First care providers can now have the latest knowledge from top medical experts in the field of emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology at their fingertips. The book will help family physicians, as well as emergency medicine doctors, quickly and effectively diagnose and treat emergency gynecologic and obstetric problems.
The co-founders of Volumetric Medical Imaging, Inc. will conduct a media briefing to demonstrate Volumetric Sonography (tm) "” the first fundamental breakthrough in diagnostic ultrasound in more than decade.
A temporary heart device used by cardiac doctors at UCLA Medical Center saved a 24-year-old patient dying from heart failure. The cardiac-assist device avoided the need for an emergency heart transplant.
Benign, non-cancerous brain tumors, called meningiomas, can impair brain function and even kill. So UCLA medical researchers have begun testing a new form of chemotherapy to treat them.
Although researchers know that half of all folks who take up exercise quit during the first six months, they have failed to ask how peopleÃs thoughts and feelings during workouts affect their decision to drop out.
Two out of every three female veterinarians have reported accidental needlestick wounds while they were on the job, according to a recent study.
Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a new intervention program that shows early signs of helping children and teenagers with mood disorders.
A University of Colorado study of marijuana dependence among adolescents in a university treatment program found that such youth reported serious problems in their lives related to dependence on the drug.
Young men who jump from one job to another in their early years after school don't seem to be hurting their later wages, a new national study suggests. If anything, men who stay in their first occupation or industry may earn 5 to 7 percent less than their peers.who have moved on, according to the results.
Within the next few years, many consumers across the country will have the opportunity to choose their electric utility just like they choose their long-distance phone service. And, for most people, that will mean lower prices, says an Ohio State University expert.
El Nino may be responsible for severe weather conditions across North America, but an Ohio State University study has revealed that El NiÃ’o weather systems don't always spawn severe hurricanes in the North Pacific.
Based on a new study, researchers are suggesting physicians use two simple tests to screen patients for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS).
A mathematics researcher at Ohio State University and his colleagues have discovered two new patterns of electrochemical activity among brain cells.
NASA has opened the way for the signing of a $24.8 million contract between Cornell University and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for building an infrared spectrograph that will be sent into orbit to detect and analyze some of the most distant objects in the universe. The contract announcement was made as NASA authorized the start of work on the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), an observatory that will be launched into orbit around the sun in 2001.
A prostate cancer treatment that kills cancer cells while largely sparing healthy organs has been successfully tested in mice and will be ready for clinical trials this fall if approved by the Food and Drug Administration, according to University of Minnesota researchers who devised the treatment.
Gas hydrates which have been found on all the world's oceans like a ring around a bathtub, are estimated to contain more gas than has ever been produced by man or identified in conventional reservoirs.
Development Dimensions International Inc., an international human resource consulting firm, is giving a $125,000 grant to the Center for Chinese Business at West Virginia University to hold workshops in China and sponsor one Chinese participant per year for three years in the Shanghai Municipal Government Executive Education Program in Morgantown.
Until every primary care physician in the United States recognizes and responds to the signs of life-depleting and sometimes fatal sleep disorders, Dr. William C. Dement believes his work is unfinished.
Sometimes it's difficult to decide who suffers the greater trauma when preschool starts -- the child or the parents. But a Purdue University expert says there are things mom or dad can do to make the adjustment easier for everyone involved
The National Sea Grant College Program marks 30 years of marine science and coastal outreach with Congressional reauthorization for up to $290 million in research funding over the next five years. Historical Background, Congressional, NOAA quotes, and selected accomplishments provided in story.
Sea Grant News & Notes Story Ideas: 1) Survey: Delmarva Residents Committed to Keeping Bays Clean 2) Students to Conduct Water Research Without Getting Wet 3) Treating Sewage Naturally: Constructed Wetlands Help Clean Up Texas Coast
A hybrid master's program in finance and science at Purdue University could put physicists to work on Wall Street and has caught the attention of financial firms. Purdue's computational finance program is the first to include physics in an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to produce graduates who combine high-level calculation skills with an understanding of business and finance.
For the first time, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center have confirmed that bone--similar to that found in the human skeleton--is present in a substantial portion of diseased heart valves.This finding could lead to the development of therapies to prevent or treat heart-valve disease.
A faint image of mysterious ancient Egyptian nomads living in the Sahara Desert has emerged from thousands of stone artifacts painstakingly collected and reassembled by a University of Washington archaeologist. The stone tools and fragments offer clues to a people who lived 5,500 to 8,000 years ago and harvested wild grass seed.
Bill J. Gurley, Ph.D., associate professor and chairman of the Department of Pharmaceutics in the UAMS College of Pharmacy's recent study of herbal medicines containing ephedrine has attracted media attention. Supplements containing ephedrine are widely used, especially by students to help them stay awake to study. The danger is that too much ephedrine can cause adverse side effects and even death.
Tip Sheet from New Scientist for 3-25-98
STANFORD -- Daughters serving as the primary caregivers for an ailing parent show more cardiovascular stress than do wives caring for their ailing husbands, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Virginia Tech's Fiber and Electro-Optics Research Center (FEORC) has received a $9.6 million grant from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for an Optical Sciences Research program. The five-year research project will focus on optical fiber materials, optoelectronics and fundamental optical materials science related in part to microelectronics, including optical microchips.
Ever since vitamin C was found to prevent scurvy -- a disease that has killed millions of people throughout history -- scientists have known that the vitamin plays an essential role in the body's defense against disease. Immune cells, for example, are known to accumulate and retain high levels of vitamin C, but just how this process occurs, has largely remained a mystery.
Peter Fong prescribes Prozac to fingernail clams and zebra mussels. The popular antidepressant might not cheer up the clams or mussels, but it did jump-start their reproductive behavior, prompting the fingernail clams to spawn in synchrony.
Two hundred years after the essay by T.R. Malthus that put "Malthusian" in the lexicon, the consequences of overpopulation are more dire than ever, says anthropologist David Price, a research associate in Cornell University's Population and Development Program. A disastrous Malthusian correction looms ahead, Price warns.
Fewer than half of the patients under treatment for schizophrenia are receiving proper doses of antipsychotic medications or appropriate psychosocial interventions, according to a national study funded by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study identified gaps in effective care for people with schizophrenia and opportunities for improvement in all aspects of treatment.
Nuclear Energy Institute Criticizes Administration For Absence of Effective Domestic Energy Policy
When does an idea belong to an employee and when can a company claim incubation rights? Richard Mason, the incoming director of SMU's Maguire Ethics Center and current distinguished professor in MIS at SMU's Cox School of Business, tackles this issue. Using the case of Brown v. DSC Communications, Mason discusses questions including who owns intellectual property and where is the line between ideas created at work and those created on personal time.
By studying how goats and spiders get around, a biomedical engineer at the University of Pennsylvania has designed and patented an all-terrain wheelchair that can climb up to 12-inch steps and amble over obstacles.
If you're in the media, you know how important it is to find the precise science expert for a deadline story or feature. That effort has been made a lot easier with the creation of the University of California Science Experts directory, now available on the World Wide Web.
Research Triangle Park, N.C., March 24, 1998 -- Amerge(TM) (naratriptan hydrochloride) Tablets, a therapy for the acute treatment of migraine, is now available to consumers in the United States by prescription.
Citing the "inspirational and dignified" primate studies of Jane Goodall and the "renowned and standard-setting" Public Broadcasting Service's NOVA television series, the National Science Board (NSB) today announced the winners of its first annual Public Service Award for contributions to public understanding of science and engineering.
The bottom line is this - life is negotiation." However, research shows that less 50% of people don't negotiate their salary. In a new soon-to-be- published book by Dr. Robin Pinkley of Southern Methodist University and her partner, Gregory Norhtcraft of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the authors help professionals redefine the negotiation playing field. Entitled "Turning Lead to Gold: The Experts Guide to Negotiating Salary & Compensation," this innovative book shows how the professional who fails to successfully negotiate his/her salary shorts themself by literally millions over the life of a career.
STANFORD -- Infants' immune systems are not fully developed at birth, so infections contracted before or during birth are extremely dangerous. But these infections are also hard to diagnose.
Despite living in a society that is increasingly weight and appearance conscious, many American children may be headed toward sedentary, overweight adulthood. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center have found that as the hours of television watched by American children increases, so does their weight.
Tips from American Psychiatric Association: 1) Do Hyperactive Boys Become Hyperactive Men?, 2) Residential Care: an Alternative to High-Cost Hospitalization, 3) Faith Heals, 4) Fetal Alcohol Exposure Increases Risk of Mental Illness
When patients with type 2 diabetes took two new medications together, rather than separately, they experienced further improvement in controlling their blood glucose levels, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Yale University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Yale.
Modern performances of J. S. Bach's St. John Passion--an acknowledged masterpiece of Western music--are inevitably controversial. In large part, this is because of the combination of powerful, highly emotional music, and a text that includes passages from a gospel marked by vehement anti-Judaic sentiments.
New Orleans, LA--Re-living in your mind a brief, though stressful event--like being cut off on the freeway or insulted by a stranger--not only is unpleasant, it can result in a temporary increase in you blood pressure, even days after the original experience.
With new drugs, ongoing research and prevention programs, an AIDS diagnosis is no longer considered a swift death sentence. This was not the case 17 years ago, when Yale School of Medicine's Peter Selwyn, M.D., M.P.H., found himself in the midst of the AIDS epidemic at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York
Sarcon Microsystems sees a bright future in infrared imaging, a technology developed in part at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that could ultimately save lives on roads, in buildings and in the sky.
Ten million Americans, including almost 4 million children, don't get enough to eat, according to a new Cornell University/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. More than half of the 4 percent of Americans who report they don't have enough food live in households in which at least one person has a job, says Katherine Alaimo, a doctoral candidate in nutritional sciences at Cornell.
A study from Northwestern University Medical School and the HIV Outpatient Study shows that aggressive combination antiretroviral therapy--specifically including protease inhibitors--dramatically reduces death rates and opportunistic infections in HIV-infected patients.
People with lower intelligence before a traumatic experience are more likely to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, according to the first study to identify a cognitive risk factor for PTSD. Conversely, higher intelligence may protect against the development of PTSD.
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