News tagged with global disease
Why do pivotal cultural differences among countries exist?
In today's world, conflicts and misunderstandings frequently arise between those who are from more restrictive cultures and those from less restrictive ones. Now, a new international study led by the University of Maryland ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 26, 2011 |
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Lung doctors expect respiratory diseases will worsen with global climate change
Worldwide increases in the incidences of asthma, allergies, infectious and cardiovascular diseases will result from a variety of impacts of global climate change, including rising temperatures, worsening ozone levels in urban ...
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Genome of marine organism reveals hidden secrets
An international team of researchers led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has deciphered the genome of a tropical marine organism known to produce substances potentially ...
May 09, 2011 |
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Landscape found to influence spread of malaria in Amazon
(PhysOrg.com) -- The spread of malaria, one of the world's most prevalent insect-borne diseases and a leading killer of children, may have more to do with landscape than precipitation as the world warms, according to a new ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Scientists struggle to understand swine flu virus
(AP) -- Mexico's health secretary may have thought he was allaying fears about swine flu when he suggested that the nation's swine flu death rate was 6 or 7 percent. In reality, that would mean a monstrous ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Failure to tackle climate change spells a global health catastrophe
An editorial and letter, published simultaneously by the BMJ and Lancet today, warn that failure to agree radical cuts in carbon dioxide emissions at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen this December spells a glob ...
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Tackle fungal forces to save crops, forests and endangered animals, scientists say
More than 600 million people could be fed each year by halting the spread of fungal diseases in the world's five most important crops, according to research published today in the journal Nature.
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Canadian police consider GPS for people with Alzheimer's
Police in Montreal are studying the possibility of offering GPS bracelets to people suffering from Alzheimer's disease, an official told AFP.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 23, 2009 |
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GPS shoes for Alzheimer's patients
A shoe-maker and a technology company are teaming up to develop footwear with a built-in GPS device that could help track down "wandering" seniors suffering from Alzheimer's Disease.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 06, 2009 |
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How much is the world spending on neglected disease research and development?
The first comprehensive survey of global spending on neglected disease R&D, published in this week's PLoS Medicine, finds that just over $US 2.5 billion was invested into R&D of new products in 2007, with three diseases—HIV/AIDS, TB, an ...
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Recalling the fear, heavy toll of the 1918 flu outbreak
Given his age, H. Byran Poff figures he has seen just about everything that can happen to mankind.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 10, 2009 |
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IU informaticists show new levels of refinement in predicting human mobility, epidemic spread
(PhysOrg.com) -- The interplay of human mobility patterns like those between local metropolitan commuters and long-range airline travelers during a global epidemic can be modeled in such detail so as to offer ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Report: Cancer is the world's costliest disease
(AP) -- Cancer is the world's top "economic killer" as well as its likely leading cause of death, the American Cancer Society contends in a new report it will present at a global cancer conference in China this week.
Aug 17, 2010 |
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Global health experts release new guidance on malaria elimination
Countries and policy leaders gain new guidance today on how and when to eliminate malaria, paving the way for the potential global eradication of the deadly disease. The announcement is being made on behalf of the Malaria ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 24, 2009 |
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UN: Deaths up from cancer, diabetes, heart disease
(AP) -- Nearly two-thirds of deaths in the world are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease which are rapidly increasing at a cost to the global economy of trillions of dollars, ...
Jun 21, 2011 |
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