Obesity and heart disease have always been interlinked in almost adult cases, but not in children. However, recent studies indicate that obese children as young as 8 manifested early signs of heart disease, reported WebMD. The research by lead author, Linyuan Jing, a postdoctoral fellow with Geisinger Health System in…
Fighting crime and disease, one lab sample at a time
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Myron Sasser describes his Newark-based company as a simple toolmaker. Except the tools developed by MIDI Inc. over the last 28 years have been used to stem the tide of hospital-based infections and tuberculosis, improve agricultural production around the world, identify…
African-Americans: heart disease and stroke
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer for all Americans, and stroke is the fourth-leading cause of death. As frightening as those statistics are the risks of getting those diseases are even higher for African-Americans. The good news is, African-Americans can improve their odds of preventing and beating these diseases by understanding the…
Plum Island needs lab support for its animal disease research programs
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response DHS is planning a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business set-aside contract for a vendor to provide laboratory support for the animal disease countermeasures work taking place at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center off the eastern tip of Long Island. Read More…. View full post…
DHS plans commercial ‘real-time data feed’ that monitors disease outbreaks worldwide on 24/7 basis
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response In an effort to monitor the reported outbreaks of infectious diseases worldwide, the DHS office of health affairs plans to contract with a small business to provide a “real-time data feed,” drawn from at least 25,000 online sources, on a 24/7 basis, with its…
Morning Security Brief: Securing Haj from Disease, Employee Credit Checks, Counterfeit Military Parts, and More
11/09/2011 – ►The Saudi health minister on Wednesday announced that precautions taken before Haj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, and the largest pilgrimage in the world, helped the event take place with no cases of infectious disease or cases requiring quarantine. In addition to screening foreign pilgrims upon entering the country,…
