Detroit Rabbis Help Thousands Get Measles Vaccine – The Forward

[ad_1] Getty Images One MMR vaccine vial against measles, mumps and rubella. Health officials in Detroit worked with local rabbis to vaccinate the Orthodox Jewish community after a man from Brooklyn unknowingly infected 39 people with measles, the Washington Post reported. After the man had a measles positive result last month and his strain of … Read more

The death of a man from Vermont might not be related to an outbreak of hepatitis A in Martin County, according to health officials

[ad_1] COUNTY OF MARTIN, Florida – Health officials now say that Death of a Vermont man linked to two victims of hepatitis A in Martin County "we do not think it is related to this public health concern at the moment". RELATED: Hepatitis A Information Sheet Ned Kirsch is the brother of Jeff Kirsch, who … Read more

Targeting the interaction of paracrine-mediated LIF for the treatment and monitoring of pancreatic cancer

[ad_1] Author's notes Current Address: Trovagene, San Diego, CA, USA Current address: Crown Bioscience San Diego, San Diego, California, USA These authors also contributed: Weina Gao, Nikki K. Lytle Deceased: Tony Pawson Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular and Cell Biology, Salk Institute of Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA Yu Shi , Huaiyu Sun , Jill … Read more

Two hours or more in front of the screen make children "misbehaved"

[ad_1] One study said that young children who spend hours watching screens every day are more skeptical at the age of five. Preschoolers who use smartphones, tablets and other gadgets for more than two hours a day are seven times more likely to develop ADHD. Time spent in front of a screen has a "significant … Read more

Yale study relaunches pork brain cell activity a few hours after death

[ad_1] (Reuters) – Scientists at Yale University have been able to restore basic cell activity in pigs' brains within hours of death, as part of a discovery that may one day lead to breakthroughs in the brain. treatment of stroke and brain damage in humans, announced Wednesday researchers. The scientists pointed out that their work … Read more

HIV used to cure illness 'bubble boy'

[ad_1] Copyright of the image Courtesy of St Jude Children's Research Hospital Legend Gael, a patient of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital who was treated, with his mother US scientists say they have used HIV to develop gene therapy to cure eight infants with severe combined immune deficiency, or "Bubble Boy Syndrome." The results … Read more

Measles has killed more than 1,200 people since October

[ad_1] Measles – a highly contagious virus that can cause high fever, rashes, bumps, swelling of the brain and even death – spreads among unvaccinated populations around the world. Around the world, unvaccinated people, from Brooklyn to New York to northern Madagascar, are discovering how invasive and contagious the virus can be in the absence … Read more