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Haiti’s Water Needs: Though “cholera epidemics of the 19th century forged the way for the revolution in sanitation and the provision of safe sources of public water, … more than 1 billion people … have little access to safe sources of water,” write the authors of a Lancet Comment that reflects on Haiti’s cholera outbreak…

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“More than four months after the worst flooding in Pakistan’s history, vast stretches of land are still under water in the province of Sindh, isolating many communities. … The world’s attention has long since moved on from the Pakistani flood story, but there are still more than 1 million people who remain displaced in Sindh alone, said U.N…

Original post: News Outlets Examine Flooding In Pakistan Four Months On

“Detailed genetic tests confirm that the cholera strain that has killed more than 2,000 people in Haiti came from South Asia and most closely resembles a strain circulating in Bangladesh,” according to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Reuters reports (12/9)…

Original post: Study Finds Haitian Cholera Strain Resembles One From South Asia, Carries Mutation That Increases Severity

The North Dakota Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that state law does not allow a child to make a claim for “wrongful life,” whether the claim is brought by the child or on behalf of the child, BNA reports. The case involved parents of a child with Down syndrome who argued they would have ended the pregnancy if they had been advised of the genetic abnormality…

Original post: N.D. Supreme Court Rejects Claims Of ‘Wrongful Life’

On Thursday, Senate Democrats fell three votes short of the 60 needed to advance the fiscal year 2011 Department of Defense authorization bill (S 3454), making passage of the bill during the lame-duck session “increasingly doubtful,” the Washington Post reports. The procedural vote to invoke cloture failed 57-40 (O’Keefe/Kane, Washington Post, 12/10)…

Original post: Senate Votes Against Moving Forward With Defense Authorization Bill

The risk of esophageal cancer among patients who suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is not as high as many may think, according to new research from University of Michigan gastroenterologists. GERD is considered a relative risk for developing esophageal adenocarcinoma, but the absolute risk is not known, says Joel Rubenstein, M.D., M.Sc…

Original post: For Acid Reflux Disease Patients, Esophageal Cancer Risk Lower Than Expected

A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital, with others from the United States and Haiti, has determined that the strain of cholera erupting in Haiti matches bacterial samples from South Asia and not those from Latin America…

Original post: Haiti Cholera Strain Matches Bacteria From South Asia