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Can elements of marijuana be medicinal? Yes, but should there be medicinal marijuana? In the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling, medicinal marijuana policy is being rethought.

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In observance of Memorial Day, the American Academy of Physician Assistants' Veterans Caucus and active duty PAs will hold a ceremony to remember the military health care providers who have served their country.

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NSF Director Rita Colwell will deliver the keynote address at the fifth annual National Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education at George Mason University's Fairfax, Va. campus on May 22 at 8:30 a.m.

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Driven in large part by consumers' growing discontent with utility companies, American customer satisfaction levels have declined for a second straight quarter.

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Biomedical engineers have used a mild electric field to control seizure-like activity in brain cells. The work hints at the possibility of controlling epilepsy in a similar way.

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An automated external defibrillator -- an electronic device that recognizes and restores normal heartbeat rhythm through electric shock -- is as accurate in recognizing rhythm abnormalities in children as in adults.

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Heart disease is the leading complication and cause of death among diabetes patients, yet many of them do not understand the risk or its cause.

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Help may be on the way for sufferers of chronic low back pain. Injections of botulinum toxin A, a drug based on the bacteria that causes food poisoning, eased the pain for patients.

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Scientists have identified a potential new marker for MS disease activity.

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People who might be infected with the hepatitis C virus are not getting tested early or often enough, possibly because neither they nor their doctors are raising the issue, a study finds. Even if they do test positive, they may not always get referred to a specialist.

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Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center have shown for the first time that immunotherapy delivered via gene therapy may prove to be a potent weapon in the fight against locally advanced prostate cancer.

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A clinical study, presented at the 2001 American Thoracic Society Meeting revealed that infants with cystic fibrosis have mild obstruction. The study concluded that the baseline levels of obstruction appear to increase over the first three years of life.

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Investigators at Johns Hopkins have proven that distracting patients during and after bronchoscopy with the gurgle of a brook and a colorful panorama of tranquil meadow improves pain control by approximately 43 percent.

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Doctors who do not periodically reevaluate their patients' asthma severity are failing to provide good care to asthma sufferers, report Johns Hopkins physicians May 20 at the American Thoracic Society's annual meeting.

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Men with high blood pressure who smoke are 26 times more likely to have erectile dysfunction --impotence -- than nonsmokers, an M.D., M.P.H., of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center told the American Society of Hypertension (Saturday, May 19, 2001) in San Francisco.

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When Comet LINEAR broke apart last year it revealed what many scientists thought all along: Water in Earth's oceans could have come from outer space.

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Swarthmore College President Alfred H. Bloom will award honorary degrees to bioethicist and civil rights advocate Adrienne Asch, author Ken Hechler of the Class of 1935, and author and physician Abraham Verghese at the College's 129th commencement on Monday, June 4.

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Tragic incidents like natural disasters, plane crashes, or school violence can cause disabling stress in survivors and rescue workers who witness such events.

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Some incredibly lucrative jobs often go unfilled because college students don't know the jobs or their $3.5 trillion-a-year industry exist.

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A study under way at UAB aims to determine if a support program combining stress management, social support and exercise is effective in boosting the immune systems of women recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

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1) Even for the merry-go-round set, parks are a thrill. 2) Acing the interview is key for grads. 3) Pump prices too high? It's all relative.

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Older children who have outgrown booster seats but have not yet reached normal adult size may be at risk for severe injury in an automobile crash, say researchers at UAB's Injury Control Research Center.

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In the face of increasing hacker attacks, at-risk personal computer users -- this means you -- do have a few options, says a UAB computer engineer.

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Allowing workers more job flexibility enabled employees to work longer hours before workload began to increase the strain on work-family balance, a recent study found.

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A free Brigham Young University-developed computer tutorial aimed at teaching people how to use computer resources to research genealogy is now accessible online.

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Poland native Joseph Stevens survived the Holocaust by outsmarting the Nazis: the young Jew posed as a Catholic by day and took part in underground raids by night. He now recounts his wartime experiences and its lessons for today in his new book.

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Rhodes College has joined a select group of 50 colleges and universities participating in the Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship Program.

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Al Hunt, executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal, will address seniors at Johns Hopkins University on Thursday, May 24. Noteworthy speakers at other commencement events include the Dalai Lama, Surgeon General David Satcher, and violinist Isaac Stern.

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The Society of National Association Publications (SNAP) selected The Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA) and the ADA News as recipients of a 2001 Gold and Silver Award in the categories of scholarly journal and association newspaper, respectively

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Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute will host experts in computerized speech recognition, speech translation, machine translation, datamining and more at a meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2-7

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North America has been sprinkled with a dash of Asia! A dust cloud from China crossed the Pacific Ocean recently and rained Asian dust from Alaska to Florida.

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Astronomers seeking to chart the solar system's evolution reaped a windfall of information when a comet disintegrated just as it made its closest approach to the sun and they were able to observe the comet's contents and, possibly, its origin.

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A clinical oncologist with UCSD Cancer Center, Kenneth D. Herbst, M.D., has been named as the new Deputy Surgeon General for the U.S. Army Reserve. This is the highest-ranking position in the Medical Corps Reserve, and the holder reports directly to the Surgeon General of the Army.

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New findings do not support a recent analysis of the rough draft of the human genome that suggests that bacterial genes have been laterally transferred into the human genome.

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Enlisting a new technological tool to understand the complex interactions of Arctic ice and global climate, researchers are conducting flight tests and gathering scientific data with small, pilot-less planes that can fly under conditions poorly suited for manned aircraft and that have incredible range, due to their fuel efficiency.

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Rhodes College and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have joined for the first time to create a formal research program for Rhodes students.

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This tip sheet highlights only a few of the hundreds of abstracts being presented by members of the American Association of the Study of Liver Diseases at Digestive Disease Week, the largest international meeting of physicians, researchers and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery.

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The Maya were talented astronomers, religiously intense in their observations of the sun, moon and planets. Now, new research shows that something in the heavens may have influenced their culture and ultimately helped bring about their demise.

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According to a group of healthcare experts, Americans with elevated blood cholesterol are not being adequately treated, with an estimated 65 percent of those who should receive cholesterol-lowering therapy not getting any treatment at all.

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In some of the strongest evidence yet to support the RNA world--an era in early evolution when life forms depended on RNA--scientists at the Whitehead Institute have created an RNA catalyst, or a ribozyme, that possesses key properties needed to sustain life in such a world.

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Detailed analysis of Comet LINEAR's disintegration last summer has left astronomers still wondering what triggered the breakup and how much of the comet broke into pieces too small for them to see.

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Shortness of breath may not be simply aging. Investigators call for interventions for elderly people with asthma aimed at identifying allergens precipitating attacks and reducing allergens in their home. High levels of house dust mites, cockroach, cat and dog were found in homes of elderly people with moderate to severe asthma.

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Homes of children treated for asthma contained higher levels of fungal allergens than homes of other allergy clinic patients, a surprising finding to experts. House dust samples showed 50 percent contained fungal allergens. All homes had detectable cat allergens and 80 percent had dust mite allergens.

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Hurtling toward Mars at 22,000 mph, Earth is heading for its closest encounter with the Red Planet in a dozen years. Mars is already a brilliant morning star and it will soon become a dazzling all-night spectacle.

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Celgene Corporation announced that leading oncology teams presented results evaluating the safety and efficacy of THALOMID as a single agent and in combination with conventional therapies for various cancers, including renal cell carcinoma and glioblastoma multiforme.

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Research by a Penn State associate professor of management may offer insights into why many acquisitions fail and suggests that executive retention strategies should be an important part of the implementation process.

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Since it opened last Nov. 15, the V.I.S.A. Center has provided roughly 200 students who have been suspended from the Buffalo Public Schools for acts of violence a safe, weapon-free environment where they can feel comfortable expressing themselves.

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Students can learn just as well from the World Wide Web as they do from print, says a new study -- but only if Web pages offer some of the same elements found on today's typical printed page.

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By moderately raising the temperature of cells, biologists have broken through what was considered an impermeable barrier that kept half the genes in some cells "silent." The surprising results, in which these heated genes reached 500 times their normal rate of expression, could lead to better understanding of cellular processes involved in aging, fever and toxicity.

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The Pacific Division of the AAAS, the United States' largest scientific organization, will hold its annual meeting on the UC Irvine campus. Its 16 symposia and 15 topical lectures will feature 80 leading Western scientists, with topics ranging from the biological and physical sciences to engineering, education and social ecology.