Justina Pelletier And The Complexity Of Rare Diseases
http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2014/03/27/rare-disease-laurie-edwards
Pelletier is a 15-year-old Connecticut teenager whose odyssey began when her medical team at Boston Children's Hospital disagreed with the diagnosis of mitochondrial disease, a rare genetic disease that Pelletier's older sister is also diagnosed with ...
MICHAEL NOONAN True wellness means restoring health instead of attacking ...
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/03/27/health/true-wellness-means-restoring-health-instead-of-attacking-disease/
We are urged to have to all kinds of screenings, including blood tests, X-rays, yearly physicals, etc., so diseases can be detected early. We are bombarded with drug ads. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 75 percent of medical visits ...
Ohio aims to curb chronic diseases
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/03/27/state-aims-to-curb-chronic-diseases.html
If the state has its way, there will be fewer overweight Ohioans by 2020, fewer teens who smoke and more residents who exercise every day. Yesterday, state health officials released ?Ohio's Plan to Prevent and Reduce Chronic Disease,? which took more ...
The CDC reported 189 cases of measles in 2013 ? the second most since 2000 ...
http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/inside-story/articles/2014/3/25/is-the-rise-in-preventablediseasestiedoftheantivaccinationmoveme.html
Forty-five students, staffers and others associated with Ohio State University are at the center of a mumps outbreak this week. It is suspected that the highly contagious disease has spread to more than 18 other people not affiliated with the school.
Running for Rare Diseases
http://www.boston.com/blogs/sports/runalong/2014/03/running_for_rare_diseases.html
Years ago when my friend was dealing with this, I had not heard of NORD, the National Organization of Rare Diseases. I have since learned of the organization and more recently learned about the team running the Boston Marathon and fundraising for this ...
New strain of rice may help combat obesity and other diseases
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20140327/New-strain-of-rice-may-help-combat-obesity-and-other-diseases.aspx
In recent years, Okinawa has recorded the dubious distinction of having the highest obesity rate in Japan. Preventing obesity-related diseases is an urgent issue. Professor Hidetoshi Saze of the OIST Plant Epigenetics Unit is leading a new research ...
Quality early childhood programs help prevent chronic diseases in later life ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-03-quality-early-childhood-chronic-diseases.html
"Abecedarian shows that investing in early childhood programs that offer a nurturing and stimulating environment, together with health care and nutritional components, can promote health and prevent disease. It also shows that an integrated ...
Sunday Driver Gene Headed The Wrong Way In Inherited Muscle Diseases
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1113106100/sunday-driver-gene-headed-the-wrong-way-in-inherited-muscle-diseases/
Skeletal muscle cells with unevenly spaced nuclei, or nuclei in the wrong location, are telltale signs of such inherited muscle diseases as Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, which occurs in one out of every 100,000 births, and centronuclear myopathy ...
