British Drugmaker Funds Research On Chronic Disease In Africa
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/03/31/297284406/british-drugmaker-funds-research-on-chronic-disease-in-africa
One of the world's largest drugmakers says it will invest more than $200 million in Africa over the next five years in a push for better treatment of noncommunicable diseases there. GlaxoSmithKline said the funding would be focused on sub-Saharan ...
World Health Day 2014: Preventing vector-borne diseases
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/small-bite-big-threat/en/
2 April 2014 | Geneva - More than half the world's population is at risk from diseases such as malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease, schistosomiasis, and yellow fever, carried by mosquitoes, flies, ticks, water snails and other vectors. Every ...
Experts: Excess sugar consumption leads to a host of diseases
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2014/04/01/Stirring-up-a-sweet-storm/stories/201404010047
But the pediatric endocrinologist's proclamations are supported by research his team has done at the University of California, San Francisco, with steady confirmation from other scientific studies linking sugar with chronic disease and early death ...
4 Simple Things You Can Do To Help Prevent Most Diseases
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/lifestyle-medicine-treating-the-causes-of-disease.html
Though I was trained as a general practitioner, my chosen specialty is lifestyle medicine. Most of the reasons we go see our doctors are for diseases that could have been prevented. But lifestyle medicine is not just about preventing chronic disease ...
Diseases rise among besieged Palestinians in Syria
http://electronicintifada.net/content/diseases-rise-among-besieged-palestinians-syria/13294
DAMASCUS (IPS) - For just that moment, the Palestinian refugees in Yarmouk camp in Damascus made news. After months of facing starvation and death in the shadows of the Syrian civil war came packets of food and aid in January ? with cameras in tow.
Neglected Diseases: Healing the Sick Where the Market Fears to Tred
http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/04/02/partnership-targets-240-million-at-neglected-tropical-diseases/
Drugs companies donated around 1.35 billion treatments in 2013, meaning drug supply is no longer the main barrier to treating a number of the diseases. Cheap and effective drugs are available to treat many NTDs caused by parasites, but getting the ...
World Health Day 2014: Preventing Vector-borne diseases - 'Small bite, big threat'
http://health.india.com/healthcare/world-health-day-2014-preventing-vector-borne-diseases-small-bite-big-threat/
More than half the world's population is at risk from diseases such as malaria, dengue, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease, schistosomiasis, and yellow fever, carried by mosquitoes, flies, ticks, water snails and other vectors. Every year, more than one ...
Findings may help develop targeted drugs to fight cancer, neurodegenerative ...
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20140403/Findings-may-help-develop-targeted-drugs-to-fight-cancer-neurodegenerative-diseases.aspx
Dysregulation of apoptosis is implicated in cancer and neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer's disease. Zinc is known to affect the process by inhibiting the activity of caspases, which are important drug targets for the treatment of the above ...
