Through a fortunate combination of sharp thinking and good luck, a 400-year-old manuscript penned by one of history's greatest astronomers was recently discovered at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Global corporations are shrinking and reorganizing their headquarters operations to stay in front of the competition, according to a new report released by the Conference Board.
Sixty-eight pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are currently developing 104 medicines for heart disease and stroke, the first and third leading disease killers of Americans, a new survey by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) found.
People accessing the World Wide Web don't want to turn to a dictionary to decipher what they are reading on any particular site. But if individuals are looking up medical materials, they likely may need such assistance, according to a recent University of Iowa study.
Gulf War syndrome is not just something in the heads of the soldiers who fought in the 1991 Middle East war, but is a real illness that requires treatment, says a Michigan State University epidemiologist.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a foam that begins neutralizing both chemical and biological agents in minutes. Because it is not harmful to people, it could be dispensed on the disaster scene immediately, even before casualties are evacuated.
A search for the genetic roots of towering height has led a Johns Hopkins endocrinologist to identify a mutation that causes a rare form of treatable dwarfism. Research results, published in the March issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, suggest that the mutation could be used as a prenatal screening test for the disorder.
Gender is clearly no longer a liability for women considering a run for Congress, according to a Vanderbilt doctoral student who is researching the competitiveness of women candidates in the House of Representatives.
An experimental new treatment for advanced colon cancer shows promise of saving thousands of lives a year, says a University of Maryland Medical Center physician who has begun clinical trials.
Smokers taking the medication buproprion -- with or without nicotine patches -- were nearly twice as likely to have quit smoking one year later than those receiving patches alone or a placebo, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Scientists who recently developed new molecules that simultaneously absorb two photons of light report that the molecules are sensitive enough to laser light that a myriad applications in materials science and photonics are possible.
District of Columbia teachers now have a unique opportunity for professional development and graduate credit through Western Illinois University's College of Education and Human Services.
Instead of the traditional sojourn south for spring break, a group of students at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, will head north, to the Chic Choc Mountains of eastern Quebec for deep-snow backcountry skiing.
Economic barriers keep more African Americans away from the dentist for routine care than whites, a new U-Michigan study shows.
The 8th Annual Wheaton Theology Conference at Wheaton College (IL) looks at why religion makes good health sense. "Healing, Health and Spirituality: Evangelical Theology Engages Scientific Research" will bring international scholars to the campus April 8-10.
Isaac Newton's mathematical method shaped the course of modern science, but his works are rarely read today--except by all students at St. John's College, where a conference devoted to his thought is scheduled for March 19-21.
Consumer participation in disease management programs increased an average of 300 percent over the past year, according to board members of the newly-formed Disease Management Association of America.
The European Monetary Union will increase price discipline among Union members, leading to wage moderation and a reduction of wage differentials among countries, according to a new report released today by The Conference Board.
A United Nations statute to establish the first permanent International Criminal Court received overwhelmingly enthusiastic support from U.N. diplomats. A symposium examining how the new court will work will be held at the Cornell Law School Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6.
An imbalance in how genes are expressed on a female's two X chromosomes may lead to the development of ovarian cancer in some women, University of Iowa Cancer Center researchers report in the Feb. 17 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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