University of Illinois scientist helping processors keep E. coli out of meat
...high temperatures can be dangerous. "You're always safe cooking red meat to 160 degrees, but if you have questions about food safety, check the USDA's Meat and Poultry Hotline at www.usda.gov ," she said. "The meat industry has been very proactive in attempting to prevent contamination of their product...Heavy smoking cuts women's chance of pregnancy -- even with donated oocytes
...ks of multiple births, as multiple births are less safe for mothers or babies."...Common cause of heart disease, diabetes may be treatable with malaria drug
...n University. "We already know that chloroquine is safe and well-tolerated, and our mouse results suggest ...it may be possible to go even lower--and that it's safe and effective," Semenkovich says. "We're also looking into the possibility of screening for the loss...St. Joseph's provides tissue processing services to researchers in hopes of finding a cure
...oseph's Hospital and Medical Center is providing a safe and vital research component to scientists in hopes of finding new treatments and cures for a variety of disorders. The Human Specimen Procurement Service (HSPS) at St. Joseph's matches researchers with patient-donated human specimens for study. T...Male contraception: One door opens, another closes
...es, researchers have found that a low dose is both safe and effective in rats. Without this targeting mechanism, only much higher doses are effective--but they are harmful to the body's organs. Dr. Diana Blithe of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, a long-time funder of the Adjudin research, says ...... [insecticide shampoos]. Hot air is an effective, safe treatment and one to which lice are unlikely to evolve resistance." The device blows warm air through a flexible hose, which has a rake-like hand piece on the end. It apparently kills lice and nits by drying them out, not by heating them. C...U of M study shows treatment of periodontal disease does not decrease risk for preterm birth
...atment for periodontal disease during pregnancy is safe and effective, it does not directly affect a woman...tudy showed that dental checkups and treatment are safe and effective at the appropriate times during pregnancy."...Conservative forces hampering progress in sexual and reproductive health
...available to prevent unintended pregnancy, provide safe abortions, help women safely through pregnancy and childbirth, and prevent and treat sexually transmitted infections. But opposition from conservative groups is hampering the provision of these life-saving strategies in almost all countries. The auth...Access to safe, legal abortion improves the health of women
When abortion is made legal, safe and easily accessible, women's health rapidly impr...olleagues. They say that abortion needs to be made safe and easily accessible, as well as legal. The authors highlight the case of South Africa, where abort...Learning global solutions to local problems
...r due to the poor quality and inadequate supply of safe drinking water -- a problem perhaps to be tackled by an agricultural engineer. Economist Urvi Neelakantan was one of the junior faculty members in the Global Academy. She said that she went on the trip knowing very little about Mexico. "We learned ...ICON issues review of nanotechnology practices
...ices so that a global dialogue can move forward on safe handling practices."...Rush and UCSF found gene therapy appeared to reduce symptoms of Parkinson's by 40 percent
...gly demonstrate that gene transfer may represent a safe and effective means of solving this age-old problem," said Raymond Bartus....InHealth awards two research grants to Stanford University
...a significant impact on the timely availability of safe and effective technologies for patients and practitioners," Howgill said....New research to cut animal testing
...ely, such tests have poor specificity and a lot of safe compounds are also wrongly identified as potential carcinogens. This means that animal testing is still carried out, in case such compounds turn out to be safe. "The testing process developed at Gentronix has proven very reliable at telling us whe...A new approach to the treatment of malaria in pregnant women in West Africa
...m malaria in west Africa has been found to be both safe and effective, following a randomised trial carrie...ca and there is a need to find new drugs which are safe and well tolerated. Most countries in Africa are adopting artesunate-based combination therapy (ACT)...Caterpillars tell us how bacteria cause disease
...rtebrates are helping to provide a cheap, easy and safe way to identify the genes which help bacteria cause infections in humans. Researchers from the University of Bath have discovered a way to sort through large numbers of bacterial gene sequences by testing them in caterpillars to see how their immune ...Carnegie Mellon scientists use 'green' approach to transform plastics manufacturing
PITTSBURGH--Using environmentally safe compounds like sugars and vitamin C, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have vastly improved a popular technology used to generate a diverse range of industrial plastics for applications ranging from targeted drug delivery systems to resilient ...Rescuing injured hearts by enhancing regeneration
...on after injury. Second is the need to develop a safe delivery method. Because FGF1 stimulates angiogenesis, it has the potential for serious side effects if it goes to places other than the heart, possibly promoting tumor growth, for example. And the p38 MAP kinase inhibitor has been shown to damage th...Researchers develop technologies to devour food pathogens
..., the methods have the common goal of keeping food safe and preventing people from getting sick, and have each progressed to the point where they could be commercialized, Linton said. Patents are pending on both technologies, and the laser technology is available for licensing. Linton says there is a def...Promising antiobesity drug fails to produce clinically meaningful weight loss
...e combination of drugs," Heymsfield said. "Finding safe and effective antiobesity drugs is not unlike the challenge and complexity of sending the space shuttle into orbit." MK-0557 blocks brain receptors that respond to the hunger factor called neuropeptide Y (NPY). NPY, whose role in driving appetite He...