Clinicians may be able to better predict the effects of strokes and other brain injuries by adapting a scanning approach originally developed for study of brain organization, neurologists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found.
While the vote on health care is good news for President Obama in the near-term, it would be dangerous to rely on a purely partisan strategy in the future, says former Bush official and current Indiana University dean John Graham.
People with Alzheimer’s disease experience a rate of cognitive decline four times greater than those with no cognitive impairment according to a new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
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College students may not start out with the best food safety practices, but they quickly learn the proper way to prepare and store food with the right information and education in place, according to a new study in the Journal of Food Science Education, published by the Institute of Food Technologists.
Scientists have determined that chronic wounds might have trouble healing because of the actions of a tiny piece of a molecular structure in cells known as RNA. Targeting this RNA segment may offer new strategies for treating chronic wounds.
The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation has donated $100,000 to The Scripps Research Institute that will be used to jump start a new philanthropic drive to expand the graduate school program at Scripps Florida. The program, part of Scripps Research's Kellogg School of Science and Technology, offers a doctoral degree with an emphasis on chemistry, chemical biology, biophysics, or the biological sciences.
Clean water is scarce and becoming more so in many cities around the world. According to the World Health Organization, between 1990 and 2006, the number of urban dwellers without access to clean drinking water grew from 107 million to 137 million.
An intensive program of surveillance, precautions, training and feedback in a large multihospital institution appears to be associated with reductions in rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) over a 15-year period, according to a report in the March 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
For women smokers worried about their weight, combining cognitive behavioral therapy addressing weight concerns with the medication bupropion appears more effective than counseling alone to help them quit smoking, according to a report in the March 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Memory and thinking skills may decline rapidly for people who have mild cognitive impairment, which is the stage before Alzheimer’s disease when people have mild memory problems but no dementia symptoms, and even more rapidly when dementia begins, which is when Alzheimer’s disease is usually diagnosed. The research is published in the March 23, 2010, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
The number of Chicago homeowners appealing their property tax assessments has increased during the last decade, but a decreasing percentage of them have been successful, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and American Academy of Nursing develop “Best Practices for Elder Care” online course, with support of NYU's Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
Marijuana is not just for brownies anymore. It has touched the lives of thousands of Michigan residents who are struggling with chronic pain, severe nausea, seizures, spasms or wasting syndrome.
Hand-made hats bring hope and comfort to Loyola Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center patients.
For more than 30 years, scientists have known that multiple sclerosis (MS) is much more common in higher latitudes than in the tropics. Because sunlight is more abundant near the equator, many researchers have wondered if the high levels of vitamin D engendered by sunlight could explain this unusual pattern of prevalence.
Hot dogs, those ubiquitous and savory symbols of the American diet, have caught the attention of pediatricians at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and elsewhere for a decidedly unappetizing reason — they are a choking hazard for young children.
Pediatric researchers analyzing DNA variations in type 1 diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease have found a complex interplay of genes. Some genes have opposing effects, raising the risk of one disease while protecting against the other. In other cases, a gene variant may act in the same direction, raising the risk for both diseases.
Michael C. Dorf, professor, Cornell University Law School, discusses potential constitutional issues raised by Sunday’s passage of health reform legislation in the House of Representatives.
A groundbreaking ceremony for a new facility – the Combustion Research Computation and Visualization (CRCV) building, part of the Combustion Research Facility (CRF) – will take place at 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 24, on the grounds of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore.
Candid and engaging memoir recounts player's two seasons as “Jackie Robinson in reverse".
Baylor researcher finds improving Islamic marriage culture could prevent suicide bombings.
The Biotechnology Study Center of NYU School of Medicine will hold its annual awards symposium on April 5, 2010, to honor three outstanding leaders in biomedical research. The Dart/NYU Biotechnology Achievement Awards recognize the role of pure science in the development of pharmaceuticals and honors those scientists whose work has led to major advances to improving care provided at the patient’s bedside.
Wait 'Til I'm Dead A Colloquium on the Fiction of Thornton Wilder, with a reading from Wilder's works by celebrated actress Rosemary Harris.
Sapphire, a brilliant blue gemstone most familiar in jewelry, may soon play an important part in making coal a cleaner fuel source.
Research topics include chiropody, FES, orthopedics, deep tissue injury, stroke and more.
The Center for Sustainable Development at The University of Texas at Austin will prove that green housing and affordability can be successfully merged during the "Alley Flat Initiative” exhibition March 26-April 9 at City Hall in Austin, Texas.
Reducing the cost of keeping broiler chickens warm could result from research by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and university cooperators.
As the United States undertakes the 2010 census, three demographers at the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire and the director of the nationally recognized UNH Survey Center are available to comment on the implications of the census for a range of Americans and U.S. policy.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Launches Pathology Network Offering Individuals an Aggregated Solution of Full Text Content from its Complete Line of Pathology Journals
Join UCLA Professor Dr. Bruce McLucas and women across the country for a live webinar about fibroids and treatment options, Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 5:30 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00). This webinar is free, lasts about 45 minutes and the doctor will cover fibroids in detail, including uterine artery embolization, a non-surgical treatment for symptomatic fibroids that allows women to retain fertility.
Kenneth I. Chenault, chairman and chief executive officer of American Express Company, will deliver the Northeastern University commencement address to the Class of 2010 on May 7, 2010, at TD Garden.
Study reveals that contrary to some beliefs, the vast majority of psychiatric drugs are prescribed to treat psychiatric illnesses rather than other conditions.
Many terrorist organizations, including Hamas, are using their children's websites in order to recruit girls for terrorist activities. This is part of an increasing trend adopted by terrorist organizations and fundamentalist Islamic groups that are using the Internet.
The sizes of the portions and plates in more than four dozen depictions of the Last Supper – painted over the past 1,000 years – have gradually grown bigger and bigger, according to a Cornell University study published in The International Journal of Obesity (April 2010).
A $5 million gift from the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation will support research on progressive neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s Disease. The gift will establish The Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for Bioinformatics Research and Imaging for Neurosciences (BRAIN) at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute.
The number of living donor organs available for transplant has progressively declined over the past five years, according to a new study. In addition, the study showed that for the first time, organs from deceased donors decreased in 2008.
AERA announces publication of the 2010 edition of Review of Research in Education (RRE) on What Counts as Evidence in Educational Settings? Rethinking Equity, Diversity, and Reform.
Scientists developed two experiential learning exercises using existing repeat photographs of riparian areas in the state of Arizona that were presented in two different workshops
NPR’s Car Talk guys, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, teamed up with University of Utah psychologist David Strayer -- an expert on how cell phones impair drivers -- to launch the Driver Distraction Center at cartalk.com/distraction.
A five-center collaborative study that scanned the genomes of thousands of “never smokers” diagnosed with lung cancer as well as healthy never smokers has found a gene they say could be responsible for a significant number of those cancers.
Like a film director cutting out extraneous footage to create a blockbuster, the cellular machine called the spliceosome snips out unwanted stretches of genetic material and joins the remaining pieces to fashion a template for protein production.
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found two novel ways of killing the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB), a disease responsible for an estimated two million deaths each year.
Recent studies have shown that behaviors such as happiness, obesity, smoking and altruism are “contagious” within adult social networks. In other words, your behavior not only influences your friends, but also their friends and so on. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Harvard University have taken this a step farther and found that the spread of one behavior in social networks influences the spread of another behavior, adolescent drug use.
In honor of the designation of March as National Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month by the U.S. Senate on March 4, 2010, the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) wants to help you learn your family’s AQ. AQ is a play on IQ that stands for Autoimmune Quotient. It’s about knowing how likely you or a loved one is to develop an autoimmune disease, based on the prevalence of these diseases and your family history.
The hospital costs for treating septicemia increased by an average of nearly 12 percent each year from 1997 to 2007, increasing from $4.1 billion in 1997 to $12.3 billion in 2007.
Overwhelmed by the vials, bottles and inhalers bulging from your medicine cabinet ? Confused about which drug is which, or when to take what?
Listed in this article are story ideas from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with a partial focus on the upcoming NCAA Basketball tournaments.
Officials announced today that Baylor Research Institute (BRI), part of the Baylor Health Care System, was recently re-accredited by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP). The re-accreditation certifies that BRI maintains efficient systems for monitoring research participant safety and embraces ethical standards higher than required by law in order to protect human participants participating in BRI research programs.
Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a safe and inexpensive antibiotic in use since the 1970s for treating acne effectively targets infected immune cells in which HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, lies dormant and prevents them from reactivating and replicating.
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