Millions With Chronic Disease Get Little to No Treatment The Boston Globe | Millions of Americans with chronic disease like diabetes or high blood pressure are not getting adequate treatment because they are among the nation’s growing ranks of uninsured. | That is the central finding of a new study to be published Tuesday in the medical journal Annals of Internal M...
Vitamin may ward off killer disease The Australian | VITAMIN C might be useful to treat cancer after all, according to a US study published today in which injections of high doses of it greatly reduced the rate of tumor growth in mice. | The idea that vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, could be used to treat cancer was advanced in the 1970s by ...
High season for mosquito-borne diseases begins The Boston Globe | Buy repellent and wear long sleeves: The heavy rain last month is expected to yield a large crop of mosquitoes this week because the downpours saturated freshwater wetlands that had dried out in the summer heat. | "We'll get a pretty good brood of ...
Local strain is more severe than more common forms of disease. Austin American Statesman | The Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department is investigating about a dozen cases of possible typhus infection, most of them reported in Central Austin. | The type of typhus found in Texas, murine typhus, is most commonly caused by...
Mystery disease kills dozens in Venezuela International Herald Tribune | : A mystery disease has killed dozens of Warao Indians in recent months in a remote area of northeastern Venezuela, according to indigenous leaders and researchers from the University of California at Berkeley, who informed health officials here of...
Docs say no outbreak of disease near mine The Daily Tribune | 08/07/2008 | A team of medical specialists, after conducting a series of three clinics in a village reported to be most affected by the operations of the MCCI Corp. (formerly known as Maria Cristina Chemical Industries), concluded there were no unu...
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Bad water quality major cause of diseases in RP The Manila Times By Nora O. Gamolo, Senior Desk Editor | Waterborne and water-related diseases are those caused by protozoa, viruses, bacteria, and intestinal parasites, all pathogenic or disease-c...
By gum: good teeth mean more disease Sydney Morning Herald | AUSTRALIANS are more likely than ever before to have a full set of natural teeth, but the trend will lead to an epidemic of complex oral diseases not seen in past generations, de...
Avoiding the European disease The Guardian | Britain has always been more integrated and multicultural than the continent. But there are worrying signs this may be changing | I am worried about Nicolas Sarkozy's call for a ...
Patient Voices: Parkinson's Disease The New York Times | How does Parkinson's disease impact the body? What about the mind? How do families cope in the face of a progressive disease? Here, in their own words, are the stories of seven men and women living with Parkinson's disease. In order to view this fe...
New Test Diagnoses Anemia in Chronic Disease Healthfinder Tool detects concentration of active hepcidin in the blood, researchers say. | this article to news version | (SOURCE: University of Utah, news release, Aug. 5, 2008) | TUESDAY, Aug. 5 (HealthDay News) -- A new tool for diagnosing anemia related to c...
Pastoralist Livelihoods Hurt By Disease All Africa Pastoralists in northern Kenya have said their livelihoods have been seriously affected by a viral disease that has killed 2.7 million goats and sheep in the past two years. | ...
Tainted sleep medicine baffles Health Canada Canada Dot Com | Health Canada does not know how powerful prescription tranquilizers ended up in herbal sleep-aid products, and on Canadian shelves. | Nearly two years after 55-year-old Michael Berggren died in a single-vehicle rollover after unwittingly taking prescription estazolam in a herbal sleep medicine, the government has learned little about who tainted ...
Experts detail fatal symptoms of pesticide poisoning Scientific American | Experts detail fatal symptoms of pesticide poisoning A farmer works in a field on the outskirts of Baokang, central China's Hubei province May 13, 2007. China's farmers overuse pesticides, skip protective clothing and have at their fingertips an array of banned and counterfeit products, raising another area of concern in the country's fragile foo...
State of Alaska sues to overturn listing of polar bears as a threatened species Newsday | ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) _ The state of Alaska has sued the federal government to overturn the listing of polar bears as a threatened species. | The lawsuit was filed Monday in Washington, D.C. | Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced the listing on May 14, saying sea ice habitat has dramatically melted and computer models suggest the trend w...
