Written on July 5, 2011 by George Moowattin
Salty invasion: Asian carp (top), wild tilapia, lionfish, and European green crabs at a James Beard House event on Wednesday.
From doctors to the government, everyone seems to be telling us to eat more seafood because it’s nutritious and can be good for our hearts.
But environmental groups have made choosing fish a bit more complicated by reminding us that many species are overfished, contaminated or farmed under sketchy conditions.
Now there’s a new variable, but one that may simplify the proposition. Is the fish on the menu an invasive species?
Yesterday, the advocacy group Food & Water Watch released its 2011 Smart Seafood Guide.
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Millions of people dependent on life-saving generic drugs to treat HIV/AIDS will die if India stops producing cheap drugs for the disease due to its trade deal with the European Union, the head of UNAIDS warned on Tuesday. The EU and India are currently negotiating a free-trade agreement, which campaigners say will restrict India’s ability to produce anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, preventing the world’s poor from accessing cheap drugs for their treatment. “India should resist removing any flexibility because any trade agreement which could lead to India not being able to produce will be terrible for the rest of the world,” said Michel Sidibe, executive director for the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
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Two years ago, 13-year-old Alexis Beery developed a cough and a breathing problem so severe that her parents placed a baby monitor in her room just to make sure she would survive the night. Alexis would often cough so hard and so long that she would throw up, and had to take daily injections of adrenaline just to keep breathing. Yet doctors weren’t sure what was wrong.
In a paper published today in Science Translational Medicine, researchers led by Richard Gibbs, head of the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston, Texas, describe how they sequenced the genomes of Alexis and her twin brother, Noah, to diagnose the cause of her cough — a discovery that led to a treatment. T
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TUESDAY, July 5 — Cuddling and caressing help boost satisfaction in long-term relationships, according to a new study of middle-aged and older couples.
Men were more likely to be happy in a relationship if they were in good health and if it was important to them that their partner experienced orgasm during sex.
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PCTs in Shropshire, Wrekin and Telford launched the campaign with pages on Facebook and YouTube.
The Facebook page also allows users to share life-saving stroke stories. It also includes background information about strokes as well as details of how people can spot signs of stroke.
A spokesman for the PCTs commented: ‘By using social media we hope to get the message across in a different and current way. We are also keen to teach young people how to recognise the early signs of a stroke and to react accordingly.’
The page focuses on the message ‘Heroes act FAST’ and encourages youn people to ‘become a local hero’.
‘Know the signs of stroke,’ the page says. ‘Spread the word and save lives!
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