As good weather brings people outdoors and into the woods, it also exposes them to tick bites that can result in Lyme disease, one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the United States. A microscopic bacterial organism, Borrelia burgdorferi, carried by the Ixodes tick causes the Lyme infection. Although the incidence of Lyme disease [...]
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In the Newsweek cover story, Growing Up Bipolar, Mary Carmichael describes yet another magical psychiatric epidemic. In any report of an epidemic there should be a description of the disease of which the epidemic is comprised and mention of the test by which the disease is diagnosed. But nowhere is there mention of a physical [...]
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Synvista Therapeutics announced data from three Phase 2 trials (Trials 201a, 201 and 203) of SYI-2074 in Type 2 diabetic patients. Trial 201a established that haptoglobin (Hp) types, the target of Synvista’s proprietary haptoglobin variant test currently under development, correlated with a difference in baseline levels of plasma isoprostanes, confirming that Hp2-2 in diabetic patients [...]
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Preventing communicable disease outbreaks is the key public health issue now facing the People’s Republic of China in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck the country’s south-western region on 12 May.
%26quot;The main needs now are water, sanitation and food. Ensuring supply of food and safe drinking water and trying to restore good sanitation [...]
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A new analysis of a subgroup of participants in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) hormone therapy clinical trials suggests that healthy, postmenopausal women whose blood cholesterol levels are normal or lower are not at increased, short-term risk for heart attack when taking hormone therapy. In particular, postmenopausal women who had no history of heart disease [...]
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