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Birth defects: 8 million annually worldwide

...engthen medical genetics services. "Building such services would allow nations to reduce the toll of death an...s systematic effort to strengthen medical genetics services for the care of affected children and prevention of birth defects. For these countries, the next st...

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

...icans receive only half of recommended health care services and that disparities in care are worse for minorities and disenfranchised patients. The study poses a contrast between efficacy, or how well a treatment works, and what they call the "fidelity of health care." Independent of the efficacy, fidelity i...

Understanding the oceans microbes is key to the Earth's future

...ut the effect of human-induced change on the vital services these microbes perform for the planet remains larg...hat effects human-induced changes will have on the services marine microbes perform for the planet. Research on marine microbiology must continue or accelerate...

Sahara's edge studied from ground, air and space to improve water management

... Aquifer to develop satellite-derived products and services to support the sustainable management of ground water. Planned products include land-use and land-cover maps, change maps, surface water extent and dynamics, digital terrain models and estimates of water consumption and extraction. These required pro...

Stroke treatment a step closer after trial

...year. It accounts for 6.5% of total NHS and social services expenditure and there are currently no treatments available. Stroke occurs when vessels supplying blood to the brain become blocked and the brain is starved of oxygen. A core area of the brain dies within minutes but it is the threatened area around...

Earliest European Farmers Left Little Genetic Mark On Modern Europe

... of sub-Saharan Africa. An accelerated scale-up of services is urgently needed to reduce this unacceptable toll. Levels of knowledge of safe sex and HIV remain low in many countries ?even in countries with high and growing prevalence. In 24 sub-Saharan countries (including Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Nig...

2005 AIDS figures released by WHO and UNAIDS

... of sub-Saharan Africa. An accelerated scale-up of services is urgently needed to reduce this unacceptable toll. Levels of knowledge of safe sex and HIV remain low in many countries ?even in countries with high and growing prevalence. In 24 sub-Saharan countries (including Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Nig...

Seeing the forest and the trees

...s their ability to provide other crucial ecosystem services such as preventing erosion. The study was led by...re. "Carbon sequestration is just one of the many services that tropical forests provide," said DeClerck. "The more ecosystem functions you look at, the more i...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

...igh, schools, hospitals and other essential public services are short of qualified specialists. What has been the impact on individuals? According to the Forum's report on health, "the mental health impact of Chernobyl is the largest public health problem unleashed by the accident to date." People in the af...

Tropical dry forests receive international recognition

... and in turn, paying the land owners environmental services fees in exchange for a promise the land won't be u...ing paid more than US$175 million in environmental services fees since the late 1990's. The network is made up of top scientists in the field from around the g...

New results validating Pall prion reduction filter disclosed at ISBT Congress

...nsfusion medicine is an ongoing challenge to blood services worldwide as new threats, such as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), emerge. An update on the latest measures to protect the public from the human form of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly called Mad Cow Disease, and minimize ri...

Environmental lessons from tsunami as world's coastal population doubles

...d recover from storms and floods and still provide services of protecting the coast and absorbing pollution. But once these ecosystems are put under pressure by coastal development, they may lose their resilience. Similarly, if communities are more resilient they are going to be able to learn from past exper...

Progress on HIV/AIDS significant but insufficient

...mensurate with the problem, and efforts to improve services were encountering difficulties in the health and o...bally, fewer than one person in five had access to services to prevent AIDS, owing to the hesitation of leaders and to persistent taboos relating to sexuality a...

South Africa still debating how to tackle HIV/AIDS when 5 million are infected

...ar poor communities. Mark Nelson, director of HIV services at the Imperial College School of Medicine in the UK said that tackling AIDS without the use of ARVs was "a no-brainer", and it was important to give people the belief that these drugs work because they do. Earlier in the conference, South African m...

Laboratory professionals in Africa receive training under AIDS Relief Plan

...fectiveness of HIV diagnostic, care, and treatment services and interventions," said LoAnn Peterson, MD, FASCP, ASCP President. The award will be made for a 12-month budget period, within a project period of up to four years. The Emergency Plan is a $15 billion international relief effort. In addition to Et...

Fragment of yellow fever virus may hold key to safer vaccine

...erra Leone, disruptions in vaccination and medical services led to a large epidemic in 2000. In collaboration with local health authorities, ter Meulen set up a viral hemorrhagic fever laboratory in Conakry to collect and evaluate blood samples from patients. In people, the mosquito-borne virus incubates for...

TGen awarded $7.1 million to accelerate brain disease research

...ium's success and an expanding need for consortium services in neuroscience, a fourth research center, Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, will be added to the program in June. About 10,000 investigators from the 15 different NIH institutes that are part of the NIH Neuroscience Blueprint will have acc...

Stem Cells to Solve the Blood Shortage Problem?

...tion of mangroves in addition to the loss of other services that mangroves provide to local economies and ecosystems. Although many politicians, journalists, and scientists have made post-tsunami statements about the barrier function of mangroves, most have failed to recognize that this function has never act...

Could better mangrove habitats have spared lives in the 2004 tsunami?

...tion of mangroves in addition to the loss of other services that mangroves provide to local economies and ecosystems. Although many politicians, journalists, and scientists have made post-tsunami statements about the barrier function of mangroves, most have failed to recognize that this function has never act...

Newly discovered genetic disease sheds light on body's water balance

...e pediatric endocrinology and pediatric nephrology services at UCSF Children's Hospital determined that each baby's kidneys were inappropriately retaining water, and the excess fluids were diluting blood sodium levels. The usual diagnosis for this condition is Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone S...

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