At least half of the extra risk for diabetes faced by African-American women is linked to relatively simple and modifiable lifestyle factors; the same was not true for African-American men, according to a study team led by Johns Hopkins investigators (JAMA, 5-3-00).
Revive your New Year's resolution to eat better and exercise more; reducing high blood pressure, losing weight and lowering cholesterol levels may help protect you against dementia.
Ginkgo, a daily supplement commonly used for memory enhancement, reduces the extent of brain damage caused by stroke induced in mice and could play a role in protecting humans, according to a report at the American Academy of Neurology's 52nd Annual Meeting.
A coronal mass ejection from a small sunspot group was recorded by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory on April 30, 2000.
One year ago this week killer tornadoes raged across Oklahoma. NASA scientists are figuring out how to predict such storms using lightning data from Earth orbit.
Georgia Governor Roy Barnes will deliver the address at the University of Georgia School of Law's commencement exercises on May 20.
Potential landslides on the outer continental shelf and slope along the Mid-Atlantic coast could trigger tsunamis that might have devastating effects on populated coastal areas; newly discovered cracks along the edge of the continental shelf could be an early warning sign that the seafloor is unstable in these areas (Geology, 5-00).
A new method to deliver compounds into cells may help scientists develop new, more powerful treatments that carry fewer side effects and are less likely to produce drug resistance in patients being treated for cancer and HIV.
A study by Columbia Presbyterian researchers is the first of its kind to show a significant effect of a new class of drugs that may stabilize progressive, recurrent disease in patients with advanced prostate cancer; results will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association.
An NIMH $1.6 million grant will fund a research project, led by an associate professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, which will involve seriously depressed patients who have suffered at least two major depressive episodes during their lives.
Mary Patterson McPherson, president emeritus of Bryn Mawr College and vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will be the commencement speaker at Mount Holyoke College's 163rd commencement ceremonies on May 21.
1- Cost-effective chip protypes available for students, researchers and industry; 2- Group battles light pollution to preserve the skies for astronomy research; 3- NSF-funded software helps kids find their way in the third grade.
Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes will be the speaker at Grove City College's 120th commencement on May 13.
Two scientists at the Research Triangle Institute have been recognized by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation for the discovery of two chemotherapeutic compounds, Camptothecin and Taxol, both of which have unprecedented mechanisms of action against cancer.
The right kind of job training -- in a realistic business setting, combined with counseling and personal support -- can reduce the odds of returning to a life of crime, University of Washington researchers have found.
Using the world's strongest microscope to peer at atoms, University of Arkansas researchers have made discoveries about the surface of a two-dimensional crystal that will allow researchers to better understand and manipulate gallium arsenide (Physical Review Letters, 5-1-00).
Helping students better comprehend the mind's mysteries is the goal of a unique Internet site developed at Mississippi State University; it is devoted exclusively to demonstrating concepts about the mind that are difficult to teach with only a textbook.
For his role in helping end apartheid in South Africa and facilitating reconciliation in its aftermath, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been chosen the 2000 recipient of the Delta Prize for Global Understanding, which is an international award established by the University of Georgia with funding from Delta Air Lines.
A Web site maintained by a Mississippi State University professor is devoted exclusively to issues of computer ethics and usage; intended primarily for those who teach, it is a centralized resource linking articles, discussions and other Web sites.
A new monograph by a Saint Joseph's University consumer expert, available for free over the Internet, provides step-by-step strategies that can be used by the average customer in a wide variety of buying situations.
A chemical that could form the basis of a new class of drugs to treat a number of psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has been developed by researchers.
1-hysterectomy and sexual dysfunction, 2-treating erectile dysfunction in patients with coronary artery disease, 3- penile reconstruction, 4- sexual arousal and gender, 5- underreporting erectile dysfunction, 6- radiation and prostate cancer, 7- androgen deprivation and bone density in men, and 8- female genital sensation--normal values at the American Urological Association 2000 Annual Meeting beginning Tues, May 2 in Atlanta.
Multiple sclerosis patients finally have a more effective and safe weapon against fatigue, one of the most impairing and disabling symptoms of the disease, according to research presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 52nd Annual Meeting.
A drug used to treat some of the symptoms of the sleeping disorder narcolepsy also appears to help control fatigue in patients with multiple sclerosis, an Ohio State study shows.
Working in animal models, scientists have identified and disabled the cell that is chiefly responsible for causing bone cancer pain.
A person who is most prone to anger is about three times more likely to have a heart attack or sudden cardiac death than someone who is the least anger-prone, according to a new study published in Circulation.
NMHA launched a web site dedicated to educating people about depression and screening; people visiting the site can take a confidential test and get immediate results if they are at high risk for clinical depression.
A UCLA study on children born with heart disease showed that when comparing the child's age at surgical repair, children with private insurance underwent surgery at a younger age than children with managed care health plans (Pediatrics, 5-00).
1-urine marker of prostate cancer, 2-nerve-sparing prostatectomy, 3-long-term LHRH in prostate cancer, 4-age, estrogen and arousal response, and 5- alprostadil and clitoral changes at the American Urological Association 2000 Annual Meeting beginning Mon, May 1 in Atlanta.
Early-stage prostate cancer patients with the most aggressive form of the disease may benefit more from high doses of carefully delivered radiation than previous reports would suggest, a study led by University of Michigan researchers has found (International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics).
Age-related deterioration in critical brain networks may be restored by gene therapy, according to a study of monkeys that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 52nd Annual Meeting.
A way of correlating the activity of the proteasome with fluorescence, which allows the first studies of proteasome activity in living cells, and should ultimately enable the rapid identification of drugs that inhibit aberrant proteasome activity in cancer and muscle-wasting diseases has been found by researchers.
Two groups have taken different tacts to expose tumor antigens to the body's cancer-destroying cells, cytotoxic T lymphocytes, and induce protection against cancer growth; both approaches show promise for boosting the immune systems ability to fight off cancer.
A research team has adapted a technique that employs small hairpin-shaped molecules made up of RNA and DNA to introduce single base changes into DNA; the team has successfully generated herbicide-resistant plants with just a single change in the genetic code.
Seeking to stem a very high dropout rate among Indian students, 30 years ago Native American leaders and professors in Northwest California created the first Indian teacher-training program, believing Native students would respond better to Native teachers, and it worked.
For most Californians, the Gold Rush brings to mind '49ers panning for dreams, but for many indigenous tribes of Northwest California, it was a holocaust; Indian students have published a book with that perspective, based on interviews with tribal elders.
1-adenocarcinoma of prostate, 2-PSA screening in Austria and mortality, and 3- prostate cancer screening and AUA guidelines at the American Urological Association 2000 Annual Meeting beginning Sun, April 30 in Atlanta.
A modified AAV gene therapy system that allows delivery of larger genes, such as those needed to treat cystic fibrosis, hemophilia A, and certain types of muscular dystrophy, without deleterious and dangerous immune responses, is described in three papers, one in the May Nature Biotechnology and two in Nature Medicine.
University of Washington physicists have come up with a new calculation for the Earth's mass -- 5.972 sextillion metric tons -- while working to establish the most precise measurement ever achieved of Isaac Newton's gravitational constant.
Highlights of the American Roentgen Ray Society 100th Annual Meeting, May 7-12, 2000, in Washington, D.C (the second of two stories for the ARRS Annual Meeting).
Highlights of the American Roentgen Ray Society 100th Annual Meeting, May 7-12, 2000, in Washington, D.C (the first of two stories for the ARRS Annual Meeting).
1- Warm winter temps have increased the threat of Lyme disease; 2- Ways college students can reduce the stress of finals; 3- Tech grads still "writing their own ticket"; 4- Temple prof to speak at White House Conference on teens.
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory recently signed a technology transfer and development agreement with Timonium-based FutureHealth Corporation, licensing APL's expertise in automated and knowledge-intensive systems to automate some of FutureHealth's proprietary business operations.
Neurosurgeon Benjamin S. Carson, a once-troubled youth who is now director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and author of such inspirational books as "Gifted Hands," will speak at Ursinus College Commencement on May 13.
A Humboldt State University teacher of adaptive physical education goes to West Africa to help attach artificial limbs to 160 women and children, victims of mutilation amid civil unrest.
NASA scientists are working to solve the need for computer speed using light itself to accelerate calculations and increase data bandwidth.
In June,the first Ph.D. candidates will enter Cornell University's new W.M. Keck Program in Nanobiotechnology, which will cross-train engineeers, physicists and biologists in the use of nanotechnology for biological research.
Researchers from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies have teamed to produce a more precise method for measuring the frequency of visible and infrared light (Science, 4-28-00).
Finding and removing buried land mines is becoming safer and easier, thanks to Ohio State research involving ground penetrating radar (IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing).
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