Mom was wrong, UCLA/VA researcher concludes sleep not essential for learning
... an important role in memory consolidation. Siegel reviewed the scientific communitys evidence on this hypothesis and found that depriving animals and humans of REM sleep by awakening them or by drug treatments does not impair their ability to form long-term memories. In particular, humans taking a class ...Phase 3 psoriatic arthritis data for ENBREL (etanercept) announced at a national scientific meeting
...ent vs. 9 percent). These data are currently being reviewed by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for p... July 16, 2001. ENBREL is the first product to be reviewed by the FDA for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis. We are working with the FDA on this priority re...UT Southwestern research projects bolstered with $3.6 million in funding
...ARP and ATP programs. More than 300 proposals were reviewed by 119 scientists and engineers not associated with any Texas college or university. UT Southwestern investigators and projects receiving grants this year, in addition to Uhr, are: Dr. Harold Skip Garner, professor of biochemistry and internal medi...Beware of leap year when predicting climate change, warns researcher
...ed its arrival. "All of the phenological studies I reviewed are essentially correct the signs of spring are definitely coming earlier, but not quite as early as we originally thought," observes Sagarin. Most climate experts are predicting a sharp increase in global temperatures in the next 50 to 100 years, s......ess such as joint pain and disorientation. Houser reviewed studies looking at the levels of dissolved gas in diving whales and dolphins. He found that the diving behaviour of beaked whales, such as bottlenose and sperm whales, makes them particularly susceptible, as nitrogen levels have often quadrupled by t...Johns Hopkins researchers find more extensive bone defects caused by bladder exstrophy
...through which the bladder emerges. The researchers reviewed abdominal CT scans from seven infants with classic bladder exstrophy as well as CT scans of 26 infants who had them taken for other reasons. The team then compared the geometry of pelvic girdle bones in the bladder exstrophy group of infants with the...Study shows deoxygenating ballast water can prevent invasive species and ship corrosion
...cargo vessels typically take weeks. Tamburri also reviewed the scientific literature to assess how other aquatic organisms would respond to the low oxygen environments. The reviews show that significant mortality within only hours to days would be expected for animals commonly found in ballast water. Howeve...NIH panel outlines strategies for managing tumors of the adrenal glands
...and risks involved in their management. The panel reviewed an extensive collection of literature related to incidentaloma, including a systematic review of the available evidence prepared by the New England Medical Center, an Evidence-based Practice Center under the auspices of Agency for Healthcare Research...Hormone replacement therapy may help prevent chronic wounds in elderly patients
...n the journal The Lancet. For the Study, Margolis reviewed the records of 44,195 female patients. "Our research indicates that patients receiving HRT are around 35 percent less likely to develop a venous leg ulcer or pressure ulcer, which we view as early evidence that HRT may have a place in preventing chro...NIAID unveils bioterrorism research agenda
...earch Agenda was developed by NIAID scientists and reviewed by an outside panel of experts from academia, industry and government in early February. The plan focuses on the Category A diseases as described by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): anthrax, smallpox, plague, tularemia, viral he...Biological evidence can persuade people to change unhealthy habits
...their personal disease risk. The health indicators reviewed include cholesterol level, carbon monoxide level, lung cancer susceptibility genes, depressed breathing function and other pulmonary symptoms and physical fitness. The studies explored the effects of health indicators on tobacco use, dietary change a...Tufts University reports high protein intake and calcium supplementation helps healthy bones
...for three years. During the study, the researchers reviewed the volunteers' diets (specifically their calcium and protein intake) and bone mass density. The results show that the supplemented adults who ate a diet high in protein displayed significant positive effects on their bone mass density. On the othe...Angioplasty beats clot-busting drugs for most heart attack patients
...elated to an identified heart event or stroke were reviewed both by the researchers and by experts not associated with the trial who were not told what treatment the patients received. Each adverse outcome studied death, recurrent heart attack, stroke and a combination of the three was lower at six weeks a...Horseshoe crabs survival rate after biomedical bleeding is high
...tephen A. Smith, professor in biomedical sciences; reviewed the general biology, ecology, and life history of the horseshoe crab in the article "The Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyphemus: 200 Million Years of Existence, 100 Years of Study." The review article discusses the various economic stakeholders involved ...Genetic mutation plays major role in adrenal cancers
... Poland and Germany. Members of the research team reviewed each patients medical record for a complete understanding of the clinical data. They then obtained blood samples from each patient, and using two sophisticated systems of genetic identification - analysis of single strand conformation polymorphisms ...NHGRI prioritizes model organisms for sequencing
...of white papers was submitted in February 2002 and reviewed by a new NHGRI review group called the Genome Reso...ch category. The panel's recommendations were then reviewed by the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research and approved at its May 21, 2002, meeting...Rainforest wildlife surprisingly sensitive to landscape changes
...nce of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute reviewed more than 340 articles and papers generated by the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), the worlds largest and longest-running study of habitat fragmentation, since its inception in 1979. They found that the effect of habitat fra...Limited federal allergy research funds spent on food biotechnology
...of Public Health conducted the study. The authors reviewed food allergy research funded by the federal government and aimed at investigating food safety. Research abstracts were sourced from CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects), a database of research supported by the Department ...Hormone replacement therapy may help prevent heart vessel disease, says Wake Forest researcher
...." Clarkson, a professor of comparative medicine, reviewed studies that evaluated the cardiovascular effects of HRT. Included were four large trials of postmenopausal monkeys conducted at Wake Forest over the past 12 years. When estrogen replacement was administered at the onset of estrogen deficiency which...Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $80 million for undergraduate science education
... million each. A panel of scientists and educators reviewed proposals from 189 institutions. "Biology is progressing so rapidly and interfacing with so many other disciplines that undergraduate teaching runs the risk of substituting quantity for quality," says HHMI President Thomas R. Cech, a Nobel Prize-wi...