High-tech device diagnoses diseases in minutes
http://www.click2houston.com/news/hightech-device-diagnoses-diseases-in-minutes/27997226
A mobile device that looks like an iPad uses a single drop of blood or saliva to diagnose some of the world's most devastating diseases. Houston pediatrician Dr. Bas Nair is the Global Medical Advisor for the Nanobiosym board, the company behind the ...
The Invisible Diseases of 9/11
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26136-the-invisible-diseases-of-9-11?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TRUTHOUT+(t+r+u+t+h+o+u+t+%7C+News+Politics)
2014 911 911 st Rescue workers conduct search and rescue attempts, descending deep into the rubble of the World Trade Center, September 15, 2001. (Photo: Jim Watson / US Navy Photo)We have money for wars but not for heroes. Today is 9/11, the ...
Ebola highlights slow progress in war on tropical diseases
http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-highlights-slow-progress-war-tropical-diseases-092907467--finance.html
LONDON (Reuters) - Some of the world's most gruesome diseases are finally getting a bit of attention. The worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which has already killed at least 2,296 people in West Africa, has triggered a scramble to develop the first drug or ...
9/11 First Responder: 'Invisible Diseases' Are Killing Us
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/09/10/911-responder-feal
?My injury pales in comparison to those who are sick and dying ? or who have died from their 9/11-related illness. These invisible diseases are literally killing these men and women on a daily basis, and sadly 2,749 innocent lives were killed on 9/11 ...
DNA analyzer identifies diseases within minutes
http://www.loadthegame.com/2014/09/11/dna-analyzer-identifies-diseases-within-minutes/
QuantumMDx, a medical device maker, has revealed a DNA Analyzer which shows how technology can be beneficial in medical science. The DNA Analyzer can identify disease within minutes of getting into contact with material containing DNA.
Google's Calico inks deal around neurodegenerative diseases
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/biotech/2014/09/google-calico-neurodegenerative-diseases-texas-2m.html
The company, which recently inked a $1.5 billion, 10-year research and commercialization deal with AbbVie Inc., said Thursday that it will work with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and 2M Cos. Inc. on neurodegenerative diseases ...
Unseen Suburban Danger: Children Dying of Mosquito-Borne Diseases
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/ped-death-vector/
The paper comes from researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Arboviral Diseases Branch, which is based in Colorado. It draws on data that state health departments sent to ArboNET, ...
Racing ahead of disease outbreaks: $12 million in new research grants
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=132570&org=NSF&from=news
Projects funded through the EEID program allow scientists to study how large-scale environmental events--such as habitat destruction, invasions of non-native species and pollution--alter the risks of emergence of viral, parasitic and bacterial diseases ...
