At AAAS: Biocomplexity panel on human-nature interactions
...ad areas:biogeochemical cycles, genomic studies in environmental scienceand engineering, developing instrumentation and the use andimpacts of materials in engineering and society. According to NSF Director Rita Colwell, "Biocomplexityinvestigations will provide a more complete understanding ofnatural processes an...Malnutrition and misery will be 'unimaginable' by 2054
...y conserve cropland, fresh water, energy and other environmental resources," Pimentel said. "We must focus on developing appropriate, ecologically safe agricultural technologies for increasing food production. Either we are brave enough to limit our numbers or nature will impose its limits on our numbers and exi...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2004 class of inventors
...s, mechanized farming, search and rescue, tracking environmental changes, and more. John Gibbon (1903-1973) Heart-Lung Machine Gibbon's development of the heart-lung machine made possible the first successful open-heart operation in 1953. This invention allowed surgeons to perform operations once deemed too risky...Early fevers associated with lower allergy risk later in childhood
... also lower allergy risk. "If we can uncover which environmental factors affect allergic development and why, it may be possible to immunize children against these conditions," she says....U.S. push for diesel poses risk to public health, scientists say
...id Mark Jacobson, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and lead author of the study published January 30 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters . He added, ''It is a surprise to me that this proposal was made before its possible effect on public health was evaluated.'' The main componen...Study in children challenges primary theory for 'stroke belt'
...llerton said. "We might look predominantly toward environmental or cultural factors, such as differences in water or soil, diet, socioeconomic status and genetics." Childhood stroke is relatively rare, each year occurring in about two to three of every 100,000 children, Fullerton said. "The overall rates are lo...Understanding the autoimmune response in type 1 diabetes
...ore than 25 years researchers have searched for an environmental agent or event that triggers this autoimmune response. Past research has suggested that T cells that react to islet beta cells can contribute to the autoimmune response in diabetic patients and also play a part in self-tolerance in healthy individual...Multiple sclerosis not as progressive or disabling as once thought
... suspect the damage may be caused by a virus or by environmental pathogens. No one knows why, but women are slightly more likely to get MS than men, and northern states' populations face greater risk than southern states' populations. A November 2003 study published in Neurology by the same Mayo Clinic researc...American College of Chest Physicians to offer developing nations free access to medical journal
... increasing tobacco use, occupational hazards, and environmental pollution," said Richard S. Irwin, MD, FCCP, President of the American College of Chest Physicians. "Through HINARI, the ACCP empowers medical professionals to improve the respiratory health of their societies and embrace the concept of patient-focus...Ebola virus a threat to great ape populations
... carrier animal facilitated by a particular set of environmental conditions. Infection of humans occurs in a second...y at times of seasonal changes. However, the exact environmental conditions that foster their emergence are not known. Neither is the host, the natural reservoir of ...Farm-raised salmon presents greater health risks
...he study. Ronald A. Hites, professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University, is the study's lead author. The scientists analyzed more than 2 metric tons of farmed and wild salmon, gathered from North America, South America, and Europe, to test for carcinogens. About 600 individual whole salmon ...Promising drug fails to thwart fatal lung disease in large trial
...rs. PF has multiple causes including exposure to environmental contaminants, such as cigarette smoke and asbestos, and genetic predisposition. The prevalence of the disease is unknown according the National Institutes of Health, but estimates indicate the numbers are rising with as many as 15,000 new cases of id...Study on toxic exposures in urban environments
...or of the TEACH project and associate professor of environmental health sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health and a member of the Earth Institute. "Even though the levels of Mn, Cr and Fe observed in the subway system were more than 100 times greater than those observed in ambient and home indoor settin...Study suggests widespread environmental presence of Enterobacter sakazakii
...acterial colonisation; however the degree of wider environmental contamination is unknown. Chantal Kandhai from Wa...cused on improving hygiene practices, coupled with environmental monitoring and end-product testing for the organism. Since powdered infant formula is not sterile an...Midlife brain crisis spawns late-life Alzheimer's
... Finally, there may be ways to address genetic and environmental factors that accelerate the degeneration process. Commentaries accompanying the paper were written by Drs. Francine M. Benes, Harvard Medical School; Heiko Braak and Kelly Del Tredici, Frankfurt/Main, Germany; James R. Connor, Penn State University C...U of MN study first to detect tobacco-specific carcinogens in non-smokers in public setting
...acco-specific carcinogens in nonsmokers exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in a public setting, in this case a casino. (A previous study by the University of Minnesota examined tobacco carcinogens in nonsmoking women who were exposed to secondhand smoke at home.) "Environmental tobacco smoke in restaura...... said Sioutas, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering in the USC School of Engineering. More... of researchers from USC's department of civil and environmental engineering, as well as from UCLA's School of Public Health, Sioutas made detailed measurements show...Passive tobacco smoke increases complications in children with sickle cell disease
...f Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. "Exposure to environmental or passive tobacco smoke increased the risk of sic...l disease. Each patient or family completed an environmental survey and researchers recorded the number of sickle cell crises -- vaso-occlusive pain episodes, ac...Antibiotic use on swine farms increases efficiency, profits
...nure is generated and you see a reduction of other environmental concerns." Antibiotics have been used widely at subtherapeutic levels for livestock production since the 1950s, but such use has been questioned in recent years because of the rise of antibiotic resistance in human and veterinary medicine. A ......at, "From trade to telemedicine, from education to environmental protection, we have in our hands, on our desktops and in the skies above, the ability to improve standards of living for millions upon millions of people. But an open, inclusive information society that benefits all people will not emerge without sus...