Utility lines beneath the World Trade Center "held up remarkably well," a Cornell University engineer reports, with damage to gas, steam, electrical, potable water and waste water systems confined to the immediate vicinity of ground zero.
To keep your baby healthy through the holidays, resist the urge to take your newborn to large gatherings, advises a UAB pediatrician.
A University of Arkansas professor has worked out a novel way to calculate electron energies more efficiently, allowing researchers to calculate the structure and function of large, biologically important molecules.
Trauma-specific intensive care units (ICUs) result in better patient outcomes and reduced costs and hospital stays for trauma patients, according to a study by UAB researchers.
If you're dreaming of a white Christmas, keep dreaming. Your chances are melting away, says the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
It's easy to pull out that credit card to Christmas shop on-line or at the local mall, both for convenience or if you're a short on cash.
With Christmas just around the corner, children are busy writing their wish lists, but the holidays also are the perfect time for parents to teach children to reflect on those who are less fortunate.
Manufacturers lose thousands of dollars each year scrapping flawed metal castings.
Strong sales in autos and housing promise to keep the U.S. recession from becoming deep or severe, according to a Wake Forest University professor.
Internationl education policy expert offers practical steps to ensure national security can coexist with $11 billion business of educating foreign nationals.
A theoretical study suggests that minimal nutrition can control cancer, a finding supporting clinical reports of patients with pancreatic or prostatic cancers treated by dietary means alone.
Material used to protect cells grown in tissue culture extends lifespan of fruit flies by 15% and improves their toleration of environmental stress.
By studying gene sequences of common fresh water algae, a team of University of Maryland researchers has identified a group of algae that are the closest living relatives of the first land plants.
Researchers in the UCSD Institue of Molecular Medicine have cloned and identified the role of a regulatory gene that in the presence of underlying heart failure, appears culpable in the occurrence of cardiac arrhythmias, or irregular heart beats, that can lead to sudden cardiac death.
A new study by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research has found that cotton yields are likely to increase in the southeastern United States if carbon dioxide levels continue to rise as projected this century and if farmers adapt their agricultural practices to the resulting climate change.
Researchers investigating the combination of Navelbine(r) Injection, a first-line chemotherapy treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer, and the monoclonal antibody therapy Herceptin(r), reported an overall response rate of 78 percent in women with HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer, in presenting results of a Phase II study at the 24th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Directing high-level doses of radiation at malignant tumors during surgery shows promise in treating certain childhood cancers, a new Ohio State study shows.
Studies show that: 1) eating at least two or more apples per week and a higher intake of selenium can protect against asthma in adults; and 2) farm life as a child means less risk as an adult for an allergic reaction to cat dander or Timothy grass, plus less nasal congestion from pollen.
Nearly a quarter of the women who give birth each year in the United States receive an antibiotic during labor in order to protect their infants from developing a serious infection. But these women may be getting five times the necessary dose of medication.
Two out of three statins, powerful drugs lauded for dramatically lowering low-density lipoproteins (LDL) - the bad cholesterol - have been found to significantly decrease another risk factor for coronary-artery disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas reported.
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