Cornell University alumnus and author Paul Cody's So Far Gone, a novel published by Picador USA, a literary imprint of St. Martin's Press, was released in February ($22; 240 pages, ISBN 0-312-18180-9).
An easily detectable protein may hold the key to more reliably warning women about early cell abnormalities in the cervix before they get life-threatening cancer, a University of California, Irvine researcher reported today.
DALLAS, March 24 -- By lowering blood cholesterol levels by just 10 percent in a population, the result could be a 20 percent reduction in heart attack deaths suggest authors of a study published in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
DALLAS, March 24 -- Major changeable risk factors for heart attack include smoking, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure and physical inactivity. According to a study published in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, high blood levels of the fat triglyceride may need to be added to the list.
Cornell University researchers have isolated a single oxygen molecule adsobed on a platinum and caused it to rotate on command by applying pulses of current from a scanning tunneling microscope. The principle could some day be applied for data storage in ultra-small devices.
1) Weight Gain in Ex-Smokers Impairs Lung Function, 2) Standard Therapy Could Benefit Those with Mild to Moderate Sleep Disorders, 3) Indoor Allergens More Likely to Cause Asthma Than Outdoor Allergens
Shoppers buy more if they see a supermarket display that advertises a specific purchase quantity number, such as ì3 for $3.00,î or ìLimit 12 cans per person.î By varying the displays in 89 supermarkets in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Iowa, it was discovered that numerical displays increased the sales of some products by over 100%.
Your employer unjustly accuses you of stealing $50 from the office coffee fund. You are able to prove your innocence, but your employer fires you anyway. Can your boss legally do this? If, like most non-union employees, you do not have a specific ìjust-causeî employment contract, the answer is: Yes. A survey conducted by a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis uncovered that an overwhelming majority of employees erroneously believe they are legally protected against being unjustly or arbitrarily discharged.
In the first major twin study to compare genetic and environmental factors that contribute to the risk of alcoholism in both sexes, researchers have found that genetics plays an important role in determining alcohol dependence in women as well as in men. The study contradicts the long-held assumption that a womanÃs environment is more likely to influence whether she becomes dependent on alcohol.
Vascular surgeons at Johns Hopkins are participating in a nationwide test of a procedure that uses 3-D images and a metal-supported cloth tube to repair stretched and weakened abdominal arteries before they burst and kill.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas are offering the first plausible molecular explanation of why the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is more easily transmitted to or from people with syphilis. This knowledge could lead to treatments to slow progression of the disease.
When newborns are exposed to the odor of their own amniotic fluid during the separation period following birth, infant distress can be lessened, according to Vanderbilt University researcher Richard Porter, whose previous studies found that babies locate their mother's nipple by its scent.
The Clinton Administration is missing a key tool in its efforts to chart a strong energy future, namely a strategy to maintain a viable nuclear energy program.
The new Mount Holyoke Center for Leadership and Public Interest Advocacy has invited four prominent experts with opposing points of view to examine the potential success or failure of current directions in welfare policy and to debate both the likely outcome of current reforms.
The national and global environmental challenges we face are acute. Federal support for environmental research is a critical investment in this country's future and in the health of our children.
Johns Hopkins researchers have identified genetic mutations that appear to cause or contribute to more than half of all non-inherited or sporadic cases of the deadly muscle disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease.
New studies on water supplies in Europe are finding evidence of cholesterol-lowering drugs, antibiotics, analgesics, antiseptics, beta-blocker heart drugs, and other pharmaceuticals in drinking water, lakes, rivers, and streams, according to an article published in today's issue of Science News.The European scientists have ascertained that the drugs are coming from human wastes.
Tip Sheet from New Scientist for 3-18-98
Events begun 150 million years ago -- resulting in the formation of the Diamond Crystal salt dome under Lake Peigneur, Louisiana-- still affect us today. When an oil drill punctured the dome in 1980, it ruptured, flooding the mining tunnels, dissolving the salt and forcing a hasty evacuation of the miners working there. Within seven hours the entire lake was empty. The dome has been partially opened again, but not for the mining of salt--it is now used to store 60-million-year-old oil.
A new book, edited by a University of Georgia professor, brings together for the first time some of the most important American speeches of the 20th century.
A University of Georgia historian has discovered that it is possible for African-Americans to begin identifying particular ethnic cultural and social influences once thought unrecoverable.
A team of anthropologists from the University of Georgia has joined the Foxfire Fund, Inc., to help preserve materials collected during the 30 years of the project that studies the southern Appalachians.
National Science Foundation Tips: 1) Study of Microbes May Hone Predictions of Mining Impacts, 2) Studies Find Successful Nsf Engineering Programs, 3) Lichen Growth Reveals Unknown Earthquakes
East Lansing, Mich. - Forget to watch "NYPD Blue" this week? If so, you probably missed seeing 25 percent of all Latinos portrayed on prime time TV. A Michigan State University study reveals that although Latinos are the second largest minority in the nation, they are distinctly underrepresented on prime time broadcast television. In fact, Latinos constitute only 3.2 percent of the prime time TV population but are 11 percent of the nation's population.
The leather weightlifting belts worn by many people while working out at health clubs may hinder development of back and abdominal muscles and are not needed by most weightlifters, according to a study by Sohail Ahmad, M.D., chief resident physician in orthopedic surgery at Albany Medical Center.
Physicians reporting at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meeting this week will describe how the Digital Holography System from Voxel (NASDAQ:VOXL) improves the display of trauma and anomalies of the cervical spine.
A liquid-manure applicator under development at Purdue University can be incorporated into a precision farming setup that uses computer-directed equipment and satellite-oriented GPS (geopositioning) technology. The hi-tech manure applicator is the first of its kind in the nation. This isn't a load of you-know-what.
Business call center budgets are growing by 12 percent per year, salaries are on the rise, and employee turnover is down, according to a Purdue University study.
Doug Christiansen, director of Purdue's Office of Admissions, says taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or the American College Test (ACT) does not have to be a nerve-racking experience. He offers advice for taking standardized tests.
Dotting the shoreline near Delaware's Cape Henlopen, seashells evoke Native Americans boiling oysters, clams and conchs 1,000 years ago, says a University of Delaware geologist whose work should help archaeologists "see through" salt marshes--without digging them up.
A new raven-sized fossil bird, showing clear evidence of the close relationship between theropod dinosaurs and birds, has been discovered on the island of Madagascar by scientists working under a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. This discovery was announced by a team of researchers -- led by paleontologist/anatomist Catherine Forster of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook -- in this week's issue of the journal Science.
The cholesterol-lowering effect of soy is the result of natural compounds in the soy known as isoflavones, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researchers reported today at an American Heart Association meeting in Santa Fe, NM. John R. Crouse III, M.D., said the project was the first to dissect the effects of isoflavones in soy from the overall soybean.
Postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy markedly reduces the occurrence of atherosclerosis in the internal carotid artery in monkeys, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center research team reported today. Hormone replacement therapy from soy protein with phytoestrogens provided equivalent stroke-prevention benefits to the standard Premarin therapy prepared from mammalian estrogens.
Soy proteins contain "phytoestrogens" -- biochemical cousins of the female hormone that are a possible alternative therapy to protect against artery disease. In a new 3-year study, postmenopausal cynomolgus monkeys were fed an artery disease-causing diet.
Adding more fuel to this ongoing research debate is a new analysis by the Los Angeles Atherosclerosis Study: Data from 577 symptom-free utility workers age 40 to 60 show a "significant" relation between total alcohol intake and fractionally less thickness of the wall of the large carotid artery in the neck -- but only in women.
In a large study involving 12,466 middle-aged African and European Americans, researchers report finding a "strong association" between at least two episodes of angina pectoris (chest pain due to heart disease) and migraine headaches, especially in those who also experience "aura," the visual sensation that can accompany migraine.
Santa Fe, N.M. -- Sex-related differences in an enzyme that breaks down blood fats -- particularly "bad cholesterol" known as LDL -- may explain why men develop heart disease earlier than women, say scientists today at the American Heart Association's epidemiology and prevention conference.
Santa Fe, N.M. -- Genetic make-up may significantly influence how a person responds to a cholesterol-lowering drug, according to researchers who presented their findings at the American Heart Association's epidemiology and prevention conference today.
Santa Fe, N.M. -- As men and women add extra fat over the years, a silent killer -- high blood pressure -- is creeping up along with the numbers on the weight scales, researchers reported today at the American Heart Association's epidemiology and prevention conference.
Evelyn Cunningham, a journalist who risked her life in the early 1950s covering the budding civil rights movement, will accept the George Polk Career Award on April 15 in Manhattan on behalf of the Pittsburgh Courier, the pioneering African American newspaper for which she worked for many years. (Editors: please note that Cunningham is available for interviews.)
Edward Said, professor of comparative literature and chair of the doctoral program at Columbia University will give the next Rice University President's Lecture on "The Tragedy of Palestine" Thursday, March 26, 1998.
Scientists have demonstrated another essential step toward building a computer based on the quantum mechanical behavior of elementary particles and say they may be able to perform simple calculations in a couple of years.
The Northeast enjoyed its third warmest winter (December through February) and its third warmest February since official record-keeping began in 1895, according to Keith Eggleston, a climatologist with the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
A unique collection of correspondence between Indonesian adolescents and the psychology professor who has become Southeast Asia's own "Dr. Ruth" is now available at the Cornell University Library.
"Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi," a book by John Dittmer, DePauw University professor of history, provides further insight into the civil rights efforts of the 1960s and the documents released by the Sovereignty Commission.
The University of South Florida College of Medicine is the lead center for a federally-approved study investigating the safety and effectiveness of transplanting brain cells from pig embryos into the brains of patients with advanced Parkinson's disease.
A new agreement extends some protection to astronomers who use the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico and have been concerned about potential interference from the commercial satellite system IRIDIUM. The memorandum of understanding signed between the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, which operates Arecibo, and Motorola, Inc., which operates IRIDIUM, guarantees eight hours of observing time each day "unpolluted" by interference.
U.S. physicians should "take their blinders off" and embrace the use of natural antioxidants and other natural forms of patient care backed by scientific research, said Nancy Snyderman, M.D., renowned physician, journalist and author.
New Orleans and San Francisco, March 17, 1998 "” A novel cartilage-transplant technique, performed on an out-patient basis, was shown to repair injured and arthritic knee joints, in a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society in New Orleans.
New insights into ancient North America will result from the discovery of 165 million year-old dinosaur footprints near Shell, Wyo., according to a University of Wyoming researcher.
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