Six local companies with drugs in clinical trials for rare diseases
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/bioflash/2014/08/six-local-companies-with-drugs-in-clinical-trials.html
The longtime presence of companies like Genzyme, Shire and Vertex in the area has helped make Cambridge and the surrounding area a world center for rare disease drug research. Here are a number of local companies ? in order from largest to smallest ...
How Ghana's Research Institute Is Tackling Cocoa Diseases, Pests
http://allafrica.com/stories/201408141365.html
According to the Executive Director of Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), Dr Franklin Amoah, the institute was established in 1938 after a farmer observed some unusual symptoms on his cocoa tree as a result of diseases, particularly the swollen ...
Ebola Drug's Apparent Success Bolsters Approach for Other Diseases
http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/Ebola-Drug-Success-Diseases/2014/08/12/id/588368/
While it's too early to say the Mapp drug works, the attention may help speed development of antibody-based treatments against other diseases, including HIV-AIDS, responsible for an estimated 1.6 million deaths globally in 2012, and drug-resistant ...
New $25M UW lab for researching, diagnosing animal diseases in dire need of ...
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/new-m-uw-lab-for-researching-diagnosing-animal-diseases-in/article_a489524e-bafe-5e12-b1c7-a1c919a3630b.html
CASPER, Wyo. ? Three years after the state spent $25 million to build a state-of-the-art laboratory at the University of Wyoming for researching and diagnosing animal diseases, the crumbling facility sits empty. The ceiling fell in, the walls are ...
Vital Signs: Maine records spike in tick-borne diseases
http://vitalsigns.bangordailynews.com/2014/08/14/home/vital-signs-maine-records-spike-in-tick-borne-diseases/
Many Mainers know about Lyme disease. But the deer tick that spreads the increasingly prevalent infection can also harbor several other diseases in its tiny eight-legged body. Maine has confirmed 103 cases of the bacterial infection anaplasmosis this ...
Ebola outbreak: Deaths from malaria and other diseases could soar while ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ebola-outbreak-deaths-from-malaria-and-other-diseases-could-soar-while-africas-overstretched-healthcare-systems-fight-the-virus-expert-warns-9667362.html
The ?collapse? of healthcare systems in West Africa because of the Ebola outbreak could lead to thousands more people dying from malaria and other diseases, a leading expert has said, with the additional death toll from malaria and other diseases ...
Ebola outbreak: Inside an infectious disease ward
http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2014/08/ebola-outbreak-inside-an-infectious-disease-ward/
As the death toll from the worst ever outbreak of the highly contagious disease has climbed to 1,013 since it was discovered in remote southeastern Guinea in March, medical workers around the world are prepping and researching equipment and techniques ...
Robin Williams Did Not Have Demons. He Had a Disease. Or Several.
http://www.newsweek.com/robin-williams-did-not-have-demons-he-had-disease-or-several-264434
?Demons? remain a convenient but debilitating euphemism, three centuries after the Scientific Revolution and long after we've discarded quasi-religious explanations for other diseases. Nobody, after all, suggests that cancer is caused by sin. Newsweek ...
