Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...sative agent of anthrax, continues to pose serious threat as a bioterrorism or biowarfare agent. Although vaccines currently available are highly effective, multiple doses are required therefore necessitating antibiotic therapy for those individuals exposed prior to scheduled completion. Monoclonal anti...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- October 11, 2006
...global climate change becomes more visible and its threat becomes firmly etched in the public's mind, why it is happening is becoming a less important scientific question than what can be done about it, according to an article scheduled for publication in the Oct. 16 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, th...Mass vaccination unnecessary in the event of a large bioterrorist US smallpox attack
...tood it. This research has helped us demystify the threat a bit." Although smallpox has been eliminated as a...tegory A" agent, presenting the greatest potential threat for harming public health if developed and used as a bioterrorist agent. Smallpox is caused by the ...A new approach to the treatment of malaria in pregnant women in West Africa
...s authors, comments: 'Malaria in pregnancy poses a threat to both the mother and the foetus. Previous studies had already found amodiaquine alone or in combination with SP to be an effective treatment of malaria in children in west Africa, but our research confirms that this is also true for pregnant women....After North Korea test, what can be done to reduce the growing nuclear threat?
...tions have been raised about proliferation and the threat of nuclear terrorism. Is nuclear terrorism preventable? What steps has the United States already taken to avoid a nuclear catastrophe and what steps should be taken in the future? Scholars, scientists, and policymakers, including Graham Allison, Sa...Software tool helps protect Nation's drinking water: Now available in all 50 states
...roduced into a drinking water source, knowing what threat it posed to the public would be essential for incident commanders who direct first responders to mount an effective emergency response. "Incident commanders need timely and accurate information to guide their decisions on deploying first responders...'Urban Wildlife Management' book something to crow about
...pulations of coyotes that may prey on pets, or the threat of contracting avian influenza from migrating birds, he noted. "Finally we have a book on urban wildlife management," Adams said.......C, agrees."It is myopic to focus on the designated threat organisms," he says, "especially when the bigger threat is probablyfrom natural disease." A better approach, these critics say, would be to aim for broad-sp...Identifying the 'nuclear' in nuclear medicine as high benefit
...al for improving patient care. Terrorists use the threat of radiation--of setting off a "dirty bomb" (radioactivity packaged with conventional explosives) or an improvised (crude) nuclear device--to create a climate of fear, says Links. From a public health perspective, this is more a psychological weapon ...Alaskans feel the heat of global warming
...lieve global warming is happening and is a serious threat to the state. The statewide survey, with funding f...f Alaskans report that global warming is a serious threat to themselves and their families, their local communities, Alaska as a whole, the United States, oth...Study suggests earlier crop plantings could curb future yields
...this trend plateaus, which could then increase the threat to our food supply." The Corn Belt is a major agricultural region of the U.S. Midwest, where corn is a dominant crop. Centered in Iowa and Illinois, the belt extends into Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Indi...Reconstructed 1918 influenza virus induces immune response that fails to protect
...o treat other types of viral infections that are a threat to public health. This could help us develop more targeted therapies to combat pathogenic infections, including different types of influenzas or perhaps avian influenza."...Predicting species abundance in the face of habitat loss
Habitat loss poses the greatest threat to the survival of a species, and often precipitates the demise of top predators and wide-ranging animals, like the Siberian tiger and the orangutan. Any hope of recovering such critically endangered species depends on understanding what drives chang...Earth's most diverse marine life found off Indonesia's Papua Province
...the sea for their livelihoods which now are under threat from a plan to transfer fishing pressures from Indonesia's over-fished western seas to the east toward Papua province. "The coastal villages we surveyed were mostly engaged in subsistence fishing, farming and gathering, and they require healthy mar...HHMI hosts international scientists at Janelia Farm Research Campus
...hylococcus aureus, which is becoming an increasing threat in hospitals and in the community. She will report on her lab's efforts to design new drugs based on antibiotic-resistance mechanisms, to treat antibiotic-resistant Staph infections. Valerie Mizrahi, who was recently named South Africa's woman scien...Top jaundice experts present latest treatment information during live Web cast from Pittsburgh
...prevent this common newborn disorder from posing a threat of brain damage. Neonatal jaundice is a yellowing of the skin and eyes caused by elevated bilirubin levels in the blood. It affects 60 percent of full-term infants and 80 percent of preterm infants in the first several days after birth. Extremely hi...Symposium 'Environmental Change in Siberia -- Insights From Earth Observation and Modeling'
...ople's spines may not hold true for long given the threat posed to them by global warming according to experts at the University of Leicester. The Climate and Land Surface Systems Interaction Centre at the University of Leicester is hosting an international scientific Symposium on "Environmental change in......-carbonate that moves readily underground and is a threat to water supplies....Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world
...ble and affordable to the developing world. "The threat of non-communicable diseases in developing countries has been largely ignored by the international community but these are now reaching epidemic proportions in many places, creating a difficult burden for poor nations. As with many other health tech......bitat destruction continues to pose the number one threat to biodiversity, many mainland habitats are beginning to resemble islands, with isolated pockets of wildlife separated by degraded or developed lands. Thus, island species may serve as a model for understanding how mainland species will adapt to the ...