Unpasteurized milk, also known as raw milk, is proportionally responsible for 150 times more disease outbreaks than pasteurized milk, a new report issued by the CDC's (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) Emerging Infectious Diseases has revealed. The authors also explained that...
It is often taught in school and other places that the Europeans (Spaniards as the main example) brought diseases to the new world, and that these diseases (smallpox as the most common example, but also others including various STDs) did far more damage than these Europeans ever could have to...
well iam 16yrs old female. an i have never had a boyfriend before until yesterday. i know that he has had other girlfriends but iam just worried that are there any disease i can get from him by him kissing the other girls....and please dont say see a doctor or ask a family member they wuld kill...
The carbon dioxide we exhale and the odors our skins emanate serve as crucial cues to female mosquitoes on the hunt for human hosts to bite and spread diseases such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever. Two entomologists at the University of California, Riverside have now performed experiments to...
I first noticed this about a year ago when I was reading about salmonella, and just now it has driven me to the brink of ripping out my throat because I started cracking up when I was reading about Anemia (which I might have). There's eventually going to be a day where one of my friends has Lou...
The European Chronic Disease Alliance (ECDA)1 welcomes the UN High Level Meeting on Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) to address the world biggest killers. "It is a memorable day in the history of public health. Discussing non communicable diseases at the UN table gives a strong sense of the...
A surprising new discovery by the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of California, Davis regarding the division of tiny "power plants" within cells known as mitochondria has implications for better understanding a wide variety of human diseases and conditions due to mitochondrial...
Ependymomas are the second most frequent type of malignant brain tumor in children. Ependymoma develops from precursor cells of the tissue that lines the hollow cavities of the brain. Therapy results of ependymoma vary immensely: While in some patients tumor growth comes to a standstill after...
An alarming new article in Respirology issues a serious warning of massive rises in deaths from asbestos-related lung diseases in Asia. Dr Ken Takahashi, Acting Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Occupational Health, and his team put together important data on asbestos use in 47 Asian...
Working with a group of national and international researchers, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have developed a new genetic model of premature aging disorders that could shed light on these rare conditions in humans and provide a novel platform for...
I have to write an essay about any disease but try to cover as much as we can on the topics we have learned in my course.
We've done nervous, endocrine, excretory, genetic, immune systems. We also have to talk about any ongoing research/contributions being done on that disease.
I want a...
Institut Pasteur Korea (IP-K) has signed an agreements to continue to mine the chemical compound collection of Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD) of Singapore for new drug candidates. IP-K's PhenomicScreen™ is a high-throughput, high-content visual screening platform that is ideally...
The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) supports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) annual observance of National Influenza Vaccination Week to communicate the importance and availability of influenza vaccination into the winter months and beyond. It is...
...U.S. on the American people? A video of Dr. Madeline Cosman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahEhcVW7oQ
And the Wiki definitions of each one that Dr. Cosman mentioned:
#1 M.D.R.T.B. (Multiple drug resistant Tuberculosis)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-drug-resistant_tuberculosis
#2...
For my anatomy and physiology class i have to write a 10+ page research paper on a topic of my choice that is related to the human body. It can be anything but I want to choose an interesting topic, or something new an upcoming. I don't it to be too abstract so its hard to research but i dont...
K so I'm completely oblivious in regards to my surroundings when I'm out and today I was on my mobile not looking at the ground and I kicked/walked into some glass bottle full of some bs liquid. No idea what it was, but the bottle broke on my leg and I've got a scratch which started bleeding...
On his final day in India as part of his 10-day Asia-Pacific tour, President Barack Obama on Monday addressed the joint session of the Indian Parliament in New Dehli, where he emphasized the importance of U.S.-Indian partnerships to tackle disease and improve education, Indo-Asian News...
Scientists have discovered a new cause of spastic ataxia, and believe this cause is also a trigger for other mitochondrial diseases neurological disorders that can lead to serious coordination, growth, visual, speech, and muscle defects. Researchers at St George's, University of London have...
I'm doing a research project for my microbiology class and I need to find an interesting disease that affects the respiratory system that's cause by a specific pathogen.
The diseases that are already taken are whooping cough, SARS, RSV, Anthrax, and a bunch of fungal diseases.
I'm looking for...