¡Ciao! down: Mediterranean diet after a heart attack adds years to life
... greater than 30. Body mass index is a formula to assess a persons body weight relative to height. Though the body mass index of overweight people did not change significantly during follow-up, their dietary habits improved after their heart attacks, says Marchioli. Their intake of healthy foods was rela...UI researchers investigate regulation of immune system memory
...tion in scientists' ability to identify, count and assess the function of antigen-specific T cells with high...xt few years we will be able to use these tools to assess how good human vaccines actually are," Harty said. In the current studies, Harty and his colleagues ...Scientists launch the worlds first marine life census
...of the Census of Marine Life a 10-year program to assess the distribution of species in the worlds oceans. "We havent spent enough time exploring our own planet," says Barbara A. Block, the Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Professor of Marine Sciences at Hopkins. "We dont like to tell anyone were ignorant abo...Household exposure to passive smoke depletes some vitamins in non-smokers
...ient-depleted, further studies which additionally assess dietary intake of the subjects will be needed to determine whether depletion of antioxidants is due to smoke exposure, shared inadequate diets, or both. The study population of 1590 individuals were equally divided between men and women, averaged ......ghts into the original conditions of the delta and assess the negative consequences of water management. "The approach can be used almost anywhere because shellfish are common and their shells survive around the surface for hundreds of years," says Kowalewski. "We can now at least approximate original pr...UC Davis study shows spirulina boosts immune system
...tor of lymphoid cells, to half of cell cultures to assess spirulinas effect on the immune system at rest and when stimulated to mount an allergic response. After 72 hours, they measured changes in cytokine levels in all samples using ELISA analysis. (ELISA, or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, is a sensiti...New research aims to help rowers take the strain off their backs
...o alterations in the rowing technique, he said. To assess their systems performance the researchers recruited six male rowers of elite standard from Imperial College Boat Club. At the Olympic Games in Sydney this year, three former rowers from the club won gold medals in the GB mens eight. The researchers f...New MRI technology provides detailed views of brain development, response to injury
...edical conditions, including stroke, as well as to assess certain neurological, cognitive, and behavioral di...ge that results from stroke can also use DT-MRI to assess the efficacy of the treatment. With DT-MRI it is also possible to assess damage to the fibers that ...Why some people just can't seem to pay attention
.... "Psychological tests may be used to reliably assess several cognitive functions and dysfunctions," explained Kimmo Alho, professor of psychology at the University of Helsinki. "However, many attention-related processes (such as the ability to selectively attend to certain stimuli in one's environment...Chemical may deter starfish from devouring endangered coral reefs
...Monitoring Network, an organization established to assess and improve reef conditions. Unless better management is established, 40 percent of the world's reefs will be lost by 2010, the network predicts. Starfish are expected to be a significant factor in this decline. Researchers at Nagoya University...Two major U.S. dietary patterns result in different obesity and cardiovascular risk factors
...rum dietary data, and that further research should assess the power and stability of the various statistical approaches....Trans-NIH collaboration with NIOSH initiates studies of racial and ethnic disparities in health
...Winkleby at Stanford University in California will assess the role of the neighborhood environment and other individual risk factors in predicting deaths, including those from cardiovascular disease. These potential risk factors include neighborhood socioeconomic status, social disorganization, Hispanic con...First genetically modified monkey, reported in Science, may promise medical advances for humans
...studies of his placenta and birth cord. To further assess their genetic modification system, the researchers also examined tissue from the stillborn monkeys, to identify the GFP gene product through fluorescence tests. Tests on the two monkeys lost at birth proved crucial because ANDi himself does not exh...Blood test for diagnosing schizophrenia
...sease. Unfortunately, however, it is impossible to assess the number and location of dopamine receptors in the brains of live schizophrenic patients with sufficient precision. Prof. Sara Fuchs and Tal Ilani propose a way of getting around this problem. They suggest evaluating the presence of dopamine recept...Conservation battle faces long odds in Brazilian Amazon
...troying the forests. Two models were developed to assess the future impacts of these trends, one somewhat optimistic and the other less so. Both suggest that the Brazilian Amazon will be drastically altered by current development schemes. Under the less optimistic scenario, less than 5 percent of the land ......r for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) to assess how factors such as larval dispersal, genetics in marine systems, catastrophes, and evidence for open vs. closed populations, affect the establishment, design and effectiveness of marine reserves. Melding the Science and Policy of Marine Reserves (...Scientific theory of marine reserves to be released
...l work and discusses the theoretical literature to assess the impacts of marine reserves on several biological measures (density, biomass, size of organisms, and diversity), paying particular attention to the role reserve size has in determining those impacts. The results of 89 separate studies show tha...Coping with natural disasters along the Pacific Rim
...g earthquake risk, as well as community efforts to assess the risk of hazards before they occur. ``This is the century of the Pacific Rim - a region of spectacular sociopolitical, economic and cultural growth,`` observes Ernst, noting that when disaster strikes Taiwan or Silicon Valley, the economic repercu...... auspices of the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP), to assess measures needed to complete a clean-up of the station that was begun by New Zealand in the mid-1980s. The four-person team -- which consisted of a biologist, an environmental officer for Antarctica New Zealand, and two environmental spec......the ecology of the entire Gulf is being studied to assess the noise problem. "This is logistically challeng...ertise." Last summer several whales were tagged to assess their responses to manmade noise and to record the sounds they made themselves while diving. Tagging...