How Will Wildlife Loss Affect Diseases That Jump From Animals to Humans?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-will-wildlife-loss-affect-diseases-jump-humans-animals-180951332/
What affects a rat couldn't possibly affect us, right? Wrong. Humanity's relationship with its rodent neighbors goes back millennia, and most dangerously manifests itself in zoonotic diseases?pathogens that can jump from other species to humans and ...
Children fighting life-threatening diseases victims of cafe break-in
http://www.wyff4.com/news/report-money-for-st-jude-hospital-stolen-during-restaurant-burglary/25852338
MENTAL ILLNESS. WHEN A THIEF BROKE INTO A SPARTANBURG COUNTY CAFE.. THE IMPACT WENT FAR BEYOND THE BUSINESS. NOW.. CHILDREN FIGHTING CANCER AND OTHER DISEASES.. ARE HAVING TO PAY THE PRICE, TOO.
Deadly diseases making comeback
http://www.abqjournal.com/396129
Considering the immense risks that health workers undergo to immunize children in some of the world's most dangerous war zones, dictatorships and failed states, the fact that here in the United States, preventable diseases like measles are making a ...
Back with a Vengeance: The Trouble with Defeating Diseases
http://www.utexas.edu/know/2014/05/05/back-with-a-vengeance-the-trouble-with-defeating-diseases/
Stephen Trent and his colleagues have developed 61 new strains of genetically engineered bacteria, which may improve the efficacy of vaccines for diseases such as flu, pertussis, cholera and HPV. ?For a long time vaccinology was really a trial-and ...
Study: Women more likely to die from heart diseases than men
http://www.euractiv.com/sections/health-consumers/study-women-more-likely-die-heart-diseases-men-302014
The range of cardiovascular diseases is extensive, including strokes, hypertension and heart attacks. According to a study by the French Federation of Cardiology (FFC), heart diseases are the number one cause of death among over 65-year-old women in ...
AP PHOTOS: Rare Disease Afflicts Brazilian Village
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ap-photos-rare-disease-afflicts-brazilian-village-23602898
This is a village where the people melt away. Tucked into the sunbaked rolling hills of Brazil's midwest, Araras is home to what is thought to be the largest single group of people suffering from a rare inherited skin disease known as xeroderma ...
Fix diseases and improve yourself through gene therapy
http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/05/06/fix-diseases-and-improve-yourself-through-gene-therapy/
Advances in genetics now permit to edit one's genome relatively easily. Gene therapy is now used exclusively to fix diseases, but could soon be used by transhumanists for genetic enhancement, such as augmenting one's mental faculties or improving one's ...
MERS Shows That The Next Pandemic Is Only a Plane Flight Away
http://time.com/87767/mers-shows-that-the-next-pandemic-is-only-a-plane-flight-away/
On Feb. 21, 2003, a 64-year-old Chinese physician named Dr. Liu Jianlun traveled to Hong Kong to attend a wedding. He stayed in room 911 on the ninth floor of the Metropole Hotel. Liu, who had been treating cases of a mysterious respiratory disease in ...
