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Project Summary/Abstract – The EPA maintains a Toxics Release Inventory of andgt;650 toxic chemicals that are disposed or released from andgt;20,000 industrial sites in the United States, while HHS and USDA maintain a list of over 60 select agents and toxicants that pose a severe risk to human, animal, and plant health. These compounds represent only a fraction of the known and unknown environme ...

AbstractNorovirus is the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis in the United States, associated annually with 19-21 million illnesses, 56,000-71,000 hospitalizations and 570-800 deaths (US CDC, Overview about Norovirus). Norovirus is one of the nonenveloped viruses that are resistant to alcohol sanitization. According to US CDC Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Norovirus Gastroente ...

Preventing Vascular Complications in Type 1 Diabetes: Muscle Metabolic Monitoring Abstract Measurements of muscle metabolism and blood flow using near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) have progressively increased, as has the number of companies selling NIRS-based devices. This technology represents the present and future modality for non-invasively characterizing normal and abnormal muscle physiology ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Some of the most significant therapies that treat disease target nucleic acids Drugs that target nucleic acid include cancer drugs antibiotics and antivirals Combined these classes of drugs have annual sales worldwide of $ billion Antibiotics that target nucleic acids account for $ billion of the $ billion of sales annuall for all antibiotics an ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Self monitoring has been described as the andquot cornerstone of the behavioral treatment of obesityandquot Consistent self monitoring of energy intake is associated with improved dietary adherence and weight loss and maintenance The problem is that individuals are notoriously bad at self monitoring their intake and suffer from an underreporting bias The s ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant All forms of diabetes are characterized by the death of insulin producing cells In Type diabetes T D this leads to the reliance on exogenous insulin for survival Death of cells is silent it cannot be detected in vivo until it has progressed to such an extent that metabolic function is impaired The loss of cells has only been assessed by functiona ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Pediatric Food Allergy FA is recognized as a serious public health concern that affects approximately percent of children with symptoms affecting multiple organ systems including skin the respiratory tract and the GI tract Food induced anaphylaxis which is a rapid potentially life threatening reaction can occur in more serious cases Despite the s ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Heart attacks i e myocardial infarction or MI occur in more than million patients annually Advances in pharmacological therapy have dramatically improved survival following the initial MI Consequently the number of patients with previous MI continues to increase and as a result put in jeopardy millions of patients for development of heart failure I ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders among youth with lifetime prevalence ranging between of the general population Among anxiety disorders social anxiety disorder SAD affects of all youth resulting in significant short and long term impairment including increased likelihood of substance abuse limited academic achievemen ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Overweight and obesity are major health problems affecting over two thirds of US adults Commercially available Internet based weight loss programs are currently used by millions of overweight obese individuals in the U S but weight losses are often poor likely because these products on the whole do not incorporate empirically validated behavioral weight los ...