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Free access to a digital library for developing countries

...RE will enable countries to build their own higher education programs in the environmental sciences, educate their own leaders, conduct their own research, publish their own scientific findings and disseminate information to policy makers and the public. Literature in environmental chemistry, economics, law an...

Skin disease common among Hispanic farmworkers in North Carolina, research shows

...eak no English ?they have limited access to health education or safety warnings. In the study involving skin ... behavior and for improving health care and health education to these workers," said Arcury. The researchers found that few workers mentioned skin cancer as a p...

Antioxidant selenium offers no heart-disease protection

... Information on sociodemographics, health habits, education and body mass index also was collected. Participants provided blood samples at their respective clinics twice a year and reported any new illnesses or medications. Individuals were followed for an average of 7.6 years. Results showed no associatio...

Bringing the zoos to the zebras

...are a key stakeholder in Earthwatch's research and education programs," said Dr. Marie Studer, chief science of... people worldwide in scientific field research and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment. 2006 marks the 35t...

Protecting endangered species helps reduce poverty

...Incomes increase and access to freshwater, health, education and women's rights often also improve. According to the report, some ecotourism projects based on the observation of species in the wild--such as marine turtles, pandas and mountain gorillas--generate significant amounts of money for communities. A...

World's pledge to halve hunger by 2015 looks like empty promise

...ets, agricultural research and technology, primary education and health care," he says. Policies should also focus on increasing farm incomes in rural areas in low-income countries, as well as on generating non-agricultural employment, particularly in urban areas, to absorb rural migration. ...

First SCID gene chip to be introduced at Academy meeting on immunodeficiencies

...t organization dedicated to PI research, physician education and patient support. Among the highlights of the conference are: Max Cooper, M.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL. Topic: "Evolution of Immunology - Where is the Future," an overview on the progress made...

Efficiency, not more doctors, is the prescription for aging population

...Instead of financing further growth in our medical education system, resources might be better directed to reorganizing delivery systems that have already demonstrated that they can deliver good care at relatively low cost," the authors write. ...

Teens unaware of sexually transmitted diseases until they catch one, Carnegie Mellon study finds

...ls, found that those who viewed an interactive sex education DVD created by Carnegie Mellon researchers were more likely to become abstinent than girls who did not see the DVD. This latest study was co-authored by Wandi Bruine de Bruin and Baruch Fischhoff of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at C...

APS lecturer shows rare video of 'teacher-student' immune cell interactions in live animal

...that the regulatory T cells can also receive their education in the lymph node before proliferating and entering the blood stream. May lead to vaccines "The events I have described are at the heart of any vaccination," von Andrian said. Many pathogens take advantage of the lymph system to gain access to th...

Value of services performed by insects tops $57 billion in US

...ch works to protect native insect habitats through education and research. Insects are an integral part of a complex web of interactions that helps put food on our tables and remove our wastes. Humans - and probably most life on earth - would perish without insects, Vaughan said. Losey and Vaughan's study fo...

Researcher studies, treats military with 'silent disease'

...at may have calmed study volunteers is the patient education Sjogren's staff offers. "Sometimes they don't fully understand hepatitis C, and the patients are very anxious. They think they have HIV or something that's going to kill them overnight," she said. "We like to talk to the patient and put them at ease,...

Immune system police learn early and sometimes badly

...It also means one day physicians might steer early education of regulatory T cells in the thymus as a way to vaccinate children against diseases such as lupus, arthritis and type 1diabetes. Or, they might add regulatory T cells to improve the mix in people who already have some bad police. "We need some of t...

Newborn screening can cause unnecessary parental stress

... and that the stress could be alleviated by better education for parents and pediatricians. Psychologist Susan...researchers suggest that improved and better-timed education may reduce parental stress related to newborn screening. "There needs to be a specific communication...

Adults who go to bed lonely get stress hormone boost next morning

...nds of the day," said Adam, assistant professor of education and social policy and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. The morning cortisol boost could help adults who went to bed with troubled or overwhelming feelings go out in the world the next day and have the types of positive social e...

A human taste for rarity spells disaster for endangered species

...lly care about biodiversity, the authors hope that education may go a long way toward curbing these human activities. Education could even mitigate the damage of trophy hunting and luxury consumption if society stigmatized activities responsible for driving a species to extinction and people could no longer ta...

World's smallest cancer detection device

... formed an alliance with UAlbany's CNSE to advance education and research in the rapidly growing fields of nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine. "This NCI grant marks a true milestone for this partnership, which combines the unique expertise and resources of both institutions to apply nanoscale principles to det...

New HIV statistics indicate increasing toll of AIDS on African American community

...ead of HIV will require an increased investment in education and substance abuse programs designed to prevent people from using injection drugs in the first place and help current users to quit, and establishing needle-exchange programs to minimize the risk of infection from sharing needles. Expand proven...

Older men treated for early prostate cancer live longer than those who are not

...l Association. Thanks to better cancer prevention education and the resulting wide-spread increase in using prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screenings, more men are being diagnosed with early-stage and low-or intermediate-grade prostate cancer. Studies have shown that the slow-developing nature of prostate ca...

Successful lung cancer surgery not enough to break nicotine dependence in many smokers

... a younger age, lower income, and a lower level of education would be associated with a greater likelihood of s...d they also were surprised to discover that higher education was associated with a greater likelihood of smoking after surgery. "It wasn’t the number of cigaret...

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