June 27, 2014

5 Diseases You Can Get From Being Bitten?By A Human
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/5-diseases-you-can-get-being-bitten-human-suarez-180951847/
Here are five diseases than can be spread from bites: 1. Infections. Human mouths contain high levels of bacteria, especially of the variety that can infect human tissues. And bites quite effectively transfer these bugs. "The bacterial inoculum"?that ...


Mom excited about new camp for children with chronic diseases
http://www.heritage.com/articles/2014/06/26/dexter_leader/news/doc53aa03c979725153220136.txt
Mary Ann Fithian and her daugther Faith Falzon, 8, pose with former U-M football player Jake & Jackie Long at a fundraiser June 7 to benefit North Star Reach, a camp for children with chronic diseases and handicaps that will be built north of Dexter on ...


Human Longevity Supports Innovation to Advance Treatment of Cancer, Other ...
https://www.dddmag.com/news/2014/06/human-longevity-supports-innovation-advance-treatment-cancer-other-diseases
HLI is dedicated to changing the practice of healthcare and to positively impacting aging and age-related diseases using advances in genomics and stem cell therapies. The company is building the largest human genome sequencing operation in the world to ...


Flowcharts Reveal How Common Diseases Progress
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/06/24/flowcharts-reveal-how-common-diseases-progress/
Certain diseases tend to occur in groups ? diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure, for instance. This much is well known. But less well known is how one disease progresses to another. Does the diabetes come first or last? Such information could be ...


Physician Focus: Heightened alert on infectious disease
http://westborough.wickedlocal.com/article/20140624/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/140628505/12446/LIFESTYLE
This year, however, public health officials are raising additional alarms on two other fronts: the resurgence of vaccine-preventable illnesses and the introduction of infectious diseases from other countries. Infectious diseases affect hundreds of ...


'Potential for a Public Health Disaster': Illegal Immigrant Surge Leaves ...
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/24/potential-for-a-public-health-disaster-illegal-immigrant-surge-leaves-officials-with-no-idea-which-diseases-are-coming-across/
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is really no hard stop at the border, and we have no idea health-wise what diseases are coming across,? a health official who works in the McAllen border area told TheBlaze. ?There's no real medical screening either. Basically if [an illegal ...


How Anti-Gay Laws Worsen Diseases Like AIDS and TB
http://www.newsweek.com/how-anti-gay-laws-worsen-diseases-aids-and-tb-256145
So preventing these patients from getting HIV/AIDS treatment also means that lots of people won't get treatment for other communicable diseases. ?When you undermine HIV programs you undermine programs for these important diseases as well,? Beyrer ...


It's Peak Tick Season: 7 Ways To Prevent Tick-Borne Disease
http://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2014/06/22/its-peak-tick-season-7-tips-for-preventing-tick-borne-disease/
And now's the time to be vigilant ? it's the height of tick season and tick-borne diseases pose a major risk in many places. In recent weeks, health commissioners in states including Indiana, Missouri, and New York have issued alerts for a high-risk ...