People with dark skin pigment may have a lower risk for ParkinsonÃs disease, according to a study released during the American Academy of Neurology 51st Annual Meeting, April 17-24 in Toronto.
Vitamin E supplements may help prevent stroke, according to a study released during the American Academy of Neurology 51st Annual Meeting April 17-24 in Toronto.
In a new study, Stanford researchers say they have discovered the factors directly causing failure to cure prostate cancer. Among nine variables, only two tumor characteristics are really critical - the size of the tumor and the presence of grade 4 cancer, they report in the April 21 JAMA.
In 1963 anthropologist Paul Hockings took his first census of a tribe-like community in the mountains of southern India. Now his 32-year study is being praised for getting to the heart of development issues in South Asia.
A University of Arkansas professor has found a trove off the coast of Cape Hatteras that could allow millions of people to continue enjoying a rapidly diminishing treasure -- sandy beaches.
In the automotive industry alone, estimates a just-released study commissioned by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), "interoperability problems" when sharing product and engineering data impose annual costs totaling about $1 billion.
Carbon dioxide emissions over the next century could increase wintertime precipitation in the U.S. Southwest and Great Plains by 40% as global average temperature rises 3 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a new climate model developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Transferring desirable genes into crops is a high-tech game of chance, with success rates running about one in 1,000. But the odds get a whole lot better when you remove gravity from the mix.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research's Mt. Washington Winter Icing and Storms Project is testing methods for remote sensing and improved prediction of in-flight icing conditions that can down small aircraft.
Society has enjoyed important benefits from mathematical models developed by National Institute of Standards and Technology that simulate the performance of electronic components called insulated-gate bipolar transistors. The payoff to U.S. industry has been estimated at $23 benefits generated for every $1 spent.
A study at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston suggests that soya consumption may reduce breast cancer risk by lowering a woman's female hormone levels.
Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh scientists found spontaneous reorganization of cognitive function immediately following brain damage caused by stroke, they reported in the journal Stroke.
Children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often have smaller overall brain volumes than normal children with significantly less gray matter in their frontal brain region, particularly in the right frontal region, according to a study presented during the American Academy of NeurologyÃs 51st Annual Meeting April 17 - 24, 1999, in Toronto.
Children with cerebral palsy may regain the use of their legs with injections of botulinum toxin, according to a study released at the American Academy of NeurologyÃs 51st Annual Meeting April 17-24, 1999, in Toronto.
Female soccer players were able to perform longer at a higher intensity on a diet composed of 35 percent fat than on diets of 27 percent fat or 24 percent fat, researchers at the University at Buffalo have found.
Thermography, which measures the temperature of the blood vessels, may hold potential as a new tool to identify individuals at risk for an impending heart attack, according to a report in April 20 Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers have shown, for the first time, that sudden cardiac death in men runs in families, according to a study in the April 20 Circulation.
AlzheimerÃs disease patients have substantially higher Medicaid costs than their peers, and such expenses account for over 10 percent of all state Medicaid spending on the elderly, according to a study of the Pennsylvania Medicaid program. The research was presented during the American Academy of NeurologyÃs 51st Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, April 17 ñ 24, 1999.
A new study of Japanese and American business students found striking differences in how students from the two countries approached a decision-making task, according to the Ohio State researchers.
How do political experts react when their predictions -- about election results or the fate of countries or other important issues -- turn out to be completely wrong? A new study at Ohio State found that most experts shrug off their errors, claiming that they were "almost" right and that their understanding of the situation was basically sound.
Administered in dentistry some 300 million times annually in the United States, local anesthesia appears safer today than in the past, concluded dental researchers in a study that appears in the April 1999 issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association.
Chief executives' confidence in the nation's economy increased for the second consecutive quarter, The Conference Board reports.
General dentists last year identified and reported more signs of child abuse, according to a 1997 American Dental Association (ADA) Survey, than when surveyed by the ADA in 1994.
Dental care utilization rates are higher among women, more whites see their dentists than blacks, and usage rates increase with income and educational level, according to an article appearing in the April 1999 issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association.
The first believed multiple planet system orbiting around a sun-like star has been found by independent teams of astronomers, including National Science Foundation-supported researchers from San Francisco State University and from the Anglo-Australian Observatory.
Three planets have been found orbiting the star Upsilon Andromedae in the first discovery of multiple planets outside our solar system. NCAR scientist Timothy Brown was part of the team of eight scientists who observed the additional planets.
The system-wide effort to improve student performance in Chicago public high schools is yielding promising results, yet skepticism among teachers may impede long-term success, according to a new study published by researchers affiliated with the Department of Education and the University of Chicago.
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a key link in a chain of events that protect the heart from cell death, which leads to heart failure.
University of Washintion bioengineers, reporting in the April 15 issue of Nature, describe a process for coating medical implants with tiny imprints that bind specific proteins. This coating may trigger natural healing rather than the body's typical, and often disruptive, reaction to medical implants.
1.Disrupted and abnormal sleep for patients is endemic to intensive care units. 2.Three large homeless shelters in Los Angeles are major sites for tuberculosis transmission. 3. Long-term exposure to air pollution for Swiss, even at low levels, is associated with a higher prevalence of respiratory symptoms.
Scientists have found that the hormone melatonin is a critical regulator of brain plasticity in birds, controlling mating-related song bursts and fine-tuning the profound effects of testosterone. Now the question is: Does it have a similar effect on humans?
Boston University scientists reported the discovery of a new gene involved in inflammatory diseases, such as arthritis and Crohn's disease, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Scientists are closing in on discovering the way that the body regulates critical proteins involved in the front line defense against disease as well as in normal body processes, they report in the April 16 issue of Science.
Astronomers from around the world are training their telescopes on two interesting, if not strange, astronomical objects. The objects of their desire -- a white dwarf star thought to be solid and a tightly bound interacting binary star system that has the "sexiest light curve in astronomy."
Patients undergoing high-risk surgery may be up to three times more likely to survive if their hospital's intensive care unit is staffed by "intensivists," or physicians specially trained in critical care, according to a Johns Hopkins study of 46 Maryland hospitals.
1- U.S. interagency UV monitoring program established and operating; 2- NSF grant statistics paint stable picture; 3- increasing carbon dioxide threatens tropical coral reefs.
A key characteristic observed in the autoimmune response that causes nerve tissue damage in multiple sclerosis patients gives medical researchers entirely novel approaches for combating that disease Cleveland Clinic Foundation researchers report in the April issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
Stress and surgery may increase the growth of cancerous tumors by suppressing natural killer cell activity, says a Johns Hopkins nurse researcher.
Two new medications, naltrexone and acamprosate, show promise in treating alcoholism, according to a new evidence report, summarized in the April 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
A Rensselaer Incubator company has commercialized a technology that may take the animal out of animal testing. A Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist and a senior research scientist at RPI have developed the Electric Cell-Substrate Impedance Sensing-ECIS 100(tm) --which uses electricity to study complex cell behavior.
U-M study says the elderly consume recommended dietary allowances of iron, zinc and magnesium, but nutritional supplements and drugs can offset the balance of these nutrients.
At a regional conference here today, a University of Arkansas professor will speak on the growing national problem caused by excess phosphorous in soil draining into water sources.
Women with advanced congestive heart failure live twice as long as their male counterparts, according to a study in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The alarm sounds and you lie helpless in bed, unable to move or even speak for several minutes; you have a condition known as sleep paralysis.
Many physicians withhold pain medication from patients in emergency situations because of informed consent issues or because the doctors believe the drugs may affect the accuracy of their diagnoses, a University of Iowa survey found.
A functioning logic gate based on a transistorless approach to computing called quantum-dot cellular automata is reported by University of Notre Dame researchers in Science. QCA is an effort to bring information storage down to the molecular level.
University of California researchers say a newly determined structure of the biological particles called prions may help explain how they cause infectious deadly diseases. Aberrant prions cause scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or "mad cow disease") in cows, and various afflictions in people.
Patients with heart or lung diseases who require oxygen support are going to find air travel either easy or impossible and either inexpensive or costly, depending on the policies of the particular air carrier they choose, according to a new study reported today in CHEST.
A nationwide survey of 67 cystic fibrosis (CF) centers shows that anti-inflammatory medications are underutilized by physicians when treating children and adults with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) in the U.S., according to an article published in the April issue of CHEST.
UC Davis study shows 100 percent apple juice is more nutritious than previously thought. Significant amount of phytonutrients may help protect against heart disease.
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