Inform doctors when taking herbs and dietary supplements
..., andother long-term ailments. They invested vast sums of money: $90 million forgingko, a memory enhancer; $86 million for energy-boosting ginseng; and $48million for St. John?s wort, an antidepressant. Of 23 randomized studies of St. John's wort, depressive patients in every studyreportedly improved, ...Most highly endowed promotion prize for fourteen scientists and scholars
...ical studies will receive 1.5 million marks. These sums are earmarked for research studies conducted over a period of five years. The aim of the Leibniz Programme, which was instituted in 1985, is to improve the working conditions of outstanding scientists and scholars, to broaden their opportunities f...... life-support systems, he says. Assuming that the sums do work out, the next question is how to grow bionic plants on Mars. Nobody imagines that it'll just be a matter of running a hoe through the regolith and waiting for the harvest moons. Conditions on Mars are just too harsh. Temperatures regularly dr...Researchers pinpoint how tubeworm babies are dispersed to colonize new vent sites
...and figure out where it will land. That sort of sums up the task that faced University of Delaware marine biochemist Adam Marsh and his colleagues in their quest to determine how new tubeworm colonies are formed at hydrothermal vent sites. The findings are reported in the May 3 issue of Nature. ...Book examines ethical, advocacy issues in biomedical research
...g research priorities, guiding allocations of vast sums of federal research funding and planning clinical studies. Research advocacy is becoming increasingly commonplace - from celebrities such as Michael J. Fox and Christopher Reeve, whose medical conditions have led them to promote research for the ap...Land wont soak up carbon indefinitely say top scientists
... Field from the Carnegie Institution of Washington sums up the situation. "Land and ocean processes have, in essence, provided a major, but far from permanent, subsidy to humans, protecting the atmosphere from many of the consequences of deforestation and burning fossil fuels."...Razing old dams solves some problems, creates new ones
... downstream flow and channel formation. As Stanley sums up: "Dams do bad things to rivers." Today, there are nearly 4,000 dams in Wisconsin, and several million can be found throughout the United States. Fewer than 60 rivers in the country retain more than 62 miles of free-flowing channel. Yet, these numb...Public calls on U.S. government to protect the world's coral reefs, new poll finds
...reef area, Americans are willing to add meaningful sums to support the conservation of the coral reefs in that area, assuming they knew the money was dedicated to the protection and scientific research of the reef. Seventy-two percent would pay an additional $10 fee per person, 65% would pay an additiona...Natural or synthetic secretin does not reduce symptoms of autism, study shows
...rd about the initial reports some were paying huge sums of money for secretin treatment. The National Institutes of Health decided to commission this study in response to a high visibility case where parents were using a treatment that had not been assessed. The available evidence suggests there is no r...New UGA study demonstrates bacterial pathogens use hydrogen as energy source in animals
...s a range of illnesses for which people spend vast sums each year seeking relief. No one knows how the pathogen is spread, and whether it is through food or water or physical contact remains speculative. Nor do scientists yet know how the hydrogen gets from the producers (the bacterial flora in the colon)...New Georgia Tech Biosciences Center assists life-science startup companies
...nical trials, and it's not uncommon to spend large sums in pre-clinical and clinical development only to have products fail in clinical studies." Yet Georgia Tech is advancing bioscience entrepreneurs on two fronts. ATDC works with existing startups to provide strategic business advice and resources that...