News tagged with disease international

Tomato genome fully sequenced

For the first time, the genome of the tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, has been decoded, and it becomes an important step toward improving yield, nutrition, disease resistance, taste and color of the tomato and ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created 4 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Newly identified oral bacterium linked to heart disease and meningitis

A novel bacterium, thought to be a common inhabitant of the oral cavity, has the potential to cause serious disease if it enters the bloodstream, according to a study in the International Journal of Systematic an ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study establishes importance of tracking diseases associated with illegal wildlife trade

An article released today in PLoS ONE entitled, Zoonotic Viruses Associated with Illegally Imported Wildlife Products, from a collaborative study led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), identified ev ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stop abusing insecticides in rice

To prevent devastating insect pest outbreaks in rice that cause millions of dollars of damage, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has called for a ban on certain insecticides in rice production as part of its ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scalable amounts of liver and pancreas precursor cells created using new stem cell production method

Scientists in Canada have overcome a key research hurdle to developing regenerative treatments for diabetes and liver disease with a technique to produce medically useful amounts of endoderm cells from human pluripotent stem ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Spinning blood device set to safeguard astronaut health

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA has begun developing a new blood-testing device for astronauts on the International Space Station. A wide range of ailments from diabetes to heart disease should be diagnosable in moments from a single ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Examining rice genes for rice blast resistance

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have characterized the molecular mechanism behind some plants' ability to resist rice blast, a fungal disease that affects cereal grain crops such as rice, wheat, rye and barley ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Foreign insects, diseases got into US

(AP) -- Dozens of foreign insects and plant diseases slipped undetected into the United States in the years after 9/11, when authorities were so focused on preventing another attack that they overlooked a ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Collaborative care shown to be successful for patients with opioid addictions

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that for the majority of patients with opioid addiction, collaborative care with nurse care managers is a successful method of service delivery while ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Obesity and knee osteoarthritis shorten healthy years of life

An estimated 10 million Americans suffer from knee osteoarthritis (OA), making it one of the most common causes of disability in the US. Due to obesity and symptomatic knee OA, Americans over the age of 50 will together lose ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fiber intake associated with reduced risk of death

Dietary fiber may be associated with a reduced risk of death from cardiovascular, infectious and respiratory diseases, as well as a reduced risk of death from any cause over a nine-year period, according to a report posted ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Heart patients should be referred to cardiac rehabilitation before leaving hospital

Healthcare practitioners can increase the number of patients with heart disease referred to a cardiac rehabilitation program by 40 per cent, helping them to reduce their risk of dying and improve their quality of life, say ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Integrative Medicine: Cognitive behavioral therapy

We know that the state of the mind has a lot to do with how healthy the body is. An interesting study published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine demonstrates the mind-body connection yet again - this time ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Reducing recurrent cardiac events by reducing stress

Following the results of a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showing that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) produces a 41% reduction in fatal and non-fatal first recurrent CVD events, the European Societ ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stress management program helps prevent heart events in patients with heart disease

A cognitive behavioral therapy program focusing on stress management appears to decrease the risk of recurrent heart attacks and other cardiovascular events in patients with heart disease, according to a report in the January ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0