Mayo Clinic researchers: family history identified as new risk factor for heartburn
...o Clinic researchers went outside thelaboratory to survey 1,524 residents of Olmsted County, Minn. Participants wereasked if any members of their immediate family (parents, siblings or children)had significant heartburn or disease of the esophagus or stomach. Those who responded affirmatively were t...Biologists predict more marine disease
...nemammalogy, oceanography and epidemiology. Their survey covers cases, such asmorbillivirus infection in dolphins and porpoises, Pfiesteria inAtlantic coast fish and the connection between cholera and plankton blooms, from1931 to 1997. The report makes three key points: -- Reports of diseases in the o...Pfiesteria Event: Sea Grant and DNR officials report on attitudes and activities
...erstandings of Pfiesteria through acomprehensive survey of coastal residents from New York to North Caroli...economic impacts remaingreat. Falk will detail his survey results, including state-by-statedifferences, at this briefing. While Pfiesteria has not made a m......the legless fish and "Darwin" in the other. A new survey of the attitudes of those who stick Darwin fish sy...daunting problems for Lessl. He considered using a survey on the Internet, butthere is no way to be sure respondents actually have the fish on their cars. Soh...Inform doctors when taking herbs and dietary supplements
...pfrom 34 percent in 1990, according to a telephone survey cited in the report. Consumers used these therapies mostly for chronic pain, anxiety, fatigue, andother long-term ailments. They invested vast sums of money: $90 million forgingko, a memory enhancer; $86 million for energy-boosting ginseng; and $48......t the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. A new survey of 3,500 coastal residents from New York to theCar... Pfiesteria outbreaks.Nearly two-thirds of Falk's survey respondents said they would eat less locallyharvested seafood if the microorganism had been reported...Great increase seen in antibiotic-resistant bacteria in human colon
...should be a wake-up call formedical researchers to survey how extensive the problem has become. Thegovernment, she said, must decide what agency or agencies will fund suchresearch, which can be done rapidly and cheaply. Salyers' lab focused on Bacteroides -- a strain of bacteria not harmful in thelower int...AGU 1999 Fall Meeting -- Information for media representatives
...Trip on Sunday, December 12 The U.S. Geological survey is graciously providing its research vessel, Polaris, for a cruise on San Francisco Bay, on Sunday, December 12, during which USGS scientists will discuss water resources research. This field trip will take place rain or shine! Please arrive at M...Counting elephants by monitoring sounds
...ember to plan the acousticmonitoring. He said the survey eventually could be expanded to study -- andoffer ...little about these populations," says John Hart, a survey plannerwhose long-term studies in forest environments are supported by the WildlifeConservation Soci...Yale cancer center study underscores fears of discrimination over genetic testing
...ociety of Human Geneticsin San Francisco, CA. In a survey of nearly 300 active cancer genetic counselors, the vast majority(85% and 91%) said they would pursue genetic testing for BRCA (breast cancergene) or HNPCC (hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer gene) mutation if oneparent or sibling was a known carri...Wolf response to climate change can impact ecosystem
...y were collected during a long-term and continuing survey directed by Peterson on wolf-moose relationships on Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior. Scientists have known that predators at the top of the food chain exert considerable influence on the structure and function of ecosystems that are regul...Wake Forest researcher finds high diabetes rate among Lumbee Indians
... States," Bell said. Bell conducted a telephone survey of approximately 1,200 Lumbee Indians inRobeson County to determine the level of health conditions and health behaviorsin this area. The study was funded by grants from the National Institutes ofHealth and Wake Forest Univesity School of Medicine Ve...PricewaterhouseCooper's forecasts health care in 2010
...mary research study, based in part on an extensive survey of more than 400thought leaders and healthcare exe... PricewaterhouseCooperscommissioned a wide-ranging survey of 380 thought leaders in the United States,the United Kingdom, Finland, Spain, the Netherlands, Ger...Why are the elderly so easily fooled by con artists?
...often fall victim to fraudulent advertising. A1996 survey showed most victims of fraudulent telephone marketing are 50 or older....Rheumatoid arthritis: Olive oil and cooked vegetables may help
...osed with RA, and a lifetime retrospective dietary survey was conducted for each group. Persons in the lowest category of olive oil consumption had a two-and-one-half times greater risk of developing RA than did those in the highest category. In addition, those who ate the highest amount of cooked vegetabl...High percentage of Hepatitis C patients take herbs and vitamins, according to Rush survey
A survey conducted by Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical ...in Hepatitis C treatments," Jensen said. The Rush survey found that Hepatitis C patients took the following:...El Niño triggers tropical forest reproduction
...achio nut---from every acre of the six-square-mile survey area on the forest floor. "It's like Thanksgi...r, no new dipterocarp seedlings were found in the survey area. "Even though the park is supposedly off-limits to logging, the forest is losing the abili......come for them," explains Watson. A socio-economic survey of 100 farms conducted by the McGill team showed that village women could indeed produce the Fusarium on a cottage industry type scale, coat batches of seed for individual farmers, and sell the service to the local growers. The McGill plant s...Advance in asthma research announced
...0 to 1993. In addition, estimates from a skin test survey suggest that allergies affect morethan 50 million people in the U.S. The discovery is a result of a collaboration between HGS and the CRC Beatson Institute for Cancer Research. HGSscientists teamed up with specialists in chemokine receptor research a......ted in the July 1997 edition of Alcohol Alert , a survey of 4,390 high school seniors found that approximately 80 percent reported getting drunk, binge drinking, or drinking and driving within the preceding year. The national Monitoring the Future Study, 1975-1997 found that more than 34 percent of high...