Archive: 06/07/2016

Blurring of national security interests and global health agendas are an unavoidable reality

Society must align the overlapping priorities and often clashing interests of medical intelligence, national security agendas and the global health community, according to global health advocates writing in the Journal of ...

Jul 6, 2016

Trauma research funding needed now more than ever, say experts

Funding for trauma research is needed now more than ever, and should become a priority in the wake of so many lives lost at mass casualty events—including most recently at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, say experts ...

Jul 6, 2016

Viral hepatitis kills as many as malaria, TB or HIV/AIDS, finds study

Viral hepatitis has become one of the leading causes of death and disability across the globe - killing at least as many people annually as TB, malaria or HIV/AIDS.

Jul 6, 2016

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Uruguay to sign up smokers to buy state marijuana

Uruguay will this month start signing up smokers to buy marijuana from pharmacies in the world's first scheme for state-production and sale of the drug, an official source said Wednesday.

Jul 6, 2016

Team finds mitochondrial stress induces cancer-related metabolic shifts

Cancerous tumors must be fed. Their unregulated growth requires a steady stream of blood flow and nutrients. Thus, one way that researchers have tried to wipe out cancer is to target cells undergoing the metabolic shifts ...

Jul 6, 2016

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Wealthier Americans now get much more health care than middle class or poor, study finds

Inequality in the use of health care has increased dramatically in recent years, with wealthier Americans, who tend to be healthier, now consuming the most care, according to a study published today [Wednesday, July 6] in ...

Jul 6, 2016