Study shows escalating climate change impacts
...and homelessness witnessed after Hurricane Katrina hit the US Gulf coast in August. Analysis of the potential ripple effects stemming from an unstable climate shows the need for more sustainable practices to safeguard and insure a healthy future." The CCF study is comprised of three primary elements: tre...Satellite survey of Elbe flood helps Swiss Re insure for disaster
One of the worst disasters to hit Europe in the last decade has served as a case study to investigate how satellite images can improve insurance risk modelling. Following the project's end, reinsurance giant Swiss Re has added Earth Observation products to its comprehensive catastrop...Purdue's gold nanorods brighten future for medical imaging
... up light. In two-photon fluorescence, two photons hit the nanorod at the same time. Because of the two-photon effect, the method might enable scientists to develop advanced "non-linear optical techniques" that provide better contrast than conventional technologies. Cheng is applying the two-photon fluor...Calls to prevent chronic disease 'juggernaut'
...he 'juggernaut' of chronic disease issues about to hit the health system at a meeting in Melbourne. The meeting, More strategic use of the health dollar?, explored approaches to improve primary health care in Australia with a view to getting a better return for health spending, the Director of the Austr...Side-effects cause some breast cancer patients to skip hormone treatment
...ossibly taking hormone tablets, who have also been hit by chemotherapy, the sudden onset of menopausal hot flushes and night sweats is a devastating assault on their well-being." She said that much more attention needed to be paid to these particular side-effects, which are seriously under-estimated and ...Penn study finds physically abused boys may be more likely to commit domestic violence as adults
...ely 14 years old. Examples of abuse include being hit with an object or being kicked, bit, choked, burned, scalded, or punched. (Other studies have shown abuse prevalence of 28% in male college graduates and 51% in active duty soldiers in the United States Army.) The study also found that approximately...Hopkins scientist to direct international studies of antibiotic as new treatment for tuberculosis
...of tuberculosis and treat the disease in countries hit most hard by the duel epidemics. CREATE, which is sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has three community-based studies under way in Africa and Brazil....Heart failure patients have impaired cooling response, UT Southwestern researchers find
.... "We saw this in particular in the heat wave that hit Chicago in 1995. Of the reported deaths, a large number had a prior heart condition. We wondered why." The study included 28 participants between the ages of 47 and 55 half with congestive heart failure and half with healthy hearts. For testing, all...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for October 2005 (first issue)
...iated with a much improved survival rate for those hit by a devastating cause of respiratory failure, acute lung injury (ALI). According to the authors, the improved survival rate among 45 patients with ALI correlated with higher colony counts of a stem cell subtype called endothelial progenitor cells (E......In the past, it took several attempts almost in a hit and miss fashion to obtain the diagnostic images needed. This technique allows us to avoid taking unnecessary images, he said....Mayo Clinic researchers invent 'hitchhiking' viruses as cancer drug delivery system
...ride on the T cells, the therapeutic particles can hit their tumor target while avoiding detection (and destruction) by the immune system. When the Mayo team experimented with the hitchhiking approach in mice using human and mouse cancer cells, they observed significant cure rates of metastatic -- or spr...Tsunami raises questions about disaster mental health, Science reports
...herapy is a foreign concept in many of the hardest hit areas, and the massive international effort to provide "psychosocial" aid has had its share of problems. The situation highlights the need for more research on what interventions are most important for psychological relief after a disaster, Miller wr...Arts program provides services, guidance to HIV/AIDS patients
..., the actors are real people -- people who've been hit head-on by the brutal reality of HIV/AIDS diagnoses, then left to work through the many and varied response stages that inevitably follow, from despair and depression to acceptance and healing. Kellman, who has joint appointments in the School of Ar...Parasite genome sequences offer hope for new drugs and vaccines, Science studies say
... process of "horizontal gene transfer." Drugs that hit these acquired enzymes could be fruitful drug targets because they are less likely to affect the host. Another drug development approach is to focus on proteins that are unique to individual parasites. Many of these species-specific genes are located...Speed and endurance are doled out by the pound
...bulk of speed demons is explained by their need to hit the running surface harder to attain their faster ...running performance to how hard a runner needed to hit the ground," said Peter Weyand, assistant professor in kinesiology and lead author of the study. "Th...Women's health suffers under welfare reform, study says
...ill relatively strong. Since then, more women have hit their lifetime limits on receiving welfare benefits and economic conditions have declined. "It might be that things are getting even worse for women," Kaplan said. Kaplan said as lawmakers consider additional welfare reforms, he would like to see the...'Apollo Program' for hydrogen energy needed, Stanford researcher says
...--one conventional, one hydrogen-powered--thatwere hit from behind. The car powered by an internal combustion enginebecame engulfed in flames when its gas tank was punctured. But when thehydrogen car's fuel cell was punctured, since hydrogen is 14 times lighterthan air, the flames just shot straight up. ...Aging eye more susceptible to serious damage, scientists report
...ring eye injuries in a car accident, such as being hit in the eye with the steering wheel, an airbag or a foam particle," Vinger said in the editorial....Shrinking brains but healthy memory - does brain matter matter?
... shrinkage, a common symptom of ageing when people hit their 60's, appears to have no impact on an individual's capacity to think or learn, according to ANU research. The research is part of a 20-year study by the ANU Centre for Mental Health Research called PATH Through Life and suggests a revision of l......ties, groups that have, historically, been hardest hit by the effects of tobacco use," said Matt Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. "The cigarette tax increase proposed by the coalition would decrease the number of Illinois adult smokers by 87,800, prevent nearly 150,000 Illinois children...