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.
Major national public health groups today petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to develop strategies to regulate tobacco products as drugs. "Under existing law, the Food and Drug Administration has the authority and jurisdiction to regulate the manufacture, sale, distribution, labeling, advertising and marketing of tobacco products. Today we are filing a petition with the FDA to urge the agency to continue to exercise that jurisdiction. Tobacco products should meet the same level of standards applied to other legal drugs and drug delivery devices," said John R. Garrison, CEO of the American Lung Association.
Many of us have very creative ways for turning off an alarm clock, but Purdue University students will be building contraptions to do it for us at the 16th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Feb. 7. Several teams of Purdue students are building the most complicated and often humorous machines to get the job done.
The World Wide Web is revolutionizing the way corporations recruit from business schools, and Purdue's Krannert Graduate School of Management is ready. The Krannert graduate student placement office Web site offers recruiters on-line access to the resume and e-mail link of every graduate student currently enrolled.
After years of working in a dark, windowless laboratory to understand speech perception and how speech can be communicated by machines, UC Santa Cruz psychology professor Dominic Massaro is realizing his dream of using advanced technology to help deaf children learn to speak.
Word problem No. 1: Take 372 sixth-graders, 12th-graders and older adults from China and the United States, test them for mathematical ability and solve for the growing Chinese advantage in basic competencies. The answer, says David Geary, professor of psychology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, appears to be cultural changes in both countries including, perhaps, changes in curriculum.
Institutions are no better at picking future high performing IPO stocks than the average investor, find Meeta Kothare, an assistant professor of finance at the University of Texas at Austin, and Gita Rao, vice president at Colonial Mutual Funds in Boston.
Luther College art students sorting through the tree limbs and brush at the Decorah city dump are not skipping classóthey are skipping the long lines at the bookstore as they "shop" for school supplies. The supplies they seek are uniquely shaped pieces of wood, and their search is directed by Harley Refsal, resident fellow in Scandinavian folk art and Scandinavian studies at Luther. Refsal is an internationally recognized expert on Scandinavian flat-plane woodcarving, a "lost" folk art of earlier centuries.
As Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaches, a University of Maine political scientist has tracked use of King's legacy for political gain. She found in a recent study that King's status as an American hero has been used to promote disparate political views and policies, with significant omissions and distortions of his views.
New research by Carson Chow and James J. Collins at Boston University's Center for BioDynamics may be the basis for a better way to help doctors identify people who are susceptible to falls. An article in the current issue of Physical Review Letters describes their finding that the physical mechanism that keeps a person standing upright works essentially the same way whether the person is standing at ease or pertubed by a slight external push.
The Petroleum Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers has announced plans to hold the Energy Sources Technology Conference and Exhibition ( ETCE 1998 ) February 2-4, 1998 at the Sheraton Astrodome Hotel in Houston. More than 225 technical presentations, workshops and panel discussions focused on key technologies in the fields of: Drilling; Production Operations; Pipeline Engineering; Offshore Engineering; Pipeline Operations; Plant Maintenance.
Potassium, either in the form of fruits and vegetables, or in supplements can lower high blood pressure, a risk factor for heart attack or stroke, Harvard researchers report in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
A new, highly sensitive test based on blood pressure monitoring can detect late-pregnancy complications such as high blood pressure and preeclampsia a full 23 weeks before symptoms occur, Spanish researchers report in this month's Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The American College of Physicians released "The Physician Workforce and Financing of Graduate Medical Education, " aimed at changing graduate medical education, adjusting the current physician workforce, achieving predictable and stable funding, and researching new sources of funding such as vouchers.
A review of clinical trials published this week found that women who consumed high levels of calcium in conjunction with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) had much greater increases in bone mass than those who used either estrogen or calcitonin alone.
A performance test code to determine power plant thermal performance -- information that is vital to the power industry -- was recently published and is available through ASME International (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers).
Pharmaceutical companies added 39 new drugs and 10 biologics to the nation's medicine chest in 1997, including important new treatments for heart disease, cancer arthritis, diabetes , Parkinson's disease, and AIDS, according to a report released today by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
An LSU doctorate student studying menhaden (a small fish), has stumbled across data that shows sharks are using the Northern Gulf of Mexico as a nursing ground. His findings are particularly relevant since national efforts to restore over-fished sharks have not considered this bycatch in the menhaden fishery.
A new animal model that develops Alzheimer's-like pathology at an accelerated rate will allow researchers to more rapidly test drugs with the potential to slow or prevent the disease. The joint study by the University of South Florida, Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville and the University of Minnesota is on the January cover of the journal Nature Medicine.
Story Ideas from The National Sea Grant College Program: 1) Wild Rice Flowers Could Hold Clue to Decline; 2) Coral Reef Mining Technique Key To Recovery; 3) Managing Disease in Farmed Fish Seeking Alternative to Antibiotics
A look at the threat of harmful algal blooms--The National Sea Grant College Program invites you to a special media-only science briefing on the latest marine science research into Pfiesteria and other harmful algal blooms.
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