Pick an option: the prospect of months on crutches and a season on the sidelines, versus taking 10 minutes to do a short, simple, structured warm up. For athletes, particularly school-aged athletes, the choice should be clear.
A new study from Detroit finds that the food environment of a neighborhood influences how many fruits and vegetables are eaten daily. Independent grocery stores improve access to healthy foods in areas where supermarket chains choose not to venture.
Close to 45 students from Central New York's Ithaca College will be hitting the road during spring break (March 9 to 13), some traveling as far as 1,100 miles to do community service in four areas of need across the country. Their efforts are part of Ithaca College's Alternative Spring Break (ASB) program.
Instead of lounging on sunny beaches or enjoying the familiarity of home, six students from Central New York's Ithaca College will travel 250 miles to spend spring break (March 9 to 13) sleeping on open-bay bunks and volunteering at the Community for Creative Non-Violence.
An international collaborative research effort has identified a novel gene, FUS/TLS, for inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). This is the fourth gene associated with familial forms of the devastating neurological disorder. The mutations in FUS/TLS lead to deposits of abnormal protein within motor neurons.
The National Institute of Justice has awarded the University of Illinois at Chicago a $2 million grant to evaluate the current state of American policing.
Through a new Summer Institute scheduled from June 7-July 3, ten undergraduate students from underrepresented populations will have the opportunity to explore the wealth of graduate programs offered by the University of Delaware's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at UD's main campus in Newark. Students selected for the program will work side-by-side with researchers on projects ranging from avian flu to food safety, biofuels, rice genomics, stormwater ecology, landscaping to reduce our carbon footprint, declining black duck populations and other topics. They also will go on field trips and participate in workshops, seminars, and social activities with other UD undergraduate students, including trips to nearby cities and other locations of interest.
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a poorly understood condition that, in the two years since its discovery, has spread to at least seven northeastern states and killed as many as half a million bats. Now researchers have suggested the first step toward a measure that may help save the affected bats: providing localized heat sources to the hibernating animals.
A recent study reports that high school students who study fewer science topics, but study them in greater depth, have an advantage in college science classes over their peers who study more topics and spend less time on each.
On Friday, March 20, at 3:30 p.m. in Room 127 Memorial Hall on the University of Delaware's Newark campus, Chie Sakakibara will present the lecture "Kiavallakkikput Agviq--Cultural Responses to Climate Change among the Iñupiaq People of Arctic Alaska."
Sick or injured African-American patients wait about an hour longer than patients of other races before being transferred to an inpatient hospital bed following emergency room visits, according to a new national study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine.
Tick Tock. It's that time of year. Daylight-saving time begins at 2 a.m. this Sunday. A sleep expert at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston offers tips to help you and your family get a good night's rest.
The American College of Gastroenterology has issued updated colorectal cancer screening guidelines in the March issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology. In ACG's update to its 2000 guideline, colorectal screening tests are dividend into cancer prevention and cancer detection tests. Cancer prevention tests are preferred over detection tests.
Women in strained marriages are more likely to feel depressed and suffer high blood pressure, obesity and other signs of "metabolic syndrome," a group of risk factors for heart disease, stroke and diabetes, University of Utah psychologists found. The same study found men in strained marriages also are more likely to feel depressed, yet do not face an increased risk of metabolic syndrome.
New research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine identifies the presence of cardiovascular risk factors as an indicator of how likely it is that elderly, hospitalized patients who receive intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) treatment will have a stroke or heart attack.
Researchers at Arizona State University show that having a more flexible approach to resolving an acute conflict interaction results in more frustration and anger.
A history of major depression increases the risk of heart disease over and above any genetic risks common to depression and heart disease, according to researchers at the School of Medicine and the VA. The findings are reported this week at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society this week in Chicago.
Yuehua "Tony" Yu, a doctoral student in Rensselaer' Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is the first researcher to create binary guanosine gels, or G-gels, with unique, highly tunable properties. The discovery, which could enable a practical, cost-effective, and scalable method for better exploiting the beneficial properties of many nanoparticles, earned Yu the $30,000 Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize.
A commonly used questionnaire that measures quality of life is not sensitive enough to pick up mental and physical problems experienced by patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). Findings indicate that patients with this condition, (the most common form of hereditary kidney disease) need better tests to adequately measure quality of life.
A nationwide database called the Comprehensive Dialysis Study (CDS) includes detailed information on a wide range of health factors in US dialysis patients and provides a valuable new resource for improving dialysis outcomes, according to a report in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN).
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