Hog farmers who hope to boost pig production by giving each of their healthy sows a single, massive shot of vitamin A are probably wasting their money, according to Purdue University research.
The Gore Hammer Award, given to partnerships that make a contribution to the nation, was presented to the Louisiana Sea Grant Program at LSU and other members of the national Sea Grant Alliance, for promoting the safety of U.S. seafood.
The University of Illinois at Chicago will host the Second International Symposium on Oxidative Stress and Brain Damage Sept. 26-28 at the Hotel Inter-Continental, 505 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois. The focus is neuropsychiatric disorders.
Ophthalmologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have developed an oral vaccine that may prevent rejection of corneal transplants, the most common type of tissue transplant.
Headaches that begin during exercise and go away with rest may be a sign of heart disease, according to a report in the September issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Embargoed For Release Until Monday, September 22, 1997.
Estrogen replacement therapy used to help relieve menopausal symptoms quickly reduces the amount of lipoprotein (a), one of the "bad cholesterols" in the blood, say researchers reporting in this month's American Heart Association's journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.
The business school environment has never been more competitive and students have higher expections of their schools that must be met, said former Wall Street executive and academic leader Leo I. Highdon, Jr., during his inauguration as tenth president of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA. Babson is recognized internationally for its strength in entrepreneurial management education.
Paul Cloutier, Rice University professor of space physics and astronomy, is a co-investigator on the Mars Global Surveyor team that announced Wednesday that the red planet has a magnetic field.
A new counterfeit-deterrencsystem has been developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The technology is based on a non-chemical tagging agent that is difficult to duplicate but easy to scan using a simple optical scanner.
Through the utilization of ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty (UAL), plastic surgery procedures for body contouring are being refined and augmented, according to two studies to be presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS), September 20-24 in San Francisco, Calf. The evolving role of UAL in body contouring and its relation to traditional suction-assisted lipoplasty (SAL) was examined in one study; another study showed the benefit of using UAL for removing contour irregularities or tightening skin in patients who previously had conventional lipoplasty.
Supplemental vitamin A may provide therapeutic benefits in the treatment of malignant melanoma, according to a study to be presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS), September 20-24 in San Francisco, Calf. Vitamin A, which possesses both wound healing and anti-tumor actions, causes the body to encapsulate tumors which can then be removed surgically. This study of three groups of mice was designed to determine the effect of vitamin A on the presence and size of tumors.
New research confirms that breast reduction surgery may provide benefits other than a smaller size, according to two studies to be presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS), September 20-24 in San Francisco, Calf. One study examined whether women who have breast reduction surgery are at greater or lesser risk for developing breast cancer than other women; another prospective study demonstrated that breast reduction surgery may offer significant social and psychological benefits for adolescent girls.
New custom software and computer technology allows plastic surgeons to transform CT and MRI data of actual patients into three-dimensional and stereoscopic images of bones and soft tissues, according to a study to be presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS). With the patient's individual CT or MRI data in virtual reality, plastic surgeons now can practice surgical techniques and plan procedures before they perform surgery on the actual patient.
The evolution of laser resurfacing techniques is producing dramatic improvement in full face resurfacing, according to two studies to be presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS). One study was made to establish a consistent method of laser skin resurfacing that would result in predictable improvement of facial skin quality; the other study examined the combination of full face laser resurfacing with a facelift for rejuvenation of the aging face.
Women who choose breast reconstruction with autogenous tissue (tissue from the patient's own body) rather than implant may experience greater psychosocial outcomes, according to a study to be presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS), September 20-24 in San Francisco, Calf. The study, designed to measure the psychosocial outcomes of postmastectomy breast reconstruction, includes evaluations of patients before and after reconstruction. Past research has been only retrospective, and did not include pre-operative evaluation.
When young children are interviewed suggestively over a long period of time, they begin to believe the fictitious events questioned about. Experts can't distinguish between children telling false or true accounts.
Young fathers, barely more than children themselves, are learning how to be good dads thanks to a Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service class on fathering called "It's My Child, Too."
Some airline passengers visiting the main security checkpoint at the Albuquerque International Airport this week are being asked to try out tomorrowÃs technology for combating terrorism ó an ìexplosives-detection portalî under development at Sandia National Laboratories for the Federal Aviation Adminstration (FAA). The ìportalî is intended to help prevent airliner hijackings and bombings by identifying passengers and airport visitors and employees who have recently been working with any of a wide variety of explosive chemicals.
More than 5,000 pharmaceutical scientists will gather in Boston, Massachusetts, November 2 - 6, 1997, for the Annual Meeting and Exposition of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS).
Purdue University has doubled the number of instructors teaching American Sign Language on its West Lafayette campus this year, but for every student enrolled in a class, two to three more are turned away. The classes have always been a popular option for future educators and health care professionals, but now business majors are starting to jump on the bandwagon.
A new product invented by an Auburn University professor and being developed at West Virginia University may change the way disinfectants are applied in fighting diseases such as tuberculosis and Legionnaires' disease.
University of Wisconsin-Madison physicists have created a model that seeks to explain a conundrum of modern astrophysics -- the origin of mysterious bursts of gamma rays that appear uniformly across the sky on an average of once a day. (Embargoed until Sept. 19, 1997.)
Press release of issue dated 20 September for New Scientist, the international science and technology weekly news magazine
Bystanders who witness a cardiac arrest should dial 9-1-1 and then perform mouth-to-mouth ventilations and chest compressions -- the two major components of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) -- according to the American Heart Association in a statement on CPR published in its journal Circulation (Sept. 16).
The realization that atomic gas clusters could serve as part of a sort of ìlight bulbî that emits extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light when laser-heated has inspired a recently patented invention at Sandia National Laboratories. This light source enables research development of EUV lithography to pattern faster, more memory-dense microchips.
The American Lung Association thanks President Clinton for taking a big step forward to protect children by not endorsing the "global" tobacco settlement that proved woefully inadequate in addressing this nation's tobacco-related health problems. The President is right in signaling that Minnesota Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III should be allowed to put the tobacco industry on trial in January and that Congress should not allow the tobacco industry to dictate the timing of any legislative action.
Fish are an important global resource, yet scientists do not know how to predict how many fish will be produced in a given year. Scientists from around the world will meet at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore beginning Sept. 22 to discuss factors affecting the production rates of vital ocean fisheries.
Two icebreaking ships will depart Tuktoyaktuk, Canada around September 18 to establish Ice Station SHEBA in the Arctic Ocean, launching the largest and most complex science experiment ever supported in the Arctic by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The beauty of the Internet is also a beast. The Internet is a global network of networks -- mostly private, and often competing among themselves. While the diffuse structure of the Internet is one of its strengths, the competitive environment has made collaboration on operational and engineering requirements difficult, and has made research on the metrics of the Internet virtually impossible.
The earliest existing mound complex built by humans in the new world has been identified in Louisiana by a team of archaeologists and researchers from around the United States. Details of the discovery appear in tomorrowÃs (Sept. 19) issue of the journal Science. The complex of 11 mounds was built between 5,000 and 5,400 years ago and predates other known existent mound complexes by 1,900 years.
The most frequently seen birds at feeders across North America last winter were the Dark-eyed Junco, House Finch and American goldfinch, according to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, which released its Project FeederWatch Top 10 Birds List. Project FeederWatchers also reported large numbers of downy woodpeckers, blue jays, mourning doves, black-capped chickadees, house sparrows, northern cardinals and european starlings.
Results from the first two years of a four-year study on skillful mediation will be presented at the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy conference Sept. 18-21 in Atlanta. "The crux of this research is to define what is skillful mediation," according to Margaret Herrman, a senior associate at the University of Georgia Vinson Institute of Government. "You can have mediation that's close to therapy and you can have mediation that's close to lawyering. Both styles can be highly successful, but is it mediation? We want to identify skillful practices that are common throughout mediation styles."
Thanks to clean-up and pollution prevention efforts, San Diego Bay is cleaner and attracting more marine life. Among the increasing population are borer worms that dine on the wooden pilings and fenders that support many of the piers along the Bay. One solution may be a new design created at UC San Diego and approved by the San Diego Unified Port District : pilings are made from molded hollow tubes of advanced composite materials including glass fiber and vinyl ester resin.
The University of Texas-Houston has been awarded $2.5 million by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to establish a Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) in scleroderma, a chronic, often fatal connective tissue disease. Headquartered in the UT-Houston Medical School division of rheumatology and clinical immuno-genetics, the center will conduct a wide range of investigations into the disease for which there is no known effective treatment or means of prevention.
Why some patients with kidney diseases respond well to certain medications and others do not has continued to stump physicians. With no means to test the medications besides trial and error, finding the right treatment is often a frustrating experience for physicians and their patients.
Science tips from Iowa State: 1) Unveiling of authentic working replica of the first computer on Oct. 8, 2) SEM lab hits the road for high school students, 3) Research projects focus on tissue regeneration, 4) Automating nuclear plant inspections.
"Unemployment has become less relevant to inflation," says economist Gary Shoesmith, director of the Center for Economic Studies at Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management. "Unemployment has now been below 6 percent for three years, but inflation has continued to ease downward, plainly opposite the pattern seen in the business cycles of the 1960s, '70s and '80s. The old business cycle has changed."
"You shouldn't wear lipstick when you're drinking a glass of champagne." That unique reporting style of Joe Palca, science correspondent for National Public Radio, has earned him the top chemistry reporting award from the world's largest scientific society.
Cystic fibrosis, the most common hereditary disease in the United States, is caused by the malfunction of an ion channel that is critical for maintaining the secretions of salt and water that protect the lungs. New research suggests a novel way in which this ion channel may function, thus challenging a commonly held "corked/uncorked" theory. The finding, published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, paves the way for a more refined research effort to find a cure or improve treatment for cystic fibrosis.
Athens, GA-- What's occurring at the "micro-level" of a therapy session is the subject of research by a professor at the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences. He uses discourse analysis -- a process that breaks down a conversation into the finest of detail.
Athens, GA--A program developed by a College of Family and Consumer Sciences professor at the University of Georgia allows counseling clients to "turn the tables" on their therapists. "By directly obtaining feedback from clients about their experience of the therapy events and the therapist's actions, the therapist and supervisor are better able to focus their energy on helping the client," said Bill Quinn, a FACS professor.
Athens, GA--A program that combines first-time juvenile offenders, their parents and siblings with counselors has shown a 21 percent decrease in recidivism rates when compared with juveniles who didn't complete the program.
A team of astronomers using a pair of National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes has made the first measurements of the size and expansion of a mysterious, intense "fireball" resulting from a cosmic gamma ray burst last May.
The following stories appear in the American Thoracic Society (ATS) September journals: 1) Hospitalization claims more than half of the health care dollar spent on asthmatics; 2) Deaths from lung diseases growing faster in females; 3) Researchers find marker to identify patients with acute lung injury in early stages of disease progression
Ongoing preclinical studies of an antirejection antibody have established its ability to prevent and reverse organ rejection while leaving the immune system intact.
Uncommon numbers of potato leaf hoppers have caused widespread damage to alfalfa and other crops in New England, but for alfalfa growers, at least, thereπs a chance to duck the diminutive insect next year.
More than 290 public health, labor and other grassroots groups from around the nation today urged President Clinton to require "full document disclosure" from the tobacco industry before endorsing any deal with the cigarette companies.
The National Science Board (NSB) will convene its first off-site meeting of the year in Houston next month. (The board normally meets at the National Science Foundation headquarters in Arlington, Va.) The off-site meeting demonstrates the board's desire to reserve at least one such meeting each year for two purposes: (1) to focus on an important national science policy topic, and (2) to solicit input from communities outside of Washington D.C.
Legal immigrants are more educated as a group than native-born U.S citizens, according to a just-released survey of new immigrants. This news is among many valuable findings about an increasingly important group in American society. The findings come from a new comprehensive survey funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development with support from the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Physicians frequently prescribe antibiotics for common viral respiratory illnesses that typically do not benefit from antibiotic therapy, according to an article in tomorrow's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. The study, co-authored by Ralph Gonzales, MD, MSPH, assistant professor of medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, could offer insight into the rapidly rising prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
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