First-Ever Full Sequencing of Unhealthy Genomes Illuminates Disease Roots - Popular Science 1268329901|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 Reuters |
First-Ever Full Sequencing of Unhealthy Genomes Illuminates Disease Roots
Popular Science Dr. James R. Lupski Dr. Lupski, who suffers from the disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy, ... Disease Cause Is Pinpointed With Genome Geneticist sequences own genome, finds genetic cause of his disease Genome find brings hope on killer diseases |
Common Heart Test Often Fails To Find Disease - NPR (blog) 1268316906|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Common Heart Test Often Fails To Find Disease
NPR (blog) A big study says most patients without known heart disease who undergo coronary angiography don't have clogged arteries after all. ... |
Family DNA Maps May Speed Disease-Gene Discoveries, Doctors Say - BusinessWeek 1268307434|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 KIMA CBS 29 |
Family DNA Maps May Speed Disease-Gene Discoveries, Doctors Say
BusinessWeek Two US research teams conducted independent, genome-wide studies to pinpoint the mutations responsible for three rare diseases. ... Patient Genes Unravelled Sequencing one's DNA – hope for the future Individual, family gene studies help locate causes of inherited diseases |
Growth of Chronic Kidney Disease Highlights Need for Early Detection, Greater ... - MarketWatch (press release) 1268316395|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 The Hindu |
Growth of Chronic Kidney Disease Highlights Need for Early Detection, Greater ...
MarketWatch (press release) About 40 percent of people with diabetes will develop chronic kidney disease, which also increases the risk of cardiovascular or other complications(4). ... Prevent kidney disease: Do three tests World Kidney Day: 1 in ten people in Goa has kidney disease Give Special Attention to you're Kidney's Health on World Kidney Day |
Study: Smoking helps lower risk of Parkinson's disease - AnnArbor.com 1268328657|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Study: Smoking helps lower risk of Parkinson's disease
AnnArbor.com Smokers appear to have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease, according to recent studies. Reuters reported the findings shouldn't be taken as a ... |
Broad Institute's Lander awarded Albany prize - Boston Business Journal 1268342390|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 Fox11online.com |
Broad Institute's Lander awarded Albany prize
Boston Business Journal ... diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease, and less common genetic conditions such as progeria (premature aging) and Huntington's disease. ... Genetic researchers win $500K US medical prize 'Human Genome' researchers win AMC prize 3 scientists involved with the Human Genome Project win Albany Med's $500K prize |
CDC says genital herpes is still a 'serious health threat' - CNN 1268244371|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 dBTechno |
CDC says genital herpes is still a 'serious health threat'
CNN The herpes simplex 2 virus is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the United States, ... Herpes Infects One in Six Americans Sexual transmitted diseases infect millions of people in US Herpes Affects 16% People in US |
McCormick expands recall of some products - The Associated Press 1268342053|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
McCormick expands recall of some products
The Associated Press For information on food safety, visit the Centers for Disease Control Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/food/safety.htm. ... |
Hard to Treat Diseases (HTDS) Acquired Varicella Approval in Guatemala - PR Newswire (press release) 1268334334|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Hard to Treat Diseases (HTDS) Acquired Varicella Approval in Guatemala
PR Newswire (press release) 1 in 50 cases chickenpox associates with complications such as pneumonia and encephalitis, and both diseases report high mortality rate. ... |
XOMA Reports 2009 and Fourth Quarter Financial Results - CNNMoney.com (press release) 1268341881|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
XOMA Reports 2009 and Fourth Quarter Financial Results
CNNMoney.com (press release) XOMA 052 is a novel anti-inflammatory approach to the treatment of Type 2 diabetes and cardio-metabolic diseases," said Steven B. Engle, XOMA's Chairman and ... |
Celebrities can put face on diseases - The Birmingham News - al.com (blog) 1268310599|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 The Birmingham News - al.com (blog) |
Celebrities can put face on diseases
The Birmingham News - al.com (blog) Michael J. Fox and his wife, Tracy Pollan, shown here at a benefit for his Parkinson's disease foundation, helps raise money for ... |
InterMune: Pulmonary Fibrosis Drug Could Open Doors, Expand the Product Pipeline - Seeking Alpha (blog) 1268345155|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 dBTechno |
InterMune: Pulmonary Fibrosis Drug Could Open Doors, Expand the Product Pipeline
Seeking Alpha (blog) The symptoms and findings are not exclusive to IFP, but present in many other lung diseases. IPF is characterized by abnormal and excessive deposition of ... InterMune Shares Soar After FDA Panel Backs Lung Disease Drug InterMune (ITMN) Bulls Waiting on FDA |
The Other Health Care Debate - Huffington Post (blog) 1268334290|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
The Other Health Care Debate
Huffington Post (blog) We should not be deciding which diseases to treat and which to shortchange. The real question is how to advance global health most effectively. ... |
Harvard Medical School's 2010 Annual Report on Prostate Diseases - HealthNewsDigest.com 1268251883|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Harvard Medical School's 2010 Annual Report on Prostate Diseases
HealthNewsDigest.com By Harvard Health Publications (HealthNewsDigest.com) - BOSTON—Harvard Medical School today released its first ever Annual Report on Prostate Diseases, ... |
Disease Sources Become Clearer - Daily Beast 1268306534|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Disease Sources Become Clearer
Daily Beast A Houston researcher, who himself suffers from a recessive genetic disease, conducted one study. "We tried every other method for 25 years to find out which ... |
Minorities More at Risk of Suffering from Alzheimer's Disease, Report Stresses - TopNews United States 1268138313|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 USA Today |
Minorities More at Risk of Suffering from Alzheimer's Disease, Report Stresses
TopNews United States A new report has stressed that with deaths from heart diseases and many forms of cancer steadily dipping, living longer has managed to put more and more ... Alzheimer's 'Epidemic' Hitting Minorities Hardest New Report Says Hispanics Are One and One-Half Times More Likely to Have ... |
Push to Cure Rare Diseases - Wall Street Journal 1268183176|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Push to Cure Rare Diseases
Wall Street Journal They are leaving Washington to help drug makers take a crucial step in developing drugs for rare diseases. Twins Addison, left, and Cassidy Hempel, ... FDA Sponsoring Workshops To Increase Rare Disease Treatment Options Not 'War and Peace' But Orphan-Drug Applications Are Few FDA pushes for cures for orphan diseases |
One more genome decoded, this one for Oscar week: Glenn Close's - Los Angeles Times (blog) 1268329629|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
One more genome decoded, this one for Oscar week: Glenn Close's
Los Angeles Times (blog) "My hope is that researchers will unravel the genetic aspects of mental illnesses to bring greater awareness about the diseases, de-stigmatize them and pave ... Glenn Close Is First Identified Woman to Have Genome Mapped Illumina and Glenn Close Announce the First Full Coverage DNA Sequencing of a ... |
Breast cancer a disease, not a marketing opportunity - Times and Transcript 1268301676|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 Health Care N Diet |
Breast cancer a disease, not a marketing opportunity
Times and Transcript So we should have expected that breast disease such as cancer would be subject to different treatment than other diseases. Still, some of the breast cancer ... Coping with breast cancer |
Shining a light on kidney disease - Omaha World-Herald 1268343556|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Shining a light on kidney disease
Omaha World-Herald The day, marked Thursday by a number of kidney-disease societies, particularly the International Society of Nephrology, the American Society of Nephrology ... |
American Diabetes Association Alert Day is March 23 - Battle Creek Enquirer 1268320080|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
American Diabetes Association Alert Day is March 23
Battle Creek Enquirer Therefore, early diagnosis is critical to successful treatment and delaying or preventing some of its complications such as heart diseases, blindness, ... |
Dr. Barton Childs, Who Studied Inherited Diseases, Is Dead at 93 - New York Times 1268112515|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Dr. Barton Childs, Who Studied Inherited Diseases, Is Dead at 93
New York Times Dr. Barton Childs, a founder of pediatric genetics and an important contributor to the understanding of inherited diseases, ... |
StemCells, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2009 Financial Results - CNNMoney.com (press release) 1268305574|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 The Hindu |
StemCells, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2009 Financial Results
CNNMoney.com (press release) Retinal degeneration leads to loss of vision in diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). These findings were presented at the Association ... A Year Since Obama's Lifting of Ban on Stem Cell Funding, Boston Team Ready to ... Dr. George Daley: Stem Cell Research Stem Cells Technologies in Medicine of the 21st Century |
Non communicable diseases recognised as major cause of premature deaths in ... - MediaGlobal 1268342121|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 MediaGlobal |
Non communicable diseases recognised as major cause of premature deaths in ...
MediaGlobal By MediaGlobal 11 March 2010 [MediaGlobal]:Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart diseases, diabetes, cancer and respiratory diseases account for ... |
Allon's Phase 1 Trial Broadens Davunetide's Intranasal Safety and Dose Range - MarketWatch (press release) 1268316394|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Allon's Phase 1 Trial Broadens Davunetide's Intranasal Safety and Dose Range
MarketWatch (press release) These clinical results support the advancement of davunetide at higher dosage levels in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's ... |
Sugary drinks cause diabetes and heart disease cases to climb - Celebrities With Diseases 1268123148|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 TheMedGuru |
Sugary drinks cause diabetes and heart disease cases to climb
Celebrities With Diseases The report, which was presented at the 50th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention in San Francisco, stated that the huge ... Report Blames Sugary Drinks for Part in Diabetes, Heart Disease Avoid Sugary Drinks to Prevent Diabetes and Heart Diseases Sugary drinks raise diabetes, heart disease risk--study |
FDA helping drug companies develop treatments for orphan diseases - Scope (blog) 1268339522|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
FDA helping drug companies develop treatments for orphan diseases
Scope (blog) And when coupled with the word “disease,” it's downright scary. The truth is I had never heard of the term “orphan disease” before being diagnosed with a ... |
Disease affects men 3 times more than women - Today's THV 1268341444|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Disease affects men 3 times more than women
Today's THV While blood in urine is a common cause for many other diseases, Bozeman says in elderly men, many times urologists will first suggest bladder cancer. ... |
New Alzheimer's test offers better opportunities for early detection - EurekAlert (press release) 1268322270|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
New Alzheimer's test offers better opportunities for early detection
EurekAlert (press release) KNOXVILLE – Early detection is key to more effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of cognitive impairment, and new research shows that ... |
K-State gets grant to study emerging diseases - BioPrepWatch.com 1268318235|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
K-State gets grant to study emerging diseases
BioPrepWatch.com ... State University to partner with the Department of Homeland Security in creating a Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases. ... |
What effects will climate change have on wildlife? - ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) 1268254367|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
What effects will climate change have on wildlife?
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) Awareness has been growing in recent years about zoonotic diseases—that is, diseases that are transmissible between animals and humans. ... |
Thyroid disease may create a life of ups and downs - Los Angeles Daily News 1268269042|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Thyroid disease may create a life of ups and downs
Los Angeles Daily News Torrance based Dr. Kent Holtorf, with his therapy dog Sparky, is a nationally recognized expert on thyroid disease. ... |
Newly Funded Diabetes Companies 'Doing Well By Doing Good' - Wall Street Journal (blog) 1268330771|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Newly Funded Diabetes Companies 'Doing Well By Doing Good'
Wall Street Journal (blog) A growing focus on managing diseases more effectively to control long-term health care costs has boosted the prospects for ... |
Swine Flu spreads slower than seasonal flu - TopNews 1268343230|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 RTE.ie |
Swine Flu spreads slower than seasonal flu
TopNews A new study published in the April issue of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases suggests that the H1N1 swine flu spreads at a slower rate than that ... Was the flu fracas a flop? CDC Assesses The Hard Lessons Of H1N1 One Year Later: What Have We Learned from H1N1? |
Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha (blog) 1268334806|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha (blog) Avid Radiopharmaceuticals is a leader in the development of molecular imaging products to enable early diagnosis and prognosis of neurodegenerative diseases ... Safeguard Scientifics Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2009 Financial Results |
Clinton, Gates say US help abroad improves image - The Associated Press 1268254150|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 AFP |
Clinton, Gates say US help abroad improves image
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton and Bill Gates said Wednesday that US investments in fighting AIDS, malaria and other diseases in underdeveloped nations save ... Former President Clinton, Bill Gates Encourage US Global Health Investment At ... Clinton and Gates Offer Peace Formula The Gates and Clinton show |
At Large : Measles: Not ordinary, not common / Rina Jimenez-David - Inquirer.net 1268342484|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
At Large : Measles: Not ordinary, not common / Rina Jimenez-David
Inquirer.net In my time, a period that covers my childhood and the years when my children were themselves quite young, diseases like measles, ... Department of Health warns against measles |
£100000 to help kidney disease - WalesOnline 1268299480|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
£100000 to help kidney disease
WalesOnline Raj Aggarwal, chairman of the Kidney Wales Foundation trustees, said: “Awareness of kidney diseases is low, with many people totally underestimating the ... |
Development goals go 'off track' - The Press Association 1268321968|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Development goals go 'off track'
The Press Association More than two million children under five die of vaccine preventable diseases every year. The money will go to the GAVI Alliance - formally the Global ... |
Chronic pain: Australia's 'shameful' situation - ABC Online 1268288839|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 ABC Online |
Chronic pain: Australia's 'shameful' situation
ABC Online "I think it's long overdue for us to recognise that chronic pain is one of the largest undiscovered diseases - not just in Australia but worldwide - [and ... |
The Institute for Defense and Business, in Partnership with WellDoc, Inc., to ... - PR Newswire (press release) 1268320103|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
The Institute for Defense and Business, in Partnership with WellDoc, Inc., to ...
PR Newswire (press release) The purpose of this symposium is to bring together stakeholders in the management of chronic diseases in the armed forces, among military veterans, ... |
Effort Aims to Spike Breast Cancer With New Approach - PR Newswire (press release) 1268330360|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Effort Aims to Spike Breast Cancer With New Approach
PR Newswire (press release) TD2 is uniquely positioned to support the need for improved and accelerated development of new chemical entities (NCE's) for life-threatening diseases. ... |
Parliament removes time limit on asbestos claims - ABC Online 1268341726|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Parliament removes time limit on asbestos claims
ABC Online The legislation lifts a three-year limitation for sufferers of dust-related diseases such as asbestosis, mesothelioma and silicosis to lodge a claim. ... |
Searching for Commonalities between Two Deadly Lung Diseases - NCI Cancer Bulletin 1268178360|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Searching for Commonalities between Two Deadly Lung Diseases
NCI Cancer Bulletin The majority of these tobacco-related deaths are caused by two diseases: lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). ... |
CDC: MSMs Hardest Hit by HIV, Syphilis - EDGE Boston 1268326530|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
CDC: MSMs Hardest Hit by HIV, Syphilis
EDGE Boston A new analysis from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention reaffirms previously studies that show that younger MSMs (men who have ... |
Cellzome Lands Big GSK Deal: €475M for Inflammatory Diseases - BioWorld Online 1268180306|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Cellzome Lands Big GSK Deal: €475M for Inflammatory Diseases
BioWorld Online That makes it possible to come up with "superselective, next-generation" hits, and opens the door to address chronic degenerative diseases, ... Cellzome partners with GSK on inflammatory diseases GSK And Cellzome Ink A Second Multi Million Pound Pact Cellzome Announces Second Major Strategic Drug Discovery Alliance with ... |
Insurers test health plans that stress patient choices - USA Today 1268285681|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Insurers test health plans that stress patient choices
USA Today "If we know that 60% to 70% of cost stems from chronic diseases, and we can keep a diabetic on point so they don't (fall ill) and go to the emergency ... |
MDCT Coronary Angiography - Express Healthcare (blog) 1268304299|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 Express Healthcare (blog) |
MDCT Coronary Angiography
Express Healthcare (blog) Heart disease is the single largest cause of mortality and morbidity amongst all diseases. As India's economy is flourishing, there appears to be a rise in ... |
'Animals transmit more diseases to humans' - Daily Monitor 1268254924|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
'Animals transmit more diseases to humans'
Daily Monitor Members of the Eastern Africa Centre for Infectious diseases meeting in Kampala recently said such centres should be established in each country where ... |
Omni Bio Pharmaceutical, Inc. Hosts Panel on Alpha-1-Antitrypsin ("AAT") at ... - CNNMoney.com (press release) 1268337983|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Omni Bio Pharmaceutical, Inc. Hosts Panel on Alpha-1-Antitrypsin ("AAT") at ...
CNNMoney.com (press release) Omni Bio has been advancing proprietary therapeutics targeting bacterial and viral diseases, biohazards, diabetes and transplant rejection since February ... |
Cytokinetics Announces Orphan Drug Designation Granted to CK-2017357 for the ... - CNNMoney.com (press release) 1268224586|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Cytokinetics Announces Orphan Drug Designation Granted to CK-2017357 for the ...
CNNMoney.com (press release) Skeletal sarcomere activators have demonstrated pharmacological activity in preclinical models that may lead to new therapeutic options for diseases ... |
5 Vitamin Truths and Lies - Reader's Digest 1268337581|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
5 Vitamin Truths and Lies
Reader's Digest The data showed that multivitamin-takers are no healthier than those who don't pop the pills, at least when it comes to the big diseases—cancer, ... |
AIDS virus found to hide in bone marrow - Catholic Online 1268332783|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
AIDS virus found to hide in bone marrow
Catholic Online Of all diseases, AIDS is one of the most insidious. It can hide undetected in organs to strike anew in patients. ... |
mspecLINE: bridging knowledge of human disease with the proteome - 7thSpace Interactive (press release) 1268297917|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
mspecLINE: bridging knowledge of human disease with the proteome
7thSpace Interactive (press release) However, thesedatabases lack information about human disease for researchers studyingdisease-related proteins. We have developed mspecLINE, ... |
Washington U to Fund Genomic Data Center Expansion with $14M Stimulus Grant - GenomeWeb Daily News 1268304775|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 Washington University Record |
Washington U to Fund Genomic Data Center Expansion with $14M Stimulus Grant
GenomeWeb Daily News The center is carrying out some initial investigation of samples of patients with metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, and visual disorders, ... $14 million in stimulus funds to Washington University for construction |
UN aid officials warn of fears of water-borne diseases in flooded Kenya - UN News Centre 1268252454|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 UN News Centre |
UN aid officials warn of fears of water-borne diseases in flooded Kenya
UN News Centre 10 March 2010 – The recently flooded regions of Kenya could fall victim to water-borne diseases if public hygiene campaigns are not organized, ... |
CFIA Officially Confirms Latest Canadian BSE Case - Trading Markets (press release) 1268320958|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
CFIA Officially Confirms Latest Canadian BSE Case
Trading Markets (press release) In addition to the monthly reports, the CFIA immediately announces any detections of reportable, foreign, or newly emerging diseases which pose significant ... Alta. cow tests positive for BSE: CFIA |
State removing diseased, damaged trees from Illini - Morris Daily Herald 1268243304|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
State removing diseased, damaged trees from Illini
Morris Daily Herald The public is asked not to remove any of the wood from the area, as that might spread tree diseases. Many of the oaks are also infected with a secondary ... Illinois foresters are removing dead and diseased trees from Illini State Park |
For first time, Seattle team cracks genome of entire family - Seattle Times 1268281151|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
For first time, Seattle team cracks genome of entire family
Seattle Times It's an approach Galas predicts will be widely used in the future to help ferret out the genetic roots of diseases as complex as Alzheimer's and diabetes. ... |
Tchindjendje health centre assists 90 patients - AngolaPress 1268329986|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Tchindjendje health centre assists 90 patients
AngolaPress Huambo – At least 90 patients with different diseases among children and adults received daily treatment at Tchindjendje health centre, 118 kilometres of ... |
LLU's Healthy People Conference focuses on lifestyle, chronic disease - Press-Enterprise 1268205761|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
LLU's Healthy People Conference focuses on lifestyle, chronic disease
Press-Enterprise The annual two-day conference, which continues today, centers on lifestyle and chronic disease. Iton, a former Alameda County public health officer, ... |
Drug-delivery research shows early promise - News@Northeastern 1268331785|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 News@Northeastern |
Drug-delivery research shows early promise
News@Northeastern The National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke awarded a two-year, $475000 grant to Amiji and chemical engineering professor Rebecca Carrier to ... |
Discovery of cellular 'switch' may provide new means of triggering cell death ... - PhysOrg.com 1268334084|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 PhysOrg.com |
Discovery of cellular 'switch' may provide new means of triggering cell death ...
PhysOrg.com "We believe that by understanding this mechanism, we may be able to develop a new way to trigger cell death in a controlled manner as a way to treat disease ... |
Pappaioanou: Veterinary Crisis Has Implications for Human Health - Roll Call (subscription) 1268336857|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 Roll Call (subscription) |
Pappaioanou: Veterinary Crisis Has Implications for Human Health
Roll Call (subscription) Veterinarians have been responsible for some of the most significant advances in public health, including the near eradication of diseases such as ... |
Vaccine Approved for Child Infections - New York Times 1267026561|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 dBTechno |
Vaccine Approved for Child Infections
New York Times An immunization advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, meeting in Atlanta on Wednesday, recommended that all children ... FDA Approves New Version Of Pfizer's Prevnar Vaccine Pfizer wins US approval for pneumonia vaccine CDC's Advisory Committee On Immunization Practices Recommends Pfizer's Prevnar ... |
ADHD Is Not a Disease - Total Health Breakthroughs 1268255965|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
ADHD Is Not a Disease
Total Health Breakthroughs It might be one thing if ADHD was actually a “disease”… but it's not. In 1987, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was voted into existence by ... |
Medivation goes on Alzheimer's attack for $1B payoff - Bizjournals.com 1267434024|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 MiamiHerald.com |
Medivation goes on Alzheimer's attack for $1B payoff
Bizjournals.com These clusters have been the focus of much of the research into neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Parkinson's. ... Matthew Herper is a senior editor at Forbes Anavex comments on failure of Pfizer and Medivation's Alzheimer's ... A Costly Missed Connection |
Fiber-rich diet lowers lung disease risk - Press TV 1268243426|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 Press TV |
Fiber-rich diet lowers lung disease risk
Press TV Following a diet rich in fiber particularly from whole grains lowers the risk of developing chronic lung diseases, a new study finds. ... |
Why Doctors Believe the “New” CCR Will Save Many More Lives than CPR… - Food Consumer 1268313127|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Why Doctors Believe the “New” CCR Will Save Many More Lives than CPR…
Food Consumer Fortunately, heart disease is one of the easiest diseases to prevent, as long as you're proactive. One of the first steps virtually everyone should take is ... |
Cytokinetics Receives Orphan Drug Status for ALS Treatment - OneMedPlace (blog) 1268306002|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Cytokinetics Receives Orphan Drug Status for ALS Treatment
OneMedPlace (blog) Cytokinetics, a biotechnology company developing small molecule therapeutics for multiple diseases, has been granted orphan drug status by the US Food and ... |
Resolution Proposes Mesothelioma Awareness Week for April 2010 - AboutMesothelioma.net 1268180897|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 Surviving Mesothelioma |
Resolution Proposes Mesothelioma Awareness Week for April 2010
AboutMesothelioma.net Nearly 300 people in the small community of Libby, Montana have died of asbestos-related disease linked to a former WR Grace mine and mill that operated ... Archive for March, 2010 Construction Workers at Risk for Asbestos Exposure and Mesothelioma Canada Continues Mining and Selling Hazardous Asbestos Fibers |
Snake Venom may Provide Insight and Improve Understanding of Diseases - MedIndia 1268310704|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Snake Venom may Provide Insight and Improve Understanding of Diseases
MedIndia Snake venom contains a protein that has the potential for new drug discovery and to advance understanding of disease mechanisms, according to researchers. ... |
Antibiotic May Ease Movement Disorders - Laboratory Equipment 1268315025|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Antibiotic May Ease Movement Disorders
Laboratory Equipment Dystonia is, like Parkinson's disease, a movement disorder. Combined, this class of diseases affects millions worldwide. People with early-onset dystonia ... |
Bellevue resident to run Boston Marathon for charity - Bellevue Reporter 1268345336|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Bellevue resident to run Boston Marathon for charity
Bellevue Reporter Over 15000 children are hospitalized every year with pediatric liver diseases or disorders. COMMENTING RULES: We encourage an open exchange of ideas in the ... |
Scientists pinpoint source of recurrent yeast infections in autoimmune syndrome - The Rockefeller University Newswire 1268324645|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Scientists pinpoint source of recurrent yeast infections in autoimmune syndrome
The Rockefeller University Newswire Infectious diseases are not always caused by infection. In work reported in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, researchers at Rockefeller University ... |
5K event April 10 to focus on cancer - Chillicothe Gazette 1268311043|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
5K event April 10 to focus on cancer
Chillicothe Gazette This is the second year the endoscopy service has conducted an event to raise awareness about the disease, which is the third most common type of cancer in ... |
Body's Response to Foods' Smell, Taste Could Be Diabetes Risk Factor - U.S. News & World Report 1268341363|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Body's Response to Foods' Smell, Taste Could Be Diabetes Risk Factor
U.S. News & World Report "Our study showed there is a novel genetic mutation through which some type 2 diabetic people could be vulnerable to the gradual onset of this disease," ... Body's anticipation of a meal can be a diabetes risk factor |
SKMC Inaugurates the First Abu Dhabi Cardiac & Vascular Disease Conference Today - Zawya 1268308358|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
SKMC Inaugurates the First Abu Dhabi Cardiac & Vascular Disease Conference Today
Zawya Regarding the scourge of heart disease, Abu Dhabi is committed to having the most advanced technologies, to detecting the disease as early as possible, ... |
Celldex Therapeutics to Present at the Roth Capital Partners 22nd Annual OC ... - MarketWatch (press release) 1268337686|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Celldex Therapeutics to Present at the Roth Capital Partners 22nd Annual OC ...
MarketWatch (press release) Celldex has a pipeline of drug candidates in development for the treatment of cancer and other difficult-to-treat diseases based on its antibody focused ... |
Medicine's Future Could Lie in Each Patient's Genome - U.S. News & World Report 1268345371|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Medicine's Future Could Lie in Each Patient's Genome
U.S. News & World Report The second team of researchers sequenced the genomes of two parents and two children from the same family with single-gene diseases. ... |
Trip's morning reading - The New Mexico Independent 1268337163|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Trip's morning reading
The New Mexico Independent In the world of science, two research teams have independently decoded the entire genome of patients to find the exact genetic cause of their diseases. ... |
Trubion to Present Company Overview and Participate in Panel Discussion at ... - MarketWatch (press release) 1268341586|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Trubion to Present Company Overview and Participate in Panel Discussion at ...
MarketWatch (press release) Trubion's product pipeline includes CD20-directed SMIP therapeutics such as TRU-015 and SBI-087 for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, developed under ... |
Witchcraft a Defense Mechanism Opted by Aids Infected Patients to Hide from ... - TopNews United States 1268316596|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 TopNews United States |
Witchcraft a Defense Mechanism Opted by Aids Infected Patients to Hide from ...
TopNews United States Mostly the Africans are strong believers of the saga that some disease which cannot be cured or reoccur even after treatment are in one way or other result ... |
Gut bacteria and disease may be linked - Reuters 1267717869|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 MedIndia |
Gut bacteria and disease may be linked
Reuters SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Some of the hundreds of bacteria found in the digestive systems of humans may be linked to specific diseases like cancer, ... Gut Bacteria Linked to Chronic Diseases & Obesity |
Marinomed Granted European Patent for Anti-Viral Active Ingredient - A core ... - PharmaLive.com (press release) 1268326702|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Marinomed Granted European Patent for Anti-Viral Active Ingredient - A core ...
PharmaLive.com (press release) Vienna, Austria, March 11, 2010 - Marinomed Biotechnologie GmbH, a company focused on the development of innovative therapies for respiratory diseases, ... |
Bruce Ivins' attorney calls for case to be re-opened - BioPrepWatch.com 1268318228|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Bruce Ivins' attorney calls for case to be re-opened
BioPrepWatch.com ... of making the type of mailed anthrax with the equipment that was available to his at the Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases. ... |
Ghanaians should relish local dishes to avoid lifestyle diseases-Dr Amoo - Ghana News 1268289307|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Ghanaians should relish local dishes to avoid lifestyle diseases-Dr Amoo
Ghana News ... less salt and abstinence from fatty foods provide the surest protection against life-long diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. ... |
New form of prion disease discovered - UPI.com 1268070477|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
New form of prion disease discovered
UPI.com BETHESDA, Md., March 8 (UPI) -- US scientists say they've discovered a new form of prion disease that damages brain arteries and might lead to new ... New kind of Prion disease impairing brain arteries apparently identified |
For Tough Head Lice, Pill Tops Lotion - BusinessWeek 1268267093|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
For Tough Head Lice, Pill Tops Lotion
BusinessWeek The good news about lice, he said, is that "a head lice infection is not serious, and it doesn't lead to other harmful diseases or complications. ... |
'Miracles For MSA' Proclaims March as Multiple System Atrophy Awareness Month - PR Web (press release) 1268331044|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
'Miracles For MSA' Proclaims March as Multiple System Atrophy Awareness Month
PR Web (press release) "MSA is so rare that many cases are wrongly diagnosed as Parkinson's or other diseases with similar symptoms," said Pam Bower, an active member of the ... |
Vaccine refusal: Irrational and immoral | Guest op - Auburn Reporter 1268340701|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Vaccine refusal: Irrational and immoral | Guest op
Auburn Reporter We can hope to abolish other diseases if enough people accept vaccination. Polio and measles are next on the list. In the US, the number of cases of 10 ... |
FDA Grants Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Orphan Drug Designation for ... - PR Newswire (press release) 1268316217|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 AFP |
FDA Grants Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Orphan Drug Designation for ...
PR Newswire (press release) Under legislation passed by the US Congress in 1983, the Orphan Drugs Act provides incentives to sponsors to develop products for rare diseases. ... Bayer receives orphan drug designation for CF treatment Bayer lung infection drug gets orphan status |
Uptake of rotavirus immunization may be improving in the United States - Pediatric SuperSite 1268340534|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Uptake of rotavirus immunization may be improving in the United States
Pediatric SuperSite Umesh Parashar, MPH, of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at CDC said that since the first vaccine was recommended and licensed ... |
Investigators develop new mathematical approach to distinguish between health ... - News-Medical.net 1268305901|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Investigators develop new mathematical approach to distinguish between health ...
News-Medical.net "Defining the status of the human immune system in health and disease is a major goal of human immunology research," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, ... |
Food allergy disorder linked to gene - UPI.com 1268085571|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
 The Money Times |
Food allergy disorder linked to gene
UPI.com The researchers, supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney ... Eosinophilic Esophagitis in Children Associated With TSLP Gene Food allergy-related disorder linked to master allergy gene Gene site linked to food allergy identified |
Garner mayor has Parkinson's disease - abc11.com 1268134258|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Garner mayor has Parkinson's disease
abc11.com GARNER (WTVD) -- Garner Mayor Ronnie Williams says he has Parkinson's diseases but he's not going to let the illness slow him down. ... |
The Grumbling Hive: If you look deep into their eyes, what do you see? - LSU The Reveille 1268339227|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
The Grumbling Hive: If you look deep into their eyes, what do you see?
LSU The Reveille We owe Amanda, Renee and many others a commitment to dedicate our slack resources of time, skills and money to the pursuit of cures for such diseases. ... |
COST: The Value of Value-Based Insurance - New America Foundation (blog) 1268336657|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
COST: The Value of Value-Based Insurance
New America Foundation (blog) There will be no premiums and it will provide inexpensive care for chronic diseases -- asthma, congestive heart failure, diabetes, depression, heart disease ... |
Lyme disease specialist set to lecture at WCSU March 18 - Stamford Times 1268024617|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Lyme disease specialist set to lecture at WCSU March 18
Stamford Times Connecticut State Entomologist Dr. Kirby Stafford, an internationally recognized expert on Lyme disease and the ticks that carry it, will discuss the ... Lyme Disease-bearing ticks can fly in on birds |
Oklahoma in middle of pack for disease-prevention funding - Tulsa World 1267505053|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Oklahoma in middle of pack for disease-prevention funding
Tulsa World Oklahoma ranks 25th in the nation for the amount of disease-prevention funding awarded by the federal Centers for Disease ... Delaware 8th in the nation for disease prevention funding from the federal ... Midwestern States Receive Least Federal Funding for Disease Prevention State ranks 48th in federal spending on public health |
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