Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
Berkeley and Boston -- A new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Harvard School of Public Health finds that promoting cleaner, more efficient technologies for producing charcoal in Africa can save millions of lives and have significant climate change and development benefits. ...... The African continent, as well as many developing nations in Asia and Latin Ame...Charcoal and forest management could reduce greenhouse gas levels & save lives in Africa
Berkeley, CA & Boston, MA A study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Harvard School of Public Health, finds that promoting cleaner, more efficient technologies for producing charcoal in Africa can save millions of lives and have significant climate change and development benefits. The findings appear in the April 1, 2005 issue of the journal Science. ......The Afr...Multimillion-dollar pain research center funded at Wake Forest
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Better management of persistent nerve-injury pain through a better understanding of how pain medicines operate is the goal of a new $6.1 million research center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. ... The Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain is funded by a grant from the National Institute for Neurologic Diseases and Stroke...UNC, Wake Forest scholars work to reduce crimes against Hispanics in North Carolina
CHAPEL HILL Crimes against Hispanics -- mostly hard-working people who come to North Carolina trying to improve life for their families and themselves -- jumped as much as 500 percent between 1993 and 1998, according to some estimates. ......Now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University have teamed up to closely examine why Hispanics, whose percen...Impact of 2002 Canadian forest fires felt 700 miles away in Baltimore, Maryland
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analyzed how airborne particulate matter from forest fires in the Canadian providence of Quebec traveled more than 700 miles to homes in Baltimore, Md. The study authors found a dramatic increase in outdoor and indoor fine particulate matter an atmospheric pollutant that is harmful to people with respiratory diseases in Baltimo...Envisat Symposium report day 3: Satellites supporting Kyoto - our future is in our forests
Under discussion during Wednesday's Envisat Symposium is how researchers use this ability to peer further through time, addressing the leading scientific question of our time the likely extent of climate change. ...Human activities have been changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere, leading to an increased retaining of heat popularly termed the 'Greenhouse Effect'. ...... Successfully...Siberian forest fires partly to blame for Seattle area violating EPA ozone limit
Smoke from giant Siberian forest fires pushed one measure of Seattle's air quality past federal environmental limits on at least one day in 2003, new research shows....... And the rapidly changing climate in northern latitudes makes it likely such fires will have increasingly serious ramifications for air quality all along the West Coast of North America, said Dan Jaffe, an environmental scienti...Experimental drug improves sleep in older patients, Wake Forest Baptist study shows
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Older people with insomnia slept better and longer after taking an experimental sleep medication, according to research at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.... W. Vaughn McCall, M.D., a sleep expert, presented his findings today (May 6) at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in New York City. The study showed the drug, called eszopiclone,...Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist use Botox to treat CP
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Botox, or botulinum toxin, offers a new, non-surgical option for improving the upper extremity function of children with cerebral palsy (CP), report researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. L. Andrew Koman, M.D., orthopedic surgeon at Brenner Children's Hospital, and his team recently completed a study using Botox to treat muscle spasticity of the arm a...Utah researchers hope hunt for medicinal drugs helps save Papua New Guinea rainforests
SALT LAKE CITY--Two University of Utah College of Pharmacy faculty members will lead an international effort to search the diverse plant life of Papua New Guinea for drugs to treat tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and other diseases.... ... "The objective is to use drug discovery as a means of providing...Forest mapping from space supports Kyoto Protocol
The official title of the gathering is the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP 9). It is the latest in a series of UNFCCC meetings where signatories meet to discuss various aspects of implementing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol as well as settling on future actions to come. ...ESA is hosting a side event on the evening...Latino farm workers cant afford sufficient food Wake Forest study shows
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Almost half (47 percent) of Latino migrant and seasonal farm workers in North Carolina can't afford enough food for their families and 15 percent have to resort to measures such as cutting the size of their child's meals or not eating for a whole day, suggests research conducted by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. ..."Ironically, farm workers have an essential r...Wake Forest pediatric heart surgeon to repair heart defect on live Webcast
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. A pediatric heart surgeon at Brenner Children's Hospital will use video-assisted surgery to repair a heart defect in a one-year-old boy during a live Webcast from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center at 5 p.m. Oct. 23. ...The outpatient procedure which requires only three or four small incisions in the chest replaces major surgery to make the repair. It is offered...Wake Forest researchers find brain region 'exquisitely' sensitive to alcohol
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Wake Forest University School of Medicine scientists are closing in on why drinking alcohol before bedtime paradoxically improves sleep that evening, but disrupts sleep during the early morning hours....... In a presentation at the Research Society on Alcoholism in San Francisco, Dwayne W. Godwin, Ph.D. explained that a key brain region involved in sleep, the thalamus, is...Wake Forest establishes Maya Angelou Research Center on minority health
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest University School of Medicine has established the Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health to develop methods to close the health gap between minorities and the rest of the United States population. ...The medical school recently received two significant grants to assist in establishing the center: a grant of $500,000 from The Duke Endowment and a grant of...WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center today begins enrolling healthy men age 55 and older in the largest-ever prostate cancer prevention study, to determine if selenium and vitamin E prevent prostate cancer. ... Launched by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and a network of researchers known as the Southwest Oncology Group, the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Preve...Smokers more likely to experience impotence, Wake Forest study shows
. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Men with high blood pressure who smoke are 26 times more likely to have erectile dysfunction --impotence -- than nonsmokers, John Spangler, M.D., M.P.H., of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center told the American Society of Hypertension today (Saturday, May 19,2001) in San Francisco. . Erectile dysfunction, or impotence, is the inability of a man to achieve...Wake Forest first in world to perform new brain tumor treatment
.WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Physicians at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are the first in the world to treat a brain tumor patient with the newly FDA-approved GliaSite Radiation Therapy System (RTS). The GliaSite RTS delivers site-specific, internal radiation to malignant brain tumors, treating the target area while minimizing exposure to healthy tissue. .Stephen B. Tatter, M.D., Ph.D...Wake Forest professor to evaluate managed care patient protection laws
. Winston-Salem, NC - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a $583,964 grant to Wake Forest University School of Medicine to support an evaluation of managed care patient protection laws, under the direction of Mark A. Hall, J.D. . "This information will assist lawmakers in crafting and improving patient protection laws and their implementation and enforcement," said Hall, who is...Wake Forest study shows women suffer from 'gender gap' in treatment of severe psoriasis
. . . WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - When it comes to the treatment of severe psoriasis, there is no equality between the sexes. . Men have enjoyed the benefit of powerful drugs that address the disease, but women of childbearing age have gone without, according to dermatologists at the Westwood Squibb Center for Dermatology Research at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.. In an article...Wake Forest study finds both prevention and treatment needed to control heart disease
. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Both prevention and drug treatment strategies are needed to control cholesterol and reduce the risk of death from heart disease, a Wake Forest University investigator reported today (Nov. 10) at the American Heart Association meeting in Atlanta.. . David C. Goff, Jr..,M.D., Ph.D, and his colleagues looked at total cholesterol records in people born as long ago as 1887,...Wake Forest to coordinate huge national study to prevent cardiovascular disease in diabetes
. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--Wake Forest University School of Medicine has.been selected as the national coordinating center for a major study aimed at.preventing cardiovascular disease in diabetes. The study will involve 10,000.patients and last at least nine years. . And the school will serve as a clinical center network in the study,.coordinating 10 clinics in five states. Two are i.... WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- A major seven-year national study on whether.weight control can slow the advance of heart disease in persons with diabetes.will be headquartered at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, under a.$40.6 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and.Kidney Disorders.. . The grant, by far the largest in the school's history, includ...New Wake Forest study to pin down soy's active ingredient
. WINSTON-SALEM -- Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.are beginning a five-year study to determine which ingredients in soybeans are.the active ones in protecting against heart disease, stroke, cancer and.osteoporosis.. . Under a new $2.4 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood.Institute, the research team, headed by Thomas B. Clarkson, D.V.M., wi...Wake Forest first to apply innovative brain cancer treatment
. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.recently became the first medical center to use an innovative treatment system.for brain cancer known as the GliaSite Radiation Therapy System (RTS).. . The Medical Center is one of five National Cancer Institute.(NCI)-affiliated facilities conducting clinical trials of the investigational.device. Developed by...Wake Forest researchers develop new technique to diagnose narrowed heart arteries
. Winston-Salem, N.C. -- Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist.Medical Center are the first in the world to report the successful use of.magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to diagnose significant blockages in blood.vessels leading to the heart. This is the first "non-invasive" test to visualize.blockages and determine if they require treatment.. . MRI is just as accurate at d...New Cancer Procedure At Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Offers Hope
.WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is the only.facility in the Southeast offering a new procedure for malignant tumors.previously thought untreatable. . .The procedure is called Tumor Ablation using Radiofrequency Energy. It involves.inserting a special needle into the tumor, using ultrasound equipment as a.guide, to destroy the tissue and obliterate the tumor....Americans Skip Dialysis; Swedes And Japanese Don't, Wake Forest Study Shows
.WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- American dialysis patients are far more likely to.skip kidney dialysis treatments than patients in either Sweden or Japan, a Wake.Forest University Baptist Medical Center physician reports in the April 7 issue.of the Journal of the American Medical Association.. . Anthony J. Bleyer, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine.(nephrology) said that Swedes and Ja...Soy May Decrease Cancer Risks, Wake Forest Researcher Says
. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Dietary soy may reduce the risk of cancer by.counteracting the cell-proliferating effect of estrogen-replacement therapy, a.Wake Forest University researcher reported today (Jan. 25, 1999) at the meeting.of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.. . J. Mark Cline, D.V.M., Ph.D., assistant professor of comparative.medicine, said that studi...Elderly Patients May Be Undertreated For High Cholesterol, Wake Forest Doctor Says
. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- In an era when many physicians believe that.elderly patients are overmedicated, a new study in Winston-Salem and elsewhere.finds that many elderly patients with high cholesterol levels are undertreated --.even those who had a history of coronary heart disease.. Investigators monitoring participants in the Cardiovascular Health Study.(CHS) found that less th...International Study Finds Statins Raise Good Cholesterol, Wake Forest Physician Reports
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--A new international study shows a class of drugs.known as statins raises levels of the good cholesterol, John R. Crouse III,.M.D., reported in a presentation today to the European Society of Cardiology in.Vienna. . Crouse, professor of internal medicine (endocrinology/metabolism) and.director of the Preventive Cardiology Program at the Wake Forest University.Baptist M...