Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
...fuels an unlikely option. "If you switch everyone off the dirtiest fuels to burning clean fossil fuels, you get the biggest health benefit," acknowledged Daniel Kammen, the Class of 1935 Distinguished Chair of Energy at UC Berkeley and a co-author of the paper. "But the economic cost to most African nat...Charcoal and forest management could reduce greenhouse gas levels & save lives in Africa
... fuels an unlikely option. "If you switch everyone off the dirtiest fuels to burning clean fossil fuels, you get the biggest health benefit," acknowledged Daniel Kammen, the Class of 1935 Distinguished Chair of Energy at UC Berkeley and a co-author of the paper. He continued, "But the economic cost to mo...Exercise-induced shortness of breath not always caused by asthma
...ggest benefits to these patients were getting them off medication that was not doing them any good and eliminating the anxiety that is often associated with shortness of breath," Weinberger said. Weinberger noted that the treadmill test with continuous respiratory and cardiac monitoring used in the UI st...U of M researcher says Viagra may cause permanent vision loss in some men
..."stroke of the eye," occurs when blood flow is cut off to the optic nerve, which injures the nerve and re... constrict the arteries. This constriction may cut off the blood flow to the optic nerve, especially in people with a low cup to disk ratio, where the bloo...Corrected metabolism leads to health benefits and weight loss
...e seen first-hand, numerous SureSlim clients going off medication for serious ailments including diabetes, high cholesterol, arthritis, high blood pressure and depression, just to name a few." Each individually-designed eating plan is formulated to address each person's specific health issues. For e...Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
...s refuse to support such efforts and instead write off death and illness as "just deserts" for illegal behavior, said William Martin, senior fellow in religion and public policy at the Baker Institute. In a research paper posted this month on the Baker Institute Web site, Martin paraphrases the message ...Specific test key to determine whether or not allergy symptoms are really allergy-related
...ass and trees. IgE is an antibody that helps fight off toxins and also triggers allergic reactions. "Part of the reason that the majority of family physicians don't use the IgE test is that managed care guidelines generally don't call for this kind of test," Szeinbach said. "It needs to become a standard...Aloe vera: Natural, home remedy treats canker and cold sores
...get the gel out of the plant, use scissors to snip off an inch of the leaf. Squeeze the leaf that was snipped off. The gel will squeeze out....Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
...iding with numerous fragments of ice seen breaking off from the centre of its coastward side as the iceberg was worked loose. Now prevailing currents are transporting it into deeper and out of McMurdo Sound, right past the far end of the Drygalski ice tongue. The latest Envisat satellite image shows the...NHS stop-smoking services are insufficient to deliver national smoking targets
...ng of the gap between the healthiest and the worst off in England. In California, says the author, heavy early investment in smoking cessation services produced disappointing population results. Nicotine replacement therapy and buproprion are among the most cost-effective treatments for individuals, but...PillCam enables study of esophagus by swallowing a pill
...ery time, post-procedural transportation and a day off from work. By contrast, the PillCam ESO study takes 20 minutes, requires no sedation and provides immediate recovery, said Dr. Ulrich, who heads UT Southwestern's endoscopy services. Clinical trials already have shown that its accuracy is comparable ...Protecting human subjects focus of national FDA conference at UH
... open the conference at 9 a.m., April 21. To kick off day one, OHRP Director Bernard A. Schwetz, D.V.M, will deliver the first keynote address "Aspects of the Human Subjects Enterprise." Following, will be David A. Lepay, M.D., senior adviser for clinical science at the FDA, who will provide insight t...Mountaineering doctors hike medicine to new heights with Xtreme Everest
...006. For the big push, the expedition plans to set off in the spring of 2007 before the monsoon season, with a 'window in the weather' of only a few days when conditions are good enough to attempt the summit. Along with the usual climbing dangers of rockfalls and avalanches, the group will be risking med...Compound may help prevent diabetes in fast-food fans
...USDA. "Obviously, the less fat you eat, the better off you are. But if you're going to eat high fat foods, then adding HPMC to it might help limit the damage," says Wallace H. Yokoyama, Ph.D., a research chemist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service in Albany, Calif. "In our studies with hamsters, ad...Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges
...there's nothing really effective in getting people off methamphetamine," says Janda, who believes that highly specific methamphetamine antibodies can be made in a laboratory and then used as a clinical treatment for addiction. In theory, antibodies to the drug could be mass produced and administered at t...Mayo Clinic discovers 'new pathway' against pancreatic cancer
...er cell survival -- in effect, turn this regulator off -- and when we do, the pancreatic cancer cells und...ibitors to block their action, effectively turning off molecules that promote pancreatic cancer growth. The finding may be applied to make pancreatic ce...GlaxoSmithKline receives unanimous favorable recommendation by FDA Advisory Committee for Boostrix
...mmunity from childhood vaccination generally wears off after five to 10 years, leaving many adolescents susceptible to this highly contagious disease. If approved, Boostrix would add a pertussis component to the routine tetanus/diphtheria booster currently recommended for adolescents. The committee's f...Newly discovered pathway might help in design of cancer drugs
...medications such as mitomycin c -- work: They kill off tumors by linking up with the cancer cells' DNA and sticking its genetic code together so it dies. Our discovery takes that a step further, establishing that there is a way to efficiently create this type of damage by modifying the DNA itself." In th...In solution, tiny magnetic wires scatter light
...s can command the direction in which light bounces off tiny, magnetic wires that sway like matchsticks in thick, slow-moving solutions. Announcing her finding here today (March 13) at the 229th meeting of the American Chemical Society, University of Wisconsin-Madison materials chemist Anne Bentley descr......nts in 2003. "Often, the eye bank cell counts were off by more than 10 percent," Dr. Lass says. "We believe these data will trigger the development of new methods, improved training and universal standards to ensure that healthier corneas are being transplanted."...