Satellite survey of Elbe flood helps Swiss Re insure for disaster
...anies and others with comprehensive information on worldwide hazards and potential risk exposure. The activity has been carried out as part of a Flood Plain Monitoring project within ESA's EOMD Programme, aimed at strengthening European and Canadian capacities for the provision of geo-information services bas...New study shows measles immunization may prevent fatal brain infection
...ization programs. Despite recent reductions in the worldwide toll of measles, he noted, the disease still accounts for almost half of the 1.6 million annual childhood deaths due to vaccine-preventable diseases....Volunteers sought for avian flu vaccine study
... health experts fear that avian flu couldlead to a worldwide pandemic if the virus becomes easily transmittable,leading to a public health crisis. Currently, most people are highly vulnerable to infection from avianinfluenza, as the current influenza vaccines do not protect against thisnew strain of the virus...Clinical trial in China to test whether early blood pressure reduction improves stroke outcomes
...ious forms of stroke, affecting 2-3 million people worldwide each year. Most of these live in China and surrounding Asian countries, and about one third will die a few days after onset. Of those that survive, the majority will face major long-term disabilities. The George Institute's Professor Craig Anderso...Successful tests of new treatments in mice for eye disease causing irreversible blindness in humans
...ersible congenital blindness in millions of people worldwide by successfully testing two new treatments in mice. Publishing in this month's open access journal PLoS Medicine, the researchers found that these treatments "provide highly effective and complementary means for restoring retinal function in this an...Causes of primary biliary cirrhosis
...nmental factors in relation to PBC. They propose a worldwide gene database for PBC patients and family members as well as animal studies with the identified agents. "Only these combined efforts will provide the solution to the enigma of PBC etiology," they say....Cervical cancer screening programs for low-resource areas appear effective and safe
...e available tomorrow, several generations of women worldwide would still need conventional care. To provide car... women, future cervical cancer prevention programs worldwide will need to be designed to reach women who are at highest risk for disease and to ensure that the c...Xeloda plus oxaliplatin (XELOX) dramatically reduces hospital visits by over 60%
...s. 2 It is estimated that over 394,000 people die worldwide from colorectal cancer each year. 3 Xeloda was approved in the EU for post-surgery treatment of colorectal cancer in April 2005. Approval was based on data (X-ACT study) that showed Xeloda to be at least equal to 5-FU/LV in terms of effectiveness wi...Resonance Health Goup patent for diagnosis of liver fibrosis
... be developed. "With more than 170 million people worldwide being chronically affected by hepatitis C, a major...use of progressive liver fibrosis, there is a huge worldwide demand for a non-invasive test that quantifies fibrosis accurately and painlessly. Meeting an immed...Feds give researchers ok for safety test of adult stem cells in patients with heart disease
...rtery bypass graft (CABG) surgeries were performed worldwide and approximately 1.8 million balloon angioplasty procedures were performed. While these interventional therapies are now the standard of care, there are still a significant number of people for whom these methods do not work, or who have blockage th...The Lancet highlights the global burden of foot disease and amputation in diabetic patients
...n accompanying editorial The Lancet comments: "The worldwide prevalence of diabetes now exceeds 200 million, and is predicted to rise to more than 300 million in the next 20 years. Up to 15% of patients with diabetes have a foot ulcer at some stage, and over 1 million amputations for diabetes-related complicat...Cincinnati Children's scientist wins achievement award for advances in heart disease research
...world, thus stimulating a dramatically accelerated worldwide effort to identify and subsequently modify inborn molecular flaws at work in heart and blood vessel diseases," according to a written statement by the AHA. Dr. Robbins studies the cause-and-effect relationships between mutations in proteins and the...Physical activity improves life expectancy and cardiovascular health
... risk management should be emphasized to achieve a worldwide implementation of an active pattern of life," they conclude. "Our study suggests that following an active lifestyle is an effective way to achieve healthy aging."...Study suggests that aspirin is under-prescribed
...d on the results of many previous studies, experts worldwide recommend aspirin for all high risk patients except when the risk of side effects would outweigh the benefits (for example, if there is too much of a risk that the drug could cause internal bleeding). The new study therefore suggests that aspirin i...ANU cancer researcher wins biomedical award
...gy, including the development of a method now used worldwide for tracking white cell migration and cell division. In cancer biology, his interest in cell migration led him to the characterisation and molecular cloning of a key enzyme involved in cell invasion, heparanase. Heparanase allows cancer cells to spre...Over one third of cancer deaths worldwide are caused by nine modifiable risk factors
Of the 7 million deaths from cancer worldwide in 2001, 2.43 million were caused by nine potentia...lth, Boston, MA, USA) and colleagues estimated the worldwide and regional mortality from site-specific cancers attributable to nine risk factors using comparable...New gene silencing therapy for cervical cancer
... leading cause of cancer death in women aged 25-50 worldwide and causes around 300 deaths per year in Australia. Cervical cancer is caused by infection with the human papillomavirus and is the result of the over-production of two viral cancer-causing genes called E6 and E7. The research team was able to turn...Study uncovers placental microtransfusions lead to transmission of AIDS virus during childbirth
...infected themselves. That's a half million newborn worldwide every year facing chronic illness and premature death on their first day out of the safety of the womb. "The question has always been how does the virus get from the mothers to the babies?" said principal investigator Dr. Steven Meshnick, professor o...IOF agencies receive global recognition of osteoporosis campaigns
...ng produced exceptional campaigns that help people worldwide reduce their risk of breaking their bones due to o...tries. The amount of donated and sponsored airtime worldwide has reached some USD one million. "These campaigns are important public health initiatives and we ar......n averages 76 mg (equivalent to 1 cups of coffee) worldwide and 238 mg (more than 4 cups of coffee) in the United States....