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Scientists struggle to understand swine flu virus (AP)

Scientists struggle to understand swine flu virus

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(AP) -- Mexico's health secretary may have thought he was allaying fears about swine flu when he suggested that the nation's swine flu death rate was 6 or 7 percent. In reality, that would mean a monstrous ...





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Journal special edition outlines rotavirus burden and need for vaccines

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Journal of Infectious Diseases has released a special edition, Global Rotavirus Surveillance: Preparing for the Introduction of Rotavirus Vaccines. This special edition provides a significant contribution to the unders ...


Canadian police consider GPS for people with Alzheimer's

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Police in Montreal are studying the possibility of offering GPS bracelets to people suffering from Alzheimer's disease, an official told AFP.


Analyzing structural brain changes in Alzheimer's disease

Analyzing structural brain changes in Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In a study that promises to improve diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease, scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying subtle, ...


Study Finds Eating Fruits and Vegetables Lowers Risks of Heart Disease

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of adults aged 70 or older found that increased servings of fruits and vegetables were significantly associated with a decrease of cognitive impairment, and that those eating three or more servings ...


What proportion of psychotic illness is due to cannabis?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (11) | comments 12

In this week's PLoS Medicine, a team of researchers from Australia and the US, led by Louisa Degenhardt at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, makes the case for estimating the role that cannabis has worldwide as a r ...


Immediate, aggressive spending on HIV/AIDS could end epidemic

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Money available to treat HIV/AIDS is sufficient to end the epidemic globally, but only if we act immediately to control the spread of the disease. That was the conclusion of a study just published in the open-access journal, ...


WHO says swine flu deaths surge to 1,154

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The World Health Organization said Tuesday that 1,154 swine flu victims have died since the virus emerged in April.


Sick fish may get sicker: Climate change and other stresses expected to affect entire populations of fish

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Entire populations of North American fish already are being affected by several emerging diseases, a problem that threatens to increase in the future with climate change and other stresses on aquatic ecosystems, according ...


Failure to tackle climate change spells a global health catastrophe

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

An editorial and letter, published simultaneously by the BMJ and Lancet today, warn that failure to agree radical cuts in carbon dioxide emissions at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen this December spells a glob ...


Time for a new view of late-life dementia

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two new studies published in the December 16, 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association point to the need for a broader scientific perspective on late-life dementia, according to an editorial in the sa ...



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