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Revolutionary New Antibiotic Alternative Could Save The World From Superbug 'Apocalypse'
Scientists have developed a new alternative to antibiotics that could revolutionise the way we treat superbugs and avoid a scenario where common medical procedures become life-threatening due to bacteria becoming immune to conventional drugs...
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RNRN Launches Fundraising Drive For Healthcare Workers In Ebola-Stricken Nations
The Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), a project of National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest professional organization of RNs, has initiated a national fundraising campaign to provide desperately needed personal protective equipment for frontline healthcare workers caring for patients stricken by the Ebola virus...
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Science, Society And Risk In The Anthropocene
The culture of too much hygiene in rapid, unplanned urbanising society with poor infrastructure exposes urban spaces to a particular risk brought about by unchecked use of technology. This article looks at the indiscriminate use of antibiotics and antibacterial consumer products, which form the aetiology for the emergence of new strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria (superbugs) in urban space, especially in waterbodies...
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Second MERS Case Confirmed In Netherlands
A second case of the potentially deadly MERS virus has been identified in the Netherlands, a spokeswoman for the country's National Public Health Institute told CNN...The cases in the Netherlands involve two family members who had traveled together to Saudi Arabia.
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Second MERS Case Shows Hospitals Are Ground Zero For MERS
The patient started feeling ill as he sat on a packed flight from Jeddah to London. Things didn’t get any better after he boarded another flight to Boston, or a third flight to Atlanta, or even as he took one last miserable leg to Orlando...
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She’s Got a Radical Approach for the Age of Superbugs: Don’t Fight Infections. Learn to Live with Them
As her father lay dying of sepsis, Janelle Ayres spent nine agonizing days at his bedside. When he didn’t beat the virulent bloodstream infection, she grieved. And then she got frustrated. She knew there had to be a better way to help patients like her dad. In fact, she was working on one in her lab. Ayres, a hard-charging physiologist who has unapologetically decorated her lab with bright touches of hot pink, is intent on upending our most fundamental understanding of how the human body fights disease...
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Slow Ebola Response Blamed On False Assumptions About Its Course
Health experts and humanitarian organizations waging war against the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa hope plans announced Tuesday by the Obama Administration to send additional aid to affected regions will encourage more philanthropic support and health worker recruitment. Both money and volunteers have come in at a slower pace in this crisis than in past disasters...
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Social Media: An Asset to Saving Millions
The amount of women and children that die hourly from preventable incidences can be compared to the amount of persons that died during the recent Dana clash that claimed 154 lives in Lagos in June. Read More »
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Social Medicine 2.0—Can You Use Crowdsourcing to Give Your Medical Device a Leg Up?
Online crowdsourcing communities are a game changer. These platforms allow anyone to appeal to the entire connected world for support or participation. They get many of us to participate—Kickstarter processed just shy of $500 million dollars in 2014. Most interesting, at least to me, are platforms for crowdsourcing information. These make up the next generation of online forums, ranging from chat forums to open source hardware development...
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Special Report - The World Health Organization's Critical Challenge: Healing Itself
For years the WHO has talked about streamlining its complex structure, governance and financing to make it more efficient. Critics say the organisation needs deep reforms to allow it to show clear leadership in promoting health and to respond decisively to disease emergencies that may span many countries. But progress has been painfully slow...
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Special Report: When the Drugs Don't Work
Welcome to a world where the drugs don't work...for decades scientists have managed to develop new medicines to stay at least one step ahead of an ever-mutating enemy.
Now, though, we may be running out of road. MRSA alone is estimated to kill around 19,000 people every year in the United States -- far more than HIV and AIDS -- and a similar number in Europe. Other drug-resistant superbugs are spreading. Cases of often fatal "extensively drug resistant" tuberculosis have mushroomed over the past few years. A new wave of "super superbugs" with a mutation called NDM 1, which first emerged in India, has now turned up all over the world, from Britain to New Zealand.
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Study Suggests Wi-Fi Exposure More Dangerous To Kids Than Previously Thought
...he International Agency for Research on Cancer (IRIC), part of the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO), classifies these and more than 250 other agents as Class 2B Carcinogens – possibly carcinogenic to humans. Another entry on that same list is radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF/EMF)...
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Suicide Prevention Week: ‘Almost 3000 People Commit Suicide Daily’
In advance of the United States National Suicide Prevention week from September 9 to September 15 and simultaneous to the beginning of the 14th European Symposium of Suicide and Suicidal Behavior in Tel Aviv, Israel, on September 3, 2012, the VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS) has implemented new programs in its effort to save a life. Read More »
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Superbugs Are A 'Costly War We Can't Win': Doctors
Germs are perfect machines of evolution. Their ability to mutate and survive attempts (by humans and nature) to destroy them has led to some being called "superbugs." Resistant to existing antibiotics, superbug-related infections worldwide result in thousands of deaths each year—an estimated 99,000 in the U.S. alone for each of the past 10 years. Read More »
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Superbugs Could Eventually Kill More People Than Cancer
The world could have a deadly and expensive problem on its hands if the growing fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria stays on the same track, according to a dire new warning...
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