Three-Day Treatment Cures Decades-Old Case Of Malaria
...the New England Journal of Medicine. The work was supported by aPhysician Postdoctoral Fellow Award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Using a technique developed by his collaborators at the National Institutes of Health, the group used a novel test to greatly amplify the genetic material of malar...USGS Cautions Proper Use Of Pepper Spray To Avoid Bear Attacks
...n addition, his observations have been anecdotally supported byother researchers in bear habitat. Smith said USGS will conduct more researchon red pepper spray and bears this year. Smith's future research will focus ondiscovering just how attractive red pepper spray is to bears, the distance atwhich a bear ca...... from miningand metal production. The research is supported by grants from the Department of Energy, Environmental ProtectionAgency and National Science Foundation....Sexually Active Younger Women Are At Higher Risk For Infection With Human Papillomavirus
...papillomavirus(HPV) infection according to a study supported by the National Institute ofAllergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and reported in the Feb. 12, 1998 issueof The New England Journal of Medicine. "Genital infection with HPV is one of the most common sexually transmitteddiseases, with its prevalence...Duke Researchers Develop First Treatment For Rare Muscle Disease
...ournal of Clinical Investigation. The research was supported by grants fromSynpac Pharmaceuticals Ltd., the Japan Health Science Foundation and theMuscular Dystrophy Association. Within this year, Chen and his colleagues expect to treat children bornwith the rare and always fatal Pompe disease, which ...Females' Siren Song Initiates Courtship Duets In African Frogs, Columbia Biologists Find
...prove verbalmemory in women." The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health. This document is available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/pr/ . Working press mayreceive science and technology press releases via e-mail by sending a message to rjn2@columbia.edu .......pproximately 30 percent. The researchers, who were supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA),also reported that testing only for the E4 form of the gene, although stronglyassociated with Alzheimer's disease, is not sufficient to be used as adiagnostic tool by itself. In fact, nearly 40 percent of Alz...Uterine Environment Boosts Learning Ability In Mouse Offspring
...tsupon adult cognitive behavior." The research was supported in part by theNational Institutes of Health. The uterine environment study involved genetically identical mouseembryos of a strain known as BXSB/MpMob-+Yaa. The BXSB strain, developed at TheJackson Laboratory, is a popular model for the study...Study Shows: Just Say NO To Bone Loss
...o understand these processes.Osdoby, whose work is supported by grants from the National Institutes ofHealth, published his results in the January 1998 issue of Journal of Bone andMineral Research. Dual-natured The latest publication is part of an array of studies Osdoby and his colleagueshave conducted over...3-D Structure of Human Tumor-Suppressor Protein Produced
...sion that leads to cancer.” This project was supported by grants from the National Cancer Instituteand the American Cancer Society....MRI Scans Following Heart Attack Could Determine Future Health
...hniques used in this study. The study was supported by the American Heart Association and theNational Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The study's other authors were Katherine C. Wu, M.D.; Carlos H.Lugo-Olivieri, M.D.; Lili A. Barouch, M.D.; Steven P. Schulman, M.D.; and RogerS. Blumenthal, M...Condom Use In Thailand Dramatically Cuts HIV Infection
...girlfriends and prostitutes. The study was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation (New York), theWalter Reed Army Institute of Research, the Armed Forces Research Institute ofMedical Sciences (Bangkok, Thailand), the National Institute of Allergy andInfectious Diseases of the National Institutes of He...Intake Of Acetaminophen Increases Risk Of Excessive Anticoagulation In Patients Taking Warfarin
...l of the MGH Department of Medicine. Thestudy was supported in part by the National Institute on Aging and the EliotShoolman Fund of the MGH.......dicine. The research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and TAP Pharmaceuticals....Dog Blindness Gene May Help Humans
...iversity. The prcd study at Cornell University was supported by the Morris Animal Foundation, Seeing Eye, the N...ation for Fighting Blindness. Ostrander's work was supported by a grant from the Canine HealthFoundation of the American Kennel Club.......n Museum of Natural History, theGobi Expedition is supported by Mercedes-Benz, which is the principal sponsor o...e by the expedition team. The Gobi projectis also supported by the National Science Foundation and the Jaffe Foundation. * * * For further informat...Vitamin D Deficiency Appears Common In Hospital Patients
...rdner Hospital,Perth, Australia. The research was supported by grants from the NationalInstitutes of Health....Malthus + 200: Disastrous 'Correction' Looms
... Malthus also argued for universal education, and supported late marriage as a way of limiting the number of children a couple might have and of providing more adequately for their needs. More recently, Price suggests, Malthus has come to be seen as a demographer. "In his own day, few censuses had been take...New Study Of BRCA1 Shows No Need For Widespread Screening Of American Women
...ame patientsis in progress. The study was supported in part by the National Institutes of HealthSpecialized Program of Research in Excellence in Breast Cancer....Prostate Cancer Switch May Yield Map Of Cancer Machinery, Targets For Drugs
...e of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Their work is supported by theNational Institutes of Health, the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, theAmerican Heart Association and the Keck Foundation, which supports the LevineScience Research Center, where the work was performed. Working with rat prostate cance...