Ear Infection Complications On The Rise, University of Florida Researchers Report
...ntibiotic isprescribed, the whole course should be completed to ensure the bacteria iskilled. Hospitals do have certain antibiotics they hold in reserve to treatresistant bacteria. Antonelli says he believes health-care professionalshave done a good job using them sparingly, but he cautions that relying onant...University Of Texas Southwestern Researchers Develop New Test For Kidney Function
...Elementary School in Duncanville. "Now the test is completed in an hour." Dr. Mouin Seikaly, associate professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern,will initiate a clinical study at Children's Medical Center of Dallas to testthe procedure that provides a quantitative measurement of kidney function within45 ...Study Documents Attitudes About Assisted Suicide Among Patients With Lou Gehrig's Disease
...criptionfrom a physician." (note: The research was completed before the defeat ofMeasure 51 in November, 1997, which allowed Oregon's Death With Dignity Act totake effect). While A.L.S. gradually robs patients of neuromuscular function, many patients donot experience intense physical pain. "For many of these p...Scientists Sequence Chlamydia Trachomatis Genome
...ute of Allergy andInfectious Diseases (NIAID) have completed sequencing the Chlamydia trachomatisgenome, providing new insights into chlamydial infection, the most prevalentbacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the United States and a majorcause of STDs worldwide. C. trachomatis also is the etiologi...Cedars-Sinai Scientist Finds Malignancy Gene In Tumor Cells
...een completely sequenced, a process that could be completed in three months,work will begin on genetically engineering a method of blocking the gene'sexpression. Herein may lie its greatest clinical significance, said Dr.Ljubimova. "Most patients die from metastasis or invasion," she said. "If,using antisen...Virginia Tech Scientist Seek Genetic Solution To Malaria
...at turns on thegene in mosquitoes. "We've completed characterizing the gene," Luckhart said. "We're juststarting to characterize it's regulatory aspects. There's a great deal of workyet to come." There is also the possibility that by understanding the biochemicalprocesses occurring in the mos...Nutrition Therapy Helps Patients Emotionally, Research Shows
...facilities. The dietitians completed a patient information formduring each counseling session. Researchers phoned all patients within eight weeks of the session to assess thepatients' understanding of their diets, chan...By Revving Up Key Gene, Researchers Discover They Can Manipulate The Size Of Cells In Plants
...ricultural developmentcompany. In research completed in 1989, Jones identified a protein he believed tobe the receptor to auxin, a major plant hormone that causes cells to grow,expand and change form. At the time, he could not link the protein to thehormone by genetic methods to prove that it was a gen...Fall Meeting: Updated Press Conference Schedule
...you will save a little time by bringing with you a completed Press Registration Form, available on the AGU web ...al Surveyor Relates to Sessions P71A, P72A MGS has completed nearly 400 low altitude orbits of Mars' northern hemisphere since Spring Meeting, answering many que...Researchers Announce Breakthrough In Transgenic Animal Technology
...of Agricultural and LifeSciences, and the work was completed by Bremel and colleagues at Gala Design.The technology is licensed through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation,which returns royalty income from university inventions to the University ofWisconsin....Salmonella Vaccine Now Available For Poultry
...equent food borne infection of humans. In recently completed trials on US commercial broiler farms which included morethan a million pounds of chicken, Megan™Vac 1 eliminated Salmonella on dressedchicken. Ten percent of the non-vaccinated chickens in these trials werecontaminated. The US broiler chicken...Virginia Tech Fisheries Professor Works To Conserve Mussels
... around the world. Earlier this year Neves completed a three part series for Pearl WorldMagazine on mussel conservation efforts. What do mussels have to do withpearls? The beads implanted in all pearl oysters come from mussel shells in theU.S. Ninety-five percent of the weight of the cultured pearl is...Eight Alabama Researchers Receive NASA Biotechnology Grants
...ations. The orbiting laboratory is scheduled tobe completed by mid-2002. Microgravity experiments are scheduled to begin bymid-1999. Thirty-four of NASA's 48 Biotechnology grants are for new researchefforts. The remaining 14 grants are for continuation of work currently beingfunded by NASA. ...Science Announces Top Ten Research Advances Of 1998
...fy targets for therapeutic drugs. Researchers also completed sequencingthe genomes of a number of harmful pathogens this year, such as syphilis,tuberculosis, and chlamdyia. Neutrino Mass: For years researchers have been on the trail of neutrinos, thesubnuclear particles long thought to have no mass. This year...Americans Urged To Consume More Folic Acid
...t to doctors now since clinical studieswill not be completed for another four to seven years, according to ReneMalinow, M.D., lead author of the Science Advisory. Dr. Malinow of the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland is aworld-renowned scientist and leading researcher on the topic of homocysteine. H......he responses of 22 competitivedistance runners who completed four weeks of altitude training. "As we showed with the collegiate-level athletes, the responders among the eliteathletes also had a significantly larger increase in mean EPO concentrationcompared with the nonresponders," Levine said. "After 14 days ...Bacteria Becoming Increasingly Resistant To Antibiotics, But New Vaccines Are On The Horizon
...e started to becomeavailable and will probably be completed early in 1999. Preliminary reports indicate that the vaccines will be highly efficient in protecting those who aremost vulnerable to these infections: infants and young children. A vaccineintroduced 10 years ago had a major impact on what was then...Large Gene Study Questions Cambrian Explosion
...tudy on the subject using gene sequences, recently completed atPenn State. The research suggests that animals have been evolving steadily intodifferent species for at least 1200 million years, which challenges a populartheory known as the Cambrian Explosion that proposes the sudden appearance ofmost major ani...Rare Fossil Shows Theropod Dinosaurs Are Fast, Dangerous 'Turbocharged' Reptiles
...unded by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) have completed a study of what they say is the world's mostperfectly preserved fossil of a theropod, or meat-eating dinosaur. They believeit provides an unprecedented view of the biology of these ancient reptiles. The bottom line? You wouldn't want to mee......ssic example ofmany different investigations being completed in the right place at the righttime," he says. "Without the bone collection, expertise and patients at Hopkins,it would have been difficult to take our initial finding this far." Since Minor began describing SCDS patients have been diagnosed...