Dietary fibre supplements may be harmful
...ood for us as we have been led to believe, says an editorial in Gut. Instead of protecting us from colon cancer, writes Dr Robert Goodlad of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, some fibre and fibre supplements could actually increase our risk of developing the disease, according to recent research. We have bec...Janet Ginsburg receives microbiology communications award
... of Chicago. Ellen Licking of BusinessWeek was and editorial contributor to the award-winning article.Runner-up in this year's competition is Daniel Haney of the Associated Press for his story, "Eliminating Syphilis," about the federal plan to wipe out syphilis....Variations in food density affect calorie consumption
...d between lean and obese subjects. An accompanying editorial by Levine highlights the relevance of the study because most of the meals offered were representative of the fat content and energy density found in the typical American diet. The study suggests that self-selection of high density foods increases da...Climate change affecting even remote arctic environment, study says
..., the lead U.S. researcher and chief writer on the editorial team, called it "more a starting point than a fina...rctic. The report was compiled by an international editorial team under the direction of Paula Kankaanp of the Finnish Ministry of Environment and the Arctic Cen...High homocysteine levels are strongly associated with all-cause mortality among elderly
...every 5 mol/L increase in tHcy. An accompanying editorial by Malinow underscores the significance of this finding, amd suggests that widespread screening of plasma tHcy in middle-aged and elderly persons be conducted to help identify potential candidates for therapy with tHcy-lowering folic acid supplementa...Dietary approaches to stop hypertension diet reduces cholesterol and long-term cardiovascular risk
... risk for those who consume the control diet. An editorial by Blackburn cautions that the extent of behavior modification that would be required to adopt a diet with twice the volume of healthful food in the typical American diet could be prohibitive, whereas "those who make small, incremental changes in the......of cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Black sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Hypertension and the Journ...lar Medicine. Dr. Mancia has been a member of the editorial boards of more than 30 international hypertension journals, has been chief or associate editor of va...URI scientist receives research award from National Park Service
...dies from the University of Delaware. He serves on editorial boards for several professional journals and on several executive committees, including the New England Estuarine Research Society. He is the author of more than sixty articles and reports pertaining to his research on coastal ecosystems and has coed...Leading snake expert dies at 38
...nal, Contemporary Herpetology, and a member of the editorial board of Systematic Biology. Dr. Slowinski was a member of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Herpetologists' League, Society of Systematic Biologists, Willi Hennig Society, I...Bacteria test may make blood safer
...pletely sterilized and some bacteria remain. In an editorial for the November 2001 issue of the journal, Transfusion, Drs. Jacobs, Palavecino and Yomtovian issue a call for action to make blood products safer. In an era in which the risk of transmission of recognized transfusion-transmitted viruses, particular...HFES honors 2001 awardees at 45th Annual Meeting
... estimation, and human error. He has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including Human Factors and is a Fellow of HFES ....The Scientist and BioMed Central come together to publish high-impact magazine
...ciences, and a vital platform for advertisers. The editorial team of The Scientist will collaborate with editorial groups working within BioMed Central, including the team creating the new and innovative publication...Predicting preterm birth still nearly impossible, study in New England Journal finds
...y School of Medicine and author of an accompanying editorial in todays NEJM, Predicting Premature Delivery No Easy Task. Although several biomarkers are associated with premature delivery, the findings of Iams et al. reinforce the conclusion that the practical usefulness of these markers in the case of an i...Kingston named Virginia Outstanding Scientist of 2002
...Society of Pharmacognosy 1988-1989. He is on the editorial board of two scientific publications and is a research associate of the Missouri Botanical Garden. A recent issue of the botanical journal Novon described a newly discovered South American tree that has been named for Kingston by James Miller of the ...New methods for detecting brown recluse spider venom
...fficult to identify, according to the author of an editorial in the May 2002 Annals of Emergency Medicine. One of the most famous misdiagnoses occurred recently in New York when a 7-month-old who had contracted cutaneous anthrax was initially diagnosed as having a brown recluse spider bite, even though these ...H. William Strauss receives de Hevesy Pioneer Award
...of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and sits on the editorial boards of that journal and six other juried publications. Dr. Strauss currently serves as chief of Clinical Services, Nuclear Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & Memorial Hospital in New York City. He joined the Memorial Sloan Ketteri...New cholesterol disorder discovered As predicted from gene's role
...m." The research is highlighted in an accompanying editorial in the journal by scientists from the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, UCSF and UC San Diego. The discovery is the fifth gene known to cause elevated cholesterol when it is defective. The gene's product is an enzyme called cholesterol 7...... milk or eggs from animals raised on GM fodder. An editorial last weekend in the Zimbabwe Herald- regarded as the mouthpiece of the government- also expressed concern that "vegetables...could be contaminated with genes from such grain". But interbreeding between grain and vegetables is impossible. However, the...Ghana takes aim at bushmeat hunting
...lan. Local media extensively covered the event. An editorial in The Ghanaian Chronicle, one of the top national newspapers, published today under the title "Poisoned Meat on the Market", asks stakeholders to "step up the war on these anti-social elements to save nature and human beings." Once a traditional way...DuPont scientists to unveil 'greener' process to reduce waste
...fic journal Solid State Sciences and serves on the editorial boards of several materials chemistry journals. As...Delaware and serves on a number of science journal editorial boards. He was recently named the recipient of the 2003 E.V. Murphree Award for Industrial Science ...