Foreign doctors and nurses are trying, for instance, to stem the spread of infectious diseases.
The cancer society's rise coincided with the taming of infectious diseases and lengthening life spans.
The letter covers the foundation's wide-ranging efforts in infectious diseases, agricultural innovation and education.
As far as infectious diseases, global public health has never been stronger than it is today.
Two hundred scientists will study infectious diseases and other global health issues at the centre.
But Opko is also determined to go into oncology, infectious diseases, and neurological disorders.
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D. is the Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health.
"The mix of infectious diseases and second-hand smoke is a deadly combination, " Mr Peruga said.
Researchers are also working on needle-less vaccines and jabs against non-infectious diseases such as certain cancers.
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"It has memory, similar to when we were vaccinated against infectious diseases" like measles.
Infectious diseases and complications of pregnancy and delivery cause at least 10 million deaths each year.
This category makes up nearly two-thirds of all human infectious diseases, including rabies, Ebola and malaria.
When it comes to infectious diseases, your friends really do say a lot about you.
But analogous to infectious diseases like measles, working at the individual level can only accomplish so much.
They come from a scientific paper published by the Journal of Infectious Diseases in November 2009.
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He is quadruple board certified, holding certification in internal medicine, emergency medicine, infectious diseases, and critical care medicine.
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For health care workers, it's important to have high-efficiency masks, which protect better against infectious diseases, he said.
Lyme disease, with 20, 000 cases reported annually, ranks low on the list of the most prevalent infectious diseases.
Surprisingly, there is still disagreement about why so many infectious diseases retreated in America and Europe after 1800.
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Making things easier: Kaplan specializes in infectious diseases, meaning he can treat a lot of the sickness he sees with antibiotics.
Chronic disease mortalities will overtake those of infectious diseases in that region as well by 2030, the report says.
Brigadier Schafer said the system should spot outbreaks of infectious diseases before doctors are even aware of a problem.
In August it entered the hot area of molecular diagnostics, highly sensitive tests to detect infectious diseases and cancer.
Movie theaters, and the malls in which they are located, are an ideal place for infectious diseases to spread.
Over his career, he's been very concerned about the civil liberties of patients with HIV and other infectious diseases.
Infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria and sleeping sickness kill millions each year.
Education and training opportunities also include childcare, hygiene and prevention of infectious diseases.
She was in her second year of working as a researcher and fellow in infectious diseases, the hospital said.
One doctor group, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, calls for new incentives to lure big pharmaceutical companies back into the field.
Ivins worked for decades in the U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases' biodefense lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
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