Where Do Scary Diseases Like SARS and MERS Come From? Animals
http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethlopatto/2014/05/14/mers-sars-and-other-diseases-weve-acquired-from-animals/
It's caused by a kind of coronavirus, a family of diseases that also include a microbe that causes Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the viruses that cause both sicknesses are ...
New problem for patients with chronic diseases -- insurers can reject payments ...
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/05/new_problem_for_patients_with.html
View/Post Comments. WASHINGTON -- A new federal rule governing the Affordable Care Act allows insurance companies providing coverage under the law to reject premium payments from charities that help people with chronic diseases obtain health care.
MERS, SARS, And Other Diseases We've Acquired From Animals
http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethlopatto/2014/05/14/mers-sars-and-other-diseases-weve-acquired-from-animals/?ss=business
Middle-Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, has a lot in common with other emerging disease threats: we probably got it from animals. MERS has sickened at least 500 people, including two who traveled to the U.S, and has caused 145 deaths.
Doctor: Physicians must listen to patients about Lyme symptoms
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BARNSTABLE ? With blood tests for Lyme disease often turning up negative in people with persistent symptoms, it's time to look for the bacteria that causes the illness in other parts of the body, an infectious disease expert said Wednesday. "If we can ...
New headway in battle against neurodegenerative diseases
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-05-headway-neurodegenerative-diseases.html
(Medical Xpress)?Conditions which may accelerate the spread of Parkinson's disease, and a potential means of enhancing naturally-occurring defences against neurodegenerative disorders, have been identified in two new studies. Two significant ...
Samsung offers 'deep apology' and compensation to workers...
http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5716064/samsung-offers-apology-and-compensation-to-workers-who-got-leukemia
... the illnesses and deaths of some of its factory workers. In a public statement, Samsung Electronics CEO Kwon Oh-hyun said "several workers at our production facilities suffered from leukemia and other incurable diseases, which also lead to some deaths.
Vaccine clinic for high school seniors hopes to help prevent deadly diseases ...
http://www.theeagle.com/news/local/vaccine-clinic-for-high-school-seniors-hopes-to-help-prevent/article_cdc420d4-5820-5a75-82fb-094416a2aa82.html
The Brazos County Health Department is set to host its first vaccine clinic for high school seniors on May 22. Students can receive meningitis vaccines for as low as $5. The department will also sell the Tetanus, Diptheria and Pertussis vaccine, also ...
Criminal profiling technique targets killer diseases
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-05-criminal-profiling-technique-killer-diseases.html
Writing in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution, the team has shown how the maths that underpins geographic profiling can be adapted to target the control of infectious diseases, including malaria. Using data from an outbreak in Cairo, the ...
