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Bacterial Communication: Finding The Constant
The Rosetta Stone of bacterial communication may have been found.

Immune Responses To Flu Vaccine Are Diminished In Lupus Patients
Patients with the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have an increased risk of infection, due to both disturbances in their immune responses and treatment with immunosuppressive drugs. Because morbidity and mortality related to influenza are increased in immunocompromised patients, it is recommended that patients with SLE get annual flu shots, which are safe and do not increase disease activity. Both antibody and cell-mediated responses are involved in the immune response to influenza; in SLE, antibody responses to the vaccine are diminished, but it is not known if the same effect is seen in cell-mediated responses. A new study was the first to examine cell-mediated responses in SLE patients prior to and following influenza vaccination. The study was published in the August issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism .
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Henry Ford Health System Adopts Healthy Interactions Conversation Map(R) Education Program As Standard Curriculum In Diabetes Education
Henry Ford Health System, one of the nation"s top rated health systems and recognized visionaries in offering quality care, formally announced its adoption of Healthy Interactions U.S. Diabetes Conversation Map® education program in its diabetes education curriculum, proclaiming them to demonstrate increased effectiveness in helping patients with diabetes live with their condition. The five Conversation Map tools, which were developed in collaboration with the American Diabetes Association and sponsored by Merck & Co., are based around large colorful 5 ft by 3 ft discussion displays.
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World Food Programme Commends G8 Leaders' Focus On Food Security; Urges Support For Hunger Needs Of World's Poorest

As leaders at the G8 summit in L"Aquila gather to discuss global food security, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is urging a twin-track approach to food security, supporting long-term agricultural production with continued support for immediate hunger assistance. "We applaud the G8 focus on food security," said Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, headquartered in Rome. "We learned a lesson last year when rising food prices caused an epidemic of hunger leading to food riots in more than 30 countries. Without food people revolt, migrate or die. None of these are acceptable options." In figures released two weeks ago by the UN"s Food and Agriculture Organization the number of hungry people is now projected to top 1.02 billion, and with the global economic crisis compounding the ongoing food price crisis in the developing world, causing loss of jobs, remittances and slowed exports and investment, this number is expected to climb further. This reverses a four-decade trend where the number of hungry has declined. At the same time, global food aid supplies last year were at a 34 year low and 18 percent lower than in 2005. Food aid has dropped 35 percent since 1995. "We cannot afford to lose a generation to malnutrition, starvation and despair," said Sheeran. "Addressing immediate hunger needs is a critical long-term investment in healthy, stable societies." WFP depends entirely on voluntary donations, and has raised less than one quarter of its US$6.4 billion budget for 2009 at the halfway point of the year. "WFP is the safety net for the most vulnerable people in the world," Sheeran said. "It"s a false logic for the world to say that we will either invest in tomorrow"s agriculture or today"s urgent food needs. There is no question that we must do both." World Food Programme


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