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How to Stop a Daybreakers-Style Vampire Epidemic As far-fetched as the "disease" may be, there are certain steps doctors, scientists and officials always take when analyzing an outbreak.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 17, 2003
Martha Lagace |
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management Diabetes is a tough disease to tackle. A case-study discussion led by Harvard professor Nancy Beaulieu asked why it is so complex for business and society, and what might be done to curb its incidence. |
National Defense
April 2015
Stew Magnuson |
Worldwide Biosurveillance Network Still a Distant Goal Since the anthrax attacks of 2001, the U.S. government's intention has been to create a global disease-monitoring system. |
BusinessWeek
September 19, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
A Hot Zone In The Heartland Little could be done to contain a deadly avian flu outbreak. Right now, the U.S. has no national pandemic preparedness plan, either for treating large numbers of patients or for dealing with the resulting economic and social disruptions. |
Managed Care
May 2003 |
E-Health Gives Kaiser Role In Bioterror Fight Kaiser Permanente has launched a computerized surveillance system designed to alert public health officials to possible disease outbreaks. |
Chemistry World
September 16, 2015
Patrick Walter |
A shot in the arm It's heartening news that an Ebola vaccine has delivered outstanding results and that a malaria one shows early promise. |
Salon.com
October 17, 2001
Laura Miller |
Our first line of defense An expert on public health talks about what America needs to fight a bioterrorist attack, why we don't have it and how stocking up on cipro is a danger to everyone... |
Fast Company
Sarah Kessler |
Why There Is No Available Ebola Vaccine Ebola has the unprofitable qualities of being both relatively rare and infecting a mostly poor population. No pharma company wanted to foot the bill for human trials and production. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Future Cures Almost every disease known to man is under constant research and we can hardly go a day without hearing about some advancement or another. Here are a few diseases for which future cures could be looming on the horizon. |
Chemistry World
August 20, 2014
Maria Burke |
Doctors turn to experimental Ebola treatments The emergency use of an experimental medicine is highly unusual, but the WHO has declared the Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2010
Brian Orelli |
Ugly Side Effects Won't Derail This Drug Side effects don't matter much when there are no other treatment options, as in Cushing's disease. |
Managed Care
May 2004
Frank Diamond |
Care Coordination Strikes Right Chord Care coordination -- which, for the purposes of this article, means optimal management of people with multiple chronic diseases to improve outcomes and cut costs -- just suddenly seems a lot more doable. The thing that may make care coordination work this time, is technology. |
Salon.com
July 31, 2000
Dante Ramos |
Public health vs. private medicine Laurie Garrett, author of "Betrayal of Trust," talks about the policy battle in America that allows disease to spread and people to die. |
Wired
April 21, 2008
Thomas Goetz |
Why Medicine Should Care Less About "Sick," More About "Normal" Predictive medicine relies on knowing ranges of normal values so that it can screen for results outside of this range early on. Unfortunately, funding organizations are not interested in what is normal. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
February 1, 2007
Iaquinto & Palmisano |
Medical Education: A Platform for Success By pumping the science behind a brand, pharmaceutical companies can garner early loyalist - before a drug even hits the market. |
Smithsonian
November 2005
Robin Marantz Henig |
35 Who Made a Difference: D. A. Henderson Eradicating one of history's deadliest diseases was just the beginning. |
Chemistry World
October 23, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
US agency fast-tracks Ebola vaccine development The US Department of Health and Human Services is fast-tracking tests on an Ebola vaccine by providing $5.8 million under a one-year contract with the Maryland-based biotech company Profectus BioSciences |
Pharmaceutical Executive
November 1, 2006 |
Alternative Media: Time to Change the Channel Upgraded hospital television and Internet systems equal new marketing opportunities. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Alzheimer's Disease 101 It's only in the last decade or so that we have truly come to understand the various disorders of the brain that are associated with age and, in most cases, Alzheimer's disease is the prime suspect. Read on for some basic information. |
Wired
January 2006
Thomas Goetz |
The Battle to Stop Bird Flu The Bird Flu pandemic has hit New Mexico. Inside the Los Alamos weapons lab, massive computer simulations are unleashing disease and tracking its course, 6 billion people at a time. |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2004
Johnson et al. |
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Chronic Kidney Disease in Adults: Part I. Definition, Disease Stages, Evaluation, Treatment and Risk Factors Family physicians should weigh the value of the National Kidney Foundation guidelines for their clinical practice based on the strength of evidence and perceived cost-effectiveness until additional evidence becomes available on the usefulness of the recommended quality indicators. |
Chemistry World
February 6, 2015
Anthony King |
Review plots path to face down antimicrobial resistance deaths The second installment of a UK government review on antimicrobial resistance has called for governments around the world to focus on 'easy wins' in the fight against microbial resistance. |
ifeminists
February 2, 2005
Carey Roberts |
Men Feeling Blue on February the Fourth Two national health organizations are teaming up in an Orwellian effort to pander to women and mislead the American public about the threat of heart disease. |
BusinessWeek
February 20, 2006
Arlene Weintraub |
Should Doctors Own Hospitals? Controversy builds over a fast-growing, profit-driven business in which specialty hospitals are partly owned and run by doctors. |
BusinessWeek
February 16, 2004
Balfour & Kripalani |
Over The Sea, Then Under The Knife Patients worldwide are heading to hospitals in Asia for affordable, high-quality surgery. |
National Defense
November 2014
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
U.S. Faces Evolving, Unpredictable Threats With a temporary spending measure for fiscal year 2015 scheduled to expire Dec. 11, Congress must act quickly to replace that with a full-year appropriation and fix the fiscal square corner that defense faces in the 2016 budget. |
Fast Company
Christina Farr |
AHA, Alphabet Set Aside $75 Million To Cure Coronary Heart Disease The American Heart Association, Verily (the company formerly known as Google Life Sciences), and European pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca are investing the funds over a five-year period. |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005
Timothy J. Mullaney |
Saving Lives Shouldn't Be This Hard The health-care system doesn't give patients the tools or the support they need to make confident decisions about choosing doctors, treatments, or hospitals. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2006 |
Kawasaki Disease: What You Should Know A patient guide: What is Kawasaki disease?... What causes Kawasaki disease?... How can my doctor tell if my child has Kawasaki disease?... How is it treated?... etc. |
Chemistry World
February 17, 2015
Vicki Davison |
Silver lining for paper Ebola test Researchers in the US have developed a silver nanoparticle-based paper test to simultaneously detect dengue, yellow fever and Ebola. |
AskMen.com
Joshua Levine |
Life-Threatening Illnesses A list of what I think are the most significant diseases you should watch out for. |
Salon.com
October 9, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
Plague fears A bioterrorism expert talks about the wicked ways of anthrax and the even deadlier potential scourge of smallpox... |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Airplane Air As if the fear of terrorism, turbulence or mechanical failure were not enough, airplane passengers still have to contend with the fear of microbial invasion. |
