"Scifish" Technology To Protect Alaska's Fisheries And Promote Sustainable Use
... "it can foster technologies that nobodyelse might risk funding; research that could lead to significant publicbenefits. Not only will Patrick's efforts have a profound effect on the state ofAlaska, but also globally affect how people can sustain a finite resource: theworld's fish stocks." Using t...Maryland's Death Rate For Pancreatic Cancer Surgery Reduced By Medical Regionalization
...ocedures decreasedfor all hospitals, the relative risk of death at the low-volume providerscompared to the high-volume provider more than doubled during the study timeframe, Gordon said. According to the mathematical model used to calculate therisk of death related to the number of procedures performed ...News Backgrounder: Duke Primate Center Successfully Fosters Mysterious Aye-Ayes
...them to other facilities so that we distribute the risk of somethinghappening to the captive population," said Glander. When aye-ayes were first brought to the Primate Center in 1986, successwas by no means assured, he said. "We basically knew nothing about successfully housing and breedin...Depression A Risk Factor For Coronary Artery Disease In Men
... "Clinical depression appears to be an independent risk factor forcoronary artery disease, even several de...ment at Hopkins."When we accounted for traditional risk factors for CAD, such as highcholesterol, cigarette smoking, hypertension and diabetes, depression r...Molecular Marker May Identify Bladder Cancer Patients Most Likely To Recur
...tive tumors. Those in the latter group had ahigher risk of recurrence and poorer overall survival, indepen...s of a tumorprovides a strong indication about the risk of recurrence, this study shows thatknowledge of both p53 and p21 status is a more powerful indicato...Syphilis Genome Sequence Offers Clues To Better Diagnosis, Prevention And Treatment
.... People with syphilis lesions also are at higher risk for HIV infection. Although reported syphilis cases in the United States are at an all-time low,outbreaks still occur especially in inner cities and the rural South. Syphiliscan be treated with injections of penicillin or other antibiotics - but the...Siblings Of People With Heart Disease Are Less Likely To Get Treatment
... who have heart disease before age 60had a greater risk of developing high blood pressure, a major risk for heartdisease. Yet they were much less likely than the general public to be aware oftheir risk o...Spices May Reduce Escherichia Coli O157:H7 In Meat
...ating E. coli O157:H7 is the only way to eliminate risk ofinfection since the pathogen has an unusually low infectious dose. In peoplewith compromised immune systems, for example, fewer than 10 cells may causeillness. Spices, however, may potentially add another margin of safety toproper food handling a...Researchers Take A Second Look At Homocysteine's Link To Heart Disease
...find a causal relationshipbetween homocysteine and risk of heart disease. Instead, scientists showed that...lood levels of vitamin B-6 had about one-third the risk of developingheart disease when compared to people with the lowest levels of vitamin B-6. Re...Groundwater Injection Process Filters Out Contaminants
...s conducted below the surface,therefore decreasing risk of exposure to workers. Additional benefits includeits one-time installation -- an improvement over methods such as pump and treatthat are conducted over long periods of time. In testing at Hanford, Pacific Northwest researchers positioned f...Frequent Genetic Mutations In Hepatocellular Carcinoma
The main risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma (the most frequent livercancer) are now relatively well known (infection by hepatitis B or C virus,alcoholic cirrhosis, etc.), but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood.Research by Christine Perret and c...New Alzheimer's-Associated Mutation May Provide Key To Disease Process
...ed anew gene mutation strongly associated with the risk of developing late-onsetAlzheimer's disease, the m...give us a powerfultherapeutic tool." The level of risk conferred by the A2M-2 mutation appears similar to the riskconferred by the gene variant apoE-4. Ho...Fetal Growth Rate Affects Risk Of Heart Disease
(Reduced fetal growth rate and increased risk of death from ischaemic heart disease: cohort stu... affecting a fetus during pregnancy can affect the risk of cardiovascular disease in adult life. To date much of the research into this area has not been c...Gene Patterns Can Predict When--But Not Whether--Alzheimer's Will Strike
...cal twins and siblings offamilies who were at high risk for the disease and found instances in which onetw...part of aging, age iscertainly one of the greatest risk factors for the disease. Just 1 to 3 percentof Americans ages 65 to 74 have Alzheimer's, but 30 to 4...Little Known Protein Prevents Formation Of Kidney Stones In Trace Amounts
...nostic tool fordetermining if a patient is at high risk for forming kidney stones, and preventive measures could be taken," says Pillay. He found that calgranulin, which is made up of two distinct subunits, isoften defective in stone-formers. "In many people with kidney stones, thesubuni...Common Anti-Viral Medication Prevents Severe Eye Herpes
...a simple clinical examination and treat these high risk patients withlong-term preventive dose of acyclovi...ay be dormantmost of the time, but there is a high risk of recurrence once patients have hadany eye involvement. Less severe types of eye herpes are not as...Study 'Gone With The Wind' Provides Stellar Ecological Example
...c breeding capability. A third is that the risk of extinction is related to population sizewhen disturbance is moderate but not when it is catastrophic. In relation tothis, the biologists uncovered perhaps the first concrete evidence of howhurricanes wreak devastation on low-lying island organism...Report On Electrical And Magnetic Fields Released; Public Invited To Comment At Regional Meetings
...commented thatthe report does not suggest that the risk that may be associated with EMF ishigh, compared t...s aluminum manufacture may have aslightly elevated risk of chronic adult leukemia....Gene-Toxin Link May Shed Light On Cause Of Parkinson's Disease
... pesticides may increase a person's risk for developing the dementia..., turned out to be a potent risk factor for Parkinson's with dementia in a group of patients with the disease,......actice. In far too many cases,the genetic cancer risk assessments being presented to patients are inaccu...pidemiological base to determinehow many people at risk of cancer actually go on to develop the disease andwhy," says Constance Griffin, M.D., associate pro...