Sentences with phrase «human health implications»

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta • GA 2006 — 2006 Epidemiology Elective for Senior Medical and Veterinary Students Evaluated the public health implications of bushmeat and developed an educational initiative for Atlanta Customs and Border Protection to reduce human health implications.

Her previous research centered on sustainable transportation policy Los Angeles, with a focus on fine particulate pollution and its negative human health implications.

Canine and feline roundworms are common locally and have human health implications, including causing liver and eye infections in people (especially children) and have been recently linked with lower standardized test scores in people.

The findings, published online February 8 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, are preliminary, and more research remains to be done to determine if thirdhand smoke has definite human health implications.

Scientists believe that because of shared environments, dog exposure to BPA through canned foods could have human health implications.

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Our so - called e-waste alone has dark, if still imprecise implications for human health, say lots and lots of scientists and public institutions.

Beginning in 2003, the Division of Corporate Finance too often has issued no - action letters omitting shareholder proposals that ask management to undertake a risk assessment or review the financial implications of an array of environmental, community, public health and human rights concerns and issues.

«Over a dozen studies show current human exposure to biologically active levels of this chemical, creating a potential for a variety of health implications.»

Benyshek is now researching the public health implications, the likely course of placentophagy throughout human evolution, whether placentas can treat mood disorders and hormonal imbalances, and any potential risks.

In an accompanying editorial, William Oh of Brown University and Tonse N. K. Raju of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said that the findings»... have important implications for obstetric and neonatal care and research.

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Everything we once thought is true is now undergoing radical revision with profound implications to human health, particularly the role of vaccines.

Nearly a year later, the government set up a working party chaired by Oxford University professor of zoology, Richard Southwood, to investigate bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and any implications for human health.

The National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy held a conference in 2001 to celebrate 10 years of conducting research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of the Human Genome Project, as we reported in our story «A Decade of ELSI Research»: Embracing the Past and Gazing into the Future.

The decrease in environmental microbial exposure from urban living could have health implications for humans.

His research focuses on the upper limits to human longevity, the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging, as well as the pursuit of the scientific means to slow aging in people.

«More pieces of the puzzle need to be figured out,» she says, «but obviously the health implications for humans could be huge.»

Natural selection can't keep pace with our cushy, sedentary lifestyles, and our cover story explores the health implications of human «dysevolution.»

But understanding the disease also has important implications for human health.

By chemically removing the gut microbiome in zebrafish in the lab and then repopulating the gut with two to three bacterial species, University of Oregon biologist Karen Guillemin has shown that certain microbes are especially skilled at suppressing the host immune system and preventing inflammation — a discovery she thinks may have implications for human health.

Rogers and plant science colleagues at UMass Amherst, with postdoctoral researcher and first author Jennifer Albertine, write, «The implications of increasing CO2 for human health are clear.

There are implications for human health in the research appearing online in Aging Cell: heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., claiming nearly 600,000 lives per year.

This reduces the risk of antibiotic resistance selection and has positive implications for both human and animal health.

«Our results may introduce a paradigm shift in the way we think about ore genesis and mining — from implications for human health, to restoration practices, to how mining companies calculate how much they can earn from a given site.»

The findings have implications for the climate and weather of both planets and, potentially, human health here on Earth.

Roach said «the clearest public health implication» from treating livestock with antibiotics is the development of resistant bacteria that reduces the effectiveness of human medicine.

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«If the findings are reproduced in humans they could have implications for heart health in older athletes.

A new study on the Northern Hemisphere's mercury has troubling implications for wildlife and human health

Two teams have independently discovered that a single regulatory protein acts as the master genetic switch that triggers the development of male and female sexual forms (termed gametocytes) of the malaria parasite, solving a long - standing mystery in parasite biology with important implications for human health.

Further, since the disruption of epigenetic mechanisms may cause diseases such as cancer, diabetes and autoimmune disorders, these new findings could have implications for human health.

The era of memory engineering is upon us, and naturally, there are big implications for basic science and, perhaps someday, human health and society.

«Despite the likely massive immediate and long - term mental health implications of the current conflict in Yemen, the issue has largely been neglected by both domestic authorities and the international community,» said Professor Sarah Knuckey, the director of the Human Rights Clinic.

«Gestational weight gain greater than the IOM recommendations has long - term implications for weight - related health,» said Elizabeth Widen, PhD, RD, postdoctoral fellow at the New York Obesity Research Center in the Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, and Institute of Human Nutrition.

In 2003, in «A vision for the future of genomics research,» Francis Collins — who was then the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health — and his co-authors encouraged collaboration between basic scientists and clinical scientists, and between life scientists and social scientists, to address the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic and genetic research and the resulting new technologies.

«Our findings also have important implications for mitochondrial diseases in humans, because this research significantly advances our understanding of how mitochondrial DNA mutations affect individuals and populations, and provides a potential mechanism to explain how different genetic variants may affect health,» Dr Rollins said.

Lundström notes the findings could have implications for human health, as some people fear blood's smell or link it to a traumatic past event.

This research could have important implications for developing countries whose populations rely on rice as a staple of their diets and are in need of cheap, readily available material to improve soil quality and decrease arsenic levels that threaten human health.

They have been detected in surface water, groundwater, wastewater and even drinking water — however, the long - term implications for non-target species such as aquatic wildlife and human health are largely unknown.

An accompanying editorial says the findings have important implications for human health.

Because the technology can be applied to a wide range of pathogens, it could become a game - changer in anti-viral therapeutics with implications for human health and the farming industry.

«Our study highlights the usefulness of dense sensor networks for urban weather and climate research with practical implications for human health, energy consumption, and environmental quality.»

The ability to track such interactions has implications for human genetics and health, the researchers said.

Little is known about the specific health implications of human exposure to THS.

The study has important implications for human health, and is particularly useful for understanding the changes that occur in cells during the development of the tumors that underlie cancers.

«They constitute an integral part of the virosphere with implications in diversity, evolution and even human health.»

The ability to switch out parts as they break down, just like one might do to keep a vintage car in shape, has huge implications for human health.

Still, Cucinotta pointed to «Cancer Risk From Exposure to Galactic Cosmic Rays: Implications for Space Exploration by Human Beings» from The Lancet Oncology as being one of particular note because it highlighted the health risks associated with humans» space travel endeavors.

As new examples of beneficial noise come to light, scientists are working to better understand the implications for cell behavior, evolution and human health.

The results, which may have broad human - health implications, are described in the latest issue of Nature, available online today.