South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn
South America's giant Pantanal wetlands, one of the world's most bio-diverse ecosystems, is at growing risk from intensive peripheral agricultural, industrial and urban development ?problems expected to be compounded by climate change, United Nations University experts warn. Covering more than 165,000 square kilometers ?an area roughly equal to Florida ?in the heart of South America, the P...Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies
Johns Hopkins infectious disease specialists who have spent more than two decades leading efforts to combat HIV and AIDS worldwide are warning that limited international relief supplies of antiretroviral therapies currently being distributed in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean will not get to those who can least afford to pay for them. In an article appearing in the American Journal of Publi...Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders
32% increase of African fish supply needed by 2020 just to maintain consumption levels Calling fisheries critical for nourishing the poor and for helping Africa cope with the health, economic and social devastation of problems like HIV and AIDS, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), the WorldFish Center and partners are making an urgent appeal to boost the continent's fish...Climate experts search for answers in the oceans
By absorbing half of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere, the oceans have a profound influence on climate. However, their ability to take up this carbon dioxide might be impaired as a result of climate change. To determine their response to global warming, ESA has backed two projects that provide systematic data on key oceanic variables ?color and temperature. The Medspiration p...Experts discuss use of human stem cells in ape and monkey brains
Covering ship hulls with artificial shark skin could help ships sailing smoothly. The growth of marine organisms such as barnacles on ship hulls is a major cause of increased energy costs in the naval industry. Shark skin offers a structural design that prevents this so called 'bio-fouling'. Ralph Liedert from the University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany, is presenting his work on t...Innovation expert speaks on the business-IT balancing act
. We asked him to share some of his insights into the ways business and information techno...Tired of the spin? ExpertVoter website makes candidate selection easier
This election cycle may be the most democratic in modern history, thanks to blogs and other con...Brady appoints GE efficiency expert as CTO
Tatterson, who brings expertise in process and product innovation, materials development, and chemical engineeri...Innovation expert says Milwaukee has all the tools
Tornatzky, who will present his ideas here during a July 10 luncheon program of the Wisconsin Innovation Ne...Smoking a greater risk than HIV? Yes say health experts!!!!
A research backed by the British government says that smoking will turn out to be the biggest killer in the years to come, surpassing the threat of even HIV. The British broadcasting corporation reported on Monday that in the developing world smoking will kill more people than any other disease in the next 20 years. The report released from the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex, United K...Good carb, bad carb? Experts debate.
Macaroni faster than spaghetti? A greenish banana faster than a freckled one? Yes, say some of the top-tier nutritional experts.They are convinced that carbohydrates should be labeled good or bad, just the way fats are.// The debate involves an idea called the glycemic index. It is a way of rating how quickly carbohydrates are digested and rush into the bloodstream as sugar. Fast, in t...Serevent, to be examined by experts due to deaths associated with its use
Serevent, a powdered medication inhaled by asthma patients to keep their airways// open, will be a focus of an FDA Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee meeting today as it has been linked to 13 deaths related to asthmatic symptoms in patients who took the drug to avoid asthma attacks. FDA documents released yesterday indicate that about a year ago, the agency asked Glaxo to strengt...Spread Of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Is A Probability, Say Experts
Researcher from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine had said in a research finding to be published in The New England Journal of Medicine that the disease called Rocky Mountain spotted fever may spread faster// than people thought possible, to cause an outbreak. The research highlights the importance of the recent outbreak in Arizona, US, as the first confirmed cases that could...Siemens Webcast: Expert Insight - Key Elements for a Successful Electrophysiology Program
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PHILADELPHIA, June 25, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Childhoodcancers are fortunately rare, but among them, neuroblastoma is aspecial case, accounting for 7 percent of all childhood cancers,but 15 percent of childhood cancer deaths. It typically occurs as asolid tumor in the abdomen, but also in the neck, chest, andpelvis, developing in the network of the body's sympathetic nervoussyst...