Duke Geologists Explore Alternative Way To Measure Ice Age Sea Bottom Temperatures
...south polar region. The ostracod calcium-magnesium records also show changes in bottom temperatures that are consistent with the geological record of glacial cycles as well as with known shifts in the Earth's orbit that are suspected to drive the glacial cycles. "What Gary is trying to understand is how deep...Researchers Find Genetic Clues To Intestinal Disease
...t, Bayless and his co-workers studied the hospital records of 552 patients treated for Crohn's disease at Johns Hopkins. They found the disease in 27 pairs of first-degree relatives, for example, father and son or brother and sister. Another 32 such pairs of patients were identified through a multi-center su...Researchers Develop Model Using Birds As Indicator Of Wetlands Health
...the project."The problem is there aren't many good records of butterflies andinsects in an area. There are lo... sparrow." Birders also tend to keep very detailed records of what theysee. Working with Professor Styer, Coleman learned to identifyspecies commonly found in ...Overweight Cats Risk Disease And Premature Death, Cornell Study Finds
... Researchers also reviewed veterinarians' medical records for the animals in the first survey. Among the findings: Overweight cats, including those considered "heavy" and "obese," are four-and-a-half times more likely to develop diabetes mellitus, compared to optimal weight cats. Obese cats are seven t...American Academy Of Ophthalmology Sun Microsystems To Present Technology Seminar
...l standards initiatives and computer-based patient records development. Co-sponsored by the Academy's New Education Technology Committee, INFOACCESS '97 is presented as part of the Academy's 1997 Subspecialty Day program prior to its Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Scheduled for Saturday, Octobe...Common Childhood Virus Poses Threat To Adults, Research Shows
...al medicine. When researchers scoured the medical records and blood tests of 1,195pneumonia patients hospita...ters for Disease Control, pored over these medical records as well asthe results of other studies dating back to the 1960s. Murry and Dowellthen pieced togethe...Remote Cloud Observatory Tracks El Niño Changes
...d phenomena like El Niño. "We have records of El Niño quite far back, but the largest in recenthistory occurred in 1982-83," says Ackerman who also is associate director ofPenn State's Earth System Science Center. "Right now, the 1997 El Niño is thebiggest we have on record, al...The Human Genome Project: Science, Law, And Social Change In The 21st Century
... drug developmentnew corporate interest in patient records Widespread use of DNA data banks in forensic science Likelihood of a universal DNA data bank in the United States Impact of genetic tests on insurance coverage Adverse selection and the future of the insurance industry Limits of state-mandated ...Genetic Test For Alzheimer's May Improve Diagnostic Reliability
...ADCs for diagnosis of dementia. The study examined records of1,108 women and 1,080 men. Each patient examined had a battery of clinical andbehavioral tests, followed by numerous laboratory and brain imaging studies. Thepatients were followed throughout the course of their disease and their brainswere examine......ians andSurgeons, were ultimately able to examine records of 1,108 women and 1,080 men submitted by theADCs. The average age of the study participants at diagnosis was 72 and theaverage age at death was 77. Ninety-seven percent of those studied wereCaucasian, thus limiting the extent to which these findin...Drug-Resistant Infection Once Found Only In Hospitals Now Present In Community
...ns." The retrospective study looked at the medical records of children hospitalizedfor MRSA at the University... from August1993 to July 1995. After examining the records of children with community-acquired MRSA during thetwo time periods, the researchers focused on chil...Vitamin D Deficiency Appears Common In Hospital Patients
...he Boston area. Theresearchers reviewed patients' records for a variety of characteristics thatmight affect vitamin D levels, interviewed participants about their diets andsun exposure, and tested blood samples for levels of vitamin D and parathyroidhormone, which plays a major role in the exchange of calci...Among Wrens, Moms Teach Daughters To Call, Dads Teach Sons, Study Reveals
...part that hadnearly identical calls. By looking at records from the 1970s, I discovered thatthey had the same paternal great-grandfather." In five years of field work, Price recorded and analyzed more than10,000 wren calls in the snake and bug-infested, muddy savannah. His mentor,renowned UNC-CH orni...Social Stress Shortens Lives Of Monkeys With AIDS
...s colleague, Nicholas Lerche, reviewed post-mortem records of rhesus macaque monkeys infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in several monkey colonies in the United States. They discovered that the monkeys that had been separated from familiar companions died earlier than those that had not. Intri...Just One Prenatal Visit Decreases Risk Of Preterm Delivery
...rleans. Ural and his team checked hospital records of 149 women with a historyof preterm delivery (under 34 weeks) who gave birth at Hopkins between January1994 and December 1996. Ninety-six of them had at least one prenatal checkup;the remaining 53 received no care. In the prenatal care gro...Relapsing Fever Spirochete Switches Surface Proteins When It Changes Hosts
...d elsewhereconclude in a recent review of 182 case records that the disease isunderrecognized and underreported, and often mistaken for Lyme disease. People with tick-borne relapsing fever suffer cyclical high fevers and othersymptoms such as headache and pain in the joints, muscles or abdomen that easilycan...Now Chemistry Keeps Salty Taste Balanced In Smoked Fish
...robe that touches the scales ofthe living fish and records the volume of water and fat, which are known to beproportionate to salt content, in the meat or roe. Knowing the precise amountof salt already present in the fish, food processors can add the amount neededto meet safety standards and, at the same t...Research Shows That If One Identical Twin Is Prey To Nightmares, Often The Other Is Too
...tal illness.Examination of the volunteers' medical records showed that people who havefrequent nightmares are 15 percent more likely to be hospitalised at least oncein their lifetime for mental illness, the researchers reported last week at ameeting on sleep research in New Orleans. "We don't know if it's ca...USGS And Arizona Game And Fish Begin Partnership To Study Western Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
...The Flagstaff group will search museum and written records for informationabout the bird's historical abundance and locations. Researchers from thisfield station will also survey for live cuckoos in suitable habitats,primarily in the northern part of the state. Arizona's Game and Fish Department activities w...Williams Syndrome: New UD Study May Shed Light On Rare Genetic Disorder-And Normal Development
...imes funding topurchase a special eye-tracker that records the children's eye movements as theyperform spatial tasks. The tiny camera is hidden in a cap that the childrenwear, and this allows them to freely move their head, body and eyes. Thepurchase of this special piece of equipment also was supported by m...