The main issues are menopause, osteoporosis, prostate cancer, cardiovascular diseases and other degenerative diseases affecting the reproductive organs.

Brazil's epidemiological indicators describe a situation in which developed countries (cardiovascular and chronic degenerative) typical diseases coexist with those typical of developing world (maternal mortality and malnutrition).

And where is nature s gambit taking us? The proteins with the largest accumulation of structural defects are the prions, soluble proteins so poorly wrapped that they relinquish their functionally competent fold and form aberrant aggregates that may cause degenerative neuropathies.

So what happens when a person gets a retinal degenerative disease like macular degeneration? What happens is is that, the front end cells die, the photoreceptors die, and over time, all the cells and the circuits that are connected to them, they die too.

This process interests researchers enormously, because it is one of only two contexts in which neural regeneration occurs. If it were understood, it could lead to cures for many crippling diseases, both neurological (like Parkinson s and Alzheimer s) and degenerative (including those, like cancer, associated with aging).

First claim unit Livestock resources Saudi Arabia seeks compensation in the amount of USD 441,389 for losses of livestock suffered by animal breeders in the Al Hassa region of Saudi Arabia due to degenerative diseases that affected the animals as a result of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.