Updated labeling for CASODEX tablets recently cleared by teh FDA includes new survival data from one of the largest advanced prostate cancer research studies ever conducted.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) researchers delving into the fundamental mechanisms underlying one form of leukemia have learned how to interfere with the genetic changes that lead to this potentially fatal type of cancer.
Triskaidekaphobes be warned: You should be especially wary in the months of February and March this year. The 1998 calendar provides back-to-back Fridays the 13th. People should not worry, says a DePauw University psychology professor. Also, trivia about Friday the 13th.
Sea Grant Cold Weather Story Tip Sheet 1) Cold Weather Survival - First Aid For Hypothermia 2) Winter Sports Safety - Dangers of Thin Ice 3) The Right Clothing For Cold Weather
Tip Sheet from the National Science Foundation; 1. Satellite navigation system to monitor the movement of an entire continent. 2. Biologist David Anderson will use satellite-tracking to study two species of albatross. 3. Oceanographers study toxic organisms that contaminates shellfish
Forget that adage about how men sweat but women perspire. We all sweat, and it's a good thing we do. Sweating controls body temperature. But some people -- about 1 percent of the population -- sweat copiously following mild stimulation or none at all. They suffer from a disorder called hyperhidrosis, a condition that that can be relieved with surgery.
A University of Delaware professor examines how media-sensationalized murder trials became the Broadway hit, "Chicago" in a new book by the same name.
Scientists at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in South Carolina have described a new species of copepod, a tiny, aquatic crustacean.
A relatively non-invasive surgical procedure, similar to balloon angioplasty, can dramatically improve the quality of life for patients who suffer from narrowed heart valves resulting from rheumatic heart disease.
New research published by the American Psychological Association (APA), suggests that depressed people --and nondepressed people -- who smoke to improve their mood may do so because of differences in their genetic make-up, differences that may be important to the effectiveness of future treatments for depression and nicotine dependency.
Astronomers have found a fast-spinning pulsar in a companion galaxy to our Milky Way that could be the missing evolutionary link.
Research supports the use of natural antioxidants to prevent and treat illnesses, and improve patients' overall health, clinicians said today at a conference held before prominent international scientists.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The 1997-98 season is the 50th anniversary of the Broadway premiere of "Summer and Smoke" by University of Iowa theater alumnus Tennessee Williams. To mark the anniversary, University Theatres is producing not the play that was produced on Broadway, but the revision that Williams preferred, "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale."
Dr. John Orman, an expert on the U.S. presidency and a professor of politics at Fairifeld University, has written about the behavior and style of U.S. presidents and why some presidents seem to be held to a stricter accountability than others.
Working from his basement lab, a Los Alamos, N.M., scientist has created a miniature fuel cell that can run on common alcohol and air to generate electricity for powering cellular phones and other common portable electronic devices.
Single females looking for love through Internet personal ads are more successful if they avoid mentioning good looks and instead mention their successful careers
In his Jan. 27 State of the Union address, President Clinton is likely to stick with the moderate stance that won him re-election in 1996, says Vanderbilt presidential scholar Erwin Hargrove.
Physicians at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have developed an innovative treatment for patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) that results in long-term survival without cancer recurrence.
According to a study of 34 public fitness centers in the Kansas City metropolitan area, no facilities are completely accessible for people who use wheelchairs. This is the only study published on the compliance of fitness centers to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).
President Clinton has named 214 teachers to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST), the nation's highest honor for mathematics and science teaching in elementary and secondary schools.
In a move that may seriously endanger the anesthesia care of millions of Americans under Medicare or Medicaid, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Care Financing Administration is proposing to do away with a 3-decade-old regulation for physician oversight of anesthesia care for surgery. If this regulatory change is enacted, nurses with as little as two years' technical training will be allowed to practice without any physician supervision when giving anesthesia to a Medicare or Medicaid patient in a hospital or ambulatory care center.
A Cornell marketing professor says prestige and worldwide attention, not just sales, influence Super Bowl advertising decisions
Heart disease causes nearly half of deaths and disability in Americans between the ages of 35 and 64. In fact, twenty to forty percent of middle aged people have early or advanced coronary disease, most without knowing it. But this deadly disease can be prevented or reversed without surgery, if detected, thanks to the pioneering efforts of K. Lance Gould, M.D., a cardiovascular specialist at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School.
Washington, D.C., Jan. 22, 1998 ó An unprecedented coalition of more than 200 public health and grassroots tobacco-control organizations today called on President Clinton and Congress to reject any legislative deal that grants special favors to the tobacco industry
The Facts from The National Cattlemen's Beef Association about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
When a customer walks in the door of a hotel or restaurant, how employees act may send a louder message than their words. "As far as a customer is concerned, front-line employees in the service industry are the business," says Joseph La Lopa, assistant professor in the Purdue University Department of Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional and Tourism Management. La Lopa has developed a video and workbook for training front-line employees in tourist and hospitality businesses.
A combination anticoagulant treatment -- low-dose aspirin and low-dose warfarin -- reduced the risk of heart attack by 34 percent in a 13-year study involving 5,499 men.
Spitting in a cup to diagnose breast cancer may be years away, but current research makes it seem like a real possibility.
When reforms following the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) gave many Catholic nuns the freedom to live outside the convent and dress like the laity, the efforts were seen as a way to help save religious orders from extinction. In fact, they may have done just the opposite, suggests a Purdue University sociologist. Roger Finke believes the explanation can be found not only i the spiiua wl,u nmxm that dictate survival in the business world - costs and benefits.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is accepting requests from professional journalists to visit Antarctica during the 1998-1999 field season to report on research by the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP).
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.
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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.
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