I often feel guilty for not giving much attention to dementia on this website… My grandmother suffered from Alzheimer’s for 12 years (perhaps longer) until she died.. I was robbed of her love for much of my life.. I hate Alzheimer’s and all of its effects. The notion of the brain deteriorating and turning to … Read moreThis is going to be a problem.. But our choices about how to handle it may be worse
Pork is what’s never for dinner for me anymore: A pig disease that killed millions of piglets in China has now spread to the United States. US farmers have now reported 768 cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV).
From FORBES: With respect to the definition of “cancer,” downgrading some conditions as no longer being “cancer” can and will used to justify reducing “unnecessary” screening tests (e.g., mammograms for women between ages 40-49). Mammograms can now detect the condition known as “ductal carcinoma in situ” (DCIS), which would no longer be called a cancer … Read moreEven cancer is getting political! The federal government wants to redefinethe term “cancer” so that fewer conditions qualify as a true cancer.
Data show a sizable increase in the amount of meat contaminated with antibiotic-resistant forms of bacteria, like salmonella, E. coli and campylobacter. That’s right. Bacteria.. resistant to anything. Eat up. Time to go vegan? Report on U.S. Meat Sounds Alarm on superbugs in US meat..
Rumors in China say that the United States created their bird flu. Fears in the rest of the world now that the bird flu may turn into the 1918 of 2013.. Nothing to fear? US races to create bird flu vaccine.. just in case. H7N9 has Tamiflu resistance..
Obama! Come on! have some more sense. Captain Trips SHOULD NOT exist.. This is when science annoys me.. seriously guys, you are still going to create highly infectious bird flu?
“Laboratory investigations done at the Uganda Virus Research Institute…have confirmed that the strange disease reported in Kibaale is indeed Ebola hemorrhagic fever,” the Ugandan government and WHO said in joint statement. Ebola back in Uganda, according to a report
The strange disease known only as ‘nodding disease’ is confounding experts.. it is also killing children at an alarming rate.. unknown are the causes.. what is known is this: The disease affects only children and gradually devastates its victims through debilitating seizures, stunted growth, wasted limbs, mental disabilities and sometimes starvation.. This story is sad … Read moreThis story is sad and alarming: More than 3,000 children from Northern Uganda suffering from debilitating mystery ailment known as nodding disease
Mad Cow could go airborne. But don’t panic.