Dietary Vitamin A Supplements Improve Maternal Survival In South Asia
...illages wererandomly assigned for women to receive weekly supplements containing recommended dietary amounts...A and beta-carotenegroups. Currently, weekly low-dose vitamin A or beta-carotene supplementprograms do not exist for women in the developing nati......D includes avoiding exposure to cigarette smokeand weekly injections of alpha-1-antitrypsin. Gene therapy could somedayreplace the need for weekly shots for individuals battling the disorder. "Protein replacement patients require weekly IV inject...Canine Cancer Survivor Is Pet Therapist Helping Kids With Cancer
...on Dani's right back leg during abath prior to her weekly visit to the center. After consultation with herveterinarian, Lauri scheduled Dani for surgery to remove the tumor, amastocytoma that proved to be malignant. Subsequently, Dani embarked on a yearof oral chemotherapy. Ironically, Dani's medications --...Cold Virus With P53 Gene Tested To Combat Ovarian Cancer
... first patient's treatments are occurring in three weekly visits withtwo-week intervals between them. Patients will continue treatments as long as apositive response occurs unless significant side effects develop. Fifteen to 18patients are expected to be treated in this study. Nancy Ruff, a 65-year-old wif...Zinc In Sludge From Spanish Reservoir Break Equals Mine's Annual Output, Researchers Find
...ork was published in the Sept. 22 issue ofEOS, the weekly journal of the American Geophysical Union. Alexander van Geen, a research scientist at Lamont, in Palisades, N.Y.,and Zanna Chase, a Columbia graduate student, measured the amount of zinc inwater and sediments in the rivers downstream from t...Clean Air Act Reduces Acid Rain In Eastern U.S.
...s baseline includesprecipitation samples collected weekly between 1983 and 1994 from approximately200 sites across the U.S. NADP measures samples for acidity, sulfate and nitrateconcentrations. Lynch compared this baseline data with data collected in 1995and 1996. "Looking at sulfate concentrations,...Study Suggests Weekly Hurricane And Rainfall Patterns Are Linked To East Coast Pollution
... Coastpollution, which also follows a well defined weekly cycle. The gray, smelly cloud of pollution has a strange silver lining,however. While pollution makes for more rainy weekends, it also apparentlyreduces the intensity of hurricanes that hit over the weekend, such that weekendhurricanes tend ...Duke Studies Show That Environmental Effects Of Dams Extend To Insect Life
...t, she and her assistantsvisited four tiny islands weekly to make butterfly inventories. The now-isolatedislands were located between 0.1 and 3 kilometers (a kilometer is about 6/10thof a mile) from "colonizing sources," places where the butterflies were known tohave established populations. Compari...... patient. Patients were followed up on a weekly basis within the first eight weeksafter initiation of the treatment and at monthly intervals thereafter. Co-authors are Iris Baumgartner, M.D.; Ann Pieczek, R.N.; Richard Blair,M.D.; Orit Manor Ph.D.; Marianne Kearney, B.S. and Kenneth Wals......static orrecurrent breast and ovarian cancers with weekly injections of an E1A geneincorporated into a liposome, which improved the gene's ability to penetratehuman cells. The first three patients who have been evaluated all showed E1Agene expression in both cancer and non-cancer cells. Additionally, thes...US-Cuban Scientific Collaborations Jeopardized By Travel Restrictions
...ational scientific cooperation. AAAS publishes the weekly peer-reviewed journal Science and administersEurekAlert! [www.eurekalert.org], the online news service featuring discoveriesin science, medicine, and technology. ## EDITOR'S NOTE: To R.S.V.P. for the April 3 meeting, or to receive a copy o...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
... and priorities about safety were conveyed through weekly meetings with safety captains from each work area and quarterly "town hall" meetings with all shop employees. From 1985 to 1988, the total incidents of injuries went from 33 to 12, back incidents from 13 to 0, lost days from 579 to 0, restricted da...Burroughs Wellcome Fund Continues Support Of EurekAlert!
...o, and subscriber fees. AAAS, the publisher of the weekly journal Science, is the world's largest federation of scientists with more than 142,000 individual members and nearly 300 affiliated scientific and engineering societies. The Association will celebrate its 150th anniversary this year....AAAS Announces Science Journalism Award Winners
...rnational scientific cooperation. It publishes the weekly peer-reviewed journal Science and administersEurekAlert! [ www.eurekalert.org ], the online news service featuring discoveriesin science, medicine, and technology....Ozone 'Chat Room' Provides Real-Time Air-Quality Research
... reduced over weekends. "Only humans operate on a weekly cycle, so this graphically ties human activity during the work week to ozone production," says Schichtel, who has concentrated greatly on meteorological data to develop ozone transport animations. The animations, available through the OTAG Washingto...President's Budget Proposal Cuts R&D By 14 Percent By 2002
...ntific cooperation. The Association publishes the weekly peer-reviewed journal Science and administers EurekAlert! [www.eurekalert.org], the online news service featuring discoveries in science, medicine, and technology.......national scientific cooperation. It publishes the weekly peer-reviewed journal Science and administers EurekAlert! [www.eurekalert.org], the online news service featuring discoveries in science, medicine, and technology.......national scientific cooperation. It publishes the weekly peer-reviewed journal Science and administers EurekAlert! [www.eurekalert.org], the online news service featuring discoveries in science, medicine, and technology....Bottom-up Ecological Processes Better For Clear Waters, Study Finds
...results of the analysisin the Jan. 17 issue of the weekly journal Science . The analysis also casts doubt on a popular model of how energy moves throughfood webs in general and of how many plants and animals can be found ateach level of the web. The way energy moves through food webs plays a keyrole in de...