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Genetically modified rice in China benefits farmers' health, study finds

... incidents in 2002, and 10.9 percent reported such cases in 2003. None of those households reported being affected after working on plots planted to the genetically engineered varieties. Among the farm households that used conventional rice varieties, 8.3 percent in 2002 and 3.0 percent in 2003 reported a...

Multiple Campylobacter Genomes Sequenced

... with campylobacteriosis every year, and with many cases going unreported, up to 0.5% of the general population may unknowingly harbor Campylobacter in their gut annually. Diarrhea, cramps, abdominal pain, and fever develop within 2? days of picking up a pathogenic Campylobacter species, and in most people...

How the environment could be damaging men's reproductive health

...ould be treated with caution because the number of cases was rather low and only larger studies will be able to show whether this is a genuine association or not." The study did not find a statistically significant difference between boys born to mothers who smoked or who worked in a potentially harmful e...

Surprising findings reported about iron overload

...nning of the study in 2000, it was known that most cases of hemochromatosis in Caucasians resulted from common mutations in the HFE gene, first discovered in 1996. At that time, little was known about the causes of iron overload in other racial/ethnic groups. Major findings of the study include: * Ca...

Drug-resistant bacteria on poultry products differ by brand

...pylobacter, a pathogen responsible for 2.4 million cases of food-borne illness per year in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study is published online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. "Our use of medically important classes of antibiotics in food-a...

Norovirus, AIDS vaccine and Hepatitis Virus

...tro-related illnesses resulting in over 23 million cases annually. In the study stool samples were collect...hers. The high frequency of NoV infection among TD cases examined in this study suggests that further investigations concerning the role of these viruses in ...

Antiretroviral therapy may prevent excess risk of some cancers in people with HIV

...retroviral therapy (HAART) may prevent most excess cases of Kaposi sarcoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, accord...f cancers of the lung, lip, mouth, and pharynx, no cases of these cancers were found among nonsmokers. "In conclusion, HAART treatment may prevent excess ri...

NIH Calls on Scientists to Speed Public Release of Research Publications

...thors, their institutions, and publishers in those cases where immediate release is not possible," Zerhouni...dels. Nevertheless, we expect that only in limited cases will authors deem it necessary to select the longest delay period." The NIH policy will achieve sev...

Reducing malarial transmission in Africa

There are 300 million cases of malaria each year worldwide, causing one million deaths. Around 90% of these deaths occur in Africa, mostly in young children. One of the greatest challenges facing Africa in the fight against malaria is drug resistance; resistance to chloroquine ...

Fibril Shape Is The Basis Of Prion Strains And Cross-species Prion Infection

...ple exposed to tainted beef products, but very few cases of variant Creutzfeld-Jakob." He says there "must be protective mechanisms working there, but we don't know what they are." The other members of the Weissman research team include Motomasa Tanaka and Peter Chien. The Weissman study was supported by...

WHO Warns Of Increased Risk Of Vector-borne Diseases In Tsunami-affected Areas

... malaria except the Maldives, which has no malaria cases but does have dengue cases. With the onset of the ...icularly in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, a rise in the cases can be expected at this time of the year. Indonesia suffered a major dengue outbreak last year. Thi...

HIV-1 spread through six transmission lines in the UK

...ead and evolved. However, given that the first UK cases of AIDS reported in 1982 were probably infected within a window of 10 years prior to that time, the currently circulating strains may not represent the first HIV-1 lineages within the UK . If earlier strains existed they may have been unsuccessful in...

Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update

... the Ministry of Health in Angola has reported 266 cases of Marburg haemorrhagic fever. Of these cases, 244...on. Neither the source nor the date of the initial cases in Angola can be presently identified with any certainty. The number of cases began increasing in F...

Rare surgery performed to remove pancreas, prevent diabetes

..., and the patient still survives. Only a few other cases were attempted, and results were not uniformly good, so the procedure fell out of favor until recently, when new advances in cadaveric islet cell transplantation made outcomes more favorable. ...

Buying Time Through Hibernation on Demand

...y sound like science fiction, dozens of documented cases exist of humans surviving prolonged hibernation-like states with no lingering physical or neurological damage. For example: * In May 1999, a female Norwegian skier was rescued after submersion in icy water for more than an hour. When rescued she was...

U-M team recovers ancient whale in Egyptian desert

...y sound like science fiction, dozens of documented cases exist of humans surviving prolonged hibernation-like states with no lingering physical or neurological damage. For example: * In May 1999, a female Norwegian skier was rescued after submersion in icy water for more than an hour. When rescued she was...

Reservoirs may accelerate the spread of invasive aquatic species, researchers say

...ecies than natural lakes. The researchers point to cases in which reservoirs are believed to have facilitated the rapid spread of invasive species. The authors note that reservoir construction often leads to many-fold increases in the area of standing water in a region and that reservoirs typically replac...

Researchers make gains in understanding antibiotic resistance

...ospitals in the United States see some two million cases of antibiotic-resistant infections each year; 90,000 patients die annually from such infections. In their experiments, Steitz and his colleagues used x-ray crystallography to do high-resolution structural analyses of the large ribosomal subunits bou...

Silence the gene, save the cell: RNA interference as promising therapy for ALS

...ce to silence a mutated gene that causes inherited cases of amytrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), substantial...e diagnosed with ALS every year, and most of these cases are "sporadic", with no identifiable cause. About 5-10% of ALS cases are inherited. Of these, 20% ha...

Protein That Promotes Survival Of Stem Cells Might Be Key To Poor Leukemia Prognosis

...d will help my lab at St. Jude understand why some cases of leukemia are so difficult to cure," Opferman said. "The more we understand these diseases, the more likely we'll be able to design improved treatments for them. This fits into the St. Jude mission of finding cures for catastrophic diseases of chil...

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