Health
Surgeon General sounding alarm on teens' use of e-cigarettes
The U.S. surgeon general is calling e-cigarettes an emerging public health threat to the nation's youth.
Dec 8, 2016
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Immunology
Clean air for our future
Preterm birth is the leading cause of infant death and long-term neurological disease, and 1 in 10 infants born in the United States is affected by preterm birth according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
Nov 10, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in West Africa higher than previously thought
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) could become a serious public health threat in West Africa unless effective surveillance and control measures are implemented, according to a study published in the open access journal ...
Nov 2, 2016
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Health
Opinion: Brexit and Trump are bad for our health
Politics in America and Europe may be increasingly isolationist, but deadly pathogens aren't. Votes for Brexit and Donald Trump may in fact be votes for worsening pandemics and fewer doctors and researchers to fight them.
Oct 17, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Research sheds light on mechanism that leads to drug-resistant superbugs
Drug-resistant organisms, or so-called "superbugs," are a growing public health threat because "last-resort" therapeutics-employed only when other drugs fail to kill an infection-are failing. A University of Georgia-led research ...
Sep 29, 2016
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Medical research
International partnership established to tackle antimicrobial resistance
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Wellcome Trust of London, the AMR Centre of Alderley Park, Cheshire in the United Kingdom and Boston University School of Law today announced the establishment of ...
Jul 28, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Could the deadly mosquito-borne yellow fever virus cause a Zika-like epidemic in the Americas?
Yellow fever virus (YFV), a close relative of Zika virus and transmitted by the same type of mosquito, is the cause of an often-fatal viral hemorrhagic fever and could spread via air travel from endemic areas in Africa to ...
Jul 26, 2016
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Health
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
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Overweight & Obesity
As early as first grade, children with severe obesity are more likely to be ostracized
Childhood obesity has almost quadrupled among 6- to 11-year-olds since 1980. Today, approximately one in 20 children in the United States is severely obese and this public health threat costs the U.S. government billions ...
May 25, 2016
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Diabetes
Diabetes drug, metformin, lowers risk of heart disease deaths better than sulfonylureas
A new analysis of 204 studies involving more than 1.4 million people suggests that metformin, the most frequently prescribed stand-alone drug for type 2 diabetes, reduces the relative risk of a patient dying from heart disease ...
Apr 18, 2016
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