Organic farming can feed the world, U-M study shows
...ganic farming argue that conventional farming also causes soil erosion, greenhouse gas emission, increased pest resistance and loss of biodiversity. For their analysis, researchers defined the term organic as: practices referred to as sustainable or ecological; that utilize non-synthetic nutrient cycling...Cancer on the agenda of the Portuguese EU Council Presidency
...pean Union, he said. Cancer is one of the major causes of disease, morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although great scientific progress has been achieved in oncology and continues to be achieved, cancer remains a huge public health challenge and a tremendous threat. ESMO is convinced that it is time ...Hib vaccine: A critical ally in Asia's effort to reduce child deaths
...ainst H. influenzae type b (Hib), a bacterium that causes deadly Hib pneumonia and meningitis, could save hundreds of thousands of children in Asia. Results showed that routine immunization of infants with a Hib conjugate vaccine prevented over one-third of life-threatening pneumonia cases and approximatel...'Cars' imaging reveals clues to myelin damage
...roughout the body. The findings suggest that LPC causes sheath degradation by allowing an influx of calciu...ed lipids. "It is possible that the same pathway causes myelin degradation in people suffering from multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries," Cheng said...Intensive-care patients with alcohol problems are more likely to require mechanical ventilation
...esses. So, excessive alcohol consumption not only causes serious adverse events such as alcohol intoxication and accidents, but also increases the chances of developing life-threatening medical illnesses such as pneumonia, asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease, infections and respiratory failure. De ...Reduced greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid dangerous increases in heat stress
...n Italy. The researchers found that global warming causes summer temperatures to dramatically exceed the range that was correlated with the increased number of deaths. "The thresholds of the 2003 event are substantially exceeded in the future in both of our research scenarios," said Diffenbaugh, who is a ...Poor sleep hygiene in children associated with behavioral problems
... refers to a sleep-related breathing disorder that causes one's body to stop breathing during sleep. OSA occurs when the tissue in the back of the throat collapses and blocks the airway, which prevents air from getting into the lungs. Parents who suspect that their child might be suffering from OSA, or a...Progress toward an antitumor vaccine
...e glycopeptide is coupled to a building block that causes thiols (sulfurhydrogen groups) to protrude from the molecule. In the next, light-initiated (photochemical) reaction, only the desired thioether bonds are formedno side reactions occur at other locations in the peptide chain. Synthetic glycopeptide a...Advocates ask fashion industry to support braille clothing tags; talking Web site
...of support that has brought attention to prominent causes like AIDS awareness, breast cancer research and the anti-fur campaign. Brill and Abushagur will ask the industry to include Braille labels on their garments. They will also request initial donations of clothing and accessories to stock the Web site s...Rochester spreads knowledge of cancer-related fatigue
...here's a great deal of ongoing research about what causes fatigue and how it can be managed. For some people, fatigue is so debilitating that they want to stop their cancer treatments, which is why it is particularly important to find ways to address this problem." During his own bout with cancer fatigue,...UK and other European countries should introduce universal childhood hepatitis B vaccination
... Infectious Diseases. Infection with hepatitis B causes between 500,000 and 1.2 million deaths per year worldwide, with around 22,000 of these deaths occurring across Europe. Hepatitis B is also the leading cause of liver cancer. Dr Jane Zuckerman, Academic Centre for Travel Medicine and Vaccines, Roya...Study identifies new regulator of fat metabolism
...umber of calories, the composition of the calories causes them to gain weight in different ways. The differences in weight gain reflect differences in metabolic rates, she explains. These, in turn, result in hormonal changes that lead to different disposition of the calories. In this latest paper, Marat...MU researchers find mechanisms that may unlock answers to Alzheimer's disease
...of an $11 million project aimed at identifying the causes of Alzheimers disease. Previous studies have indicated toxic effects of a protein, the amyloid-beta peptide or A-beta, which accumulates in amyloid plaques in the brain of Alzheimers patients. Despite unknown mechanisms, increased production of this ...Strengthening exercises may slow progression of ALS
... progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disease that causes muscles to weaken and eventually deteriorate. Information on the role of exercise in ALS has been conflicting, with some studies suggesting that overworking the muscles could cause the disease to progress faster. For the study, researchers randomly...Snoring in children might be an allergic type disease
...in adults and children it can have quite different causes and risk factors. The study published in the latest edition of the international medical journal, Pediatric Pulmonology has established children with rhinitis who were first born, were exposed to maternal tobacco smoke during the first year of life...Herceptin does not increase heart failure in patients long term
...o women with HER-2 positive breast cancer, it also causes an increased risk for congestive heart failure a 4.1 percent incidence of congestive health failure was reported in the Herceptin and chemotherapy group compared to a 0.8 percent increase in the control group. The current study found that after f...MUHC-led international team identifies gene responsible for blindness in infants and children
...a model for identifying other retinal diseases and causes of blindness in the future, says Dr. Koenekoop, who is also associate professor in Ophthalmology and Human Genetics at McGill University. The same international research team identified the CEP290 gene last year, the most common genetic cause of L...Harboring hostility may be linked to unhealthy lungs
...when asthma and smoking were ruled out as possible causes of lung dysfunction. In a study of 4,629 Black a...t now, we cant say if having a hostile personality causes lung function decline, though we now know that these things happen together. More research is neede...Dasatinib shows high early response rate as first treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
...genetically flawed protein known as BCR-ABL, which causes the disease. Atallah explains that dasatinib binds...rst drug to target the fusion protein BCR-ABL that causes the disease. Before Gleevec, the median five-year survival rate for CML patients was 50 percent. Res...Study supports activity of GEMZAR in the treatment of early-stage breast cancer
... inflammatory tumors, a type of breast cancer that causes the breast to swell, redden and feel warm. Of the 73 patients enrolled in the study, 42 (57.5%) were classified as T2; 12 (16.5%) as T3, and; 19 (26%) as T4, which included 13 patients with inflammatory tumors. A T-classification represents the stage...