Casting about for ways to soothe Alzheimer's patients, Purdue University researchers have found that displaying tanks of brightly colored fish may curtail disruptive behaviors and improve eating habits of people with the disease.
Boston University School of Medicine researchers have identified the second locus for a recessive gene which causes achromatopsia - a rare genetic disorder which results in not only an inability to see any color at all, but causes the individual to be regarded as legally blind. This research report appears in the July issue of the journal Clinical Genetics.
Physicists from the University of Pennsylvania have found a new class of materials that self-assemble into flat, two-dimensional "crystallites" made from tiny plastic beads the size of bacteria. The beads seem to defy the basic physical principle that oppositely charged objects attract.
Using weather satellites to spot the early signs of an El Nino, scientists may be able to help save East Africans and their livestock from Rift Valley Fever, a mosquito-borne disease that can be fatal.
Taxing agricultural inputs such as pesticides and fertilizer is often mentioned as a way to control the amount that farmers use. But agricultural economists at Purdue University have found little correlation when they investigated how much taxation was needed to actually change farmers' habits.
Students from ethnically diverse backgrounds in four states, including 1,379 San Diego students, are demonstrating that the diet and exercise principles they learned years before in an elementary school-based intervention program are still having postitive effects, according to a study led by UCSD researchers.
For decades, doctors have believed that early signs of aortic heart valve disease were harmless if the valve was functioning normally. But research by a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center cardiologist suggests that the condition significantly increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, angina and even death in older adults.
Effective antibiotic therapy can lead to greatly improved outcomes for tick-borne pulmonary disease, according to new recommendations on diagnosis and management published in the July issue of CHEST.
Infants with obstructive sleep apnea can be safely and effectively treated at home for a considerable period of time with a nose mask through which continuous positive airway pressure is provided, according to a new study in the July issue of CHEST.
1- for city girls, summertime science, 2- will boys get a kick out of the women's World Cup? 3- First Lady is testing New Yorkers
A new study in the Journal of the American Dental Association demonstrates one possible successful approach to improving the water quality in dental units.
Most lesions of the mouth lining that result from the use of smokeless tobacco will dissipate six weeks after quitting tobacco products, concludes a U.S. Air Force study appearing in the July issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association.
1. Mild vitamin A deficiency can lead to increased risk of newborn respiratory distress syndrome; 2. How asthma is more severe and costly in older persons; 3. ATS statement on a breathing disorder in babies associated with abnormalities of the cardiovascular and/or respiratory systems.
A new study of violence between intimate partners by two University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologists reveals a problem of disturbing scope, with as many as one third of respondents reporting being either victims or perpetrators of physical abuse.
Job satisfaction can change with the time of the day. That is one reason why typical measures of job satisfaction -- such as surveys and polls -- are not very useful, says a Purdue University expert on organizational psychology.
A team of UC Irvine College of Medicine researchers has discovered a key receptor in the brain that helps control eating behavior. The finding eventually could result in new treatments for obesity and eating disorders
Making patients wait for diagnostic tests - as is often the case in the managed care system - could end up costing both patients and society more in the long run, according to a study by cardiologists at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
University of Michigan scientists have found that salicylate---the active component of ordinary aspirin---can prevent deafness in guinea pigs exposed to a common class of antibiotics that destroy delicate hair cells in the inner ear.
University of Idaho researchers say a change in cattle diets suggested earlier as a way to eliminate the threat of lethal E. coli in beef won't work.
A new study shows that important increases in recovery from chronic hepatitis B are obtained by prolonging the therapy up to four months, according to a study in the July issue of HEPATOLOGY.
A new study of Ernest Hemingway's personal letters by a Univ of Arkansas researcher reveals the author's active involvement in radical politics, including donations to finance the rise of the Communist Party in Cuba.
A major study by a North Carolina State University criminologist links murder rates with the prevailing economic environment. Simply stated: murder rates decline as the economy soars; murder rates climb as the economy sours.
In a new study released today, the Tillinghast-Towers Perrin consulting firm estimates a sizeable increase in the costs physicians pay for their malpractice insurance if Congress votes to eliminate managed care's preemption defense against state law causes of action.
1) antidepressant medication and cognitive behavior therapy compared; 2)Women who report childhood sexual abuse; 3) incidence of poliomyelitis and schizophrenia
The first-ever analysis of biotechnology's impact on crop protection and benefits to farm production will be released Tuesday by the National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy (NCFAP).
A painless, 20-second test could save more than 100,000 lives annually in the United States by detecting lung cancer at an early, curable stage, say researchers. Their findings, published in the July 10th issue of The Lancet, show that low-dose CT (low-radiation-dose computed tomography) can find lung tumors long before they appear on traditional chest x-rays.
A recent Mayo Clinic study in the journal Circulation finds that the dietary supplement L-arginine -- touted by the supplement industry as an enhancer for everything from athletic to sexual performance -- improves chest pain symptoms in patients with early heart disease.
Accelerated memory loss may occur in healthy adults with the gene variant known as apolipoprotein E-4, according to a study in the July 13 issue of Neurology.
Among the healthy elderly, people with higher education levels exhibit more severe brain shrinkage with age than people with fewer years of education.
Piston-engine aircraft will soon be able to use a new low-cost, lead-free alternative fuel that is based largely on ethanol and other agricultural products.
Two Wheaton College (IL) professors trace impact of evangelical Christianity on modern American sports. Highlights careers of figures like Eric Liddell, Gil Dodds, Bill McCartney, Bill Glass, and Mike Singletary.
Patients' assessments of hospital maternity care may help prospective mothers make informed health care choices, according to a study based on data from the Cleveland Health Quality Choice program.
A new study by researchers at the University of Georgia confirms heat causes coral reef damage. Higher temperatures aren't necessarily damaging the reef-building corals directly but instead are degrading the ability of symbiotic algae to convert light into energy.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center show for the first time that brain trauma alters the specific pathways for recognizing DNA damage and initiating the DNA repair process.
As they reported in the July 9 issue of the journal Science, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have found that people with a certain form of the genetic disease known as xeroderma pigmentosum have defects in a gene called hRAD30.
Spending on prescription drugs has grown twice as fast as total health care spending over the past five years, according to a new study released today by the National Institute for Health Care Management Research and Education Foundation.
A study published in the July issue of the American Psychological Association's journal Health Psychology found that older women do not understand the risk of death associated with heart disease and cancer.
A study published in the July issue of the American Psychological Association's journal Developmental Psychology demonstrates that age-related differences in memory are related to storage capacity, not a processing efficiency.
Physicians at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are testing a new, less invasive method for repairing abdominal aortic aneurysms, potentially dangerous defects of the body's major artery found often in the elderly.
Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research will fly over a prescribed blaze in the Alaskan forest seeking clues to how violent and seemingly unpredictable forest fires spread.
A University of California, San Diego bioengineering professor and his research group are now outsmarting these bacteria and viruses using a new scientific concept called "genetic circuits"--computer simulations that describe how gene products interact to perform specific cellular functions.
Chief executives' confidence in the nation's economy increased for the third consecutive quarter, The Conference Board reports today.
While "leadership" has become a hot corporate issue, most U.S. and European companies can be considered novices in leadership development, according to a report released today by The Conference Board.
A new method for making x-ray optics may open the door for a new era of high-energy observation at much lower cost than has ever been possible.
NASA Scientists announced today the results of dual-observations from the SOHO and Spartan satellites, describing how the solar wind achieves its high-speed of up to 500 miles per second.
Internet search engines are increasingly falling behind. They do not index sites equally, may not index new or modified pages for months, and no engine indexes more than 16% of the web, according to a NEC Research Institute study in the July 8 issue of Nature
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas scientists have used genetically altered mice to help explain two types of human blindness, one that occurs in children and another that develops in approximately one in four adults over 65.
Reducing future emissions of sulfur dioxide in an attempt to mitigate the acid-rain problem may aggravate the global-warming problem, a University of Illinois professor says.
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