Aug 28, 2018
A relatively new advanced degree is now available at select institutions for Clinical Laboratory Scientists (CLS), or Medical Laboratory Scientists (MLS), and that's the Doctorate in Clinical Laboratory Science (DCLS).
Texas State University Program Chair for the Clinical Laboratory Science Program, Rodney Rohde, PhD...
Aug 21, 2018
Infectious diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi; the diseases can be spread, directly or indirectly, from one person to another. Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases of animals that can cause disease when transmitted to humans.
Infectious disease medicine...
Aug 16, 2018
A person on my Facebook page, Infectious disease news, who frequently posts anti-vaccine comments and links to certain posts placed a link to a article from a website called Natural News.
The author, SD Wells, asks the question and gives his or her answer in a piece called– Which has killed more people, measles or the...
Aug 15, 2018
Today’s topic is hot with 3 major papers in the last few months, that is the viral hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) was estimated to affect 35.5 million people worldwide in 2010 and is expected to affect 115.4 million people by 2050.
Four members of the Human Herpes Virus family have...
Aug 15, 2018
A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that substandard and falsified medicines, including medicines to treat malaria, are a serious problem in much of the world.
Here to talk about this serious issue in more detail is Sachiko Ozawa, Ph.D. Dr Ozawa is a health economist and associate...