After noticing a suspicious lump, a persistent sore or a chronic cough, low-income Dallas residents tend to treat themselves, then wait about a month before seeing a physician.
Improved economic opportunities for women will decrease the level of violence in abusive relationships.So say the results of a recent study, "An Economic Analysis of Domestic Violence," co- authored by Jill Tiefenthaler of Colgate University in Hamilton, NY.
First results from a satellite launched to advance technology for nuclear weapons detection show thousands times more lightning from thunderstorms than anything previously detected.
Researchers at The New York Botanical Garden are continuing their evaluation of the traditional healing methods of Latino, Chinese, and African cultures for certain women's ailments, in a collaborative study with the Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research in Women's Health at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. The current phase of the project focuses on uterine fibroids, a benign tumor composed of fibrous and muscular tissue in the uterine wall.
Researchers at The New York Botanical Garden are working in a community forestry project in West Kalimantan, Indonesia to invest in the rain forest: developing sustainable ways to exploit forest resources - harvesting only the annual growth, (that is, interest), and safeguarding the basic stock of plant resources, (that is, principal), for the future.
Research Highlights from the New York Botanical Garden - In the tropics, traditional agricultural systems yield models for sustainable farming all over the world.
Glaring lights, harsh noises and disruptive procedures in many neonatal intensive care units can deter the neurological development of tiny newborns and should be subdued, said a University of South Florida researcher who heads a national study examining the effects of the NICU environment on high-risk infants.
Tips from Oak Ridge National Laboratory: 1) Energy - What's Your R-Value? 2) Technology Transfer - The Long Arm Of ORCMT, 3) Environmental Management - Giving Waste The Cold Shoulder, 4) Computing - New 'Super'-Life For Old Computers
After six years of witnessing remarkable growth in the stock market, investors should be prepared for a weakening market during 1998, University of Kentucky economist Donald J. Mullineaux warned Monday.
Leif Edvinsson, the first ever director of Intellectual Capital (at Skandia AFS in Stockholm, Sweden) and the world's leading expert on Intellectual Capital says there are applications for Intellectual Capital beyond business. He is meeting with MBA students at Fairfield University to discuss how Intellectual Capital can be used to improve the communities in which we live.
Parkinson's and Alzheimer's-like diseases are as much a part of the island of Guam as its sandy beaches, emerald sea ... and palm-like trees called cycads. Only recently did scientists discover that the seeds of the cycads, a favorite food of the locals, contain BMAA, a nonprotein amino acid which triggers neurological damages in mammals.
Thanks to the work of ethnobotanists who study the uses of plants by ancient cultures, the garden of the Mughal emperors near the Taj Mahal may bloom again. The Mehtab Bagh or "Moonlight Garden" is a 1000-square-foot garden built around the 17th century on the banks of the Yamuna River in Agra, India. It blossomed across the river from the Taj Mahal, the world- famous mausoleum built in 1632 by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan for his favorite empress.
Research published in the Dec. 11 Nature by Texas and New York scientists hints at ways to uncouple profound emotional associations resulting from things like child abuse, rape or war and offers some of the best support yet for a long-held theory of how we learn.
A new 300-site survey of borehole temperatures spanning four continents and five centuries has confirmed what most scientists already believe---the Earth is getting warmer and the rate of warming has been accelerating rapidly since 1900.
After a decade of increases, AIDS-related TB appears to be stabilizing.
Smoking crack cocaine and marijuana can damage the lung's immune system more than smoking cigarettes
27 percent of women in a contraceptive use study had increased risk of pregnancy because they didn't take the pill for two or more consecutive days and used no backup in the following week. Also, half of those women missed two or more pills at least twice during the three-month study.
Last May University of Iowa space physicist Louis Frank claimed to have discovered 20- to 40-ton cosmic snowballs, the size of houses, pelting the Earth at the rate of 30,000 a day. Now University of Washington geophysicist George Parks has analyzed Frank's ultraviolet (UV) camera images and has concluded that the white snow in space is no more than black "snow" on the television screen. Parks and his collaborators are certain that Frank has been looking at "instrument noise."
When business and pleasure combine at the annual holiday office party, how should bosses and workers interact? "Office parties can cause some people to feel stress and anxiety. People aren't sure how to act when some of the formal relationships break down," said Joel Whalen, a DePaul University associate professor of marketing who is an expert and author on persuasive business communication. If you can get overcome the nervousness, office parties offer an excellent opportunity for bosses and workers to communicate important messages, Whalen added. How do you make the most of your holiday office party? Whalen offers advice.
Using $1.5 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health, LSU chemist Steven Soper is on the verge of saving researchers with the Human Genome Project millions of dollars and years of work.
Researchers say constellations of satellites as small as a half an ounce each be used for a variety of important new space missions. They presented their study and a satellite controller prototype at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
Tipsheet for the December 1997 Journals of the American Society for Microbiology: 1) New Antibody Test for Ulcer Bug, 2) Pine Cleaners Contribute to Antibiotic Resistance, 3) Naturally Occurring Antibiotic Resitance
A team of scientists has counted nearly 300 mountain gorillas living in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, bringing the total to around 600 for this most endangered gorilla sub-species.
The Los Angeles basin's sediments seem to lessen the ground motion that threatens single-story and low-rise buildings in a severe earthquake, a new study of data from the 1994 Northridge quake has revealed. The study was conducted through the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Southern California Earthquake Center.
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore is redefining emergency care with the opening of its new Emergency Center, ER-7, in the new Herman & Walter Samuelson Pavilion for Emergency Medicine.
Lucent Technologies today announced a new business venture that will offer a unique software product that uncovers and displays trends and patterns often buried in large amount of data. Called Visual Insights, the venture will use Bell labs software to help businesses make faster, better decisions.
"President Clinton's Bill of Rights for health care consumers is good for people with mental illnesses," said Michael Faenza, president and chief executive of the National Mental Health Association. "It will help provide essential safeguards for mental health consumers in an increasingly cost-based health care system."
Lucent Technologies announces a neew Internet firewall that is designed to be the industry's most secure, expandable and easy-to-use hardware and software platform for protecting customers' data networks.
A children's mental health report released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) estimates that 20%, or one in five, of all children from birth through 17 years of age suffer from a diagnosable mental, emotional or behavioral disorder, and that 9% - 13% of all youths ages 9 - 17 have a serious emotional disturbance (SED).
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is one of several hospitals offering a new, more sensitive cochlear implant.
Two Iowa State University physicists are part of an international team of scientists who will be designing and building detectors for the Large Hadron Collider, a high-energy particle accelerator, at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
It seems that Americans are not entirely to blame for the chemical smog that hangs over cities along the U.S. West Coast. A new study indicates that about 10 percent of the ozone and other pollutants are arriving from the industrialized nations of East Asia. After measuring pollutants from a remote Olympic Peninsula research station, a researcher concludes that Asian pollution is affecting much of the U.S.West Coast, with Washington and Oregon affected slightly more because of wind patterns.
The flight of a balloon sent aloft by scientists over Kiruna, Sweden, seemed uneventful -- until researchers started examining the data. What was found by three graduate students has scientists scrambling for an explanation: an intense stream of X-rays, occurring in seven bursts, each separated by only a few minutes and lasting for a total of half an hour. The evidence is that the bursts came not from space, but from the Earth's upper atmosphere.
After only seven days of physical activity -- walking or stationary biking -- women with high blood pressure began to reap dramatic health benefits, according to a report in this month's Hypertension, a journal of the American Heart Association.
Although the drug warfarin prevents up to 80 percent of strokes suffered by those who have atrial fibrillation, which is irregular heart beat, it is woefully underused in the patients who have this common heart condition, according to a study in this month's Stroke, a journal of the American Heart Association.
A novel form of blood pressure reading can be a strong predictor of coronary heart disease death, according to a study reported by a Paris team of researchers in this month's Hypertension, an American Heart Association journal.
Boston, Mass -- It's been 22 years since the last study was conducted on the cost of epilepsy. In 1975 the total cost of the disorder was estimated at $3.6 billion. Since then, various studies have produced buckshot results with estimates scattered across the board, some varying as much as $3,000 to more than $9,000 per patient. Today, with advances in treatment and rising health-care costs, there is a real need to pin down the cost burden of epilepsy on individuals and society as a whole.
An estrogen derived from plants was shown in clinical trials to prevent osteoporosis at half the dose of the animal-based estrogen normally prescribed by physicians--and with fewer side effects-- according to a new study.
The key to managing river ecosystems is to return them to their natural flow patterns, as much as possible. That is the conclusion of a six-university panel of river experts whose report, "The Natural Flow Regime: A Paradigm for River Conservation and Restoration," is published in the December 1997 issue (Vol. 47, pp. 769-784) of the journal BioScience.
The annual economic and environmental benefits of biodiversity total approximately $300 billion in the United States and $2.928 trillion worldwide, according to an new analysis by Cornell University biologists, as reported in the December 1997 issue of BioScience.
A great majority of pregnant women want ultrasounds---so much so, that many are willing to pay out of pocket for it if their insurance company won't cover the procedure, study shows.
PET, or positron emission tomography, is a technology previously considered experimental in the United States. However, new studies show it is significantly more accurate than other imaging methods used to detect cancer and can also find areas of infection in the body far quicker than conventional means.
It sounded like a neat idea. Introduce sun ovens to poor villages in Haiti and help the people there become less dependent on charcoal, an expensive form of energy that is stripping the island of its tropical rain forest and destroying the enviroment. But business and environmental students at Fairfield University are finding out that theory is easier than practice.
Researchers from the Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) at the University of Minnesota Duluth are developing a computer model to simulate animal foraging. Currently, the model is being used to study the effects of moose eating habits on plant growth in an effort to better manage moose populations. EASE, which stands for Energy Activity and Simulation Environment, uniquely combines four submodels into one and was designed specifically for ruminantsóanimals that initially eat great quantities of food and later regurgitate it from their ìfermenterî stomachs to completely digest the food.
National Science Foundation Tips: 1) Children's Author on A South Pole Adventure, 2) Team in Himalayas Retrieves Ice Core from Highest-Ever Altitude, 3) U. Vermont Wires "Smartest Bridge in the World"
Faced with medical tests, patients and their families generally have questions. Why is test being given? What does it involve? How does it help? These questions and many others are answered in a new book, The Yale University School of Medicine Patient's Guide to Medical Tests, just published by Houghton Mifflin Co.
Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine have launched a study to determine how commonly used chemicals in autobody paint shops may cause or aggravate asthma. The study, Survey of Painters and Repairers in Autobodies by Yale (SPRAY), is also aimed at finding better ways to protect workers' health
Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI, has just established an insurance agency to generate profits while will fund student scholarships.
A new book by Purdue University Professor Greg Frederickson may reshape the way you think about mathematical puzzles. In the book, Frederickson explores the challenges of geometric dissections, the mathematical art of cutting figures into the fewest number of pieces that can be rearranged to form other figures.
Johns Hopkins researchers have confirmed that a gene related to bipolar disorder in families is located in the "long arm" of human chromosome 18.
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