World population gains more than 6 years of life
Despite global improvements in life expectancy, death rates for some causes — including drug use and liver cancer — continue to rise. Global life expectancy increased by 5.8… read more.
Despite global improvements in life expectancy, death rates for some causes — including drug use and liver cancer — continue to rise. Global life expectancy increased by 5.8… read more.
World Health Matters – China – by Gary Finnegan: An increase in the number of people searching Google for information about the flu has been used to identify… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection with oral, frozen and encapsulated fecal material from unrelated donors has resulted in a 90 percent rate of resolution… read more.
Sustained release treatment option could soon be available for diabetic patients in 28 countries of the European Union.
Report from the British Association of Dermatologists annual meeting held in Glasgow from 30th June -3rd July 2014 by Christine Clark. Dermatologists from Cardiff warned that cases of… read more.
An international research team led by Cesar A. Arias, M.D., Ph.D., at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has identified a new superbug that… read more.
World Health Matters: Sweden by Gary Finnegan – A newly discovered tick-borne bacterium known as Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis has been implicated in six cases of disease in Sweden…. read more.
World Health Matters by Gary Finnegan – Australia – The number of deaths from viral hepatitis in Australia has surpassed the number of preventable AIDS-related deaths, according to… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Emerging uses of FDA approved drugs – Immunosuppresant drugs used to prevent organ rejection after transplantation could become used in fighting persistent HIV infection,… read more.
Enzyme’s role is to ‘throw away’ protein if it overstays its welcome during immune response. An enzyme that helps maintain immune system function by “throwing away” a specific… read more.
Maria Dalby reporting from the annual British Transplantation Society meeting in Glasgow by Anthony Dorling, King’s College London – Chronic rejection is a major cause of graft failure… read more.
A novel antiviral drug may protect people infected with the measles from getting sick and prevent them from spreading the virus to others, an international team of researchers… read more.
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