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Changing planet, changing health : how the climate crisis threatens our health and what we can do about it
\"Climate change is now doing far more harm than marooning polar bears on melting chunks of ice--it is damaging the health of people around the world. Brilliantly connecting stories of real people with cutting-edge scientific and medical information, Changing planet, changing health brings us to places like Mozambique, Honduras, and the United States for an eye-opening on-the-ground investigation of how climate change is altering patterns of disease. Written by a physician and world expert on climate and health and an award-winning science journalist, the book reveals the surprising links between global warming and cholera, malaria, lyme disease, asthma, and other health threats. In clear, accessible language, it also discusses topics including Climategate, cap-and-trade proposals, and the relationship between free markets and the climate crisis. Most importantly, Changing planet, changing health delivers a suite of innovative solutions for shaping a healthy global economic order in the twenty-first century\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Changing planet, changing health
Climate change is now doing far more harm than marooning polar bears on melting chunks of ice—it is damaging the health of people around the world. Brilliantly connecting stories of real people with cutting-edge scientific and medical information, Changing Planet, Changing Health brings us to places like Mozambique, Honduras, and the United States for an eye-opening on-the-ground investigation of how climate change is altering patterns of disease. Written by a physician and world expert on climate and health and an award-winning science journalist, the book reveals the surprising links between global warming and cholera, malaria, lyme disease, asthma, and other health threats. In clear, accessible language, it also discusses topics including Climategate, cap-and-trade proposals, and the relationship between free markets and the climate crisis. Most importantly, Changing Planet, Changing Health delivers a suite of innovative solutions for shaping a healthy global economic order in the twenty-first century.
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Bridging the Blood-Brain Barrier: New Methods Improve the Odds of Getting Drugs to the Brain Cells That Need Them
Brain diseases by the dozens lack effective therapies, but it's not for lack of trying, says Pardridge, a professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (United States): Pharmaceutical companies have failed to deliver effective new brain drugs, despite huge potential markets for Alzheimer disease, stroke, Parkinson disease, brain infections, and more. Strategy Debates Faking the brain out, however, is easier said than done, and according to Pardridge and other academic researchers, pharmaceutical companies have mostly botched the job.\\n Still others, including many drug companies, argue that no targeting is really needed, because the blood-brain barrier opens naturally during many diseases. The model, which is being produced by a spinoff company to sell to drug companies and researchers, can reproduce the properties of the healthy human blood-brain barrier as well as the altered blood-brain barrier of patients with multidrug-resistant epilepsy, according to a paper published online in February, 2007, in Epilepsia.
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From Pigs to People: The Emergence of a New Superbug
The discovery of a novel strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus able to jump from livestock to humans has sparked a multicountry effort to see how dangerous it might be. The discovery of a novel strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) able to jump from livestock to humans has sparked a multicountry effort to see how dangerous it might be. So far, the worst fears about the strain have not been realized. It did jump from pigs to people, scientists determined through gumshoe detective work. And it has caused serious disease—although rarely—among farmers and veterinarians who work with pigs and other livestock, and their families, although most of them carry the microbe harmlessly in their noses. But it doesn't appear to be readily transmissible between humans, so the chance of a broad community epidemic seems low. However, MRSA readily mixes and matches genes with other bacteria that make it more virulent, more transmissible, and harder to treat—and this newly emerged strain could take that route too.
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Microbes Made to Order
A new breed of bioengineers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology aims to create Escherichia coli, blinking microbes from off-the-shell parts, which if successful, would reach one of the goals of synthetic biology: to allow researchers to \"go into the freezer, get a part, hook it up,\" and have it work the first time. Bacterial blinking circuits are just one element in the MIT researchers' \"registry of standard biological parts,\" which is akin to an inventory that electrical engineers or basement tinkerers might consult when they design a new device, says class constructor Drew Endy of MIT. Ferber probes on the research.
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WHO Advises Kicking the Livestock Antibiotic Habit
Eliminating the routine use of antibiotics in livestock reduces human health risks without significantly harming animal health or farmers' incomes, according to a World Health Organization report. The report adds to a growing momentum to end the use of antibiotics to promote growth in farm animals. The European Union has ordered member countries to end the controversial practice by 2006, and fast-food giant McDonald's is pressing its meat suppliers to cut back on antibiotics as well.
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Gene Therapy: Safer and Virus-Free?
New vectors for gene therapy aim to mimic viral vectors' pros without their dangerous cons. Today, no gene therapy using any type of vector has been approved for clinical use. Naked DNA therapies are discussed.
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