London looks to get ahead of disease threat
Wed, 30 May 2012 03:01:48 -0700

By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent | LONDON (Reuters) - If someone's stomach is churning and cramping after eating a burger or club sandwich from a pop-up vendor at the London Olympics, Brian Mc Closkey plans to be among the first to hear ...

Gray bats found to carry white-nose syndrome
Tue, 29 May 2012 16:57:06 -0700

The deadly white-nose disease has been detected in endangered gray bats, federal wildlife officials announced Tuesday, raising a very real possibility that the species could be wiped out within two years. White-nose syndrome has killed millions of ...

Hill Dispatches: Mulcair's Dutch Disease comment may put the environment back ...
Wed, 30 May 2012 09:07:14 -0700

-National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy: abolished. -Charitable Status of Environmental Organizations: $8 million to the Canada Revenue Agency to target groups that oppose, or even question, federal government policy.

IDRI Signs Lease with Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. for New Seattle ...
Wed, 30 May 2012 10:39:22 -0700

SEATTLE, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) has officially signed a new lease in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood with long-time real estate partner Alexandria Real Estate Equities, ...

Lyme disease tick study stirs dispute
Wed, 30 May 2012 09:18:29 -0700

It has become a major health concern in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, where a burgeoning population of deer has helped spread the disease beyond forests into suburbia. There were 3000 cases reported in 2010, according to the CDC, with the vast ...

Risk Models Only Slightly Up Prediction of Complex Diseases
Wed, 30 May 2012 10:42:09 -0700

Risk models that take gene-gene and gene- environment interactions into account only slightly improve the prediction of risk for three complex diseases , according to a study published online May 24 in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

Neuron Function Restored in Brains Damaged by Huntington's Disease
Tue, 29 May 2012 09:01:57 -0700

Science Daily (May 29, 2012) Researchers from South Korea, Sweden, and the United States have collaborated on a project to restore neuron function to parts of the brain damaged by Huntington's disease (HD) by successfully transplanting HD-induced ...

Make the roads safer, the environment healthier and life better for those with ...
Wed, 30 May 2012 09:54:23 -0700

The Kidney Car Program is part of a unique series of "recycle for life" programs developed by The Kidney Foundation of Canada that benefit the environment , vehicle owners and people affected by kidney disease . How does the Kidney Car program work?

Overdiagnosis poses significant threat to human health
Wed, 30 May 2012 14:11:38 -0700

"We are extremely excited to host this international conference to advance the science and develop concrete proposals to reduce overdiagnosis and its associated harms." Overdiagnosis occurs when people are diagnosed and treated for conditions that will ...

Unstoppable disease strikes endangered gray bats
Tue, 29 May 2012 11:58:52 -0700

By renee schoof washington -- White-nose syndrome, the disease that's killed millions of insect-eating bats, keeps getting worse. It's made a thumb-sized bat rare in parts of New England and has spread through most of the Eastern US, as far west as ...

Sweet Science : Tomato Genome Bears Fruit
Wed, 30 May 2012 10:10:21 -0700

These kinds of insights from the genome could help crop researchers improve the yield, nutritional content, disease resistance, taste and color of tomatoes, they say. "For any characteristic of the tomato, whether it's taste, natural pest resistance or ...

Basic Science : To Respond to Plavix, Don't Forget to Take It
Tue, 29 May 2012 06:45:58 -0700

By Ron Winslow For patients with advanced heart disease , an increasingly important question in the 21 st century clinic is: What is your CYP2C19 status? That's not a secret password to your bank account it's the name of a gene that affects how people ...

Reprogrammed Skin Cells Treat Huntington's in Rats
Wed, 30 May 2012 10:25:15 -0700

Good science and good ethics go together like bread and butter. Now, scientists have used cell reprogramming to treat Huntington's disease which killed Woodie Guthrie and remains incurable in rats. From the Michigan Live story: A stem cell treatment ...

Uniting the planet for a journey to another star
Wed, 30 May 2012 11:22:43 -0700

Traveling to another star may sound like science fiction something the USS Enterprise can do at the flick of the warp drive switch after Jean Luc Picard's "engage" command but science fact has an annoying habit of reminding us that space is vast ...

Robot on way to help doctors detect disease
Wed, 30 May 2012 04:18:05 -0700

Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations. It's not science fiction. Scientists and doctors are using the creeping metallic tools to perform surgery on hearts, prostate cancer, ...

Lance Stewart, Ph.D., MBA, Joins Allen Institute for Brain Science as Senior ...
Wed, 30 May 2012 06:31:53 -0700

SEATTLE, May 30, 2012 (Business wire) -- The Allen Institute for Brain Science , a nonprofit medical research organization dedicated to accelerating understanding of the human brain, announced today the appointment of Lance Stewart, Ph.D., MBA, ...

Medical: People who learn they carry disease gene don't overreact, study finds
Tue, 29 May 2012 12:25:17 -0700

And that's important to genetic medicine specialists, who fear the science of being able to test for genetic markers of disease have advanced faster than doctors have figured out how to use the information to improve the health of individual patients.

Deadly disease spreads to endangered gray bats
Tue, 29 May 2012 23:35:59 -0700

By Summit Voice summit county the spread of deadly white-nose syndrome to federally endangered gray bats is a devastating blow, US Fish and Wildlife Service officials said after announcing that biologists found the disease in gray bat populations in ...

Engineered 3-D Microvessels Provide Better Way To Study Disease
Wed, 30 May 2012 05:10:21 -0700

Credit: Y. Zheng, U. of Washington Mice and monkeys don't develop diseases in the same way that humans do. Nevertheless, after medical researchers have studied human cells in a Petri dish, they have little choice but to move on to study mice and ...

Hendra virus fears as 11 people exposed
Wed, 30 May 2012 07:04:20 -0700

Authorities yesterday conducted health assessments on the owners and treating veterinarians of two horses that died after contracting the deadly flying fox-borne disease in separate cases more than 800km apart. Officials also assessed other horses, ...