These include adult diseases, such as genital herpes, which give vaccine firms access to a lucrative private market.
Medical science and public health have virtually eliminated many childhood diseases, and have made once deadly adult diseases easily treatable.
Dr. RUTH BERGGREN (Associate Professor, Adult Infectious Diseases, Tulane Medical Center and Charity Hospital): Sitting in the HIV out-patient clinic, taking care of an uninsured man who's coughing, I cannot get a smear on him to diagnose tuberculosis in the city of New Orleans.
The Cochran Hypothesis states that all high-prevalence, adult-onset diseases must be caused by pathogens.
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When the unvaccinated population becomes large enough and in sufficient proximity think religious communities adult epidemics of childhood diseases can arise.
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But they are easier to use, and probably could treat more diseases than so-called adult stem cells.
"There are currently 58 diseases that are being treated using adult stem cells so the issue of stems cells has a positive side, providing the cells are obtained ethically, " Quintavalle told CNN.
There are so many other adult stem cell alternatives available to find cures for diseases.
In addition, we have invested in realistic, full-body adult, wireless patient simulators that can reproduce complex diseases that students may not have an opportunity to experience in rural hospitals.
The hopeful news Dr Bearman's work brings is that it should be easier to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases through a teenage-type graph than an adult one, since the spindly chains of connection between individuals can more easily be broken.
Two students at Rice University have transformed a simple salad spinner into a centrifuge that can save lives by diagnosing diseases, and a Japanese company called Super Faith has invented a machine that can transform used adult diapers into an energy source.
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