Mississippi's first shopping mall, once all but abandoned and given up for dead, emerges January 23 as a new creation. The mall now offers one-stop shopping for health care consumers under a new banner--the Jackson Medical Mall.
A unique strategy on how to handle ground water pollution ã one that uses "smart laws" to benefit both the environment and agriculture ã may be in store for Indiana, and it may serve as a model for the nation.
WASHINGTON -- A known metabolite of Premarin, the oldest and most widely-prescribed estrogen replacement therapy, has been found to attach to some of the basic building blocks of DNA, according to a report published January 23 in Chemical Research in Toxicology, a peer- reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.
Tip Sheet from New Scientist
American College of Physicians will hold a press briefing at the National Press Club on Wednesday, January 28, 1998 to discuss the issue of firearm safety.
Northwestern University professors who held opposing positions arguing an abortion case before the Supreme Court are available to offer perspective on Roe v Wade and a Northwestern website offers oral arguments from the historical case.
Although their reasons may differ, violent boys are no more likely than non-violent boys to approve of hitting others, even when sometimes provoked, according to this study. Violent children unanimously condemned unprovoked situations based on moral reasoning, rather than social rules, consensus, authority or egocentric personal needs.
Researchers have discovered striking sex differences in how quickly rodents called degus re-set their biological clocks in response to changes in light and social contact. The discovery could lead to different ways of helping people who suffer from SAD, jet lag, shift work problems and other disruptions in circadian rhythms.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Vanderbilt University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering John Bourne teaches one of the first known asynchronous online courses in the world that instructs others on how to develop and teach online courses.
Vanderbilt University is the new home of the Alliance Project, an endeavor aimed at increasing the dwindling supply of special education personnel from historically underrepresented ethnic groups. Alliance staff work with historically black colleges and universities and other higher education institutions with 25 percent or higher enrollment of students from historically underrepresented ethnic groups.
This month's 30-year-anniversary of the Tet offensive commemorates a milestone in the demise of the Lyndon Johnson presidency, according to Vanderbilt University historian Thomas Schwartz, who is researching a book on Johnson's foreign policy.
According to the World Values survey, weekly church attendance is higher in the United States than in any other nation at a similar level of development. In addition, religious attitudes and behaviors among nations are compared as well as how religious beliefs of each society have changed over the years.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $2 million over 30 months to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign to help university users with high performance networking applications. The National Laboratory for Applied Networking Research (NLANR): Distributed Applications Support Team will help researchers maximize their use of NSF's very high performance Backbone Network Service (vBNS) for science and engineering research.
A preliminary report suggests that caffeine may act as an advocate to cancer cells by inhibiting apoptosis or programmed cell death. Apoptosis is a type of cell suicide mechanism that serves to eliminate damaged or unneeded cells. When subjected to a lethal heat shock, caffeine-treated cancer cells refused to die.
An Antarctic storm cut short some research, but that's life life on the "ice."
Just as a photographer moves a camera to focus on a specific image, the human brain directs the eyes to focus on an image. Although the images we see are often quite complex - an array of colors, textures and shapes - seeing them begins with a process that originates in single brain cells. Vanderbilt psycholgoist Jeffrey D. Schall has spent the past 10 years studying how the brain guids the eyes. For his research, he has been recognized by the National Academy of Sciences.
Radiation treatment for breast cancer slightly raises a woman's long-term risk for esophageal cancer, according to a study conducted by epidemiologists at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
For parents perhaps, the wonder and fascination focus on how the many Disney robots, floats and other moving systems are designed, built, tested and operated. Answers lie not in fantasy and magic, but in the here and now -- in the real world of mechanical engineering.
Mallinckrodt Medical Inc. has licensed an invention from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) that could save more than 100,000 people from having additional heart surgery.
Perhaps no other product has been changed and revised as regularly as that staple of American consumerism, the automobile. Each and every year throughout its storied history, the automobile has tantalized and, in some cases, awed the public with sleek body designs, chip-resistant paint, and a dazzling array of push-button comfort features and electronic gadgets.
A professor of history at Fairfield University, who specializes in Latin America and Cuba in particular, has been in Cuba for the last two summers with the Center for Cuban Studies, which is based in New York City. Now with its own native clergy and even an archbishop who is Cuban, the time had come to address the situation of the Church in Cuba.
New York University (NYU) will establish and operate an Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS) through a five-million-dollar cooperative agreement with The National Science Foundation (NSF). The institute will become one of NSF's new engineering research centers.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 21, 1998--A sizable minority of disabled older people living in the community recover their ability to perform essential activities of daily living (ADLs), such as bathing, dressing and walking, over a two-year period, according to a new study by Yale University School of Medicine researchers.
A steroid drug enhances the ability of a vitamin D analogue to kill cancer in animals while reducing a lifethreatening buildup of blood calcium associated with this treatment, according to University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute researchers, who are now using a steroid with 1,25-D3 to treat advanced cancer in patients.
Francis Narin, Ph.D., -- whose survey, The Increasing Linkage Between U.S. Technology and Public Science, was highlighted last year by the national media -- will be at the National Science Foundation (NSF) on January 22 to meet with reporters on extensions of his findings.
The National Research Investment Act of 1998, calling for a major increase in federal spending of research and development via innovation and consensus, highlights the agenda of Engineering Expo ë98 in Jackson, Miss.
A team of astronomers probing the activities of a pair of colliding galaxies has been startled to discover that the merger has resulted in a nest of a dozen or more extremely powerful supernova explosions, comparable to the most powerful ever observed.
Research and trends in volunteering will be the subject of the National Forum on Life Cycles and Volunteering: The Impact of Work, Family, and Mid-Life Issues, held April 30 and May 1, 1998 at Cornell University.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of Photofrin(r), a light activated drug used in Photodynamic Therapy, for treatment of patients with early-stage lung cancer.
Nearly all Americans (94%) are aware of the shortage of available organs for transplant and most (62%) accept the concept of xenotransplantation, or animal-to-human transplantation, as a viable option, according to a new survey of 1,200 randomly selected individuals conducted by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF).
In an effort to lower the unacceptably high death rate of dialysis patients in the United States, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) today announced new wide-ranging guidelines for dialysis treatment.
The University's new Student Information System provides course changes, class locations, grades, and details of their bills and financial aid awards 24 hours a day from any computer hooked to the Web (www.liu.edu), and from on-campus kiosks that are being installed in the next few weeks.
People who are negative, insecure and distressed -- a "type D" personality -- are four times more likely to suffer a second heart attack than "non-D types," according to a study reported today in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
One hundred thousand traffic accidents caused by drivers falling asleep claim some 1,500 lives each year in the United States, while sleep deprivation and sleep disorders cost the American economy at least $150 billion a year, according to Cornell University psychologist James Maas, author of a new book, "Power Sleep."
To develop "space cuisine" for future lunar and Martian space colonies, Cornell University researchers are developing recipes for astronauts from a limited set of 30 plants that will be grown hydroponically in artificially lit, dome-covered surface habitats.
Using the unfertilized eggs of cows, scientists have shown that the eggs have the ability to incorporate and, seemingly, reprogram at least some of the genes from cells from an array of different animal species, including sheep, pigs, rats, and primates. This research adds an important new twist to the unfolding story of mammalian cloning.
A gene that appears to provide protection against coronary artery disease (CAD), the cause of heart attacks, has been identified by Japanese researchers, according to a report in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Sudden cardiac arrest risk goes up 50 percent for individuals whose parent, brother or sister has had heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest, according to a report in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Preliminary data from clinical studies of medications which treat congestive heart failure (CHF) demonstrate substantial international differences in usage of ACE inhibitors as well as the safety and potential utility of calcium channel blockers (CCBs) in the treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease.
The Cleveland Clinic, in conjunction with the Cleveland Clinic-Florida, has begun an FDA-approved study testing a drug that may reduce inflammation and enhance healing among patients undergoing reconstructive surgery immediately following a mastectomy.
A Virginia Tech researcher estimates that the Department of Defense (DOD) spends close to $1 billion annually on service members experiencing personal financial management difficulties. E. Thomas Garman calculates that the direct costs of assistance programs and indirect costs of lost productivity due to financial stresses costs the DOD between $677 and $957 million each year.
Breast cancer survivors who regularly work up a light to moderate sweat with exercise get into better physical condition and feel significantly less depressed and anxious according to this study. Furthermore, the sooner survivors start exercising after they have recovered from surgery, the greater the impact on their mental health.
Entomologists have long noticed that tiger beetles stop-and-go in their pursuit of prey. But up to now, scientists have had no idea why this species of beetle attacks its food in fits and starts. Why do they stop and go? During hot pursuit of prey, the tiger beetles go blind.
People and the environment constitute a fragile partnership. How that partnership will evolve and how it can be strengthened will be the focus of the 1998 Emerging Issues Forum at North Carolina State University's McKimmon Center on Feb. 26-27.
The precise location in the brain that produces the sounds of tinnitus, a ringing in the ears that affects millions of people, has been identified. This marks a major step toward hope for an effective treatment. Tinnitus patients also had abnormal links between their hearing systems and their brains' emotion control centers, as well as other brain transformations, according to a study published in the January issue of Neurology, the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal. EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL JANUARY 22, 1998.
Ethnic and cultural origin appear to play a key role in who will develop Parkinson's disease (PD) and why, according to a study published in the January issue of Neurology, the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal. EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL JANUARY 22, 1998.
Alzheimer's disease(AD)patients suffering with memory and other cognitive impairments may find help with donepezil. The currently-available drug improves patients' cognition and ability to function, according to a study published in the January issue of Neurology, the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal. EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL JANUARY 22, 1998.
News tips from the January issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine: 1) Women suffer from asthma more than men, 2) No evidence of bone density reduction in asthmatic children on long term therapy with corticosteroids, 3) New type of catheter prevents systemic infections associated with prolonged pulmonary artery catherization.
New idea: Convert closed military bases into "renewal communities"-- tightly regulated small towns giving thousands of Americans on welfare a fresh start in life.
The Henry R. Worthington Medal of ASME International (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) will be presented to Thomas J. Fritsch, technical project manager, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Monitoring and Diagnostic Center, Eddystone, Pa. He is being recognized for his accomplishments in the pump industry from the development of the worldÃs largest boiler feed pump, to pump-monitoring technologies and expert systems for boiler feed pumps.
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