Archive: 12/12/2013
Blood can transmit Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare but fatal disease in humans. For the first time, the presence of infectivity in the blood of patients affected by sporadic and the new variant of CJD was established by scientists ...
Dec 12, 2013
Report urges new innovation to address global traffic deaths
Stakeholders and decision makers across health and allied sectors must play a key role in developing and implementing innovative solutions to road traffic injuries and trauma care, especially in developing nations, according ...
Dec 12, 2013
FDA's voluntary antibiotics guidelines fail to protect public health
Experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF), say that new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voluntary guidelines on antibiotic use in food animal production are unlikely to reduce the widespread use of ...
Dec 12, 2013
Researchers explore how mothers' blood sugar levels influence child fat
Researchers from Manchester have begun a new study to determine whether blood sugar levels during pregnancy, lower than the level used to diagnose gestational diabetes, influences later levels of body fat in children and ...
Dec 12, 2013