New study confirms the ecological virtues of organic farming
...nitrate levels in drinking water can cause serious illness in humans, particularly small children. According to the PNAS study, nearly one of 10 domestic wells in the United States sampled between 1993 and 2000 had nitrate concentrations that exceeded the EPA's drinking water standards. To measure nitrate le...Hit-and-run injury to the brain
...st in disabling degree for six months or more, the illness may be diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The researchers followed the course of illness among 39 people diagnosed with acute glandular fever. Eight patients developed a 'post-infective fat...Genomics-based vaccine could prevent deadly cattle disease
...at's more, because T. parva launches a cancer-like illness inside the white blood cells of cattle, it may provide a model system for understanding the mechanics of cancer biology. But for Nene, who was born in Kenya and worked at ILRI for 15 years before coming to TIGR in 2001, the march against East Coast ...Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases
...taken together, contribute to an increased risk of illness or that increase the chances of a healthy life. A...to develop targeted treatments that either prevent illness from occurring or treat it effectively once it does." There are about 10 million common SNPs in the...Thousands of Scots families to help scientists improve nation's health
...yle factors cause cancer, heart disease and mental illness is launched today, Thursday, 2 February in Edinburgh. Leading doctors and scientists from the medical schools at the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow are driving forward the multi-million pound project, which will follow the h...Discovery of new gene for rare nerve disease may help doctors understand more common illnesses
.... Half of those who have CMT have one type of the illness due to a mutation in one particular gene, and the other half have one of many other types of the disease. The form of CMT shared by the three families researchers have studied is known as DI-CMT C. While CMT is rare, neuropathies in general are very ...Study using new imaging technology detects subtle brain changes in patients with Type 1 diabetes
...e that the stress of dealing with a severe chronic illness and its complications was the sole source of depression. That still is an important issue, but now we have evidence that something else might be at work." Equally important, by showing the effectiveness of VBM for observing and evaluating changes in...Vaccine provides 100 percent protection against avian flu virus in animal study
... critical to the influenza virus' ability to cause illness and death. Since the late 1990s, a number of outbr...lu in poultry. The virus caused severe respiratory illness in 18 people, six of whom died. Since that time, more than 170 cases of known H5N1 infection have oc...Screening blood for West Nile virus
...ening was unlikely to prevent any cases of serious illness from WNV, despite very large costs. In states with intense WNV transmission, screening is likely to prevent cases of serious illness, but at a substantial cost. Where WNV is common, screening blood only from May to November (during the mosquito seaso...Growth hormone, obesity can trigger sleep apnea in some kids
... hormone, still having weak muscle tone, having an illness and/or being obese tends to put you at risk for having really bad obstructive sleep apnea." The researchers urge doctors to monitor patients' sleep before and during treatment for signs of obstructive sleep apnea, such as loud snoring or abnormal da...Fat chance of becoming manic-depressive
... Bulgaria. Bipolar disorder is a major psychiatric illness affecting around two people in every 100. Tragically, around one in six people suffering from the condition will commit suicide. Mood-stabilising medications are typically prescribed to help control bipolar disorder. Lithium was the first mood-stabi...Preparing for flu pandemic: Pall breathing filters can help protect patients, healthcare workers
...dwide, with hospital staff likely to be reduced by illness and technological resources, such as mechanical ventilators in relatively short supply for meeting the increased patient demand. The WHO has stated that despite advance warning, the world is currently ill prepared to defend itself during a global fl...Retinol for combating leukemia cells
...ll known, not all patients suffering from the same illness respond in the same way to the same treatment. This is why lines of medical and pharmaceutical research increasingly mention the need to know the genetic characteristics of each patient in order to specify suitable treatment. In the case of retinamid...Genes in Uniform: Don't Test, Don't Tell
...charge benefits may be denied if the cause of the illness is determined to be of genetic origin. Current policies leave the military with immense discretion over how it will use the results of genetics tests at a time in which the number of diseases and conditions with known genetic bases are increasing ra...GlaxoSmithKline's rotavirus vaccine candidate shown effective
...s the leading recognized cause of diarrhea-related illness and death among infants and young children. Every year, rotavirus is associated with an estimated 25 million clinic visits, two million hospitalizations and more than 600,000 deaths worldwide among children younger than five years of age. In the Un...Scientists identify molecular structure of key viral protein
...om pneumonia, croup and bronchiolitis to cold-like illness and is responsible for many hospitalizations and deaths each year. The results will be published Jan. 5 by the journal Nature. Details of the protein's structure in its metastable state -- the state of the protein on the virus surface responsible fo...New weapon in battle against osteoporosis
...men, are estimated to suffer from this distressing illness in Germany alone. In recognition of the importance of her results, Dr. Meliha Karsak from the Bonn-based Life & Brain Center has recently been awarded the Osteology Prize of the German Society for Endocrinology, which entails a cash award of 8,000 eu...New UNC experiments show very weak chlorine solutions can kill noroviruses
..., the chief cause of outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness around the world, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study concludes. Researchers presented their findings over the weekend at the 2005 International Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, which ends today (Dec. 19) in Wa...Penicillin, amoxicillin: Step aside for strep throat treatment
... receive the older drugs relapse, prolonging their illness and forcing doctors to turn to even stronger drugs. Yet, said Pichichero, doctors across the land continue to prescribe ineffective medications. Studies have shown that approximately 60 to 80 percent of children treated for strep are prescribed amoxi......y to miss school days because of lower-respiratory illness than children who are free from the variation and ...rs who choose to smoke around children are causing illness and school absences, potentially affecting how well the children do in school." In the study, resea...