April 9 marks the anniversary of General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Va., but 135 years after the end of the Civil War, an Arkansas professor is still helping put Confederate soldiers to rest.
Using a blood-thinning drug in elderly people with an irregular heartbeat may provide stroke-preventing benefits that had previously been found only in younger people, according to a report in today's Stroke.
A new metabolic pathway in a parasite that could lead to drugs for treating so-called African sleeping sickness has been discovered by Johns Hopkins researchers (Science, 4-7-00).
New polymers developed by chemists and engineers at the University of Washington and the University of Southern California appear to achieve speed and capacity increases so great that they will revolutionize telecommunications, data processing, sensing and display technologies.
Questions about the potential effects of previously accepted length-of-stay guidelines on patients and the hospitals that treat them are raised by a Children's National Medical Center physicians' study in the April Pediatrics.
The Boulder sunspot number exceeded 300 this week as the sunspot cycle continued its march toward Solar Max.
Having computers in their residence hall rooms has provided academic and personal benefits and made them the envy of their friends at other universities, say Ohio University freshmen.
Connecting face-to-face in real time will be possible 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week for Hospice of Michigan patients and their clinical team as part of a new study being conducted by Michigan State University researchers and Hospice of Michigan.
An international team supported by NSF will establish a research camp at the North Pole to lay the groundwork for a five-year project to take the pulse of the Arctic Ocean and learn how the world's northernmost sea helps regulate global climate.
A cell membrane protein thought mainly to bind "bad" cholesterol and remove it from circulation also plays a major role in reducing the production of that cholesterol, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison study in the Feb. Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Smokers who test positive for the human immunodeficiency virus may be up to seven times more likely to develop emphysema, suggests research at Ohio State (Annals of Internal Medicine).
People whose diagnosis of AIDS was based on specific illnesses are at greater risk of developing memory problems than are people whose diagnosis grew from low immune-cell counts, Ohio State research shows (Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology).
The first step toward differentiating human cells in an artificial growth medium has been taken by Ohio State researchers; the finding may aid the production of human organs for transplant.
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Scientists reviewing solar wind data from the spacecraft Ulysses have stumbled upon evidence that comet tails stretch for hundreds of millions of miles longer than previously thought; this finding suggests that a mission to search for ions marking a comet's trail could help answer whether there are invisible comets on a collision course with the Earth? (Nature, 4-6-00)
By mimicking one of nature's own potent antimicrobial defenses, scientists may have found a new way to wage war on pathogenic bacteria (Nature, 4-6-00).
New finding: The ionized vapor trails left behind by comets as they zing past our sun may be billions of miles longer than anyone previously recognized.
Primatologists at the Yerkes Primate Center have found new evidence that capuchin monkeys cooperate to obtain food and share the rewards of their efforts (Nature, 4-6-00).
New research debunks the myth that sharks don't get cancer and casts further doubt on the use of shark cartilage pills for cancer prevention and treatment.
Johns Hopkins research news highlights from presentations or are ongoing issues that provide context for presentations at the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research.
The adage that predicts cheaters will never prosper isn't necessarily true - at least among bacteria, according to an MSU study published in Nature.
University of Arkansas researchers have found that the percentage of contaminated wells on two American Indian reservations in Nebraska exceeds state and national averages. This may point to a national problem with water quality on tribal lands, the researchers contend.
Every day a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Arkansas grapples with questions like: How do you inflate what does not exist, under unknown conditions, using unknown materials, for an unknown application?
Kids' preferences in dentists, new approaches to growing bone, insights into childhood cavities are among topics U-M faculty will discuss at international meeting.
Many of the country's crops would not exist without the honey bee at bloom time.
Market costs are likely to make vehicles that are powered by fuels other than gasoline too expensive for most consumers for the next decade, according to a model developed by a University of Maine resource economist and a researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The interventional MRI again has been the tool for a world's first procedure at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, this time to destroy fibroid tumors of the uterus. The interventional radiological procedure was developed by Dr. Patrick Sewell and uses the I-MRI to guide a CryoHit (freezing) probe through a small incision and into the tumor.
AHRQ has developed a new fact sheet, called 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors, with practical tips to help people protect themselves from medical errors related to medicines, hospital stays and surgery.
A protein in cancerous cells that may be linked to colon cancer has been found for the first time; the findings may help researchers find new ways to prevent and treat the disease.
Newly discovered currents of gas beat deep inside the Sun, speeding and slackening every 16 months.
Pituitary adenomas are benign tumors that arise exclusively within the anterior pituitary; although it can be frightening to have a tumor beneath the brain, it is important to note that these tumors are generally non-aggressive, non-cancerous and non-metastatic.
Tom Campbell (R-CA), sponsor of HR 1304, the "Quality Health Care Coalition Act," and Republican Candidate for the U.S. Senate in California, will speak at the American Neurological Surgery Political Action Committee luncheon on April 8.
Acclaimed historian, Pulitzer Prize winning author and former Harvard professor, Doris Kearns Goodwin, is the 2000 Cushing Orator; she will speak about "Leadership in the New Millennium."
The American Association of Neurological Surgeons presented John Anthony Jane, Sr., with the 2000 Decade of the Brain Medal at the AANS Annual Meeting in San Francisco; the award was presented to Dr. Jane in recognition of his pioneering work in the area of brain injury research.
The American Association of Neurological Surgeons will hold its 68th Annual Meeting April 8 to 13, 2000, in San Francisco; the meeting will host more than 6,000 attendees, with approximately 3,000 medical professionals.
Several questions about strokes (with their answers), e.g., Q- What is cerebrovascular disease? A- Cerebrovascular disease is one of the most devastating and misunderstood epidemics of our time; more than 700,000 American suffer a major cerebrovascular event -- most likely a stroke -- each year.
Spinal cord injury is damage to the nerves within the spinal canal; most SCIs are caused by trauma to the vertebral column, thereby affecting the spinal cord's ability to send and receive messages from the brain to the body's systems that control sensory, motor and autonomic function below the level of injury.
Japanese researchers have adapted the Bubble-Jet printing head for printing spots of DNA onto glass slides to create microarrays; in preliminary tests on a fragment of the p53 tumor suppressor gene, the researchers were able to successfully distinguish single base mismatches from perfect matches.
The FDA's recent approval of Prevnar, a new vaccine developed specifically for infants and toddlers, is expected to have a significant impact in the number of cases of pneumococcal infections, according to a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
New ways to treat chronic pain, a condition thought to affect as many as one in four Americans at an annual cost in disability compensation and lost productivity estimated to be as high as $100 billion, are being found by University at Buffalo researchers (Spine).
Patients with severe emphysema are being enrolled at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) and at 16 other sites in a major study comparing the outcomes of emphysema patients who receive maximum medical therapy with those who undergo medical therapy in combination with lung volume reduction surgery.
Now is the time for farmers to begin thinking about how they'll file their 2000 tax returns, say two Purdue University agricultural economics professors.
Nanometer-sized magnetic particles that slip into cells where they can serve as beacons for tracking movement of cells throughout the body have been designed by scientists.
By introducing human proteins into cultured mouse cells, scientists think they might have come up with a way of artificially stimulating the immune system into action against tumors and infectious agents using genetic engineering.
WITI Corp., a provider of wireless custom weather forecasts, has been acquired by LifeMinders.com; the acquisition makes WITI's personalized forecasts available to LifeMinders 12.5 million members.
1- Innovation effort seeks to "grease the skids"; 2- Asteroid named for NSF astronomer; 3- Women earned record percentages of doctorates in 1998.
Two separate groups of CIIT researchers were honored for their scholarship by the Society of Toxicology at its recent meeting in Philadelphia.
Dr. William F. Greenlee, President of CIIT, has been chosen to lead the Society of Toxicology; he automatically becomes President of the organization in two years.
A consortium of universities and private sector companies led by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has won a $70-million, 5-year Cooperative Agreement with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to develop a new Earth Science and Technology Center.
Asthma and allergy research efforts have been aimed at attempting to improve efficacy, increase safety, decrease treatment time and improve compliance; Johns Hopkins, the University of California at San Diego, and Dynavax Technologies Corporation researchers announce that they have developed a method of modifying an allergen to create a vaccine that may solve many concerns.
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