LifeMasters Introduces Health Activation Tool to Disease Management Participants
Innovator of the PAM™ Assessment in Chronic Disease Coaching Irvine, Calif. (Vocus) March 2, 2009 -- In keeping with its commitment to implement the latest advances in behavior change, LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, Inc. is the first disease management company ...Newport Introduces More Resources for Spanish Speaking Plan Participants
The Newport Group, a leading national provider of retirement plans, executive benefits and investment consulting services, announced that its award-winning participant account statements and participant website are now available in Spanish — at just the touch of a button. ...Fire Ants are Emerging Nuisance for Virginians
Red imported fire ants (RIFAs), which have caused trouble in Florida and Texas for decades, are now advancing in Virginia. Colonies of the tiny, highly aggressive insects have been observed in the commonwealth since 1989 and, in recent years, have caught the attention of Virginia Tech scientists w...Beneficial Symbiotic Relationship Between Ants And Bacteria.
The Entomologist Cameron Currie of the University of Wisconsin and his colleagues discovered the methods used by the ants to protect their fungal garden from the attack of parasites. // The researcher said that this discovery paved way to understand the functioning of the natural systems. Ants ...Bioparasite Envisioned To Control Terror Of Fire Ants
The red colored fire ants, which arrived in the United States in the early 1930s, are now akin to a plague in areas of the country like Virginia and California. They are sighted in places like ranches, open pastures, croplands as well as urban lawns. Known scientifically as Solenopsis invicta...Mothers Happy After Exchange Of Swapped Infants
Infants were restored to their respective mothers, after they were swapped due to nursing error that had occurred a week ago//. On Jan 17, two women delivered surgical babies in the Ranchi Institute of Medical Science (RIMS). According to doctors, Savitri Devi gave birth to a daughter at 10.30 ...Strategies To Boost Living Donor Kidney Transplants
There is an insufficient supply of deceased donor kidneys for transplantation. One solution is to increase the number of living donor kidney transplants.// A recent paper in the November issue of the journal Urology focuses on the insufficient supply of transplantable kidneys, strategies that h...Commercial grape juices and vinegars found rich in antioxidants
Just as rust can damage a car, oxidation, or oxidative stress can damage the cells and may also contribute to aging.// Antioxidants help prevent this oxidation and may help increase immune function and possibly decrease risk of infection and cancer. Antioxidants exist as vitamins, minerals and othe...Orkin Warns of Four Pests to Avoid this Fourth of July
...t are most likely to crash the holiday festivities: mosquitoes, ticks, fire ants and wasps. [Professional, non-commercial b-roll and still photos of these ...ily members and pets promptly after being outdoors. Fire ants are very protective of their colonies. When threatened, they repeatedly st...New phorid fly species turns red imported fire ants into 'zombies'
OVERTON Zombie fire ants may not sound like a cool thing, but wait a minute, said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service expert. On April 29, on the grounds of the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Overton in East Texas, Dr. Scott Ludwig released fire ants infected with a new type of...When industrious ants go too far
Nature is full of mutually beneficial arrangements between organismslike the relationship between flowering plants and their bee pollinators. But sometimes these blissful relationships have a dark side, as Harvard biologist Megan Frederickson describes in an article for the May issue of The Ameri...Aussie meat ants may be invasive cane toad's Achilles' heel
Ecologists in Australia have discovered that cane toads are far more susceptible to being killed and eaten by meat ants than native frogs. Their research published in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology reveals a chink in the cane toad's armour that could help control t...Worker ants of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your fertility
This release is available in French . The highly specialized worker castes in ants represent the pinnacle of social organization in the insect world. As in any society, however, ant colonies are filled with internal strife and conflict. So what binds them together? More than 150 years ago...Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History reveals ants as fungus farmers
It turns out ants, like humans, are true farmers. The difference is that ants are farming fungus. Entomologists Ted Schultz and Sen Brady at the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History have published a paper in the March 24 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sc...Study links success of invasive Argentine ants to diet shifts
The ability of Argentine ants to change from carnivorous insect eaters to plant sap-loving creatures has helped these invasive social insects rapidly spread throughout coastal California, according to a new study, displacing many native insects and creating ant infestations familiar to most coasta...Attack of the invasive garden ants
An ant that is native to Eurasia is threatening to become the latest in a procession of species to invade Europe, as a result of inadvertent human introduction. Research published in the online open access journal BMC Biology demonstrates that the invasive garden ant, Lasius neglectus, which is a ...Smell-wars between butterflies and ants
Among humans, making yourself smell more alluring than you really are is a fairly harmless, socially accepted habit that maintains a complete perfume industry. However, it is a matter of life and death for caterpillars of large blue butterflies that dupe ant workers into believing them to be one o...Invasive ants territorial when neighbors are not kin
A study led by University of California, San Diego biologists shows that invasive Argentine ants appear to use genetic differences to distinguish friend from foe, a finding that helps to explain why these ants form enormous colonies in California. In the December issue of the journal Molecular ...