Chimp research cut The US National institutes of health (NIH) is ending its funding for chimpanzee work at the largest centre for such research that it supports.
There are still 308 Â chimpanzees available for invasive experiments at two other NIH-supported centres;
XMRV ruled out The retrovirus XMRV is linked not to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS a definitive study that cost US$2. 3 Â million concluded on 18 Â September.
and Chemical Toxicology, looked for adverse health effects in rats fed NK603 maize (corn), developed by biotech company Monsanto to resist the herbicide glyphosate
About a dozen long-term studies of different GM CROPS have failed to find such stark health effects2.
CRIIGEN bills itself as an"independent nonprofit organization of scientific counter-expertise to study GMOS, pesticides and impacts of pollutants on health and environment
which could prompt a dangerous immune reaction if injected into patients. But today in Nature Communications1, Kermode and her colleagues describe how they avoided these modifications.
Through the Recovery Act, my Administration committed over $100 billion to support groundbreaking innovation with investments in energy, basic research, education and training, advanced vehicle technology, health IT and health research
We have invested highly in important research being done to improve the health and wellness of all Americans so that we can continue to unravel clues to treating
Robust NIH funding will only have desired its effect if paired with sensible policies that facilitate medical innovation more broadly.
we must continue to invest in the best public health monitoring systems that can be built. I will also encourage advancements in research
A robust public health system is only as strong as the tools available, and I will empower the private sector to pursue the breakthroughs that will equip society for the health challenges of the twenty-first century.
Increasingly, the global economy is driven by science, technology, engineering and math, but a recent comparison of 15-year-olds in 65 countries found that average science scores among U s. students ranked 23rd,
yet many Americans are concerned increasingly about the health and safety of our food. The use of hormones, antibiotics and pesticides,
What steps would you take to ensure the health, safety and productivity of America s food supply?
I am protecting human health by ensuring that the foods the American public eats will be free from unsafe levels of pesticides by making sure that all new,
and even older pesticides, comply with strict science-based health standards. We are also making sure safer pesticides get to market faster,
so that we can decrease the use of those pesticides that have higher risks of health impacts.
And I will continue to work on food safety issues to ensure that public health is the priority in our food safety system.
100 water and waste water community infrastructure projects to safeguard the health of 18 million rural residents and support 135,000 jobs.
and through foreign policy to protect the environmental health and economic vitality of the oceans? We are directing additional funding to Gulf Coast restoration to bring back the fisheries and coastal ecosystems
so we have the most accurate data possible on the health of our fisheries. These are significant steps that are helping us improve the health of our oceans and build more robust fisheries.
The federal government has a vital role to play in conducting sound science and making the resulting data available.
and industry associations should have access to the data to protect the health and vitality of the oceans and to adjust policy when necessary.
A Romney Administration will safeguard the long-term health of fisheries, while welcoming input from the fishermen most affected at every step
But a senior official responsible for assessing the health of the nation s forests says that recent surveys have overestimated the extent of the remaining forests.
uncertainty about acrylamide s true health effects and the challenge of weeding out a mole  cule present in hundreds of products.
Phones and tumours Italy s highest civil court has stated that mobile phones can cause brain tumours to the dismay of medical experts who say no study has proven a clear causal link between health risks
Chimp haven The US National institutes of health (NIH) said on 17 Â October that it will send 20 Â chimpanzees to permanent retirement in a federally funded sanctuary by August 2013 double the number it announced last month.
The animals are among 110 Â NIH-owned chimpanzees that the agency is removing from the New Iberia Research center in Lafayette, Louisiana Officials at the 80-hectare Chimp Haven sanctuary in Keithville,
The US National institutes of health (NIH) occasionally supports research on transgenic pigs that model human diseases, but rarely funds proposals to produce drugs or vaccines in the milk of transgenic livestock.
An NIH spokesperson says that decisions are based on many factors, including the needs of the research community.
Several labs are trying to identify how variation in the prevalence of the large sugar molecules in breast milk, collectively known as human milk oligosaccharides (HMOS), influences infant health.
clinical trials to test HMOS as health-boosting additives in infant formula milk can be drawn up.
which is funded by the National institutes of health (NIH). Geneticist Martien Groenen, part of the team that sequenced the pig genome, chews the fat with Thea Cunningham.
The NIH launched the NSRRC in 2003 to encourage research in pig disease models. Pigs are more expensive to keep than rodents,
"The question of the underlying health of the forest is much deeper than the instantaneous response.
A three-month investigation, led by the Chinese Center for disease control and Prevention (CDC), culminated in the decision on 6 december to sack two members of the CDC s own staff Yin Shi an,
and have demanded a guarantee that the rice will not affect their children s health.""If it s safe, why did need they to deceive us into this?
has rejected the findings of a controversial paper published in September (see go. nature. com/3slkys) claiming that rats fed genetically modified maize (corn) showed adverse health effects,
) Two strikes rule The US National institutes of health has said that it will continue an unpopular policy that prevents grant applicants from resubmitting rejected proposals more than once.
a health-policy analysis firm based in London and Sydney, Australia. Over the past three years, public and philanthropic funding has declined as some government aid budgets have been cut,
this month (8 november), directed the public health minister to ban GMO imports until the country is able to certify that they have no negative impact on people's health.
In a statement to the press, the cabinet said there was a lack of sufficient information on the public health impact of such foods.
data and knowledge demonstrating that GMO foods are not a danger to public health, it added.
the Department of health announced an independent review to assess whether to merge their activities. See go. nature. com/gciolp for more.
in poor health in an unreported antibody production facility owned by California-based Santa cruz Biotechnology."
Animal officials at the National institutes of health (NIH) would not comment specifically on the USDA findings or the use of Santa cruz Biotechnology products by NIH-supported researchers.
The NIH's public health services policy on animal welfare which since 1985 has governed the use of animals
and animal products by NIH-funded researchers exempts purchases of off-the-shelf antibodies. On 11 january, the Animal Welfare Institute petitioned the NIH director Francis Collins
and the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare at NIH to remove this exemption. According to an 18 december 2012 follow-up inspection by the USDA
two of the 12 animals found in poor health in October have since been euthanised as a result of their conditions,
and some but not all of the sick goats are receiving appropriate medical treatment and monitoring
which two researchers working with adult stem cells challenged the legality of the National institutes of health (NIH) funding the work,
NIH director Francis Collins said he was pleased"very with the 7 Â January decision. See go. nature. com/ouwpo2 for more.
NIHSUCCESS rates stuck The success rate for grant applicants to the US National institutes of health (NIH) remained unchanged at a historic low of 18%in 2012 (see graph),
Sally Rockey, the NIH s deputy director for extramural research, wrote on her Rock Talk blog that the rate for research project grants was the same as that in the 2011 fiscal year,
Boston pathogen lab The US National institutes of health (NIH) will support a plan for a laboratory in Boston, Massachusetts,
On 2 Â January, the NIH announced its final determination that Boston University s National Emerging Infectious diseases Laboratory poses little risk to the surrounding community.
which had been under review at NIH since 2001, must win approvals from state and local authorities before it can upgrade its research to biosafety level 4, the highest level of containment.
Verinata Health, based in Redwood City, California, markets a test for chromosomal abnormalities, such as Down s syndrome,
and protection and health research in the region. Source: MUNICH REAROUND 9, 500 people lost their lives last year in natural disasters less than one-tenth of the ten-year average.
They are much more complex than sponges they have nerves, muscles, tissue layers and light sensors, all of which the sponges lack."
For example, Moroz and his team found that comb jellies grow their nerves with unique sets of genes."
and having a whole range of effects on the environment and public health, says Sutton. According to a report commissioned by the United nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and launched on 18 february by the Global Partnership on Nutrient Management and International Nitrogen Initiative, nitrogen pollution causes US$200-US$2, 000
Thousands of local citizens say that inhaling the acid has damaged their health. Exposure to HF can trigger an irregular heartbeat
and the long-term health effects include chronic lung disease. The government has said that it will pay about 36.4 Â billion won (US$33. 4 Â million) in compensation to citizens and local businesses.
Woo explains that the survey is modelled on a two-year health investigation that followed a 1987 leak at an oil refinery in Texas,
and health officials to target their surveillance and control efforts. For H5n1, researchers integrate large data sets that combine information on many potentially important factors, such as poultry trade routes,
Then the public-health and clinical community will need to assess, carefully and quickly, whether it represents a single imported case of animal-to-human transmission,
Lawsuit settlement Cancer researcher Philippe Bois has settled a lawsuit against the US Department of health and human services (DHHS) over scientific misconduct, according to an announcement on 18 Â April.
Scientists, meanwhile, are vigorously debating whether the studies on neonicotinoids and the health of honeybees and bumblebees,
and reproduce1-6 (see The buzz over bee health). The past year has seen a raft of papers about the effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on bees.
adds Lynne Mofenson, head of the Maternal and Pediatric Infectious disease Branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Maryland.
says Catherine Hankins, deputy director of science at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development.
But the World Health Organisation confirmed on Saturday that Chinese authorities are investigating two suspicious clusters of human cases.
The Beijing Municipal Health Bureau also announced today that a 4-year-old contact of a 7-year-old girl who had been hospitalized with the virus tested positive for the virus too,
or accelerates, H7n9 could be a significant public health problem even if it remains an infection that people catch from animals,
says Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public health in Boston, Massachusetts. Genetic analyses of the new virus show that it has several mutations making it more adapted to humans than is H5n1.
and tell public health workers where the public health threat lies. But with H7n9, it is only the appearance of new human cases that shows where the silent spread in birds
Chinese health authorities say that they have 400 laboratories looking for genetic changes in the virus."We are going to be bated sitting with breath over the next month to find out what happens,
Health authorities in China are trying to learn to what extent that has happened already. Unlike its cousin H5n1 which has killed millions of birds
NICE head departs The head of the National Institute for Health and Care (formerly Clinical) Excellence (NICE) in London stepped down on 31 Â March.
and public-health officials worldwide are on alert after China announced on 31 march that two people had died
The cases were announced on 31 march by China's health ministry, the National Health and Family planning Commission,
The fact that the virus does not seem to cause serious disease in birds has potential epidemiological and public-health implications,
Among researchers and public-health officials, says Peiris, It's not an atmosphere of alarm, but an atmosphere of concern
security, manufacturing, infrastructure, health costs, and natural resources and the environment. Laura Leon/Polaris/eyevineendangered ecosystems get listed The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on 8 may updated the criteria for its Red List of Ecosystems (D. Â A. Â Keith et
Also present were scientists representing the US National institutes of health one of the initiative s two other government-agency partners.
NIH budget blues The US National institutes of health (NIH) announced on 8 Â May a final 2013 budget of US$29. 15 Â billion
Heidi Larson of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine hopes that real-time monitoring will help health officials to know where to focus
and inconclusive, says Dariush Mozaffarian, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public health in Boston,
Harran will be tried on three counts of violating health and safety standards a Los  Angeles judge ordered on 26  April.
Unfortunately during a global economic crisis, budget cuts come at the cost of ecosystem health monitoring.
Skeletons show rickets struck the Medici familyas the wealthy rulers of Tuscany and patrons of Leonardo Da vinci and Galileo,
But all their wealth could not buy good health for their young sons and daughters. A study1 of the skeletons of nine Medici children born in the sixteenth century shows that they had rickets,
But such clocks could also potentially have adverse health effects. Â"You have to wonder
19 25 july 2013india trials halted The US National institutes of health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, last week confirmed reports that it has postponed some of its roughly 30 clinical trials in India,
In January, the Indian health ministry tightened regulations on clinical trials. Sponsors are required now to provide compensation to participants who are injured as a result of a trial,
"NIH has expressed its concerns about the new regulations, and looks forward to hearing clarifications from the Indian government,
The European Food safety Authority in Parma, Italy, concluded in May that maize (corn) seeds treated with fipronil pose a high acute risk to honeybees. ips trial approved On 19 july, Japan s health minister,
The virus poses no health threat to humans. The US Department of agriculture (USDA) had tried to keep PEDV and other diseases out of the country by restricting imports of pigs and pork products from certain nations, such as China.
US Department of agriculture"It s a real threat, says Lisa  Becton, a veterinary surgeon and director of swine health information at the National Pork Board, an industry group in Des Â
NIH funding The US National institutes of health (NIH) received a tentative boost on 11 Â July when the US Senate committee on government spending approved a US$31-billion budget plan for the agency nearly $2 Â billion more than the NIH received this year.
Although the plan must still be voted on by the full Senate NIH supporters cheered the proposed increases.
The plan includes $84 Â million in new funds for Alzheimer s disease research at the NIH s National Institute on Aging.
See go. nature. com/qkxiar for more. Myriad back in court One month after the US Supreme court invalidated gene patents held by Myriad Genetics of Salt lake city, Utah,
says Michael Firko, the head of biotechnology regulation at the USDA s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
The root of the different immune responses lies with the mushroom-shaped haemagglutinin protein found on the outside of influenza-virus particles
David Morens, an influenza researcher and senior adviser at the US National institutes of health in Bethesda, Maryland, says that the evolutionary pathway that the viruses followed suggests that more surveillance
and better sanitation practices at poultry markets are crucial to monitoring risks to human health.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the branch of the agriculture department responsible for overseeing GM CROPS,
because the extra machinery would reduce the fitness, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant geneticist at the University of California in Riverside.
Oryza sativa, gets a significant fitness boost from glyphosate resistance, even when glyphosate is applied not. In their study, published this month in New Phytologist1,
citing concerns over future marketing and potential health effects. The crop is engineered to contain à Â-carotene
Pratima Karnik admitted submitting a grant application to the US National institutes of health that contained text plagiarized from a grant application she had reviewed,
or advising for US public-health services for two years. Brain-implant trial A deep-brain stimulation (DBS) device that not only delivers electrical pulses,
such as low food or high population density around the time that you re developing, is essentially bad for your fitness,
Tang tested the health benefits of Golden Rice genetically modified to produce a Vitamin a precursor on children in China s Hunan province (see Nature http://doi. org/nv9;
the Food and Drug Administration and the National institutes of health (NIH) announced on 19 september. More than $273 Â million may be invested over the next five years to help the programme to develop
The NIH last week also announced some $45 Â million in awards to study early interventions for Alzheimer s disease.
) Cancer cash On 21 september, philanthropists Phil and Penny Knight announced that they would donate US$500 million to cancer research at Oregon Health
So the question on the lips of health experts, policy-makers and consumers alike is, are the devices a health problem that needs tight regulation,
although studies by the FDA and Health New zealand, a research consultancy based in Christchurch, have shown that some brands contain carcinogens
but also the public-health response and scientists both for and against e-cigarettes have waded into the debate
agrees Christopher Bullen of the National Institute for Health Innovation at the University of Auckland in New zealand.
) Vaughan Rees, a tobacco researcher at Harvard School of Public health in Boston, Massachusetts, thinks that e-cigarettes need to improve before they can replace cigarettes and that, for now,
Although they do present an opportunity to improve public health, he adds, care needs to be taken to ensure that they don t flourish alongside conventional cigarettes."
Researchers reviewed electronic health-care records from patients who sought care from the Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System
says Joan Casey, an environmental-health scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health in Baltimore, Maryland,
but the ecological and health effects of fertilizer chemicals raise serious concerns. China in particular, is facing a major pollution problem from overuse of nitrogen fertilizer,
"Understanding the health and condition of tropical soils is a prerequisite for any wise use of fertilizers.
The retraction is"a public-health scandal, he says. Goodman however denies any involvement in the decision to retract the paper.
The cyanide poisoning of up to 300 Â animals at watering holes in a game park in Zimbabwe last month served as a particularly unpleasant reminder of the lengths to
Heart health Long-awaited clinical guidelines released on 12 Â November could change how physicians tackle cholesterol.
But at the end of November he is scheduled to move to Australia to take charge of food, health and life sciences at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia.
Help for headaches Britain s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has approved the treatment of migraine headaches with a magnetism-based procedure applied through the scalp.
Novartis woes The Japanese health ministry filed a criminal complaint on 9 Â January against Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis,
Gun controls The US Department of health and human services proposed on 3 Â January that patient-privacy exemptions should be created
On 30 december, the agency reported that Baoyan Xu, a former postdoctoral fellow at the US National institutes of health (NIH) in Bethesda,
Maryland, had published falsified data on the immune responses of patients with hepatitis to a newly discovered virus. A week earlier, Dong-Pyou Han,
and in NIH grant applications. Open access An international open-access effort kicks off this month to make all particle-physics research articles freely available to readers.
and health estimates down to the level of rows of plants. Such detail could inform decisions on fertilizer and irrigation use,
Anti-tobacco efforts have saved millions of lives around the globehalf a century after the US government sounded an influential alarm about the health dangers of smoking,
"Tobacco control has been an extremely successful public health achievement, says biostatistican Theodore Holford of Yale university in New haven, Connecticut,
adds global-health researcher Christopher Murray of the University of Washington in Seattle, leader of a group that is also publishing a paper today.
and control as part of a special issue the Journal of the American Medical Association that marks the 50th anniversary of a landmark report on the health effects of smoking.
The Surgeon general is a spokesperson for the US Department of health. The Surgeon general's report helped to spur measures to deter smoking,
and could offset health gains if these forms of tobacco are used alongside cigarettes. Murray s study also points out that because of population growth,
because it shows that smoking is not more intractable than other public-health priorities, such as infectious disease."
provides the government and the public with health advice. Dzau will start on 1 Â July, taking over from Harvey Fineberg,
Dzau is president and chief executive of the Duke university Health System. His research contributed to the development of enzyme inhibitors used to treat heart disease.
Sea sickness Europe s seas are in poor health. This is the conclusion of two reports published on 20 Â February detailing the state of the continent s marine ecosystems.
the country s health and agriculture ministries have developed contingency plans should H7n9 arrive, including closing markets and shutting down trade routes."
But the surge in H7n9 flu cases highlights the continuing public-health and possibly pandemic threat that it poses.
They established a Global Health Security Agenda that calls for countries to increase immunizations and share data.
as part of a US$230-million venture with the US National institutes of health. The Accelerating Medicines Partnership, announced on 4 Â February,
In the past two decades, wolf skeletons have displayed spinal deformities that can painfully pinch nerves and affect gait and generally reduce fitness.
According to work led by Vucetich and Rolf Peterson, also an ecologist at Michigan Technological University, this might explain why the number of moose needed to support a given number of wolves has increased:
which plagues veterans of the 1990-91 war with symptoms of fatigue, pain, memory loss and gastrointestinal disorders.
Integrity red tape The departing director of the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI), David Wright, has accused the Department of health and human services in
Energy department officials said the health and environmental impacts of the leak seem to be minor,
or raccoons are in areas around the country they can certainly present a hazard to human (and other mammalian) health if infected.
We're now finding out that bees are important to the health of millions of plants
So to give them a leg up the group Open Tech Forever has developed a beehive that can track the health of bees
and track the health and behaviour of a colony as it develops. Each hive contains an open source sensory kit The Smart Citizen Kit (SCK)
dynamic lane reversals micro-tolling to reduce congestion autonomous-software agents negotiating the travel route with other agents on a moment-to-moment basis
Congestion cannot occur. Entering and exit points would be as close together as those on the Interstate Highway.
It has been estimated that more British gas casualties were suffered that morning than German. Although the numbers are arguable there is little doubt
Diminishing Effectiveness of Gas Although gas claimed a notable number of casualties during its early use once the crucial element of surprise had been lost the overall number of casualties quickly diminished.
It has been estimated that among British forces the number of gas casualties from May 1915 amounted to some 9 per cent of the total
The U s. health agency says it will work to prevent infections track infections when they happen
The headline indicates that every year 0. 6%of the population gets an incurable bacterial infection.
That means in 5 years about 1 in 30 people in the US will have an incurable bacterial infection.
I don't know anyone who has an incurable bacterial infection but I know a TON of gay people.
1. Adrenal fatigue: chronic use means your adrenals are pumping out adrenaline and noradrenaline at phenomenal rates.
The Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark Texas released a statement for its members on August 15 the day after the Tarrant County Public health Department informed the church that one of its missionaries who traveled to a country where measles is had still endemic brought the virus
Some studies suggest people can damage their health by regularly ingesting 5000 international units of Vitamin d a day.
but I wouldn't take my health advice from there. So...the church leaders were initially against vaccinations for dubious reasons then they changed their minds
A lot of current research indicates that Vitamin d improves immune response and nothing shows that 2000 mg is anywhere close to a toxic or unhealthy amount.
what evidence the Tarrant County Health Department has that the missionary brought the measles that supposedly infected the congregation.
and microbes will surpass our own immune response are mistaken sadly. They do and will. If you don't vaccinate then you put yourself at risk.
when it comes to health. They can fix any damage of any cell and become the damaged or missing cells themselves.
For those of you who think that the US is the super power in health and medicince...
but when it comes to things like health and safety regulations you think it stops.
http://www. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/pubmed/11897278http://www. nvic. org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/April-2010/Vaccine-Contamination-Pig-Virus
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