The most recent explosion in the travel industry may have been ignited by aging baby boomers who still want to kick up their heels. Adventure vacations for persons over 50 years old are one of the fastest-growing areas of the travel industry, according to Purdue University travel expert Alastair Morrison.
From the flat, fertile farm fields of Indiana comes the latest innovation in alpine skiing ã a soybean-based ski wax that's kinder to the ski slopes because it's petroleum free.
In the May 14 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, a nasal spray flu vaccine effectively prevents the flu in children. In addition, to the surprise of scientists involved in the study, the vaccine has also proven highly effective at preventing ear infections.
Monsanto Company receives "Inherit the Earth" gold medal award from Connecticut College for combining "environmental stewardship with jobs, productivity, and profits."
1. New studies of osteoporosis find protein supplements improve patient outcomes; 2. Physicians must address geographic variations in health care; 3. Internists are the doctors best trained to provide continuity of care.
Astonishing documents posted on the Internet reveal that the American tobacco giant Philip Morris secretly recruited influential people to help allay fears about the health risks of passive smoking.
The generic drug amantadine can improve motor fluctuations and dyskinesias (jerky or fragmented involuntary muscle movements) that occur after long-term use of Parkinson's medications, according to a study published in the May issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
An astronomer from The University of Arizona in Tucson and four Brazilian amateur astronomers last month observed an event not witnessed from Earth in more than a thousand years, if ever. Erich Karkoschka, a senior research associate with the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, and his colleagues on April 23 photographed the moon as it simultaneously occulted Venus and Jupiter.
Four African meteorologists spent the past nine months at UCAR building a multimedia CD-ROM demonstrating best use of satellite data for improving weather forecasts in the tropics. Better forecasts, including seasonal rainfall predictions, are critical to Africa, where millions depend on the current year's crops.
In this week's edition of Nature, scientists at Boston University's Department of Biomedical Engineering report a new model of ventilator assisted lung function. In this model the pressure of the air delivered by the ventilator is varied by the addition of noise.
Steven Price has for two decades indulged a deep curiosity with the mother of all highways, Interstate 80, which girdles the continent from New York City to San Francisco. Hoping to convince us that interstates can hold the same charm of the old winding two-lanes, Price has authored an unusual travel guide that invites readers on a milepost-by-milepost look at the great highway.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted marketing clearance for Simulect (basiliximab) for prevention of acute rejection episodes in renal transplant recipients.
Good communication between patient and doctor is as important to staying out of the hospital as getting the right asthma medicine, a new study by a University of Michigan research shows.
A panel commissioned by the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences reports that several adverse trends threaten to undermine the United States' dominant position in world mathematics. The panel also notes that NSF policies significantly affect the strength of U.S. mathematics and hence the health of other sciences.
Volunteering boosts self-esteem and energy and gives Americans a sense of mastery over their lives, particularly in later midlife, says a new Cornell University study.
Several specimens of a large predatory dinosaur -- including a nearly complete, exquisitely preserved skull -- were recently recovered on the island of Madagascar and announced in this week's issue of the journal Science by a team of researchers led by paleontologist/anatomist of the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine of the New York Institute of Technology.
A gene causing familial juvenile polyposis (FJP), a disorder that causes the growth of polyps in the colon or upper gastrointestinal tract, has been identified by a University of Iowa-led international research team.
A gene that helps keep bad cholesterol at bay -- and may reduce heart disease risk by 50 percent -- has been discovered by researchers reporting in this month's Arteriosclerosis, Thombosis and Vascular Biology: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers used a "gating mechanism" in the coats of simple viruses to remove the genetic material and turn the remaining protein coat into a delivery system for other organic substances, including drugs. Their loaded viruses can also be altered to target certain types of cells (like cancer cells).
National Press Club "Morning Newsmaker" News Conference with Professors Robert Knecht and Biliana Cicin-Sain, of the University of Delaware Center for the Study of Marine Policy discussing critical issues facing U.S. coastal tourism and recreation industries as the largest and fastest growing economic segments of the U.S. service industry.
Sea slugs--back-boneless, ocean-dwelling creatures that look like a large snail without a shell--produce a perfume-like chemical, called a pheromone, that makes them almost irresistible to one another and helps these normally solitary animals congregate to breed, scientists at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered. The chemical is one of only a handful of known water-borne pheromones.
Lead in the drinking water of pregnant rats causes long-term damage to the immune systems of their offspring, according to studies in the Cornell University Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology. The finding in rats -- if it holds true for pregnant human mothers exposed to lead -- could help explain the beginnings of a lifelong susceptibility to asthma and other allergies, as well as cancers.
Prof. Janine N. Caira of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, who has conducted award-winning research on the parasites of sharks and rays, is the most outstanding North American parasitologist for 1998.
Researchers at Boston University and Scriptgen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., have successfully synthesized two compounds that open the door to the development of an entirely new class of antibiotics for use against today's increasingly drug-resistant bacteria as well as emerging forms of bacteria. In a recent issue of the Journal of Organic Chemistry, the research team reported that they have chemically synthesized myxopyronin A and B, two natural compounds known to block replication of drug-resistant strains of bacteria. Before this breakthrough, the compounds could only be isolated from their bacterial source, a process that yielded quantities too small to be usable.
High-fashion models are thin. But the first study of the majority of professional models shows a leanness that is life-threatening. These are not the handful of celebrity super models in the news, but rather the anonymous women typically seen in print and television advertising for clothing, household items, jewelry, automobiles, children's products, food and the like.
For the first time, a specific pathway for the launch of a counterattack against HIV, with cells called macrophages stimulated by CD40L to produce proteins which bolster T lymphocytes ("T cells"), scientists from the University of California, San Diego and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center reported recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (April 1998).
A small-scale study suggests that hyperbaric oxygen therapy may hasten recovery from stroke and save millions or even billions of dollars annually in health care costs, a medical researcher says. The study also indicates that the new approach could give doctors a vital fourth hour to intervene after the onset of stroke. Current approaches are limited to about three hours
While coronary artery bypass surgery routinely saves lives by bypassing clogged arteries, many patients have a 20 percent decline in motor function and other evidence of brain damage following surgery, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center neuropsychologist said today.
UCLA Medical Center's Heart Transplant Program announced on May 5 that it has reached a collaborative agreement to begin training its surgeons and staff to install a battery-powered artificial heart replacement device developed and manufactured by ABIOMED, Inc.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) depends on the moving parts of a cell's surface to allow it to enter the cell.
Cornell students, using a new urban planning computer software, suggest new uses for Brooklyn's Greenpoint Terminal
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin and University of Arizona Alumnus, Greg Kinnear To Speak as the UA's Commencment Ceremonies Saturday, May 16, 1998.
A Laysan albatross tracked by Wake Forest University biologists has flown more than 24,843 miles in flights across the North Pacific to find food for its chick in just 90 days - flights equivalent to circling the globe.
Researchers have created transgenic mice with the widest known spectral range of vision of any mammal by introducing a gene that produces a human photopigment into mice embryos. The researchers plan to use the new mice as a tool for studying the evolution of sight and human vision problems.
Experts in emergency medicine and ultrasound have teamed up at the University of Rochester to better one of the most vital tools in the paramedic's array of equipment: endotracheal tubes, the flexible tubes inserted in the throats of hundreds of thousands of unconscious patients each year to ensure continuous delivery of oxygen to their lungs. The new device, soon to receive a U.S. patent, takes advantage of the same ultrasound technology now used by physicians to observe babies developing in the womb.
The experiences of the team of scientists who lived in the Biosphere 2 closed system from 1991 to 1993 can be applied to space travel, according to Sally Silverstone, co-captain of the crew.
Birth traumas to the head and neck are a rare occurence to newborns. When they do happen, parents and some physicians are at a loss to the trauma's nature and cause. A new research study examines this issue.
CT or computed tomography screening for children undergoing bone marrow transplants can indicate whether the young patient has sinus disease, a condition that can lead to deadly infections.
Pediatric angioedema is the sudden swelling under the skin of a child's ear. In certain cases, the swelling can be dangerous; a new study offers advice on when to be concerned and what treatment options are available.
Researchers from Washington state have determined the indirect and direct costs incurred by a family when their child suffers from acute otitis media.
A new study reveals that parents and other care givers cannot accurately detect hearing loss in children with recurrent middle ear infections.
Treating people with epilepsy or seizures who are in remote locations such as space, underwater or extended airline flights may be possible through what is known as telemedicine, according to Dr. Cormac A. O'Donovan.
Controlling unnecessary manipulation of the heart and the aorta during coronary artery bypass surgery dramatically reduces the number of patients with major neuropsychological deficits after surgery, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher told a Washington conference today.
Women with a history of premature delivery reduce their risk of another if they seek even a single prenatal checkup, according to results of a Johns Hopkins study.
Two new medical research studies examine treatment options for rhinitis and sinusitis in HIV-infected patients
Predicting the future is never easy, but doctors may soon have the tools to help them do just that. In a study and editorial in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, researchers describe a score sheet that can help predict when a person may develop a fatal heart attack.
Is American industry passing up opportunities to profit by operating "clean and green?" A new report released by Resources for the Future (RFF) addresses this question through three case studies of pollution prevention-related decisionmaking at three multinational chemical manufacturers headquartered in the U.S.
Researchers have zeroed in on a gene linked to high blood pressure -- a disease that affects one in four adults -- according to two reports in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
A drug used to reduce cholesterol levels in the blood can prevent atherosclerosis -- even in people with below-average blood cholesterol levels -- according to a report in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
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