Researchers have successfully treated Parkinsonism in rats by using fetal brain cells from cloned cows. This research is the first demonstration that transgenic cloned animal tissue can be used in the treatment of a disease. Results of the research study will appear in the May 1 issue of the journal Nature Medicine.
Why is my health coverage so limited for mental health? What is wrong with my child? Where can I go for help for anxiety disorders? During May, communities nationwide will be responding to these questions at health fairs, walks, workshops, screenings and other events. For members of the media, Mental Health Month offers a great opportunity to acquaint readers and listeners with important information on a variety of mental health topics.
"Formularies that restrict access to new psychotropic medications increase both treatment costs and the suffering of people with mental illnesses," said Michael Faenza, President and CEO of the National Mental Health Association. "They fail on economic and moral grounds."
A chemical associated with tuberculosis may substantially reduce the amount of damage sustained from a heart attack, a finding that could lead to new treatment for heart attack victims, according to a new study. The finding was made by two physician brothers in different disciplines who happened to discuss their individual research at a family gathering. Serendipity at its best.
A Johns Hopkins undergraduate has located the part of the brain that processes sounds while we sleep, a function that wakes a mother when her infant cries but lets her sleep on when a truck roars by.
Comprehensive Epilepsy Program Offers Two New Alternatives For Patients with Uncontrolled Seizures: "Awake" surgery and a new vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) pacemaker implant.
More solid evidence shows that growing up in a home around smokers has an adverse impact on lung function. The strongest correlation, highlighted in a new study, was with mothers who smoked. Girls seem to suffer more than boys, probably because girls spend more time around their mothers, researchers say.
You can shop, search and email on the Internet. Now you can also raise capital on-line. Constance Bagley, a senior lecturer at Stanford Business School, has co-authored a detailed article about the growth of initial public offerings on the Internet. She warns that such practices raise questions about legality and liquidity.
Results from the primary phase of the first-ever human clinical trial of a vaccine genetically implanted inside a food indicate that consumption results in immunity to specific diseases. The test of the vaccine was made with vaccine-containing potatoes developed at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., (BTI) an affiliate of Cornell University. The human clinical study was conducted at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development in Baltimore.
DALLAS, April 28 -- Getting immediate vessel-opening treatment after a heart attack can help you live longer than previously believed, say researchers in a study published in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
DALLAS, April 28 -- Blood clots that can trigger a sudden heart attack often differ between men and premenopausal women -- a finding that may have important implications for preventing sudden cardiac death, which kills 250,000 people each year. This research was reported in a study in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
In an increasingly diverse population, consumers outside a company's intended target market are exposed to targeted appeals, which can sometimes get companies into trouble. Sonya Grier, an assistant professor of marketing at Stanford Business School, has examined the difficult questions raised by nontarget marketing -- appeals aimed at one group that unintentionally reach another.
In 1995, Congress passed a controversial "safe harbor" law, aimed at reducing frivolous shareholder lawsuits and allowing executives to be more generous with forecasts. Critics feared the new law would license executives to predict rosy profits in order to drive up stock prices. What has happened since the law took effect? Two Stanford Business School faculty members find the new law has had a positive effect.
Inner-city residents frequently rely on the emergency room of their local hospital for asthma treatment, a practice that is not only expensive and inefficient but a sign that they are receiving insufficient help in managing the disease on their own. New research gives a detailed picture of these patients and the difficult challenges they pose.
Hospitalization and death rates due to asthma among African-American and Latino children in New York City are four times higher than the national average. One contributing factor may be the failure of families to recognize the nature of the disease and develop skills for managing it. In partnership with family physicians, a family coordinator can help families overcome an often passive attitude toward asthma and build confidence to try to prevent or minimize symptoms themselves. That is the finding of a new study.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Center for Blood Research have identified a peptide that may serve as a template for a drug that can suppress the immune response with fewer side effects than immunosuppressants currently available. In addition to benefiting people who receive organ transplants, a drug based on this agent potentially could be used to treat chronic conditions caused by excessive or inappropriate immune responses, such as asthma, inflammation, allergies, and rheumatoid arthritis. Their findings are published in the April 24 Molecular Cell.
CHICAGO-April 27, 1998-In a new linical trial, 55 percent of asthma patients indicated that they preferred Accolate (zafirlukast), the nonsteroid tablet from Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, over the most commonly used inhaled corticosteroid, beclomethasone dipropionate (200 or 250 mcg bid).
Scientists report they have produced an accurate record of northern hemisphere temperature for the past 600 years. Accurate reconstructions of past global temperatures are a boon for climatologists trying to explain how and why world climate changes.
Who ever thinks about swallowing? But a stroke, neck surgery, or old age can all make swallowing so difficult that some people need to be fed by a tube. Now a research team has found a way to use a simple exercise to improve people's ability to swallow - no surgery, no drugs.
Combined data from an analysis of five clinical studies show that the oral asthma controller therapy, Accolate" (zafirlukast), from Zeneca Pharmaceuticals may reduce the need for short courses of oral steroids in patients experiencing asthma attacks. The study results were presented today in an abstract at the American Lung Association/American Thoracic Society annual meeting in Chicago.
A new study by marine scientists at the University of Georgia has discovered that bacteria from the so-called "marine alpha group" dominate the near-shore waters and estuaries of the Georgia coast.
A new technique that rejuvenates expired or inactive proteins at a significantly higher rate than other methods has received a U.S. patent. Central Michigan University researchers have found that cyclodextrins--naturally produced, non-toxic compounds that consist primarily of glucose--produce biologically active proteins that can be used for processing food and treating medical conditions such as diabetes, blood clots and cystic fibrosis.
By delivering medicines to specific areas of the human body, peptides are expected to be a link for dramatic breakthroughs in the treatment of many diseases and illnesses, including Alzheimer's disease and HIV-related illnesses. Researchers at the University of Kansas are leaders in the fields of peptide and peptidomimetics research, a field that is growing in importance. (Story tip package from KU)
1) Newly Discovered Molecule Will Aid Cell Study, May Lead to New Class of Cancer Drugs; 2) Aquaculture Facility May Help Revitalize Native American Fishing Industry; 3) Laser Sheds Light On Pollution In Boston Harbor
Even though people of all ages are working fewer hours and retiring earlier than their parents and grandparents did, many of them feel overloaded. "Especially in two-job families with young children, life can seem like one long sprint, without time for real exercise or real leisure," says University of Michigan psychologist Robert L. Kahn.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, aerobic exercise is a safe and effective way to improve the strength and cardiovascular fitness of stroke patients, even if they begin exercising six months or more after their stroke.
A new book, The Soviet World of American Communism, further confirms the fact that the American Communist Party was a tool of the Soviet Union says co-author and Emory University political scientist Harvey Klehr. The claims are based on Klehr's research in the archives of the Communist International in Moscow.
Nuclear Energy Institute Bemoans Interminable Licensing Process in Louisiana Energy Case
Temple University School of Medicine is now in the second year of a four-year, $3 million study to investigate chronic rejection and to determine whether donor bone marrow can "trick" recipients' immune systems into coexisting without rejection of the transplanted hearts.
A Purdue University professor and two of her doctoral students have designed the trajectory for an upcoming space mission, which may shed light on the composition of the sun.
4-H'ers and others in search of this year's grand champion hog need to be aware of a swine disease enjoying a resurgence in Indiana and elsewhere.
Neuroscientists at the Yerkes Primate Research Center of Emory University have discovered in the brain a novel neurotransmitter that helps control food intake and seems to be partially responsible for the feeling of satiety. The finding may eventually be used to develop medications for obesity, a life-threatening, yet common condition that often lies at the root of other serious illnesses such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The study will be reported in the journal Synapse (vol 29, No. 4), available in May on the Synapse website.
Despite strong economic growth and record low unemployment, the gap between America's richest and poorest families has sharply increased over the last 20 years, according to a Conference Board report.
Wall Street "whispers" are speaking louder than ever to the financial community. A study of "whisper forecasts," the unofficial corporate earnings forecasts that circulate among traders and investors, concludes that the whispers tend to be more optimistic and often more accurate than traditional earnings forecasts.
A new educational software program developed at Purdue University is making it easier than ever for teachers to put the power of the Internet to work in their classrooms. Test Pilot is a new application that allows teachers to design surveys, tests and tutorials that students can take on any computer that is connected to the Internet.
Researchers who were looking for the reason why simple aspirin use protects some people from developing heart attacks have traced the mechanism back to a specific genetic factor present on the surface of clotting cells called platelets.
A team of Trinity College engineering students and their robot, "Phoenix," captured the number-one prize at the fifth annual Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot contest on April 19 on the College campus. The international contest is the largest public robotics competition held in the United States. Over 73 robots competed. Entrants came from across the United States and as far away as Switzerland.
Tip Sheet from New Scientist for 4-22-98
Betty Friedan will join the Cornell University faculty as a distinguished visiting professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations to direct a $1 million, four-year project, New Paradigm: Women, Men, Work, Family and Public Policy," at the Institute for Women and Work that will attempt to transform the feminist ideals and practices she catalyzed more than 30 years ago into a broader societal and workplace agenda for the new century.
Northwestern engineering freshmen launch their own company -- and a club for other students who want to do the same.
In the first study focusing on the juvenile "peer court" process, UC Irvine professor Robert Beck has concluded that this recent and innovative approach to combating teen crime appears to be an effective alternative to the more traditional and punitive juvenile justice system.
A University of Missouri-Rolla professor's recently patented process for evaluating every phase of a product's development -- from conception to marketing -- should mean big savings to AT&T, Paradyne and other companies.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has overturned a central theory about the stability of collagen, a protein that acts like a "solder" to give the body its structure and shape.
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) has just published an information resource about Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (classic CJD), Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and new variant CJD (nvCJD).
Too many young academically talented female students are being discouraged from taking higher math and science classes, limiting a group of future leaders, says a Ball State University educator.
Climatologists at the University of Massachusetts have reconstructed the global temperature over the past 600 years, determining that three recent years, 1997, 1995, and 1990, were the warmest years since at least AD 1400. The study, is detailed in Nature's April 23 issue.
The fog may be lifting for Northwest weather prognosticators who struggle to make forecasts without critical data on conditions over the Pacific Ocean. Aeronautical engineers at the University of Washington are launching high-tech unmanned airplanes to gather this missing weather data.
A pioneering satellite called ALEXIS -- sporting six wide-field telescopes for studying celestial extreme ultraviolet emissions -- marks in fifth anniversary April 25. Originally feared lost after it was launched, the robust craft has provided more than four years of productive observations of the EUV sky. An onboard radio experiment also has provided the first-reported detections of powerful atmospheric bursts whose origin remains a mystery.
A natural supplement may provide protection from heart attacks or strokes, especially for smokers or those with a history of heart disease, according to a breakthrough study in humans to be presented during the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) annual meeting.
With the unlikely but invaluable help of an electron accelerator, University of Wisconsin Medical School molecular biologists have definitively shown for the first time that within the seven-some-feet of the folded chromosome in every cell nucleus, special repair proteins do their work by moving from their home bases to remote gene damage sites. The study is reported in the April 24 Science.
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