#Rate of investment in medical research has declined in U s. increased globally From 2004 to 2012,
and Sierra leone and military rule in Guinea) when Ebola struck. FAO and WFP stated that the Ebola epidemic has caused a significant shock to the food
and paving the way for protecting millions more children at risk of the deadly disease.
"One year after large-scale vaccine introduction in late 2010, for example, experience from Burkina faso provided early evidence that mass vaccination was associated with a significantly reduced risk of meningitis in the targeted population,
and national governments has been crucial for mass vaccination campaigns that are due to continue until 2016 to cover at-risk populations in all 26 countries where disease burden from meningitis A is greatest.
The risks of rejection and/or damage to the spinal cord have been reduced drastically. An article about the implant will appear in early January in Science.
The risk of explosions can be reduced if the industry changes to soft housings that absorb energy in the same way as modern car bodies he says.
when babies were placed on their backs to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the incidence of plagiocephaly--commonly known as flat head--have risen dramatically.
because with the lower surface tension we expect less risk of head flattening and less risk for pressure ulcers."
ipscs with little risk of off-target effects say Ye and Cheng. CRISPR-mediated genome editing opens the door to many genetic applications in biologically relevant cells that can lead to better understanding of
The overall prognosis for patients with drug-resistant medial temporal lobe epilepsy includes a higher risk for memory and mood difficulties.
This in turn leads to impairments in quality of life and an increased risk for death as observed in patients who have frequent seizures failing to respond to treatment.
The European union hopes that it will actively combat one of the greatest threats to biodiversity and thus the functioning of ecosystems.
and will list species that pose transnational threats. Classification of the respective species as alien in at least three EU countries is the prerequisite for inclusion in this list.
and an assessment of the risk they pose. The EU and its member states are faced now with the challenge of deciding
However, it is intended not that this will stop at pure risk assessment but rather will also include the benefits of species and regional considerations."
what is being called a"Union List"for risk assessment and emergency measures. A first meeting on this subject was held in Seville
and its Innovation Corp. Partial funding also came from Office of Naval Research and Air force Office Scientific research.
#New breast cancer risk prediction model more accurate than current model A new breast cancer risk prediction model combining histologic features of biopsied breast tissue from women with benign breast disease
the Breast cancer Risk Assessment Tool (BCRAT), are published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.""Physicians routinely perform biopsies to evaluate concerning findings in the breast,
while benign, could help predict which women were increased at risk of developing breast cancer later.""Our new model more accurately classifies a woman's breast cancer risk after a benign biopsy than the BCRAT,
"Dr. Degnim says. Developed by the National Cancer Institute and the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, BCRAT is currently the most commonly used model for predicting breast cancer risk in women with BBD.
To test the new model, Dr. Degnim and her colleagues studied a cohort of approximately 10,000 women who had benign breast biopsies at Mayo Clinic
and combined these estimates with a relative risk model derived from 377 patients who later developed breast cancer
and 728 matched controls) and compared the risk predictions from the new model with those from the BCRAT.
"Since women with benign breast disease are at higher risk for breast cancer, optimal early detection is extremely important,
"Ideally, women at increased risk for breast cancer should be identified so that we can offer appropriate surveillance and prevention strategies.
Unfortunately, the BCRAT risk prediction model does not provide accurate estimates of risk for these women at the individual level
#Cell imaging gets colorful Campbell has created a new method that converts biochemical processes into color changes that are visualized easily.
Even patients who receive early treatment with standard antimalarial chemotherapeutic agents run a high risk of dying,
These and not the fully mesenchymal cells are the'bad actors'of cancer progression that pose the highest risk.
and over and the addition of annual MRI for women at high risk MBI fills an important gap for supplemental screening in women with dense breasts who are not otherwise at high risk k
of which has previously been implicated in risk for schizophrenia. The article published in Nature today is'Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures
Funding was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United states Air force Office of Scientific research h
But the Utah researchers found no evidence of fish insulin in the venom of five species of fish-eating cone snails that are ambush hunters that attack with a harpoon-like organ.
Our team the GFZ Hazard and Risk Team HART works in close collaboration with the University of Cape verde the Volcano Observatory of the Canary islands and the German Aerospace Centre says GFZ-volcanologist Dr
Simplified test to test novel viruses for risk of human infection Triggered by epidemics such as SARS and Ebola,
virologists are now reaching out to discover the plethora of unknown viruses lurking in natural reservoirs such as insects, in an attempt to forecast pandemic risks."
"We hope our temperature test for estimating the risk of vertebrate infection can be useful for assessing other viruses that keep being discovered,
the method for lung cancer screening currently recommended by the U s. Preventive Services Task force (USPSTF). Because of its accuracy, it could also better distinguish between benign lung tumors that do not pose a threat
and malignant tumors that have the potential to grow and spread. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the United states. However,
and are considered therefore at high risk for developing lung cancer. This method of screening is considered invasive
The software uses a machine-learning algorithm--the sort computers connected to security cameras might use for automated facial recognition.
but using them routinely raises the risk of deadly multidrug-resistant bacteria emerging. The new QPIU technology promises to deliver better point-of-care diagnostics by reducing the time it takes to specifically identify bacteria
the new method may be useful in the food industry or for homeland security applications. In principle, the approach could be scaled up to screen for contaminated food or suspicious packages s
pigment-free color printing and relevant applications such as security marking and information storage.""Other co-authors of the Scientific Reports paper are Dr. Fei Cheng, a researcher at Missouri S&t's Nanoscale Optics Laboratory,
In addition to Choi and Cahill--whose work was supported by the Army Research Office MURI program--co-authors of the paper include Byoung-Chul Min, Center for Spintronics Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul;
It's like soldiers marching in formation: If one person falls dramatically out of time, it won't be long before the whole group falls apart.
Pregnant women are advised also to avoid cat faeces due to the risk of infection. Dr Grainger, a Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Fellow, explains
Should the procedure only be proposed for patients with a high risk of ovarian failure or for those at low risk as well?
that cryopreserved ovarian tissue should be used only for fertility restoration in patients at high risk of ovarian failure,
health, security and the environment. Currently, optical efficiency drops dramatically for studies on areas smaller than 10 nm.
Because rotavirus is a particular threat to children the researchers also hope to acquire insight into the functioning of the immune system at the beginning of life before the acquired immune system has had time to fully develop l
'Our results will contribute to the identification of women at greatest risk of developing the disease with the long-term goal of prevention.'
launched in 2009 with the goal of determining risks of breast, ovarian and prostate cancer.'
'Co-first author Kate Lawrenson, Ph d. of Keck Medicine of USC believes the research will lead the way to the development of risk prediction strategies followed by clinical interventions with the potential to prevent ovarian cancer altogether,
'Our results shed light on differences in genetic risk factors for the different ovarian cancers such as MOCS.
That funding and additional collaboration with the Maritime Applied Physics Corporation, an engineering company that frequently partners with the U s. military, helped support the advancement of NS honeycomb technology.
Exposure to physical violence in childhood is associated with, among other negative effects, increased risk of depression and suicide, poor educational results and increased risk of partner violence later on.
enabling in-situ measurements in various security and health relevant fields including biology, medicine, food control, and pharmacy.
#Risk of hepatitis E outbreak'very high'in earthquake-ravaged Nepal During the coming monsoon season, survivors of the recent earthquake that destroyed parts of Nepal face a"very high
"Earthquake-affected areas are faced with a'perfect storm'of risk factors: large displaced populations with limited access to clean drinking water, lack of sanitary facilities, the approaching monsoon, overburdened healthcare infrastructure, large amounts of circulating HEV,
and an at-risk population that mostly lacks protective antibodies,"the researchers write. There are an estimated 20 million hepatitis E infections in the world annually.
and develop targeted deployment strategies for the use of the vaccine, based on identification of high-risk populations and the available organizational capacity for safe implementation and monitoring of outcomes."
"We are compelled to advocate for measures that reduce the risk of preventable mortality
#Researchers develop pioneering new method to map enzyme activity Researchers from Cardiff University have pioneered a new technique that will enable scientists to precisely pinpoint the areas on an enzyme that help to speed up chemical reactions.
or reduce its risk by treating susceptible people to increase AIM2 activity and give them healthy donor bacteria.'
But scientists have suspected also these small cruciforms--a structure of DNA itself--to be linked to mutations that can elevate cancer risk.
'DNA double-strand breaks can increase the risk of cancer because they can result in translocations, deletions,
Additionally, these advances could significantly impact the development of high-security, long-distance, cryptographic fiber optic communication networks. Nanoscale mirrored cavities that trap light around atoms in diamond crystals increase the quantum mechanical interactions between light and electrons in atoms.
Fabrication and experiments were supported in part by the Air force Office of Scientific research (AFOSR Grant No.
Patients who are at risk of developing these cancers and those who had benign tumours were tested also.
These'designer'materials could be used in the robotics, automotive, aerospace and security industries. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a simple'recipe'for combining multiple materials with single functions into a single material with multiple functions:
#Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor may take smartphone security to new level A new ultrasonic fingerprint sensor measures 3-D image of your finger's surface
and the tissue beneath it--enhancing biometrics and information security for smartphones and other devices. Fingerprint sensor technology currently used in smartphones like the iphone 6 produces a two-dimensional image of a finger's surface,
A newly developed ultrasonic sensor eliminates that risk by imaging the ridges and valleys of the fingerprint's surface,
"Using passwords for smartphones was a big security problem, so we anticipated that a biometric solution was said ahead
"Within the realm of biometrics and information security, the group's work is particularly significant, Horsley said."
"Beyond biometrics and information security purposes, the new technology is expected to find many other applications, including"low-cost ultrasound as a medical diagnostic tool or for personal health monitoring,
The device could help address the weaknesses reported earlier this month in America's airport security,
thereby eliminating all risks of rejection. They would also circumvent the ethical problems raised by the use of cells from human embryos.
Unfortunately, viral delivery poses significant safety risks including toxicity, activation of the patient's immune system against the virus,
the treatment doesn't carry the risk of side effects that are associated often with drug treatments."
and the Air force Office of Scientific research and was carried out in Caltech's Center for Physical Biology,
and chronic inflammatory responses pose a permanent threat to our lungs. To date, the regenerative mechanisms leading to healing of lung injury remain incompletely understood.
Patients most at risk are those with chronic kidney disease combined with diabetes and hypertension or heart failure.
There was"high adherence, low risk of hypokalemia (low potassium levels) and minimal discontinuation because of adverse events.""
or never started, due to risk of hyperkalemia, "Bakris said.""Now we can evaluate the role of RAAS blockers on progression of chronic kidney disease
including the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, AGES-Reykjavik Study, Framingham Heart Study, Cardiovascular Health Study,
the risk is increased massively that the tumour grows and forms metastases. According to Lukas Kenner this is important,
further studies are mandatory to assess the possibility of increased cancer risk right now, "says coauthor of this study, Helmut Dolznig, also from the Medical University of Vienna.
These findings were presented at the INTERNATIONAL AIDS Society 2015 conference in Vancouver by researchers from the Canadian Perinatal HIV Surveillance program (CPHSP),
a national group that has been collecting annual surveillance data about children born to women with HIV in Canada since 1990."
In three separate poster presentations about the surveillance program, CPHSP researchers examined the progress Canada has made in treating women with HIV,
which populations are at greatest risk and how public health officials are working with those groups.
Aboriginal women and women who use injection drugs were also at greater risk of having HIV in pregnancy
and to identify the populations at greatest risk, "said Joel Singer, professor in the School of Population and Public health at UBC,
Massachusetts State Police said in a tweet. Across the state about 600 members of the National guard were helping out during the blizzard,
Baker said. Conditions were so bad in New hampshire that the town of Alton called off its annual ice carnival.
Guinea's anti-Ebola task force said about two dozen new cases of Ebola had been recorded in the last two weeks, taking the total number to 53 as of Friday.
Now farmers and loggers were being arrested by armed police, accused of environmental crimes. t was a radical operation,
In most parts of the body, antigens molecules on pathogens or foreign tissue that alert our immune system to potential threats are presented to white blood cells in our the lymph nodes causing an immune response.
#US Congress Curbs NSA Surveillance, Sends Bill to Obama The US Senate passed landmark legislation Tuesday that ends the government's bulk telephone data dragnet,
reining in the most controversial surveillance program since the 9/11 attacks of 2001. The House of representatives has passed already the measure,
which also reauthorizes key national security programs that had lapsed early this week. With the Senate rejecting Republican attempts to modify the bill through three amendments,
the USA Freedom Act as"the first major overhaul of government surveillance laws in decades.""The bill halts the National security agency's ability to scoop up and store metadata--telephone numbers, dates and times of calls,
but not the content--from millions of Americans who have no connection to terrorism. It shifts responsibility for storing the data to telephone companies,
allowing authorities to access the information only with a warrant from a secret counterterror court that identifies a specific person
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Analysts had been warning for months about the risks of a stock market bubble in China, where giddy investors have driven up stock prices by purchasing shares on margin,
But the government has been careful to warn about some of the risks, including the use of borrowed money,
and Morgan stanley, have been cautioning investors about the risks of the market, particularly after a big sell off last month.
As the risk profile decreases, the technology will make sense for more patients. Science fiction writer, Ramez Naam, recently wrote an excellent primer on the current state of the technology
and not bring pressure to close down Al qaeda training camps. Saudi businesses, meanwhile, would ensure that money also flowed directly to Bin laden. The full cable can be read here.
#US Air force Launches X-37b Space Plane on 4th Mystery Mission The U s. Air force's X-37b space plane blasted into Earth orbit today,
The robotic X-37b space plane launched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas v rocket today (May 20) at 11:05 a m. EDT (1505 GMT) from Florida's Cape canaveral Air force station.
But Air force officials have said that mission number four known as Orbital Test vehicle-4 (OTV-4) will concentrate less on the X-37b itself
director of the Air force Rapid Capabilities Office, said in a statement late last month.""With the demonstrated success of the first three missions, we're able to shift our focus from initial checkouts of the vehicle to testing of experimental payloads."
The Air force owns two X-37b spacecraft, both of which were built by Boeing's Phantom Works division.
But Air force officials have refuted long that notion, saying the X-37b is simply testing out technologies for reusable vehicles and future spacecraft.
Chris Hoyler, an Air force spokesman, told Space. com via email.""The unique aspects of the OTV allow us to mature these new technologies
"Air force officials have not said how long they expect OTV-4 to last, but the mission will be extended an one
The Air force has revealed that an advanced Hall thruster propulsion system and a NASA materials investigation are among OTV-4's scientific gear.
Air force officials said.""A more efficient on-orbit thruster capability is huge,"Maj. Gen. Tom Masiello, commander of the Air force Research Laboratory in Ohio, said in a statement last month."
"Less fuel-burn lowers the cost to get up there, plus it enhances spacecraft operational flexibility, survivability and longevity."
US Military Tests Hypersonic Craft As NASA's Apollo 13 crisis revealed in 1970, this radio silence can be fraught with extraordinary tension.
There also interactive cinema, productivity for finance and security, virtual market research, dangerous situation simulation, and design studies.
Because women with dense breasts are at a higher risk of breast cancer, the conventional tools and methods like mammograms and clinical breast exams are less effective.
"There's a high risk that by the time all of this is sorted, the traditional parts may be good enough to make the whole exercise a waste
and can tell who you are In a novel twist in cybersecurity, scientists have developed a self-cleaning,
The scientists conclude that the keyboard could provide an additional layer of protection to boost the security of our computer systems r
Funding was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United states Air force Office of Scientific research O
or increase the risk for these disorders disrupt the mechanisms of visual recognition memory, says Bear,
which do not all behave the same way making it hard to predict the risk of a vaso-occlusive crisis Dao says.
The Air force Office of Scientific research and its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) and the Office of Naval Research MURI supported the research e
Two other foreign diseases, African swine fever and classical swine fever, remain constant threats to the U s. industry. he best assurance for the timely identification of known and unknown threats is to employ techniques
including clinical medicine, food safety testing, environmental monitoring and biodefense o
#Nature Inspires First Artificial Molecular Pump Using nature for inspiration, a team of Northwestern University scientists is the first to develop an entirely artificial molecular pump, in
Two types of lymphocytes, CD4 and CD8, find a way to cross this protective barrier. They attack the brain by destroying the myelin sheath that protects neurons,
and Prevention as having a threat level of rgent.?Understanding how these bacterial spores work gives us potentially new abilities to destroy them,
and creates an increased risk for cancer and diabetes. When a healthy person is infected by a virus,
New Technology to Lighten Marinesloads Modern-day warfighters face heavyiterallydds on the battlefield, as they often carry more than 100 pounds of gear,
To remedy this, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has presented the Marine corps with a 3-D computer simulation program that measures equipment weight, distribution and effects on body mechanics and individual warfighter performance.
The programalled ETOWL (Enhanced Technologies for Optimization of Warfighter Load) nd its companion software is being delivered to the Gruntworks Marine Expeditionary Rifle Squad
who works in ONR Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism department. his is the kind of research that very rewarding
because it provides a direct benefit to our nation warfighters. he ETOWL program was developed by the Center for Computer aided design at the University of Iowa.
which emphasizes mobility and adaptability within irregular warfare as key components of warfighter performance. Source:
because the amount of the liver to be removed would be so great as to pose severe risk to the patient.
and management actions for at-risk species. Constructing a whole genome sequence of the bighorn sheep will also help by providing a reference for new studies,
and offering a greater chance of clinical trial success. ATHENA is funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
and lubricant base oils could allow for operators to manage their market risks better, which is exactly how petrochemical refinery complexes operate today.
as it still is arguably the biggest threat to human population. As previous attempts to prevent the spread of the disease proved ineffective
#US Military to Develop its Own Hoverbike The US ARMY Research Laboratory has struck recently a deal with two companies, a UK-based start-up Malloy Aeronautics (MA) and Survice Engineering Co. SE),
but a drone that a soldier can ride. The project started as a hobby the engineer
It can also operate as a surveillance platform, said Survice representative Mark Butkiewicz. The hoverbike is still undergoing testing
#Researchers develop a new means of killing harmful bacteria The global rise in antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public health,
#Risk of bowel cancer reduced by taking aspirin for Lynch syndrome patients An international study led by The University of Melbourne has confirmed that long-term regular taking of aspirin
or ibuprofen reduces the risk of bowel cancer by more than half for people with the genetic mutation causing Lynch syndrome.
and women. he main risk reduction method for these people is to have regular colonoscopy screening.
if and how lifestyle factors and medications can modify their risk of bowel cancer, Dr Win said. ur data is the first to confirm the finding of a previous international randomised clinical trial that found a protective effect of aspirin on bowel cancer for these high-risk people.
or Parkinson disease raises the risk of endless cell divisions and cancer. Removing genes that promote cell division could forestall that danger.
greatly increases the risk. Other clues already pointed to the telomeres. For example, the telomeres of many patients suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are shorter than normal.
which in turn will reduce the risk of disease. If these contacts are destabilized, then by using special methods of drug delivery you can program the death of the affected cells Vasily Studitsky concluded,
Thewisconsin group established that intelectin has needed all the properties to function in the immune system surveillance complex.
Intelectin performs its surveillance role through its ability to selectively recognize the carbohydrate molecules that reside on the surface of cells.
#Noninvasive test predicts death risk from heart disease A noninvasive scan that determines the extent of plaque buildup in the heart accurately predicts the likelihood of heart attack or death over a 15-year period,
if a patient is shown to be at risk for heart disease but not yet showing symptoms. ll high-risk individuals irrespective of their symptom status should be considered for this study.
and a professor of radiology and of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. f physicians can accurately predict who is at risk,
there isn a universally adopted test used to check for heart attack risk in people who are not exhibiting symptoms associated with heart disease.
should fill that void. his test predicts the risk of heart attacks better than any other diagnostic heart test that we have, especially in asymptomatic patients,
or do not have disease that places them at heightened risk of heart attacks. While previous studies have connected coronary artery calcification test results and long-term patient prognosis
0, 1-10,11-99,100-399,400-999 and more than 1, 000. ore than 1, 000 is considered the worst-case scenario, with imminent risk,
With the Calcium Score and cardiac risk factor variables investigators calculated the risk that participants would die for any reason, not just because of a heart attack,
called all-cause mortality. They then compared this long-term prognosis with what actually happened, and found that the Calcium Score was highly predictive of all-cause mortality.
n all asymptomatic patients, someone with a score of 0 has a minimal risk that they will die from any disease in the next 15 years,
he or she is at risk. We must intervene quickly and aggressively for patientsfuture health because that risk never goes away,
he continued. e have medicine that saves lives; we just need to identify earlier the right patients
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