Study suggests interplay of gene, stress can predict depression
...lth Organization estimates that 121 million people worldwide currently suffer from depression, which causes the...pression will be the first cause of disease burden worldwide and, in the developed world, will be second only to heart disease." To begin to understand this perv...Satellites will join search for source of Ebola virus
...ombating malaria which affects 300 million people worldwide and kills up to 1.5 million people annually is a particular focus of several different Epidemio users. Acquiring satellite-gathered meteorological data is of great interest. High humidity and rainfall levels often presage malaria outbreaks due to in...17-year study confirms that lead in the soil descends slowly
...Dartmouth team and others are working on mountains worldwide to discover how soil retains pollutants such as lead and why the lead moves so slowly through the soil. According to the researchers, lead is one of the most widely dispersed natural contaminants in the world. At elevated levels, it can cause nervou...Manatee's cousin faces extinction on Tanzanian coast
Known worldwide for its diversity of large species, Tanzania could soon lose one of its most unique mammals--the dugong--to a combination of net entanglement and habitat destruction. This close relative of the manatee may soon become locally extinct without measures...Scientists find gene that protects against potato blight
...people and sparking a wave of immigration that had worldwide social consequences. More than 150 years later, Ireland's population has yet to return to pre-famine levels. Prior to the 1990s, chemical fungicides were available in the United States and effectively held the disease at bay. But new strains of the p...Passing its global sight test leaves MERIS ready for work
...d. This entailed international efforts to mount a worldwide 'sight test' that ranged from the Greenland ice cap to African deserts, aircraft flights above Europe, buoys in coastal zones and research vessels out in the open ocean. To ensure overall accuracy all the radiometer instruments used to gather local ...NIH awards millions to Rutgers for genetics research
... be home to a new genetics resource for scientists worldwide intent on solving the hereditary puzzles at the core of such diseases as diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease and kidney disorders. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), a unit of the National Institutes of Hea...UN development work guided from space
...Observation (EO) services are being made available worldwide to United Nations agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) concerned with short-term emergency relief and longer-term development assistance. The provider is UNOSAT, a consortium funded by ESA's Earth Observation Market Development Programm...Europes healthcare systems supports trend for quality and quantity in ART
... just under 500,000 ART treatment cycles performed worldwide in 2000, 275,187 cycles were carried out in 21 European countries reporting these data. The availability of fertility treatment for couples has steadily increased in Europe over the past four years. Prof Nygren, Associate Professor of Obstetrics an...Rutgers receives $22.6 million to investigate genetics of mental disorders
...tical and technical expertise to allow researchers worldwide to cooperate and share DNA and cell lines produced at Rutgers, as well as clinical and genetic data from thousands of individuals suffering from mental disorders....The stinky smell of success of Ted the Titan: a tale from Chemical & Engineering News
...t. Besides UC Davis a handful of botanical gardens worldwide cultivate Ted. "Mr. Stinky" resides at the Fairfield Tropical Garden in Coral Gables, Fla.; "Tiny" lives at UC Santa Barbara; and other plants are cultivated at Huntington Botanical Gardens, Pasadena, and in Bonn, Germany, according to C&EN . Once s...Public Library of Science acts to increase public access to scientific research
...utilizing PLoS's 33,000 supporters at institutions worldwide to raise awareness of PLoS among the scientific community, and to encourage research submissions to the new journal. The campaign utilizes teaser posters featuring the letters "PLoS" written in various languages and scripts, as well as posters featur......e that must be studied in great detail locally and worldwide to provide the data needed to properly develop and manage this most valuable resource," states Philip E. LaMoreaux, chairman of AGI's Environmental Geoscience Advisory Committee, in the book's Foreword. Water and the Environment is the fifth publicat...ENBREL provided rapid and significant relief for psoriasis patients in second pivotal study
...L. It has been used to treat over 180,000 patients worldwide since becoming commercially available four years ago. ENBREL acts by binding TNF, one of the dominant inflammatory cytokines or regulatory proteins that play an important role in both normal immune function and the cascade of reactions that causes t...ENBREL rapidly, significantly improved back pain, mobility, function in ankylosing spondylitis
...L. It has been used to treat over 180,000 patients worldwide across all indications since becoming commercially available four years ago. ENBREL acts by binding TNF, one of the dominant inflammatory cytokines or regulatory proteins that play an important role in both normal immune function and the cascade of r...Once weekly ENBREL significantly reduced rheumatoid arthritis pain, inflammation & improved function
...L. It has been used to treat over 180,000 patients worldwide across all indications since becoming commercially available four years ago. ENBREL acts by binding TNF, one of the dominant inflammatory cytokines or regulatory proteins that play an important role in both normal immune function and the cascade of ...ENBREL combo therapy inhibits joint damage progression, offers significant RA symptom relief
.... It has been used to treat over 180,000 patients worldwide since becoming commercially available four years ago. ENBREL acts by binding TNF, one of the dominant inflammatory cytokines or regulatory proteins that play an important role in both normal immune function and the cascade of reactions that causes th...Research breakthrough identifies 291 genes associated with asthma
...s will now become available to the public over the worldwide web," adds Dr. Rothenberg. "It's our hope that the release of these results will fuel the pharmaceutical industry, as well as other researchers, to take new approaches in asthma research," he says. In recent years, the incidence of asthma and alle...Changing global nitrogen cycle impacting human health, says Colorado University-led study
...nsumption. Meat consumption by humans has doubled worldwide since 1960, and excess meat consumption has been linked to numerous health issues, including heart disease. In addition, increased nitrogen pouring into the world's oceans can cause algal blooms that can harm fish, shellfish and humans. On land, ozo...160,000-year-old fossilized skulls from Ethiopia are oldest modern humans
... of the modern human comparison skulls came from a worldwide sample of skeletal remains in the collection of UC Berkeley's Hearst Museum of Anthropology. The most complete of the three new fossil skulls, probably that of a male, is slightly larger than the extremes seen in modern Homo sapiens, yet it bears oth...