Pharmac under fire for ‘inhumane’ funding decisions affecting sufferers of severe inflammatory bowel disease  New Zealand Herald

Killer disease found on ramarama in Kaiti – The Gisborne Herald  Gisborne Herald

Microglia modulate neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases  Science Magazine

Zimbabwe suspects bacterial disease behind elephant deaths  CNN

Disease-spreading ticks keep marching north as weather stays warmer  Phys.org

A new database analysis of approximately 80,000 patients shows that people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) have a 30 […]

Strictly speaking, humans cannot digest complex carbohydrates — that’s the job of bacteria in our large intestines. Scientists […]

More than 100 million infections of Zika virus within Central and South America and the Caribbean went undetected […]

Study identifies exercise as key to halting progress from diabetes to heart disease  New Zealand Doctor Online

How the brain’s immune cells could guide treatment of neurodegenerative diseases  FierceBiotech