Researchers in the University of Iowa College of Medicine are concerned that people who take medications to control high blood pressure at bedtime or in excessive amounts may be at increased risk for an eye disorder known as anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) or stroke of the eye.
Osteoarthritis is not inevitable for people middle-aged and older who want to start playing sports or continue exercising regularly, according to a UI researcher.
The January issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine presents new national guidelines for pediatric emergency department equipment and a national task force's report on the pediatric curricula needs of Emergency Medical Service providers. Copies of the articles can be obtained from the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Health care professionals involved in the administration of general anesthesia, sedation of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), and monitored anesthesia care (MAC) can now visit a new World Wide Web site containing frequently updated information and educational programs.
Can stress reduction help our bodies defend against cancer? Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh researchers addressing this question are optimistic but not yet sure. In an editorial in the Jan. 7, 1998 Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Carnegie Mellon psychologist Sheldon Cohen and University of Pittsburgh Medical School immunologist Bruce Rabin say that stress influences on the immune function may have implications for defenses against the development or growth of malignant tissue. However, the evidence for such a relationship is incomplete.
New Scientist Tip Sheet for 12-31-97
As the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, most Americans will be looking toward a healthier, fitter New Year. According to a recent nationwide survey, 51 percent of Americans will resolve to eat more fruits and vegetables in 1998.
Internet Survey Declares a Winner in the Battle Between the TV and the PC: Snack Food Second Annual Survey Finds Snack Food Consumption Coming to the Web
The University of Maryland Medical Center has signed an agreement with the world renowned Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston to open a comprehensive interdisciplinary center providing medical care and education to the 146,000 adults and children in Maryland and Delaware who have diabetes.
President Clinton today presented the nation's most prestigious science and technology honors, awarding nine National Medals of Science and five National Medals of Technology.
Purdue researchers have demonstrated a new method for using lasers and semiconductors to more accurately measure the velocity of a moving object.
State lotteries are the proverbial "camel's nose" for legalized gambling. So say the results of a new study, "Roll the Dice: The Diffusion of Casinos in the American States," by two researchers at Saint Mary's College in South Bend, IN
January health news tips from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Gene therapy to restore blood flow, preventing stroke in children with sickle cell anemia, and the emergence of common bacteria as a potential "smoking gun" in heart disease are among the top research advances in cardiovascular disease during 1997, according to Martha Hill, R.N., Ph.D., president of the American Heart Association.
Industry and government policy initiatives, coupled with growing federal recognition for the need to retain and expand the role of clean energy sources, significantly shifted policymakers' attitudes toward the world's nuclear energy programin 1997.
The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) announces a new Smoking Cessation Two-Three Initiative that seeks to enlist the help of all clinicians to get their patients who smoke to quit. The Initiative highlights the AHCPR-sponsored Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guideline released last year recommending Two Questions: "Do You Smoke?" and "Do You Want To Quit?" be part of every medical assessment by clinicians. This should be followed by an intervention as brief as Three Minutes recommending smoking cessation treatments proven to work. Research shows that smokers have the best chance of quitting when their health care providers get involved.
Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College has published the nation's first scholarly law journal to focus on closely held business enterprises.
Erik Nilsen, assistant professor of psychology at Lewis & Clark, and Lewis & Clark student researchers have conducted three major studies to evaluate a new technology for prescribing glasses to reduce eyestrain caused by use of computers. Seventy percent of the subjects preferred the experimental glasses.
1) Lyme disease testing guidelines from the ACP are cost-effective, according to analysis. 2) Individual practice guidelines are not effective for entire population. 3) Three studies about anticoagulation therapy, protein S deficiency and factor V Leiden mutation respectively, help in the prevention and diagnosis of deep vein blood clots.
Research shows that adult Americans are eating better. The average adult now eats about four and a half servings of fruits and vegetables a day - a significant step closer to the five or more servings a day recommended by the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) National 5 A Day for Better Health program.
10th Annual National Snack Food Month Cures Winter Blues Nationwide Survey Shows Snacking Is One of America's Top Cures for Post-Holiday Doldrums
ìUsers can achieve more intimacy on-line than they commonly do face-to-face,î according to research by Joseph Walther, assistant professor of communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
Parents who think a half-day kindergarten will be easier for their children than a full day of school may want to think again. Today's kindergarten curriculums are more academic and a Purdue expert found that students were less-stressed in full day programs.
If there is life on Mars, it won't include those insensitive men popularized in best-selling books and on talk shows, a Purdue University communication expert says.
The University of Iowa International Writing Program (IWP) is a one-of-a-kind residency program that brings together the writers of the world. In 1997 the IWP marked 30 years as a facilitator of intellectual interaction, a promoter of global understanding, an advocate of literary freedom and a celebrant of the importance of writers everywhere.
John F. Callahan, Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis & Clark College and literary executor of Ralph Ellison's estate, has published "Flying Home and Other Stories," a collection of 13 short stories by Ralph Ellison including stories never before published.
TCKs are young people who have spent their formative years outside their passport country--U.S. or otherwise. They gradually develop a cultural identity different from that of their parents and different from that of the country in which they live. Lewis & Clark College has formed a support group for these students.
In "A Morbid Fascination: White Prose and Politics in Apartheid South Africa" (Greenwood Press), Richard Peck, professor of international affairs, uses the lens of literature to examine South Africa's political culture. He finds a dislike of politics at the same time he finds a preoccupation with political issues.
For two years, Priscilla Kurz ignored the funny little patch of dried skin on her elbow, assuming it wasn't anything more than a minor irritation. But just days before the 20-year-old college student was scheduled to board a plane for Athens, Greece, where she had arranged to study for the year, she started breaking out uncontrollably.
"The Social Sciences and New Testament Interpretation," a new book published by Hendrickson Publishers and edited by Richard Rohrbaugh, professor of religious studies at Lewis & Clark College, sheds new light on the New Testament and is the latest contribution to the anthropological study of early Christianity.
Sign Wars: the cluttered landscape of advertising, a new book by Robert Goldman, professor of sociology at Lewis & Clark College and Stephen Papson, professor of sociology at St. Lawrence University, uses numerous advertising examples to demonstrate two central points: 1) consumer goods are parity items only distinguished only by signs and images and 2) culture itself is being driven by economic competition and has become treated as merely a commodity. Sign wars are both a cause and consequence of a media culture that appears cynical, skeptical and jaded but striving for authenticity.
A new book, It's Not Only Rock and Roll: Popular Music in the Lives of Adolescents (Hampton Press) by Peter Christenson, professor of communication at Lewis & Clark College, and Donald Roberts, the Thomas More Storke Professor of Communication at Stanford University, documents the wealth of research on the effect of popular music on adolescents and strives to bring rationality to the volatile debate. The book includes the only research to date on the effect of warning labels on music.
The federal government's recent attempts to settle claims relating to human radiation experiments during the Cold War doesn't address the problems of radium poisoning that occurred during the years before World War II. The plight of a group of women known as the "radium girls," who from 1910 to 1935 found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning, is the subject of a new book by a Central Michigan University history professor.
Since 1992, with funding from NC State, the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the NC State University linguists have been visiting Ocracoke Island on North Carolina's Outer Banks, interviewing, recording, and making friends with the islanders in an effort to preserve some of the rich dialects' heritage.
Since 1983 Dr. Anne Schiller has been traveling to Central Kalimantan Province in Indonesian Borneo to study tiwah, the essence of which involves disinterring the bones of kin, cleaning them and placing them in above-ground bone repositories in preparation for life in the Prosperous Village. She has published a book on nine years of research, "Small Sacrifices: Religious Change and Cultural Identity Among the Ngaju of Indonesia."
The desire for effective family planning is as old as Eve, herself, says Dr. John Riddle, professor and head of the history department at North Carolina State University. From the earliest times, women sipped herbal teas and potions made from rue, pennyroyal or Queen Anne's lace to prevent or terminate pregnancies.
"Living in Our World," the first and only social studies program for grades 4-7 designed exclusively to meet North Carolina's unique geography-based curriculum, is ready to roll off the presses.
He's a smooth operator, the type of guy who knows his way around. Some new Hollywood hero? No, he's Cosmo the Internet Adviser, wise-cracking animated star of a new interactive software program being developed at North Carolina State University to teach teens and preteens about the inner workings of the Internet.
We know next to nothing about what effect increased ultraviolet-B radiation will have on forests as the stratospheric ozone shield continues to disintegrate over the next century. Also, since global processes do not operate in isolation, how will the UV-B effect on forests affect their ability to cope with anticipated global warming?
Heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases could cost the nation about $15 billion more in economic costs in 1998 than they did in 1997, according to figures released today by the American Heart Association in its 1998 Heart and Stroke Statistical Update.
Even on a Saturday, it's not surprising to find dedicated scientists hunched over microscopes in Northwestern University's Searle Medical Research Building, oblivious to the attractions of Lake Michigan and the Magnificent Mile, both just steps away on Chicago's near north side. What may be surprising are some of the faces behind the microscopes: a dozen or so teenagers, mostly Hispanic and African-American, who, on the remaining days of the week, live a world away in that other Chicago, the Chicago of struggling public schools and limited opportunities.
In an era of spin doctors and media handlers, high profile agents and power publicists, the public's awareness of celebrity is greater than ever.
People who have Parkinson's disease may someday find themselves undergoing a mental training regimen that helps them respond better to the drugs they take and to avoid surgery. Studies by researchers at the University of Kansas hint that exercising your brain every day might be just as important as 20 minutes of physical exercise.
Malignant brain cancers in young children can be eradicated with high-dose chemotherapy and stem-cell transplants, eliminating the need for conventional radiation therapy, which causes irreparable physical and psychological damage in young children, according to two studies by New York University School of Medicine researchers.
Minority freshmen taking part in Northwestern University's Mentoring Program this academic year will be teamed up soon with alumni mentors. Minority freshmen taking part in Northwestern University's Mentoring Program this academic year will be teamed up soon with alumni mentors.
The world's most advanced search for the basic building blocks of matter -- a quest begun in ancient Greece -- will be conducted with the help of physicists from the University of Iowa and Iowa State University.
Public trials of government officials accused of mass atrocities can be quite effective in helping countries heal their psychic wounds, University of Iowa Law Professor Mark Osiel argues in a new book that has attracted attention from judges currently investigating war crimes. "Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory, and the Law" (Transaction Publishers, 1997) lays out Osiel's arguments that the law -- and its manifestation in public trials -- can help societies make sense of their with traumatic pasts.
Future teachers from the University of Iowa College of Education are showcasing their high-tech skills in a novel way, thanks to a new effort to prepare teachers for the classroom who will also be noticed by employers. "The Electronic Portfolio Project" is a new initiative to provide students in the teacher education program in the College of Education with training, skills and resources to make their academic and professional abilities available to employers on the World Wide Web.
About 5,400 students across the country are getting a high-tech introduction to economic literacy during the next three years, thanks to a $443,000 grant to the University of Iowa College of Business Administration and a partnership of 45 colleges, and educational associations and advocates for minority education.
An enzyme present in extremely low quantities in normal brains has been found to be greatly increased in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's disease. Northwestern University researchers found that the enzyme, butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), increases at the stage when beta-amyloid plaques in the brain become compact and insoluble. These insoluble plaques are one of two early pathological markers of Alzheimer's disease.
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