Treating brain diseases with marijuana
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2014/04/29/treating-brain-diseases-with-marijuana/
People with some of these diseases "already have higher rates of depression and suicidal ideation than the general public," Koppel says. "If you have a brain disease like MS, for example, you may already have some depression or cognitive impairment, ...
Are diseases outsmarting modern medicine?
http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/inside-story/articles/2014/4/30/can-global-medicineresistancebestopped.html
Now, we are facing a situation where we don't have the antibiotics to treat patients because of the existence of these pan-resistant germs," said Dr. Adrian Streinu Cercel of the Matei Bals Infectious Disease Institute. The report, released Wednesday ...
As US warms, dangerous mosquito thrives
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/opinion/pagani-climate-change-mosquito-illness/
When informed about the broad health consequences of climate change, participants surveyed by the Yale Project for Climate Change Communication are more likely to engage with climate issues. In the end, disease-carrying mosquitoes don't care if you are ...
The 'Post-Antibiotic Era' of Drug Resistant Disease Is Almost Here
http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/04/the-post-antibiotic-era-is-almost-here/361429/
Get ready to crawl into a hole, forever: Gonorrhea, urinary tract infections, and pneumonia are just some of the infectious diseases that are becoming resistant to antibiotics, a new report finds. The newly-released World Health Organization document ...
Wildlife Decline Leads to Surge in Diseases
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=00100021AARD
Using the East African savanna ecosystem as their laboratory, scientists compared the effect of large wildlife presence on rodent populations and Bartonellosis, a group of bacterial pathogens. They concluded that declines in large wildlife can cause an ...
Cure for 'silent killer' remains elusive
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/chagas-disease-cure-remains-elusive/
April 30, 2014 ? Barbara Burleigh, associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases, studies Chagas disease, a leading cause of infectious heart failure. The disease is a major health and economic burden in Latin America, where it's endemic ...
Stem Cells from a Diabetes Patient
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/526911/stem-cells-from-a-diabetes-patient/
A series of breakthroughs in cloning technology over the last year and a half are stoking hopes that cells could be used as treatments for patients with chronic, debilitating diseases such as diabetes and Parkinson's. In January 2013, researchers at ...
OUR OPINION: Once preventable diseases making comeback in US
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2014/may/01/our-opinion-once-preventable-diseases-making-in/
And health officials are seeing a growth in the number of cases of whooping cough, another disease once though largely eradicated. Even mumps, a viral disease 99 percent eliminated, is making a small comeback, with more than 200 cases reported in ...
