211 Articles with the topic: Public Health & Epidemiology
Sue Wu submitted, created time 8 months 1 week (www.news.com)
Polysilicon, which is widely used to make solar panels, is in short supply. In the rush to make it cheaply, a Chinese company reportedly is dumping toxic waste into the ground, killing wildlife and endangering human health. 
"Suicide victims" brains bear chemical scars of child abuse
kavin submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (www.sciencenews.org)
The study is the first to implicate faulty protein production with child abuse and suicide. The researchers find that child abuse can leave lasting scars on its victims, both physical and psychological. It may also leave chemical marks in the brains of its victims who will later kill themselves. In the brains of suicide victims, early abuse marks genes that encode ribosomal RNA, key gears in the cellular machinery that makes proteins.
Beijing reports first child virus death
sea-maid submitted, created time 6 months 1 week (ap.google.com)
This study reports the first death from the hand, foot and mouth disease virus that has sickened tens of thousands of children across the country and killed at least forty-two people.
Global Analysis of Host-Pathogen Interactions that Regulate Early-Stage HIV-1 Replication
jerry submitted, created time 1 month 1 week (www.cell.com)
Human Immunodeficiency Viruses (HIV-1 and HIV-2) rely upon host-encoded proteins to facilitate their replication. Here, we combined genome-wide siRNA analyses with interrogation of human interactome databases to assemble a host-pathogen biochemical network containing 213 confirmed host cellular factors and eleven HIV-1-encoded proteins. Protein complexes that regulate ubiquitin conjugation, proteolysis, DNA-damage response, and RNA splicing were identified as important modulators of early-stage HIV-1 infection
One fourth of American teenage girls have at least one STD.
Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 1 week (www.nytimes.com)
We've been talking about Gardasil and Cerverix a lot recently. Sure, lots of parents are reluctant to vaccinate their children before they become teenagers, but a nationwide study reveals that 50% of black teenagers and 20% of white teenagers have at least one STD. The specific age ranges are fourteen to nineteen. And what is the most common infection out there? Shocker of shockers, it's HPV
China virus toll continues rise
sea-maid submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (news.bbc.co.uk)
According to this article, we know that the virus toll in China continues rise. EV71is highly contagious, causing fever, blisters in the mouth and a rash on the hands and feet. From this report, it is said that the outbreak emerged in Fuyang city in March, but was only reported in mid-April. The reason why there was a delay in the reporting at the provincial level was that they didn’t know what the causes for these different cases were.
jerry submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
When we are struggling to lose weight, it may seem like new fat keeps showing up again and again!
That impression is half-right. Contrary to the accepted wisdom that humans don't make new fat cells, although one's total number of fat cells may not drop below a certain level, that doesn't mean that we can't add more. Previous research has suggested that under situations where people are consuming a high number of calories, their fat cells may increase in both size and number.
Rotavirus and rotavirus vaccines
sea-maid submitted, created time 4 months 3 weeks (www.latimes.com)
So far so good for the new rotavirus vaccine. It has delayed the onset of the most recent season by three months, and the number of cases was the lowest since tracking of the infection began.
The rotavirus causes severe vomiting and diarrhea in infants and small children.
kavin submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (www.sciencenews.org)
Obese people have about twice the number of fat cells as normal-weight adults and fat cells are bigger in the obese people than in their lean counterparts.
New strategy could describe outbreak strains rapidly
sea-maid submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (www.genome.org)
This report, which is published online in Genome Research, demonstrates a new approach using next-generation sequencing technology to identify unique genetic properties of a potential outbreak strain quickly. High-throughput sequencing technology and the comparative genomic analysis strategy outlined in this work have significantly decreased the time required for characterization of an outbreak strain.
Enterovirus 71 has broken out in Fuyang of China.
jerry submitted, created time 6 months 1 week (access.health.qld.gov.au)
Enterovirus 71 has outbroken in China. As of now there have been more than 20 deaths attributed to it. Most of these were children. This article gives us some basic knowledge about EV71.
Direct Genetic Analysis of Single Cancer Cells for Therapy Selection in Cancer
jerry submitted, created time 6 months 1 week (www.cancercell.org)
The increasing use of primary tumors as surrogate markers for prognosis and therapeutic decisions neglects evolutionary aspects of cancer progression.
The reseachers identified chromosome 17q12–21, the region comprising HER2, as the most frequent gain in disseminated tumor cells that were isolated from both ectopic sites when they analyzed single disseminated cancer cells from lymph nodes and bone marrow of 107 consecutive esophageal cancer patients.
Rosiglitazone-Associated Fractures in Type 2 Diabetes
jerry submitted, created time 6 months 6 days (care.diabetesjournals.org)
This is an analysis from a diabetes outcome progression trial.
It said that further investigation into the risk factors and underlying pathophysiology for the increased fracture rate in women taking rosiglitazone is required to relate them to preclinical data and better understand the clinical implications of and possible interventions for these findings
HIV vaccine failure explained?
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 weeks 1 day (www.nature.com)
Researchers have suggested that an experimental vaccine against AIDS might have failed in part because it made some people's immune cells more vulnerable to HIV infection.
DanyC submitted, created time 9 months 4 weeks (www.newsweek.com)
One Australian newspaper, referring to a study about an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection affecting homosexual men in San Francisco and other American cities.
Maybe it's a big bomb in the field of "gay" infection.
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