Exposure to biomass burning particles is associated strongly with cardiovascular disease respiratory illness lung cancer asthma and low birth weights.
or found to have many external wounds. Jacobs presented her research two weeks ago at the North america Congress for Conservation Biology in Missoula Mont.
and vegetables is associated with a lower risk of death from any cause particularly from cardiovascular disease
and vegetable consumption is related to a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease and cancer. However the results are not entirely consistent.
and the United states decided to examine the association between fruit and vegetable intake and risk of all-cause cardiovascular and cancer deaths.
Higher consumption of fruit and vegetables was associated significantly with a lower risk of death from all causes particularly from cardiovascular diseases.
In contrast higher consumption of fruit and vegetables was associated not appreciably with risk of death from cancer.
and vegetables the adverse effects of obesity physical inactivity smoking and high alcohol intake on cancer risk should be emphasised further.
and vegetables is associated with a lower risk of mortality from all causes particularly from cardiovascular diseases.
#Eating tree nuts results in modest decreases in blood fats and sugars, survey findseating tree nuts appears to help reduce two of the five markers for metabolic syndrome a group of factors that raise
the risk for heart disease and other health problems such as diabetes and strokes a new research paper says.
The paper found a modest decrease in blood fats known as triglycerides and blood sugars among people who added tree nuts to their diets compared to those who ate a control diet.
and meta-analysis examining all of the collective evidence of randomized clinical trials on the effect of tree nuts on metabolic syndrome.
A person is considered to have metabolic syndrome if he or she has three of the following risk factors:
high blood pressure; high blood sugar; extra weight around the waist. Dr. Sievenpiper said the biggest reductions in triglycerides
He said there was no adverse impact on the other risk factors for metabolic syndrome or weight gain
The U s. Food and Drug Administration has granted tree nuts a qualified health claim for cardiovascular disease risk reduction.
and DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diets for cardiovascular disease prevention and management based on their ability to reduce bad cholesterol.*
Those with celiac disease or about 1 percent of the U s. population must follow a gluten-free diet
The $10. 5-billion gluten-free food and beverage industry has grown 44 percent from 2011-13 as the rate of celiac disease diagnoses increases along with awareness of gluten-free foods
thus helping some lose weight many health experts say a gluten-free diet is no healthier than a conventional diet except for those with celiac disease.
A gluten-free diet is prescribed for those with celiac disease a condition that can damage the lining of the small intestine.
and prevent the host of health economic and social problems associated with hunger and malnutrition.
and plant pathogens Wing explained. One example he said would be adding disease resistance genes from all of the wild rice varieties to a species of cultivated rice creating a new super-crop that is resistant to diseases and pests.
Wing is also working with Quifa Zhang from Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan China to create a set of super-crop science
A number of studies support the intake of local herbs to prevent diseases mainly caused by oxidative stress.
Mas cotek is used for example to treat pneumonia diabetes hypertension diarrhoea and gout. We found that dried Ficus deltoidea leaves extracted with water at 50 degree celsius for 20 hours yielded an aqueous extract with the highest content of flavonoids and total phenolics.
Combined Vitamin d and calcium supplementation has been shown to reduce the incidence of hip and other non-vertebral fractures among older populations with some studies suggesting that Vitamin d actually leads to lower rates of falling in subjects.
and muscle degeneration-related injury in older adults. Dairy products are a convenient way to work them into a diet as they contain Ca Pi
and is known not to cause disease but it had only been reported before in Europe and Asia.
porcine epidemic diarrhea virus and porcine deltacoronavirus both of which were detected in China in the same time frame prior to the U s. Both porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
and characterize pathogens. The technique will soon be offered at the laboratory. As we isolate viruses we can completely sequence their genomes Hause said.
Hause's most recent work has led to the discovery of an influenza virus in cattle.
A swine sample came in that we thought was influenza but all other tests were said negative Hause.
We found instead that this was an entirely new type of influenza. Subsequent research has shown that it is widespread in cattle not just pigs.
Now we're studying the association of this strain of bovine influenza with respiratory disease in feedlots.
and characterizing pathogens. As a virus mutates and changes next-generation sequencing can be used to help update vaccines
or to get additional information on the pathogen. Some diseases such as flu mutate and change rapidly
and can jump from humans to pigs and back to humans so it's important for both animal health
because its damage can resemble other plant illnesses producing flecks on leaves and discoloration. Potential reductions in crop yields are worrisome:
Powdery mildew is one of the most important diseases of barley. Senior Research Scientist Dr Alan Little and team have discovered the composition of special growths on the cell walls of barley plants that block the penetration of the fungus into the leaf.
In recent times we've seen resistance in powdery mildew to the class of fungicide most commonly used to control the disease in Australia.
Developing barley with improved resistance to the disease is therefore even more important. The discovery means researchers have new targets for breeding powdery mildew resistant barley lines.
The plant tries to stop this penetration by building a plug of cell wall material--a papillae--around the infection site.
#Pesticide linked to three generations of disease: Methoxychlor causes epigenetic changeswashington State university researchers say ancestral exposures to the pesticide methoxychlor may lead to adult onset kidney disease ovarian disease and obesity in future generations.
What your great-grandmother was exposed to during pregnancy like the pesticide methoxychlor may promote a dramatic increase in your susceptibility to develop disease
and you will pass this on to your grandchildren in the absence of any continued exposures says Michael Skinner WSU professor and founder of its Center for Reproductive Biology.
Supports earlier epigenetic findingswhen Skinner and his colleagues exposed gestating rats to methoxychlor at a range typical of high environmental exposures they saw increases in the incidence of kidney disease ovary disease
The incidence of multiple diseases increased in the third generation or great-grandchildren. The researchers say the pesticide may be affecting how genes are turned on
Implications for obesity fertility diseasethe work is also the first to show that a majority of transgenerational disease traits can be transmitted primarily through the female line.
and may prove to be valuable biomarkers for future research on transgenerational disease. For people exposed to the pesticide Skinner says his findings have reduced implications such as fertility increased adult onset disease
and the potential to pass on those conditions to subsequent generations. He suggests that ancestral exposures to methoxychlor over the past 50 years in North america may play a part in today's increasing rates of obesity and disease.
The study was funded by the National institutes of health. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Washington state University.
Neonicotinoid insecticides are receiving increased attention by scientists as we explore the possible links between pesticides nutrition infectious disease
Administered since 2000 by the PRCHN the Cuyahoga County Youth Risk Behavior Survey based on a national survey developed by the Centers for Disease Control
and result in greater compliance said Nichelle Shaw MPH chronic disease prevention supervisor at the Cuyahoga County Department of health.
In practice that means good fertility longer life udders that give good protection against infections improved claws and more efficient feed utilisation.
After 15 minutes a time brief enough to prevent serious harm to the bees the theater light was turned off.
and lipids resulting in cellular changes that lead to development of diseases such as cancer. They have a domino effect Dalaly said.
of which have the potential to boost the immune system and impact diseases such as cancer and heart disease.
and now widely banned pesticides and other toxic chemicals--called legacy contaminants--can become magnified in an animal that eats contaminated food.
Since these pesticides replaced some legacy contaminants that do biomagnify in similar food chains this is good news for the wildlife
. But this is still only a small part of a much larger picture regarding replacement contaminants and how they're behaving compared with their legacy counterparts.
A cross-disciplinary research team studied the impacts of groundcover management systems and nutrient source on soil characteristics tree health and productivity and insect disease and weed management.
None of the children had disabilities affecting language acquisition. The results of the study were published in the June 2014 Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research.
The measure was inspired by the Rice/Wexler Test of Early Grammar Impairment developed by Rice and Massachusetts institute of technology Professor Kenneth Wexler in 2001.
It was the first test to detect the subtle but common language disorder Specific Language Impairment.
In 2012 the group was granted $2. 8 million by the National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for a fourth five-year-cycle that will enable researchers to continue to monitor the twins as they develop through adolescence.
In addition to formal language tests researchers have collected genetic and environmental data as well as assessments with the twins'siblings.
and 44 percent of cat owners believe that made in the U s. is a very important package claim as fear of contamination
study suggestscontrary to conventional wisdom a growing body of evidence shows that eating lean beef can reduce risk factors for heart disease according to recent research by nutritional scientists.
which can help lower the risk for cardiovascular disease. The DASH eating plan--Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension--is recommended currently by the American Heart Association to lower blood pressure
and reduce risk of heart disease. People following the DASH diet are encouraged to eat fruits vegetables low-fat dairy and protein predominantly from plant sources.
The Beef Checkoff Program and the National institutes of health-supported Penn State General Clinical Research center funded this research.
along with fruits vegetables and low-fat dairy to effectively help lower blood pressure in healthy individuals the researchers report in the Journal of Human Hypertension.
This resource is invaluable for identifying those genes that control complex traits such as yield grain quality disease pest resistance and abiotic stress tolerance.
however in response to colony collapse disorder the massive--and as yet not fully explained--annual die off of honey bees in the U s. and Europe.
These differences remained even in an experimental hive that the researchers discovered was infected with deformed wing virus one of the many maladies that afflict honey bees around the world.
and in today's print edition of the peer-reviewed journal Science Translational Medicine is the result of a dozen years of research with the goal of developing biological treatments for patients with heart rhythm disorders who currently are treated with surgically implanted
in order to effectively cure a disease. These laboratory findings could lead to clinical trials for humans who have heart rhythm disorders
but who suffer side effects such as infection of the leads that connect the device to the heart from implanted mechanical pacemakers.
Eugenio Cingolani MD the director of the Heart Institute's Cardiogenetics-Familial Arrhythmia Clinic who worked with Marbã¡
n on biological pacemaker research team said that in the future pacemaker cells also could help infants born with congenital heart block.
Babies still in the womb cannot have a pacemaker but we hope to work with fetal medicine specialists to create a lifesaving catheter-based treatment for infants diagnosed with congenital heart block Cingolani said.
It is possible that one day we might be able to save lives by replacing hardware with an injection of genes.
n and his team heralds a new era of gene therapy in which genes are used not only to correct a deficiency disorder
In the study laboratory pigs with complete heart block were injected with the gene called TBX18 during a minimally invasive catheter procedure.
Originally we thought that biological pacemaker cells could be a temporary bridge therapy for patients who had an infection in the implanted pacemaker area Marbã¡
#Preventing foodborne illness naturally: With cinnamonseeking ways to prevent some of the most serious foodborne illnesses caused by pathogenic bacteria two Washington state University scientists have found promise in an ancient but common cooking spice:
cinnamon. Recent findings published in Food Control journal online suggest Cinnamomum cassia oil can work effectively as a natural antibacterial agent in the food industry.
In the study the essential oil killed several strains of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (E coli) known to the U s. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as non-O157 STEC.
Our focus is on exploring plant-derived natural food bioactive compounds as antimicrobials to control foodborne pathogens
Sheng said about 110000 cases of illness are caused annually by non-O157 STEC. The U s. Department of agriculture Food safety and Inspection Service has a zero tolerance policy for the CDC top six non-O157 STECS in raw ground beef
and trimmings indicating any raw non-intact beef products containing these pathogens will be considered adulterated. This has led Zhu
She and her coworkers will study the potential of dandelions to inhibit bacteria related to bovine mastitis an infection in the mammary glands of dairy cows.
and vegetables in your diet reduces the risk of heart disease stroke diabetes and even some forms of cancer The World health organization WHO recommends a daily intake of at least 400 grams of fruit and vegetables.
Not even half of the children in this study eat fruit every day. The picture is a little bit brighter
and in today's print edition of the peer-reviewed journal Science Translational Medicine is the result of a dozen years of research with the goal of developing biological treatments for patients with heart rhythm disorders who currently are treated with surgically implanted
in order to effectively cure a disease. These laboratory findings could lead to clinical trials for humans who have heart rhythm disorders
but who suffer side effects such as infection of the leads that connect the device to the heart from implanted mechanical pacemakers.
Eugenio Cingolani MD the director of the Heart Institute's Cardiogenetics-Familial Arrhythmia Clinic who worked with Marbã¡
n on biological pacemaker research team said that in the future pacemaker cells also could help infants born with congenital heart block.
Babies still in the womb cannot have a pacemaker but we hope to work with fetal medicine specialists to create a lifesaving catheter-based treatment for infants diagnosed with congenital heart block Cingolani said.
It is possible that one day we might be able to save lives by replacing hardware with an injection of genes.
n and his team heralds a new era of gene therapy in which genes are used not only to correct a deficiency disorder
In the study laboratory pigs with complete heart block were injected with the gene called TBX18 during a minimally invasive catheter procedure.
Originally we thought that biological pacemaker cells could be a temporary bridge therapy for patients who had an infection in the implanted pacemaker area Marbã¡
#Health risks posed by third hand tobacco smokeresearch led by the University of York has highlighted the potential cancer risk in nonsmokers--particularly young children--of tobacco smoke gases
However a new study published in the journal Environment International has estimated for the first time the potential cancer risk by age group through non-dietary ingestion and dermal exposure to third hand smoke.
Using observations of house dust composition they estimated the cancer risk by applying the most recent official toxicology information.
They found that for children aged one to six years old the cancer risks exceeded the limit recommended by the US Environmental protection agency (EPA) in three quarters of smokers'homes and two thirds of nonsmokers'homes.
The maximum risk predicted from the third hand smoke levels in a smoker occupied home equated to one extra cancer case per one thousand population exposed.
and whereas there is a general public awareness about the harms of second hand smoke there is little knowledge about the dangers of third hand smoke.
Although disease has played likely a role in the retreat of the long-tongued giant B. terrestris also appears to be out-competing an earlier European immigrant the long-tongued Bombus ruderatus.
Their recommendations state that rice-based formulas are an option for infants allergic to cow's milk
This reality has been attributed to the fact that people with psychiatric disorders who have higher suicide rates also tend to smoke.
Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United states according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Although scientists have known for years that people who smoke have a higher risk for suicide they had assumed the risk was related to the psychiatric disorders that affect many smokers.
These new findings however suggest smoking may increase the risk for psychiatric disorders or make them more severe
#Progress in allergic asthma research after ingestion of fruitsresearchers at the UPM suggest that the interaction between two proteins can be the responsible for the allergic asthma episodes after eating an infected fruit.
and Genomics (CBGP) of Universidad Politã cnica de Madrid (UPM) conducted infection assays of commercial kiwis with Alternaria alternata spores which is a pathogenic fungus involved in chronic asthma
This could trigger the involuntary ingestion of the fungus found in this fruit causing an asthmatic crisis in people allergic to Alternaria.
According to this research this protein can be a major cause of childhood asthma in US. When a pathogen infects a plant the defense response is activated producing an increase of certain proteins related to the defense (known as protein 5). Likewise the fungus increases the production of the proteins involved in attacks or virulence.
However the symptoms of rot by Alternaria alternata are seen not in some fruits for example in kiwifruit.
Fourteen days after the infection the kiwifruits showed a regular aspect without apparent development of the fungus
which is particularly important in processes of fungal infection. Researchers did observed not development of the fungus in kiwifruit
since Alternaria is described as a major cause of chronic asthma in children. These results suggest that patients allergic to Alternaria can suffer an allergy attack after eating infected kiwifruit.
Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Universidad Politã cnica de Madrid. Note:
and raise serious implications for transplant patients those with leukemia and people who suffer from severe asthma.
In the three-year study researchers from Radboud University Medical Centre and The University of Manchester compared resistance profiles in 230 fungal samples collected from rural areas in West yorkshire
and this study emphasises that there may be even a greater problem in treating such diseases.
Diseases caused by Aspergillus affect millions of people worldwide causing high morbidity and mortality. The only oral antifungal agents (triazoles) for human use are similar in structure to certain fungicides.
There is a very limited range of antifungal compounds to treat fungal diseases and some fungi are multi-resistant.
In the wild plants have to overcome the challenges posed by pathogens and predators in order to survive.
The problems often lead to the syndrome Colony Collapse Disorder which can cause whole bee colonies to fall apart.
However there is increasing evidence that the global honey bee trade has detrimental effects including the spread of new diseases
if it succumbs to Colony Collapse Disorder. The studies were carried out in 621 colonies of honey bees with 16 different genetic origins.
The factors that had the greatest influence on the survival of the bees were infection with varroa mites problems with the queen and infection with the disease nosema.
#Study of noninvasive retinal imaging device presented at Alzheimers conferencea noninvasive optical imaging device developed at Cedars-Sinai can provide early detection of changes that later occur in the brain
and are a classic sign of Alzheimer's disease according to preliminary results from investigators conducting a clinical trial in Australia.
The researchers will present their findings July 15 in an oral presentation at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2014 in Copenhagen Denmark.
In preliminary results in 40 patients the test could differentiate between Alzheimer's disease and non-Alzheimer's disease with 100 percent sensitivity and 80.6 percent specificity meaning that all people with the disease tested positive and most of the people without the disease tested negative.
The optical imaging exam appears to detect changes that occur 15-20 years before clinical diagnosis. It's a practical exam that could allow testing of new therapies at an earlier stage increasing our chances of altering the course of Alzheimer's disease said Shaun
Frost a biomedical scientist and the study manager at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
of beta-amyloid plaque in the brain is a hallmark sign of Alzheimer's but current tests detect changes only after the disease has advanced to late stages.
Researchers believe that as treatment options improve early detection will be critical but existing diagnostic methods are inconvenient costly and impractical for routine screening.
and often painful lumbar punctures but neither approach is quite feasible especially for patients in the earlier stages of disease he said.
A few years ago we discovered at Cedars-Sinai that the plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease occur not only in the brain but also in the retina.
--just as an ophthalmologist looks through the eye to diagnose retinal disease --and see these changes.
Studies involved patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's a group with mild cognitive impairment and a group of people with no evidence of brain abnormality.
and the postmortem investigation of human retinas of people who had died with Alzheimer's. Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui Phd assistant professor of neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery and the Department of Biomedical sciences and Yosef Koronyo a research scientist were first authors of the original results that were published in a journal and presented
if similar results can be confirmed in humans living with the disease. This large double-blind clinical trial appears to validate our novel human retinal amyloid imaging approach using curcumin labeling.
and polyphenols to defend against pest attacks and related injuries. In people phenols and polyphenols can help prevent diseases triggered
or promoted by oxidative-damage like coronary heart disease stroke and certain cancers. Overall organic crops had 18 to 69 percent higher concentrations of antioxidant compounds.
The team concludes that consumers who switch to organic fruit vegetables and cereals would get 20 to 40 percent more antioxidants.
In a surprising finding the team concluded that conventional crops had roughly twice as much cadmium a toxic heavy metal contaminant as organic crops.
and even its colorful bark now has a disease problem--although so far only in the commercial nursery setting.
Through genetic testing scientists identified the disorder as being caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas axonopodis. The disease is most likely spread by wind-driven rain
or overhead irrigation and some crape myrtle varieties are more susceptible than others. I've been working with crape myrtles for a long time
and they've been such a disease-resistant plant for such a long time so it's pretty significant
when their susceptibility to disease is increased said Gary Knox an environmental horticulture professor with UF's Institute of food and agricultural sciences.
however with 130 compared with 72 in Texas. In the June issue of the journal Plant disease the UF/IFAS team outlined the first report of the disease
The researchers say for now the disease affects only crape myrtle commercial producers and is spread by factors such as overhead irrigation systems
I think you can safely say that nearly every crape myrtle producer would have the disease at this point Knox said.
While the disease appears contained in the commercial sector that could change. Most bacterial diseases can be spread in wind-driven rain
and in Florida we know there's no shortage of that said Mathews Paret an assistant professor of plant pathology who led the study.
if the disease ever makes the leap from nurseries to home gardens. Crape myrtle is so close to Southern gardeners'hearts that they endlessly debate such topics as how to spell its name (variants include crepe myrtle crape myrtle
The helpful visual and diagnostic clues it provides are ideal for enhancing doctors'understanding of disease
In a gastronomic tour of some of the many food descriptors used in medicine the author highlights imagery such as'anchovy sauce'to describe the pus from a liver abscess through'sago spleen'to indicate protein (amyloid) deposits to'oat
cell carcinoma'which describes the appearance of a highly aggressive form of lung cancer. Dairy products feature prominently in the medical lexicon:'
'milk patch'describes the appearance of healed inflamed membranes surrounding the heart (rheumatic pericarditis) while cafã au lait describes the telltale skin pigmentation of von Recklinghausen's disease--a genetic disorder characterised by nerve tumours.
And'egg shell crackling'denotes the grating sound indicative of the bone tumour ameloblastoma. Fruit is also popular as in'apple
'or'pear'shape to describe the appearance of fat distribution around the body or'strawberry cervix'which indicates inflammation in the neck of the womb brought about by Trichomonas infection.
Water melon oranges currant jelly grapes and cherry all find their way into visual clues for a range of conditions
Similarly a'blueberry muffin'rash is characteristic of congenital rubella while the appearance of a red blood cell is referred to as'doughnut'shaped.
There's even a reference to an entire dish as a skin condition called tinea versicolor is denoted by its'spaghetti and meatball'appearance.
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