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Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

... about 10 million premature deaths among women and children in Africa. By 2050, according to the report, smoke from cooking fires will release about 7 billion tons of carbon in the form of greenhouse gases to the environment. That's about 6 percent of the total expected greenhouse gases from the continent. T...

UN pours polio vaccine into Yemen amid outbreak

...n end-of-month nationwide campaign to immunize all children under 5 against a fast-moving paralytic poliovirus outbreak, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said it was shipping in 6 million doses of polio vaccine. In addition, 10 experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) are working with nati...

Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century

...a syndrome, tetanus, and H. influenzae, type b (in children less than 5 years old), new vaccines in the past 1...drop of 92 percent in mortality from chickenpox in children four years and younger. Despite its successes, the U.S. vaccine system is fragile and needs signifi...

Two studies document rise of superbugs in the environment

...s in most cases, and more than 60 percent of these children were admitted to the hospital. The rapid rise in pediatric community-acquired MRSA infections in Texas should raise red flags for health care workers everywhere. "There have been deaths related to this organism, although the vast number are skin and...

Study Finds Moderate Hypothermia A Safe Treatment For Traumatic Brain Injury In Kids

...that cooling the body can have positive affects on children who suffered traumatic brain injury. The study's ... is the only multi-center clinical trial involving children underway in the United States, was conducted to determine whether moderate hypothermia (32-33 degree...

New Vaccine To Be Used For First Time In Polio Outbreak Response

...tes in Yemen. Low immunization rates among Yemen's children may facilitate the spread of the virus. Experts are now planning an outbreak response, using the recently-developed monovalent oral polio vaccine type 1(mOPV1). This new vaccine enables a precisely tailored immunological response to the type 1 polio...

New insights into how Huntington's disease attacks the brain

...s in mid-life, but can also attack the elderly and children as young as 2. Slowly depriving a person of their ability to think, speak, walk and swallow, the disease robs the person of their independence, leading to death within 10 to 25 years. Every carrier of the HD gene mutation will develop the disease. E...

Gifts from the sea

...es such as cancer; progeria, a disease that causes children to age unusually quickly; and muscular dystrophy. For a list of MBL researchers and the organisms they use, or for further information on summer research and education at the MBL, please contact Gina Hebert at 508-289-7725. ...

Sandia completes depleted uranium study

... potential risk of DU-induced birth defects in the children of exposed individuals, and provided a more detailed analysis of the dispersion of DU following impact with a number of targeted vehicles. ### For a full copy of the report, download the following pdf file from http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/new...

Why are coyotes getting more aggressive?

...s actually start attacking humans -- such as small children that are perceived by the coyotes as a potential food source," says Paul Curtis, associate professor of natural resources at Cornell University. He notes that in the past two decades, several dozen attacks on humans have been reported in California. ...

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades

...drylands in developing countries averages about 54 children per 1,000 live births, 10 times that of industrial countries. Importantly, the rate in such drylands is twice as high as that of other, non-dryland regions in developing countries. The authors rank desertification ?land degradation in drylands as a ...

A novel virus for croup

... is one of the most frequently detected viruses in children with lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs). T...n to be responsible for one fifth of all deaths in children under five years old. The team, including researchers from University Medical Centres in Amsterdam...

Engineered molecule amplifies body's immune response

...eptible to infection. In the more severe case, the children die in infancy of fatal viral infections. In less ...r developing serious viral infections, for example children with asthma, or heart disease, or immune compromise," suggests Dr. Holtzman. "It may also be of bene...

Slipping past the blood brain barrier: Research shows potential treatment for brain cancer

...mone usually are to trigger the hormone that makes children grow and affect how glucose is used in adults. Researchers found that the P-gp system, an extra guardian located at the blood brain barrier that usually keeps anticancer drugs out of the brain, intercepted some of the JV-1-36 that was injected int...

'Shifty-eyed' Monkeys Offer Window Into Brain's Social Reflexes

...Such deficits not only cause problems for autistic children in everyday social interactions, said Platt, but also in teaching them. 'When you're teaching another person, you often engage with them in 'joint attention,' where you establish attentive contact and undergo a give and take, as you both concentrate ...

AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat feminization of HIV/AIDS

... of so many young mothers dying and leaving behind children who may also be infected as well as orphaned, women deserve a separate strategy. He also points out that medical research suggests hormonal and developmental factors place young women at greater risk than men for contracting the virus when exposed t...

Quantum dots provide a faster, more sensitive method for detecting respiratory viral infections

... is the most common cause of hospitalization among children under five. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) sends about 120,000 children to the hospital in the United States each year. Although it is only life-threatening in one case out...

Old drug, new tricks: Prospects for slashing the impact of malaria

...ally unexpected residual immunological effect when children are given this tablet as a preventative rather tha...om malaria and much of the severe illness involves children under five years of age. Pregnant women are also highly susceptible to the effects of malaria, but t...

Genetically engineered animals help in scientific research that may benefit children

...this animal model is based, is frequently found in children and is the first cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). According to the article, ESRD represents 16.1% of all pediatric transplantations in North America. ...

Hospitalizations because of chicken pox down dramatically since implementation of vaccine

...vaccine is recommended for routine immunization of children aged 12 to 18 months and for older susceptible children and adults in the United States, according to background information in the article. Before its lice...

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