Test provides accurate, noninvasive method to determine fetal lung development, UF researchers find
...used with vaginally collected samples, researchers reviewed the files of 153 patients treated at Shands at UF medical center between January 1995 and June 1999. They found that in 98 percent of the cases in which the test had indicated mature lung development, the baby had no sign of respiratory distress afte......a in infants. Katherine Gray-Donald and colleagues reviewed the charts of 386 of these children and discovered 31.9% were anemic. To understand the cause of the anemia, Gray-Donald and her colleagues tested the association between hemoglobin (Hb) concentration and mean cell volume at 9 months of age, weight g...Using new FDA regulations, Kellogg takes the lead in promoting heart-health benefits of folic acid
...sponsible for assembling the scientific panel that reviewed the research. "Kellogg Company has a long-standing tradition of applying the latest research to provide consumers with foods that meet their demand for health benefits as well as taste," said Johnson, Kellogg USA. "In fact, Kellogg pioneered modern...Biomarkers: testing for alcohol consumption among women
...ch as liver disease." Allen and his co-authors reviewed 16 alcohol-screening studies from 1988 to 1999 that utilized three promising biochemical markers for excessive drinking or alcohol dependence in women: gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT), carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT), and mean corpuscular v...Dementia patients in hospitals longer, increase costs
...or Addiction and Mental Health, London and Toronto reviewed data from a community sample of 5,856 lifetime drinkers and found that the earlier one begins drinking the more likely one is to develop alcohol disorders. Particularly, the first use of alcohol at ages 11-14 greatly increases the risk of alcohol dis...At the waters edge -- Managing riparian forests
...views of the presentations. Each chapter was also reviewed anonymously by two reviewers. The 48 authors represent a broad array of scientists and managers from the Forest Service, State Departments of Natural Resources, state universities, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Environmental Protection Age...Top biomedical researchers form Editorial Directorate for open-access publishing venture
...he potential to demonstrate how high quality, peer reviewed reports in many important fields of life sciences can be made freely accessible throughout the world solely through electronic journals," says Dr Harold Varmus. "If this works as hoped, we will move much closer to achieving the revolution in scienti......al panel of distinguished scientists and educators reviewed the 204 proposals received. This is the fifth time that HHMI has awarded undergraduate science education grants to baccalaureate and master's degree-granting institutions. Four other competitions have made awards to research and doctoral-level unive...Rosetta Inpharmatics approach enables identification of gene functions
...action. The results were demonstrated using a FDA- reviewed and approved non-prescription drug. "The compendium approach to global gene expression profiling described and demonstrated by Rosetta Inpharmatics has applications in new drug discovery and development," explained Roger Ulrich, Ph.D., Director of R...Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program expands to become national
...d. Applications for the Merck / AAAS awards are reviewed and rated by a panel of scientists and educators chosen by AAAS. The panel recommends award selections to The Merck Company Foundation. Criteria include the ability to provide undergraduate opportunities with faculty members in an interdisciplinary r...Minimally invasive procedure offers long-term pain relief for patients with pancreatitis
...to assess its long-term value. Kalloo and his team reviewed data from 55 patients who underwent EPS for chronic pancreatitis or an ailing pancreatic sphincter at Johns Hopkins between August 1992 and November 1996. Doctors included in the study all patients who could be contacted by phone for interviews, with...Study links impulsive violence with brain's inability to regulate emotion
...ed with antisocial personality disorder. They also reviewed data from two individuals who suffered early damage to the two regions of the brain in question. Those individuals, injured early in life, both showed histories of verbal and physical abusiveness and intermittent, explosive bursts of anger. The resea...Arctic temperatures warmest in past four centuries, study says
...r's principal author. Serreze and nine co-authors reviewed a series of more than 100 separate studies targeting a variety of components of Arctic change over decades and centuries. "We had the pieces of the puzzle gathered, and we synthesized them to give us the best picture of what is going on right now i...Caffeine in colas: 'The Real Thing' isn't the taste
...inued to contain caffeine. In 1981, the FDA again reviewed addition of caffeine to soft drinks to see if they should maintain their GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status. "Nobody knew much then about caffeine's behavioral or mood-altering effects at low doses. Industry scientists again countered quer...Study: osteoporosis doubles risk of fractures in nursing homes
...udy volunteers' arms. Eighteen months later, they reviewed medical records of the participants to determine the number of new fractures. A total of 223 osteoporosis-related fractures occurred among 180 women in the study. Some women had more than one injury. Seventy-percent of the fractures resulted from fal...An alternative form of chemotherapy? A means for reusable spacecraft?
...lected from among 33 finalists whose projects were reviewed by a committee of esteemed judges including mathematicians, engineers, biologists, chemists, environmentalists, physicists, computer specialists, members of the medical and veterinary profession, and specialists in creativity and invention. More tha...UNC-CH study offers new evidence that garlic protects against cancers
...e of such issues as cancer and heart disease. They reviewed 300 scientific papers related to diet and cancer and then combined and analyzed data from 22 describing the best, most relevant human research related to garlic from around the world. "We've looked at garlic in the past and thought the findings looke...University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist is named ESA president
...s published over 170 research papers, more than 20 reviewed reports and commentaries, and two books. He received his B.A. from Amherst College, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from UW-Madison.......fold measurements to record body fat increases and reviewed three-day food diaries, which the participants were required to keep. Students received measuring cups and spoons to help them track the amount of food they consumed. Compared to the federal government's dietary guidelines, the students' diets were...