Nutrition Study Reshapes Strategies For Athletes
...ve been workingwith Linda K. Houtkooper, associate specialist in nutrition sciences. Houtkooper has developed this new training program over several years withmany of the women heptathletes. The most important key to an athlete'ssuccess, said Houtkooper, is replacing fluids lost during practice andcompetition....Duke University Students Devise Devices For The Disabled
...and Jean Hartford-Todd,a child and adolescent life specialist at Duke Hospital. The students, in turn, find "it's quite a demanding course in termsof time commitment, so they really have to want to do this kind of work,"Bohs added. Feldman, of Clifton, Va., and Maciolek, of Hales Corner, Wisc.,are both applyin...Experts: Public Will Accept Irradiation In Wake Of Meat Recall
... the consumer." Richard Linton, Purdue Extension specialist in food safety, says, "Cooking and irradiation are perhaps the only existing ways today to get rid of microorganisms on food." An instance where irradiation would've been particularly helpful, Mason explains, was last spring when microbial organ...Study Sheds Light On Behavior Of Middle-Age 'Undertaker' Bees
... of thebehavioral profiles of interesting types of specialist bees, such as undertakers,"Robinson said. "Understanding the career choices of bees is a usefulmodel for understanding behavior in general. This new information shouldenable us to develop new hypotheses about how neurons and genes in the brainfunct...CTC Visualizations Help Ecologists See The Forest And The Trees
...ionswas the job of Catherine Devine, visualization specialist at the CornellTheory Center (CTC). "Visualizing the results is a key part of exploringa model," says Deutschman. "If you do simulations based on individualtrees in 3D, you should be able to look at each tree. That's very difficultto do and that's whe......tery, said Dr. Kimberli Miller, a wildlife disease specialist at the Center. Other disease agents known to affect birds, including bacteria, viruses or parasites, have been ruled out, and while microscopic evidence suggests that a neurotoxin may be the cause, tests for natural and man-made toxins that can cause...Common Infection Linked To High Blood Pressure
...ary heart disease and stroke," says Peter. J.Cook, specialist registrar at Heartland Hospital in Birmingham, England. "Nowwe know that severe high blood pressure falls into the same category." Severehigh blood pressure is indicated by a reading of 160/90 millimeters of mercuryor greater. The America...Biologists Get First Look At DNA-Protein Binding Structure In An Archaeon
...binson and Wang teamed with Yi-Gui Gao, a research specialist in the U. of I. department of cell and structural biology, and Bradford S. McCrary, Stephen P. Edmonson and John W. Shriver, all of the department of medical biochemistry at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Carbondale. The res......g accreditation. Any information/public relations specialist from a government agency, academicinstitution or science/medical-related institution (private or nonprofit)wishing to attend (but not covering the meeting as a reporter) also may registerat no charge as a guest of the ACS News Service. Publishers an...ATLANTA -- Preliminary research by a fertility specialist at the University at Buffalo shows for the first time that a hormone whose role in fertility was thought to be limited to triggering ovulation also can support growth of a developing egg follicle during...Caribbean Lizards Evolve Independently
...ists evolved only one time. For example, the twig specialist may haveevolved on a single large island that then...ur islands thatexist today. Alternatively, a twig specialist may have evolved on one islandand then managed to cross the Caribbean to colonize the other islands....'Mean Gene' Found In Africanized Honey Bees
...scientists at three institutions. Greg Hunt, a bee specialist with the Purdue University Department of Entomology and principal investigator on the research project, says finding the mean gene in honey bees "may help us understand what makes Africanized bees so aggressive." Hunt and colleagues Robert E. Page of...High-Altitude Cerebral Edema Likely Caused By Leaks In Blood-Brain Barrier
.... Krasney, Ph.D., UB professor of physiology and a specialist in hypoxia, will present the findings here today (April 28, 1998) at the 66th annual meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in Philadelphia. Krasney and colleagues in UB's Hermann Rahn Laboratory of Environmental Physiolo...Fish Farmers Must Learn Zebra Mussel Prevention From A To Z
...their turn. Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant aquaculture specialist LaDon Swann says "Anytime now." The fingernail-sized mussel's ability to thrive in U.S. waters, its remarkable proclivity for proliferation, and its gift for hitchhiking in bilge water or on boat bottoms makes fish farm contamination a foregone concl...Obesity Gene: Possible Link To Heart Disease Risk
...er heartdisease risk," says Francisco Leyva, M.D., specialist registrar in cardiology atCharing Cross Hospital. "We have found that leptin concentrations are related to the metabolicdisturbances that constitute the syndrome, especially insulin resistance," saysLeyva. "Futher studies are needed to deter...Successful Specialist Care For Cystic Fibrosis Patients From Childhood To Adulthood
...al responsibility of all physicians to ensure that specialist care begins in childhood and is continued througho...ous studies have supported a clinical benefit from specialist teams providing care in cystic fibrosis centres, their study provides good evidence to justify the s...Wake Forest Study: Dermatologists Provide Better, Cheaper Care For Fungal Skin Disease
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--Should you see a specialist for athlete's foot?You should if you want the infection cleared up faster and at less cost,according to researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Researchers at the school's Department of Dermatology found that familydocto...Ecological Consequences Of Jasmonate-Induced Responses For Plants In Native Populations
...chemical defenses are frequently sequestered by specialist herbivores for their own defense, thereby turning a plant's defense against itself. Many inducible chemical responses, such as protease inhibitors which slow herbivore growth by reducing their digestive efficiency, may only function as de...Hopkins Researchers Urge Regular Chlamydia Testing For All Sexually Active Teenage Women
... Burstein, aresearch fellow andadolescent medicine specialist at The Johns Hopkins University School ofMedicine. "The only riskfactor we found for chlamydia infection was being a teenager." The Hopkins teamalso found theycouldn't predict whether a female was infected just by determining whether shehad symptoms...