Former Texas Gov. Ann W. Richards will join former Congresswoman Patricia S. Schroeder for a panel discussion on women's careers in politics Feb. 2 at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.
People diagnosed with an exercise-induced left bundle branch block are more than twice as likely to die or experience a major cardiac event, compared to a similar group of patients who showed no signs of a bundle branch block. The study by the Cleveland Clinic, published in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), concludes this little-heeded condition might, in fact, be a significant predictor of patient outcome.
Women's groups claim Super Bowl Sunday is the "biggest day of the year for violence against women." Brett Drake of Washington University co-authored a study which found no correlation between reported cases of child abuse and the broadcast of national playoff games for baseball, basketball or football.
Following the media uproar over a scientist in Illinois who says he will try to begin human cloning soon, Cornell professor Robert H. Foote spoke out Wednesday, Jan. 7, to debunk and denounce the effort.
Ralph G. Yount, President of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), today criticized proposals to clone human beings. At the same time, Yount emphasized that certain cloning techniques are important tools for biomedical research.
Findings regarding vaccine therapy for ovarian cancer, platinum-based chemotherapy, the effect of route of delivery in the post-partum period and pelvic radiation therapy for cervical cancer take center stage at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists.
Story Tips from Carnegie Mellon University: 1) Create interactive 3D graphics, 2) Interview Einstein in 3D in real time, 3) Datamining to make better decisions, 4) Read an antique book online
In the face of heavy competition from alternative format retailers such as Wal-Mart, traditional grocers seeking survival strategies may employ "efficient assortment" without negatively impacting customers' perceptions as they have long feared.
Overweight and obese mothers have significantly less success breast-feeding their newborns, and babies who aren't breast-fed for more than two months maybe more likely to become obese adolescents, according to two new Cornell University/Bassett Hospital studies that examine the effects of maternal obesity, breast-feeding and adolescent obesity.
New research from one of the most comprehensive studies ever of middle-age Americans indicates that people who once smoked may continue to suffer from the effects of smoking even if they had quit years before.
A new study raises the surprising possibility that physicians may not be treating the aftermath of their patients' heart attacks aggressively enough. The findings appear in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The health of a person's heart may be found by looking in the blood, according to a report in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a leader in environmental and energy sciences, is focusing its scientific and technological resources on the emerging problems of agriculture and food production.
Jupiter's moon Io, whose strange surface is defined by active volcanoes, lakes of molten sulfur and vast fields of sulfur dioxide snow, has revealed another oddity to scientists: caps of glowing hydrogen gas at the moon's poles.
We invite you to make plans to attend the upcoming Epidemiology and Prevention Conference in Santa Fe. A fully equipped and staffed newsroom will be provided for working members of the media.
The younger the age of drinking onset, the greater the chance that an individual at some point in life will develop a clinically defined alcohol disorder, according to a new report to be released January 14 by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Researchers have discovered two chemical messengers in the brain that may lead to new insights into weight control.
Cornell University veterinarians have some unsolicited advice for the Clintons: Avoid overfeeding and overexercising Buddy, and give the First Cat a "dog-free zone."
Jean-Pierre Habicht, M.D., of Cornell University has published study in Lancet that finds that when refugees sell food, it's not because they have too much but are desperate for other staples and supplies such as salt and soap.
Communists generally view religion as the opium of the masses but can this "opium" save Marxism-Leninism? Yes, says Andres I. Perez y Mena, associate professor of educational anthropology at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus. "The Catholic Church traditionally has been anti-capitalist and the revolutionary leadership now wants to claim Christianity as a substitute model for socialism," he says.
Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology: 1) Hepatitis G May be Sexually Transmitted, 2) Gene Gun Delivers DNA Vaccine to Reproductive Tract, 3) Borna Virus Requires Low pH to Infect Cells
A new proprietary enabling technology for high-throughput screening, applicable to the discovery of a wide area of medical and agricultural products,represents a breakthrough in the mechanism-based testing of lead molecules.
A project to halt erosion and restore vegetation at a two-acre site in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, home to a herd of 625 buffalo, is being conducted by University of Tulsa professors and students. The site was contaminated with salt after an accidental release of salt water associated with oil production.
A new study soon-to-be published in the Journal of Business Ethics finds that most major corporations that have formal "ethics" programs are only "going through the motions."
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded The University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health a $874,195 grant to determine whether exposure to an ingredient found in Agent Orange during the Vietnam War can be associated with neural tube defects in the veterans' children.
A few universities have started teaching space exploration as history. At Purdue University, often called the "mother of astronauts," a professor of Russian history has developed a course to compare the Soviet and U.S. space programs.
Purdue University researchers have begun construction on a Mach 6 wind tunnel, which when completed will be the fastest and quietest research wind tunnel at any academic institution in the world. Research will focus on how air flows over and around objects that travel faster than the speed of sound.
A Purdue University study sheds new light on the old practice of marrying for money. A Purdue University study of preretirement persons showed that people who never married had only 14 percent of the financial assets that married persons had accumulated. Divorced people who did not remary had only 15 percent.
A Purdue University marketing professor says the corporate emphasis on short-term profits is changing consumer purchasing behavior and cutting into long-term profits.
In the first successful attempt to make engineered tissue without synthetic scaffolding, a team of researchers created a blood vessel made entirely from human cells.
A research paper that suggests there is no relationship between a stock's risk, as typically measured, and its expected rate of return earned the prestigious Smith-Breeden Prize for 1997.
University of New Hampshire astronomers say they may have found evidence of never-before-seen gamma-ray flare activity on a white dwarf star. Until now, scientists have only detected similar flaring activity on our own Sun, but this source appears to be a white dwarf, the end-stage in the life of a star.
Cornell scientists, Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust and Harvard University have developed a Vegetarian Diet Pyramid to update the U.S. Food Guide Pyramid which is outdated.
Researchers studying the causes of cancer at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine received grants from the American Cancer Society (ACS): Robert E. Oswald, pharmacology, $166,000 for a two-year study, "Structure and Regulation of Cdc42Hs;" James W. Casey, microbiology and immunology, $90,000 for a two-year continuation of "Development and Regression of a Retroviral Induced Sarcoma."
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - As Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaches, it's time to stop praising the slain civil rights leader only for his accomplishments in the United States and to start viewing him as an international leader, says Vanderbilt University professor Lewis V. Baldwin.
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A study by the National Research Council released January 6 recommends limiting mandatory reporting of abuse. Two economists have research, however, showing that simply the threat by an abused woman to use a shelter often can improve her situation.
The U.S. chemical trade surplus will drop over the next 25 years, if not disappear, as manufacturing abroad replaces exports from the U.S.; Plants will become the main source of oil and plastics; And green chemistry and other pollution prevention technologies will eliminate pollution from the chemical industry.
WASHINGTON -- "Bionic" implants to monitor human health, the ultimate in miniaturization of electronic devices, and an energy-efficient car to wipe the haze from the world's cities are among the advances that chemists predict their discipline will achieve before 2023.
In a time of overwhelming corporate restructuring emphasizing team-based management and group problem solving, the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration is being recognized for a unique program that integrates teamwork and critical leadership skills into its top-ranked academic curriculum. General Electric--through its Learning Excellence Fund, which supports programs that have a direct, measurable impact on learning--is awarding Simon a three-year, $219,645 grant for the School's Coach-Mentor Program and further study of team learning.
A Louisiana State University researcher is using a unique technique to study the genes that cause Down Syndrome.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Cerebral malaria should be considered as seriously as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or Agent Orange exposure as an underlying cause of long-term medical and psychological problems faced by some Vietnam War veterans, according to a study by a University of Iowa and Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) psychologist.
For hundreds of years, the Coliseum in Rome has stood as a marker of an era gone by. Yet concrete driveways poured only a few years ago are already developing cracks. Ron Berliner, a scientist at the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center, is determined to find out why.
Jupiter, like Earth, has auroras at its poles. Thanks to new instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope and a specially designed filter, University of Michigan astrophysicists have produced the best images yet of this planetary phenomenon---pictures which should give researchers a much better understanding of Jupiter and its moons.
Sleep disorders associated with heavy snoring pose the greater stroke risk, researchers reported today in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. The study by U.S. and German researchers is the first to indicate a possible mechanism for stroke risk that could explain why some sleep disorders are more dangerous than others.
People who are Hispanic are more likely than whites and Native Americans to develop hemorrhagic strokes, caused by rupture of a brain artery, rather than ischemic strokes, caused by blockage of a brain artery, according to a new study appearing in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
About 30 percent of stroke survivors have dementia, a disorder that robs a person of memory and other intellectual abilities, according to a new study in this month's Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Space observations of some of the tiniest stars in the cosmos--reported Jan. 7, 1998 by University of Delaware researchers and their Danish collaborators at the American Astronomical Society meeting--have finally confirmed a Nobel Prize-winning theory on the structure of stars. The information is central to understanding pulsars, black holes and white dwarf stars.
Peer-reviewed study published in the journal "Nutrition and Clinical Care" finds Cheerios(R) breakfast cereal significantly reduces total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and apoB levels in adults
A $2-million gift will help Michigan State University's Eli Broad College of Business and Graduate School of Management expand its emphasis on information technology.
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