Putting a price tag on paradise
...ted to grow." Daily points to New York City's 1996 decision to improve its drinking water by investing $1.5 billion to restore the Catskill mountains watershed, instead of spending more than $6 billion on new water treatment facilities. "New York was able to put a price tag on the Catskill watershed -- part ......hat was conducted last November, after the Board's decision to change the science standards. In addition, the... POLL: 52% of Kansans disagreed with the Board's decision to adopt the new science standards that played down evolution. 32% of voters agreed with the Board...New research highlights concerns over children born through donor insemination
...ended to tell their children later, 16 had made no decision and 28 said they did not intend to say anything. ... had told their children were satisfied with their decision and said they had seen no negative effects to date. One of the research leaders, Dr Claes Gottlieb o...National conference to discuss changing rural landscapes
...ntertainment. Sunday's sessions will look at decision support and management. One talk from 2 to 2:30 p.m. will be given by a Yellowstone National Park official discussing, "Managing Nature Reserves in the Context of Surrounding Private Lands." The formal meetings will end at 5 p.m. One purpose...Program shown to help non-alcoholics reduce drinking 66%
...ways to cut back, and supporting them in their own decision to abstain or moderate their drinking, DrinkWise aims to help participants avert possible problems. For example, participants may set a daily limit of two or three drinks, no more than 4 days a week. They may choose to space out their drinks and set......pregnancy should exercise extreme caution in their decision to drink. Despite his words of warning about alcohol use, Zakhari acknowledged that "how moderate alcohol consumption protects against risk of coronary artery disease is a very important question." Thus far, he noted, promising molecular stud......r General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) announced their decision to fund the project, and anticipates spending $25 million dollars over five years for the Alliance. An equal sum will be contributed by biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, said Simpson. At the SF VAMC, the Alliance funds will be administere......matic." The report recommends that if a societal decision is made to proceed with IGM research, "comprehensive oversight mechanisms should be put in place to review and approve all IGM protocols for research and applications in both the public and private sectors." "The ethical and social issues," accordin...Biodiversity databases: biodiversity information on every desktop
...lable when and where that information is needed by decision makers and scientists alike, Edwards says. Because biodiversity information is not immediately at hand, it is often not applied in policy or management decisions that affect the organisms involved, nor is that information readily accessible by resear...Bio-X awards $3 million in grants for imaginative interdisciplinary research and education projects
...oughs may happen sooner than expected, thanks to a decision this week by the Bio-X program awarding members of the Stanford faculty nearly $3.03 million for innovative biological projects. Bio-X, a unique faculty-run program designed to promote interdepartmental bioscience research, became a reality one year...UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center program triumphs
...than additive, he says. "There's a synergism." The decision to apply for a prostate SPORE grew out of a prostate cancer program that was committed to a multi-disciplinary effort from the beginning, says the co-principal investigator of the prostate SPORE, Peter Carroll, MD, UCSF professor and chair of the dep...UCSF researchers reveal a fundamental decision-making unit of cells
...ntegrate them, leading to a course of action. The decision node they studied leads cells to initiate movement...owards an invading bacterium. Defects in this key decision node protein are known to cause immunodeficiency and other severe human illnesses. In addition, onco...... wrongfully withheld the final data from Kahn. The decision to publish the study results affirms the University of California's right to publish unfavorable or neutral, industry-sponsored research findings. The trial was sponsored and funded by a private pharmaceutical company which entered into agreements wi...Feds give $16 million to UNC-CH scientists studying waste site problems
...preparing a manual to help citizens participate in decision making at sites." More information is available at the program's Web site: http://www.sph.unc.edu/sfcoep/research . "The site contains lay versions of each of our research projects and has links to EPA Superfund issues and all kinds of information...One in three physicians unlikely to get routine medical care
...at such health beliefs likely affect most people's decision to seek preventive medical care. A history of cancer in one or both parents did not influence the physicians' choice to have a regular health provider. Klag cautions that these data are limited to graduates of The Johns Hopkins University School of ...Finding a market for 'ecosystem services'
...inted to the New York City water department's 1996 decision to allocate $1.5 billion to preserve the Catskill and Delaware watersheds rather than spend $6 billion to construct a new water treatment system. New York City was able to convince its taxpaying customers that the investment was worthwhile, Thompson ......as been associated with an increase risk of PID. A decision to use MIRENA must include consideration of the risks of PID. The highest risk of PID occurs shortly after insertion (usually within the first 20 days thereafter). Please see the Prescribing Information for further information including Contraindicat...Can a vitamin a day help keep heart disease away?
...nd of research model used in the study is called a decision analysis. It's especially good in situations when physicians have a lot of information about a substance's potential risk or benefit, but no conclusive proof, says co-author Mark Fendrick, M.D., of the U-M's Consortium for Health Outcomes, Innovation...On the cutting edge of brain gene analysis
...e cortex' because it is critical for judgement and decision making, tasks that are corrupted in addiction. Just as a computer virus can change the programming of specific functions, our data show that chronic alcohol abuse can change the molecular programming and circuitry of the frontal cortex." All of ......rved that when subjects performed certain types of decision making, unique "signatures" appeared in the EEG readouts. The same signatures would emerge from a brain that is wired using Hopfield's principles, he said. Hopfield dubbed the simulated organism the Mus silicium or "sand mouse" and posted it to the W...