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Tag: "policy" at biology news

Large size crucial for Amazon forest reserves

.... Sustainable conservation strategies result when policy is based on sound science. The results in this paper confirm the importance of this action and other, similar efforts to conserve forested regions. ...

Growth hormone is not the anti-aging bullet for healthy adults

... MD, a research fellow in endocrinology and health policy at Stanford University and an author of the review. "But the scant clinical experience of GH in the healthy elderly suggests that although GH may minimally alter body composition, it does not improve other clinically relevant outcomes such as bone...

Living with water scarcity -- world must act now

...ehensive Assessment challenges all of us ?not just policy makers and investors ?to think differently about w...er management along with non-miraculous changes in policy and production techniques" says Margaret Catley Carleson, Chair of the Global Water Partnership, "bu...

Reminding doctors which antibiotics to prescribe cuts C. difficile infection rates

...halosporin to treat bacterial infections, but this policy had resulted in increased use of another broad-spe... of amoxicillin/clavulanate, a new narrow-spectrum policy was implemented as part of the hospital's clinical governance programme at the beginning of July 200...

UCLA: How does your brain respond when you think about gambling or taking risks?

...aid co-author Craig Fox, an associate professor of policy at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and an associate professor of psychology. "The people who show much more neural sensitivity to losses relative to gains are the same people who are very reluctant to gamble unless they are offered extremely f...

Pharmaceutical compounds found in nation's fresh water

...reat to human health, this research may help frame policy on the disposal of expired or unused compounds. ...

Researchers to study why dead zone returned to Lake Erie

...f the dead zone, as well as develop management and policy options and guidance on a course of action to alleviate the problem. CILER is one of 11 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration joint institutes and is administered by the SNRE. The grant, funded by NOAA's Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean ...

NASA snow data helps maintain nation's largest, oldest bison herd

...n assistant professor of science and environmental policy at CSUMB. "Ecologists try to best understand how animal populations respond to the changing conditions of the landscape where they live. Snow is a very important factor in the livelihood of all wildlife species in the ecosystem, including the Yellows...

Free drug samples influence prescribing, say one in three doctors

...s needs to be reconsidered, both by doctors and by policy makers," say the authors. Guidelines need to do more to challenge this view, they add....

Using nature's most primitive anti-viral defense system to find new approaches to cancer research

...£136,000 has been given in line with the charity's policy of funding the most exciting and novel approaches to research worldwide. "We believe it important to fund work that pushes the boundaries of science, and Dr Baum and his team are charged with tackling one of the greatest scientific challenges of all....

Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

... study results represent a potential guide for the policy formulation at international and bilateral aid agencies, and within developing countries. And they recommend: An initiative on Grand Challenges in Non-communicable Diseases, modelled on the success of Grand Challenges in Global Health initiativ...

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

...onting the Epidemic in Black America presents five policy solutions that address the increasingly disproportionate impact HIV/AIDS is having on the African-American community: Eliminate marginalization of, and stigma and discrimination against, black gay and other men who have sex with men (MSM). ...

Public Library of Science to launch new, open access journal on neglected tropical diseases

...s of neglected tropical diseases, including public policy studies. It will include an engaging magazine section containing commentaries, reviews, features, analyses, and debates, using the latest online functionality. It will be accessible online free of charge. "Through its open-access format, the jou...

Mass vaccination unnecessary in the event of a large bioterrorist US smallpox attack

...us Diseases. Instead, the current U.S. government policy of post-release surveillance, prompt containment of victims and vaccination of hospital workers and close contacts would be sufficient to thwart an epidemic, according to lead author Ira M. Longini Jr., Ph.D., a world leader in using mathematical and...

China's environmental challenges

...gues discuss the major challenges faced by Chinese policy makers in managing the tradeoffs between urbanization and environmental protection. Meanwhile, the country's mountainous regions still host a surprising number of plant and animals species. Zhiyao Tang (Peking University) and fellow researchers ide...

History-hunting geneticists can still follow familiar trail

...ble, it could potentially have a bearing on future policy decisions, as well as affect literally hundreds of previous studies on humans and other mammals." UF Genetics Institute scientists analyzed publicly available mtDNA datasets of 47 species of mammals -- a subset of the animals that were in the Fren...

Handling HPV vaccines and screening: The views of 100 authors

... paediatricians, gynaecologists, health educators, policy decision makers, industry and major donor institutions worldwide. With the arrival of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines and the progressive introduction of HPV-based screening technology, the field of cervical cancer prevention is expanding in...

Recurrence of a flu pandemic similar to infamous 1918 flu could kill 62 million

...rticularly alarming when you consider that all the policy protection is aimed at the high income world. Very few strategies are being thought through that are primarily targeting poor countries." For many decades, published epidemiological literature assumed that mortality rates from the 1918-20 pandemic...

Minorities, uninsured less likely to receive care at high-volume hospitals

...le there is significant interest among health care policy experts in improving quality by directing patients to high-volume hospitals, policy development should include explicit efforts to identify the patient and system factors required to r...

Rhesus monkeys in Nepal may provide new alternative for HIV/AIDS research

...hesus populations, the Nepali government enacted a policy in 2003 stipulating that only captive-bred animals may be used for scientific research. The rhesus macaque is prevalent in many countries and is not considered an endangered species. An agreement between the Nepal Biodiversity Research Society and ...

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