Until now, estimates of mitochondrial disease rates have held steady at about 1-in-4000 people. A new study shows that 20 times that number have genetic mutations that could cause the disease.
Steve Clemons | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
(Obama Does Brown but Not Brussels) I'm strongly supportive of Barack Obama's announced plans to spend some quality plane time with Senators Chuck H...
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 04.01.2008 | Living
Women with HIV/AIDS may suffer greater stigma than men -- they may be blamed as carriers, either as prostitutes infecting men or mothers infecting their infants.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
When Bush pledged to "help save lives and to bring hope to families," it was not merely rhetoric. What a fresh change for this administration and for the U.S.'s role in promoting development worldwide.
Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics
Americans have only returned to recognizing that improving global health, in terms of preventing and treating both infectious and chronic diseases, must be a public policy priority.
Amy Swift | Posted 11.07.2007 | Living
Before big pharmaceutical companies got very rich and before doctors had bad handwriting, ancient people used their intuition to discover healing remedies concocted from food and plants.
New York Times | JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | Posted 09.11.2007 | Home
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David Kirby | Posted 08.11.2008 | Living