1- hormone levels in men who become fathers; 2- patient satisfaction associated with correct identification of physicians' photographs; 3- radiosurgery and embolization effective for patients with low-risk dural arteriovenous fistulas; 4- incidence of open-angle glaucoma increase with age; 5- bupropion-induced erythema multiforme
America's family album has undergone a revamping over the past several decades. Ozzie and Harriet, at least, would be a bit surprised at the newly revised edition. LSU researchers can offer insights about what's in store for the family as the 21st century presses onward.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church overwhelmingly "affirms the use of fetal tissue and embryonic tissue for vital research," including "the use of human stem cell tissue for research that may result in the restoring of health to those suffering from serious illness."
A Penn State marketing professor has developed a new mathematical procedure that can recreate on a computer how consumers perceive different products in their mind--simultaneously depicting the competitive market place, brand rank, and consumer attitude in a map, as well as deriving the market segments that underlie them.
Market segmentation is one of the most endemic procedures in marketing today. However, the way the vast majority of companies are doing market segmentation today is totally inadequate, says a Penn State marketing professor who has authored some recent research on the topic.
With funding from the National Football League, NC State University is helping to develop an educational program aiming to prevent inappropriate behavior by parents at their children's athletic activities, and to ensure children have positive sports experiences.
Customer satisfaction is out. Customer value is in. "Value in the mind of the consumer has replaced customer satisfaction as the dominant concern among marketing practitioners," says a Professor of Marketing in Penn State's Smeal College of Business.
The National Park Service now uses biodiesel in 22 parks across the country after successful testing in Yellowstone with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and University of Idaho.
When the price of diesel rises, so does the number of calls to a University of Idaho agricultural engineer who is a pioneer in the manufacture and use of biodiesel made from vegetable oil.
"Aware but not ready" is how Cham Dallas, Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Toxicology at the University of Georgia and Civilian National Consultant to the Surgeon General for Weapons of Mass Destruction described U.S. preparedness for a large scale biological, chemical or nuclear terrorist attack.
Have you ever been in a bad mood that you couldn't explain and wondered what put you in a funk? A researcher at Ohio State University found that such negative "mystery moods" can occur when people fail at a goal that they didn't even know they had.
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have identified genes in the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, that appear to be counterparts of genes responsible for more than 700 different genetic diseases in humans.
Surveys show that more people are aware that the sun's radiation causes skin cancer and ages skin.
UAB psychologists are working on a study, Project Survive, on how the Internet can be used to improve breast cancer patients' quality of life.
A patient's bill of rights is scheduled for a vote the week of June 18 in the U.S. Senate. It gives patients the right to have cases against HMOs heard in state court, where jury awards tend to be higher.
President Bush's plan to repeal the estate tax could mean fewer acquisitions of family-owned businesses by large corporations says a UAB finance professor.
Summer means many children are on their bicycles -- sometimes with disastrous results. Bicycle-related head injuries account for 500 deaths and 153,000 emergency room visits each year, according to the CDC.
When doctors are given goals that reflect high standards achieved by other doctors in their field, they rise to the task, according to a UAB study.
MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(tm), a drug research and development company, announced that Nobel Prize winner Sir John Vane, pharmaceutical executive Joshua Boger, and venture capital entrepreneur Adolphus Busch IV have joined the company's Board of Directors.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas scientists discovered that genes near human telomeres can be silenced. This may help explain how and why humans age.
Turning soy oil into industrial grade plastic? Call it food for thought, says University of Delaware chemical engineering professor. Soy composites have been used to manufacture large doors for John Deere farm machinery, they could be used to build an entire tractor, including the tires.
The remoteness of one of the world's largest ecosystems has not made it immune from global environmental problems, according to a major new report on the state of Arctic biodiversity, funded in part by the National Science Foundation.
A UD professor writes in his new book "Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians and Activists" that statistical information is frequently misused by people and organizations interested in shaping the public policy to their own ends.
Microwave technology under development at Ohio State may improve global weather mapping and detect buried land mines. Researchers are developing sensors that detect the small amounts of microwave radiation emitted by the ocean surface and by buried objects.
When the sun is shining on Wall Street, it does more than put the brokers in a good mood - it also gives a lift to the stock market. A study has found that sunshine at the sites of 26 stock exchanges around the world is linked to positive market returns that day.
Global warming is a natural geological process that could begin to reverse itself within 10 to 20 years, predicts an Ohio State University researcher.
Researchers have developed a procedure for using an ultrafast laser to make clean, high-precision surgical cuts in the human cornea. The procedure is expected to advance the popular LASIK eye surgery by reducing complications due to traditional manual cutting techniques.
Even though x-rays usually aren't needed to diagnose the cause of low back pain, most patients rate them as "very important."
Salk scientists discovered the origin of patterning in flowers.
Problems with a protein buried deep within pancreatic beta cells may explain how obesity evolves into type 2 diabetes, according to new evidence from Beth Israel Deaconess researchers and others. The experiments in mice suggest a new approach to therapies in humans.
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working with colleagues at Pennsylvania State University, have identified a gene responsible for controlling water retention and cell division in plants. Their discoveries raise the possibility of making crop plants more resistant to drought, a goal agronomists have pursued for decades.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center report success in treating sickle cell disease in mice with a modified bone marrow transplant. The finding adds further support to human trials now under way at the Children's Center.
New evidence suggests that the current stew of airborne chemicals and particles might be giving clouds stronger cooling properties than previously thought, a University of Washington atmospheric chemist says.
Well-documented gender differences in people's ability to navigate in the real world are vastly exaggerated in computer-simulated virtual environment, according to University of Washington researchers.
The American Dental Association said that the complaint filed in Los Angeles yesterday against the ADA and California Dental Association by Kids Against Pollution and others may prey on the fears of people who have serious medical conditions by leading them to believe that costly dental treatment not based on proven scientific evidence is a cure for such conditions.
Russia is on the brink of a large-scale potato crisis ignited by the virulent, fungal-like pathogen, called late blight, that was responsible for the 19th century Irish potato famine. As the strains spread through Central and Eastern Europe, a blight-resistant potato variety has been developed at Cornell.
An instrument aboard a spacecraft that will be launched in 2001 to explore two, and perhaps three or more, comets in the solar system will for the first time provide a "fingerprint" of the surface of cometary nuclei, giving the first firm evidence of the composition of the icy, rocky objects.
Eight climbers return from Mount McKinley -- an expedition organized to benefit the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture. The climbers, torture survivors and the Program's staff are available for interviews.
A Michigan State University study has found that an environmental contaminant that was routinely used as a pesticide may affect the growth of children.
A new energy-generating, light-absorbing pigment called proteorhodopsin is widespread in the world's oceans, say scientists funded by the National Science Foundation and affiliated with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
A political science professor, also the mother of two small boys with cystic fibrosis, taught herself molecular biology and authored an article advocating a new treatment for the fatal disease in this week's issue of a peer-reviewed medical journal.
St. John's University officially opened its Manhattan campus, marking the successful completion of a merger with The College of Insurance.
From middle school through college, students are taught that each plant or animal cell has a nucleus -- a simple, round sphere containing the organism's genetic blueprint. In an accidental discovery, however, researchers at North Carolina State University have found it's not that simple, after all.
On Saturday June 16th, environmental health experts from NYU School of Medicine, community activists, and Congressman Jose Serrano will hold a town hall meeting to discuss a major air pollution study taking place in the South Bronx.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Stanley C. Jordan, M.D., was recognized for more than two decades of research when the American Society of Transplantation presented him with its Novartis Established Investigator Clinical Science Award on May 14.
Director of the Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, offers tips for coping with allergies this summer and also provides information on the new anti-IgE drugs, which are expected to revolutionize allergy treatment.
Finding an improved imaging technique to detect lung diseases at an earlier stage when treatment is more likely to be effective, is emerging through leading research by University of Virginia Health System professors.
A UGA research professor and Director of the Institute for Behavioral Research, has completed the only study of its kind showing how inner-city families cope with an HIV-infected mother and how they can best move forward.
The global phenomenon of bleaching, in which reef-building corals lose their colorful algae and become white during times of stress, may actually allow some corals to adapt to global warming and other environmental change.
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