnership on Tuesday intended to speed up development of drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease, Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid ...
Gipson seeks more funds for research on tick-borne diseases
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20140206/NEWS01/302060025/Gipson-seeks-more-funds-research-tick-borne-diseases
Funding for a state Lyme disease education and research institute has declined by more than 50 percent since 2008 ? from $150,000 to $69,500, the Poughkeepsie Journal reported last month. Health Commissioner Nirav Shah said the state is working to ...
The new GI Bill's strangest provisions: from surveillance to diseases
http://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/feb/06/gi-bill-strange-tuiition-surveillance-disease
The secretary of veteran affairs must make sure to notify appropriate entities about "each case of a notifiable infectious disease or condition that is diagnosed" at a veterans administration medical facility. This doesn't seem remarkable until you ...
Mysterious Diseases Without Names, Causes Unknown: Symptoms of Modern ...
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/491715-mysterious-diseases-without-names-causes-unknown-symptoms-of-modern-life/
Patients all over the world are denied the minor comfort of diagnoses for their illnesses?doctors are baffled by new diseases, and they have no name to give them or treatments to recommend. The sources of many such illnesses also have not been identified.
Vaccine barriers: 30000 adults die of preventable diseases each year
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/272251.php
She and her team, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), created a national survey of primary care physicians for 2012 to look at how they determined vaccination status and stocked the 11 recommended adult vaccines.
Dueling diseases?competing cancer causes?my cancer is worse than your ...
http://www.healthnewsreview.org/2014/02/dueling-diseases-competing-cancer-causes/
Dueling diseases?competing cancer causes?my cancer is worse than your cancer. Posted by Gary Schwitzer in Cancer, disease awareness campaigns, Social media. 1 Comment. An article on Salon, ? 'I wish I had breast cancer': The latest terrible cancer ...
Non-profit helps Sanford student battling multiple diseases
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/24648055/non-profit-helps-sanford-student-battling-multiple-diseases
A Sanford Middle School student says her family is struggling financially, because of a constant battle with life-threatening diseases. Twelve-year-old Dayna Chavarria hasn't been to school in two years, because she is ill. She uses makeup as a way to ...
Irvine Teen Assists Kids with Debilitating Diseases in India
http://www.indiawest.com/news/16725-irvine-teen-assists-kids-with-debilitating-diseases-in-india.html
Param Shah, an 18-year-old senior at Northwood High School in Irvine, Calif., is on a mission to instill a sense of hope in children who are suffering from debilitating diseases and developmental disorders in India. In April 2013, the young Indian ...
