New diagnostic technology helps justify earlier cataract surgery
... "Patients are often in the position of having to curtail night driving because cataracts have made it dangerous or they have to cut back participation in other activities that enrich their lives, but they can't seek treatment because insurance testing criteria exclude them from coverage until their vision ...Plant respiration not just an evolutionary leftover, study shows
...ows down. Eventually, a shortage of nitrogen will curtail the plant's growth. "This explains why many plants are unable to sustain rapid growth when there is a significant increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide," said Bloom. "And, as we anticipate a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide associated with g...Myths surrounding Cuyahoga River fire 35 years ago
...ollution, enlisted local industries to voluntarily curtail pollution and in early 1969 established the Clean Water Task Force to periodically sweep the river and to collect oil and debris. Cleveland also had spent $30 million to build new sewage treatment facilities from 1967-70. "Cleveland made significant...New highways drive accelerating deforestation in Amazonia
...o team-leader William Laurance, "If Brazil doesn't curtail the expansion of new highways and transportation projects, the net result will not only be further increases in Amazon forest destruction, but fragmentation of the surviving forests on an unprecedented spatial scale."...Whales, seals or men? Who stole all the fish?
...ups took the US government to court to force it to curtail fishing of Alaskan pollock, an important food source for the endangered Steller sea lion. These claims have generated enormous controversy and not a little research on particular species and ecosystems. Until now, however, no one has known how impor...Freeing Nemo: Aquarium owners releasing non-native fish could endanger marine ecosystems
...education programs for dealers and aquarists could curtail exotic species introductions if implemented properly. Such programs would need to highlight the problems of introduced species and provide ways for aquarium owners to sell or trade unwanted fish. ...Fat hormone leptin alters brain architecture and activity, which in turn drives feeding behavior
... same time the hormone activates POMC neurons that curtail feeding. And it does this by altering the synaptic inputs of these cells -- the points where the cells connect and communicate. The Rockefeller scientists suggest that these leptin-induced structural and functional changes are responsible for changes...New ovarian cancer hope for women
...rking as passionately and creatively as we can, to curtail this terrible disease."...New book entertainingly tells 'What Good Are Bugs'
...n pueblo in New Mexico. Insects, he writes, helped curtail unwanted rabbits in Australia. In 1950, 91 years after the intentional importation of this foreign species, authorities introduced a virus fatal to the rapidly reproducing rabbits. Mosquitoes and black flies quickly spread the virus, wiping out 90 ...Research shows less income, education not always top factors in child obesity
...ested obesity and overweight would be difficult to curtail because such characteristics were so slow and hard to change, scientists say. A new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows that is not uniformly true for both sexes and various ethnic-racial groups. "We found that overweight was lo...Cat parasite killing otters; Michigan's perch pressured; HACCP for medicine
...ccountability, and also a process to reduce waste, curtail the production of defective or substandard devices or products, and implement an efficient and effective quality assurance program at each manufacturing facility. It didn't take long for them to learn of Sea Grant's accomplishments. Turning to the g...Tropical scientists find fewer species than expected
...id. Scientists advising governments on policies to curtail species losses must have credible estimates of species numbers if they are to shape appropriate policies. The stakes are high because losses of too many species or certain kinds of species can cripple tropical forest ecosystems, which normally stabil...UCSF prion finding in mice leads team to urge similar study in cattle
...s borders. And in Great Britain strong measures to curtail the incidence of BSE have significantly decreased the incidence of BSE. (In Great Britain, cases of BSE have dropped from 36,680 in 1992 to fewer than 1,500 cattle in 2000 and are much lower in all European countries except Portugal and Ireland.) Mo...Autumn foliage may affect air quality, climate
...ion. A more effective wayto fight smog would be to curtail human-generated nitrogen oxideemissions. Ozone has attracted the attention of regulators because it aggravatesasthma and other respiratory ailments and weakens resistance toinfections. It also damages plants, causing an estimated severalbillion dolla...Ecology lab aids Turtle Survival Alliance
...s lending his expertise to TSA in their efforts to curtail the destruction of the Asian turtles. He says, "The efforts of Conservation International on behalf of the world's turtles are to be applauded and should be supported by all individuals and organizations interested in the welfare of these fabulous ...New satellite study shows vegetation increases in North America
...trations March abandonment of a campaign pledge to curtail CO2 emissions by U.S. industry played a pivotal role in the April failure of the worlds nations to ratify the Kyoto Protocol that would have reduced global CO2 emissions.......us to begin with." Such a strategy might help curtail the epidemic by augmenting current prevention efforts involving education, treatment of other sexually transmitted diseases, condom distribution and tracing sexual partners, the physician said. However, one hurdle to diagnosing very early infections ......at potential to help control the AIDS epidemic and curtail the costs and side effects of anti-retroviral therapies. "A major challenge to the development of an effective AIDS vaccine is the ability of HIV to mutate. Epimmunes vaccine is designed to directly address this problem," said Mark Newman, Ph.D., Vi......s at different stages of development could further curtail pesticide use, said lead author R. Scott Poethig, while avoiding the highly contentious practice of importing genes from other species, conventionally known as genetic engineering. "Many pests find either juvenile or adult plants unpalatable, so tink...As the grasslands change and disappear, what happens to the birds?
... are planted with perennial vegetation in order to curtail soil erosion and improve the soil and water quality in many areas of the West. Much of the land in the CRP program has been planted with non-native grasses. Despite this fact, the researchers found that in some cases grassland birds can benefit from ...