The largest study ever to examine the prevalence of thyroid disease found that 11.7 percent of the study participants had abnormal thyroid function, yet only one percent of the total population were receiving treatment.
Emerging management technologies such as data warehouses, call centers, and specialized web sites are converging with the increased globalization of business to revolutionize customer relationships, finds UT Austin and businesspartner Andersen Consulting. Businesses in great need of leaders who understand the trends and can deploy the right technologies to identify, build, and maintain profitable customer relationships can now look to the first ever Center for Customer Insight, located at the Texas Business School.
Parents wanting to help their children adjust to life's stresses may want to turn down the noise in their home, says a Purdue University professor of psychological sciences.
What do landscape architects, zookeepers, food technologists and forest rangers have in common? Chances are it's a degree in agriculture. A strong and varied job market is getting some of the credit for the increasing number of students signing up for classes in Purdue University's School of Agriculture.
Doctors can face an ethical dilemma when patients request screening tests - such as those for breast cancer and prostate cancer - that may be ill-advised under certain circumstances. Four authors explore that predicament in the article "Ethical Considerations in the Provision of Controversial Screening Tests," in the current issue of the Archives of Family Medicine.
A tell-tale genetic defect that has been identified in the thyroid cancers of children exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl disaster may lead to a better understanding of the precise role of radiation in the type and incidence of the disease in the United States, according to researchers at the American Thyroid Association (ATA) meeting.
The University of Michigan's Comprehensive Cancer Center is launching a statewide network of interactive computer kiosks to link residents with up-to-date health information. The $1 million project, was funded by proceeds from the state tobacco tax. The highly interactive system is the first health-related project of its kind in the nation.
A mechanism that regulates protein activity, previously undescribed for advanced cells, has been reported by Dr. Toshinori Hoshi, University of Iowa assistant professor of physiology and biophysics.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists are a step closer to solving a climatological riddle of the early Stone Age when, in what is now North African desert, hippos and crocodiles abounded, Neolithic fishermen thrived on the shores of numerous shallow lakes, and grasslands stretched to the horizon.
Researchers at Cornell University will share in a $10 million grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the University of Buffalo's National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER), to engineeri structures to better resist earthquakes.
A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the Electronic Packaging Program at Cornell University will support the design andconstruction of a PICT (precision interconnect cluster tool) capable of attaching integrated circuits with at least 10 times more connections than today's most powerful chips.
Highlights of New Scientist for Oct 16, 1997.
Madagascar's largest remaining rainforest contanining animals found nowhere else on earth will be preserved, thanks to an historic compromise that blends the two competing pressures faced by poor countries worldwide: conserving natural resources versus human development.
Maggots wriggling in an open wound; leeches crawling about your body; blood oozing from a punctured vein. The stuff of nightmares? In reality, it could be the cure for what ails ya'. A new book by a Michigan State University professor looks with loving detail at many ancient folk remedies and old wives' tales that were discarded by medical practitioners of the past but are now making comebacks in medical clinics today.
Scientists Solve Active Site of Structure of Enzyme that Produces Nitric Oxide; Discovery Suggests Possible New Ways to Design Novel Drugs for Several Human Diseases
A questionnaire answered by students at a Baltimore County high school shows that nearly 10 percent of them have received psychological help to deal with difficulties related to exposure to violence in one or more of the three major areas of their lives: the media, their home and/or community, and school.
Five thousand of the worldÃs premier pharmaceutical researchers are gathering in Boston, Nov. 2-6, to discuss the latest scientific research and medical advances of 1997. A small sampling of the breakthroughs, presented for the first time at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting, are listed below.
Five thousand researchers gathering in Boston, Massachusetts for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), Nov. 2-6, 1997 will present contributed papers responding to societies most chronic medical issues. From cancer to diabetes to asthma, the following top-lines the presented research. Complete abstracts are available by calling Lisa Mozloom or Nicolle Ugarriza at 305-672-4422.
NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 15, 1997--Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons scientists have discovered a molecule, called ERAB, that provides an important clue to how early neuron damage may occur in Alzheimer's disease. The findings, published in the Oct. 16, issue of Nature, may lead to a intracellular target for the eventual treatment of the disease.
From scalding hot places that rival Dante's Inferno to frigid locations colder than the dark side of the moon, scientists taking part in a $6 million National Science Foundation (NSF) research initiative are searching for life forms on Earth that may provide insight about possible life on other planets. The first NSF awards in this initiative -- which is titled Life in Extreme Environments (LExEn) -- involve more than 20 research projects and some 40 scientists who will look at life in Earth's most extreme habitats.
Atmospheric scientists participating in a workshop funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will debate the effects of so-called "space weather" on earth's navigation and communication signals -- two of the major systems affected by an upcoming "solar max." The workshop will take place in Bethesda, Maryland, at COMSAT Corporation, from October 22-24, 1997.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Among neurological disorders, autism is the new kid on the block, and no one really knows what causes it. For nearly 30 years scientists believed that autism was a disorder of the mind, caused by poor parenting or perhaps early psychological trauma. But by the 1970s, it became clear that biological rather than psychological factors cause the brain abnormality. Today, psychiatrists still don't know exactly what that abnormality is or where and how it develops. Those are questions Dr. Joseph Piven, University of Iowa associate professor of psychiatry, and his colleagues tackle daily. Recently, they found neuroanatomical differences between the brains of autistic and healthy young adults.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Every mom knows that after giving birth, sleep is a precious commodity; fatigue and emotional fluctuations are part of the experience. Everyone knows it, but according to Michael O'Hara, University of Iowa professor of psychology, no one has documented the effect of post-birth sleep patterns on thought processes and mood.
This supplement to the Annals of Internal Medicine deals with articles generated from the Sixth Regenstrief Conference, "Measuring Quality, Outcomes, and Cost of Care Using Large Databases," held September 4-6, 1996.
1) Oral cavity measurements, together with body mass and neck measurements, provide a rapid, accurate method to predicting sleep apnea syndrome. 2) No increased stroke risk is found in women taking oral contraceptives. 3) A paper examining the appropriate roles of cardiovascular specialist and generalist.
The Abrams Curve--discovered by University of Delaware economist Burton A. Abrams and disclosed Oct. 15--provides direct evidence of a relationship between the size of a country's government and its unemployment rate, according to a forthcoming article in the journal, Public Choice. The curve suggests that "at least some of the increases in jobless rates in the United States since 1949 have resulted from increases in government outlays," says Abrams. Reducing the size of the U.S. government would, therefore, probably reduce the unemployment rate, he says.
Six women who each have faced the death of a child and made the decision to donate their organs for transplantation have formed the countryπs first organization of mothers to provide counseling and support to other families confronted with similar tragic circumstances. Called Mothers of Donors ã or MOD Squad, as they refer to themselves ã was conceived and coordinated by the Albany Medical Collegeπs Center for Donation and Transplant. It is the only program of its kind in the country.
High doses of acetaminophen, especially when mixed with alcohol, caused liver injury in some patients, researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Callas report in the Oct. 16 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has funded a three-year, $780,000 study of marijuana use designed to answer fundamental questions about the drug, including whether it leads to the use of "harder" drugs, long-term effects, and whether users become dependent. UC Santa Cruz will coordinate the three-nation comparative study.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 15, 1997--A genetically engineered strain of the bacteria Salmonella potentially may target cancerous tumors, amplify within tumors and inhibit tumor growth, according to new research reported by Yale University School of Medicine scientists and colleagues.
A course to help physicians tell parents that their child has died will be presented by University of Illinois at Chicago emergency medicine physician Dr. William Ahrens at the annual Scientific Assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians in San Francisco Oct. 17.
Estrogen therapy, which has halved coronary artery disease symptoms in postmenopausal women, may hold similar health benefits for men in the same age group, Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered.
Cooling the body for heart surgery causes an overproduction of the neurotransmitter glutamate, an excitatory amino acid, and can leave the nervous system vulnerable to damage from the start of the cooling process until up to eight hours after recovery, a Johns Hopkins animal study suggests. This contradicts previous theories that brain damage occurred only during the initial recovery period.
Emory University surgeons split a donated cadaveric liver into two portions, providing and adult and child with part of the same organ.
Simultaneously giving AIDS patients the antiviral ganciclovir via pill as well as in a tiny pellet implanted in the eye delays or prevents complications of CMV, reports Dan Martin, MD, of Emory Unviversity.
The standard X-ray exam has changed very little over the past several decades. However, digital technology currently being studied at the Cleveland Clinic could revolutionize general radiographic X-ray procedures -- making them more convenient for both the patient and the doctor, producing sharper images, eliminating storage concerns, and allowing the images to be transmitted hundreds of miles away within seconds.
A global climate change policy that includes stringent carbon emission reductions could harm the economic well-being of Wyoming's coal industry, according to a University of Wyoming professor who recently completed a term on the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
It looks like El NiÃ’o, it feels like El NiÃ’o, and if you are watching fish stocks or reservoir levels you would say it is El NiÃ’o. But it isn't. Researchers at the University of Washington are describing a decades-long climate shift, called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, that seems to explain many of the changing environmental patterns seen across North America since the late 1970s, from disappearing salmon along the West Coast to wetter than average winters in the South.
Even people who have had a stroke don't always know the signs, symptoms and risk factors relating to their "brain attack", according to a study in today's Stroke, a journal of the American Heart Association.
If your blood levels of "good" cholesterol are low and you already have heart disease, you may be at increased risk of having a stroke, according to a report published today in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.
For the first time, researchers say they have proof that people who have suffered a stroke have a better chance of long-term survival if they are treated in a hospital "stroke unit."
Improved techniques in hair restoration surgery have dramatically improved aesthetic results, and an increased number of patients are satisfied with the procedure, according to results from a survey to be presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) in Barcelona, Spain, October 15-19.
New developments combining cutting-edge technology with familiar laser techniques increases effectiveness in hair restoration surgery. The carbon dioxide laser in combination with a computerized pattern generator offers a more effective method of creating recipient sites for hair grafts, according to research to be presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) in Barcelona, Spain, October 15-19.
People of Asian descent, black people, and females may require different surgical techniques for hair restoration than the typical standards used for Caucasian males, according to a clinical study to be presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) in Barcelona, Spain, October 15-19. Hair restoration specialists use a variety of transplant techniques to "harvest" groups of individual hair follicles from a denser area, usually the fringe above the ears and around the back of the head, and graft those into a thinning area, most commonly the crown and front of the scalp.
One of the misconceptions that patients often encounter in considering graft techniques for hair restoration surgery is that "more is better." If patients know the number of hairs to be transplanted, rather than the number of grafts, they will get a more accurate description of the hair restoration procedure and have more realistic expectations, according to a presentation scheduled for the annual meeting of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) in Barcelona, Spain, October 15-19.
Psoriasis is a noncontagious, incurable skin disorder that affects more than 6.4 million people in the United States. The National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF) has proclaimed October National Psoriasis Awareness Month in order to educate the public about the serious physical and emotional impact of the disease, and encourage people with psoriasis to become fully informed about their treatment options.
1) In several science and engineering (S&E) fields, recent Ph.D. recipients have faced unemployment rates unusually high among these highly skilled groups, according to a new National Science Foundation (NSF) Issue Brief. 2) A team of scientists funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has begun to deploy instruments in a five-year study of a massive plume of muddy water, some 12 miles wide and 200 miles long. 3) "Here lies the true horror of the Himalayas," wrote John Keay in The Gilgit Game. Keay was referring to Nanga Parbat, Urdu for Naked Mountain, a 26,000-foot-high peak on the northernmost edge of the western Himalayas.
Dr. James F. Toole of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has been elected president of the World Federation of Neurology for a four-year term, defeating four other candidates.
Scientists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center report today that they have found another way to shut down the doorway for HIV-1 to invade two types of white blood cells -- lymphocytes and macrophages. In a report in the Oct 14 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Si.-Yi Chen, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of cancer biology, and his colleagues describe how they have inactivated the most frequently used co-receptor -- docking site -- for HIV-1 viruses on the surface of both macrophages and lymphocytes, resulting in immunity of those macrophages and lymphocytes to HIV-1 infection.
A potentially fatal bacterial disease that damages the liver and kidneys of dogs, humans and other animals -- leptospirosis -- is appearing in new forms in the United States. Citing an alarming increase in leptospirosis cases, bacteriologists in the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine's Diagnostic Laboratory are urging dog owners to watch for symptoms of the disease until improved vaccines are available.
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