US Backs New Global Initiative Against Infectious Diseases
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/health/us-backs-new-global-initiative-against-infectious-diseases.html?hpw&rref=health
The United States government said on Thursday it would spend $40 million to help low and middle-income countries develop and improve sophisticated systems to detect and respond to threats of infectious diseases, epidemics and bioterrorism. The Centers ...
CDC: 5 ways diseases in other countries can kill you
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/13/health/frieden-global/
(CNN) -- The world is smaller and people are more mobile than at any time in history. This makes it easier than ever for what's happening anywhere on the globe to harm Americans' health. Here are five ways diseases in other countries pose a threat:.
Biotech start-up Voyager Therapeutics uses new gene therapy to attack diseases
http://www.boston.com/business/news/2014/02/12/biotech-start-voyager-therapeutics-uses-new-gene-therapy-attack-diseases/PYEsYwsIHKUkeb4M2wZKfI/story.html
A Cambridge biotechnology company launching Wednesday is taking aim at Parkinson's disease and ALS with a new gene therapy that deliberately infects patients with a virus. The firm, Voyager Therapeutics, plans to use a class of viruses known as ...
New firm Voyager to use viruses to attack diseases
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/02/13/biotech-start-voyager-therapeutics-uses-new-gene-therapy-attack-diseases/D2EPIRYQ8axzLfVtFRf7hJ/story.html
A Cambridge biotechnology company launched Wednesday is taking aim at Parkinson's disease and ALS with a new gene therapy that deliberately infects patients with a virus. The firm, Voyager Therapeutics, plans to use a class of viruses known as ...
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
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 ...
Fascinating lecture on 'Diseases That Claimed Our Ancestors'
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20140213/PC16/140219783/1006/fascinating-lecture-on-diseases-that-claimed-our-ancestors
The lecture was titled "Diseases That Claimed our Ancestors," and addressed a brief window of time during the early 1800s when one John Smith, the church clerk, kept meticulous records. Dr. Pratt-Thomas pored through these and other registries and ...
Diseases resurface with decline in vaccinations
http://www.easternecho.com/article/2014/02/diseases-resurface-with-decline-in-vaccinations
Despite the continuing technological and scientific advances in medicine, old disease threats are starting to resurface as public health problems. Some argue that we are rapidly approaching a ?post-antibiotic? era due to the increasingly bleak problem ...
US push for global fight on infectious diseases
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1103f34c-94af-11e3-9146-00144feab7de.html
The US is to launch a big push to increase international co-operation on tackling infectious diseases, warning that cross-border health risks ?have never been greater?. President Barack Obama's administration is planning to commit more than $100m in ...
