Researchers supported by the National Science Foundation have developed a means to detect nitric oxide that could help improve scientists' understanding of this molecule's role in neurological signaling and other biological functions.
One hundred and three medicines are in the pipeline to help the more than 50 million Americans who suffer from some form of mental illness, according to a newly released survey by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
Melanoma researchers at UCSD have developed a new drug-combination therapy that has proven in Phase II clinical trials to be significantly better at extending patients' lives than any other drug therapy.
Scientific evidence suggests that circumcised men in sub-Saharan Africa are at reduced risk of HIV infection. However, researchers consider it premature to recommend large-scale circumcision programs until important cultural, medical, and ethical issues are resolved.
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, may be adapted for use in gene therapy to treat genetic diseases and disorders of the immune system, even including AIDS, according to a scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Recently acquired supercomputers from IBM and Compaq have made Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) home to the most powerful unclassified computers in the nation and are advancing its leadership role in computational science.
Women with advanced breast cancer who have abnormal daytime levels of cortisol, a hormone released in response to stress, are significantly more likely to die sooner than patients with normal levels of the hormone, Stanford researchers report in a newly published study.
Using brain imaging, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered how the human brain goes to work on solving a problem and how it employs surprising economies of effort in the process.
On June 23 and 24, scientists from the US, Cuba, and Sweden will convene at The New York Botanical Garden to share research on the flora and fauna of the Greater Antilles. The region is both rich in endemics and densely populated, posing conservation challenges.
Mere memory of drug use can alter an area of the brain -- the prefrontal cortex -- not traditionally implicated in addiction, say University of Wisconsin psychiatry researchers (Synapse, 8-00).
"Making Weight: Men's Conflicts with Food, Weight, Shape and Appearance" aims to help men understand that fat is no longer only a feminist issue. The book's co-writers are a leading expert on male eating disorders, an author of many eating disorder books, and a psychiatrist who is recovered from both compulsive exercise and an eating disorder.
AEGON has committed $2 million to Johns Hopkins for prostate and breast cancer research. The Oncology Center will split the funds with the Free University Oncology Research Institute in Amsterdam for a collaborative research project.
An award-winning business professor at Elmhurst College has authored a research article, which will be unveiled June 19-20 at the U.N. forum in Geneva, that focuses on the development of online trading in the U.S.
Sure, they look good in their swimwear, and they can even be seen working out if you get to Texas Gulf beaches early enough, but the Galveston Beach Patrol emphasizes preventive lifeguarding over dramatic rescues.
NASA scientists are studying a type of radar that uses laser light instead of microwaves to provide snapshots of the winds that travel the globe.
June 25 marks the 50th anniversary of the Korean War. University of Georgia historian William Stueck says that the Korean conflict may have served as a substitute for World War III.
The job market has never been better for liberal arts graduates. The vast majority of liberal arts graduates are "ordering" the fries, not serving them, and Ursinus College graduates are a case in point.
Although weapons violence in Israeli schools is low compared with the U.S., school violence is nevertheless a serious problem among Jews and Arabs in Israel, according to a new study by University of Michigan and Hebrew University in Jerusalem researchers.
Determining when a crime victim died can make the difference between a criminal going free or being brought to justice, and researchers at ORNL are developing a system that could help justice prevail.
The accepted theories of how businesses compete are wrong, according to Shelby Hunt in Texas Tech University's College of Business Administration. His recently developed Resource-Advantage Theory of Competition makes clear the uselessness of long-accepted theories of competition.
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