Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
... It also presents an opportunity for the developed world to invest in the African continent, as many promised at the January meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and as promoted by British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the recent G-8 summit." "If the rapid urbanization continues - and...International breast cancer prevention study launches in the United States and Canada
...ic health issue every 30 seconds somewhere in the world a woman is diagnosed with this disease," says Dr. ...ng used to treat breast cancer in women around the world and results from a study published in a March 2004 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine demo...Early onset of puberty the EU gets serious
Children in Europe and other parts of the world are entering puberty at an ever younger age. The reasons for this are unknown, and the EU is now financing a major three-year project called PIONEER in a determined effort to get to the root of the problem. Two Swedish research groups are involved in...National Academies advisory: May 2 Symposium on International Science Policy
Many of the issues facing the world -- such as emerging infectious diseases, global climate change, energy sources, human migration, and the problems of megacities and environmental sustainability -- are fundamentally international and do not respect national borders. Confronting these...March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...esources prudently, staying engaged in the natural world to help prevent the collapse of the biological systems upon which all we all depend. Ecological Change and the Future of the Human Species: Can Physicians Make a Difference By Roger A. Rosenblatt, M.D., M.P.H., M.F.R., et al Effectiveness of Can...Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
...entual eradication of polio throughout most of the world is credited to Dr. Salk and his Pitt team of researchers, who developed the first polio vaccine. It was Salk's mentor, Thomas Francis, Jr., of the University of Michigan, who led the nationwide clinical trial of the vaccine that began April 26, 1954,...Acupuncture found to lower elevations in blood pressure
... the Samueli Center and study leader. "The Western world is waiting for a clear scientific basis for using acupuncture, and we hope that this research ultimately will lead to the integration of ancient healing practices into modern medical treatment." The study appears in the March issue of the Journal of ...Hospital acquired infections present major problem for infants in developing countries
... in after-birth care, put babies in the developing world at great risk of infections and death soon after birth. Anita Zaidi (Aga Khan University, Pakistan) and colleagues reviewed data from developing countries on rates of neonatal infections among hospital-born babies. They found that bacteria such as K...RIT takes eye-tracking research to next level
...ble eye tracker extends the laboratory to the real world by recording what people look at and how their eyes move as they perform a specified task, such as attending to a lecture in a classroom, driving a car, walking or playing racquetball. In other words, the device tracks how eye movements support perce...NIAID initiates trial of experimental avian flu vaccine
... in 1968; many public health officials believe the world is overdue for another one. The VTEUs now enrolling adult volunteers are University of California at Los Angeles (Joel Ward, M.D., Principal Investigator) University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (James Campbell, M.D., Principal In...UNH launches 2nd spinout company with NIH grants
...ston. "The pressure is on now," said Hersman. "The world has been waiting long enough for a diagnostic procedure for lung health, so we're scrambling to provide that." Hersman developed his technique for polarizing xenon, the most effective in the world, with previous NIH funding. The new grants will fund ...Recovered king of beasts returns to his home, thanks to unique operation
...who had undergone a brain operation unique in the world -- at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has recuperated and has returned to his cage and to his sister, Delilah. "The meeting between Samson and his sister Delilah was joyous and emotional," said the director of...Strengths and failings of U.S. health care 'system' are driven by embedded vested interests
...--examines the efficacy of U.S. health care in the world context. While the United States is one of the richest and most politically powerful nations in the world, its health care system exhibits numerous sociological, political, and economic dilemmas. Embedded in private market competition, the U.S. healt...Envisat enables first global check of regional methane emissions
... a 960-kilometre swath SCIAMACHY covers the entire world every six days. This versatile instrument represents a national contribution to ESA's Envisat mission. SCIAMACHY was funded by the German government through the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), the Dutch government through the Netherlands Agency for A...Physicists find patterns within seemingly random events of physiological systems
...singly wed phenomena associated with the inanimate world to those of animate beings -- finding commonalities between stock markets fluctuations, earthquakes, and heart rates, for example, or discovering similarities in mice, men, and other mammals for such fundamental phenomena as wake periods during slumb...New thrust needed to tackle health inequalities globally says UCL scientist
...said: "To reduce inequalities in health across the world there is need for a third major thrust that is complementary to development of health systems and relief of poverty: to take action on the social determinants of health. Such action will include relief of poverty but it will have thebroader aim of im...Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
...pulling together aging researchers from around the world for an annual Paul F. Glenn Symposium on the Molecular Biology of Aging to be held at Harvard Medical School. "We structured this partnership in a way that recognizes the key drivers in the scientific process, so that the resources would be positione...Houston meeting kicks off collaboration to advance cancer research
...is the first of its kind for M. D. Anderson with a world class institution in the United Kingdom and is funded in part by the Department for Trade and Industry's UK-Texas Bioscience Initiative, which aims to promote collaborative research and development in biosciences and related topics between researcher...Emergency clopidogrel could save thousands of lives46,000-patient heart attack trial results
...e are an estimated 10 million heart attacks in the world every year, the findings from this study if imple...he treatment of many millions of people around the world who have heart attacks each year." The study's cost of UK1.6 million (US$3 million) was split betwee...Study: Eye contact triggers threat signals in autistic children's brains
...pinnings of emotion. "Imagine walking through the world and interpreting every face that looks at you as a threat, even the face of your own mother," Davidson adds. Scientists have in the past speculated that the amygdala - which has been implicated in certain anxiety and mood disorders - plays a role in ...