which can be connected to create larger dwellings, hospitals, warehouses and the like, can be customized with doors or windows;
studying issues from psychology to pathology. Nobody knows exactly how many people around the planet think of bugs as lunch.
An important aspect of any such study is pathology: knowing which insects are safe to eat and
it is more likely to be pathogen-free. They read any books and papers they can find on the subject,
Among the regular Apple fans and tech junkies were small armies of Šprofessional queuers  who were being paid a fee by dealers to wait in line.
There was no religious compulsion. Since Mcdonald s fare is regarded widely as unhealthy, critics see it as a misfit in the healthier vegetarian food club as well as a poor challenge to tradition Indian fast-food.
Seoul s top traditional alcoholic producer Kooksoondang, launched a canned, spritzer-style grapefruit makgeolli last year that appears tailor-made for Western markets.
 The health benefits of the plant, however, exceed those in most other green vegetables.
and a slew of other minerals, it tops even spinach in terms of health perks. Â The french,
Kavita Srivastava, a member of the Right to Food campaign, a coalition of non-government organizations, said that the national food security bill is a crucial opportunity to end hunger and malnutrition in India.
Radha Kali, 42, said that for generations her community has survived on forest products like  tendu  leaves that are used for making  beedis  and  mahuwa  flowers with medicinal properties.
Last week, Dr. Singh made the first financial pledge of $50 million to save biodiversity.
And for that very reason they've long been regarded as mother nature's antidote for our carbon-emitting ways.
For climate change scientists, the map also serves as a barometer of the health and longevity of forests and how they contribute to the global carbon cycle and overall functioning of the Earth system.
Interactive map shows where HIV cases are most prevalent Infographic: Just how safe is your neighborhood?
what he calls a personal obsession with how recursion works in both nature and programming.
a Harvard School of Public health Professor who specializes in aging. Å There is an enormous disparity and comfort in the technical area.
her brother, an engineer, Â who in good health turns 86 this year embraced notebook PCS a dozen years ago. credit:
or miss and a lot depends on health-can they see, hear, type, touch or learn well enough to use a computer or gadget?
ipads still scarce in hospitals; Apple's secret plan to change thatwhen I started writing about biomedical tech,
I figured ipads in hospitals would be the story to follow. And yes, every week or so, there's news of iphone apps for health purposes
and doctors using ipads for this and that. But as it turns out, the jury's still out on the usefulness of tablets in hospitals, NPR reports.
Sure, tablets are finding their way in. At the University of California, San diego Hospital, a physician assistant uses an ipad 2 to update a patient â oe who just received a brand new kidney â oe on his recovery.
She pulls up a graph of blood tests that charts how well his new organ's working
then a chest x-ray from a few days ago showing some fluid build up in the lungs.
But ipads have been available since April 2010, and less than 1%of hospitals have fully functional tablet systems.
Even at UC San diego, their electronic record system has a read-only app for the ipad (which means it can't be used for entering all new information.
So clinicians have to log on through another program, one that's built on a Windows platform.
Not to mention major concerns about spotty wireless in hospitals logging doctors off as they move around, distracted doctors,
and the security of patient records. And the ipad doesn't fit in the pocket of a standard white lab coat.
Jonathan Mack of the West Wireless Health Institute, a nonprofit that works to lower the cost of healthcare through new technology,
says another reason more hospitals aren't using tablets is that they've already invested millions into electronic record systems that aren't compatible with them.
it requires that hospitals cough up a lot more money. Hospitals won't be willing to do that when they aren't even sure that tablets will make things easier.
The federal government is giving hospitals financial incentives to implement electronic medical records, but the most popular systems don't yet make apps that allow doctors to use the records on a tablet the way they would on a desktop or laptop.
To use a mobile device effectively requires a complete redesign of the way information is presented. ON THE OTHER HAND, Apple has a secret plan to steal your doctor's heart.
Apple is pushing the ipad into hospitals playing against its well-polished image as the world's most successful consumer gadget company, Wired reports.
Apple employee Afshad Mistri is the company's secret weapon in a stealth campaign to get the ipad into the hands of doctors.
He's also the guy who in just launched a special itunes room for healthcare,
and promoted it to a select group of healthcare app developers.)However, the company walks a fine line in the medical arena.
The Food and Drug Administration seems set on regulating the software that runs on the ipad, not the device itself,
but if the FDA were to decide that Apple is marketing the ipad for regulated medical uses,
it could unleash a regulatory nightmare. Elliot Fishman, a professor of radiology at Johns Hopkins, studies 50 to 100 CT scans per day on his tablet.
Recently, he checked up on 20 patients while traveling in Las vegas . What this ipad does is really extend my ability to be able to consult remotely anytime,
anywhere, he says. For some, the ipad can save up to an hour and a half per day â oe time that would otherwise be spent on collecting paper printouts of medical images
or heading to computer workstations to look them up online. Many doctors say that bringing an ipad to the bedside lets them administer a far more intimate and interactive level of care than they'd previously thought possible.
The device has freed up doctors to read papers and look up information no matter where they are.
Some hospitals are getting ready for some big rollouts. The Veterans Administration started soliciting bids from contractors to help them manage as many as 100
000 tablet users across its network of 152 hospitals. It's not entirely clear why Apple cares so much about doctors.
Why have a guy like Afhsad Mistri spending his days talking to doctors and medical software developers?
Why is healthcare the one vertical market that Apple promotes on its ipad apps for business page?
The answer might have to do with the late Steve jobs. People in computer science are interested always in medical imaging,
says Fishman, who visited Jobs in 2010. They always like to think that, you know, maybe Angry Birds is good
but something medical might actually change the world. From NPR and Wired. Image:
Is growing vegetables from sewer water the next big thing in reuse? Brinjal, papaya, snake-gourd and black sugarcane are just a few of the crops Keshav Tavre grows on his suburban plot on the outskirts of Mumbai--all of it from a supply of untreated sewage that snakes past his land.
plus the stringent safety and health regulations surrounding edible products, it seems only natural that high-tech packaging design innovations would begin with food.
whether that food is harboring a dangerous pathogen. Researchers are designing packaging that could alert consumers to a pathogen in the food
or to a food product that s nearing the end of its shelf life, Cooksey said. A French company has developed a sensor that can detect
Researchers are working on an antimicrobial film that would go inside food packaging to provide an extra barrier against pathogens.
In Rwanda they re educating people about birth control. It has 8 million people and is the size of Vermont,
Japan to grow human organs inside pigsâ Japanese researchers are seeking less conventional methods to ensure transplant waiting list patients can receive the organs they need--by growing them inside pigs.
Better still, the permanent etching-hence tattoo--does not increase water loss, nor the entrance of food pathogens or postharvest pathogens.
stopping decay and food pathogens. Wax coverage is recommended still to prevent water loss. To test for decay, the fruit was inoculated with decay organisms and then etched with the laser.
No pathogens were found in the peel or the fruit interior. So how does it work?
and Drug Administration before it could be used commercially
Leafsnap combines biometrics and botany for electronic field guidewashington--This week behind the Smithsonian Castle, a research botanist and two computer science professors unveiled Leafsnap, a free plant identification
and disease control, rotate the crops, and maintain the irrigation system. One of the things that people don t talk about
management tips from Intel Pepsico grant supports clean water in rural China Many businesses blind to water risks
Malaria vaccine from the teats of genetically altered goatsmost malaria vaccines require multi million dollar facilities for production.
But most cases of malaria occur in heavily impoverished countries. And grant me one more generalization--most third world countries have plenty of goats.
Co. Exist reports that Texas A&m researchers have engineered goats that can produce a malaria vaccine in their milk.
These genetically modified animals lactate the vaccine proteins. At this point the milk has to be treated to isolate the vaccine for injection,
but the scientists hope to have drinkable milk vaccines within the next decade. Head researcher Mark Westhusin tells Co. Exist's Ben Schiller:
There is tremendous potential to produce malaria vaccines and other types of medicines, especially for Third world countries.
If you produce these proteins in goats and other transgenic animals, it s way more efficient,
In another application of this technology, scientists at UC Davis have reared goats that produce milk with an antidiarrheal disease enzyme.
If this pharm animal scenario sounds a little too dystopian sci fi novel to you, you're not alone.
Westhusin acknowledges he has the F. D. A.,the conventional drug industry, and the general American public against him.
Westhusin's betting that impoverished countries will give more weight to their health and economic needs than their moral squeamishness and put the goat milk cures into widespread use in the near future. via Co. Exist Photo:
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Mass fat production leads to mass fat consumptioni'm fat. Well, a little fat. My body mass index (BMI) comes out at 28.
According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Trust for America's Health, 27 percent of Georgia adults and a whopping 37 percent of its kids are obese,
Our obesity epidemic is not a demand problem. It's a supply problem. The mass production creates the mass production,
The answer to the obesity epidemic lies in changing our production incentives. Take the price supports off mass produced grain
Mcdonalds can win the fast food health fightwho is the most popular object of ridicule on Youtube today?
There's a method to the madness, a growing public backlash against Mcdonald's, driven in part by health advocates,
and culminating last week in the Center for Science in the Public interest threatening to sue the company over its Happy Meals.
and to the unhealthiness of fast food diets. Mcdonald's tried to dodge all this by making apple slices an option, next to french fries, in its meals.
but this is not going to turn into a war between fast food and health. The company that can deliver a healthy fast food meal is going to make a lot of money
Well, ever since the days of Charles darwin and Thomas Huxley, it's been appreciated, first based on anatomy and later of course on genetics, independently on genetics,
and don't have access to doctors or nurses or midwives, or optometrists, or dentists, teaching them how to take care of these needs for their own people.
That's really what we're doing. The achievement of Saint's ultimate altruistic goals will involve first commercializing the product in markets like North america
and Western europe Scale will be the key to driving costs down for emerging markets, he says.)
he argued that even the smallest amount of red meat could increase your chances of dying a variety of causes including cardiovascular disease and cancer...
Can you name one disease caused by a vegetarian diet? Impact on the environment We re increasingly aware that animal production is a major factor in climate change, Singer stated.
The anticipated expansion and sustainability implications have caused some anxiety around the city's future, prompting the government to respond with its food policy framework.
This unhealthy competitive industrial food model privileges quantity and price over local communities and good health,
will help to alleviate the pandemic of inactivity and obesity in the city. A recent Victorian Health Report shows poor nutrition accounts for around one-sixth of the total burden of ill health in the state
costing the government between AUD$1. 25 to $4. 15 (USD$1. 19 to $3. 94) billion every year.
HIV drug made in GM tobacco enters clinical trialstoday in London, UK regulators announced the approval of Europe's first clinical trial of an anti-HIV product produced in genetically modified tobacco plants.
Yep, tobacco. The phase I trial, carried out at the University of Surrey Clinical Research Centre,
will test the safety of the plant-produced antibody designed to stop transmission of HIV when applied directly to the vaginal cavity.
Preliminary results are expected in October. If it proves safe in the 11 participants, the researchers will go on to test the effectiveness of this topically-applied,
anti-HIV microbicide. The active ingredient is called an antibody P2g12 â oe it recognizes proteins on the surface of HIV to block infection.
More specifically, it's a monoclonal antibody made from immune cells for one specific role. It was discovered by private Austrian biotech Polymun.
The GM tobacco plants that churned it out are grown in soil in greenhouses at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular biology and Applied Ecology in Aachen, Germany.
and highly purified antibodies are extracted. The process yields 5 grams of purified antibody from 250 kg of tobacco.
Advocates of this emerging field â oe called molecular farming â oe say that protein drugs could be made more efficiently and cheaply inside GM CROPS,
since plants are extremely cost-effective protein producers. Mass producing medicines in GM plants uses lower-cost tech than those of biopharmaceuticals made in huge stainless steel fermentation vats containing bacteria or mammalian cells.
Production costs could be 10 to 100 times lower than using conventional bioreactors, says Rainer Fischer of the Fraunhofer Institute.
'This opens the potential for plants to manufacture a range of drugs in the developed,
The biotech medicine is the first plant-produced antibody to be greenlit for clinical testing by Britain's Medicines and Healthcare products Agency.
because it wanted assurances that the drugs did not contain allergenic plant sugars or pesticides.
P2g12 hasn't been shown to actually prevent HIV infection in humans, Nature News reports, so a version made by tobacco plants won't see approval anytime soon.
This trial is the culmination of the EU Framework 6 Pharma-Planta consortium of about 30 academic institutions and small companies.
who have concerns about cross-contamination with other crops, among other environmental risks. Some Roundup Ready seeds had already been planted before the ban was enacted.
There s peanut breeding â you cross-pollinate to try to create strains that are more disease resistant so you use less pesticides.
What are some health trends in nuts? Health and wellness is hugely important to us.
One of the Planters lines is NUTRITION, which is focused health. There s an omega three mix,
an antioxidant mix â Â all geared toward health. Another example: Our straight dry roasted peanuts from the jar--we added a heart health logo on it.
As we see more and more consumers interested in health, we hope it helps people realize how healthy nuts are.
Macadamia nuts aren t that great for you, right? I wouldn t put it that way.
They have different health properties. Clearly almonds have gotten a lot of press, peanuts are getting their turn in the spotlights,
pistachios are good for you, walnuts are good for you, they all have their own nutrition profile. We re trying to do a better job sharing this.
They reissued that recommendation in a statement earlier this month â oe citing optimal growth, development and health.
reduces gastrointestinal infection in infants does not impair infant growth helps the mother lose weight and delays the return of menstrual periods.
But about a week ago, a new review in The british Medical Journal contradicts this guidance,
higher risk of developing anemia, which is linked to adverse mental, motor and psychosocial problems more food allergies and a higher risk of developing celiac disease But it also notes that babies in western countries who were exclusively breastfed for 6 months were apparently less likely to succumb to infections, such as pneumonia,
than those fed for less than 6 months. While mothers and mothers-to-be were still wading through the conflicting information,
the Surgeon general issued a Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding last week. In it, Surgeon general Regina Benjamin outlined steps to remove obstacles women might face.
She encouraged more supportive families and communities baby-adapted hospitals, properly trained clinicians and breastfeeding-friendly employers.
And here are some economic incentives according to the Call: Families who follow optimal breastfeeding practices can save between $1, 200â oe$1, 500 in expenditures on infant formula in the first year alone.
If 90%of US families breastfed exclusively for 6 months, the country would annually save $13 billion from reduced medical and other costs.
But breast-milk-sharing isn't encouraged by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA. The use of donor milk, especially off the internet, according to the agency this past December, poses risk for the baby.
exposure to infectious diseases, including HIV, to chemical contaminants, such as some illegal drugs, and to a limited number of prescription drugs that might be in the human milk,
if the donor has not been screened adequately if human milk is handled not and stored properly,
like any type of milk, it could spoil. The alternative could be breast-milk banks â oe who screen donors
which contaminants can reduce the final yield--and that means higher costs. Researchers concluded the refining process could be sped up by raising the temperature.
and aerosols are good for your health, by the way. But they do in fact, cool the globe.
Neon pigs raised to lower our healthcare billsscientists from Japan are seeking ways to make medicine cheaper,
but simply shows the transfer of the plasmids is a success. Dr. Stefan Moisyadi, a bioscientist with the IBR, commented:
which can be reared to create cost-efficient medicine. For example, anticoagulant ATRYN is produced in the milk of genetically modified goats
The Bertschi School is a Living Building, designed by the Restorative Design Collective, which is one of the greenest new programs around.
This is a green space that contributes to the overall health and quality of life of the community, continues their description, bringing people together through green business and around good food.
a 34-year-old PS 6 science teacher who died unexpectedly in 2007 of a heart attack after a science field trip.
The end goal is to improve sanitation in a world where 1. 5 million children die every year due to diarrhea caused by food
Just a solid brown background that's mostly covered by images of disease and warnings of death.
combined with large text health warnings, will take up over 75%of the surface of the packet.
Smoking-related diseases kill around 15,000 Australians a year, and tobacco use cost Australia more than $31 billion in one year outweighing the $5. 6 billion
Earlier this summer, Smartplanet's Stacy Lipson reported on graphic cigarette labels released by the US Food and Drug Administration which included pictures of rotting teeth
Australian Cancer Council and Action on Smoking and Health
Novel ways to fake ancient goodsbeijing   Strolling through Beijing's Panjiayuan Market, it's easy to imagine you've entered an antique treasure trove.
One answer to toxic food fears in Chinathe fear among Chinese of biting into a toxic-laden morsel has created a potentially huge market for food safety products in the country.
including the 2008 melamine milk contamination incident that killed six children and sickened some 300,000 more.
The weekly reports of toxic bean sprouts, milk containing leather-hydrolyzed protein, aluminum-tainted dumplings and cadmium-laced rice is enough to make anyone wary of
and excessive amounts of drug residue by identifying more than 60 varieties of chemicals, reported China's official Xinhua news agency.
cheaper than staying home from work to nurse, and modern. In  the 1970's and 1980's international health agencies began to promote the health benefits of breast milk.
 Mothers in the industrialized world returned to the practice, and the formula industry shifted its target demographic to developing countries.
researchers estimated this year in The british Medical Journal that, Currently, suboptimal breastfeeding is associated with over a million deaths each year and 10%of the global disease burden in children.
Human breast milk has unique ingredients that protect babies against illness. They're special sugars called human milk oligosaccharides (HMO.
And until now, they've been too prohibitively expensive ($1000 Â pre gram) to put into formula.
in the lab. They did this by engineering a strain of  E coli bacteria to produce the sugar for them, quickly and cheaply.
such as some types of high-value pharmaceuticals, has required traditionally the use of highly insulated cardboard cartons.
The food and beverages company is pumping $30 million annually into its Mexican subsidiary in an effort to bolster the health profile of its products
Mexico's expanding middle-class and its relatively high obesity rate make the country an ideal market for snack food manufacturers aiming to expand sales opportunities for more health-minded products
Seventy percent of Mexican adults are overweight or obese, according to statistics from the national health secretariat.
which in many poor neighborhoods is increased responsible for asthma rates and other health problems. They also reduce stress,
which has its own health benefits. Large, established trees can even fight crime. Wealthy cities are taking action-New york city is trying to double the amount of trees to 1 million,
London is aiming for 20,000 new trees before the Olympics, and over the course of the last twenty years Chicago has planted over 600,
Second, the honey in question contained antibiotics that are regulated more closely in the United states. It turns out
Potato blight and flu have much in commonin 1846 the first of my ancestors arrived in America.
Which turns out to have a lot in common with a disease stalking my family (and yours) today, the flu.
The influenza germ is constantly changing and the potato blight is capable of similar changes. Senior author Gene Nusbaum of Harvard described its ability to change as exquisite.
and tomato crops throughout the U s. Flu has similar adaptability. Just this week scientists have found N1h1 infecting deeper into the lungs than seasonal flu
while Israel has isolated a strain that resists Tamiflu, the most common antiviral. By attacking this adaptability, pandemic skeptic Peter Palese of the Mt.
Sinai School of medicine in New york says, the flu virus can be controlled. Here again the potato blight offers some clues.
Nearly three-quarters of the blight's genome consists of junk DNA, unused sequences that evolve quickly.
The working genome evolves more slowly. Think of it in terms of your own work. If you have a lot of notes for your paper you can edit it quickly,
I would hope that some clever plant pathologist would be able to genetically engineer resistance.
Now if we can just to the same with the flu
Protesting in Brussels? Throw milk at the governmentthinking of protests, kettling, bottle and coke-can missiles,
UPS under online drug shipment investigation Why nothing is private: How the FBI can read your emails Will coffee soon be a thing of the past
They â â¢ve got about 137,000 members at this Point the way it works is each member can scan any product barcode they come into contact with--whether it food or from the pharmacy or hardware store.
You're a psychiatrist by trade. How did you come to shift your focus to the world's poor?
When I was working as a  psychiatrist  in southwest Denver, I was in charge of a mental health system serving about 100,000.
People who were benefited chronically mentally ill more from poverty strategies than formal psychiatric therapies. I started working on improved housing and other opportunities for the chronically mentally ill.
Being able to hold a job and have a regular income and improved self-esteem significantly reduced readmission rates to hospitals.
I realized that people who were chronically mentally ill in Denver were living on $600 a month.
We started treating the chronically mentally ill as customers for mental health services rather than as patients.
energy, health and education. People often feel that poverty is an insurmountable problem that can't be solved on a personal or local level.
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