Rickets making comeback among breastfed infants, especially blacks, N.C. doctors find
..., is making a comeback, especially among breastfed black children. Other dark-skinned children may be at ri... see cases of nutritional rickets. All occurred in black children whose mothers had breastfed them. Besides Schwartz and Kirkman, authors of the paper are D...Cloned pig debuts in Science, sets the stage for organ transplants
...eginning. Xena, cloned from cells from a strain of black pigs, has a black coat that contrasts sharply with the white coat of her surrogate mother. To confirm that Xena was a ......ordinary people. Swimming also appears high on the black list discussed at the World Congress on Lung Diseases, although the process involved is quite different. The danger in the case of swimming comes rather from inhaled chlorine molecules. "In swimming pools, swimmers can be exposed to doses close to in...ORNL instrument could spell doom for Asian beetles
...etles favorite targets are maples, horsechestnuts, black locusts, elms, birches, willows and poplars. Already, they have infested thousands of trees in New York and Chicago. The only effective means to eliminate the beetle is to cut infested trees and destroy them by chipping or burning. Visual inspection ...New research shows calcium deficiency permits faster lead release from pregnant women's bones
...h more lead include smoking, less education, being black and low calcium intake, she said. Variables associated with a reduced lead level include history of breastfeeding and higher calcium intake. "We are still trying to determine whether there are health effects from these low levels," Hertz-Picciotto sa...Plant and animal bacteria share cell-killing mechanism
Black death or black rot: U-M scientists find plant and animal bacteria share same deadly cell-killing mechanism ANN ARBOR---When it comes to killing cells, Yersinia pestis---the bacterium that causes bubonic plague---is the stealth assassin of the pathogen world. ...... vitamin D deficiency, including increased age and black race. All participants were part of the Womens H...ho reported no disability were deficient. Elderly black women had a higher incidence of vitamin D deficiency than did white women. The elderly black womens......el fruits and leaves, blackberry essence, bananas, black pepper and bilberries. Metallic nickel and nickel alloys, have each been proposed to be listed as "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen." Nickel and nickel compounds were reviewed for listing in the ninth Report on Carcinogens, but th...New study reveals a major cause of global warming - ordinary soot
... of rising world temperatures - soot, the familiar black residue that coats fireplaces and darkens truck ex... greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2). ``Soot - or black carbon - may be responsible for 15 to 30 percent of global warming, yet it`s not even considered in ...Study of poisonous snakes boosts old Batesian principle of mimicry
...g snakes. Both species bear bright red, yellow and black bands, but the chief visual difference is that in ...ow rings touch, while in the scarlet king snake, a black band usually separates the lighter colors. The researchers created 1,200 life-size models of cor...Study: overweight more common among early-maturing girls, especially minorities
...arolina at Chapel Hill study shows. Early-maturing black girls faced the highest risk of obesity with 57.5 ...and medicine. "In the 1960s, 21.1 percent of black females were overweight," the two wrote. "By the mid-1990s, the percentage had increased to 30.7 per...In possible boon to sickle cell victims, basic scientists find reason cells stick
...ll disease, an inherited illness chiefly affecting black people in the United States, patients still suffer...were a year ago." About 150 in every 100,000 U.S. black children suffer from sickle cell disease, also known as sickle cell anemia, according to the America...Extinction claims a furry friend
... bush rat and ring-tailed possum, while introduced black rats were also common. The detection of these other species showed that Dr Hornsby was using effective techniques. These were hair tubes, well known to wildlife researchers, in which PVC tubes of a diameter suitable for phascogales are lined with dou...Small streams important in controlling nitrogen
... nitrogen uptake and release in streams has been a black box, says Webster, professor of biology at Virginia Tech. But an NSF-sponsored workshop in 1995 identified models and a tracer that might be used to develop a systematic approach. A breakthrough came when MBL chemists made it easier to measure t...... nitrogen uptake and release in streams has been a black box. But an National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop in 1995 identified models and a nitrogen tracer approach that was used to open the "black box." Dodds said scientists used the model to create hypotheses and devise the same experiments at e...Study finds new way that brain detects motion
...that looks like growing staticamorphous smudges of black and white that grow larger with each frame. No single smudge or feature persisted from one frame of the video to the next, so there was no perception of motion. Instead, all-new smudges of a slightly larger size appeared in each successive frame of ...$100,000 prize to pioneers in neural research
...warded tonight to Dr. Goodman and Dr. Jessell at a black tie dinner and ceremony beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Harbor Court Hotel. Greg Gumbel, host and play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports, and a member of the March of Dimes national Board of Trustees, will serve as the host of the ceremony. Dr. Good...WWII landmark becomes a wildlife sanctuary
...ected area supports elephants, leopards, Himalayan black bears, gaur and other wildlife in numbers rarely seen elsewhere in present day Asia. It also contains the last stronghold of Indochinese tigers in the country, and a population of leaf deer, a species discovered by WCS researchers in 1997. "The Huka...Doctors failure to reevaluate asthma severity hurts wheezing sufferers
...w physicians' estimates influenced care has been a black box. To examine the issue, the Hopkins team gathered data from 1,510 patients who had moderate asthma, as determined by self-reported symptoms and treatment guidelines. Through surveys, they discovered that their doctors had classified 849 of them as......sity of Illinois College of Dentistry believe that black tea and its components benefit oral healh by inter...tudy. "However less attention has been focused on black tea, the more popular drink in the Western countries, and worldwide 80 percent of the tea consumed i...