Two mosquito-borne diseases pose serious threat to Florida
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/06/05/two-mosquito-borne-diseases-pose-serious-threat-to-florida/
Two mosquito-borne diseases - dengue fever and chikungunya - are posing a serious threat to Florida and residents should take steps to control mosquito populations to try to limit the danger, a leading health expert said on Wednesday. The Florida ...
New Therapies for Bowel Diseases
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/new-therapies-for-a-debilitating-condition/
Inflammatory bowel diseases afflict 1.4 million Americans, typically starting in the teenage years and lasting a lifetime. But treatments for these chronic conditions are being transformed, spurred by the decoding of the human genome and a growing ...
Marijuana could treat autoimmune diseases: study
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/marijuana-treat-autoimmune-diseases-study-article-1.1816609
Building the case for the most widely used illicit drug in developed countries, researchers from the University of South Carolina have discovered marijuana's potential to treat autoimmune diseases in which chronic inflammation plays a pivotal role.
New Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease ...
http://weill.cornell.edu/news/pr/2014/06/new-jill-roberts-institute-for-research-in-inflammatory-bowel-disease-established-at-weill-cornell-m.html
Mrs. Roberts' gift will also enable Dr. Artis to recruit a team of leading scientists to work at the institute and pursue innovative research to improve treatments and preventative therapies for patients who suffer from IBD and other chronic ...
What's Causing the Upswing of Contagious Diseases in the United States?
http://www.hardhatters.com/2014/06/whats-causing-upswing-contagious-diseases-united-states/
200490829-002 When most people think of diseases such as measles and tuberculosis, they imagine Dickensian images of a bygone era before the advent of widespread vaccinations and disease ridden slums. After all, tuberculosis did to Doc Holliday what ...
A new diagnostic tool for dementia diseases
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-06-diagnostic-tool-dementia-diseases.html
A new diagnostic tool helps clinicians to differentiate between Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia and mild cognitive impairment. Presented in the doctoral thesis of MD Miguel Ángel Muñoz Ruiz at the University of Eastern Finland, the new ...
Lyme Disease's Possible Bacterial Predecessor Found in Ancient Tick
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lyme-diseases-possible-bacterial-predecessor-found-in-ancient-tick/
Ancient evidence of a familiar foe has emerged in a fossil tick infested with what appears to be spirochetes, a group of rotini-shaped bacteria responsible for many human diseases. The spirochetes in question closely resemble those of modern-day ...
Groundbreaking Documentary on Undiagnosed Diseases Seeks $150K in ...
http://www.crowdsourcing.org/document/groundbreaking-documentary-on-undiagnosed-diseases-seeks-150k-in-crowdfunding-to-change-the-future-of-medicine/32184
Groundbreaking Documentary on Undiagnosed Diseases Seeks $150K in Crowdfunding to Change the Future of Medicine. document Crowdfunding. Groundbreaking Documentary on Undiagnosed Diseases Seeks $150K in Crowdfunding to Change the ...
