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- Doctors without borders converts 99% of its roadshow visitors by turning a cause into an experience. Their secret? Make people sick. Now it's your turn. It explains about the roadshow trailer arranged by doctors trying to tell people who'll listen about their access to essential medicine campaign. To catch...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Catching the Disease of Terminal Short - Termism
- Why do so many intelligent, professional, bright people get so tied up in knots when it comes to how they use their time? Why is it that the ever - increasing amount of time management literature and training still fails to completely hit the mark for people? In this paper,...
- White papers 2006-06-18
- Parenteral Penicillin for Children With Meningococcal Disease Before Hospital Admission: Case-Control Study
- General practitioners in the United Kingdom are currently expected to carry benzyl penicillin in their emergency bags and to administer it parenterally before hospital admission whenever they suspect a diagnosis of meningococcal disease. This guidance reflects the potential of the disease to cause death in a matter of hours and...
- White papers 2006-03-22
- Perlegen Sciences: Discovering Genetic Variations and Improving Lives With Windows High Performance Computing Clusters
- Perlegen Sciences conducts genetics research and develops products that impact and improve people's lives. Many common diseases have a genetic basis. In order to better understand how these diseases work and how they may be treated, detailed analysis of massive amounts of genomic data is required. Perlegen uses a Microsoft...
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- The Burden of Non Communicable Diseases in Developing Countries
- Non communicable diseases are more and more prevalent in developing countries where they double the burden of infective diseases. If the present trend is maintained, the health systems in low-and middle-income countries will be unable to support the burden of disease. Prominent causes for heart disease, diabetes, cancer and pulmonary...
- White papers 2005-01-14
- Quality Indicators for the Management of Osteoarthritis in Vulnerable Elders
- Osteoarthritis is the most common chronic condition affecting older persons. This condition is probably not a single disease but rather "a group of overlapping distinct diseases, which may have different etiologies but with similar biologic, morphologic, and clinical outcomes" A common final result of these diseases, however, is the degeneration...
- White papers 2001-10-16
- Combination Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Priorities for Future Research
- Rheumatoid Arthritis RA is a systemic auto-immune disease of unknown etiology, which has a population prevalence of about one percent in the Netherlands. This disease is associated with substantial morbidity primarily as the result of pain and functional disability. Given that the disease is at present not curable, treatment efforts...
- White papers 2001-04-01
- Parkinson's Disease: Making a Difference Today
- Each year, about 50,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, joining the estimated 1 million people already living in the United States with this serious and disabling brain disorder. Parkinson's occurs when nerve cells become damaged or destroyed in the substantia nigra, an area of the brain that is important...
- White papers 2004-05-05
- The Oral Health of Older Americans
- Oral health is an important and often overlooked component of an older person's general health and well-being. Oral health problems can cause pain and suffering as well as difficulty in speaking, chewing, and swallowing. These problems can also be a complication of certain medications used to treat systemic diseases. In...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Foot Rot in Grazing Cattle
- This fact sheet describes the cause, transmission, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Foot Rot in cattle. Foot rot is a subacute or acute necrotic decaying infectious disease of cattle, causing swelling and lameness in one or more feet. The disease can become chronic, with a poorer prognosis for...
- White papers 2003-10-21
- Johne's Disease (An Emerging Disease of Oklahoma City)
- This fact sheet describes the clinical signs, diagnosis, prevalence, and prevention of Johne's disease in Oklahoma. Johne's Disease (pronounced yo-nee's) is a disease of the intestinal tract of cattle and other ruminants. It is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium Para tuberculosis, acid fast bacteria very similar to the organism that...
- White papers 2003-10-20
- New Treatment for Difficult-to-Treat Inflammatory Disease
- This article gives a short description of a treatment for Hypereosinophilic syndrome HES. HES is an occasional disorder in which eosinophils, a type of inflammation-causing white blood cell, increase to excessive levels in the blood. The cells accumulate throughout the body and unleash powerful chemicals that can damage many different...
- White papers 2002-05-02
- WHO Report: Underfunded Neglected Diseases Need A Marketing Makeover
- A research paper in this month’s Bulletin of the World Health Organization suggests that, when it comes to disease funding, perception is reality. Some diseases get more than their fair share of government and nonprofit funding, and the researchers say it all comes down to positioning. by Trista Morrison
- Blog posts 2009-08-30
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- Enabling Real-Time Disease Reporting Surveillance
- Deloitte's client needed the ability to identify and track incidents of infectious disease, including emerging infectious disease agents such as SARS and Monkeypox. The client faced many challenges, including multiple incompatible disease-specific systems and incomplete or delayed data; an excessive burden on the health care system to report disease; and...
- Case studies
- Enabling Real Time Disease Reporting Surveillance
- A company needed the ability to identify and track incidents of infectious disease. The organization faced many challenges, including multiple incompatible disease-specific systems and incomplete or delayed data; an excessive burden on the health care system to report disease; and an overwhelming volume of data to be managed by health...
- Case studies
- Procedures for reestablishing a region as disease-free. (Noted In The Federal Register).(Brief Article)
- PROCEDURES FOR REESTABLISHING A REGION AS DISEASE-FREE: USDA is proposing to establish procedures that it will follow when a region that it recognizes as free of a disease experiences an outbreak of that disease. The procedures include steps USDA wou PROCEDURES FOR REESTABLISHING A REGION AS...
- Research articles 2003-06-30
- Exotic Newcastle disease. (Noted In The Federal Register).(Department of Agriculture amends regulations on disease)(Brief Article)
- EXOTIC NEWCASTLE DISEASE: USDA is amending the exotic Newcastle disease regulations by quarantining Imperial, Orange, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, CA and the previously non-quarantined portions of Riverside and San Bernardino Counti EXOTIC NEWCASTLE DISEASE: USDA is amending the exotic Newcastle disease regulations...
- Research articles 2003-01-20
- Sinovac to Develop Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Vaccine
- ChinaBio Today submits: Sinovac Biotech SVA announced its intention to develop a vaccine against hand, foot and mouth disease, a childhood disease that is caused by human enterovirus 71 (EV71). To develop the vaccine, Sinovac will collaborate with the CDC of China, which will supply the company with epidemiology...
- External links 2008-09-24
- The Atlas of heart disease and stroke
- Cardiovascular disease now ranks as the leading cause of death, resulting in one third of all deaths globally. The Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke, published by the World Health Organization WHO in conjunction with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, was launched on 26 September...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Lyme disease receptor identified in tick guts.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-15 November 2004-YALE UNIVERSITY: Lyme disease receptor identified in tick gutsC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11152004 New Haven, Conn. - Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have identified a Lyme disease receptor called TROSPA that is used by disease agents to...
- Research articles 2004-11-15
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