The technology is helping public health services collect information to follow the spread of diseases and to better organize their work.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

In low and middle income countries, heart disease and cancer get much of the attention given to chronic diseases.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Life expectancy rates climbed, because doctors and scientists developed effective ways to prevent or treat diseases such as tuberculosis, typhoid,diphtheria,and influenza.

VOA: special.2010.12.02

The United States National Institutes of Health says autoimmune diseases affect an estimated five to eight percent of the country's population.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

Obviously this opens up the possibility of enhancing our understanding of many of those diseases by studying disease models in frogs."

VOA: special.2010.06.29

They said they want DDT banned, but recognize that some countries use it to protect people from diseases like malaria.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

This leads to an increase in diseases like diarrhea, the second leading cause of death in children under five.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Doctors and scientists have identified at least eighty other diseases in which the body attacks its own organs and cells.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

One is the long-distance transport of bees for pollination and the spread of bee diseases from one area to another.

VOA: special.2011.05.24

Other groups disagree. For example, the American Autoimmune Related Disease Association says autoimmune diseases affect about fifty million Americans.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Scientists from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases measured the energy content of America's wasted food.

VOA: special.2010.11.23

Genes can influence many things, from whom we look like to what we eat to possible treatments for diseases.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

They noted that some groups, as they move away from traditional ways of life, are developing diseases of modern living.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Experts say the best way to prevent the diseases carried by mosquitoes is not to be bitten by one.

VOA: special.2009.05.26