who have concerns about cross-contamination with other crops, among other environmental risks. Some Roundup Ready seeds had already been planted before the ban was enacted.
There s peanut breeding â you cross-pollinate to try to create strains that are more disease resistant so you use less pesticides.
reduces gastrointestinal infection in infants does not impair infant growth helps the mother lose weight and delays the return of menstrual periods.
motor and psychosocial problems more food allergies and a higher risk of developing celiac disease But it also notes that babies in western countries who were exclusively breastfed for 6 months were apparently less likely to succumb to infections, such as pneumonia,
exposure to infectious diseases, including HIV, to chemical contaminants, such as some illegal drugs, and to a limited number of prescription drugs that might be in the human milk,
which contaminants can reduce the final yield--and that means higher costs. Researchers concluded the refining process could be sped up by raising the temperature.
a 34-year-old PS 6 science teacher who died unexpectedly in 2007 of a heart attack after a science field trip.
The end goal is to improve sanitation in a world where 1. 5 million children die every year due to diarrhea caused by food
Just a solid brown background that's mostly covered by images of disease and warnings of death.
Smoking-related diseases kill around 15,000 Australians a year, and tobacco use cost Australia more than $31 billion in one year outweighing the $5. 6 billion
Australian Cancer Council and Action on Smoking and Health
Novel ways to fake ancient goodsbeijing   Strolling through Beijing's Panjiayuan Market, it's easy to imagine you've entered an antique treasure trove.
including the 2008 melamine milk contamination incident that killed six children and sickened some 300,000 more.
suboptimal breastfeeding is associated with over a million deaths each year and 10%of the global disease burden in children.
Human breast milk has unique ingredients that protect babies against illness. They're special sugars called human milk oligosaccharides (HMO.
which in many poor neighborhoods is increased responsible for asthma rates and other health problems. They also reduce stress,
Potato blight and flu have much in commonin 1846 the first of my ancestors arrived in America.
Which turns out to have a lot in common with a disease stalking my family (and yours) today, the flu.
The influenza germ is constantly changing and the potato blight is capable of similar changes. Senior author Gene Nusbaum of Harvard described its ability to change as exquisite.
and tomato crops throughout the U s. Flu has similar adaptability. Just this week scientists have found N1h1 infecting deeper into the lungs than seasonal flu
while Israel has isolated a strain that resists Tamiflu, the most common antiviral. By attacking this adaptability, pandemic skeptic Peter Palese of the Mt.
Sinai School of medicine in New york says, the flu virus can be controlled. Here again the potato blight offers some clues.
Nearly three-quarters of the blight's genome consists of junk DNA, unused sequences that evolve quickly.
Now if we can just to the same with the flu
Protesting in Brussels? Throw milk at the governmentthinking of protests, kettling, bottle and coke-can missiles,
Richard Webby, health expert, on the new deadly flu strainlast spring, on April 9, 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) raised its Emergency Operations center to Level II
The Chinese government reported increasing numbers of humans falling dangerously ill due to a powerful new flu strain, H7n9,
Smartplanet spoke with Dr. Richard Webby, Director of the World health organization Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds at St jude Children's Research Hospital.
We know that the H7n9 flu has infected humans, and some of the cases were fatal.
It's essentially still a disease of chickens. I imagine there are a great number of flu strains that are carried by animal populations at any given time.
So if a strain is not yet moving easily between humans how do you assign risk to it?
In the animal population there is a whole soup of flu viruses. We are not good at determining
Was there any overt indication that this strain of flu was more of a risk?
--which is the other bird flu that has been going for a decade or more now-there has been 600 cases in humans.
but it did have some signatures that we associate with mammalian virus. Where does this virus rank among the flu viruses we know about already?
But if we rank it highest amongst the avian flu viruses, what does that mean? The next leap is:
I think the chances are still most likely that it is going to remain a chicken virus that will spread human infections.
But flu viruses do change. If you give them enough opportunity they will adapt to a new host.
So it may have the ability to turn into a real bona fide human pathogen. That is why we continue to monitor this in the bird populations,
control it and reduce the number of human infections. I understand that of those infected last spring with H7n9,
Is it stronger than a regular flu? are infected humans much sicker? Is there a higher chance of pneumonia?
The H7 is variable. The one thing we know is what stops a lot of the severe disease of the normal human flu strains is immunity.
Essentially anyone over the age of 10 years has had probably the flu a couple of times, and at least in the U s.,most have been vaccinated a couple of times.
So we have quite a bit of immunity to the human flu viruses. And that probably stunts a lot of the ability of that virus to cause disease.
It can still get in and make you a little bit sick. It can still transmit but the severity is limited by your immunity.
The H-type is the most variable part of that virus. That is why we call them H1, H3,
That is one reason they cause disease. It is a little bit of a mystery as to why this H7n9 causes such severe disease
but it does. Why is it a mystery? We group flu viruses into pathogenic types.
Highly pathogenic or low pathogenic. Some viruses of the H5n7 type fall into a very virulent form.
And it's associated with severe disease in humans. Even though H7 can also do that,
It does not cause a lot of disease in chickens, quails, etc. So with the H5n1 you see a lot of disease in your birds
and you know the virus is there. With the H7 you cannot tell just by looking at the chickens.
With any flu viruses there is a period when you're infectious before you start to get clinical signs.
What do you think avian flu will do over the next 10 to 15 years? What is the potential for a possible pandemic?
I think it is inevitable that there will be another pandemic. But if you look at the pandemics we've seen they have all been from viruses of the H1, H2 and H3 type.
In 1918 with H1, 1957 with H2, 1968 with H3 and in 2009 with H1 again.
So in terms of H1, H2 and H3 types I think it is a matter of when it will happen again rather than
I personally believe that they probably have the ability to become a human pathogen. What can we do to prevent a pandemic?
The best hope is to monitor what is going on in these animal populations. If we find viruses like the H7 that we perceive as high-risk then we start making viable vaccine strains.
We would like to be on course toward a universal flu vaccine. We have vaccinated against the H1
There is some hope that perhaps we can target other parts of the virus. There is a lot of work toward creating a universal flu vaccine.
Of course, there are allergies, which is based on the geometry of certain proteins, so we use a protein source from rice that is minimally allergenic.
High blood pressure and heart disease in your family can be signs that you might be impacted, as well. We as human beings have this notion of appreciating our family history.
classrooms and businesses around the globe as much of the world struggles with an obesity epidemic.
Health problems that were once adult conditions--namely diabetes and cardiovascular diseases--now strike children, said Dr. James Marks, senior vice president and director of the Health Group at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. â Å Since the late 1970s,
the rates of obesity have gone up in children three-to fourfold, â Â he said. â Å It increases the likelihood of so many serious illnesses. â Â To stem the tide,
national and regional healthy food initiatives are targeting schools. â Å Why are we going to schools?
Because Rosario children watch her deal with diabetes, including regular finger pricks for blood-sugar testing,
About 90 percent of the satellite is expected to burn up in the atmosphere--NASA claims there's little harm from the rest,
land-restriction and decontamination efforts, together with Japan natural iodine-rich seafood diet, make Fukushima food today safer than an average CT scan.
¢tightlipped secrecy around its data and laughably low-tech decontamination strategies that don seem like a match for nuclear contamination.
Nancy Foust, a U s.-based researcher and technology and communications specialist with Simplyinfo. org, a multi-disciplinary U s.-based research group monitoring the Fukushima decontamination efforts,
The decontamination techniques so far have involved either deep tilling to shove the top soil down deep,
a rice farmer in Iidate and former systems engineer who has emerged as a widely cited grassroots expert on decontamination.
A technician at the lab said he was informed actually better than most Japanese government officials on the subject of contamination.
â Å Even the Ministry of the Environment, the ones who actually lead the decontamination work,
The rock fish, for example, almost always show some level of contamination, though it usually low.
Geraldine Thomas, Professor of Molecular Pathology at the Imperial College in London, and the scientific director of the Chernobyl Tissue bank, was asked to assess likely health effects from Fukushima after her extensive work on thyroid cancer cases in Russia.
Thomas finds the food fear in Japan baffling a sign of modern and misbegotten hysteria. â Å The most important thing to do immediately after the accident was to restrict the consumption of locally produced milk and green leafy vegetables
and prevent the contamination of rivers and lakes through stromwater runoff. The U s. Conference of Mayors, the official organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more, recently adopted a number of resolution that call the 1,
It could also slash the annual $5 billion that bovine illnesses cost the U s, . and the $60 billion hit worldwide, according to the story.
We want to get past the mega-industrialized food production systems that are often more of a harm than a benefit to our health
He says many businesses were spurred to help fortify the bee population by previous reports of a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder, in
and environmental contaminants and have created even a better artificial nose to sniff out explosives, but it looks like researchers are finally zeroing in on the smallest possible detection system ever:
and environmental contaminants Chemists create a better artificial nose to sniff out explosives and sour milk German airports use honeybees to sniff out air quality Breath test can detect cancer New remote sensing system can detect explosives
and drugs A cheap landmine detector made from ebay parts Sensor robots sense out environmental changes
Grey mould (Botrytis cinerea) is a very damaging disease to strawberry crops worldwide. Symptomless infections can develop in strawberry flowers
and cause fungal growth on fruit as they ripen and after picking. Control currently consists of careful management
and conventional crop protection products applied to flowers to protect against infection. ADAS and East Malling Research have been using bumble bee pollinator hives
preventing the latent flower infection which causes the fruit to rot. During the last two years of field trials this harmless bee-delivered control system was demonstrated to be a practical alternative to fungicide applications
They might even help pollinate plants in places where natural bee populations have fallen due to the still-mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder.
and warns that the banana's unique reproductive system each new fruit is a genetic duplicate of the next makes it especially susceptible to epidemics
and are more resistant to diseases. The cocoa crop in Brazil, for instance, was decimated some years ago by a fungal disease called witches broom.
Today, about 70 percent of the world crop is grown in West Africa, and several million small farmers depend on it for their livelihoods.
Glyphosate oeis as important for reliable global food production as penicillin is for battling disease, Stephen B. Powles,
but she did say that cracked screens were the most common malady. Apple recommends finding authorized repair shops on its Web site at apple. com/support. oewe can t vouch for the quality of unauthorized repairs
Despite the trauma, he said, oei was able to get it up and running for him.
who had died of congenital heart failure, for examination. This took place over the protestations of Mr Kurtz, his colleagues and the local commissioner of public health, all of
Many DNA sequences, including those for harmful diseases, are published already widely, and can hardly be retracted.
is a proponent of light regulation at most. oeif you look at our ability to respond to infectious diseases at this point in time,
Disease, wet summers and certain pesticides have all been blamed for the fall in numbers, but no definitive cause has yet been found.
CA to develop strategies to delay aging and age-related disease. Genescient's primary business focus is on the development of pharmaceuticals for age-related diseases,
but in conjunction with its spinoff firm Life Code LLC, it has provided testing services for the development of nutraceuticals based on its unique genomics platform.
We succeeded in doubling animal lifespan using a novel class of nutrigenomic supplements that modulate genes involved in both aging and age-related disease.
as some of the youthful gene expression is inconsistent with longevity (e g. genes promoting rapid growth that can lead to cancer.
and metabolic potential (known factors in driving aging) along with a positive effect on longevity genes and a proven history of use in traditional herbal medicine to treat a wide spectrum of diseases.
or the normal scientific route of choosing a mix of herbal extracts that target a particular disease or target.
%In traditional Chinese medicine astragalus is considered a true tonic that can strengthen debilitated patients and increase resistance to disease in general.
or bacterial infection or in those individuals undergoing dialysis for kidney failure. Clinical trials at the US National Cancer Institute and other world centers have indicated that Astragalus can strengthen immunity
and improve survival in some individuals with cancer. In western herbal medicine Astragalus root is used to enhance immunity and to help in wound healing.
Astragalus compounds have also been shown to stimulate stem cells, promote peripheral nerve regeneration in rats,
and inhibit mtor (a major longevity gene shown by extensive government studies to extend lifespan in mice).
and have been used as a traditional herbal treatment for diabetes in India for thousands of years.
Besides diabetes, the herb is reported also to cure a wide spectrum of ailments like skin diseases, fractures, bruises, constipation, hemorrhages, and rheumatoid arthritis.
wherein The french tend to have reduced much rates of cardiovascular disease compared to other Western countries on a high-fat diet because of their high intake of red wine made with grapes.
OPCS have also been shown in clinical trials to promote blood flow and endothelial nitric oxide while reducing edema, capillary fragility,
and the most common cause of death is heart failure. Like humans and other mammals (e g. mice), it is quite difficult to increase their lifespan significantly.
Plant stem cells could be fruitful source of low-cost cancer druga popular cancer drug could be produced cheaply
head and neck cancer could become cheaper and more widely available. The study was carried out by the University of Edinburgh and the Unhwa Biotech company in Korea.
clean and safe way to harness the healing power of plants, potentially helping to treat cancer,
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The Renaissance Computing Institute in North carolina has developed an Outpatient Health Monitoring System (OHMS) for patients with chronic conditions such as asthma.
A few years ago, the notion of cancer treatment that was specific to a person genome was seen as a fantasy.
including the production of antibodies against various diseases, Isfahani said
Startup Says It Can Make Ethanol for $1 a Gallon, and Without Corna biofuel startup in Illinois can make ethanol from just about anything organic for less than $1 per gallon,
increase the risk of diseases and put farmers out of business. The humane society ads disagreed,
and after touching patients lapses that contribute significantly to hospital-acquired infections. Computer vision software can analyze facial expressions for signs of severe pain, the onset of delirium or other hints of distress,
Detecting a bacterial breast infection called mastitis, and measuring fat, protein and lactose levels allow the farmer to monitor the quality of their milk.
An automated brush system not only cleans the cows and cuts down on milk contamination but through tactile stimulation will trigger the hormone oxytocin that stimulates milk production.
the threat of catastrophic disease outbreaks in monocultures, an insatiable demand for nitrogen fertilizer, pesticide-resistant bugs and herbicide-resistant superweeds,
Fast food link to asthma, eczemaeating fast food three times a week may lead to asthma and eczema in children, say researchers who have looked at global disease and dietary patterns.
Data from more than 500,000 children in more than 50 countries suggests poor diet may be to blame for rising levels of these allergy-related conditions.
Those who ate fast food, such as take-away burgers, risked severe asthma, eczema and itchy, watery eyes.
Eating plenty of fruit appears to be protective, Thorax journal reports. Fast food often contains high levels of saturated-and trans-fatty acids
or more weekly servings of fast food had increased a 39 risk of severe asthma. Six-and seven-year-olds had increased a 27 risk.
Eating three or more portions of fruit a week cut the risk of severe asthma, eczema and rhinoconjunctivitis by between 11%and 14%.
"If the associations between fast foods and the symptom prevalence of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema is causal,
"Generally, people with asthma do not have to follow a special diet. In some cases, certain foods, such as cow's milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, yeast products, nuts,
Malayka Rahman of Asthma UK, said research suggests that a person's diet may contribute to their risk of developing asthma
and vegetables have a beneficial effect on asthma therefore Asthma UK advises people with asthma to eat a healthy,
balanced diet including five portions of fruit or vegetables every day, fish more than twice a week, and pulses more than once a week
Celebrating its grand opening in Bedford Park, Ill. on Friday, Farmedhere utilizes a soil-free,
For our health, we may see new ways to target infectious diseases and cancer, develop vaccines
and cell therapies, enable regenerative medicine, or make cancer cells self-destruct. The potential seems limitless.
and causes harm by taking away the livelihood of poor farmers. The Guardian goes on to say that similar stories will soon be told for vanilla farmers, patchouli farmers, rubber producers, coconut farmers and saffron growers.
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