Purdue Golf Course Serves Double Duty As Research Lab
... Here are four of the initial research projects taking place on the golf course: Using golf courses to filter water Research in the 1990s at several institutions has shown that golf courses are environmentally neutral. Many of them use herbicides and chemical fertilizers, but the studies hav...Researchers Develop Fast Screening Method For Water Testing
...r.Currently, each sample receives a full analysis, taking several hours per sampleto complete. "The problem with doing a full analysis on every sample is that you canspend hours analyzing a sample only to find out that it's below EnvironmentalProtection Agency limits," said Anthony Andrews, an assis...Open-Air Experiment Shows High CO2 Boosts Tree Growth
...trogen and phosphorus in them, not because theyare taking up less nitrogen and phosphorus from the soil, but because they'regrowing so fast that the same nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations are dilutedby this higher growth rate," Schlesinger said. When microbes then decompose those nitrogen and p...University of Florida Research Shows Zinc Triggers Body's Defenses
...y patients to consult with theironcologists before taking zinc supplements." Cousins' research could lead to better tests for zinc deficiency, whichhas been tied to decreased immunity in the United States and to widespreadinfections in developing countries. The best source of zinc in the die...Hopkins Study Shows Languishing Addictions Drug Really Works
...opkins study. The study suggests better ways of taking LAAM (levomethadyl acetate hydrochloride), a drug similar to methadone in its capacity to discourage heroin use and block withdrawal symptoms. However, unlike methadone, which addicts must use daily, LAAM can be taken three times a week, making it ......S and Health at the Federal Level" plenary session taking place on Tuesday, August 18, at 10:15 a.m., at the Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center. During the conference, USGS scientists will share with health professionals their knowledge and expertise in evaluating environmental changes that often ...Duke Study Helps Explain How Cells Divvy Up Genes During Reproduction
...ligora decided to find out how the motor worked by taking itapart and putting it back together. They studied the structure of the motor andidentified several distinct parts: the "engine," the "neck," and the "stalk."The engine generates the power for the motor, but the roles of the neck andstalk were a mys...Magnesium Supplements May Help Lower High Blood Pressure
...ers used three different measurements to study how taking amagnesium supplement affected the blood pressures...of the study were not affected bythe participants' taking medication to control their high blood pressure, theresearchers say. After examining individ...Commercial Fish: Eat Up, Despite Low Levels Of Mercury
...rmined by just a few cases. "People have been taking our old data from Iraq and comingout with very low numbers for tolerable exposure. We who had donethe study knew their numbers were not very solid. That's why weundertook this extensive Seychelles study." Why Go To The Seychelles To Study Mercury Ex...Endocrine Disruptors And Their Effects On Health, Environment
...al Society,the world's largest scientific society, taking place in Boston, August 23-27. WHO: Gary Timm - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Wash, DC James LeNoir - Center for Environmental Sciences andEngineering, Reno, NV Dr. John Brock - Centers for Disea...Science Article Criticizes Federal Policy Regarding Lead Exposure And Children's Health
...ble, "yet we wait untilchildren are exposed before taking action," says Dr. Lanphear. Second, proposedEPA standards set floor dust at too high a level, thereby not protectingchildren, according to Lanphear. Third, even though we rely on secondaryprevention, there is limited data showing it to be either sa...School Breakfast Participation Leads To Academic, Psychosocial Improvements
... breakfast programincreased the number of students taking school breakfasts, from 15 percent ofstudents at all three schools before the free program to 27 percent of studentsat all three schools four months after implementation of the free program. Almost half of the study-group students increased their pa...Hyperforin Is A Key To St. John's Wort, Researchers Say
... aplacebo. At the end of the six-week trial, those taking the highest hyperforindose showed the most positive results. Of those taking 5 percent hyperforin, 70percent reported their condition was much or very much improved. That compar...Possible Dangers Of Taking Over-The-Counter Medications For Hepatitis C Patients
...evations in theirliver enzymes in the blood, after taking the over-the-counter Ibuprofen thesepatients experience a ten-fold rise in their enzymes, suggesting significantliver injury. He adds that if too much medication is taken the patient risks speedingup the process of going from chronic hepatiti......s (<400 copies/mL), compared to 19% ofpatients taking Epivir+Retrovir alone. An additional analysis showed that 59%of patients receiving this regimen achieved viral load below the limit ofdetection of an investigational ultrasensitive assay1 (<50 copies). Anas-treated analysis evaluates only those...... the druggets to the site of infection faster than taking it by mouth." New information from two phase III c...y version of the medicine). Overall, patients taking zanamivir felt: Their health improved more quickly. They could get back to normal activities more q...Team Solves X-ray Structure Of Powerful Enzyme
... technique entailsgrowing a crystal of the enzyme, taking an X-ray picture of it and thenprocessing the X-ray image through a computer. "Understanding the structure of the enzyme at the molecular level, as we havedone with this X-ray crystallography, will help scientists figure out how tomanipulate it," sai...Living Bone Created By University of Toronto Researchers
...bone from another part of the patient's body or by taking bone fromcadavers. "Implanting the foams to create new bone eliminates both the secondaryinjury associated with grafting from the patient's body and the risk of diseasetransmission from the use of cadavers," says Davies. The team anticipates thatthe ...Researchers Link Gene Defects To The Course Of A Deadly Form Of Heart Disease
... defect, physicians may emphasize theimportance of taking their medications and having a plan ofaction in case of emergency. But the future holds even greaterpromise for these patients: Moss and Zareba have already begun toapply their research findings in an effort to develop gene-specific therapies for Lon......ore than 100 operations (group D). After taking into consideration patient age, race, and other existingmedical problems to produce a more accurate comparison, the researchers foundsignificant differences in the four categories of surgeons. Patients whosesurgeons did the most thyroid operations (...