Iowa Senate eases some penalties for transmitting infectious diseases
http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/state-and-regional/iowa-senate-eases-some-penalties-for-transmitting-infectious-diseases/article_e9c269c0-0b2d-5f24-bf84-4b56848acad4.html
DES MOINES | The Iowa Senate voted 48-0 Thursday to modify a state law addressing the transmission of contagious and infectious diseases in a way that backers said would still punish reckless behavior but also encourage treatment and testing for HIV ...
Texas Brothers Diagnosed With Rare, Deadly Disease
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/texas-brothers-diagnosed-rare-mystery-disease/story?id=22654224
... disorders through programs of education, advocacy, research, and service. We'll be joined by the National Organization of Rare Diseases and the Alport Syndrome Foundation as well as hundreds of organizations that represent individual orphan diseases.
Rare Diseases in Children Pose Unique Challenges
http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2014/02/rare-diseases-in-children-pose-unique-challenges/
Rare diseases ? those that affect fewer than 200,000 people in the United States but collectively affect 30 million Americans ? are often chronic, progressive, debilitating, and life-threatening. Because most are genetic in origin, they ...
Coping With Infectious Disease
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/opinion/coping-with-infectious-disease.html?hp&rref=opinion
The list of infectious diseases that could leap from remote areas of the world to strike countries thousands of miles away is growing. A warning of what can happen occurred a decade ago when an outbreak in China of a mysterious new viral disease, known ...
Pneumococcal disease, whooping cough, campylobacteriosis most common ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-02-pneumococcal-disease-whooping-campylobacteriosis-common.html
The population is ageing. Data of notifiable infectious diseases among those aged 65 years and older have been analysed by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. The results show that invasive pneumococcal disease was the most common infectious ...
Bad News for Bumblebees: Disease Spreading From Honeybees
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140227-bumblebee-honeybee-disease-declines-science-pollinators-disease/
Honeybees have gotten a lot of sympathy for their mysterious declines. But a recent study has shown that the honey-makers are spreading their worst diseases to their cousins the bumblebees. A study published online this week in Nature clearly revealed ...
Ramis battled complications of rare autoimmune disease
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/24/vasculitis-harold-ramis-autoimmune/5786037/
Filmmaker Harold Ramis, who died Monday at age 69, suffered from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, one of more than 15 rare autoimmune diseases that can often be difficult to diagnose. He died from complications of the condition. Ramis battled ...
Polio-Like Disease Appears in California Children
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/polio-illnesses-called-rare-phenomenon-22659176
An extremely rare, polio-like disease has appeared in more than a dozen California children within the past year, and each of them suffered paralysis to one or more arms or legs, Stanford University researchers say. But public health officials haven't ...
