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Doctors may have a way to identify people with heart disease whose coronary arteries will become obstructed again after they have been propped open with tiny metal tubes called stents. The clue may be found, French scientists say, not in the individuals' diseased blood vessel but in their genes, according to a report in today's American Heart Association journal Circulation.

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Physicians might better serve their patients if they promoted physical activity as fervently as they do smoking cessation and controlling blood cholesterol levels, according to a science advisory published today in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association.

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Circulation, the American Heart Association journal will be published weekly beginning in January 1998 under a new name Circulation - Journal of the American Heart Association.

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Innovation is always necessary if a firm is to become a leader in the high-technology area, say Stanford Business School's Evan Porteus and Glen Schmidt. But while the ability to innovate can get a firm to the top, it alone is unlikely to keep it there as new technologies and the generations of products that accompany them arise.

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The securities research analysts who advise your broker on the best stock market picks may not be trying to mislead you deliberately, but beware of their rosy attitudes.

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Under its Evidence-based Practice Program, HHS' Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) is awarding 12 five-year contracts to institutions in the United States and Canada to serve as Evidence-based Practice Centers.

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Using the antibiotic erythromycin for treating community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in most outpatients aged 60 and under significantly reduces treatment costs compared with the use of other antibiotics and has no adverse effect on medical outcomes. This finding is from an AHCPR-funded study which provides the first objective data to compare the clinical effectiveness and costs of antibiotic therapy with clinical guidelines for community-acquired pneumonia.

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A Purdue University researcher has developed a way to take specialized instruments from the chemistry lab and shrink them one thousand to one million times and put them on a computer chip.

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A Purdue University effort to create a more positive environment for female engineering and science students is attracting the attention of colleges, universities and the corporate world.

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Recently identified bacterium causes disease; first report of legionella species in human disease testing antibiotic resistance in the 50's.

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The Amazon Basin, home to largest rainforest in the world, is known for its astounding variety of plants and animals. But the rainforest may be also be home to an even more overwhelming variety of previously unknown bacteria and this diversity, just as with plants and animals, may be jeopardized by deforestation, says a report in the July issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

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Nuclear waste disposal, risks from food impurities and potential flu treatments are among the topics that will be discussed at the 214th American Chemical Society national meeting here September 7-11. Approximately 10,000 registrants are expected to gather for about 400 technical sessions to be held in the Las Vegas Convention Center, the Las Vegas Hilton, and the Stardust hotel.

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The American Lung Association supports the new health standards for smog and soot announced today by the Clinton Administration, and thanked the Administration for its "steadfastness and courage" in resisting a massive polluter lobbying campaign that sought to weaken or kill the stronger new standards.

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Robert J. Eng, associate professor of marketing at Babson College, was selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to receive a Fulbright Scholar award to the People's Republic of China. His research will center on two emerging business issues for China: finding, attracting, and retaining qualified personnel; and examining the country's distribution and transportation networks.

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Press release of issue dated June 28 for New Scientist, the international science and technology weekly news magazine. 1) Pot Bellies Are Made In The Womb; 2) No More Washday Whites That Come Out Pink; 3) Failing Airframe Speaks Volumes To Engineers; 4) Attention Problem Tracked In Twins; 5) Tadpoles Rule The Nursery By Behaving Badly; 6) Gene Tests Pose Challenge For Privacy Guardian; 7) Sentient Beings; 8) Camera Goes On Smog Control; 9) Were Aussie Birds First To Sing? ; 10) Can't See The Tanks For The Trees; 11) New Homes For Air Force Chimps; 12) Escape From Mars; 13) Little And Large; 14) Packing Them; 15) Flipper's Secret

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American Psychiatric Association Tips - July 1997 - 1) Research Offers Insight into Depression and Alcohol; 2) How Refugees Cope with Adversity; 3) Older People with Schizophrenia Lose Ability to Function; 4) APA Seeks Nominees for Journalism Awards -- $1,000 Honorarium; 5) Save the Date - APA Calendar of Events

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Researchers from Cornell and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale found that Seven percent of college students said they had carried a weapon on campus, translating to some 980,000 students nationwide. That is less than for the general population and for high school students, but still a problem for campuses, since weapon-carrying male students also report that they drink more alcohol, engage in binge drinking and substance abuse, and get in more fights and arguments.

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Scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., located at Cornell University, have discovered and cloned a protein that, when delivered into an insect's gut by way of a "trojan horse," attacks the pest's intestines, rendering the pest helpless against a companion virus.

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Treating female stress urinary incontinence initially with surgery provides an effective long-term cure for most patients, according to treatment guidelines for this common urological disorder released here today by the American Urological Association.

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A report in the July report of Nature Genetics offers new hope for families affected with the genetic disorder Alagille syndrome. Nancy Spinner, Ph.D., and a team of geneticists at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have demonstrated that mutations in a gene dubbed "Jagged 1" are responsible for the developmental disorder, which affects structures in the liver, heart, skeleton, eye, face, kidney and other organs.

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A unique mouse model developed by Jackson Laboratory and Canadian researchers exhibits significantly reduced male fertility, suggesting a critical role in reproduction and early embryonic development for the knocked-out gene product known as PC4 (proprotein convertase 4).

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LURE OF BOARD SERVICE CAN POSITIVELY IMPACT PERFORMANCE OF SOON-TO-RETIRE CEOs Study Explores New Evidence That Continued Board Service Offsets Horizon Problems in CEO's Final Years of Employment

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"The missing link" has been found in how tiny ocean algae produce a chemical substance that influences cloud formation in the atmosphere. The breakthrough research by a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded scientist at the University of Florida at Gainesville could help explain global climate changes and make it possible to develop agricultural crops that resist freeze, drought and salt-water damage.

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Chloroplasts, the green globules inside plant cells responsible for photosynthesis, communicate via slender tubules that exchange proteins, Cornell scientists find using a unique laser-micrscope.

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Mt. Washington, N.H., had its old monthly snowfall record crushed for May by a whopping 43.6 inches. The Northeast's cool weather continued through May, as the average temperature for the 12-state region was 4.4 degrees cooler than normal. This was the fourth coolest May in the last 103 years, according to Keith Eggleston, a climatologist at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.

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In the insurance industry, reporting loss reserves presents a dilemma: when an insurer incurs a claim it won't have to pay for many years, such as benefit claims tied up in litigation, current accounting standards require that the loss be recorded at "nominal value," the actual dollar amount. However, insurers would prefer reporting it as a discounted "present value" loss, thereby reducing its liability. One Stanford researcher suggests that discounting loss reserves to present value is well worth considering.

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Roll down your window next time you drive past a wheat field. Listen carefully. Or better yet, get out and grab a handful of soil. Hidden in that soil is a conversation between the wheat's roots and a variety of soil bacteria. It takes a special ear, though, to hear this "cross talk," says USDA-Agricultural Research Service plant pathologist David Weller. For the conversation takes place via chemical signals.

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Modern prescription medicines can help people lead longer, healthier, happier and more productive lives - if they're used properly. But studies show that up to half of all prescription drugs aren't taken correctly - leading to emergency room visits, hospitalizations, deaths and added health care costs.

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A new study in this month's issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows that a blood test helps predict breast cancer recurrence in women previously treated for stage II and stage III breast cancer.

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today an action that moves the Internet toward privatization. Internet Protocol number assignments will soon be handled by a non-profit organization.

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Long acknowledged as one of the most commonly closeted issues by women, urinary incontinence appears to be far more common than previously realized. A national Harris Poll indicates that 42 percent of women surveyed report having had urinary incontinence themselves.

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Observers around the world will be watching July 1 as Hong Kong makes the transition from British to Chinese authority. To mark the occasion, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and the UI College of Medicine will take part in a worldwide teleconference convened by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Parents spanking their children may undermine the parent-child bond enough to make youngsters tend towards juvenile delinquency. The study of 915 children will be presented at the 5th International Family Violence Research Conference.

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Yale University School of Medicine has been selected as one of three universities to initiate a major research project on the neurobiology of autism, the most severe developmental disorder of childhood, and related conditions. To conduct this research the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development has awarded $5.3 million to Yale over the next five years.

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In a report issued today, a presidential commission said that consumers should have improved access to useful scientific information about the benefits and need for dietary supplements and recommended a number of measures to enhance the public's knowledge about the role of supplements in health promotion and disease prevention.

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The National Science Foundation is joining other federal agencies in preparing to implement the requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993.

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For decades, traction has been used routinely to treat dislocated hips in children. But as a University of Iowa College Medicine researcher points out, little scientific evidence exists to show this procedure makes any difference in treating newborn and young children with hip problems.

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Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center report that treatment centers seeing a higher percentage of pediatric patients are more likely to use a less invasive method of dialysis for children with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), while centers seeing fewer children tend to prescribe a more time-intensive and restrictive dialysis method.

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Former U.S. Representative to United Nations Tells Graduates: "Business Is an Essential Institution."

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Land mine detection and demining efforts of the Department of Defense are going high-tech with the assistance of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and nine other Department of Energy laboratories.

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The U.S. Department of Energy plans to provide $10 million over the next five years to Washington State University (WSU) researchers to create an Institute for Shock Physics as part of DOE's strategic investment in selected scientific disciplines important to science based stockpile stewardship.

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The world of Yogi Gupta is measured in billionths of a second and hundreds of thousands of atmospheres. It is understandable that he wears of late a permanent grin, for he has just been given a $10 million charter to explore even more remote regions of this very unusual world over the next several years.

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Tips from the American Psychiatric Association 1) Native Americans and Alcohol: Firewater Myth Doused 2) Children Are Left out of Funding 3) Why Professionals Don't Include Patients' Families 4) Lowering Your Cholesterol: Not Just Depressing 5) Patients in the Community: How Do We Measure Success?

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American Psychiatric Association Seeking Nominees For Journalism Awards -- $1,000 Honorarium: APA recognizes excellence in media coverage of mental illness and psychiatric treatment by journalists, editors, newspapers, producers, radio and television programs with two annual awards.

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A $1.9 million federal grant will support training of professionals at the University of Pittsburgh in the emerging field of biomedical informatics.

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The American Lung Association believes that this settlement is premature and wrong. We cannot support this settlement. We call on President Clinton, Congress, Governors and the public to carefully and completely review all terms, legislative language, consent decrees and contracts.

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June Health Tips from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center 1) A unique first-trimester diagnostic program is launched at University Hospital in Denver. 2) Tips for treating insect stings and snake bites. 3) Surgical implant can provide instant relief for urinary incontinence. 4) Advice for maintaining a good posture.

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Researchers at the University of Michigan and the Cincinnati Sports Medicine Clinic have discovered that female athletes are more likely to suffer a common type of knee injury when their estrogen levels are highest.

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The American Lung Association urged President Clinton to withhold his support for any settlement in tobacco talks until details of the plan can be carefully and completely reviewed.

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NSF Tipsheet for 6-20-97: 1- plant-protecting bugs against plant-eaters; 2- do people experience emotions in the same way, or does culture convert feelings; 3- Cloning presents no radically new ethical issues.