On Saturday, April 18, 1998, The New York Botanical Garden will hold a symposium on the Vascular Plants of the Northeastern United States to celebrate the February 1998 publication of the long-awaited Illustrated Companion to Gleason & Cronquist's Manual: Illustrations of the Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada.
The New York Botanical Garden is celebrating the publication of the Illustrated Companion to Gleason & Cronquist's Manual: Illustrations of the Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, a collection of http://www.nybg.org/bsci/acer.html 827 meticulously-rendered botanical illustrations designed as a cross-reference to the non-illustrated Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, Second Edition, by Henry A. Gleason and Arthur Cronquist, published in 1991.
Winston-Salem, NC -- New findings from a large-scale study of estrogen replacement therapy help show why the treatment may help reduce a woman's risk of a heart attack. Results from the Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Intervention (PEPI) study show estrogen replacement therapy, with or without progestin, "produces consistent and sustained reductions in plasma lipoprotein (a) concentrations," said Mark A. Espeland, Ph.D., professor and head of the Section on Biostatistics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
China's future energy import needs will dramatically affect the global environment and energy security, says Jon Erickson, assistant professor of economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Scientific research shows that Seroquel (R) (quetiapine fumarate) tablets, the newest of the atypical antipsychotics, reduces hostility and aggression in people with psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease.
Mayo Clinic Health O@sis (www.mayohealth.org) has won the 1998 international Webby Award for best Internet health site and has been named a finalist in the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Awards.
Love eggs, but your doc says cut down on cholesterol? A new egg might be what you're looking for.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) today announced the end of the Internet Intellectual Infrastructure Fund portion of domain name registration charges. As a result, the annual fee for domain name registration, which has been $50 since fees were imposed in 1995, will decline to $35, reducing the cost of domain name registration by 30 percent. The change will be effective April 1, 1998.
Johns Hopkins researchers have new evidence supporting a controversial theory that asthma is partially caused by the failure of deep breaths to relax constricted lung muscles enough to let in more air.
One in 10 health care workers frequently exposed to rubber surgical and examination gloves is on the cusp of developing allergy symptoms that could seriously affect both their health and their careers, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
A new book released by Resources for the Future (RFF) documents the progress made in controlling pollution in the U.S. over the last two decades but also finds that there are many unaddressed problems and a pressing need for a major overhaul of the regulatory system. The 336-page book, "Pollution Control in the United States: Evaluating the System," is the culmination of a three-year investigation by RFF's J. Clarence (Terry) Davies and Jan Mazurek. It is the most balanced and comprehensive review to date of the successes and failures of U.S. environmental laws.
DALLAS, March 17 -- The absence of emotional support for elderly women hospitalized for heart failure places them at high risk for additional heart problems, according to a study in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
DALLAS, March 17 -- Hormone replacement therapy may help reduce a woman's risk of heart attack, by lowering blood levels of the most potentially destructive form of cholesterol, according to a study in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
DALLAS, March 17 -- Statins, the newest class of cholesterol-reducing drugs, dramatically lower the risk of dying from coronary heart disease and other causes, according to a study reported in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers say they have identified a common, but apparently mindless, psychological phenomenon that plays a previously unrecognized role in the way people form impressions of other people. Specifically, they've found that when someone attributes positive or negative traits to someone else, the listener will often attribute those same traits to the speaker. Embargoed: 3-18-98.
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Babson faculty delivered customized exxecutive programs to Colonia Insurance, DunkinDonuts, LIMRA, Olsten Health Services, Petroleos de Venezuela, and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme.
Pelvic congestive syndrome, a painful disorder in women, which often goes undiagnosed and untreated, can usually be cured by plugging blood vessels in the ovaries, according to a study by a Johns Hopkins radiologist.
Astronomers have set a new record for most distant observed object in the universe, finding a galaxy nearly 90 million light years farther from Earth than any previously discovered.
Even accountants are confused by the burgeoning tax code and its '97 Taxpayer Relief Act. BYU's Fred Streuling, head of a national CPA Tax Simplification Committee, lightheartedly attacks the new law - "It's a slap in the face" - and warns that some of its promised tax breaks are not all they seem.
1)Steady Growth Continues in Academic R&D 2)Early Returns in from Ice Station Sheba 3)Helping Kids become Young Scientists
Physicians today reviewed the impact of the newest class of asthma medications, antileukotrienes, on the management of asthma symptoms in a scientific symposium funded by an education grant from Zeneca Pharmaceuticals at the 54th annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI).
Low estrogen levels caused more than 50 percent miscarriage in pregnant baboons, primates whose hormones during pregnancy act much like those of humans. The fetuses died before miscarriage.
1) Exposure to passive smoking causes the aorta to lose its elasticity. 2) Over 30 percent of gallstone disease can be prevented by 30 minutes of endurance type exercise five times a week. 3) Low cholesterol is associated with high risk for violent death. 4) Is managed care a "monstrous hybrid?" 5) Thalidomide is effective in treating Behcet syndrome.
1998 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism awarded to Ben Brantley, The New York Times; Elinor Fuchs, author of The Death of Character (Indiana University Press); and Todd London, artistic director of New Dramatists and columnist for American Theater magazine.
Researchers at Forsyth Dental Center and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine are tracing the identity of unknown and emerging microbes, some of which have foiled the efforts of investigators around the country. Using the newest molecular methods, they are identifying mysterious bacterial species that may be the cause of dental caries and periodontitis. But the search is not limited to the oral cavity.
Purdue University researchers have developed a new class of materials that has a wide variety of potential applications, from a coating to repel liquids to a membrane that could be used in wastewater treatment and drug delivery.
After four months in cardiac intensive care, a 56-year-old Baltimore County woman woke up at the University of Maryland Medical Center with a new heart on Valentine's Day. What makes this transplant unusual is that it was a ìdirected donationî ñ a rare occurrence in which an organ donorÃs family may designate the recipient.
1.Smell Loss an Early Indicator of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases; 2.Newly Found Endothelial Receptor Implicated in Both Heart Disease and AIDS; 3. DNA Vaccination Lowers HIV-1 Viral Load in Infected Chimpanzees
A new honors program in engineering and law, the only such program in the U.S., is being launched at Northwestern University. The program offers high school seniors conditional acceptance into law school and completion of their undergraduate studies a year early.
A Purdue University study of religion and body weight finds that religious people are more likely to be overweight than are nonreligious people. Fortunately for them, being religious may curtail some of the unhealthy effects of being overweight.
El Nino, the weather pheonomenon blamed for killer tornadoes in Florida, may actually benefit the Lower Plains and the Midsouth during the coming spring tornado season.
Phase I clinical trials of fluasterone, a synthetic steroid with many potential therapeutic and preventive uses, show it is safe at high doses, well tolerated and not metabolized to testosterone or estrogen in men or women.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Public have found that a simplified regimen of treatment provided protection against tuberculosis in HIV-infected, PPD-positive adults.
As the number of Americans with asthma--and the number of asthma deaths each year--continue to rise, Zeneca Pharmaceuticals released results of their recently sponsored survey which was conducted by Wirthlin Worldwide. The survey assessed asthma patients' attitudes and compliance with their medication.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is allowing geologists to measure the positions of markers thousands of miles apart to a precision of less than an inch and has suddenly become a powerful tool for earthquake studies around the world.
Understanding proteins is essential to understanding cellular biology, but difficult. Scientists often turn to analogy, and talk of the "building blocks" or the "alphabet of life," but biologist Mary Anne Clark at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth says she hears the proteins singing.
In an effort to help design and build future generations of powerful integrated circuits, scientists at Bell Laboratories, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, have created new materials that show exceptional promise as insulators for semiconductor components.
Changes in managed healthcare are creating pioneering roles for healthcare workers. This is happening against a backdrop of President Clinton's call for a national patient bill of rights and movements by several states to draft consumer protection bills for managed-care participants.
The fungus responsible for the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s is back, and could be more threatening than ever. More than 150 years after the famine that took an estimated 1 million lives, a newer, more exotic strain of the fungus is causing widespread crop devastation in the United States.
Marietta, GA ñ March 11, 1998 ñ Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced today that it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market the lowest oral estrogen dose -- 0.3 mg ESTRATAB (tm) (Esterified Estrogens Tablets, USP) -- for the prevention of osteoporosis.
Most americans get their health insurance through their employer but the availability of employer-sponsored insurance varies greatly from state to state, according to a first-ever Federal survey to produce state estimates.
Hundreds of millions throughout the world suffer from arsenic poisoning by drinking their own water, but a new device invented by engineers at the University of Connecticut through the Critical Technologies Program may help end the problem.
National Science Foundation (NSF) director Neal Lane will speak on Saturday, March 14, 1998, at a conference on "The Integral Role of the Two-year College in the Science and Mathematics Preparation of Prospective Teachers."
Whether you are male or female, black or white, old or young, taking out fat in your diet will lower blood cholesterol levels -- and reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke, according to a study in this month's issue of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology: Journal of the American Heart Association.
A synthetic author the likes of Proust, Joyce, or Kafka may not be in the future, but Brutus.1--an artificial agent capable of story generation--just wrote its first story about betrayal.
Professors at the University of Connecticut have conducted a study with cyclists to determine if oral or intravenous hydration has a better effect on an athlete's performance once they become dehydrated.
In a decision that highlights why many lesbians do not receive adequate medical care, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has rejected a request by the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association for exhibit space at ACOG's annual conference.
Interferon-alpha is used to treat several kinds of cancers. It is also effective against hepatitis B and C. However, interferon-alpha can cause central nervous system side-effects, includimg depression, slowed thinking and memory impairment. Fortunately, these side-effects can be treated successfully.
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $13.3 million grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Cancer Center to study how diet might help prevent a recurrence of breast cancer.
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