due to problems with clots forming as well as too much bleeding, animal studies show. These problems mean that the longest survival time for pig organs in nonhuman primates to date ranges from a few days for lungs to around six to eight months for hearts,
which are recommended widely to protect against bone fractures. They were associated with a slightly decreased risk of premature death.
The nutrient folic acid, A b vitamin, has been shown to reduce the risk of birth defects. And doctors recommend that many older women take calcium
weigh less and have a lower prevalence of diabetes or high blood pressure than women who didn t take supplements.
All of the women studied were white so the findings may not apply to other groups or to men,
The study was funded partly by the National Cancer Institute and the Academy of Finland, which is backed by the Finnish government.
000 postmenopausal women participating in the federally funded Women s Health Initiative found that multivitamin use didn t cut the risk of cancer, cardiovascular problems or the overall death rate.
Malone credits his fellow media magnate for giving him this land-buying disease.##Turner is dedicated a conservationist who has resurrected the American bison on his ranches (he has some 55,000 of the beasts munching his grasslands now.
and electronics to monitor disease and dispense drugs. Such devices may eventually be able to measure the level of cholesterol or alcohol in your blood and flash up an appropriate warning.
a spin-off from The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Lausanne, is powered a wirelessly contact lens designed to help people with glaucoma manage their treatment.
including plant diseases, fertilizers and chemicals, organic gardening and eco-friendly ideas. A recent update to the app also shows which plants are available for purchase at local app-participating retailers.
and safety, including potential allergic reactions and the precise sort of proteins consumed. Professor Marcel Dicke, leading a team at Wageningen University, in The netherlands,
and insect diseases can spread rapidly enough to kill a farms entire stock in a day.
#Fukushima grows sunflowers to clean up radiation contamination A geiger counter is placed in front of sunflowers in full bloom in Fukushima.
they confided to Abe their worries about radioactive contamination of the soil in their gardens.
The detrimental impact that GMO cultivation has on our environment is widespread including creating dead zones where biodiversity is abolished all but and the contamination of heirloom and organic seeds with GMO varieties.
contracts are one more headache for consumers, so maybe Apple would be more in favor of selling the device cheaply without a contract,
the bark is removed to make shingles, flowers and smaller limbs are saved for later use.##Wood is extracted#to build the concession stand.
Researchers have yet to determine a cause for colony collapse disorder##but they say likely culprits include pathogens, parasites, environmental strains and bee management practices that cause poor nutrition.
In Washington, a biology professor who is studying whether pollen richer in protein makes bees healthier plans to compare urban bees protein intake with that of bees in the country.
One idea is that bees that are healthy will fight off diseases better.##The university is partnering with the restaurant Founding Farmers a few blocks away.
A couple weeks ago, it was the fact that the worlds top-selling weedkiller was causing birth defects.
000-year-old shipwreck has provided a remarkable insight into the medicines concocted by ancient physicians to cure sailors of dysentery
Scientists believe they would have been used to treat gastrointestinal complaints suffered by sailors such as dysentery and diarrhoea.
preparing for the coming wave of Alzheimers, or as a political liability, meaning how soon will Social security go bust?
and people with disabilities to open the doors and slide in and out. On the Upper West side, seniors snapped up a report card of grocery stores deemed age-friendly
#Glass of milk can contain a cocktail of up to 20 chemicals Scientists found a host of chemicals used to treat illnesses in animals and people in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk.
they found a host of chemicals used to treat illnesses in animals and people in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk.
or got into milk through cattle feed or contamination on the farm. The Spanish-Moroccan team analysed 20 samples of cows milk bought in Spain and Morocco,
We believe the new methodology will help to provide a more effective way of determining the presence of these kinds of contaminants in milk or other products.
#Top 5 man killers in the U s. Heart disease is the number one killer of men. Jeff Hale had closed just a $1. 5 million deal on a a sunny September day in the Pacific Northwest.
he thought it was an asthma attack and took a hit off his inhaler. But when that didnt help
One was that every heart attack is unique. My symptoms will be different from your symptoms. The other was,
if you suspect youre having a heart attack, take an aspirin.##Hale took two and drove himself to the hospital.
#Heart disease is the number one killer of men, claiming the lives of nearly 400,000 fathers, friends, brothers,
Collectively, these diseases kill nearly one million of us annually. And chances are, your lifestyle or genetic profile puts you at risk for at least one of them.
Nearly 60,000 men died from COPD#hich includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema#n 2006, according to the CDC.
heart disease(#1) and cancer(#2)# ou have to ask: Why are people still smoking? What you can do about it:
According to the CDC, 80,000 men die each year in unexpected tragedies, from sports injuries to fires to falls.
In fact, texting increases your risk of a crash by 23 times (versus 11 times for driving under the influence), according to a Virginia Tech study. 2. CANCER Why youre at risk:
The Big C killed nearly 300,000 men in 2010, according to the American Cancer Society. Lung cancer tops the list, accounting for 29 percent of all cancer deaths, followed by prostate cancer (11 percent) and colon/rectum cancer (9 percent.
We all know that smoking causes lung cancer, but the risk factors for prostate cancer are less well known.
Yet, its one of the most common#in 6 men will get prostate cancer in their lifetimes#nd least understood killers of men.
What you can do about it: If youre at high risk, put certain staples of the Mediterranean diet on your plate.
A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute shows that men who eat more than 10 grams of garlic
or scallions (about three cloves of garlic or 2 tablespoons of scallions) daily have a 50 percent lower risk of prostate cancer than those who eat less than 2 grams.
Sound like too much of a good thing? Other studies have linked the lycopene in cooked tomato products to lower prostate cancer risk;
aim for at least two servings a week. And if you really like coffee...Harvard researchers found that drinking 6 cups a day reduces your risk of developing advanced prostate cancer by 59 percent. 1. HEART DISEASE Why youre at risk:
This is the deadliest disease known to man. More than 1 in 3 adult men have some sort of heart disease
and more than 390,000 men died of the killer in 2007, according to the American Heart Association.
But youre a fit, healthy guy, right? Why would you die of heart disease? Believe it or not,
not every victim of the disease is overweight or inactive. Mens Health Editor Peter Moore discovered this eight years ago.
He was doing everything right: He was exercised thin regularly, and ate a healthy diet. But none of that prevented one of the arteries in his heart from becoming 99 percent blocked.
four times a week) have a 60 percent lower risk of a heart attack than inactive men.#¢
If youre overweight, dropping 10 to 20 pounds lowers your risk of dying from a heart attack.
In fact, a 10-year study found that overweight people had heart attacks 8. 2 years earlier than normal-weight victims.#¢
Men who drink that many 8-ounce glasses are 54 percent less likely to have a fatal heart attack than those who drink two glasses or fewer.
Men who respond with anger are three times more likely to have heart disease and five times more likely to have a heart attack before turning 55.
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#Small habits slowly pack on the pounds over the years: Study Watching TV, eating potato chips, having a sugary soda are a few bad habits that slowly pack in the pounds.
increasing their chances of developing health problems including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, fatty liver disease and some cancers.
Obesity-related diseases account for nearly 10 percent of U s. medical spending, or an estimated $147 billion a year.
Smoking causes fatal lung disease in nonsmokers.##A fourth picture shows a mouth with smoked-stained teeth and an open sore on the lower lip.
Cigarettes cause cancer,#the caption reads. In addition to the images, the label on packs of cigarettes will include a phone number#1-800-QUIT-NOW#so smokers will know where to go for help quitting.
President Obama wants to make tobacco-related death and disease part of the nations past, and not our future.#
Smoking is the leading cause of early and preventable death in the United states, resulting in some 443,000 fatalities each year, according to the U s. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Already, studies in which depressed cancer patients were given the drug have reported positive results. Im not afraid to die anymore#one participant told The Lookout.
You can see one terminally ill cancer patient speak movingly about the positive effects of psilocybin here.
using volunteers who are depressed after being diagnosed with cancer. So far weve had#necdotally only#ery positive results,#comparable to the study with healthy volunteers,
in part because oncologists are interested more in curing cancer than helping patients cope with its effects,
and radiation to treat a rare form of leukemia that, several times in the preceding few years, had taken almost her life.
although her disease was in remission by that time, she was still suffering psychologically from the trauma of the illness and the treatment.
She had walled herself off emotionally, she said, and was unable to show empathy for others or even for herself.
And although doctors tell her that, thanks to the effect of the illness and the treatment,
They blame agriculture, with restricted diets and urbanisation compromising health and leading to the spread of disease.
the epidemic of tobacco-related disease and death has begun just, THE WHO said. But by 2030, the annual death toll could reach 8 million.
#It causes lung cancer, which is often fatal, and other chronic respiratory diseases. It is also a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, the worlds number one killers.
THE WHO said smoking is one of the biggest contributors to a worldwide epidemic of noncommunicable,
or chronic, diseases such as heart attack, stroke, cancer and emphysema, which accounts for 63 percent of all deaths worldwide, nearly 80 percent
of which occur in poorer countries. To mark World No Tobacco Day on May 31, the World Lung Foundation (WLF) campaign group launched a website of graphic and gruesome images of the health effects of smoking that health officials can download for use as warnings on tobacco packaging.
The WLF said that on average smokers see images on tobacco packs 15 times a day,
they are taking a big step forward toward better informing smokers of the deadly harms of tobacco,
As it is also much closer to human milk it could be used in young children who are allergic to normal dairy products.
and because it is low in proteins it can be used in young children who are allergic to proteins in cows milk.
resulting in 29,000 human injuries and more than $1 billion in insurance claims in addition to the death toll.
Deer also carry the ticks that transmit Lyme disease to about 13,000 people each year. Economic damage to agriculture, timber,
Corals are marine animals that exist as small polyps, typically in colonies of many identical individuals.
is formed actually of thousands of individual but genetically identical polyps, each polyp is only a few millimeters in diameter.
Over thousands of generations the polyps lay down a skeleton that is characteristic of their species. A head of coral grows by asexual reproduction of the individual polyps.
Using what may be considered a more abstract view of nature, some view the earth itself as capable of growing#its own rocks and mountains.
Children with DEET toxicity reported lethargy, headaches, tremors, involuntary movements, seizures, and convulsions though the amount that led to this toxicity was unreported, according to the CDC.
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#Explosives and Pesticides Can Be detected by Using Bee Venom MIT scientists discover that bee venom can detect explosives and some pesticides.
For instance, it might help kids stave off heart disease as they grow up, Franklin told Reuters Health. For the study, Gilly Hendrie and Rebecca Golley of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization divided 145 kids ages four to 13 into two groups.
Citing an epidemic of childhood obesity, regulators are taking aim at a range of tactics used to market foods high in sugar,
The guidelines were created at the request of Congress and written by the commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Agriculture department and the Centers for Disease Control.
because the risk of gene contamination in Oregons Willamette Valley was so great. According to Grist, Judge White warned that environmental impact statements on crops were being conducted too fast,
Flying cars, cures for cancer, the first person on Mars, teleportation, and space hotels are all persistent concepts that drive the energies of people on earth.
#They also had lower levels of biomarkers linked to heart disease, such as C reactive-protein protein. They also shed on average 3. 3lbs (1. 5kg.
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but Ill do the honors. Heres how North dakota outranks most states:#¢#¢Lowest unemployment rate among the 50 states.
#Stink Bug Epidemic Spreads to 33 U s. States Stink bugs Stink bugs, the smelly scourge of the Mid-atlantic, are hitchhiking
They dont transmit disease and dont suck blood, #Leskey says. However, they are great at hitchhiking#she says,
And emerging science suggests its a harm to children.##Two recent studies sponsored by The british government found that children given foods made with some artificial dyes and a food preservative,
the FDA banned Red No. 3 in cosmetics, medicines and some other products because it was linked to cancer in mice
#â Blackberry Thumbâ##â#New Health Hazard Blackberry thumb Tennis elbow, writers block and even athletes foot are problems than can cause considerable discomfort and more than a little embarrassment.
#Blackberry thumb is given the name to a repetitive strain injury caused by overusing mobile phones to send emails and texts.
which is leading to repetitive strain injury. A lot of people displaying symptoms associated with repetitive strain injury do not realise they are work-related,
but the number with symptoms is increasing.##The firm is increasing its staff numbers to cope with
Traditionally, industrial disease claims have related to asthma, asbestos-related illnesses, dermatitis, allergies and occupational deafness and tinnitus.
Another relatively new industrial injury is#Popcorn lungs, or bronchiolitis obliterans, which can strike employees working in popcorn factories.
Some popcorn flavouring contains diacetyl, a chemical used to produce the butter-like taste. Over-exposure can cause lung damage.
and popcorn lung is an example of new types of industrial disease actions. We are also anticipating more actions against hairdressers.
A recent study by the Health And Safety Executive reported that up to 70 per cent of hairdressers suffer from work-related skin damage, such as dermatitis
Just a handful can make someone violently ill so always ensure they have been cooked at least 10 minutes and never
If that wasnt enough, too much of it will cause vomiting, sweating, dizziness, hallucinations and headache.
and vines of tomato plants contain alkaloid poisons such as atropine that cause dizziness, headaches and upset tummies.
There is also some in green tomatoes and one death has been attributed to it, but generally the amount of tomatine in them is too small to cause any harm.
Always refuse tea made from the leaves though; it is offered still something on occasion. 4. Cherries, Apricots, Peaches and Plums Cherries, apricots,
but it contains oxalic acid salts that can cause kidney problems, coma and convulsions. However, the stalks are not a problem and even with the leaves,
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Doctors have thought long that people with an apple figure#a tendency to store fat around the belly rather than the hips#were at a higher risk of heart disease and stroke.
It found that having a higher waist-to-hip ratio#in other words being an apple#was three times more powerful an indicator of heart attack risk
It discovered that having a higher waist-to-hip ratio was no better a predictor of heart disease
and waist-to-hip ratio each have a similar strength of association with cardiovascular disease risk,
a history of diabetes and cholesterol levels were taken into account, neither body weight or shape added much in terms of predicting a cardiovascular event.
or obese was still the main risk factor for heart disease which can of course be influenced by lifestyle choices.#
whether they might go on to suffer heart disease or stroke. And he still thought there was some truth in the apple maxim.
Abdominal fat seems to be associated with other risk factors for heart disease like raised blood pressure, cholesterol, a type of lipid and diabetes#.
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Some of the fungi species create thin infection pegs#that stick out from a victims body
During later stages of Ophiocordyceps camponoti-rufipedis infection, the fungus rapidly consumes the nutrients inside a zombie ant
The mature fungus stalk, shown growing from a zombie ants head during the final stage of infection,
Shiva belongs to a colony of monkeys who have been fattened up to help scientists study the twin human epidemics of obesity and diabetes.
demand for the overweight primates is growing as part of the battle against the nations obesity epidemic, according to Dr. Grove and other researchers working with such monkeys in Florida,
One goal is to try to figure out the hormonal mechanisms by which the surgery can quickly resolve diabetes
Some receive daily insulin shots to treat diabetes, and some have clogged arteries. One monkey died of a heart attack a few years ago at a fairly young age.
Shiva a young adult, gained about 15 pounds in six months and weighs about 45 pounds, twice the normal weight for his age.
Dr. Grove and researchers at some other centers say the high-fructose corn syrup appears to accelerate the development of obesity and diabetes.
perhaps for cancer patients or others suffering from wasting. Some companies see no need to use primates to study obesity and diabetes,
saying it is almost as easy to do human studies. Monkey studies can cost up to several million dollars.
Janice D. Wagner, a professor of pathology there. We think they are happier that way.#
It is recommended by doctors as a chemical-free method to kill bacteria in shoes, reducing shoe odor and risk of infection from athletes foot.
For example, caffeine is known to cause fast heart rate, insomnia, and anxiety, especially in sensitive individuals. According to one study from New zealand, just one energy drink is enough to make most kids experience some side effect
including mild ones like irritability or upset stomach. And there are other ingredients with effects of their own, such as the amino acid taurine, the herbal extracts yohimbine, guarana and ginseng,
Lipshultz, for one, says people with heart disease, seizures, diabetes, high blood pressure, or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should think twice before downing an energy Drink up until
I did this review, I wasnt routinely asking my patients if they were drinking energy drinks,
Dr Laura Avanzo and Dr Jennifer Morton were studying neurodegeneration with a focus on Huntingdons disease
an inherited disorder that leads to nerve damage and dementia, when they stumbled on their findings quite by accident.
The American Lung Association, the American Cancer Society and the World health organization do not hire smokers,
both her parents died of smoking-related illnesses. But Ms. Carroll, a 26-year-old nursing student, said she opposed any effort by hospitals to discriminate#against her and other smokers.
and enter what is essentially a state of temporary paralysis . While your body is making this transition the brain can misinterpret the sudden relaxation of the muscles
Some claim that cracking knuckles leads to arthritis but the studies claim that it only causes minor damage to soft joint tissue.
The best way to prevent skin cancer from developing is wearing clothing or sunscreen when exposed to the sun. Source:
but to get in there and fight for safeguards against contamination and restitution for farmers whose fields are contaminated.
and mining come foreign diseases and the destruction of forests on which tribes rely. Some uncontacted people have fled from Peru into western Brazil,
and wildlife. 2. Contamination of Non-GE Crops Alfalfa plants are pollinated by bees, most of which can travel
and no insurance policy against damages these farmers suffer as a result of GE alfalfa contamination. According to the Center for Food safety
a study of the past 200 GE contamination cases has found that farmers have suffered hundreds of millions of dollars in lost sales.
This, in turn, puts farm workers in danger#a Swedish study recently concluded that the application of Roundup doubles farm workers and and rural residents risks of getting cancer.
The dairy rule in question would require dairy owners install synthetic barriers to stop groundwater contamination from cow waste.
and Drug Administration to identify the source of an outbreak of foodborne illness, trace its path
The FDA has had trouble quickly pinpointing the source of national outbreaks of food-borne illness a task complicated by a lengthy food supply chain where tomatoes might change hands five times from farm to store.
The need for better traceability became clear after a national outbreak of salmonella illness in spring 2008 that sickened more than 1, 300 people across the country.
Initially, investigators at the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified tomatoes as the culprit
#Collapse of the Honeybee Population Could Be linked to Pesticides Even tiny doses of neonicotinoids made the insects more susceptible to disease.
Pesticides are making honey bees far more susceptible to disease, according to new research than links a new group of chemicals to the recent collapse in the bee population.
The US research, revealed in a new film about the disappearance of bees, found even tiny doses of neonicotinoids made the insects more susceptible to disease.
However UK scientists insisted that the decline of bees is due to a number of factors, such as disease or a lack of suitable food sources in the countryside,
revealed in new film The Strange Disappearance of the Bees, exposed two groups of bees to the common insect disease nosema.
Matt Shardlow, of insect charity Buglife, said most bee deaths in the UK are caused by disease.
Pests and disease seem to be the major factors and pesticides seems to be low down the list.#
#Calcium Supplements Linked to Heart attacks: Feed Your Bones Instead Calcium supplements have been linked to increased heart attack risk.
A study published in The british Medical Journal via Natural Awakenings found thatcalcium supplements can increase your risk of a heart attack by as much as 31 percent.
The new research looked at 11 studies on 11,921 individuals. Its scary stuff for those at risk of heart disease and osteoporosis, both of which plague the U s
. But its also more proof that the best way to feed your body the nutrients it needs isnt through supplementation,
Well you may be surprised at the foods with the highest percentages of calcium#More and more people are rethinking the tried and true calcium supplementation after finding that it could increase heart attack risk significantly.
and rethink our practice,#said Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, director of womens health and heart disease, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New york city.
#Genetically Modified Chickens Developed Than Cannot Transmit Bird flu Scientists develop GM chickens that do not spread bird flu.
British scientists have developed genetically modified (GM) chickens that cannot transmit bird flu infections#a step that in future could reduce the risk of avian flu spreading
and causing deadly epidemics in humans. Scientists from Cambridge and Edinburgh universities said that while the transgenic chickens still got sick
and died when they were exposed to H5n1 bird flu, they didnt transmit the virus to other chickens they came into contact with.
Preventing virus transmission in chickens should reduce the economic impact of the disease and reduce the risk posed to people,#
H5n1 bird flu has been circulating in Asia and the Middle east, with occasional outbreaks in Europe, since 2003 and has killed
and producing a pandemic in which millions of people could die. ECONOMIC AND FOOD SECURITY THREAT In Southeast asia, China and parts of Africa, bird flu is already a major economic and food security issue,
and also poses a constant threat of being transmitted to humans. South korea already battling an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease,
said this week it was raising its bird flu alert level after detecting H5n1 bird flu at poultry farms.
Helen Sang from the Roslin Institute at Edinburgh University, who worked with Tiley, told a joint briefing the GM chickens could offer a way to improve economic
and food security in parts of the world where bird flu is a major threat, but said using them would probably add slightly to farming costs.
the researchers introduced a new gene into them that manufactures a small decoy#molecule that mimics an important control element of the bird flu virus. The replication machinery of the virus is tricked into recognizing the decoy molecule instead of the viral genes
they infected 10 of them and 10 normal chickens with H5n1 bird flu. Like the normal chickens, the transgenic birds became sick with the virus,
but they did not transmit the infection on to other chickens kept in the same pen with them
The researchers said they now plan to work on trying to make chickens that are fully resistant to bird flu rather than just blocking bird-to-bird transmission.
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