Gender is clearly no longer a liability for women considering a run for Congress, according to a Vanderbilt doctoral student who is researching the competitiveness of women candidates in the House of Representatives.
A search for the genetic roots of towering height has led a Johns Hopkins endocrinologist to identify a mutation that causes a rare form of treatable dwarfism. Research results, published in the March issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, suggest that the mutation could be used as a prenatal screening test for the disorder.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a foam that begins neutralizing both chemical and biological agents in minutes. Because it is not harmful to people, it could be dispensed on the disaster scene immediately, even before casualties are evacuated.
Gulf War syndrome is not just something in the heads of the soldiers who fought in the 1991 Middle East war, but is a real illness that requires treatment, says a Michigan State University epidemiologist.
People accessing the World Wide Web don't want to turn to a dictionary to decipher what they are reading on any particular site. But if individuals are looking up medical materials, they likely may need such assistance, according to a recent University of Iowa study.
Sixty-eight pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are currently developing 104 medicines for heart disease and stroke, the first and third leading disease killers of Americans, a new survey by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) found.
Global corporations are shrinking and reorganizing their headquarters operations to stay in front of the competition, according to a new report released by the Conference Board.
A new study using nationally representative data conducted by Michigan State University showed that the diets of many children in the U.S. fall critically short of getting 100% of the nutrients - calcium, iron and zinc - essential for growth and development.
A new University of Michigan study documents the link between moderate levels of volunteer activity and increased chances of survival.
The Monadnock Institute at Franklin Pierce College surveyed New Hampshire residents and among the survey's findings from 243 respondents: women reported a much higher level of attachment to (and satisfaction with) their place compared to men; income levels and home ownership seem to be strong predictors of place connection; and respondents who acknowledge watching four or more hours of TV per day expressed a significant disconnection from their place/community.
New research by a University of Georgia sociologist focuses on the problem of out-of-field teaching -- teachers assigned to teach subjects for which they have little education or training. He found that the most common assumptions about the causes of the problem are largely untrue and that proposed solutions may, in fact, cause more harm than good.
La Nina may get the attention, but if forecasts of unusually wild weather this spring come true, lesser-known forces like "zonal jet streams" and "Bermuda highs" will be responsible.
A recently developed electro-analgesia technique may offer new hope to patients who suffer from chronic, debilitating back pain, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Nearly 90 percent of prostate cancers -- "the typical, garden varieties," according to Johns Hopkins scientists -- are linked to a previously unsuspected but common genetic process that could be reversible. The process looks to be a fundamental one in cancer and appears in other common forms of the disease, like breast cancer.
Screening for blood in the stool can drastically reduce mortality from colorectal cancer, a University of Minnesota study confirms.
A study presented at the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) demonstrates that treatment with ACCOLATE, a product of Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, may allow patients to reduce their asthma symptoms and maintain their airway function when they are exposed to cat allergen.
Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have made a new discovery that may help patients suffering from a variety of debilitating and life-threatening bone diseases, including dwarfism, dysplasia and osteoporosis, according to a study published in the March issue of Nature Medicine.
Although cochlear implants have opened up the world of sound for many individuals with profound hearing loss or deafness, the devices fall short of replicating the normal hearing process. But that could soon change.
An imbalance in how genes are expressed on a female's two X chromosomes may lead to the development of ovarian cancer in some women, University of Iowa Cancer Center researchers report in the Feb. 17 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The European Monetary Union will increase price discipline among Union members, leading to wage moderation and a reduction of wage differentials among countries, according to a new report released today by The Conference Board.
Economic barriers keep more African Americans away from the dentist for routine care than whites, a new U-Michigan study shows.
An article examines the role of the emergency department as a social safety net in an era of social reform and the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration reports on the world's most powerful research simulator, in the March issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine.
A new study of an emergency department-based pneumococcal vaccination program found it resulted in considerable cost savings and decreased mortality, according to the March issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine.
A study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified molecular changes in nerve cells that may play an important role in an abnormal pain syndrome -- causalgia -- which often eludes effective treatment.
University of Washington engineers are testing a new concrete framing system that enables large buildings to ride out an earthquake with minimal damage. The system employs concrete columns and beams reinforced with steel cables stretched like rubber bands which pull a building back to its original position after an earthquake.
Scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and other medical centers nationwide have found that in treating children who have certain malignant brain tumors, a "tried-and-true" chemotherapy protocol provides better results than a newer, more experimental method.
U-M ichigan researchers present the results of experiments testing the effectiveness of the vaccine/IL-2 combination on laboratory mice with large, advanced sarcomas or breast cancers.
The largest drug trial ever for multiple sclerosis will launch March 1 at The University of Texas--Houston Health Science Center. It will investigate whether COPAXONE can slow the progression of primary progressive MS.
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Well-meaning parents who give their babies "designer" bottled waters to drink may be unwittingly contributing to their young children's dental problems, says a pediatric dentist, orthodontist and dental anesthesiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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A mother's employment outside of the home has no significant negative effect on her children, according to new research reported in the March issue of Developmental Psychology.
A control mechanism for the proper development of inner ear "hair cells" -- sensory cells that are critical for normal hearing in mammals -- involves two interacting genes in a molecular signaling pathway known to direct cell fate in many different organisms.
Adolescent girls are more helpful and affectionate toward their parents than adolescent boys, new research at Ohio State suggests. In addition, mothers receive more help and affection from their children than do fathers.
A national task force of basic researchers and clinicians spent 18 months assessing what is known about autoimmune diseases and has now proposed an aggressive research agenda aimed at understanding why men and women respond differently to these illnesses.
A biomedical engineer has developed an optical scanner that measures the eyes' point of fixation in a new way. Doctors could use it to diagnose eye diseases in infants and children too young to cooperate with a physician's exam.
New research at Ohio State suggests that businesses and others who write rejection letters are better off delivering the bad news up front rather than placing it lower in the letter.
Doctors may sometimes be reluctant to adequately treat the pain of seriously ill patients because they fear legal problems for prescribing powerful narcotics, according to an expert at Ohio State who has studied the issue.
Middle school students maintain a significantly better seated posture at adjustable computer workstations than at desktop workstations. Yet, the students were still seated in potentially at risk positions for musculoskeletal problems.
The discovery of two complete fossils of saber-toothed cats in central Florida will force paleontologists to rewrite the textbooks on the extinct animal, says a noted researcher at the University of Kansas.
One of the nation's leading authorities on threats to the public's health and the man credited with the success of the smallpox eradication project a quarter century ago, says the virus is once again a threat to the United States and the world -- this time as a weapon of bioterrorists.
In a field trial in 270 villages in rural Nepal, researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health showed that women had their risk of death from pregnancy lowered by about 40 percent after taking dietary supplements of vitamin A or beta-carotene, compared to women who did not take the supplements.
The obvious decline of the traditional family, a trend marked by increasing rates of divorce and cohabitation, illustrates the paradoxical nature of Americans' hot and cold attitude toward marriage and family, says a University at Buffalo sociologist.
Approximately one out of every five American children will experiment with inhalants before they complete eighth grade, said Matthew Howard, author of two recently published studies on inhalant abuse among children.
Last year's El Nino brought a variety of weather-related woes, but this year's La Nina may stir up double trouble during the tornado season for Indiana, Arkansas and Mississippi and the western parts of Kentucky and Tennessee.
A research team led by a University of Chicago paleontologist has developed a mathematical model that could resolve the conflict between the molecular clock and fossil record methods of charting mammalian evolution.
A new study at Ohio State University suggests that obese Black teenagers have a greater risk of developing diabetes as adults than do their white counterparts.
New research at Ohio State suggests that an increase in arctic temperatures as a result of global warming could result in significantly higher levels of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere. This, in turn, could fuel global warming even more.
Taking a newborn's temperature with an infrared thermometer placed under the arm is just as reliable as taking a rectal temperature, new research at Ohio State suggests.
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