Slashdot Items Tagged "disease"

Date / Time Story
Monday November 06, 2023 @08:01PM Parkinson's Patient Able To Walk Again Without Problems After Spinal Implant
Monday October 16, 2023 @08:18PM Roundup Herbicide Ingredient Connected To Epidemic Levels of Chronic Kidney Disease
Monday May 15, 2023 @11:43PM Mutation Protected Man From Alzheimer's Disease, Hinting at Treatment
Friday March 03, 2023 @01:17AM Three-Parent Baby Technique Could Create Babies At Risk of Severe Disease
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:13AM 4 Severe Gum Disease Symptoms
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:58AM Stem Cell Treatment for Liver Disease
Monday January 09, 2023 @08:35AM Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Friday January 06, 2023 @01:00AM US Approves World's First Vaccine For Declining Honey Bees
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @09:56PM Scientists Develop Blood Test For Alzheimer's Disease
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @09:09AM Degenerative Spine Disease Treatment in Pasadena
Tuesday December 20, 2022 @02:38PM Lyme Disease Treatment What You Need to Know in Manhattan
Monday December 19, 2022 @08:24AM Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Friday December 16, 2022 @12:32AM First Human Trials Test Light and Sound Therapy For Alzheimer's Disease
Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:44PM Leprosy disease able to regenerate organs
Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:00PM A Supersmeller Can Detect the Scent of Parkinson's, Leading To An Experimental Test For the Illness
Wednesday October 05, 2022 @09:14PM AI Eye Checks Can Predict Heart Disease Risk In Less Than Minute, Finds Study
Tuesday August 09, 2022 @08:28PM Major Test of First Possible Lyme Vaccine In 20 Years Begins
Thursday March 10, 2022 @11:14PM WHO Says It Advised Ukraine To Destroy Pathogens In Health Labs To Prevent Disease Spread
Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:16PM Epstein-Barr Virus Found To Trigger Multiple Sclerosis
Friday May 14, 2021 @04:35PM 'Black Fungus' Complication Adds To India's COVID Woes
Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:55PM Doctors Investigate Mystery Brain Disease in Canada
Friday April 23, 2021 @03:10PM Japan Declares 3rd State Of Emergency, 3 Months Ahead Of Olympics
Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:35PM Leaked Memo Reveals Concerning New Brain Disease In Canada
Thursday February 04, 2021 @05:26PM Apple Watch Can Help Track Parkinson's Disease Symptoms, Research Shows
Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:53PM Theranos' Holmes May Pursue 'Mental Disease' In Her Defense
Friday July 31, 2020 @08:13PM A New Lyme Disease Vaccine Is Showing Promise
Monday July 06, 2020 @04:12PM China Confirms Case of Bubonic Plague In Inner Mongolia
Monday June 15, 2020 @05:02PM Slowing the Coronavirus Is Speeding the Spread of Other Diseases
Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:39PM Common Herpes Virus Causes Signs of Alzheimer's Disease In Brain Cells
Monday April 13, 2020 @05:54PM Scientists Develop Potentially Vital Nasal Vaccine For Treating Alzheimer's
Friday April 10, 2020 @04:42PM A Smart Toilet Could Identify You By Your 'Analprint' and Detect Diseases
Friday March 27, 2020 @04:14PM Some Recovered Coronavirus Patients In Wuhan Are Testing Positive Again
Wednesday March 25, 2020 @09:12PM Social Distancing Is Slowing Not Only COVID-19, But Other Diseases Too
Friday March 13, 2020 @05:21PM You Can Now Take Up To 12 Ounces of Hand Sanitizer Through Airport Security
Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:38PM Twitter Bans Posts That 'Dehumanize' People In Connection With Diseases
Wednesday March 04, 2020 @11:46AM China Tech Groups Censored Information About Coronavirus
Thursday February 06, 2020 @06:54PM First Clinical Trial of Gene Editing To Help Target Cancer
Wednesday February 05, 2020 @06:36AM Shoddy Coronavirus Studies Are Going Viral And Stoking Panic
Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:38AM DEF CON China Conference Put on Hold Due To Coronavirus Outbreak
Monday January 20, 2020 @03:52PM China Reports More Than 200 Infections With New Coronavirus From Wuhan
Friday January 10, 2020 @08:28PM Some Aspects of Memory Get Better As We Age
Thursday January 02, 2020 @06:38PM One-Quarter of World's Pigs Died In a Year Due To Swine Fever In China
Wednesday December 11, 2019 @06:48PM Low-Risk Ultrasound Procedure Destroys 80 Percent of Prostate Cancers In One-Year Study
Monday November 18, 2019 @06:40PM Woman Who Inherited Huntington's Disease Sues Doctors
Thursday November 14, 2019 @06:10PM The Black Death Plague Just Reappeared In China
Friday November 08, 2019 @06:50PM The World's First Gattaca Baby Tests Are Finally Here
Friday November 01, 2019 @07:05PM Scientists Find a Way To Target the Protein Behind Huntington's Disease
Friday October 04, 2019 @04:23PM Montreal Law Firm Looks To Launch Class-Action Lawsuit Against Fortnite Developer
Thursday September 12, 2019 @05:14PM CRISPR Gene-Editing May Offer Path To Cure For HIV, First Published Report Shows
Friday August 30, 2019 @05:47PM Mutant Sheep Are Being Bred In Lab To Fight Lethal Child Brain Disease
Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:21AM The Banana Is One Step Closer To Disappearing
Monday August 12, 2019 @06:17PM Ebola Is Now Curable
Thursday May 30, 2019 @06:20PM Heavily Processed Food Like Ready Meals and Ice Cream Linked To Early Death
Monday May 20, 2019 @09:31PM Google's Lung Cancer Detection AI Outperforms 6 Human Radiologists
Friday May 10, 2019 @01:43AM Yet More Research Links Appendectomies and Parkinson's Disease
Thursday April 18, 2019 @07:46PM Doctors Used HIV To Develop Cure For 'Bubble Boy' Disease
Friday April 05, 2019 @06:48PM Alzheimer's Disease Affects 'Twice As Many People' As Experts Thought
Monday March 25, 2019 @05:18PM The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says
Saturday February 23, 2019 @11:04PM Scientists Release Controversial Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In High-Security Lab
Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:26PM Eating Processed Foods Tied To Shorter Life, Study Suggests
Monday February 11, 2019 @07:49PM FDA Warns Supplement Makers To Stop Touting Cures For Diseases and Cancer
Thursday January 24, 2019 @09:50AM We May Finally Know What Causes Alzheimer's -- and How To Stop It
Wednesday January 16, 2019 @07:06PM Fasting Can Improve Overall Health By Causing Circadian Clocks In the Liver and Skeletal Muscle To Rewire Their Metabolism, Study Finds
Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:30AM Method For Fooling Cancer Cells Into Fat Cells Can Stop Cancer's Spread
Wednesday October 31, 2018 @08:34PM Scientists Find Link Between Parkinson's Disease and the Appendix
Sunday October 21, 2018 @04:53AM Not Exercising Worse For Your Health Than Smoking, Diabetes and Heart Disease, Study Reveals
Monday September 24, 2018 @07:50PM Mosquitoes Genetically Modified To Crash Species That Spreads Malaria
Wednesday August 08, 2018 @06:22PM US Invaded By Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating
Thursday August 02, 2018 @08:56PM Regular Sauna Users May Have Fewer Chronic Diseases
Friday June 22, 2018 @04:17PM Scientists Genetically Engineer Pigs Immune To Costly Disease
Sunday June 17, 2018 @05:32PM Man Reports PillCam Stuck In His Gut For Over 12 Weeks
Monday May 14, 2018 @06:05PM California Study To Examine the Influence of a Healthy Diet On Patients
Friday April 13, 2018 @08:59PM 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' Goldman Sachs Analysts Ask
Sunday March 04, 2018 @12:31AM Diabetes Is Actually Five Separate Diseases, Research Suggests
Wednesday February 14, 2018 @09:14PM Ultra-Processed Foods May Be Linked To Cancer, Says Study
Friday February 09, 2018 @02:15AM Spread of Breast Cancer Linked To Compound In Asparagus and Other Foods
Thursday February 01, 2018 @06:36PM NFL Players With Long and Short Careers Have Similar Death Risk, Study Finds
Monday January 29, 2018 @12:55PM One in 50 of Us is Face Blind -- and Many Don't Even Realize
Sunday December 31, 2017 @02:12PM Dental Floss May Have No Medical Benefits, Says AP Report
Wednesday December 27, 2017 @10:50PM The WHO May Recognize Excessive Video Gaming As Mental Health Disorder
Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:26PM FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy For Inherited Form of Blindness
Monday December 11, 2017 @07:46PM Synthetic DNA-Based Drug Is First To Slow Progress of Huntington's Disease
Wednesday October 18, 2017 @05:09PM Intelligent People More At Risk of Mental Illness, Study Finds
Thursday September 28, 2017 @04:26PM Chinese Researchers Correct Genetic Mutation In Embryos Using Base Editing
Wednesday September 20, 2017 @05:21PM E-Cigarettes With Nicotine Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease, Says Study
Friday September 15, 2017 @06:52PM Poor Diet Is a Factor In One In Five Deaths, Global Disease Study Reveals
Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:08PM First Human Embryos Edited In US
Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:13PM Coffee Cuts Risk of Dying From Stroke and Heart Disease, Study Suggests
Friday June 23, 2017 @12:35PM Lone Star Tick spreading meat allergy
Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:51PM A Baffling Brain Defect Is Linked to Gut Bacteria, Scientists Say
Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:04PM Dormant Diseases Frozen In the Ice Are Waking Up
Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:19PM Popular Belief That Saturated Fat Clogs Up Arteries Is a Myth, Experts Say
Friday April 21, 2017 @05:22PM Cycling To Work Can Cut Cancer and Heart Disease
Monday April 17, 2017 @05:30PM AI Can Predict Heart Attacks More Accurately Than Doctors
Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:45PM West African Village Weighs Using Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In Malaria Fight
Wednesday February 22, 2017 @06:15PM Owning a Cat Does Not Lead To Mental Illness, Study Finds
Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:14PM The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe
Wednesday February 15, 2017 @04:36PM Ethicists Advise Caution In Applying CRISPR Gene Editing To Humans
Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:45PM Researchers Develop Compact Breathalyzer That Detects the Flu
Friday January 06, 2017 @02:01PM Fewer People Are Dying of Cancer Than Ever Before
Thursday December 29, 2016 @09:14PM Paintings Reveal Signs of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's In Famous Artists
Wednesday December 28, 2016 @05:09PM Scientists Develop a Breathalyzer That Detects 17 Diseases With One Breath From a Patient
Thursday December 22, 2016 @08:22PM New Test Spots Human Form of Mad Cow Disease With 100-Percent Accuracy
Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:42PM US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993
Friday December 02, 2016 @03:29AM Erich Bloch, Who Helped Develop IBM Mainframe, Dies At 91
Wednesday November 30, 2016 @03:11AM New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain
Monday November 21, 2016 @08:29PM US Dementia Rates Drop 24%, New Study Finds
Friday November 18, 2016 @08:20PM Scientists Discover Antibody That Neutralizes 98% of HIV Strains
Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:13PM Apple Launches 'Touch Disease' Repair Program For iPhone 6 Plus
Friday November 04, 2016 @07:24PM Health Anxiety May Increase Risk of Heart Disease, Research Finds
Friday October 28, 2016 @07:18PM Harvard Scientists Invent Cigarette-Smoking Robot For Better Lung Disease Research
Wednesday September 21, 2016 @03:58PM Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Announce $3 Billion Initiative To 'Cure All Diseases'
Tuesday September 20, 2016 @05:11PM Microsoft Will 'Solve' Cancer Within The Next 10 Years By Treating It Like A Computer Virus, Says Company
Friday September 16, 2016 @01:29AM Apple Is Still Ignoring One of the Biggest iPhone Engineering Flaws of All Time: 'Touch Disease'
Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:32PM Sri Lanka, Once Severely Affected By Malaria, Now Absolutely Free Of It
Thursday July 28, 2016 @07:25PM Study: Astronauts Who Reach Deep Space 'Far More Likely To Die From Heart Disease'
Wednesday July 27, 2016 @05:45PM ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Funding Leads To New Genetic Findings
Thursday July 14, 2016 @05:34PM Obesity Is Three Times As Deadly For Men Than Women, Says Study
Tuesday July 12, 2016 @12:58AM Study Shows Thumb-Sucking and Nail-Biting Can Be Good For Kids
Tuesday May 24, 2016 @04:11PM American Scientists Working On Creating Chimeras: Half-Human, Half-Animal Embryos
Thursday May 19, 2016 @07:36PM Why Don't Scientists Kill The 'Demon In The Freezer'?
Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:12PM Harvard Scientist: Rio Olympics Could Spark 'Full Blown Global Health Disaster'
Thursday April 14, 2016 @12:17AM Zika Virus Officially Causes Rare Microcephaly Birth Defects, CDC Says
Monday April 04, 2016 @06:59PM Risks To Human Health Will Accelerate As Climate Changes, White House Warns
Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:12PM Google DeepMind Applies AI To Healthcare With NHS Partnership
Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:10PM Researchers Claim Success In Removing HIV From Living Cells
Monday February 22, 2016 @08:38PM Scientists Ponder the Prospect of Contagious Cancer
Thursday January 28, 2016 @07:28PM Researchers Use CRISPR To Repair Genetic Defect That Causes Blindness
Saturday January 23, 2016 @03:54PM Zika Virus Outbreak Prompts CDC To Expand Travel Advisory
Tuesday January 19, 2016 @01:45PM Hawking Says Scientific Progress Is Major Source of New Threats To Humanity
Monday October 05, 2015 @07:43AM 3 Scientists Share Nobel For Parastic Disease Breakthroughs
Sunday October 04, 2015 @05:05AM Legionnaires' Bacteria Reemerges In Previously Disinfected Cooling Towers
Thursday September 24, 2015 @12:53PM An AI Hunts the Wild Animals Carrying Ebola
Tuesday September 08, 2015 @11:00AM Another Neurodegenerative Disease Linked To a Prion
Saturday August 01, 2015 @07:42PM Death Toll at 4 In NYC Legionnaire's Outbreak
Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:43AM The Epidemic May be Over, But Liberia Has New Ebola Cases
Tuesday June 09, 2015 @10:33AM Computer Modeling Failed During the Ebola Outbreak
Saturday June 06, 2015 @01:30AM Diphtheria Returns To Spain For Lack of Vaccination
Tuesday May 19, 2015 @08:03AM Forecasting the Next Pandemic
Saturday May 09, 2015 @06:09PM WHO Declares Liberian Ebola Outbreak Over
Saturday March 21, 2015 @06:12PM Ebola-Proof Tablet Developed By Google Set For Deployment In Sierra Leone
Saturday February 21, 2015 @07:40PM Drug-Resistant Malaria May Pose Major Threat
Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:02AM Mississippi - the Nation's Leader In Vaccination Rates
Thursday January 22, 2015 @04:22PM New Advance Confines GMOs To the Lab Instead of Living In the Wild
Thursday October 30, 2014 @08:20AM Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps
Sunday October 12, 2014 @05:28PM Feces-Filled Capsules Treat Bacterial Infection
Sunday October 12, 2014 @10:08AM Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola
Tuesday October 07, 2014 @08:13AM AIDS Origin Traced To 1920s Kinshasa
Friday October 03, 2014 @06:08PM GlaxoSmithKline Released 45 Liters of Live Polio Virus
Thursday October 02, 2014 @09:53AM After Dallas Ebola Diagnosis, CDC Raises Estimate of Patient's Possible Contacts
Friday September 26, 2014 @06:13PM How Did the 'Berlin Patient' Rid Himself of HIV?
Monday September 08, 2014 @01:32AM Denver Latest City Hit By Viral Respiratory Infection That Targets Kids
Saturday September 06, 2014 @01:55PM Survivors' Blood Holds Promise, But Draws Critics, As Ebola Treatment
Friday September 05, 2014 @08:51PM Obama Administration Seeks $58M To Put (Partly) Toward Fighting Ebola
Friday August 29, 2014 @07:29PM Anti-Ebola Drug ZMapp Makes Clean Sweep: 18 of 18 Monkeys Survive Infection
Thursday August 21, 2014 @07:27AM Study: Seals Infected Early Americans With Tuberculosis
Thursday August 14, 2014 @11:56AM How to Maintain Lab Safety While Making Viruses Deadlier
Friday August 01, 2014 @05:55PM US Army To Transport American Ebola Victim To Atlanta Hospital From Liberia
Thursday July 17, 2014 @03:19PM More Forgotten Vials of Deadly Diseases Discovered
Saturday July 12, 2014 @07:51PM CDC Closes Anthrax, Flu Labs After Potentially Deadly Mix-Ups Come to Light
Friday July 11, 2014 @06:01PM Child Thought To Be Cured of HIV Relapses, Tests Positive Again
Tuesday July 08, 2014 @07:38PM A Box of Forgotten Smallpox Vials Was Just Found In an FDA Closet
Saturday June 07, 2014 @07:09AM Mad Cow Disease Blamed For Patient's Death In Texas
Monday May 12, 2014 @10:39AM Norwegian Infectious Disease Specialists Have New Theory On HIV In Africa
Tuesday April 01, 2014 @11:53PM Threatened Pandemics and Laboratory Escapes: Self-fulfilling Prophecies
Friday February 28, 2014 @11:20PM Belgian Barrels Reveal History of Human Gut Microbes
Tuesday January 14, 2014 @09:25AM India Frees Itself of Polio
Friday September 20, 2013 @07:34PM Extreme Microbe Brewing: the Curse of Auto-Brewery Syndrome
Sunday July 28, 2013 @09:52AM GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It
Thursday July 18, 2013 @08:08AM Scientists Silence Extra Chromosome In Down Syndrome Cells
Saturday June 01, 2013 @06:27PM Researchers Determine Chemical Structure of HIV Capsid
Tuesday February 19, 2013 @09:43AM Ancient Teeth Bacteria Record Disease Evolution
Wednesday January 30, 2013 @12:02PM Brain Pacemaker Implants Used To Treat Alzheimer's
Friday December 14, 2012 @09:26AM Github used to track tree disease
Monday November 26, 2012 @07:04PM Newly Developed RNA-Based Vaccine Could Offer Lifelong Protection From the Flu
Wednesday November 14, 2012 @06:19AM High security animal disease lab faces uncertain future
Sunday October 21, 2012 @04:59PM States Face Huge Task In Tracking Meningitis-Tainted Drugs
Sunday September 09, 2012 @01:27PM Yosemite Expands Scope of Hantavirus Warning: More than 20,000 At Risk
Friday August 31, 2012 @03:22AM University of Cape Town announces cure for Malaria
Sunday August 05, 2012 @12:38PM Scientists discovered a new avenue for the treatment of vision loss
Friday August 03, 2012 @01:55AM Evidence Shows Cancer Regrowth Is Driven By Cancer Stem Cells
Friday July 06, 2012 @10:56AM Small Molecule May Play Big Role in Alzheimer's Disease
Saturday June 16, 2012 @02:38PM Black Death Discovered In Oregon
Friday March 23, 2012 @06:12PM Early Exposure To Germs Has Lasting Benefits
Friday February 24, 2012 @07:01PM New Avenue For MRSA 'Superbug': Pigs
Friday February 17, 2012 @04:22PM Deadly H5N1 flu studies to stay secret... for now
Friday February 10, 2012 @06:26PM Researchers, Biosecurity Board Debate How Open Virus Research Should Be
Friday February 10, 2012 @08:39AM Avian Flu (H5N1): Debate between Researchers and Biosecurity Advisory Board
Friday February 03, 2012 @01:10PM Alzheimer's Transmission Pathway Discovered
Friday January 27, 2012 @11:41PM Bill Gates Gives $750M To AIDS Fund
Friday January 20, 2012 @08:07PM Mutant Flu Researchers Declare a Time Out
Tuesday January 17, 2012 @11:09AM Multiple Sclerosis Damage Washed Away By Stream of Young Blood
Friday January 13, 2012 @07:02PM Totally Drug-Resistant TB Emerges In India
Tuesday December 20, 2011 @09:23AM IBM Tracks Pork Chops From Pig To Plate
Monday December 12, 2011 @01:50PM Scientists Are Now Tracking the Spread of Diseases
Tuesday December 06, 2011 @08:57AM Proteins Build "Cages" Around Bacteria
Saturday December 03, 2011 @03:31PM Repurposing Anti-Spam Tools For Detecting Mutations In HIV
Friday December 02, 2011 @06:47PM Gene Therapy Approach 'Completely' Protects Mice From HIV Infection
Thursday December 01, 2011 @09:08AM Fighting Mosquitoes With GM Mosquitoes
Tuesday November 29, 2011 @01:54AM Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication