New unified dietary guidelines offer nutritional protection against wide range of killer diseases
...fied Dietary Guidelines, was developed following a national conference ofexperts including members of the American Heart Association's NutritionCommittee with the cooperation of the American Cancer Society, American DieteticAssociation, American Academy of Pediatrics and National Institutes of Health. The gui...USGS will re-evaluate its Alaska strategy
...rnmost state. "Vast areas, including those in the national parks (inAlaska) have not been geologically mapped, and many major streams are stillungaged," Groat said. To fill these informational gaps, Groat is launching a reevaluation ofcurrent USGS programs and projects in Alaska, and exploring ways...Vitamin C levels linked to amount of lead in blood
...n Examination Survey, 1988-1994 (NHANES III). The national probabilitysurvey of Americans employed a stratified, cluster sampling design. Afterexcluding some participants because of reported histories of lead poisoning, orquestionable or missing information, the researchers used statistical methods tocalcul...Chemists hold national meeting August 22-26 in New Orleans
...nium are among topics to be discussed at the 218th national meeting August22-26 of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The ACS meeting will highlight new developments in chemical research in 34specialty areas of chemistry, including medicinal, environmental, nuclear,cellular......sk of exposure, make addressing these issues a top national priority. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt said, "Over the last two decades, our nation has made great progress in improving water quality and, yet, as the USGS report points out, major challenges remain in protecting our aquatic resou...Pacific Northwest developments earn spots in top 100 list
... Congratulating Pacific Northwest and other national laboratories onwinning R&D 100 Awards, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson said, "These awardsare both a tribute to the creative genius of the scientists and engineers at ournational labs that made these technologies possible and a recognition of the...USGS scientist receives award for brucellosis research in Greater Yellowstone Area
...st calves following infection. The issue has national and international significance because of major, expensive brucellosis eradication programs in the United States and many other countries. After millions of dollars of research since 1934, the United States is now on the verge of ...Gene mutations not always expressed as complete disease
... will discuss these implications when he speaks on national efforts to standardize genetic testing. "Advanced molecular techniques provide a double-edged sword because they oftendetect sequence changes [mutations in genes] whose deleterious effects are by nomeans established," they write. "When we st...Congress briefs: International congress on ecosystem health
...ors. While highways supportmobility, commerce and national safety, they also have profound effects on boththe human and natural environment. In the long run, highways fragment habitatsand migration routes, disperse pest species and reduce biodiversity. In theshort term, highway construction and maintenance...... and technology. UF scientists already are national leaders in studying how to use genetherapy -- repl... he will direct. "Frank is recognized as a national leader in functional genomics and wasrecently invited to speak at a very prestigious Gordon Research...Purdue helps Indiana companies with pollution dilemma
...s. The training program was conceived by a national organization called theComposites Fabricators Association, but its pollution-reduction benefits had notbeen documented until the Purdue engineers conducted tests using specializedequipment built at the institute. The preliminary results were reported...W.M. Keck Foundation gives USC $110 million
... the "R" of TRW Inc. He has received numerousother national awards including the National Medal of Science. He has served asadvisor to many government, educational and scientific organizations, and is afounding member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a member of theNational Academy of Sciences an...World's biodiversity becoming extinct at levels rivaling Earth's past 'mass extinctions'
...luating the status of species in nature. At the national level in every country around the world, maintain an activecensus of the condition of the country's plants, so that it will always beobvious which are well protected in nature -- or so abundant so as not to causeconcern -- and those that are rare and......efellerFoundation, and will be freely available to national and internationalagricultural research centers. T...nvironment andhuman health and after acceptance by national biosafety authorities, the novelvarieties of rice will be distributed free of charge by IRRI and var...INEEL launches comprehensive vadose zone management program
...al buffer by creating a roadmap thatwill guide the national agenda for funding vadose zone science and technol...p in Idaho Falls, Idaho to plan activities for the national roadmappingexercise. Further meetings are planned throughout the summer and into the fallof 1999. "......e the widespread, destructive fire ravaged Tyresta national park, close toStockholmlast week, Swedish environmental protection authorities allowed the burning of120hectares of forest in the prospective nature reserve Helvetesbrännan. Thepurpose was toencourage the regeneration of forest fire-dependent fl...Children and environmental toxics: special symposium at New Orleans scientific meeting
...cialthree-day symposium here Aug. 22-24 during the national meeting of the AmericanChemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Leaders in the fieldof children's health and risk assessment will discuss how youngsters are exposedto toxics, the difficulty in obtaining and analyzing blood samples f...Response to cocaine linked to biological clock genes
...ion and thus become a major aid in preventing this national healthproblem," said Dr. Alan I. Leshner, director of the National Institute on DrugAbuse. For the past several years, Dr. Hirsh has used insect model systems to probesome of the brain's molecular mysteries, such as the circuitry involved inlearning,...Chemists hold national meeting August 22-26
...nium are among topics to be discussed at the 218th national meeting August22-26 of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The ACS meeting will highlight new developments in chemical research in 34specialty areas of chemistry, including medicinal, environmental, nuclear,cellular......lar Award fromthe American Chemical Society at its national meeting in New Orleans. Hamilton, an organic chemist at Yale University, said he likes the challenge ofdesigning molecules that can influence living systems. "We have to be able todesign structures that can cross the cell membrane, interact with thei...