FAO Food Price Index almost unchanged But cereal prices up in August Rome – World food prices remained virtually unchanged between July and August 2011 according to the FAO Food Price Index published today. The Index averaged 231 points last month compared to 232 points in July. It was 26 percent higher than in August 2010 but seven […]

Global Soil Partnership for Food Security launched at FAO New effort to assure soils future generations Rome – FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf warned today that pressure on the world’s soil resources and land degradation are threatening global food security. He called for a renewed international effort to assure sufficient fertile and healthy soils today and for future […]

Three-Year-Old Boy on the Road to Recovery from Heart Defect At 3-months-old, Charlie Levin wasn’t thriving like a normal baby. He was losing weight, constantly vomiting and breathing rapidly. After a chest X-ray in his hometown of Buffalo revealed an enlarged heart, Charlie was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Charlie’s left ventricle was underdeveloped […]

Quick! Name 3 Things You Know About Vascular Disease Vascular disease may not on the tip of every man’s tongue, but it should be. Along with stroke, it’s the No. 1 killer of U.S. men — yet too many guys don’t know how it works, let alone ways to prevent it. Fortunately, according to vascular […]

Famine spreads further in Somalia FAO calls for stepped up response Nairobi/Rome- FAO today called for increased efforts to stem the food crisis in the Horn of Africa as famine spread to a sixth area of Somalia, threatening  750 000 people with starving to death in the next four months. Latest data released today by the […]

September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, 2011 Every year, thousands of children fight a battle with cancer. While we celebrate the progress in treatment and recovery, we must also refocus our efforts on fighting this disease. All children deserve the chance to live a healthy life. Read the Presidential Proclamation. __________________________________________________________________________________ The White House: Proclamation […]

Andrea L. DeMeo Named ‘Community Champion’   Andrea L. DeMeo, executive director and chief operating officer for the Center for Community Health and director of the University’s annual United Way campaign, has been named an honoree for the 2011 Greater Rochester Awards as a Community Champion, in recognition of her exceptional work in our community’s […]

Men: What’s in Your Six Pack? Men often neglect their health until something starts to go wrong – usually around middle age. And after all those years of not paying attention to their bodies, men in their 50s and 60s can feel overwhelmed by the chore of making health changes, asking themselves “How do I even […]

Bird Flu rears its head again Increased preparedness and surveillance urged against variant strain Rome – FAO today urged heightened readiness and surveillance against a possible major resurgence of the H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza amid signs that a mutant strain of the deadly Bird Flu virus is spreading in Asia and beyond, with unpredictable risks […]

Learning How Support Cells Kill Nerve Cells in ALS ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is marked by the death of muscle-controlling nerve cells—called motor neurons—in the spinal cord and some brain regions. As these neurons die, the body’s voluntary muscles weaken and waste away. People with ALS often die within 5 years of […]