Public Release: 23-Jan-2018 Newcastle University A study published today in Age and Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society, reports that the number of older people diagnosed with four or more diseases will double between 2015 and… Read More ›
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Nearly half of Americans will develop pre-existing cardiovascular disease costing more than $1 trillion by 2035
Public Release: 14-Feb-2017 Cardiovascular disease costs will exceed $1 trillion by 2035 Nearly half of Americans will develop pre-existing cardiovascular disease conditions, analysis by RTI International shows RTI International RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – A new study projects that… Read More ›
New report finds 43 percent increase in ADHD diagnosis for US schoolchildren
Public Release: 8-Dec-2015 Girls showed a sharp rise in ADHD diagnosis during eight-year study period George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health WASHINGTON, DC (December 8, 2015)–Twelve percent of U.S. children and teens had a diagnosis of… Read More ›
Physicians and burnout: It’s getting worse
Public Release: 1-Dec-2015 “In the 2011 survey 45 percent of physicians met the burnout criteria, with highest rates occurring in the “front lines” — general internal medicine, family medicine and emergency medicine. In 2014, 54 percent of responding physicians had… Read More ›
Child paralysis outbreak: UVA identifies potential cause – enterovirus C105
Public Release: 16-Jul-2015 ‘We need to keep an open mind’ in hunt for pathogen, doctor urges University of Virginia Health System Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System A mysterious outbreak of child paralysis cases previously linked to enterovirus D68… Read More ›
Scientists link unexplained childhood paralysis to enterovirus D68
PUBLIC RELEASE: 30-MAR-2015 UCSF-led team rules out other pathogens with comprehensive sequencing UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN FRANCISCO IMAGE: THIS IS A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE OF ENTEROVIRUS D68 (CENTER) RECONSTRUCTED FROM CRYO-ELECTRON MICROGRAPHS (BACKGROUND). CREDIT: COURTESY OF YUE LIU AND MICHAEL… Read More ›
Chikungunya virus may be coming to a city near you — learn the facts
Public Release: 26-Mar-2015 University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston The mosquito-borne chikungunya virus has been the subject of increasing attention as it spreads throughout South America, Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico. This painful and potentially debilitating disease is… Read More ›
Common bacteria on verge of becoming antibiotic-resistant superbugs
Public Release: 25-Mar-2015 Washington University School of Medicine Bacteria that cause many hospital-associated infections are ready to quickly share genes that allow them to resist powerful antibiotics. The illustration, based on electron micrographs and created by the Centers for Disease… Read More ›
Swine flu in India has mutated
Public Release: 11-Mar-2015 Swine flu outbreak in India raises concern Massachusetts Institute of Technology CAMBRIDGE, MA — Since December, an outbreak of swine flu in India has killed more than 1,200 people, and a new MIT study suggests that the… Read More ›
One in 2 people in the UK will get cancer
Public Release: 3-Feb-2015 Cancer Research UK One in two people will develop cancer at some point in their lives, according to the most accurate forecast to date from Cancer Research UK, and published in the British Journal of Cancer today… Read More ›
Celiac disease rate among young children has almost tripled in past 20 years
Public Release: 22-Jan-2015 Kids from poorer families only half as likely to be diagnosed with the condition BMJ-British Medical Journal The evidence to date suggests that up to 1% of all children in the UK have blood markers for coeliac… Read More ›
Algal virus found in humans, slows brain activity – 43% of those tested were infected
Algal viruses attach, enter, and infect green alga (seen in series here). Liz is a staff writer for Science.By Elizabeth Pennisi 27 October 2014 3:30 pm It’s not such a stretch to think that humans can catch the Ebola virus… Read More ›
Malaria from monkeys now dominant cause of human malaria hospitalizations in Malaysia
New study released at ASTMH annual meeting targets deforestation as a possible problem for increasing human encounters with macaques NEW ORLEANS (November 3, 2014)—The majority of malaria hospitalizations in Malaysia are now caused by a dangerous and potentially deadly… Read More ›
Ebola, Marburg viruses edit genetic material during infection
WASHINGTON, DC – November 4, 2014 – Filoviruses like Ebola “edit” genetic material as they invade their hosts, according to a study published this week in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. The work, by… Read More ›
Brief Discussion on Ebola and hypothetical treatments
Discuss: Avoidance of Compassionate therapies ( JAMA ) Serotherapy ZMAPP ( MB003 ) Melatonin Rutin Vit. C methylprednisolone Weaponized Ebola / Marburg * Citations upon Request Medical researchers you’re input on the subject is valued…
Uncommon form of dysentery spreading to industrializing countries, drug treatment and better sanitation alone will not be sufficient for controlling the disease
Out of Europe 10 AUG 2012 Researchers have found that a bacterium that emerged centuries ago in Europe has now been spreading globally into countries undergoing rapid development and industrialization. Unlike other diarrheal diseases, this one is unlikely to be… Read More ›
Quasi-Legal Drug Fifteen Times Stronger Than Heroin Hides in Plain Sight
Aug 18, 2014 WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Emergency physicians should expect “an upswing in what on the surface appear to be heroin overdoses,” but are actually overdoses tied to acetyl fentanyl, an opiate that is mixed into street… Read More ›
Growing deposits of bone in the skull means your hormones are out of whack, warns TAU researcher
Public release date: 8-Sep-2011 Is Estrogen Going to Your Head? Girls are growing up faster than ever — and not only when it comes to their taste in fashion and music. Their bodies are reaching puberty at an increasingly earlier… Read More ›
Chikungunya virus poised to invade the Americas / risk of a “catastrophic” epidemic
Public Release: 7-Apr-2014 A team of French and Brazilian researchers warn that chikungunya virus is poised to invade, and become epidemic in the Americas according to research published ahead of print in the Journal of Virology. The risk of a… Read More ›
Dangerous lung worms found in people who eat raw crayfish
Public release date: 25-May-2010 – While the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has an antibody test to identify Paragonimus westermani infection, the test is not sensitive for patients with P. kellicotti parasite, and this makes diagnosis a real… Read More ›