A Columbia-Presbyterian study has demonstrated that brain scans and neuropsychiatric tests can help doctors determine whether psychiatric problems are due to Lyme disease or a primary psychiatric disorder.
580 U.S. dentists were polled about general oral care trends, including cosmetic tooth whitening, at the 138th Annual Session of the American Dental Association (ADA) in Washington D.C.
An innovative process from Bell Labs is making it possible for Lucent Technologies to improve the recovery and recycling of an important natural resurce -- germanium -- from the waste products of optical-fiber manufacturing and to save millions of dollars at the same time.
Up to 25 percent of cases of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus that occur before age 15 may possibly be prevented by immunizing children with common pediatric vaccines at birth, rather than waiting until up to eight weeks of life, according to a new epidemiological study by researchers at Intermountain Health Care's LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City and Classen Immunotherapies in Baltimore, Maryland.
RTI has released Version 7.5 of its SUDAANÆ software. SUDAAN is the statistical software package that addresses correlated data issues in statistical analysis, issues that can lead to inaccurate analysis if not properly handled.
Purdue agricultural economist Michael Boehlje [BOWL-jee] is constantly having to explain to people how agriculture is changing at the end of the 20th century.
Add another star to the list of health benefits associated with omega-3 fatty acids. Recent Purdue University research shows that they also help bones grow.
Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are taking a watergun, rather than shotgun, approach to rid the world of land mines. As part of a five-year, $5 million Department of Defense project, researchers are using high-pressure waterjets to develop a device that detects, clears and neutralizes land mines. The same technology has been used to construct an amphitheater beneath the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
Monroe E. Wall, PhD, has received the American Chemistry Society's Alfred Burger Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to medicinal chemistry, largely for his leadership in discovering two new classes of pharmaceuticals for cancer treatment.
The National Science Foundation, with cooperation from the Department of Education's National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research, has made a three-year, $952,856 award to the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative to ensure information on the Web is more widely accessible to people with disabilities.
NASA and the US Department of Health and Human Services signed an interagency agreement today to apply space technology to women's health issues. Since the early 1990s, their collaboration to develop new tools for fighting breast cancer has been facilitated by scientists at Research Triangle Institute. So far, the NASA, DHHS, RTI team has identified several existing space technologies that could be applied to digital mammography. Three commercial systems are now in clinical trials.
Over 2,500 gastroenterologists will gather in Chicago from 10/31 - 11/5 for the American College of Gastroenterology's 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting to discuss the latest advances in GI research, treatment of digestive diseases and clinical practice management.
University of Michigan scientists have used an insulin-like growth factor called IGF-I to stimulate growth of a myelin membrane sheath around neurons. Scientists believe understanding how growth factors affect neural development could lead to new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases like diabetic neuropathy, multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Researchers from Cornell, USC, Harvard and the University of Washington plan to deploy bottom-pressure recorders (BPR's) and seismic instrument arrays for real-time monitoring of tsunami development and study sea-floor deformation that occurs during earthquakes that turn into tsunamis.
ATS News Tips From Oct. Journals 1- balancing ethics with limited resources in ICUs; 2- acute lung injury and quality of life; 3- drug resistant bacteria in hospital patients.
From 1985 to 1996, the number of leased workers in the U.S. increased from 10,000 to more than two million, but this cost-cutting measure may not make for good human resource management, says Dr. Carol Harvey, who is an associate professor of management and marketing at Assumption College (Worcester, MA).
Managers seldom view the maintenance function as a competitive factor in their firm's business strategy. Nevertheless, as the U.S. moves towards just-in-time (JIT) and computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) an effective maintenance management program becomes crucial to a firm's competitiveness. So says Tracy D. Rishel, associate professor of production and operations management at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA. She researches the impact of incorporating scheduled maintenance policies into manufacturing.
The use of on-board satellite communications systems in the trucking industry has grown in the last decade. Tracy D. Rishel, associate professor of production and operations management at Susquehanna University, is researching the benefits these systems may provide for both careeris and shippers. She co-authored a presentation on the topic.
Small manufacturing firms investing in advanced manufacturing technology will require signficantly more highly-skilled employees than their traditional technology counterparts. That's according to research by Tracy D. Rishel, associate professor of production and operations management at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove PA.
While the percentage of women in job training doubled between 1970 to 1991, a greater proportion of white women were engaged in managerial or professional training than black women. That's according to a new study co-authored by Mary Cianni, associate professor of management at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA. It investigates the training patterns of white and black women across two decades
Employed wives are not automatically defined as "breadwinners," even when family finances are their primary motivation for employment and their jobs account for a substantial portion of the family income. That's according to a study by Jean L. Potuchek, which has been turned into a book, "Who Supports the Family? Gender and Breadwinning in Dual-Earner Marriages."
Men may have more dependent personalities than women have. So says Robert F. Bornstein, professor of psychology at Gettysburg College. His study, "Sex Differences in Objective and Projective Dependency Tests: A Meta-Analytic Review," suggests that men may have stronger underlying dependency needs than women.
Highlights of New Scientist for Oct 23, 1997.
The National Library of Medicine's new exhibit, Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature, opens on Halloween for a 10-month run. The exhibit focuses on the folklore surrounding scientific discoveries and the social and ethical questions raised by new medical advances such as cloning.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas-October 22, 1997- Results of clinical trials for ZOMIG (zolmitriptan), an investigational oral medication for the treatment of acute migraine, demonstrate that the compound may provide relief of migraine headache associated with and without menstruation, as well as migraine in women using oral contraceptives. These clinical trial data were presented at the American Osteopathic Association Research Conference, held October 19-23 in San Antonio. ZOMIG is a product of Zeneca Pharmaceuticals.
Leaders of U.S., Canadian and Japanese corporations and universities, the twin engines of economic growth in technologically advanced nations, will meet at Lehigh University Oct. 23-24 to focus on creative and collaborative strategies for infusing entrepreneurial spirit in these systems.
Women who have a tendency to overeat may be sensitive to chocolate which can elevate their appetite if it is consumed at the wrong time, LSU researchers find.
Long before recycling and the greening of corporate America became politically correct, there was Sea Worl, the theme park where the wonders of nature are performed, marketed, and sold.
The University of California, San Diego, San Diego State University, and the University of San Diego have joined together to establish a collaborative, community-wide effort to provide innovative after-school activities for K-12 kids
A new study suggests the amyloid plaques that form in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients are not the end products of the disease but the beginning of it, according to Johns Hopkins scientists.
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have made two breakthrough discoveries in interstitial cystitis, a chronic, painful bladder disorder for which there is no cure. Nearly half a million women suffer from IC. To be presented during Bladder Health Week, 10/24-31, published in November 1997 Journal of Urology.
At the fifteenth annual Whitehead Symposium, nearly two dozen of the world's leading experts on infectious diseases will join keynote speakers Dr. Clarence J. Peters of the Centers for Disease Control and Dr. Stanley Falkow of Stanford University School of Medicine to discuss the state of the knowledge in this field and report the latest results from their laboratories.
New research reverses the unflattering picture of the Y chromosome and reveals it as a crucial player in the evolution of sex chromosomes and also as a safe haven for male fertility genes.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University medical schools have published new findings in the Oct. 23 New England Journal of Medicine that challenge the genetic concept of race as it relates to birth weight.
Cornell University will direct a $154 millon mission to conduct close-proximity comet fly-bys scheduled for launch early in the next century.
Through the leadership of the University of California, San Diego, a new consortium of twelve prestigious academic libraries in the Pacific Rim has been formed to facilitate access to scholarly research materials through various digital networks.
University of Massachusetts biochemistry professor Anne Simon watches the hit TV show "The X-Files" with particular interest. Simon is a science consultant to the show's creator and executive producer, Chris Carter.
"The notion of the individual as the sole source of success creates a winner-loser mentality, and it creates a need to scapegoat the so-called losers," the Yale child psychiatrist says. "This fuels racism and ethnic tensions.
An evidence-detection system that makes organic residues appear to blink will allow investigators to locate potential evidence such as fingerprints, semen and urine more quickly and in a lighted room if necessary.
How do you approach your benefits manager about getting a dental plan? CIGNA Dental provideds tips for 50 percent of Americans without dental coverage.
Approximately 170 million Americans will be electing a dental plan in November. CIGNA Dental offers tips on choosing the right plan.
A study of more than 600 smokers found that use of an antidepressant drug called bupropion was a significant aid in helping subjects stop smoking. The study also found that the drug lessened the problem of weight gain among some study participants.
Tomorrow's Journal of the American Medical Association will announce the results of a new clinical trial showing an extract of the Ginko bilboa plant to be safe and effective in improving the mental performance and social functioning of patients. The JAMA study was a 52 week, randomized, double-blind study using 309 patients with Alzheimer disease and dementia
Research at The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center may help reduce the estimated 1.6 million deaths attributed each year to the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Shakespeare vividly described sleep disorders affecting his characters centuries before the public and medical professionals recognized these common, often treatable problems, according to a Los Angeles neurologist and sleep disorder specialist.
Growers who follow U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules in applying sewage sludge as fertilizer to their land may be inadvertantly endangering human health, the environment and the future productivity of their own crops, an analysis by the Cornell Waste Management Institute has found.
Despite 27 low-temperature records falling throughout the Northeast in September, the average temperatures for the month were not far from normal, making this the 30th coolest September in the last 103 years of records, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
When Martha Stevens earned a degree in civil engineering in 1897, she became the first woman to graduate from Purdue University with an engineering degree. Today the picture has changed dramatically, due in part to Purdue's pioneering efforts to attract and retain female engineering students ã efforts that are now used as a model for other universities.
ATHENS, Ga. -- A team of researchers at the University of Georgia are the first to determine that the hormone leptin causes the programmed death of fat cells rather than simply reducing them in size.
Women who have worked as hairdressers are at higher risk of developing a rare form of cancer than the general population, according to a recent Michigan State University study.
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