As you probably are aware, the number of Americans who develop Type II diabetes has steadily increased over the past two decades. Many people have attributed the typical American diet to the increase, but now researchers from Lund University in Sweden are proclaiming that a poor diet isn't the only contributing factor to the [...]
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As we enter cold and flu season, I thought I'd share this neat little web nugget with you all: Google Flu Trends. Now how amazing is this? Just when you thought Google could do it all...it pretty much DOES. In the past, state and local health departments have relied on data [...]
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Some of you have asked in the last week why we need to be vaccinated against the flu virus annually. There is a wonderful animation at CNN.com that shows why--the flu virus engages in this really amazing process known as antigen shifting.
Essentially, antigen shifting is a lot like a performer making multiple costume changes [...]
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