According to a survey from the American Institute for Cancer Research, most people believe the kind of food they eat is more important for managing weight than the amount and only 12 percent refer to recommended serving size on nutrition labels.
Flies harboring versions of a human gene could help solve a central mystery concerning Parkinson's disease, say Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers (Nature, 3-23-00).
The absence of menstrual periods for prolonged periods of time can cause emotional distress and infertility; learn about amenorrhea on Mayo Clinic Health Oasis.
In a study of severely uncoordinated fruit flies, University of California, San Diego, scientists have obtained the first molecular hints of how humans and other complex organisms hear, maintain their balance and sense touch.
Smith College panelists will join stand-up comic-turned-talk-show-host Bill Maher in staging a mock version of "Politically Incorrect," in order to discuss race relations, multiculturalism and campus diversity.
The National Science Foundation announced that it will support new research addressing the underrepresentation of women and minorities in the information technology workforce.
Computer-aided design, which for more than 30 years has enabled engineers to create and modify products using on-screen computer graphics, has been recognized as one of the greatest mechanical engineering achievements of the 20th century by ASME International.
An international colloquium, "Berlioz: Past, Present, Future," at Smith College is the first in a series of events around the world designed to honor Berlioz on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
ADAA will mark its 20th anniversary by highlighting the progress scientists and researchers have made over the past two decades in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders.
Accounting and financial reporting standards are simply not keeping pace with today's rapidly changing business environment, or with the dramatic shift in the way financial information is communicated, according to an Anderson School professor emeritus.
The Earth's magnetosphere is being buffeted by high-speed solar wind particles from a coronal hole straddling the center of the Sun's disk.
Poet Bridget Meeds will spend two hours every morning of the business week, from March 27 to April 21, in Cornell's Wilson Lab with physicists and other lab employees as the laboratory's first-ever poet in residence.
New virulent types of the potato late blight pathogen have emerged in Russia, threatening farmers and consumers with the destruction of an essential staple crop, according to the Cornell-Eastern Europe-Mexico Potato Late Blight Program.
A massive iceberg, about twice the size of Delaware according to estimates, is peeling off of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf and may soon be adrift in the Ross Sea.
Cornell students will spend their spring break (March 23-25) stabilizing the isolation ward, a neglected, historically important, building on the island between lower Manhattan and Jersey City that once was the gateway to America for millions of immigrants.
The military's need for a lightweight pickup truck may yield benefits for consumers; Mississippi State University is part of a national team working to produce a new pickup truck that can function both as a military and a commercial vehicle.
University of Wisconsin leaders said they were pleased with the Supreme Court's decision that public colleges and universities can use money from student fees to finance the campus groups of their choosing.
That sharp pain in a golfer's lower rib or the unrelenting soreness in a gymnast's forearm could mean more than a sore muscle -- it may indicate a stress fracture, according to an Ohio State study (Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine).
Ohio State University astronomers used an innovative imaging technique to discover swirling masses of interstellar dust spiraling into the center of nearby galaxies; they believe this interstellar dust is feeding supermassive black holes (Astronomical Journal).
The Board of Directors for FASEB has selected Robert R. Rich, M.D., as the Federation's next President-Elect; he will assume his duties on July 1 and will succeed Mary J.C. Hendrix, Ph.D., as president of FASEB on July 1, 2001.
Evidence of pronounced changes in the earth's climate that can be tracked in cycles of ocean conditions over thousands of years is reported by NSF-funded scientists who are affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The "National Symposium on the Great Plains Tornado Outbreak of May 3, 1999" will discuss the intense tornadoes that ripped through parts of the southern Great Plains, devastating metropolitan areas and nearly destroying entire communities.
Orientation programs for new employees may have a reputation for being boring and unhelpful, but an Ohio State study suggests the right program can actually help build commitment to the company among workers who attend (Personnel Psychology).
Investigator-initiated, peer-reviewed, life sciences research at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration should be given the highest priority in fiscal 2001.
MDS Nordion received U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorization to market TheraSphere, a non-surgical outpatient therapy that uses microscopic glass beads to deliver radiation therapy to treat inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma.
A daily dose of laughter can bring serious health benefits, says a member of the Texas Tech Medical Center's neuropsychiatry department.
The Advanced Propulsion Technology Center at the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been designated a DOE national user facility.
A model that shows why certain parts of a North Carolina barrier island erode faster than others has been developed by a University of Arkansas professor and his colleague; the model may help scientists pinpoint the causes of other problem areas.
Missouri is an international center of plant and human genome research, health care advances and agricultural development; schedule interviews with Missouri life sciences leaders.
Unlike DNA testing for infectious disease, molecular genetic testing raises issues about invasion of privacy, stigmatization, impact on other family members, ethnic and racial differences, and discrimination.
Because some people are more sensitive to drugs than others, as well as more sensitive to certain drugs than others, understanding a person's genotype will provide the opportunity to predict which drug and at which dose will be most effective for them.
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Eighty-one percent of parents with children in elementary, middle and high schools want their kids to receive daily physical activity, but only 44 percent of them are receiving it, reports a survey commissioned by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education.
UCSD-Salk Institute Awards presented to Christopher Reeve, Dr. Donald Seldin and Dr. Dennis Slamon; Christopher Reeve has been named the first recipient of the UCSD-Salk Institute Service Award.
A class of composite materials with unusual physical properties that scientists theorized might be possible, but have never before been able to produce in nature, has been developed by University of California, San Diego, physicists (Physical Review Letters).
Scientists have discovered molecular buckyballs containing extraterrestrial helium from the era of the dinosaurs.
Scientists using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found new evidence for black holes hiding inside the cores of normal-looking galaxies.
As it prepares to graduate its second class of physician-fellows trained in the theory and practice of integrative medicine, the University of Arizona is accepting applications for its 2001-2002 class.
1- Industry and universities benefit most from federal R&D spending; 2- Acid-loving microbe key to mine pollution; 3- Can robots make solar energy more cost effective?
Both life-sustaining and life-taking, the Mississippi, largest river in North America, is a habitat for fish and mammal species as well as a vital economic resource for the nation.
Associated General Contractors of America's online courses allow AIC Associate Constructors and Certified Professional Constructors to obtain required continuing professional development credits via an Internet connection.
To improve housing for the people of Reynosa, Mexico, an LSU professor had his architecture students build a model home -- a one-room house with concrete walls, a tin roof and a dirt floor -- which for many in the town of Reynosa is a dream house.
Associated General Contractors of America delivered testimony to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee stating that repeal of the motor fuel tax is nothing more than a political gimmick.
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke is sponsoring a first-of-its-kind conference presenting discoveries likely to lead to the prevention and cure of epilepsy.
That attachment disorders, which prevent some adopted children from bonding with their parents, may be at least partially reversible is the suggestion from Texas Christian University research.
Clinicians at more than 20 hospitals in the Midwest and Northeast, collaborating as part of the Clinical Advantage program of VHA Inc., are midway through a year-long project to improve the clinical assessment, management and discharge planning for heart attack patients.
A "smart scalpel" mechanism to detect the presence of cancer cells as a surgeon cuts away a tumor has been developed in prototype by scientists at Sandia; the dime-sized patented device tells a surgeon when to stop cutting.
Major federal regulatory agencies have agreed to accept chemical safety data from a synthetic skin test in lieu of an animal test, the National Toxicology Program announced today.
As the Sun sets at the south pole on March 20, 2000, Earth will join two other planets in the solar system where it is northern Spring.
Cycles of ocean conditions reveal that Earth is currently in a period in which a natural rise in global temperatures -- combined with warming from the greenhouse effect -- will push the planet through an era of rapid global warming, say Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 3-21-00).
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