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How to Make a Microscope Out of Paper in 10 Minutes
A new microscope can be printed on a flat piece of paper and assembled with a few extra components in less than 10 minutes. All the parts to make it cost less than a dollar, according to Stanford bioengineer Manu Prakash and colleagues, who describe their origami optics this week in a paper published on arxiv.org.
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Ancient Egyptian had earliest cancer
Researchers have discovered the earliest confirmed case of cancer in a young man who lived in ancient Egypt.
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Mystery Illness Kills 23 in Guinea
A mysterious illness has killed at least 23 people in southern Guinea in six weeks, but the disease has yet to be positively identified, the health ministry announced Thursday.
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India beats the odds, beats polio
Rukhsar Khatoon is too young to fully grasp the significance of her life: that she is a last in a country of 1.2 billion people. She has become the greatest symbol of India's valiant - and successful - effort to rid itself of a crippling and potentially deadly disease. Rukhsar, 4, is the final documented case of polio in India.
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The Lying Disease
Why Would Someone Want to Fake a Serious Illness on the Internet?
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Ebola death toll in Guinea rises to 70 as Senegal closes border
The deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in seven years has killed 70 people and infected as many as 111 in Guinea, causing neighbouring Senegal to close its border. Senegal's Ministry of Interior has ordered all movements of people through the southern boundary to Guinea suspended indefinitely to prevent the spread of the disease, according to a statement published Saturday by the state-run press agency, APS.
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Children's hyperactivity 'is not a real disease', says US expert
One of the world's leading neuroscientists, whose work has been acknowledged by work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, has suggested that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is not "a real disease".
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US Defense Department Spent $140M On Ebola Treatment Research - And They're Getting Close
The tragic Ebola outbreak in the African nation of Guinea in recent days is devastating to local communities but has presented a rare opportunity to advance the pursuit of a cure. The epidemic has cost the lives of 83 people so far out of 127 total cases reported. There are no approved treatments for the virus yet but one Canadian company called Tekmira Pharaceuticals Corp. has come close.
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Anti-vaccine movement is giving diseases a 2nd life
Medical experts are worried that an increasing number of children may become susceptible to diseases such as measles and whooping cough...
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Ghana records first suspected case of ebola
XYZ News can report that blood sample from a 12-year-old girl has been sent to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for tests to confirm if Ghana has recorded its first case of ebola. The 12-year-old girl was first admitted at the paediatric unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi with symptoms of fever and bleeding. Doctors have met over the patient and taken emergency steps to ensure she is quarantined.
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Anti-vaccine movement is giving diseases a 2nd life
Recent measles outbreaks in New York, California and Texas are examples of what could happen on a larger scale if vaccination rates dropped, says Anne Schuchat, the CDC's director of immunizations and respiratory diseases. Officials declared measles, which causes itchy rashes and fevers, eradicated in the United States in 2000. Yet this year, the disease is on track to infect three times as many people as in 2009.
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Avoiding Black Plague Today
Though it calls to mind medieval massacre, the deadly infectious disease known simply as plague is still around. New research on how the disease spreads helps us better understand the pandemic that killed up to 100 million people, and how to continue to keep it in check.
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Ebola Drug Could Be Ready For Human Testing Next Year
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is terrifying because there's no drug to treat this often fatal disease. But the disease is so rare, there's no incentive for big pharmaceutical companies to develop a treatment. Even so, some small companies, given government incentives, are stepping into that breach. The result: More than half a dozen ideas are being pursued actively.
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Ebola: A swift, effective and bloody killer
We had just landed in Conakry, the capital of Guinea. In the fields right outside the airport, a young woman was in tears.
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In a cloning first, scientists create stem cells from adults
Scientists have moved a step closer to the goal of creating stem cells perfectly matched to a patient's DNA in order to treat diseases, they announced on Thursday.
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As a doctor, I’d rather have HIV than diabetes
One of the most feared diseases in the world is now, for British doctors, a manageable chronic condition. It’s a triumph we’re oddly scared to talk about
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USDA tries to contain virus killing millions of pigs
Porcine epidemic diarrhea has killed millions of pigs in 27 states since showing up in the U.S. last May
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Thinking ‘obesity is a disease’ makes you more likely to eat high-calorie foods, study finds
On June 18, 2013, the American Medical Association officially recognized obesity as a disease. The nation’s largest physician organization said the new classification would help turn more medical attention toward obesity, as well as increase reimbursement for obesity-related drugs, surgery, and counseling.
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Chikungunya, a highly infectious disease, may soon arrive in the U.S.
The mosquito-borne virus seems poised to join a handful of tropical diseases spreading across the southern United States.
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Saudi Arabia Seeks Outside Help to Combat Deadly MERS Outbreak
Saudi Arabia said it’s consulting global experts on how to combat a deadly respiratory virus, as the first case was reported in neighboring Jordan. Specialists from Germany, France, the U.K. and the U.S. are helping tackle the outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, Assistant Deputy Minister of Health Mohammed Zamakhshary said in a telephone interview in Riyadh.
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