Walk down the aisles at your local supermarket or drug store and you can find a veritable alphabet soup of health supplements — from acai to zinc — touting various health benefits. The supplements industry, which includes everything from vitamins and herbal supplements to weight loss pills, has grown into a more than $30 billion […]
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Big Pharma Calls for New Incentives to Fight “Superbugs”
by explainingmedicine June 10, 2016SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Hospital scientist Joanne Thambyah (L) inspects an unidentified culture (C) in the Microbiology Department of Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital, 07 June 2004. A young man who died in the intensive care unit of the Royal Brisbane Hospital, in the northern state of Brisbane last year, has been identified as the first victim […]
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Immerse yourself in the world of doctors and their patients, fighting the worst outbreak of the disease on record. Tap, click and explore a treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, during the height of the Ebola epidemic in our 360° video. Content retrieved from: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/inside-an-ebola-clinic/.
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The Zika virus seems to have come out of nowhere, but health officials now worry the disease could infect as many as 4 million people worldwide in 2016 alone. The World Health Organization says the disease is “spreading explosively.” But where did Zika come from? And how did it spread so fast? Click below to […]
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FILE – In this Monday, May 6, 2013 file photo, a drug addict prepares a needle to inject himself with heroin in front of a church in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles. The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in February 2014 spotlighted the reality that heroin is no longer limited to the […]
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New Link Between Zika and Microcephaly Is Found in Brazil
by PBS June 10, 2016Dr. Natalia Brin, examining 2-month-old Cristian Mateus, held by his mother Ederlanha, 18. Dr. Natalia Brin examines a 2-month-old with suspected microcephaly in Brazil. (Katie Worth/FRONTLINE) RECIFE, Brazil — Researchers in the state of Pernambuco, home to a third of Brazil’s suspected cases of infant microcephaly, said on Wednesday that they have identified some of the clearest evidence yet of […]
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Chicken wings are displayed at the Wing Bowl in Philadelphia, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Every year, salmonella causes an estimated one million foodborne illnesses, 19,000 hospitalizations and 380 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One third of those cases — around 375,000 — can be attributed to meat, poultry or processed egg […]
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RECIFE, Brazil — For the first 27 years he was in practice, most patients were thrilled to visit Dr. Pedro Pires’s ultrasound clinic, where he and his magic machine would give them a first, grainy glimpse at their baby. “Now they come in as though they were sentenced,” he says. “They are so afraid of […]