A study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers the first molecular explanation of how the body metabolizes and detoxifies cocaine and heroin. Implications for cocaine overdose therapy and detoxifying chemical weapons,including nerve agents.
The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) unveiled today new reference standards packaging featuring an updated look and higher quality shipping materials.
The Watergate papers of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have been acquired for $5 million by The University of Texas at Austin.
Chaos theory, which helps scientists understand complex systems such as weather patterns and the stock market, may also help shed light on the dynamics of alcohol abuse, a new study suggests.
Are the news media politically biased against people with "your" beliefs? If you're a Republican, your answer depends on who you talk to, and how often.
A system to destroy airborne biological agents as they move through a building's heating and air conditioning ducts, developed by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md., has been licensed to the Bio-Defense Research Group, Inc. (BDRGI), Upper Marlboro, Md., for production.
A collaborative study between Mayo Clinic and a medical center in Russia found that alpha lipoic acid significantly and rapidly reduces the frequency and severity of symptoms of the most common kind of diabetic neuropathy.
NASA today announced approximately $135 million dollars will be awarded to three competing contractor teams to continue support of NASA's Orbital Space Plane program under the Space Launch Initiative to provide crew rescue and transfer capabilities to the International Space Station.
UCLA neuroscientists using functional magnetic resonance imaging are the first to demonstrate that empathetic action, such as mirroring facial expressions, triggers far greater activity in the emotion centers of the brain than mere observation.
Across America, high school seniors this month are preparing to put their college enrollment deposits in the mail. The looming question for parents, however, is "how to pay?"
Exposure to small amounts of arsenic in drinking water may inhibit expression of genes involved in a critical function that enables cells to repair damaged DNA, Dartmouth Medical School researchers find.
Interest in mathematics has been rising at the University of Chicago. Most of the nation's top mathematics departments produce no more than 1 percent of their institution's graduates. This year, 80 students are majoring or double-majoring in math at Chicago. They will comprise 8 percent of the graduating class.
Medical students think it is acceptable to forge signatures, pass off previous work as new, and falsify patient information, reveals research carried out at one medical school.
Consumers are risking their health, buying non-prescription and complementary medicines over the internet, suggests the first study of its kind.
The US is spending around 120 times more on prosecuting the war in Iraq than it is on providing humanitarian aid and food supplies for the Iraqi people, claim public health experts.
There are few advantages to starting toilet training in children younger than 27 months of age. Below that age, toilet training takes much longer, and children are not more likely to complete training earlier than children who started training at a later age.
The supplement dehydroepiandrosterone, or DHEA, which has been touted by some as an anti-aging hormone and a treatment for diseases such as cancer, AIDS, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, showed no effect for Alzheimer's disease patients who took the supplement for six months.
Throwing its hat into the ring of machines that offer the possibility of achieving controlled nuclear fusion, Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine has created a hot dense plasma that produces thermonuclear neutrons.
Statin drugs used to lower cholesterol may also help prevent development of breast cancer, say researchers who studied the drugs in laboratory cell cultures.
High levels of an anti-inflammatory protein may provide a genetic clue to longevity, at least in men, reveals a study.
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