Deadly Honeybee Diseases Likely Spreading to Bumblebees
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/deadly-honeybee-diseases-likely-spreading-bumblebees-n34026
Deadly Honeybee Diseases Likely Spreading to Bumblebees. Image: Bumblebee Toby Talbot. A bumblebee alights on the bloom of a thistle in Berlin, Vt. Increasingly sick domesticated honeybee populations are infecting the world's wild bumblebees, a new ...
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: The ...
State law: ?report diseases to avoid outbreaks?
http://wthitv.com/2014/02/19/state-law-report-diseases-to-avoid-outbreaks/
And doctors are an important part of that process. The health department says it is state law to report communicable diseases if they're diagnosed. It can be devastating to the public if that law isn't followed to the letter. Reporting these diseases ...
Meningitis vs. Meningococcal: Differences in Deadly Diseases
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Meningitis-vs-Meningococcal-Differences-in-Deadly-Diseases-246391441.html
After two publicized deaths in one week, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency defined the line between meningitis and meningococcal disease to answer a vital question: should the public be concerned? On Feb. 13, Patrick Henry High ...
Exercise may slow diseases that cause blindness
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/272840.php
A new study suggests aerobic exercise may slow the progression of diseases that destroy the retina and eventually cause blindness. In mice exposed to harmful bright lights, the ones that had regularly run on treadmills had much better function in their ...
A supercomputer could change how diseases are treated
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/272975.php
The medical community has increasingly turned to genetic information to understand, treat and prevent disease in humans; but analyzing information from a single genome can take many months. Now, researchers working with one of the fastest ...
Exon Skipping: Borrowing from Nature to Treat Rare Genetic Diseases
http://blogs.plos.org/dnascience/2014/02/20/exon-skipping-borrowing-nature-treat-rare-genetic-diseases/
COST will sponsor private workshops to discuss preclinical results, try to lower regulatory hurdles for testing treatments for extremely rare variants of rare diseases, standardize testing of the proteins that indicate whether exon skipping is working ...
Top 10 Reportable Diseases In Glastonbury For 2013
http://www.courant.com/community/glastonbury/hc-glastonbury-disease-0219-20140219,0,2400577.story?track=rss
These were the top 10 reportable diseases for 2013 as compiled by the town's director of public health. Three of the top 10 diseases involved infections through tick bites. Chlamydia: 45 cases, up 22 percent from 2012. It is the most commonly reported ...
