The largest epidemiological study of Parkinson's disease in the United States has found that the disease is more common in the Midwest and the Northeast and is twice as likely to strike whites and Hispanics as blacks and Asians. The study is based on data from 36 million Medicare recipients.
New studies show that overweight and obese people using alli® (orlistat 60 mg) with a reduced calorie, lower-fat diet can significantly reduce weight, visceral fat, and waist circumference and therefore may reduce their risk of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and stroke. The studies were presented at the 1st International Congress on Abdominal Obesity in Hong Kong earlier today.
President Barack Obama is expected to focus on job creation, helping the middle class, fighting the deficit and health care reform in his State of the Union Address tonight, to begin at 9 p.m. E.T. Here are U.Va. experts in those fields.
National home care and health care leaders kicked off an 18-month national home-health quality-improvement campaign this month at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) headquarters. Registration to participate opened to all home health agencies on January 21.
Challenging prevailing wisdom that only children with end-stage kidney disease suffer physical, social, emotional and educational setbacks from their disease, research led by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center shows that even mild to moderate kidney disease may seriously diminish a child’s quality of life.
People profoundly deficient in human growth hormone (HGH) due to a genetic mutation appear to live just as long as people who make normal amounts of the hormone, a new study shows. The findings suggest that HGH may not be the “fountain of youth” that some researchers have suggested.
Leukemia cells, like most cancers, are addicted to glucose to generate their energy, but new research shows for the first time that these cells also rely on fatty acid metabolism to grow and to evade cell death.
The brains of people under anesthesia respond to stimuli as they do in the deepest part of sleep – lending credence to a developing theory of consciousness and suggesting a new method to assess loss of consciousness in conditions such as coma.
A deadly fish virus that was first discovered in the Northeast in 2005 has been found for the first time in fish from Lake Superior, report Cornell researchers. That means that the virus has now been documented in all of the Great Lakes.
Surgery provides better results than nonsurgical treatment for most patients with back pain related to a herniated disk—but not for those receiving workers' compensation for work-related injuries, reports a study in the January 1 issue of Spine.
The Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa is the first laboratory in the nation to confirm a strain of salmonella that caused an outbreak in 39 states.
Keith L. Black, M.D., has been named the recipient of the 2010 BET Honors Award in Public Service. In addition, he has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Literary Work/Non-fiction category for his book, “BRAIN SURGEON: A Doctor’s Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles.”
What happens when a wasp lays its eggs but fails to pollinate the fig? The trees get even by dropping those figs to the ground, killing the baby wasps inside. (Cornell University and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute study, Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Nancy Ares, an associate professor in teaching and curriculum at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education, has co-authored and edited a book that examines the resources and practices that youth of color and those living in poverty develop through their everyday lives and bring to classroom learning.
Art Wheaton, Cornell University automotive industry expert, comments on the impact of accelerator-part problems in several Toyota cars and trucks.
The 2010 State of the Union address may be THE most important speech of President Barack Obama’s career. The reason is simple – his presidency hangs in the balance, says Dr. Martin J. Medhurst, co-director of www.PresidentialRhetoric.com and Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Baylor University in Texas.
Heavy backpacks place a measurable strain on the spines of children, with heavier loads causing greater spinal strain and increased back pain, reports a study in the January 1 issue of Spine.
Entertainment marketing expert Brent Smith, Ph.D., says that, despite the shift toward more popular music genres, the Grammy Awards should still be taken seriously by viewers as an event where artists are recognized for the quality of their work.
Question and Answer with Jonathan Bricker, PhD, a psychologist who helps people overcome a wide variety of challenges, including anxiety, fear of flying and unhealthy behaviors. In 1999, he developed the Air Travel Stress Scale, which suggests that air travel stress has unique emotional components.
Joslin Diabetes Center scientists uncover clues toward treating age-related conditions via the blood.
The way highly anxious and avoidant individuals remember relationship events is based on their needs and goals for the relationship, but only if they were distressed when the memories were created.
Is it possible that directed prayer might spark forgiveness in those doing the praying—and in the process preserve relationships?
The Department of Energy announced today that 24 million hours of supercomputing time out of a total of 1.6 billion available hours at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories have been awarded to investigate materials for developing lithium air batteries, capable of powering a car for 500 miles on a single charge.
Breast cancer patients who exercise and drink tea on a regular basis may be less likely to suffer from depression than other patients, according to a new study.
More than 13,200 high school students have filed applications to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, according to numbers released today by Rensselaer Admissions. Applications are still being counted, but the current record total represents a growth of more than 8.8 percent since last year at this time.
Clarkson University honors student Emily Stefano hopes to advance skateboarding by redesigning one of its biggest and most challenging competitive structures: the MegaRamp.
Only a few anti-spasticity medications used for children with cerebral palsy are backed by sufficient research to justify their use, according to a new review of scientific literature headed by a UT Southwestern Medical Center neurologist and conducted by a national panel of interdisciplinary experts nationwide.
Through effective policy implementation, grazinglands can reduce greenhouse gases through carbon sequestration and emissions reduction offset credits. Carbon sequestration is the long-term storage of carbon in the ground or oceans, slowing the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere enters the soil of grazinglands through the natural process of photosynthesis by green plants. The subsequent cycling turns some of that carbon into soil organic carbon—and into an environmental, societal and economic benefit for every country with these grazinglands.
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has been awarded six Department of Defense (DOD) Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) grants for innovative medical research. The grants, totaling nearly $2.8 million, will advance research in the field of breast cancer.
Wycliffe “Wyc” Grousbeck, co-owner and chief executive officer of the Boston Celtics and an avid supporter of initiatives relating to blindness, was elected chair of the Foundation and the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary on Jan. 26.
The American Academy of Dermatology (Academy) applauds the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for issuing a consent order that prohibits the Indoor Tanning Association (ITA) from making false health and safety claims about indoor tanning. The Academy raised its concerns about the false statements being made by the ITA with the FTC in 2008 after the ITA launched an advertising campaign designed to portray indoor tanning as safe and beneficial. The Academy and several of its leading members cooperated fully with the agency’s investigation into this important public health issue. The FTC is the federal government agency that works for consumers to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them.
Church & Dwight Co., Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the FIRST RESPONSE® Early Result Pregnancy Test which can determine pregnancy up to six days before the day of a woman’s missed period.
Pistachios, almonds and other popular tree nuts might someday be routinely sprayed with a yeast called Pichia anomala to prevent contamination with aflatoxins, according to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant physiologist.
Columbia University and Ascent Scientific announced that they have entered into a license agreement for FFN511, a novel fluorescent probe for optical imaging and measurement of synaptic activity in the brain.
"Real Sportsmanship," an online program for players and coaches, has helped reduce ejections in high school football by more than 60 percent over three years. It has been adopted by the Sun Belt Conference for five years.
Researchers have developed a new tool to deliver DNA in gene therapy. DNA delivered to the retina with a peptide called PEG-POD was expressed 215 times more efficiently than delivery of DNA alone. The finding highlights PEG-POD as a tool for non-viral gene therapy treatments for eye disorders such as age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa.
Civil engineering professor and earthquake expert Brady Cox will travel to Haiti Saturday, Jan. 30, as part of a national team of engineers who will study the effects of the massive earthquake that struck the small Caribbean nation on Jan. 12. Cox and seven other members of Geo-engineering Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER), an organization funded by the National Science Foundation to conduct reconnaissance efforts of extreme events such as earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes, will gather data to advance understanding of earthquakes and their engineering effects.
Clinical and basic science researchers from around the world will convene in Hong Kong from January 28 to 30 for the First International Congress on Abdominal Obesity: “Bridging the Gap between Cardiology and Diabetology.” The congress, sponsored by the International Chair on Cardiometabolic Risk (ICCR) (www.cardiometabolic-risk.org), is the first-ever specialized forum for sharing new insights and evidence about abdominal obesity and its clinical and public health implications.
Studying pollen tubes, plant physiologist Peter Hepler has captured some of the fastest growing tissues known, on camera for the first time, advancing understanding of fertilization that’s critical to development of all fruits, nuts, grains, rice, corn, wheat and other crops we depend on for food.
Marshall Goldsmith, an authority in working with successful leaders and author of the award-winning best-selling book What Got You Here Won't Get You There, will keynote the 64th annual Indiana University Business Conference in Indianapolis on March 10.
BLOGRIGE—the new official blog of the Baldrige National Quality Program—is now available online.
Learn about the exceptional performance management practices and results of the 2009 recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award at the Quest for Excellence XXII, April 12-14, 2010, at the Hilton Washington in Washington, D.C.
NIST has released its final report on the May 2, 2009, collapse during a severe thunderstorm of the fabric-covered, steel frame practice facility owned by the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys.
NIST is seeking university teams to participate in a May 2010 Virtual Manufacturing Automation Competition to simulate an industrial robot performing a common but complex shop floor task--stacking odd-lot boxes on a shipping pallet.
Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute can speed up photons to seemingly faster-than-light speeds through a stack of materials by adding a single, strategically placed layer.
Researchers from NIST and the College of Charleston are at work trying to identify the clues that will finger specific, yet elusive, environmental threats to the Atlantic blue crab.
In an advance that might interest Q-Branch, NIST and partners from industry and academia have designed and tested experimental antennas that are highly efficient and yet a fraction of the size of standard antenna systems with comparable properties.
Researchers from NIST and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have completed the first of a series of tests to determine best practices for properly storing and monitoring the temperature of refrigerated vaccines.
Brain circuits involved in prosody seem to operate on a mirror neuron system, according to USC neuroscientists. PLoS ONE study also finds correlation between empathy and prosodic ability, meaning the ability to produce and perceive the music of speech.
With college graduates facing intense competition for jobs, Mount Holyoke College has launched a new program designed to give students a crucial edge as transition from their liberal arts studies to successful careers.
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