Health: numerous related factors influence life expectancies around the world, from food consumption to medical provision.
In much of the world, average life expectancies are increasing. The rises are attributed to improvements in agriculture and, hence, nutrition, as well as health education, improved sanitation and drinking water quality, together with advances in medicine. However, people in some parts of the developing world are still subject...

Sequella Presents Data on Synergy Between Investigational New TB Drugs SQ109 and TMC207.
Study Results Presented at 2008 ICAAC/IDSA Joint Meeting ROCKVILLE, Md., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Sequella, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on commercializing products to treat infectious diseases of epidemic potential, announces the successful demonstration of synergistic activities and improvement of minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) resulting from...

Worth noting.
* A team of scientists report they have discovered Earth's most ancient rocks. The samples of Nuvvuagittuq greenstone found on the shore of Hudson Bay, Canada, are purported to be 4.28 billion years old--250 million years older than any known to date--and may hold evidence of ancient life forms....

Biolog Reports Success in Analysis and Identification of Pathogenic Bacteria.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-18 November 2008-Biolog Reports Success in Analysis and Identification of Pathogenic Bacteria(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Presentations made at scientific conferences this week announced recent successes in utilizing Biolog technology to advance our understanding of important pathogenic bacteria. In a release, the...

Emergent BioSolutions Releases Financial Results for 3Q and First 9 Months of 2008.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-12 November 2008-Emergent BioSolutions Releases Financial Results for 3Q and First 9 Months of 2008(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Emergent BioSolutions has announced its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30. In a release, the company noted...

Family after all; Alaska's Jesse Lee Home; v.2: Seward, 1925-1965.
9780978997915 Family after all; Alaska's Jesse Lee Home; v.2: Seward, 1925-1965. Compiled by Jacquelin B. Pels. Hardscratch Press 2008 795 pages $37.00 Paperback E78 The second volume documenting Alaska's Jesse Lee...

APHA's Control of Communicable Diseases Manual updated, revised; 19th edition features new flu chapter.
DESPITE landmark technological advances that can help people live longer and healthier lives, communicable diseases are still a formidable foe for the health professionals around the globe who struggle to track and contain them. Today, approximately 46 percent of all deaths in low-income countries are due to...

Report shows malaria burden still high, illustrates growing success.
WITH HALF of the world's population at risk for malaria, the World Health Organization's latest global malaria report describes the scope of the problem, outlines successes within some control programs and offers encouragement about prevention and treatment. The "World Malaria Report 2008," released in September, highlights some...

Women on the Nile; writings of Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale and Amelia Edwards.
9780948695742 Women on the Nile; writings of Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale and Amelia Edwards. Rees, Joan. The Rubicon Press 2008 188 pages $37.95 Hardcover DT117 Historians have rarely written much about...

Emergent BioSolutions and Oxford Partner to Develop an Advanced Tuberculosis Vaccine.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-29 July 2008-Emergent BioSolutions and Oxford Partner to Develop an Advanced Tuberculosis Vaccine(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com The University of Oxford and Emergent BioSolutions announced that they have formed a joint venture, The Oxford-Emergent Tuberculosis Consortium, to further develop MVA85A, the world's most clinically...