http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Pioneering studies by U. S. Department of Agriculture-funded research molecular geneticist Robert A. Waterland are helping explain how the foods that soon-to-be-moms eat in the days and weeks around the time of conception—or what's known as periconceptional nutrition–may affect the way genes function in her children, and her children's health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-epigenetics-mechanism-effects-mom-nutrition.html Genetics Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:54:29 EST news282239664 Aid workers in flood-hit Mozambique said they were fighting to contain an outbreak of cholera Wednesday, which has sickened 282 people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-flood-hit-mozambique-cholera-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:50:01 EST news279972981 Nigeria has provided nearly $3 million in long-delayed financing to clean up part of an area where lead poisoning has killed hundreds of children, Doctors Without Borders said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-nigeria-frees-long-delayed-funds-poison.html Health Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:13:11 EST news278860383 At least 194 cases of cholera have been detected in one province of southern Angola since December 20, local media reported Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-angola-cholera-outbreak-sickens.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:30:01 EST news276527454 Cholera has broken out in northern Zambia this week, with at least 30 cases recorded in the past three days, a health official said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-zambia-cholera-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:01:07 EST news276343262 (AP)—Sudan has launched a massive vaccination campaign to immunize 2.4 million people against an outbreak of yellow fever in the restive region of Darfur, the U.N. said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-sudan-vaccinate-yellow-fever-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:24:48 EST news272535873 Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Thursday urged Nigeria to release funds promised to clean up an area where lead poison killed hundreds of children, warning that further delays could be "disastrous." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-nigeria-poison-soil-disaster-msf.html Health Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:54:37 EST news272213669 (AP)—A yellow fever outbreak in Sudan's Darfur region has killed 107 people in the last six weeks, the World Health Organization reported Tuesday, warning that the disease could spread all over the country. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-dead-yellow-fever-darfur-sudan.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:10:01 EST news272048140 The cholera epidemic in Sierra Leone, the worst oubreak of the waterborne disease there in 15 years, has now claimed 255 lives, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-sierra-leone-cholera-epidemic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:16:07 EST news266588154 A cholera epidemic in Sierra Leone which was declared a national emergency in mid-August has claimed 244 lives and affected 14,521 people, said a statement from a special cholera task force Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-sierra-leone-cholera-death-toll.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:53:10 EST news265906091 Sierra Leone's government on Thursday declared a cholera outbreak a national emergency after 176 deaths and 10,800 reported cases since January, health ministry sources said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-sierra-leone-declares-cholera-emergency.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:54:14 EST news264344046 Nepal on Monday urged foreign travellers to take precautions against cholera after 13 people died in an outbreak in the remote west of the country. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-tourists-nepal-cholera-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:50:53 EST news264059442 Giving young children medicine once a month during the rainy season to protect them against malaria could prevent tens of thousands of deaths each year in some areas of Africa, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-seasonal-malaria-african-children-analysis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:46:51 EST news258205602 (AP) -- Haiti is seeing a jump in the number of cholera cases as the Caribbean nation heads into the annual rainy season, a United Nations humanitarian agency said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-haiti-cholera-cases.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:56:20 EST news252687373 The World Health Organisation on Friday said the number of cholera cases in Haiti was expected to reach 500,000 by the end of the year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-cholera-cases-haiti.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:58:02 EST news238413476 The incidence of malaria in many African countries south of the Sahara is falling rapidly. A Danish-Tanzanian research group has discovered that the mosquito carrying the malaria parasite has practically disappeared from villages without organized mosquito control, and the researchers do not know why. There are several hypotheses but without proper data they cannot say whether malaria is being eradicated or whether it is just resting up before returning with renewed vigour. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-malaria-mosquito-good-news.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:55:24 EST news233495711 (AP) -- An old man with sunken cheeks is so dehydrated he must be carried down the dirt lane to a clinic where the air is thick with the odor of bleach. Minutes later, a worried father enters, carrying a two-year-old girl in a frilly white dress, her eyes sunken and unfocused. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-cholera-surges-haiti-central-plateau.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:20:47 EST news229576834