Why Bill Gates Fights Diseases Abroad, Not At Home
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/04/24/306222035/why-bill-gates-fights-diseases-abroad-not-at-home
Five hundred of the world's top innovators in global health have gathered for the Global Health Product Development Forum, an annual event in which scientists, engineers, policymakers and activists work to develop new tools for fighting diseases. Since ...
CDC: Vaccines Prevented 322M Diseases
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/24/new-cdc-report-says-vaccines-prevented-322-million-diseases-in-last-20-years.html
Congress funded the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Vaccines for Children (VFC) program, which provided free vaccinations to kids on Medicaid and those without insurance. In the twenty years since the VFC's 1994 implementation, The ...
Cold winter not slowing down tick, mosquito diseases
http://www.wmtw.com/news/cold-winter-not-slowing-down-tick-mosquito-diseases/25635566
Scientists are also finding a larger percentage of disease-infected ticks, and they said the diseases are spreading beyond Lyme disease as well. "In addition to Lyme disease, we have other tick-borne diseases now that are becoming very common in Maine ...
19th-Century Maps Tracking Major Diseases Across the United States
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/04/24/medical_maps_sidney_carney_maps_of_major_diseases.html?wpisrc=burger_bar
In a group of five maps published in 1874, Dr. Sidney H. Carney, then Associate Medical Director for the New York Life Insurance Company, used data from the company's files to represent incidences of disease in the eastern United States. The charts ...
'Bubble Boy's' mother speaks: Improving life for children with primary ...
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/04/23/bubble-boys-mother-speaks-improving-life-for-children-with-primary/
But today, thanks to medical advances made possible by studies of David's disease, children with SCID often live normal and healthy lives. ?My hope, when David passed away, my prayer at the time was that the bubble had burst for all time,? David's ...
15 Deadly Diseases that Should Terrify You
http://www.weather.com/health/deadliest-most-terrifying-diseases-20140422
At the same time, Ebola, which transmits to humans from animals deep in African forests, is ravaging parts of West Africa, reminding us that animal-borne diseases are a constant threat around the world. Many of these zoonotic diseases, as well as those ...
Rare Diseases: From Newborns to Nonagenarians
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/823291
It's impossible for front line clinicians to keep up to date on the thousands of known rare diseases, so they depend on experts such as Marshall L. Summar, MD, Chief of the Division of Genetics and Metabolism at Children's National Medical Center in ...
Life Lessons: Old diseases in young people
http://www.wfmz.com/lifestyle/Life-Lessons/life-lessons-old-diseases-in-young-people/25493302
When you think of heart attacks, strokes, or skin cancer, you probably don't think of young people. However, these serious health problems are affecting women of all ages. Meet three women who experienced health scares at ages 40, 30, and 15, that you ...
