March 30, 2003, media briefing to highlight the Asheville Project, implemented in 1997 when the City of Asheville, N.C. struggled with how to contain its rapidly increasing employee health costs.
1) War continues to ground airlines, but bargains are available, 2) War coverage leaves big questions unanswered, 3) History shows that American psyche is strong
On April 1, the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on two affirmative action cases involving the University of Michigan. The following experts are available to help journalists with coverage of the case.
More research is needed to help clinicians do a better job of predicting potentially serious cases of hyperbilirubinemia, or jaundice, in newborns. New measurement instruments may help.
Science officer Don Pettit and his Expedition 6 crewmates onboard the International Space Station have been sending us some extraordinary pictures. We want to share these pictures with you, so we've developed a "Space Station Science Picture of the Day" web site.
Nevada legislators voted unanimously to support a bill to ban juvenile death sentences in their state after hearing critical testimony provided by David Fassler, M.D., a child psychiatrist at the University of Vermont, who illustrated the fundamental differences between adolescent and adult brains.
A Johns Hopkins-led research team has successfully used a technique to rapidly find fruit fly genes involved in a cell signaling pathway called Hedgehog, which is critical to proper embryo development and a key trigger in some cancers, including the deadly childhood brain cancer medulloblastoma.
The following is an updated list of University of Michigan faculty from various areas on campus who are available to comment on all aspects of war -- past, present and future.
The war with Iraq has elicited an array of responses from students at Wake Forest University including a demonstration to show support for the military troops, candlelight vigils to protest military action in Iraq, a campus drive to gather items needed by U.S. soldiers, and several forums.
Children who join health plans between the ages of 12 months and 17 months are less likely to be fully vaccinated by their second birthday than children who are enrolled in plans during their first year, a new study reports.
Only 1 percent to 3 percent of animals cloned from adult cells survive to birth; many die mysteriously very early in development, around the time of implantation.
Researchers have devised a way to identify genetic mutations that will cause resistance to targeted anti-cancer drugs, even before patients are treated -- a finding that will aid scientists involved in drug development and allow physicians to monitor patients for resistance problems before they occur.
Grocery shopping frustrates both consumers and retailers. University of Arkansas researchers have found that managing product depth, or the number of different products available, is the significant driver in both inventory costs and lost sales.
Early data shows that transplanting healthy, insulin producing islet cells by interventional radiologists into the portal vein to the liver enables uncontrolled type 1 diabetic patients to become insulin free.
An increasing number of women are leaving big companies to start their own businesses, concludes an article in the March/April issue of Across The Board, The Conference Board's bimonthly magazine.
P.K. Shah, M.D., director of the division of cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, will receive two awards while he is in Chicago to attend the annual scientific session of the American College of Cardiology. In addition, H.J.C. Swan, M.D., chairman emeritus of cardiology at Cedars-Sinai, who steered the program in earlier years of growth and organization, will receive the ACC's "Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award."
Students from the top U.S. business schools will compete in the first-ever MBA Stock Pitch Competition this April 3 and 4 at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, showcasinbg their stock picking and presentation skills, considered an important part of an analyst's job in the investment industry.
University of Chicago meteorite experts Lawrence Grossman and Steven Simon usually commute from Chicago's south suburbs to their laboratory on the Hyde Park campus to study rocks that have fallen from space. But at midnight the evening of March 26-27, a shower of meteorites came to them.
Missouri adults who say that they live in unsafe and unpleasant neighborhoods are one and a half times more likely to be overweight than adults who say they live in safe and pleasant communities, according to a new study.
Overnight shift workers often find it hard to eat balanced, nutritionally sound meals, says UAB dietitian Suzanne Henson, R.D., director of UAB's EatRight weight management program.
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