As stem cell-based treatments continue to develop the authors say it will be increasingly important to understand the role of autophagy in preserving stem cells'health
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The imperative science needs for health-related water research and education1. Joan B. Rose1 Phd Michigan State university Department of Fisheries and Wildlife 480 Wilson Road Natural resources Bldg Rm 13 East Lansing MI 48824
The convergence of nanotechnology with environmental microbiology could expand the limits of technology enhance global health through safer water reuse
and long-term adverse health effects said Ana Navas-Acien MD Phd senior author of the study and an associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Department of Environmental Health Sciences.
Richard Moore health sciences adjunct professor; Simon Chan (B. Sc. Biol; Pawan Pandoh (B. Sc.
Through these activities the BRC supports studies in a broad range of fields from basic research to the treatment of disease health promotion food production and environmental conservation.
and soils negatively impacting ecological health. Researchers have used now publicly accessible data collected weekly or monthly at numerous monitoring sites during the period from 1980-2010 to track wet deposition of nitrate and sulfate near several U s. and East Asian cities.
The USGS scientists involved in this study serve as members of a worldwide consortium of researchers examining the health of seagrasses.
#Organic labels bias consumers perceptions through the health halo effectthe word organic can mean many things to consumers.
what is known as the'health halo effect'.'But can this bias go further? A study by Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab researchers Wan-chen Jenny Lee Mitsuru Shimizu Kevin M. Kniffin and Brian Wansink set out to answer this question.
Their study shows that an organic label can influence much more than health views: perceptions of taste calories and value can be altered significantly
Certain people also appear to be more susceptible to this'health halo'effect than others#are you?
The nutritional aspects of these foods were biased also greatly by the health halo effect. The organic cookies and yogurt were said to taste'lower in fat'than the regular variety
and those who exhibit pro-environmental behaviors (such as recycling or hiking) are less susceptible to the organic'health halo'effect.
The Identification and prevention of dietary-and lifestyle-induced health effects in children and infants (IDEFICS) study includes data from 14426 children aged between two and nine from eight European countries:
and economic groups in order to minimise inequalities in health concludes Fernã¡ndez Alvira. Childhood nutritionchildhood from two to fourteen years old is a growth period during which the requirements for energy and nutrients increase.
Nevertheless the World Health Organisation warns of the importance of monitoring the diet of the youngest members of society as almost 40 million children under the age of five suffered from overweight in 2010.
Ovaries are the female reproductive organs that produce eggs that are fertilized for pregnancy as well as secrete hormones important to bone and cardiovascular health.
study findsa new study looking at the potential health benefits of organic versus nonorganic food found that fruit flies fed an organic diet recorded better health outcomes than flies fed a nonorganic diet.
The study from the lab of SMU biologist Johannes H. Bauer Southern Methodist University Dallas found that fruit flies raised on diets of organic foods performed better on several tests for general health.
While these findings are certainly intriguing what we now need to determine is why the flies on the organic diets did better especially
since not all the organic diets we tested provided the same positive health outcomes said Bauer principal investigator for the study.
Fruit flies on organic diets showed improvements on the most significant measures of health namely fertility
But this is a start toward understanding potential health benefits said Chhabra a student at Clark High school in Plano Texas who led the experiment.
whether it's worth it to buy organic foods to achieve possible health benefits. Bauer an assistant professor in SMU's Department of Biological sciences mentored Chhabra by helping guide
The research focus of Bauer's fruit fly lab is nutrition and its relationship to longevity health and diabetes.
The findings Organically grown food provides health benefits to Drosophila melanogaster have been published in the open access journal PLOS One.
Flies on organic food performed better on some health teststhe data demonstrated that flies raised on organic food extracts by and large-large performed better on the majority of health tests reported the researchers.
It remains unclear why organic diets delivered better health the researchers said. The Bauer lab results come at a time
when the health effects of organic food are debated widely. Prior studies by other researchers have found conflicting results
The health tests measured longevity fertility stress and starvation resistance. Findings suggest beneficial health effects dependent on specific foods Some negative
or neutral results were obtained using diets prepared from organic raisins which suggests the beneficial health effects of organic diets are dependent on the specific food item Bauer said.
That might explain some of the inconsistent results in the published studies in the scientific literature he said noting some studies suggest there is a nutritional benefit from organic food
To our surprise in the majority of our tests of flies on organic foods the flies fed organic diets did much better on our health tests than the flies fed conventional food Bauer said.
This new study assessed the impact of soy intake on lung cancer survival among participants of the Shanghai Women's Health Study which tracked cancer incidence in 74941 Shanghai women.
Long-term ecological research is important to understanding the health and sustainability of the nation's forests said Michael T. Rains Director of the Northern Research Station.
The state of the lesser prairie chicken is an indicator of prairie health he said. A general decline shows that the ecosystem as a whole faces uncertainty
and the latter can affect an'adopted'chick's health suggesting nurture is involved. Taking two mothers with different patterning
and swapping their chicks researchers from Palacky University in the Czech republic were able to investigate the growth and health of the infants and the'ornamentation'of their mothers.
however neither the cheek patch nor the stripe in males affected the health of the babies.
whose goal is to reduce tobacco use among those with behavioral health needs. Participating states bring together policymakers
The report Adults with Mental illness or Substance Use Disorder Account for 40 Percent of All Cigarettes Smoked is based on the findings of SAMHSA's 2009-2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH.
However by changing the focus to the elimination of foods not needed to improve health--such as meat snacks desserts
Following a plant-based diet also yielded some unexpected health benefits Flynn adds. Approximately half of all participants lost weight which was not a study objective
Our results also suggest that including a few plant-based meals per week is an attainable goal that will not only improve their health
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which is tracking the long term health of a representative sample of US children born in 2001.
#Community approach effective in fight against diabetesnew research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical center shows that a diabetes prevention program led by community health workers is effective at reducing blood glucose
We wanted to take this intervention out to people in the community rather than having them have to come to us in a clinical setting said the study's lead author Jeff Katula Ph d. assistant professor of health and exercise sciences at Wake Forest University and joint
The lifestyle weight-loss interventions were conducted by community health workers in parks and recreation centers rather than by health care professionals in clinical settings.
and lack of employment would be related to a higher level of relighting says Dr. Steinberg who is also an associate professor of medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical school and an associate professor of health education and behavioral science at UMDNJ
and supplements have the potential to improve smokers'health. In the U s. alone cigarette smoking accounts for more deaths annually than HIV illegal drugs alcohol motor vehicle injuries suicides and murders combined.
and eating and exercise habits affect the students'health over time. The research is important to Hispanics in the United states
Adopting the USDA dairy recommendation as a young person is a low-cost approach to maintain health
The tobacco industry was found guilty by a federal court in 2006 for deceptively promoting'light'cigarettes as safer after countless smokers who switched to lights died prematurely thinking they had reduced their health risks.
In 2006 a U s. federal court ruled that tobacco companies should be banned from any future use of descriptive words that convey a false health message.
day also benefit human health report researchers at the University of California Davis. The study is the first on record to show that goats'milk carrying elevated levels of the antimicrobial lysozyme a protein found in human breast milk can successfully treat diarrhea
These results provide just one example that through genetic engineering we can provide agriculturally relevant animals with novel traits targeted at solving some of the health-related problems facing these developing communities.
and diarrhea and also encourages the growth of other beneficial intestinal bacteria it is considered to be one of the main components of human milk that contribute to the health and well-being of breast-fed infants.
The authors acknowledge funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by American Chemical Society.
Selenium is a naturally occurring mineral of fundamental importance to human health with critical roles in immunity.
and so selenium is transferred not into crops in sufficient amounts for optimal human health. We urgently need to assess strategies to address this problem in Malawi
and Natural resources and the Ministry of Health in Malawi spent time in the homes of the volunteers collecting duplicate samples of what they ate
and Mississippi said Daniel Taber Ph d. MPH research scientist with the Institute for Health Research
The above story is provided based on materials by Health Behavior News Service part of the Center for Advancing Health.
Dr Emma Boyland from the Institute of Psychology Health and Society who led the research said:
The apparent health effects of secondhand smoke on CAC remained regardless of whether the exposure was during childhood or adulthood.
Each provided detailed health information and had a single low-dose non-gated CT scan as part of the FAMRI program.
The U s. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service recently implemented a formal methodology for evaluation of weediness
Assure every sector of a nation including health trade and finance officials work collectively to protect
not only health but the harm tobacco places on their economy by passing laws to reduce use;
Place health as the centerpiece of any decision on a trade treaty that includes tobacco;
And Dr. Douglas Webb of United nations Development Program warned that tobacco use poses a major health and human development threat.
Sponsors of the unusual two-day conference on Governance of Tobacco in the 21st Century at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies included WHO the Harvard Global Health Institute the American
at the University of Waterloo the O'neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University the Framework Convention Alliance of Action on Smoking and Health the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
mysterious disease syndrome as key factors in bee colony deathsa new long-term study of honey bee health has found that a little-understood disease study authors are calling idiopathic
The study evaluated the health of 80 commercial colonies of honey bees (Apis mellifera) in the eastern United states on an almost monthly basis over the course of 10 months
The goal of the study was to track changes in bee colony health and for those colonies that died off to determine what factors earlier in the year may have contributed to colony death.
The occurrence of a queen event had a risk factor of 3. 1. This is the first time anyone has done an epidemiological study to repeatedly evaluate the health of the same commercial honey bee colonies over the course of a season Tarpy says.
and have the intrinsic ability to restore tissue health. Almeida-Porada said that while the two studies show that the cells can migrate to
The presence of some species like the scarlet tanager are a good indicator of undisturbed forest health.
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The researchers used data from the National Institute on Aging's Health Aging and Body Composition (Health ABC) study a prospective cohort of several thousand initially well-functioning white and black adults aged 70-79.
) health conditions. Increases in ozone level were similar but on a shorter timescale: Each increase of 20 parts per billion over one to three hours also increased OHCA risk with a peak of 4. 4 percent.
and equipment and provide early warnings to health officials and the public when weather and/or incidents warrant an alert for high ozone levels in specific areas Ensor said.
and a public-health authority for the city said it's long been thought by EMS workers that certain types of air pollution including ozone have significant negative effects on cardiac and respiratory health.
Cohan's talk focused on uncertainties in estimating the health benefits that will result from efforts to control ozone pollution.
but some epidemiological studies show that substantial health benefits can also result from reducing ozone at other times he said.
Thus emission-control strategies aimed solely at achieving regulatory standards may not yield as great a health benefit as strategies that reduce ozone year-round.
At the same time we want to enhance our understanding of the health cost of pollution --and celebrate its continuing reduction.
and health costs in California with 38 other states that did not have substantial state tobacco control programs or cigarette tax increases prior to 2000.
Some health experts regard mycotoxins as the most serious chronic dietary risk factor greater than the potential health threats from pesticides and insecticides.
which avoids the health environmental and pest-resistance concerns of traditional insecticides scientists are reporting.
#Low-arsenic rice discovered in Bangladesh could have major health benefitsscientists identify aromatic rice with very low arsenic content and higher concentrations of essential nutrients selenium
Although the yield of aromatic rice is lower the farmers will not need to spend much money on applying chemicals that could pollute the environment and harm their own health.#
and dark chocolate have positive components that are actually good for your heart said Ofria a registered dietitian at the Loyola University Health System's Melrose Park campus. Red wine
Ofria who is also a nutrition educator recommends the following list of heart-healthy ingredients for February which is national heart month and for good heart health all year.
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Organic matter is important for soil health and crop productivity. While an indicator of soil quality a lot of organic matter is in extremely stable forms
and opened in 1852 were pivotal in improving the health of Londoners. They provided clean filtered water
Our study suggests that these interventions will help maintain kidney health in those with kidney disease added Dr. Goraya.
snusresearchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Institute for Health Research and Policy have received a $2. 3 million federal grant to study how young adults use hookahs snus electronic cigarettes and other
They do not carry FDA health warning labels. The researchers will follow approximately 230 young adults ages 18 to 30 who regularly use non-cigarette forms of tobacco.
The benefit to health is explicit: Zinc is beneficial because it stops the action of a protein ultimately preventing excess inflammation.
That position is echoed by Ronny Bell co-director of the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity at Wake Forest Baptist.
Participation in research is critical to our understanding of the health disparities that exist in many populations
and our ability to develop solutions to alleviate these health burdens he said. Ultimately clinical-trial participation is about contributing.
The farmers'families tend to become better educated and local nonprofit groups currently supporting food security health
In recent years several prominent summits on ecological concerns have identified biodiversity in agricultural ecosystems as a major sustainability issue with implications for food security conservation health and well-being and adaptation
The long-term health of tropical forests will depend on their ability to withstand multiple pressures from changing climate and deforestation.
It's a fascinating paper with some genuine concerns in terms of potential health implications. Whilst we are not able to directly attribute nanoparticle ingestion to any particular disease
According to the authors of the study we are an example of clinical research focused on common diseases with a high impact on health.
though many doctors and nutritionists recommend between 1200-1600 milligrams daily depending on a person's age and health.
The health benefits of omega-3s are limited not to humans. Studies show that dairy and beef cattle with an enriched diet of flaxseed
We really believe in the health aspect of this product and are using the slogan 'When Every Bite Counts'to emphasize that.
Staff and volunteers stationed on Midway are responsible for monitoring the health of the beautiful seabirds that arrive every year by the hundreds of thousands to nest.
This information helps us measure the health of our oceans that sustain albatross. Almost as amazing as being a parent at 62 is the number of miles this bird has logged likely--about 50000 miles a year as an adult
#New study sheds light on link between dairy intake and bone health: Not all dairy products are equala study by researchers at the Institute for Aging Research (IFAR) at Hebrew Seniorlife an affiliate of Harvard Medical school (HMS) has found that dairy intake--specifically milk
Dairy foods provide several important nutrients that are beneficial for bone health says lead author Shivani Sahni Ph d. Musculoskeletal Research Team IFAR.
This study is an example of a growing area of research focused on the relationship between nutrition and bone health.
-HC-25195) the Melvin First Young Investigator Award and General mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition.
Xiaolin Nan of Oregon Health and Science University School of medicine and Sengupta Prabuddha of The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National institutes of health.
#Genetically modified tobacco plants produce antibodies to treat rabiessmoking tobacco might be bad for your health
Crowder working with fellow entomologist Jeb Owen other WSU colleagues and the State department of Health merged data from a variety of sources including West Nile infections in humans horses
I am currently working in a toxicology laboratory at the School of Public health doing research into the human health effects of environmental exposures he said.
the National institutes of health (NIH)# ARP Diet and Health Study the Cancer Prevention Study II-Nutrition Cohort the Multiethnic Cohort the Health professionals Follow-up Study and the Nurses Health Study
but some health benefits of berries may not make it past your mouthresearch has suggested that compounds that give colorful fruits their rich hues especially berries promote health
But for the first time scientists have exposed extracts from numerous berries high in those pigments to human saliva to see just what kinds of health-promoting substances are likely to survive
It's too early to name the best berry for health promotion based on this initial work.
or instead the products of their degradation that actually promote health. Scientists say that these early findings will contribute to the further development of confectionaries gums and other delivery devices for the prevention and possibly the treatment of conditions such as periodontal disease and oral cancers.
Some might be better for providing health-promoting effects within the oral cavity whereas others may be more beneficial for colonic health.
We simply do not know at this time. Increased intake of fruits and vegetables is associated with decreased risk of some chronic diseases.
whether the health-promoting benefits associated with eating anthocyanin-rich fruits like berries are provided by the pigment itself the natural combinations of the pigments in the fruit
If anthocyanins are the actual health-promoting compound you would want to design food products confectionaries and gels containing mixtures of anthocyanins that are stable in the mouth.
If on the other hand the metabolites produced by the metabolism of anthocyanins are the actual health-promoting compounds there will be greater interest in fruits that contain anthocyanins that are less stable in the oral cavity Failla said.
However they also write that interpretation of these findings may also be challenged by the known effects of other potential confounders including the aggregation of health behaviors.
The study is published in The british Journal of Health Psychology on January 24. A total of 281 young adults (with a mean age of 20 years) completed an internet-based daily food diary for 21 consecutive days.
By combining data on six parasite species from ongoing surveys of lemur health with weather data and other environmental information for Madagascar as a whole a team of Duke university researchers has created probability
and human health said lead author Meredith Barrett who conducted the study while working as a graduate student at Duke.
what these changes could mean for lemur health by taking a cue from the parasites they carry.
Meredith Barrett is now a postdoctoral scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program at the University of California at San francisco and Berkeley.
Professor Theresa Marteau Director of the University of Cambridge's Behaviour and Health Research Unit who led the study said:
A one percentage point decline--from 21%of the population to 20%--would equate to 500000 people who will not suffer the health effects of smoking.
Dr Rachel Pechey first author of the study from the University of Cambridge's Behaviour and Health Research Unit said:
This ties in with previous research that has described three ways in which plain packaging may reduce smoking rates particularly among youth--by reducing the appeal of packs by increasing the salience of health warnings
This could potentially be carried over to human health as well Donaldson said. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by American Society of Animal Science.
Government health authorities estimate that one-third of all children born in the United states since the year 2000 will get this disease at some point in their lives possibly knocking decades off their life expectancies.
This ongoing endeavor called the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey involves a detailed analysis of substances in blood drawn from thousands of volunteers
Other co-authors were John Ioannidis MD Phd professor of medicine and of health research and policy;
The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health National Library of Medicine National Institute of General Medical sciences and other National institutes of health agencies funded the study.
Ozone is both a major air pollutant with known adverse health effects and a greenhouse gas that traps heat from escaping Earth's atmosphere.
Scientists and policy analysts are interested in learning how curbing the emissions of these chemicals can improve human health
Our study could enable policy researchers to calculate the relative health and climate benefits of air pollution control
and resulting health implications more generally in primates living in habitats disturbed by human activities such as deforestation.
and analyzes its likely effects on human health water energy transportation agriculture forests ecosystems and biodiversity.
and those trends are expected to continue causing erosion declining water quality and negative impacts on transportation agriculture human health and infrastructure according to the report.
Climate change will likely worsen a host of existing problems in the Great lakes including changes in the range and distribution of important commercial and recreational fish species increases in invasive species declining beach health and more frequent harmful
because the cooking and eating facilities can have immediate and significant effects on the workers'health safety
A limitation of the study which was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (grant RO1 ES012358) Quandt said is that data were collected only in eastern North carolina
Farmworker housing is a potential source of exposures that threaten workers'health and safety she said.
#Tree and human health may be linkedevidence is increasing from multiple scientific fields that exposure to the natural environment can improve human health.
In a new study by the U s. Forest Service the presence of trees was associated with human health.
of a major change in the natural environment on human health. In an analysis of 18 years of data from 1296 counties in 15 states researchers found that Americans living in areas infested by the emerald ash borer a beetle that kills ash trees suffered from an additional
The researchers analyzed demographic human mortality and forest health data at the county level between 1990 and 2007.
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