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Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

...kens and 37 million ducks. Five million people are directly employed by the poultry industry, millions of households rely on poultry production for income generation and nutrition, FAO said. India on high alert Surrounded by bird flu-affected countries, both on the western and eastern borders, India is on...

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

...iety is focused on work that makes stuff that goes directly into landfills. Essential work such as art, music, creativity, community, the kind necessary to create a healthy society and planet, is being negated in favor of that."...

'Star Trek'-type Scanning may Help Reveal Genetic Activity of Tumors

... "Potentially in the future one can use imaging to directly reveal multiple features of diseases that will make it much easier to carry out personalized medicine, where you are making diagnoses and treatment decisions based exactly on what is happening in a person," Nature magazine quoted senior co-author Dr....

Men With Chronic Gum Disease at Higher Risk of Tongue Cancer

...to surrounding cells and produce changes that lead directly to oral cancer, or could indirectly contribute to cancer through inflammation. "We have presented preliminary data suggesting an independent association between history of periodontitis and the risk of tongue cancer. This association needs to be co...

Better Working Conditions for Nurses Might Decrease Patient Infections

...o staffing, overtime, and overall work environment directly affected patient safety outcomes," said Andrew W. Dick, Ph.D., a senior health economist at the RAND Corporation and a co-author of this study. "Involvement from hospital administrators, staffing professionals, legislators and consumers is needed in ...

Circadian Clocks Triggered Chemical Reactions may Be Behind Jet Lag

... that this conformational change in the protein is directly related to its function in the organism," said Brian Zoltowski, the paper's lead author and a graduate student at Cornell in chemical biology. The researchers believe that just like the circadian clock allows the fungus to regulate and produce caro...

$5M Gift Will Attack Lou Gehrig's Disease

..., new ways of delivering promising drugs and genes directly into nerve cells, and a potential treatment based on injecting stem cells into the spinal cord. The latter approach, which will require the use of human embryonic stem cells, will be tested at UC San Diego where Dr. Marsala has received additional fu...

Four Cups of Coffee a Day may Cut Down the Risk of Gout

...garding coffee consumption. "Our findings are most directly generalizable to men age 40 years and older, the most gout-prevalent population, with no history of gout," Dr. Choi notes. "Given the potential influence of female hormones on the risk of gout in women and an increased role of dietary impact on uric ...

Women Urged to Be Wary of Ads Promoting Unwanted Drugs

...pharmaceutical companies have taken their messages directly to the people. They claim these ads are good for consumers because they educate and encourage individuals to be more involved in their medical choices. Marcia Angell, a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, once put it acidly, "The...

Contact Lens Wearers Warned Against Using AMO Solution

...ses of AK to state and local health departments or directly to CDC. Acanthamoeba isolates should be submitted to state laboratories according to instructions provided by local and state public health laboratories, CDC said....

Scientists Report New Take on Sexual Signaling

...a mate is based on sexual signals that benefit her directly is a fundamentally new and perhaps widely applicab...n this way they reach the males burrow quickly and directly and avoid their predators. "When we bait predatory birds into the areaartificially increasing the ...

UK Scientists Identify Gene Mutations That Trigger Breast Cancer

...l Sikora, a leading cancer specialist, who was not directly involved with the latest work. "In theory, it allows you to look at thousands of people to study their genes and to find associations that we just didn't see before," Professor Sikora said. Several teams of scientists took part in the latest studie...

Yale F&ES Graduation to Offset Gas Linked to Global Warming

...cts that either sequester greenhouse gases or help directly reduce emissions elsewhere. The intent is to find a project somewhere that sequesters carbon dioxideremoves it from the atmosphere through any number of biological or mechanical meansor that develops renewable energy technologies, said Colleen Morg...

Emory Participates in Study to Slow Progression of Parkinson's Disease

...for exercise and its short-term use in PD does not directly affect motor symptoms, says Dr. Juncos. Creatine also acts as an antioxidant to prevent damage from compounds that are harmful to cells in the brain. In mouse model studies of PD, creatine was able to prevent the loss of the dopamine cells in the b...

How Plague-Causing Bacteria Disarm Host Defense

...invasion system that injects the effector proteins directly into the host cells cytoplasm. More than a decade after its discovery, our understanding of YpkA is still incomplete, Navarro said. But Yersinia has maintained YpkA over millions of years, so it must be doing something important. The researchers sp...

Cultural Bias Against Women Hampering Fight Against AIDS in Africa

...r social and economic inequality between the sexes directly correlated to the HIV risk faced by African women. "Despite the differences in the two countries, the women in the samples have very similar demographics ... they were poorer, had a greater number of dependents, were less educated and were less foo...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

...stress disorder. It brings behavioral health staff directly into primary care clinics instead of making soldiers go to a separate mental health facility for help. Earlier this month, a Pentagon task force warned that the military health care system is overburdened and not sufficient to meet the needs of tro...

Blood from Bird Flu Survivors Provides Breakthrough in Treatment of H5N1

...rst in history, doctors sometimes transfused blood directly from survivors to the newly sick, sometimes with good results. The mouse study is "a very lovely, elegant proof of principle," said Dr. William Schaffner, a flu expert at Vanderbilt University. More work is needed before trying these purified ant...

Thai 'Condom King's' NGO Wins Gates Award for Anti-AIDS Work

...ing to tackle taboo subjects like sex and HIV/AIDS directly in order to save lives." The non-profit association It was chosen from more than 90 nominees by a jury of global health leaders. The prize will be presented at the Global Health Council's 34th Annual International Conference on Global Health in W...

Anti-obesity Drugs Claimed Additional Benefits on cardiometabolic Risk Factors Questioned

...nts, the article adds. . Rimonabant has not been directly compared with other, less expensive, drug treatments for obesity. Orlistat is the drug for obesity for which there is the most evidence for efficacy and safety to date, and we have previously concluded that it is a reasonable option for obese patient...

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