Ethnicity plays a role in neonatal deaths
...e) in the neonatal intensive care units (NICU). Of grave concern is the noted elevation in mortality rate in the NICU among infants of South Asian (East Indian) origin, which is over three times that of Caucasian infants. It was also found that Aboriginal males and East Asian females had significantly grea...Vets seeing more horses with nutritional issues this year
... that was too high in selenium. This can have very grave consequences for horses. Owners also may have fed their horses poor quality hay from Missouri or other places, which led to deficiencies in vitamin E, another very dangerous problem for horses. Selenium is a naturally occurring element and is an es...Study warns climate change and deforestation will lead to declines in global bird diversity
...t both climate change and habitat destruction pose grave threats to many of the worlds birds and, by analogy, to other species as well," says David Wilcove, a professor of ecology, evolutionary biology and public affairs at Princeton University and a co-author of the study. "Neither problem can be addresse...Creation of an international industrial chair in life cycle assessment
... all the stages of its life cycle " from cradle to grave ", from the extraction of raw materials up to its end of life, including all the intermediate stages: production, transport and consumption. In addition to production cost reduction related to the decrease in energy and resource consumption, one of......oisoned bodies to tell their tales from beyond the grave by bringing invisible deeds to light by recourse to the test tube. Yet poison detection in practice was no easy matter and its findings were subjected to searching questions by an anxious, and often sceptical, public. At no time did these new scient...ESA launches new project to protect biodiversity
... ecosystems, species, populations and genes, is of grave importance for sustaining the planet's six billion people. The loss of biodiversity threatens our food supplies, energy and medicines. For instance, up to 80% of the world's population currently relies on plant and animal-based medicines for their pr...After North Korea test, what can be done to reduce the growing nuclear threat?
...ope for a future when world leaders recognize this grave danger, taking the actions necessary to defeat it," commented volume editor Graham Allison. "On current trendlines, however, the likelihood of failure is greater than that of success. We hope to remind the world just how horrible nuclear anarchy woul...Popular pill for inducing labor found effective, but concerns remain
...e United States, there are practitioners that have grave concern about the use of the medication without FDA labeling." Still, Wing envisions a day when, in appropriate circumstances, a safe and effective regimen of oral misoprostol can be prescribed on an outpatient basis around a woman's due date. "What ...Tropical dry forests receive international recognition
...is in as much danger as its popular cousin yet its grave situation continues to be ignored. Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa is hoping to change that. Sanchez-Azofeifa is the director of the newly formed TROPI-DRY, a research network on tropical dry forests housed in the Faculty of Science. The Inter American......fiveand the elderly are the most likely to develop grave health problems iftheir condition leads to dehydration. "Patients with diarrhea can losedangerous amounts of fluids," said Beate Illek, Ph.D., AssociateScientist, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute and co-authorof the study. In severe cas...Institute of Medicine news: Quarantine stations at ports of entry
...general and bioterrorism in particular have become grave concerns.......hat other colobus species also are under extremely grave threat. "All evidence tells us that the first extinctions among Africa's primates will occur among the red colobus," said Thomas Butynski, director of CI's Eastern Africa Biodiversity Hotspots Program. "Miss Waldron's red colobus in Ghana and Ivo...Ebola virus: from wildlife to dogs
...ting in 361 deaths. Ebola virus thus constitutes a grave public health problem in these countries. No medicine or vaccine is currently available, only prevention and rapid control of epidemics by isolation of disease victims can limit its spreading. Since 2001, IRD research scientists and their partners (1...Environmental crisis forging strange bedfellows
... people are realizing that the situation is now so grave that we have to reach out to communities other than just the scientists and environmentalists," says Stephen Scharper, a professor of environmental studies at U of T's Innis College and anthropology at U of T at Mississauga. "For example, renowned en...Scientists will discuss remarkable advances in whale research at the annual meeting of AAAS
... filmmaker Jacques Cousteau could climb out of his grave and go to a seminar, it would be this one, because when he made his last whale movie, he knew about whales only what he and others could see,'' Palumbi concludes. ''Now we know a huge amount that he never knew, because of all this new technology. As ...