Bush Urges Renewed Fight Against Deadly Diseases in Africa
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/07/world/africa/george-bush-africa-disease-speech.html
WASHINGTON ? Former President George W. Bush made a rare return to the nation's capital on Wednesday to rally world leaders behind a public health campaign to conquer killer diseases in Africa and to forecast what he called ?the beginning of the end ...
Doctors say focus less on Ebola, more on 5 deadly infectious diseases already ...
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/doctors-say-forget-ebola-keep-watch-for-5-deadly-infectious-diseases-already-in-colorado08062014
DENVER - Health officials in Colorado are getting plenty of worried phone calls concerning Ebola, but infectious disease doctors say there are five other diseases currently in the state that you should be more worried about. "If you're going to be ...
5 Diseases That Are Scarier Than Ebola
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/08/5-diseases-are-scarier-ebola
To date, not a single person has ever contracted Ebola in the United States. The likelihood that two isolated patients will spread the disease is nearly zilch. If you're hell-bent on worrying about getting a disease, though, fear not?there are plenty ...
Ebola virus: Nine things to know about the killer disease
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/07/world/ebola-virus-q-and-a/
(CNN) -- Hundreds of people are dead as the worst Ebola virus outbreak in history sweeps through West Africa. It began as a handful of cases in Guinea in March but quickly spread to neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia. Here are nine things to know ...
NC Hospitals Review Protocols For Communicable Diseases
http://centralnc.twcnews.com/content/news/710537/nc-hospitals-review-protocols-for-communicable-diseases/
Patients with a suspected Ebola case would be treated in one of 70 or so isolation rooms which have been used over the past decade to treat other highly infectious diseases. "It's what we call negative pressure. The air flows from the corridor into the ...
York c?amp lets children with genetic diseases be 'free'
http://www.thestate.com/2014/08/06/3605454/york-camp-lets-children-with-genetic.html?sp=/99/117/
Most children with muscular diseases lose the ability to walk on their own or do other activities that are easy for others, she said. Many are in a wheelchair. Treatment for muscular diseases also can cause side effects such as weight gain, making it ...
UMMC Stands Ready to Care for Victims of Ebola, Other Communicable Diseases
http://hottytoddy.com/2014/08/07/ummc-stands-ready-to-care-for-victims-of-ebola-other-communicable-diseases/
Clint Trest, an infection preventionist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, dons personal protective gear health-care providers must wear when caring for patients with communicable diseases as infection preventionist Jennifer Harpole goes ...
The Genomics of Infectious Diseases
http://www.bio-itworld.com/2014/8/7/genomics-infectious-diseases.html
21st century genomics, a field that has transformed our understanding of biology at an incredible pace, has coincided with a period when chronic disease consumes the attention of the biomedical community. With the worst infectious diseases largely ...
