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Disease Prevention
Disease Prevention Infectious diseases are caused by microscopic organisms that live in other people, animals, or the environment and are too small to see. If you do not come into contact with them, you can prevent many infections and illnesses. While specific diseases are passed in specific ways, there are basic steps you can take to stay healthy and lower your risk of catching and spreading any infectious disease.
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AUG 29, 2015Cancer
The adage “you are what you eat” just got a little better, especially for those who like purple potatoes. Co ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 26, 2015Cancer
Cancer researchers, always looking for more effective and less toxic approaches to stopping the disease, recently launch ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 24, 2015Genetics & Genomics
The immune system not only responds to infections and other potentially problematic abnormalities in the body. It also c ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 24, 2015Clinical & Molecular DX
Even though it's awesome, science isn't perfect. Despite the fact that science involves math, an absolute ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 23, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beersheva, Israel, say that they have “made a significa ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 22, 2015Infographics
Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a severe, often fatal disease in humans and primates such as monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanze ...AUG 20, 2015Microbiology
While most E. coli living in the intestine of people and animals are actually beneficial, some can cause severe illness. ...Written By: Sarah HertrichAUG 19, 2015Cancer
Warnings about the dangers of smoking started in the 1960s, but lung cancer remains the second-most common cancer and th ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 17, 2015Neuroscience
This week in North Carolina, UNC-Chapel Hill researcher Dr. Jason Yi made a connection between the UBE3A gene and autism ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 16, 2015Health & Medicine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that around 10% of people infected with Rocky Mountain Spot ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 15, 2015Health & Medicine
Bacillus subtilis is one of the most commonly studied bacteria in the world, ubiquitous in almost every type of soil in ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 14, 2015Plants & Animals
The CDC estimates the incidence of foodborne illness attributed to fruit and vegetable consumption at three million case ...Written By: Sarah HertrichAUG 13, 2015Microbiology
Escherichia coli was first recognized as a possible foodborne pathogen in 1975 in a California hospital with a patient e ...Written By: Sarah HertrichAUG 08, 2015Neuroscience
The position in which people sleep could affect how efficiently the brain clears waste, and ultimately, how the brain fu ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 08, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers Amber Southwell, Michael Hayden and Blair Leavitt at the University of British Columbia Centre for Molecular ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 06, 2015Health & Medicine
A tsetse fly bite in rural Africa could cause Sleeping Sickness, but a new initiative in Uganda is successfully using bl ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 05, 2015Genetics & Genomics
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a range of complex neurodevelop ...Written By: Sarah HertrichAUG 02, 2015Videos
The USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Bee Research Lab installed two beehives in 2010 and 2011 in order to help p ...Written By: Sarah HertrichAUG 01, 2015Neuroscience
American seniors are getting attention for mental health issues - but maybe too much of the wrong kind. According to a U ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 01, 2015Neuroscience
It could cost as much as $268 billion to care for all Americans with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) this year. In 10 yea ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 31, 2015Neuroscience
Are your children drinking enough water? More than half of the children and adolescents in the United States are not. La ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 29, 2015Videos
"Mad Cow Disease" describes the condition in cattle caused by a misfolded protein, called a prion. Humans (and other ani ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 29, 2015Neuroscience
About 50,000 people with autism spectrum disorder turn 18, graduate from high school and need help finding jobs. These " ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 28, 2015Health & Medicine
If you've purchased any Cilantro recently, you might want to make sure it's not imported from the Mexican state of Puebl ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
AUG 29, 2015
Cancer
The adage “you are what you eat” just got a little better, especially for those who like purple potatoes. Co
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 26, 2015
Cancer
Cancer researchers, always looking for more effective and less toxic approaches to stopping the disease, recently launch
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 24, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
The immune system not only responds to infections and other potentially problematic abnormalities in the body. It also c
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 24, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
Even though it's awesome, science isn't perfect. Despite the fact that science involves math, an absolute
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 23, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beersheva, Israel, say that they have “made a significa
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 22, 2015
Infographics
Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a severe, often fatal disease in humans and primates such as monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanze
...
AUG 20, 2015
Microbiology
While most E. coli living in the intestine of people and animals are actually beneficial, some can cause severe illness.
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
AUG 19, 2015
Cancer
Warnings about the dangers of smoking started in the 1960s, but lung cancer remains the second-most common cancer and th
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 17, 2015
Neuroscience
This week in North Carolina, UNC-Chapel Hill researcher Dr. Jason Yi made a connection between the UBE3A gene and autism
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 16, 2015
Health & Medicine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that around 10% of people infected with Rocky Mountain Spot
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 15, 2015
Health & Medicine
Bacillus subtilis is one of the most commonly studied bacteria in the world, ubiquitous in almost every type of soil in
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 14, 2015
Plants & Animals
The CDC estimates the incidence of foodborne illness attributed to fruit and vegetable consumption at three million case
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
AUG 13, 2015
Microbiology
Escherichia coli was first recognized as a possible foodborne pathogen in 1975 in a California hospital with a patient e
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
AUG 08, 2015
Neuroscience
The position in which people sleep could affect how efficiently the brain clears waste, and ultimately, how the brain fu
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 08, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers Amber Southwell, Michael Hayden and Blair Leavitt at the University of British Columbia Centre for Molecular
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 06, 2015
Health & Medicine
A tsetse fly bite in rural Africa could cause Sleeping Sickness, but a new initiative in Uganda is successfully using bl
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 05, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a range of complex neurodevelop
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
AUG 02, 2015
Videos
The USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Bee Research Lab installed two beehives in 2010 and 2011 in order to help p
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
AUG 01, 2015
Neuroscience
American seniors are getting attention for mental health issues - but maybe too much of the wrong kind. According to a U
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 01, 2015
Neuroscience
It could cost as much as $268 billion to care for all Americans with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) this year. In 10 yea
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 31, 2015
Neuroscience
Are your children drinking enough water? More than half of the children and adolescents in the United States are not. La
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 29, 2015
Videos
"Mad Cow Disease" describes the condition in cattle caused by a misfolded protein, called a prion. Humans (and other ani
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 29, 2015
Neuroscience
About 50,000 people with autism spectrum disorder turn 18, graduate from high school and need help finding jobs. These "
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 28, 2015
Health & Medicine
If you've purchased any Cilantro recently, you might want to make sure it's not imported from the Mexican state of Puebl
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard