For tuberculosis prevention and care, University of Iowa Health Care providers have designed an Internet-based tool to make deciphering complex medical guidelines easier and more accurate (Medical Decision Making).
Presidential candidate John McCain is the clear front-runner in the battle for charismatic appeal, says a University at Buffalo researcher who studies the attributes of charisma and leadership.
Communicating with extraterrestrials will be more difficult to resolve than has been envisioned so far, says Hamilton College professor of anthropology Douglas Raybeck at CONTACT 2000 in Santa Clara, Calif., March 3-5.
A cardiopulmonary resuscitation technique using devices developed at the University of Minnesota has been shown in a clinical trial to maintain near-normal blood pressure in heart attack victims (Circulation, 3-7-00).
Having a heart attack is damaging enough for elderly Americans, but if they also have an irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation, outcomes are even worse, according to today's issue of Circulation.
A study in the March 6 Health Affairs raises questions about possible adverse impacts of slick ads for prescription medications on clinical care; do the ads serve the promotional interests of drug companies at the expense of public health needs.
A new tool designed to help emergency medical services personnel accurately detect potential stroke patients in the field has proved 91 percent accurate, reports a UCLA Stroke Center study; other U.S. cities are encouraged to use this new stroke survey to help save more lives (Stroke, 1-00).
1- Is it over for Bradley and McCain? 2- Pennsylvania should have moratorium on death penalty; 3- Six-year-old Michigan shooter can't be held responsible.
Boston University's Institute for the Study of Economic Culture hosts "A Conference on the Uses and Misuses of Science in Public Discourse" (April 1 and 2), which will explore the role of science in keeping citizens informed as it covers topics such as failed drug policies, science in the courts, and how social sciences affect the family.
ScienceWise.com, the B2B Workplace on the Web for science and engineering professionals, now provides a free alert service to deliver small business research funding opportunities from all participating federal agencies to users via e-mail.
University of Missouri-Rolla students are learning the same kinds of lessons on campus that corporate executives seek from such management gurus as Peter Drucker, Stephen Covey and Tom Peters.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Division of Health Affairs, comprised of top-10 ranked schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and public health, has created a media fellowship to address the issue of aging.
Guided by the cartooned members of Team AntioxidantSM, the Body Basics quiz enables parents, teachers and children to test their nutrition IQ and learn how vitamin C, vitamin E and the carotenoids impact different parts of the body.
A strong gust of solar wind triggered geomagnetic activity captured by the ultraviolet imager on NASA's Polar satellite.
Minor short-lived sunspot groups are appearing at various locations on the Sun's disk and small flares are erupting in many of the active regions.
With a little help from the Sun, NEAR could get its first readings of Eros's composition on March 3.
Vietnam has a booming private sector but little commercial code; a Stanford Business School economist found that agreements in Vietnam rest on a mix of formal and informal sanctions.
A book by a Swarthmore College sociologist says it is the violation of cultural taboos that ultimately triggers destructive confrontations between authorities and anti-system groups.
Leading American sociologists give practical prescriptions for a more perfect world based on solid social science research in the Jan. 2000 Contemporary Sociology.
Princeton scientists have toppled the standard way of thinking about how spheres, whether oranges or molecules, stack up when poured randomly into a vessel; the finding may have implications for the design and testing of new materials (Physical Review Letters, 3-6-00).
Experiments have shed light on how glassy materials are formed in exotic chunks of mantle called xenoliths, and how ascending magmas in the mantle can affect the lava output at Earth's surface through chemical, rather than thermal, reactions (Nature, 2-3-00).
Veterinary scientists have proved that an organism long suspected as the cause of feline infectious anemia indeed is the culprit and have concluded that the bacterial organism is a mycoplasm, not a Rickkettsia (Veterinary Pathology, 1-00).
The U.S. Senate has officially designated March 2000 as the first annual National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month; the American College of Gastroenterology has joined 34 collaborating organizations to generate widespread awareness about this cancer.
Boston University's Institute for the Study of Economic Culture hosts "A Conference on the Uses and Misuses of Science in Public Discourse" (April 1 and 2), which will explore the role of science in keeping citizens informed as it covers topics such as failed drug policies, science in the courts, and how social sciences affect the family.
By asking a few simple questions, along with getting a urine sample, physicians can determine which of their pre-teen and teenage patients smoke cigarettes, according to a study being presented at the American Heart Association's L.J. Filer Jr. 3rd International Conference on Atherosclerosis in the Young.
The eating habits of parents may play an important role in the development of obesity in children, according to research being presented at the American Heart Association's L.J. Filer Jr. 3rd International Conference on Atherosclerosis in the Young.
The so-called "fat" hormone apparently hates exercise, according to a study being presented today at the American Heart Association's 40th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.
Last month NASA received a weak signal from Pioneer 10, twice as far from the Sun as Pluto and speeding toward the constellation Taurus.
Many of the women who have joined the American workforce since the 1970s have the computer revolution to thank, according to an Ohio State study (Industrial and Labor Relations Review).
A new EPA plan to fight water pollution is focused on the right goals, but it will present difficult scientific and technical challenges for states to wrestle with, an RFF study finds.
Mothers who have alcohol and drug problems tend to be more punitive toward their children than women who do not have substance-abuse problems, according to two University at Buffalo School of Social Work faculty members (Journal of Studies on Alcohol).
More than 200,000 children are injured each year on playgrounds, and it's a problem that doesn't seem to be getting much better, says a Texas A&M University professor who helps set playground safety standards.
A process for converting bulk silicon into ultra-small, nano-sized particles, which can be formed into colloids, crystals, films and collimated beams for unique applications in the electronics, optoelectronics and biomedical industries, has been developed by University of Illinois researchers (Applied Physics Letters, 3-00).
A blue-light photoreceptor found in nerve layers of the eyes and brains has caught the attention of University of Illinois researchers who are seeking the magnetic compass that lets migratory birds and many other creatures find home using the magnetic field of earth (Biophysical Journal, 2-00).
That price supported IPOs are usually larger, have lower underwriter commissions, offer higher prices than unsupported stocks, and are not likely to be underwritten by lesser-known investment banks is shown by Stanford Business School research.
Jen Shillingford, Chair of Health and Physical Education at Ursinus, is hoping to create a ripple effect that will bring a new wave of female coaches into the world of girls' and women's sports.
Information on the physical properties and global distribution of clouds, soon to be collected by a satellite called Terra, could help scientists better predict climate change, says a University of Illinois researcher.
Cigarette smoking appears to increase the risk for developing large brain aneurysms in patients who are predisposed to these life-threatening, blood-vessel malformations, shows a study by University at Buffalo researchers (Neurosurgery).
Women with a very severe form of premenstrual syndrome are more sensitive to pain and are more likely to have lower blood levels of beta-endorphins, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers.
A noninvasive, high-speed X-ray scan is more accurate than relying on traditional risk factors for determining an individual's risk for heart disease, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's 40th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.
In the first hour after smoking marijuana, a person's risk of a heart attack can shoot up nearly five-fold, say researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Middle-aged and elderly marijuana users increase their risk of a heart attack by more than 4-1/2 times during the first hour after smoking the drug, according to a study being presented at the American Heart Assocation's 40th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.
Scientists have discovered a key molecule that the AIDS virus uses to hijack a special type of cell in the body's outermost tissues, providing vital information into how the virus is first transmitted in the body (Cell, 3-3-00).
The longer heart surgery takes, the more tiny particles of fat enter the bloodstream and circulate to the brain, blocking tiny blood vessels, Wake Forest University researchers report in the March 2000 Stroke.
Initial brain damage caused by a stroke is more severe in African Americans than Caucasians; however, researchers say this doesn't completely explain the higher toll stroke takes on African Americans compared to Caucasians (Stroke, 2-00).
Research being presented at the American Heart Association's 40th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention shows that beans and dried peas can help reduce the risk of heart disease.
Scripts, story lines, photographs, bios, reference works and other memorabilia that document the television series "The Young and the Restless" are on display through March 20 in the University of Illinois Rare Book and Special Collections Library.
Were Americans on a fitness craze from Jane Fonda in the mid-1980s to "Just Do It" in the '90s? a University of Illinois sociologist says it never happened.
Edward Elgar's "Gerontius," a meditation on the afterlife that describes the journey of a man's soul after it leaves the earthly realm, will take place on April 1 at the University of Illinois.
Long hours contribute to divorce but the evidence that long working hours are responsible for a couple divorcing is far from conclusive, according to a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor.
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