Taubman Health Sciences Library Blog- Blog Retired
- Global Innovation – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 20, 2014)
- Local Innovation & #MCubed – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 13, 2014)
- Open Access Journal on Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology
- National Medical Librarians Month 2014
- Suicide Prevention & Trauma on Social Media – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 6, 2014)
- Radiation Oncology Journal Club (#RadOnc) – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 29, 2014)
- From the National Library of Medicine: Roosevelt at NIH
- Patients on the Right TEDMED Questions – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 22, 2014)
- TEDMED on Patient Engagement – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 15, 2014)
Tag Archives: infectious diseases
Project Tycho – Data for health
Project Tycho, from the University of Pittsburgh (with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation & the National Institutes of Health), is a database created to advance the availability & use of public health data for science & policy. … Continue reading
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Tagged health policy, infectious diseases, research, statistics
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Vaccinating babies for rotavirus protects the whole family
From NPR’s Shots blog: A 7-year-old vaccine that has drastically cut intestinal infections in infants is benefiting the rest of America, too. A study published Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that vaccinating infants against rotavirus … Continue reading
Public health’s wicked problems: Can InfoVis save lives?
From the CDC’s Office of Infectious Diseases: Call for submissions Public health is charged with assessing current and emerging health threats and issues, developing effective population-based policies and interventions to address these problems, and monitoring delivery and outcomes … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, infectious diseases, statistics, visualization tools
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Mold toxins tied to AIDS epidemic
From the New York Times: Aflatoxins — poisons produced by fungi that grow on moldy peanuts and corn — may be worsening Africa’s AIDS epidemic by helping suppress the immune systems of newly infected people, a new study has found. … Continue reading
Polio virus is found in Cairo’s sewers
From the New York Times: The polio virus has been found in the sewers of Cairo, and it appears to have come from Pakistan, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Egypt has not had a case of polio since 2004. … Continue reading
Disease detection: Laboratories on the front lines
From the CDC’s blog, Public Health Matters: You can’t respond to threats if you don’t know what they are, which is one reason that laboratories play such an important role in public health. Public health laboratories have helped detect all … Continue reading
New from NAP – The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa
From the National Academies Press: Among the poorest and least developed regions in the world, sub-Saharan Africa has long faced a heavy burden of disease, with malaria, tuberculosis, and, more recently, HIV being among the most prominent contributors to that … Continue reading
Chickenpox down 80 percent since 2000
From the New York Times: Signaling the retreat of a childhood rite of passage, the incidence of chickenpox in the United States fell by 80 percent from 2000 to 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last week. … Continue reading
Rapid H.I.V. home test wins federal approval
From the New York Times: After decades of controversy, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new H.I.V. test on Tuesday that for the first time makes it possible for Americans to learn in the privacy of their homes whether … Continue reading
Doctors deploy shots and drugs against whooping cough outbreak
From the Shots blog & NPR: A couple of weeks ago I got an e-mail from my son’s middle school alerting families that several students had been diagnosed with whooping cough, also called pertussis. I didn’t pay too much attention; … Continue reading
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