Duck Duck Facebook!
Search for topics here
Categories
Top stories this week
-
Tag Archives: disease
How to treat ebola
Comments Off on How to treat ebola
Posted in Funny Pictures & Videos
Tagged disease, donut treament, ebola, medical news
How we used to die
The New England Journal of Medicine looks through 200 years of back issues to understand how we die differently.
The first thing to notice here is how much our mortality rate has dropped over the course of a century, largely due to big reductions in infectious diseases like tuberculosis and influenza.
Think about that if you are a parent thinking about not vaccinating your kids.
Comments Off on How we used to die
Posted in Random Stuff
Tagged cause of death, death, disease, doctors, mortality, NEJM, RIP, vaccination
HIV distribution map
A new interactive U.S. map shows U.S. data on diagnosed rates and cases of HIV. With just a few clicks, it shows county-by-county HIV cases and rates, and the epidemic’s patterns by gender, poverty, ethnicity and other demographics. In Hennepin County at least 249 of every 100,000 people are living with HIV. Click here to see the map in action and look up your hometown. (via Wired)
Duck Duck Gray Duck 
You must be logged in to post a comment.