Hmmmm. Sounds like the long way home to me.
Zika crisis: WHO seeks to allay fears over Rio Olympics
Why isn't there an athlete driven boycott? If I had a young strong body there's no way I would put it at risk. Why would anyone?
Workaholism tied to psychiatric disorders
Workaholism frequently co-occurs with ADHD, OCD, anxiety, and depression, a large national Norwegian study shows. The study showed that workaholics scored higher on all the psychiatric symptoms than non-workaholics.
Mental disorders were most costly in U.S. in 2013
Roehrig notes that in 1996, the most costly medical conditions were heart conditions ($105 billion), followed by mental disorders ($79 billion). In 2004, these conditions had equal spending ($131 billion each), while in 2013, spending on mental disorders had exceeded that of heart conditions, with spending of $201 billion, compared with $147 billion on heart conditions. The average annual growth rate in spending on mental disorders was 5.6 percent, compared with 2 percent for spending on heart conditions. Most of the fastest-growing medical conditions in terms of spending were medical conditions associated with obesity; most of the spending growth rates were too high to be explained by obesity-induced increased disease prevalence, and were likely due to the introduction of expensive new treatments.
Metagenomics pathogen detection tool could change how infectious diseases are diagnosed
Schlaberg explains that Taxonomer can identify an infection without the physician having to decide what to test for, something a PCR-based test cannot do. In other words, a doctor doesn't have to suspect the cause of a patient's infection, but can instead simply ask, "What does my patient have?" and Taxonomer will identify the pathogens.
In the new study, Taxonomer was put to the test with real-world cases using data published by others and samples provided by ARUP Laboratories and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Taxonomer determined that some patients who exhibited Ebola-like symptoms in the recent African outbreak did not have Ebola but severe bacterial infections that likely caused their symptoms. "This technology can be applied whenever we don't know the cause of the disease, including the detection of sudden outbreaks of disease. It is very clear we urgently need more accurate diagnostics to greatly enhance the ability of public health response and clinical care," says Seema Jain, MD, medical epidemiologist at the CDC.
Fasting-like diet reduces multiple sclerosis symptoms
A Collection Of Comics That Introverts Will Totally Relate To
My kind of Fun.
