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Well-meaning parents who give their babies "designer" bottled waters to drink may be unwittingly contributing to their young children's dental problems, says a pediatric dentist, orthodontist and dental anesthesiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
1) "Gold-Standard" study shows surgical skill affects survival rates in children with brain tumors; 2) Early dental exams can help avert problems posed by "designer" bottled waters; 3) Tips for parents of premature babies; 4) Young patients get "TLC" in new Pediatric ER
A mother's employment outside of the home has no significant negative effect on her children, according to new research reported in the March issue of Developmental Psychology.
A control mechanism for the proper development of inner ear "hair cells" -- sensory cells that are critical for normal hearing in mammals -- involves two interacting genes in a molecular signaling pathway known to direct cell fate in many different organisms.
Adolescent girls are more helpful and affectionate toward their parents than adolescent boys, new research at Ohio State suggests. In addition, mothers receive more help and affection from their children than do fathers.
A national task force of basic researchers and clinicians spent 18 months assessing what is known about autoimmune diseases and has now proposed an aggressive research agenda aimed at understanding why men and women respond differently to these illnesses.
A biomedical engineer has developed an optical scanner that measures the eyes' point of fixation in a new way. Doctors could use it to diagnose eye diseases in infants and children too young to cooperate with a physician's exam.
New research at Ohio State suggests that businesses and others who write rejection letters are better off delivering the bad news up front rather than placing it lower in the letter.
Doctors may sometimes be reluctant to adequately treat the pain of seriously ill patients because they fear legal problems for prescribing powerful narcotics, according to an expert at Ohio State who has studied the issue.
Middle school students maintain a significantly better seated posture at adjustable computer workstations than at desktop workstations. Yet, the students were still seated in potentially at risk positions for musculoskeletal problems.
The discovery of two complete fossils of saber-toothed cats in central Florida will force paleontologists to rewrite the textbooks on the extinct animal, says a noted researcher at the University of Kansas.
One of the nation's leading authorities on threats to the public's health and the man credited with the success of the smallpox eradication project a quarter century ago, says the virus is once again a threat to the United States and the world -- this time as a weapon of bioterrorists.
In a field trial in 270 villages in rural Nepal, researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health showed that women had their risk of death from pregnancy lowered by about 40 percent after taking dietary supplements of vitamin A or beta-carotene, compared to women who did not take the supplements.
The obvious decline of the traditional family, a trend marked by increasing rates of divorce and cohabitation, illustrates the paradoxical nature of Americans' hot and cold attitude toward marriage and family, says a University at Buffalo sociologist.
Approximately one out of every five American children will experiment with inhalants before they complete eighth grade, said Matthew Howard, author of two recently published studies on inhalant abuse among children.
Last year's El Nino brought a variety of weather-related woes, but this year's La Nina may stir up double trouble during the tornado season for Indiana, Arkansas and Mississippi and the western parts of Kentucky and Tennessee.
A research team led by a University of Chicago paleontologist has developed a mathematical model that could resolve the conflict between the molecular clock and fossil record methods of charting mammalian evolution.
A new study at Ohio State University suggests that obese Black teenagers have a greater risk of developing diabetes as adults than do their white counterparts.
New research at Ohio State suggests that an increase in arctic temperatures as a result of global warming could result in significantly higher levels of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere. This, in turn, could fuel global warming even more.
Taking a newborn's temperature with an infrared thermometer placed under the arm is just as reliable as taking a rectal temperature, new research at Ohio State suggests.
The Western lifestyle of little exercise, lots of saturated fat, loads of refined sugar and little fiber is a major risk factor for the development of yet another chronic medical condition -- gallstones -- a new University at Buffalo study shows.
Thanks to soaring prices, academic agricultural and biological journals are likely to go the way of the plow horse, according to a Cornell University faculty task force that has been studying the problem.
Protein misfolding is a cause of Alzheimer's,"mad cow" disease, and could figure in biowarfare. Now the first successful computer model of one protein interfering with the folding of another has been created at Sandia. The model provides insights into the mechanisms by which incomplete folds occur.
A new automobile exhaust system desinged at Ohio State reduces pollution and boosts engine power at the same time. The single design increases overall engine performance by 5 percent while also cutting emissions by 15 percent.
Plant-based fats may cut the risk of prostate cancer by reducing the levels of both testosterone and certain enzymes that metabolize testosterone into more active forms, a new study by University at Buffalo nutrition researchers has shown.
A commonly used drug for reducing toxicological effects of lead poisoning, DMSA, may alter the immune system, a Cornell University study of pregnant rats and their offspring has found.
A new study by a Brigham Young University researcher reported in the current issue of the Harvard Business Review reveals that one out of four workers who completes an international assignment returns home only to leave and join a competing firm.
By shining a laser from space onto the Antarctic and Greenland, scientists may soon peel away some of the mystery surrounding the fate of the massive ice sheets that, through natural fluctuation or human-induced climate change, could drastically alter the levels of the world's oceans.
Researchers have isolated a gene that helps plants to move the iron in soil into their roots. The finding, reported in the Feb. 25 issue of Nature, could enable scientists to develop plants that are more efficient in extracting this essential element from poor soils and crops that are richer sources of dietary iron.
A top National Science Foundation official today described to a House subcommittee how the NSF plans to use information technology to establish a cyber Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation [NEES].
Scientists at Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, have built a microscopic optical switch that works like a child's seesaw and demonstrates the world's first practical optical-switching technology using micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS).
(RTOG) clinical study has concluded that adding two chemotherapy agents to radiation therapy significantly improves the survival rate of women treated for locally advanced cervical cancer.
The mortality rate of invasive cervical cancer can be reduced by up to 50 percent by treating patients using a combination of radiation and platinum-based chemotherapy, according to researchers at Albany Medical Center, other major centers and the National Cancer Institute.
International business students represent real companies in new foreign markets. Generated $10 million in real sales in last two years. Expanding statewide (FL) other colleges want to take part.
Researchers at the University of Utah have shown polymers to be a powerful weapon in combating cancer's resistance to chemotherapy treatments
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center today (Feb. 22) began a new experimental treatment that targets a genetic mutation found in about 90 percent of pancreatic cancer cases. UCLA is the only site in Southern California to offer the new therapy.
Parents agonizing over serving fresh apples and grapes to their children in the wake of Consumer Reports' latest analysis of pesticides in produce should keep one word in mind: Theoretical.
AHCPR today released a new chartbook presenting estimates of health insurance coverage, access to health care, and health status for blacks, Hispanics, and whites in America. The chartbook, Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health, 1996, features findings from AHCPR's 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).
According to a new Salk study, animals that get regular voluntary exercise on running wheels grow more new brain cells than sedentary counterparts.
Astronomers plan to combine radio images of galaxy clusters with new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and open a new window on the history of the Universe.
Philadelphia and Baltimore television stations too often paint an inaccurate portrait of violent crime, leaving viewers feeling frightened, helpless and uninformed about real dangers, a University of Delaware researcher says in a new report.
Physical activity does more than tone up the heart and reduce the risk of heart attacks. Moderate physical activity -- aerobic as well as pumping iron -- fortifies various segments of the cardiovascular system.
Researchers say that taking images of the heart using radioactive material after a traditional treadmill test may better identify those who are able to exercise for long periods of time, but are still at increased risk for heart attack, death, or the need for bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty.
Hitching a ride on a comet may be like latching onto a bus's tailpipe. A recent Arizona State University study, published in the February 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal, found that comet gas tails, previously thought to be mostly water, actually contain high concentrations of ionized carbon monoxide .
A measurement technique originally designed for studying interactions within molecules of DNA has been used to examine muscle movement at the molecular level, says a University of Illinois researcher who developed the procedure.
A voluntary, emergency department-based program to test patients' blood for HIV was well accepted at Johns Hopkins, as about half the patients approached consented. Study results were published in the February issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
A new private/public partnership, organized by NOAA to restore damaged marine habitat and increase lobster populations in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay may prove to be an important model in fostering sound fisheries resource restoration projects across the nation.
With the help of fruit flies and jellyfish, Johns Hopkins scientists have proved they can quiet firing nerve cells -- at least temporarily -- by inserting the genetic version of an off switch.
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