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"Alarming" Malnutrition Among Kenya Refugees: UN Agencies

...y serious flooding late last year, causing massive destruction of infrastructure and displacing hundreds of families within the camps, they added. They blamed reduced donor funding to the UNHCR for the worrying rates of malnutrition, saying this impeded food deliveries and assistance. "If we had received the...

Global Warming: Lessons of History Help the Future

... one factor. Food shortages were worsened by the destruction of human, social and financial capital, which is vital for keeping agriculture going during a lean spell. And the crisis amplified into full-blown famine in the lack of government support. Looking at Ethiopia's rainfall pattern between 1960 and 199...

Fat Horses Face Health Problems

...esses that alter the delicate balances between the destruction and creation of new cells in the body. Oxidative stress is an imbalance between the production of free radicals and reactive oxygen species and the bodys anti-oxidant defense mechanisms, and that imbalance is in favor of the oxidants, said Thatcher...

Water Hyacinth is Used for Health Improvements in Africa

...e further. Wind and wave action can accelerate the destruction of the weed started by the insects. No herbicide spraying was used in the Ugandan program, only mechanical removal and biocontrol, yet by 2000, 90% of the weed was cleared from the lake. The result of this remark able program resulted in reduced...

Roches Arthritis Drug Successful in III Stage Trail

...ar more serious inflammatory disease that leads to destruction of cartilage and bone, and can lead to disability. Roche plans to file Actemra, developed by Japanese pharmaceutical company Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. which Roche controls, for regulatory approval in Europe and the U.S. by the end of 2007. This is ...

Self-harming Among Teens More Common Than Thought

...Non-suicidal self-injury is the deliberate, direct destruction of body tissue without conscious suicidal intent. The findings are important because it suggests that NSSI is more prevalent among adolescents in the general population than previously thought, says lead author Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson, PhD, a ps...

Bush Again Vetoes Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill

... scientific research -- which often involves their destruction -- conflicts with his religious beliefs and he urg...irst time in our history to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos," Bush said. "I made it clear to Congress and to the American people that I will ...

Urate Reduces the Risk of Parkinsons Disease

...hronic, progressive nerve disorder associated with destruction of brain cells producing dopamine, a neurotransmitter essential to the normal functioning of the central nervous system. "This is the strongest evidence to date that urate may protect against Parkinson's disease," said lead author Marc Weisskopf, A...

High Urate Levels in Blood Linked to Reduced Parkinson's Risk

...hronic, progressive nerve disorder associated with destruction of brain cells producing dopamine, a neurotransmitter essential to the normal functioning of the central nervous system. Marc Weisskop said that the results of the study provided the 'strongest evidence to date' that urate, a normal component of bl...

60% of Infertile Couples are Okay With Allowing Unused Embryos for Stem Cell Research

... including donation to another infertile couple or destruction of the embryos, were far less desirable. Infertility patients proved more likely to support donating unused embryos to research than giving them to another couple or simply destroying them, possibly because they feel a responsibility to the embryos w...

Theory of How HIV Attacks is Wrong: Study

...of infection, HIV production, reinfection and cell destruction has been called the "runaway" hypothesis. But if this were so, the T cells would be killed off far too quickly, the researchers found. Using a simple mathematical model, researchers in the United States and Britain showed the "runaway" model woul...

Study of Bacterial Pathogen may Give Insight to Cancer Development

...y lead to the development of drugs that induce the destruction of Met, and are useful in treating Met-related cancers. 'We found that Listeria actually provokes human epithelial cells (cells lining the small intestine) into ingesting bacteria,' said Ireton, an expert on Listeria monocytogenes, a cause of food...

Second-hand Smoke Exposure in Pregnancy Linked to Kids' Psychological Problems

...ilure, breaking rules, substance use, stealing and destruction of property. As a part of their study, Gatzke-Kopp and Beauchaine compared patterns psychopathology among three groups of 7- to 15-year-old children, all of whom had significant behavioral and/or emotional problems. One group experienced no prena...

Recent Research Holds Wealth of Promise to Bone Marrow Patients

...octors when dendritic cells just about begin their destruction activity. This will allow for treatment to commence much earlier, than later, giving a chance for better treatment outcomes. MMRI director Professor Derek Hart said,"Think of it as a big fire inside the patient - it's much easier to put out a small...

Slowing the Racing Heart

... study. Current treatment of arrhythmia requires destruction of tissue surrounding a chaotic pacemaker, followed by insertion of a mechanical pacemaker that can regulate the heartbeat. "Understanding the molecular regulation of the heart's pacemaker opens the possibility of less drastic treatment options, in...

Slowing the Racing Heart

...study. Current treatment of arrhythmia requires destruction of tissue surrounding a chaotic pacemaker, followed by insertion of a mechanical pacemaker that can regulate the heartbeat. "Understanding the molecular regulation of the heart's pacemaker opens the possibility of less drastic treatment options, i...

Multiple Sclerosis Could Be Checked Through Testosterone Gel

...rons carry electrical signals. MS causes gradual destruction of myelin (demyelination) and transection of neuron axons in patches throughout the brain and spinal cord. The name multiple sclerosis refers to the multiple scars (or scleroses) on the myelin sheaths. This scarring causes symptoms which vary widely ...

Strife in Kashmir Drives Thousands to Psychiatric Wards

...ssing encounter killings, torture, rape, death and destruction due to bomb blasts. Then there are all these disappearances. This is quite enough for a person to suffer a psychiatric disorder, says S. Khurshid-ul-Islam, a sociologist....

New Strains of TB Can Be Used as a Powerful Bioterror Weapon

...reat of suicide attackers becoming weapons of mass destruction by infecting themselves with a deadly strain of TB is so serious and potentially imminent that DiGeorgia recommends that every investor take the following steps: On any local news of an outbreak of tuberculosis, stay at home. Do not go to populati...

Novel Delivery Method of Insulin Gene to Combat Juvenile Diabetes Developed

...ype 1 or juvenile diabetes is caused by autoimmune destruction of the insulin producing pancreatic -cells. As a result of the loss of insulin, blood sugar levels rise too high, causing damage to fine blood vessels and nerve endings leading to debilitating symptoms. As a result patients become dependent upon dail...

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