Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015
...d the international donor community have seriously underestimated the value of investing in health. The Commission on Macroeconomics and Health estimates that approximately 330 million disability-adjusted life years (one disability-adjusted life-year is defined as the loss of one year of healthy life to disease) co......8 cm although the height might have been slightly underestimated due to variation in vertebrate spacing and the use of bone casts from a potentially shorter individual. "Reconstruction is by definition artistic and carries an element of subjectivity," the authors caution. "Although the rib cage and pelvis are visu...Difference in talking louder, talking over noise depends on verbal cues, internal targets
...s." This large increase "may suggest that subjects underestimated the amount of pressure that would be required.They may have realized the need for more driving pressure as they moved through the utterance," the paper reported. Noise: In this more normal situation and without specific instructions on how to cope w...Satellite study doubles forest disturbance estimates in Brazilimpacts widespread
...orest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon has been underestimated by half. The study, conducted by lead author, Dr. Greg Asner, of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology and colleagues, is published in the October 21, 2005, issue of Science, and has far-reaching ecological impacts for the region an...Other highlights in the November 16 JNCI
...ncer rates in the United States have substantially underestimated the occurrence of endometrial carcinoma among women with a uterus in the United States because women who have had hysterectomies were included in the population at risk, a new study finds. In the United States, reported rates for endometrial carcino...New study finds malaria could play key role in mother-to-child transmission of HIV in pregnancy
...r-to-child HIV transmission in utero that has been underestimated so far," said Anfumbom Kfutwah of the Pasteur Center's virology laboratory. (Thursday, 3:10 p.m., Ebony Hall, Parallel Session 26, Presentation 169) He said scientists have been investigating a possible link between malaria and in utero HIV infectio...Slight increased risk of major birth defects associated with IVF
... "It's possible that focusing on our referral area underestimated the risk a little bit for IVF-conceived babies," Van Voorhis said. "In another consideration, some of the apparent increased risk in IVF babies could be the result of parents, doctors or both looking more carefully for birth defects, resulting in a s...Ulcerative colitis survey unmasks challenges for patients beyond devastating symptoms
...seriousness of UC and its impact on their lives is underestimated and misunderstood by friends, family members and employers. "The severity of symptoms, some of which may require hospitalization or surgery, the stress of financial and occupational concerns, as well as strained social and family relationships highl...Deep-rooted plants have much greater impact on climate than experts thought
... not been considered until now, people have likely underestimated the amount of carbon taken up by the Amazon and underestimated the impact of Amazonian deforestation on climate." As the largest forested area on the planet, the A...Birth defects: 8 million annually worldwide
... toll of birth defects in these countries has been underestimated for a variety of reasons, the report authors say. These include poor, if any, health statistics; lack of birth defects surveillance or registries; reliance on hospital-based, rather than population-based, studies; and limited diagnostic capability. ...New research finds surveys of larval-stage organisms effective for measuring marine biodiversity
...ogy at BU, discovered that biodiversity is greatly underestimated in the region of the Pacific known as the "Coral Triangle" and in the Red Sea. The study, which focused on coral reef-dwelling mantis shrimp (stomatopods), is the first to compare larval stage organisms to adults. Through DNA barcoding a new method...News tips from The Journal of Neuroscience
...n a test of recall, estrogen-treated subjects also underestimated the pain. 4. Strain-Dependent Regeneration without Nogo-A Leda Dimou, Lisa Schnell, Laura Montani, Carri Duncan, Marjo Simonen, Regula Schneider, Thomas Liebscher, Miriam Gullo, and Martin E. Schwab Nogo-A means what it says. This molecule acts as ...North Pole's ancient past holds lessons for future global warming
...he Arctic Ocean's freshwater past, the models have underestimated by at least 10 degrees how hot the Earth would have been during that time. "Current models under-estimate how warm the poles were back then and are not sensitive enough to greenhouse gases," Huber said. Another important discovery of the study was t...WHO expert to edit first international influenza title as pandemic fears grow
...fields. "The threat of a global pandemic cannot be underestimated and, while we do not wish to cause undue alarm, we must make sure that we are as well prepared as possible for any eventuality. "That is why we formed the ISIRV last year and why we are so delighted to play a key role in this new journal."...Brighter future for giant panda?
...ord said: "Our results found that previous surveys underestimated the population by more than 50%. These finding indicate that the species has a much better chance of long-term viability, although we must not become complacent, since the population size is still perilously low". The scientists anticipate that thes...Molecular censusing doubles estimate of key giant panda population
...searchers found that the most recent survey likely underestimated the giant panda population by more than 50%. Moreover, the population showed no genetic trace of a demographic "bottleneck" in the recent past, implying that the population may not have been diminished to such tiny numbers as commonly feared. If the...First-of-its-kind Italian school study finds high levels of prenatal alcohol exposure
... studies. Certainly FAS prevalence is most likely underestimated in both the U.S. and Western Europe. We need to rethink prevalence rates, and we need to do more active-case ascertainment studies, in school or other population-based studies." He praised in-school studies especially, and their ability to provide ...Genomatix wins BioChance grant worth $1.6 million
...Regulatory RNAs represent a very important but yet underestimated part of gene regulation. As Genomatix is especially emphasizing the network aspects, this project will directly enhance many parts of the Genomatix portfolio of solutions. For example, Genomatix already provides the most complete solution for microar...Define 'precautionary principle' to avoid clashes over biotechnology under World Trade rules
...ntal agreements, a reflection of past instances of underestimated and unanticipated impacts of new technologies perhaps most famously the industrial release of POPs, a family of organic pollutants subsequently shown to persist stubbornly in the environment and the use for refrigeration of chemicals later found to......d the rate of change but may in some respects have underestimated it. Measurements of carbon dioxide through facil...ny (or all) of the modelled contributions could be underestimated but that there is most uncertainty about the contribution made by ice-sheet melts. "Models of the po...