Study finds race affects African American survival of breast cancer
...is of genetic variation and regulation of genes by environmental factors as two potential areas of research....Global warming and your health
... threats to food supplies, hundreds of millions of environmental refugees, and stress on and possible collapse of many ecosystems that now purify our air and water. "When most people think about climate change, they think of heat stress from heat waves," said Cindy Parker, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch...Dragon training in China focuses on atmosphere
...re particularly useful for tackling and monitoring environmental phenomena in China, the third largest country in the world, because of the country's sheer size and various types of terrain, which range from Himalayan peaks to tropical lowlands....New study shows the benefits of eating fish greatly outweigh the risks
...in recent years about chemicals found in fish from environmental pollution, including mercury, PCBs and dioxins. That has led to confusion among the public--do the risks of eating fish outweigh the benefits? Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) tackled that question by undertaking the sing...Asthma linked to soot from diesel trucks in Bronx
... truck routes, industrial land-use areas and other environmental hazards. Modeled concentrations of traffic-related particulate matter and nitrogen oxides are two to five times higher in close proximity South Bronx highways than in other parts of the South Bronx. About one-fifth of all pre-K to 8th-grade students...Key to lung cancer chemo resistance revealed
... by a gene called NRF2 normally protect cells from environmental pollutants like cigarette smoke and diesel exhaust by absorbing the materials and pumping them out of the cell. Another gene called KEAP1 encodes products that stop this cleansing process. But lung cancer cells sabotage the expression of these same...Teens half as likely to smoke if they are wise to subliminal messages in cigarette ads
...en after controlling for over a dozen demographic, environmental and intrinsic risk factors for smoking. The analysis suggests that even minor intervention may be able to influence behavior. According to survey data, decrease in an SML score of just one point corresponded with a 30 percent increase in a student...Vision and hearing loss often occur together in older age
...ostulated to result from somewhat similar genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors," the authors write. "Exposure to oxidative stress [when cells receive too much oxygen], cigarette smoking and atherosclerosis [hardening of the arteries] and its risk factors have been linked respectively to age-related macula...10 top Australian scientists predict major medical advances
...ow good their genes are at fighting disease, which environmental risks they are susceptible to and steps they should take to prevent the onset of ill-health. And by the turn of the century it will be commonplace to have a bad combination of genes repaired to avoid disease. 'Then, NowImagine', a new report compile...UC Davis at forefront of national initiative to transform research to improve human health
...cancer and diabetes, that are affected by genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors," said Berglund, who has more than 20 years' experience conducting research at the laboratory bench and patient-focused studies in the areas of vascular disease, HIV and lipoprotein metabolism. "The new UC Davis center is a p...Childhood lead exposure linked to increased injuries as teens
...esearch conducted by University of Cincinnati (UC) environmental health experts. The UC team reports these findi...tion," adds Amit Bhattacharya, PhD, a professor of environmental health and study collaborator. "But our research shows that this early-life exposure can cause lasti...Common cold may be just a fingertip away due to environmental contamination
... thanks to the high rate of viral contamination of environmental surfaces that a cold sufferer can leave behind, ac... shaking hands with anyone with a cold or touching environmental objects likely contaminated with nasal secretions. Commonly touched surfaces, such as those identifi...NHGRI funds assessment of public attitudes about population-based studies on genes and environment
...netic variation, and major advances in genetic and environmental technologies have provided an unprecedented opport...esearch could help unravel the complex genetic and environmental factors that contribute to common diseases such as cancer and heart disease," said NHGRI Director Fr...Major cancer study aims to identify protein markers for early-stage disease
...y, PhD, associate laboratory director for life and environmental sciences at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UCSF professor of laboratory medicine, and co-leader of the breast oncology program at the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Bradford W. Gibson, PhD, a professor and di...Solvent exposure linked to birth defects in babies of male painters
...niversity of Alberta professor of occupational and environmental health, who co-authored the study with researchers from Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands. "This is the first time we have good exposure data in such a study, but more robust investigations are needed to guide policy-maker...Household levels of mold following Hurricane Katrina surpass some agricultural environments
...ks," said Ginger Chew, ScD, assistant professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. "While our assessments of the data are based on a small demonstration project, the results give a clear picture of what is acceptable in flood clean-up procedures." The project was sp...... an explanation that is not ethnic specific and is environmental rather than genetic. High rates of detention and adverse pathways to care for ethnic minority patients have also been attributed to racism. Yet a recent UK study suggested that the greater stigma of mental illness in the African-Caribbean community ...Very low birth weight linked to reduced quality of life in pre-school children
...ionals need to consider a number of biological and environmental factors as part of their assessment. These include current health problems, age at delivery, length of stay in the neonatal intensive care unit and the educational level of the primary caregiver." Children ranging from 36 to 53 months were in...Researchers examine why food tastes bad to chemotherapy recipients
...rea Dietrich, Virginia Tech professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE). Dietrich believes there are two components to the metallic flavor the taste of metal ions on the tongue and the production of metal-catalyzed odors in the mouth that create a retro-nasal effect. "I am attempting to gain a bette...Is there a relationship between a mother prompting her child to eat and obesity?
... children of obese mothers being more sensitive to environmental cues to eat or their mothers' greater awareness of their child's weight; therefore, obese mothers should make more careful efforts towards shaping the child's eating behavior. Dr. Lumeng states that, "A growing body of evidence suggests that matern...