Border Disease

Border disease virus

Rupicapra

Pestivirus

Diarrhea Viruses, Bovine Viral

Pestivirus Infections

Sheep Diseases

Classical swine fever virus

Sheep

Bovine Virus Diarrhea-Mucosal Disease

Antibodies, Viral

Cattle

Border disease

U.S.-Mexico Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project

List of dog diseases

Chagas disease

Texas Biomedical Research Institute

COVID-19 pandemic in Haiti

Phyllosticta minima

Dracunculus (nematode)

Daniel O. Griffin

Ebola virus disease in Mali

Border Collie

Waiver from certain provisions of the TRIPS Agreement for the Prevention, Containment and Treatment of COVID-19

Shetland Sheepdog

Influenza A virus subtype H7N9

Ceramic water filter

Jesusland map

COVID-19 pandemic in Iran

Gay men

Kivu Ebola epidemic

Prevalence of female genital mutilation

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Opposition to immigration

2022 Uganda Ebola outbreak

Lancet Group of Laboratories

2002 New Year Honours

California Border Protection Stations

Vermilion border

Giardiasis

Giardia duodenalis

Ivermectin

Lane Seminary

Mobile positioning data

Yessentuki

Robert Edward Codrington

El Paso, Texas

Samuel Gridley Howe

Prostitution in Austria

Tuskegee, Alabama

Constantine Scollen

Pauline Cafferkey

History of the Jews in Poland

2022 monkeypox outbreak in North America

Papillary carcinomas of the breast

Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik

Woodrow Wilson

Medical malpractice in the United States

Papillary tumors of the pineal region

Ahoy (greeting)

2015 in aviation

EDSA

Montreal

Gesang (village)

Childbirth

Equine anatomy

Culver City, California

Geography of Madagascar

75th Innovation Command

Marsh Arabs

Chungsan concentration camp

John Steinbeck IV

Communicable Diseases2

• Intercountry Cooperation: Cross-border Control of Priority Communicable Diseases. (who.int)
• Details for: Operational guidelines on cross-border control of priority communicable diseases. (who.int)

Centers for Diseas6

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
• NY gonorrhea as well as other STDs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the STD Surveillance Network (SSuN), a sentinel surveillance system composed of Philadelphia Cty, PA a network of local STD surveillance systems that adhere to common protocols. (cdc.gov)
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. (cdc.gov)
• Announcer] This podcast is presented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
• Saving Lives, Protecting People Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. (cdc.gov)

Malaria3

• In the debate over the potential for expansion of dengue and malaria with climate change, the border region has been cited as evidence that mosquitoborne diseases are largely determined by public health capacity and socioeconomic factors, and specifically that US affluence and lifestyle limit transmission of the disease ( 5 , 11 - 13 ). (cdc.gov)
• The Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDI) is a collaborative, patients' needs-driven, non-profit drug research and development (R&D) organization that is developing new treatments for neglected diseases, notably leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis, HAT), Chagas disease,[1] malaria, paediatric HIV,[2] and specific helminth infections. (translationcenter.org)
• Some of the major diseases currently affecting countries around the globe include HIV , malaria , COVID-19 , and tuberculosis . (medlineplus.gov)

Cardiovascular disease7

• The high prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the Hispanic population of the United States, together with low rates of health insurance coverage, suggest a potential cardiovascular health crisis. (cdc.gov)
• The "Hispanic paradox" is that morbidity and mortality for chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease (CVD) are lower than for other racial and ethnic groups, despite the low socioeconomic status of the Hispanic population (3). (cdc.gov)
• Hypertension is the number one risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of preventable deaths in Haiti. (nih.gov)
• As part of a global effort to reverse these trends, researchers established the population-based Haiti Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Cohort , an observational study of 3,000 people from Port-au-Prince. (nih.gov)
• The study is the first to chart cardiovascular disease in the country - its incidence, modifiable risk factors, and complexities. (nih.gov)
• This is accelerating cardiovascular aging and resulting in premature, preventable cardiovascular disease, which is primarily heart failure. (nih.gov)
• McNairy explained that prior estimates of cardiovascular disease subtypes in Haiti came from modeling estimates from other countries where it's more common for people to die from heart attacks and stroke. (nih.gov)

Mosquitoborne viral disease2

• Dengue fever is the most prevalent mosquitoborne viral disease in the world, causing an estimated 50 million infections and 25,000 deaths annually, with at least 2.5 billion persons at risk for transmission ( 1 - 4 ). (cdc.gov)
• Joan Brunkard] Dengue fever is a mosquitoborne viral disease that causes an estimated 50 to 100 million infections worldwide each year. (cdc.gov)

Emerging Infectio2

• Additionally, our public health teams must contend with new and emerging infectious diseases, an economic crisis where budget cuts have decimated public health programs that man the border, and gaps in preparedness. (cdc.gov)
• 2007 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases about the risk for dengue fever along the border between Mexico and the state of Texas. (cdc.gov)

Infectious5

• During my trip I also had the distinct honor to meet and chat with a lawmaker who really understood the importance of border health-U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas who notes, "A border crosser with an infectious disease can be anywhere in the United States within 36 hours. (cdc.gov)
• While in El Paso, I also met with Dr. David Lakey, Commissioner of Texas Department of State Health Services who discussed his concerns about tuberculosis and other infectious diseases around the border. (cdc.gov)
• Clearly the border is a challenge for those seeking to control infectious diseases. (cdc.gov)
• How do we conduct surveillance and create sustainable bi-national systems for early warning infectious disease surveillance recognizing that there are 250-400 million northbound legal border crossings a year and that 25% of the US population and 35% of the Mexican population resides in the ten combined Border States? (cdc.gov)
• Infectious diseases that start in one part of the world can quickly reach another part of the world. (medlineplus.gov)

20212

• The National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR), in collaboration with CGHS, hosted the Childhood Obesity Research Across Borders webinar series in June and July 2021. (nih.gov)
• Professor Furness believes the border will have to stay closed until at least March 2021, when either a vaccine or herd immunity in the US will cause cases to decline. (abc.net.au)

Prevention8

• Two interventions used have shown how a promotora model can be integrated into community-based chronic disease prevention to address CVD in Hispanics (11,12). (cdc.gov)
• Report on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 851/2004 establishing a European Centre for disease prevention and control [ COM(2020)0726 - C9-0366/2020- 2020/0320(COD) ] - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. (europa.eu)
• Fogarty coordinated a peer-reviewed scientific journal supplement, Childhood Obesity Prevention Research Across Borders: The Promise of US-Latin American Research Collaboration , published in Obesity Review that explores nine cross-cutting themes and articulates a shared research agenda to address childhood obesity prevention in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States. (nih.gov)
• To further support the development of new research partnerships between countries to address childhood obesity prevention, CRDF Global on behalf of Fogarty solicited 2020 Cross Border Collaboration Award proposals . (nih.gov)
• The influx of people across the national borders of Ghana has been of interest and concern in the public health and national security community in recent times due to the low capacity for the prevention and management of epidemics and other public health risks . (bvsalud.org)
• Promote health improvement, wellness, and disease prevention in cooperation with patients, communities, at-risk populations, and other members of an interprofessional team of health care providers. (cdc.gov)
• They also recommended integrating activities for the prevention and control of viral hepatitis in existing systems and programmes such as HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, disease surveillance, blood safety, water and sanitation and health promotion. (who.int)
• Disease prevention and health promotion are central to efforts across NICHD. (nih.gov)

Rheumatic2

• This is an ongoing educational, international, project that aims at combining the expertise and strategies from 2 centers in different developing countries with similar health problems and needs in order to improve the care of children with Rheumatic Diseases. (biomedcentral.com)
• The objectives of the educational program are: 1) To provide pediatricians with education and training in the management of patients with juvenile rheumatic diseases in order to facilitate early diagnosis, referral and follow up. (biomedcentral.com)

Contagious2

• Ebola is a highly contagious disease spread by contact with an infected person's bodily fluids. (healthline.com)
• Maybe it's one of those contagious diseases that cross borders. (edweek.org)

20232

• Starting on July 1, 2023 , Health and Safety Code Section 103871 requires hospital, facility, physician and surgeon, and other health care providers to report to California Department of Public Health (CDPH) each case of a neurodegenerative disease that was designated as reportable by CDPH. (ca.gov)
• Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks about border security during a briefing at the White House, Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Washington. (wowktv.com)

Threats1

• Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on serious cross-border threats to health repealing Decision No 1082/2013/EU [ COM(2020)0727 - C9-0367/2020- 2020/0322(COD) ] - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. (europa.eu)

Collies9

• Border Collies were bred as herding dogs in the countryside between Scotland and England. (msah.com)
• Border Collies are generally a healthy breed with an average lifespan of 12-15 years. (msah.com)
• By knowing about health concerns specific to Border Collies, we can tailor a preventive health plan to watch for and hopefully prevent some predictable risks. (msah.com)
• We will describe the most common issues seen in Border Collies to give you an idea of what may come up in her future. (msah.com)
• This guide contains general health information important to all canines as well as the most important genetic predispositions for Border Collies. (msah.com)
• Border Collies are susceptible to bacterial and viral infections-the same ones that all dogs can get-such as parvo, rabies, and distemper. (msah.com)
• Obesity can be a significant health problem in Border Collies. (msah.com)
• It is known to occur in Collies ( smooth and rough collies ), Shetland Sheepdogs , Australian Shepherds , Border Collies , Lancashire Heelers , [1] and Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers . (wikipedia.org)
• [2] Frequency is high in Collies and Shetland Sheepdogs, and low in Border Collies [3] and NSDTRs. (wikipedia.org)

Crossings2

• HANs were provided to inbound passengers at 18 land border crossings between the United States and Canada. (cdc.gov)
• Although the International Health Regulations (IHR) stipulate core public health capacities for designated border facilities such as international airports , seaports, and ground crossings, contextual factors that influence the attainment of effective public health measures and response capabilities remain understudied. (bvsalud.org)

Infections5

• Breitbart Texas previously reported that scabies infections from people entering the U.S. illegally were being passed on to an unknown number of U.S. Border Patrol agents. (cairco.org)
• We are starting to see chicken pox, MRSA staph infections, we are starting to see different viruses," Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Border Patrol agent Chris Cabrera told the outlet. (cairco.org)
• Many of these infections are preventable through vaccination , which we will recommend based on her age, the diseases we see in our area, and other factors. (msah.com)
• Joan Brunkard] Our results show that dengue fever transmission is occurring on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border in this region and that dengue infections are not being identified by our public health surveillance systems. (cdc.gov)
• Joan Brunkard] Because dengue infections are clearly not being identified through local surveillance efforts, we recommend working to increase physician awareness about the potential for dengue infections and increasing their access to dengue diagnostic tests, especially on the Mexican side of the border, where a large proportion of both U.S. and Mexican border residents seek their primary medical care. (cdc.gov)

Patrol7

• As thousands of abandoned children from Central and South American are overwhelming Border Patrol, health concerns are growing. (cairco.org)
• We don't screen for diseases," RGV Border Patrol spokesman Omar Zamora told Breitbart Texas. (cairco.org)
• This could potentially pose a serious threat to Border Patrol agents, Zack Taylor, Chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers, told Breitbart Texas. (cairco.org)
• Others worry that the threat stretches far beyond Border Patrol agents, and that the general public is also at-risk of contracting various diseases. (cairco.org)
• Mayorkas earlier Thursday laid out plans to respond to the end of Title 42, reiterating that there are 24,000 Border Patrol agents and officers at the border, thousands of troops and contractors and over a thousand asylum officers. (wowktv.com)
• When all these things happen, accidents happen," said Good, the new U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector chief agent. (abc27.com)
• Good has been everything from a patrol agent to a humanitarian counselor to the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. (abc27.com)

Surveillance2

• The inter-agency positions have the presence of officials from various ministries and public bodies, to centralize in one place border, customs, security, drug, health, and environmental surveillance controls, among other functions. (dominicantoday.com)
• Border surveillance, as explained by Paulino Sem, is one of the four axes of the Strategic Defense Plan, together with institutional strengthening, the welfare of the soldier and his relatives and support for the National Police. (dominicantoday.com)

Chronic4

• Hall of Fame running back O.J. Simpson may be suffering from a degenerative brain disease, according to the first person to discover chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brains of deceased football players and the subject of the movie "Concussion. (ibtimes.com)
• Dental disease is the most common chronic problem in pets, affecting 80% of all dogs by age two. (msah.com)
• glycomes of Renal Brush-Border Membrane in Model Rats with Chronic Kidney Diseases. (bvsalud.org)
• Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined as a decrease in renal function or glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and proteinuria is often present. (bvsalud.org)

Ebola3

• It has crossed borders into countries that haven't previously been as affected by Ebola. (healthline.com)
• Ebola used to be, and still is, an African disease, but it was always a disease in remote places and remote villages. (healthline.com)
• Contextual understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic and Ebola epidemic is vital for strengthening PoE mitigation measures and preventing disease importation. (bvsalud.org)

Early-onset2

• One of the goals of the Haiti CVD Cohort was to identify poverty-related risk factors that disproportionally affect residents and are associated with early-onset heart disease - and that could be addressed through future interventions. (nih.gov)
• Before genetic counseling is given, a thorough pedigree analysis should be performed to distinguish recessive (early-onset) disease from dominant (late-onset) disease, and extrarenal involvement should be excluded. (medscape.com)

Pathogens2

• We see between 10,000 and 15,000 new cases diagnosed in Arizona each year, but very few cases are diagnosed across the Arizona-Mexico border, even though we know that pathogens don't stop at borders. (cdc.gov)
• At the same time, pathogens with previously unknown disease-causing properties constantly evolve and emerge. (nih.gov)

Tuberculosis3

• Lakey pointed out that Texas is second only to California with tuberculosis cases and that these cases are higher near the border than other parts of the state. (cdc.gov)
• Lakey said that in the poor communities along the border, people are less likely to get early treatment and often times they travel back and forth across the border and are not able to complete their treatment routine which leads to drug-resistant tuberculosis. (cdc.gov)
• In addition to tuberculosis, an emerging disease called coccidiodomycosis or "Valley Fever" seems to be on the rise in this border region. (cdc.gov)

Interventions1

• These glycomic results revealed that differential O- glycan expressions in CKD progressions has the potential to define the mechanism of proteinuria in kidney disease and to identify potential therapeutic interventions. (bvsalud.org)

Health13

• The objective of Project HEART (Health Education Awareness Research Team) was to promote behavior changes to decrease CVD risk factors in a high-risk Hispanic border population. (cdc.gov)
• The HEART trial suggests that community health education using promotores de salud is a viable strategy for CVD risk reduction in a Hispanic border community. (cdc.gov)
• The community outreach model of public health using community health workers ( promotores ) has been proposed as a viable approach to reduce heart disease and stroke among Hispanics (8,9). (cdc.gov)
• As soon as the rapid, international spread of SARS became evident and after SARS was imported into Canada, Health Canada undertook a variety of measures designed to limit importation and exportation of disease and the spread of the disease within Canada. (cdc.gov)
• I met many of those "boots on the ground" local public health folks who work on the Texas/Mexico border and who shared with me how the border has been neglected with minimal resources for years. (cdc.gov)
• Congressman Reyes knows that the border is a challenging environment with many barriers including different priorities for the two countries who share the border, different public health systems, travel restrictions, language, and politics. (cdc.gov)
• What is more likely than the pathogen stopping at the border is that health-care providers and laboratories are not trained to recognize and diagnose Valley Fever, allowing it to spread further. (cdc.gov)
• Had you ever thought about the importance of public health at our borders? (cdc.gov)
• That is why we have summarized the health concerns we will be discussing with you over the life of your Border Collie. (msah.com)
• Many diseases and health conditions are genetic, meaning they are related to your pet's breed. (msah.com)
• Beverly Pringle highlighted other aspects of progress in global mental health research, including the blurring of borders between the Global North and Global South. (nih.gov)
• The main public health implication to emerge from this study is that the high past dengue seroprevalence we identified on both sides of the border places this population at greater risk for outbreaks of potentially fatal dengue hemorrhagic fever if a new dengue strain is introduced into this region. (cdc.gov)
• Besides the spread of diseases, there are other global health challenges. (medlineplus.gov)

Customs1

• Earlier this month I visited the El Paso POE and came away thoroughly impressed by the professionalism of the Customs and Border Protection. (cdc.gov)

Prevalent1

• In the Southeast, STARI is much more prevalent than Lyme disease. (medscape.com)

Population1

• The Multiple Cause of Death database for the U.S. - Mexico Border Region contains mortality and population counts for the four Border states of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas. (cdc.gov)

Gastrointestinal1

• A thorough understanding of the cutaneous/gastrointestinal (GI) relationship can alert the astute clinician to occult disease within the GI tract. (medscape.com)

Erythema3

• It is a form of erythema migrans, an annular rash with central clearing that is almost identical with the erythema migrans seen in Lyme disease. (medscape.com)
• [ 1 ] Early Lyme disease is characterized by erythema migrans. (medscape.com)
• Cite this: Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness: Erythema Migrans Is Not Always Lyme Disease - Medscape - Jul 01, 2008. (medscape.com)

Screening1

• Canadian screening results raise questions about the effectiveness of available screening measures for SARS at international borders. (cdc.gov)

Proteinuria2

• In this study, the O- glycans present in rat BBMs from animals with different levels of kidney disease and proteinuria were characterized and analyzed using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). A principal component analysis ( PCA ) documented that each group has distinct O- glycan distributions. (bvsalud.org)
• Significant proteinuria develops late in the course of the disease, reflecting secondary glomerular sclerosis. (medscape.com)

Control2

• ALS, a​lso known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, is a rare neurological disease that affects motor neurons-those nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement. (ca.gov)
• The defense minister, Lieutenant General Rubén Paulino Sem, announced Monday that it is planned to end the year with ten new inter-agency border posts, to improve control of the steps with Haiti. (dominicantoday.com)

Endemic1

• Joan Brunkard] We found that forty percent of Brownsville residents and seventy eight percent of Matamoros residents showed serologic evidence of past dengue infection, indicating that dengue is endemic, or established, on both sides of the border in this region. (cdc.gov)

Renal1

• Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have multiple small and large cysts that can be seen in the corticomedullary area. (medscape.com)

Migrants2

• Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas marked the end of Title 42 immigration policy by once again warning migrants that "the border is not open. (wowktv.com)
• That means smugglers are recruiting U.S. residents willing to drive migrants who make it over the border wall to stash houses and pick up points for transportation to the country's interior. (abc27.com)

Congenital1

• Collie eye anomaly ( CEA ) is a congenital , inherited , bilateral eye disease of dogs , which affects the retina , choroid , and sclera . (wikipedia.org)

Cysts2

• Cysts may or may not be present at the corticomedullary border. (medscape.com)
• These findings are distinct from those of autosomal dominant or autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (PKD) , in which the kidneys are enlarged and the cysts are uniformly distributed throughout the entire kidney. (medscape.com)

Risk factors2

• Few randomized controlled trials have studied the use of promotores to reduce CVD risk factors in the Hispanic border community. (cdc.gov)
• Some of the risk factors driving disease in Haiti are also different. (nih.gov)

Mexican2

• Heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death among Hispanics, including those of Mexican origin (1,2). (cdc.gov)
• Reports of autochthonous dengue fever transmission on the US side of the Texas-Mexico border have been rare-only 64 cases were reported during 1980-1999, compared with 62,514 cases on the Mexican side of the border ( 5 - 10 ). (cdc.gov)

Patients1

• Urinalysis may be helpful in patients with nephronophthisis (NPH)-medullary cystic kidney disease (MCKD) complex. (medscape.com)

Liver1

• If we don't prevent or treat dental disease , your buddy may lose her teeth and be in danger of damaging her kidneys, liver, heart, and joints. (msah.com)

Diagnosis1

• GeneReviews provides scientific information on genetic diseases, including diagnosis, treatment, and genetic counseling. (nih.gov)

Paso2

• EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) - El Paso remains the epicenter of irregular migration into the United States, with as many or more individuals trying to evade apprehension than those turning themselves in to seek asylum. (abc27.com)
• Good came to El Paso last month after leading the Border Patrol's Havre Sector, which includes Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. (abc27.com)

People5

• Starting tonight, people who arrive at the border without using a lawful pathway will be presumed ineligible for asylum," the secretary said in his statement. (wowktv.com)
• There are still something like 200,000 people crossing the border into Canada every week from the US. (abc.net.au)
• No one is certain how many people contract the disease, but estimates suggest that it afflicts between 350 million and 500 million people every year. (who.int)
• Fewer than 50,000 people in the U.S. have this disease. (nih.gov)
• The types of symptoms experienced, and their intensity, may vary among people with this disease. (nih.gov)

Counties5

• Reported autochthonous dengue fever transmission in the United States has been limited to 5 south Texas border counties since 1980. (cdc.gov)
• To simplify the Border region analysis, two mutually exclusive regions within the United States are available: 1) U.S. - Mexico Border Region (i.e., 44 counties within 100 kilometers (62 miles) of the U.S. - Mexico border), and 2) the U.S. Non-Border Region with the remaining counties of the selected four border states. (cdc.gov)
• The Border counties selection was based on the 1983 La Paz Agreement . (cdc.gov)
• i.e., counties for each state which fall within 100 kilometers of the Border). (cdc.gov)
• Statistics are also available by each of the USA border counties along the U.S.-Mexico area. (cdc.gov)

RESEARCH2

• The supplement harnesses a particular layer of the Community-Energy Balance Framework to understand the contextual influences that define the problem, the current research landscape, and the opportunities for cross-border learning. (nih.gov)
• This symposium highlighted the major food and nutrition findings from the Cross Border supplement, provided compelling examples of cross border research and learning, and asked panelists to share their experience, lessons learned, and research strategies working on nutrition across border, and consider where the field is moving. (nih.gov)

Metabolic1

• It is a serious disease that may cause or worsen joint problems, metabolic and digestive disorders, back pain, and heart disease . (msah.com)

Spread3

• In the period that followed the initial reports of this new syndrome from Hong Kong and Vietnam, the disease spread rapidly to other countries by international airline travelers. (cdc.gov)
• The potential for diseases to spread is especially troubling, since federal agents are sending waves of illegal immigrants to processing stations around the United States. (cairco.org)
• The spread of a disease doesn't stop at a country's borders. (medlineplus.gov)

Dengue1

• data) suggest that dengue is substantially underreported on both sides of the border and prompted us to conduct an epidemiologic investigation in the neighboring cities of Brownsville, Texas, USA, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. (cdc.gov)

Researchers2

• As the study progresses, researchers are finding that heart disease looks different in Haiti compared to the United States and from existing modeling estimates for other low-income countries. (nih.gov)
• For example, approximately 12% of study participants have heart failure , which is 18 times higher than current estimates and five times higher than in the U.S. Conversely, less than 2% of adults in Port-au-Prince are affected by ischemic heart disease , which researchers predicted would be the leading cause of death. (nih.gov)

Treatment1

• We also found that fifty nine percent of Brownsville residents regularly cross the border into Mexico for medical treatment, which almost certainly limits disease reporting on the U.S. side of the border. (cdc.gov)

Genetic2

• Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (HED) is a genetic skin disease. (nih.gov)
• This disease is caused by a change in the genetic material (DNA). (nih.gov)

Scientists2

• Salk scientists have discovered that neurons deep in the brain's cortex are the first to compute which side of a visual border is an object and which side is background. (nih.gov)
• As scientists move closer to testing regenerative therapies for eye disease, techniques are needed to monitor transplanted cells as they integrate with host tissues. (nih.gov)