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Birth defects: 8 million annually worldwide

...h of Dimes Says Although poorer nations may lack resources for these recommended programs and their health services are already severely stretched, the March of Dimes report says major improvements can be made within existing health care systems, for example by training health care providers to use simple di...

Access to existing medical treatments could save more lives than spending to improve the treatments

... that only modestly improve efficacy, by consuming resources needed for improved delivery of care, may cost more lives than it saves," they wrote. "The misalignment of priorities is driven partly by the commercial interests of industry and by the public's appetite for technological breakthroughs, but health ou...

Dog genome sequenced

...e both researchers and the public with informative resources about canine genomics and biology. "Canine genetics has entered a period of unprecedented growth and discovery," explain Drs. Elaine Ostrander and Francis Galibert in their Foreword to The Dog and Its Genome . "The dog is now set to take its right...

Scientists fetch useful information from dog genome publications

...e both researchers and the public with informative resources about canine genomics and biology. "Canine genetics has entered a period of unprecedented growth and discovery," explain Drs. Elaine Ostrander and Francis Galibert in their Foreword to The Dog and Its Genome . "The dog is now set to take its right...

Plants, too, have ways to manage freeloaders

...ng good behavior. This could involve shutting down resources to nodules inhabited by poorly performing bacteria, or preventing the aging of nodules more effective at fixing nitrogen. In studies at the University of California's Bodega Marine Reserve, a 362-acre preserve located about 60 miles north of the UC ...

Wild birds help to create human flu vaccine

...y by the H5N1 strain of influenza virus. Focusing resources on the hubs and activities where humans, livestock, and wildlife come into close contact is the best hope for successfully preventing the spread of avian flu and protecting both people and animals. To contain this potential epidemic, prevention act...

Should doctors tell patients about expensive, unfunded drugs?

...This is an urgent question of distributing limited resources fairly that faces not just new drugs, but many forms of modern technological care. "The gap between what we can do and what we can afford will continue to grow, at a personal and community level." The issue of accessing new expensive drugs has no e...

Some good news for the world's poor

...egies really do have an impact so we can focus our resources on such techniques, and rice research is clearly one of these." Dr. Fan's research follows earlier work by IRRI that showed that, in the four decades from 1961 to 2000, while the population of Asia's developing nations more than doubled, from 1.6 bi...

Overfishing may drive endangered seabird to rely upon lower quality food

...ll require 50 to100 years of restoration, and prey resources haven't recovered from the sardine fisheries collapse in the mid-20th century. Other prey items that the murrelets feed upon, including rockfish, have had to have seasonal closures because of heavy harvest for commercial markets. Similarly, the ancho...

Underlying cause of massive pinyon pine die-off revealed

... leader David D. Breshears, a professor of natural resources in The University of Arizona's School of Natural Resources in Tucson and a member of UA's Institute for the Study of Planet Earth. At study sites in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, the team found that from 40 to 80 percent of the pinyon tree...

Tsunami + 1 year: Reviving exhausted fisheries should trump replacing boats, gear, experts say

...rate with the productive capacity of the fisheries resources and their sustainable utilization." And Indonesi... communities will lead to an inexorable decline in resources and opportunity. "To mitigate these factors, co-ordinated action is needed now and the priorities ...

First big influenza genome study reveals flu evolution

...s, or variant strains, represent a pool of genetic resources that the influenza virus can draw upon," says Salzberg, a researcher at TIGR and also director of the University of Maryland's Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. "Pockets of distinct flu strains spread locally, with flu evolving in ...

Marine conservation organizations team up to conduct Indonesia coral reefs assessment

...f the people of Indonesia who depend upon the rich resources of the sea. This survey will help us understand the extent of the damage to the coral reefs from the tsunami and therefore guide management decisions to assist their natural recovery," said Capt. Philip Renaud, USN (Ret.), Executive Director of the ...

Storing carbon to combat global warming may cause other environmental problems, study suggests

...mitigation will likely have large impacts on water resources of many nations that net less than 30 percent of what precipitation provides for their total annual supplies of fresh water, the authors predicted. "The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't...

New study shows patients more willing to consider self-injectable HIV therapy than many physicians anticipate

...using self-injectable therapy in terms of time and resources and were less likely to doubt its efficacy relative to oral therapies, when compared to physicians less experienced with this type of treatment. Dr Mike Youle, Director of HIV Clinical Research, Royal Free Hospital, London and co-author of the OpenM...

Seaweed yields new compounds with pharmaceutical potential

...rnment and villages, which own their local natural resources and will benefit monetarily if these natural resources become marketable drugs. "We're only at the test-tube level so far," explained Julia Kubanek, a Geo...

Cyberkinetics, Case to develop system to help restore extremity function

...erkinetics, Case and the FES Center with financial resources to support the joint development of a neuroprosthe...rded this contract, Cyberkinetics now has expanded resources to further develop applications of the BrainGate TM System with the goal of enabling those with sev...

Breath of the dragon: ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China's air quality

...s to encourage increased exploitation of ESA space resources within China as well as stimulate increased scientific co-operation in the field of Earth Observation science and applications between China and Europe. ...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

...alth or environmental effects, we should not waste resources and effort on low priority, low contamination area...s," he explains. "We need to focus our efforts and resources on real problems." One key recommendation addresses the fact that large parts of the population, es...

Tropical dry forests receive international recognition

... others face a similar threat, taking with it such resources as its native mahogany and rosewood trees, which are in danger of going extinct, says Sanchez-Azofeifa. In Mexico, the main threat is deforestation by local communities but the dry forest is also targeted for its natural beauty. Hotel resorts and g...

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