New clue why MS affects African-Americans differently than Caucasians
... ... The study found antibody levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of African Amer...Slow wave activity during sleep is lower in African-Americans than Caucasians
... Dr. Esra Tasali and colleagues at the University of Chicago collected overnight polysomnographic data from 12 African-Americans and 12 Caucasians, none of whom had any sleep com...African-Americans at increased risk for earlier preterm births
... African American mothers were also more than 5 times more likely to have repeating premature births than Caucasian mothers. Although all moth...New diabetes research: Half of Americans have gene that affects how body burns sugar
... ... Those people with the variant gene processed fat differently than those who do...Americans love competition, but is it pushing our scientists too far?
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Serious scientific misconduct that calls the integrity of science into question is only uncovered and reported perhaps a dozen times a year in the United States. This suggests that there isn't much misbehaving taking place in the research arena. Right? Maybe not. A new study suggests that the competitive nature of research fosters an environment where scientific misbehavior ta...Economic impact of hunger affects all Americans
... The study, titled The Economic Cost of Domestic Hunger: Estimated Annual Burden to the United States, finds that the U.S. pays more than $90 billion annually for the direct and indirect costs of hunger-related chariti...Pills or papayas? Survey finds Americans want healthful foods, not more medicines
... The survey, commissioned by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), reinforce...Americans' support for embryonic stem cell research declines, VCU Life Sciences survey shows
... The number of Americans that supports embryonic stem cell research was 54 percent in the new survey, down from 58 percent in the 2005 survey. The poll found that in tandem with the 54 percent of Americans who support embryonic stem cell research, 37 percent...African-Americans with prostate cancer more likely to have family history of prostate, breast cancer
... The data were part of the Flint Men's Health Study, a population-based study of African-American men ages 40-79 who live in Flint, Mich. The Flint Men's Health Study focuses specifically on African-American men as part of an effort to determine why they face a higher risk of prostate cancer than white m...MIT survey: Climate change tops Americans' environmental concerns
... ... "While terrorism and the war in Iraq are the main issues of national concern, there's been a remarkable increase in the American public's recognition of global...Americans less likely to accept evolution than Europeans
... ... ... For example, i...Americans support free access to research
Washington, DC May 31, 2006 In an online survey of public attitudes conducted recently and released today by Harris Interactive, 8 out of 10 (82%) adults polled said they believe that "if tax dollars pay for scientific research, people should have free access to the results of the research on the Internet."...... In addition, six out of 10 (62%) adults believe that if these research results are...Americans voice strong bipartisan support for improving the environment
Most Americans are pessimistic about the state of the environment and want action taken to improve its health, according to a new national survey conducted by Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment....... Fifty-five percent of Americans surveyed said they expect the world's natural environment to be in worse shape in 10 years than it is now, and an additional 5 percent said the...Most Americans do not expect widespread human cases of avian flu in US in the next year
Boston, MA -- The latest national poll conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Project on the Public and Biological Security finds that at the moment, the majority of the American public is concerned about the threat of avian flu, but only a small proportion is very concerned. However, should cases of avian flu emerge in poultry or humans in this country, the public reaction could...Americans prefer to leave child's sex to chance, survey finds
Most people would not choose the sex of their child if given the option, according to a new nationwide survey. The study is the first to examine the demand and preferences for sex selection among the U.S. general population.... ..."We found that only 8 percent of people would use pre-implantation sex selection for non-medical reasons," said Dr. Tarun Jain, assistant professor of reproductive endo...Genetic cause of sudden infant death in African Americans
Steve A.N. Goldstein and colleagues from the Pritzker School of Medicine in Chicago have found that a specific mutation, called S1103Y, in a heart protein known as SCN5A is associated with a dramatic, 24-fold increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in African American infants. The authors show that this mutant protein, when exposed to acidic conditions (which can be caused by low bl...Gene variation increases SIDS risk in African Americans
About five percent of deaths from SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) in African Americans can be traced to defects in one gene and half of those deaths result from a common genetic variation that increases an infant's risk of developing an abnormal heart rhythm during times of environmental stress, a research team based at the University of Chicago reports in the February 2006 issue of the Journ...US Surgeon General urges Americans to know their family health history
WASHINGTON Tues., Nov. 15, 2005 Calling on all Americans to "know their family history," U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., today unveiled an updated version of a computerized tool designed to help families gather their health information, and praised Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston for joining in to expand the Surgeon General's Family Health Initiative.... ... "This...Central Americans save plant diversity through local cultivations
In a refreshing twist, humans have been shown to be part of the solution to the issue of decreasing genetic diversity in our world rather than part of the problem. Global genetic diversity is being eradicated through any number of human-driven activities, the removal of large scale forests key among them. ... Now Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis report that farmers and famili...Yale cell biologist, Ira Mellman, one of three Americans honored by EMBO
New Haven, Conn. -- ......EMBO elects members annually on the basis of their proven excellence in research. Over 1,200 of Europe's foremost researchers have been recogn...Faulty cell cycle checkpoints linked to lung cancer risk in African-Americans
Washington D.C. -- Faulty cell cycle "checkpoints" that fail to respond to DNA damage effectively may contribute to the high incidence of lung cancer in African-Americans, say researchers at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the National Cancer Institute (NCI). ...Their study, reported in the October 15 issue of Cancer Research, is the first epidemiological study to...Mutation may raise prostate-cancer risk in African Americans
COLUMBUS, Ohio Researchers have identified a gene mutation that may increase the risk of prostate cancer up to three times in African-American men with a family history of the disease. ...... The study, by scientists at 13 research centers, found that mutations in a gene known as EphB2 occurred in 15 percent of African-American men with a strong family history of prostate cancer. The mutation wa......... ...529 14th Street, Washington, DC 20045 Corner of 14th & F Sts. NW ...... Representatives of ASM and SDA, who will release the results and provide perspective on an observational study of 6,000+ persons' public restroom handwashing habits from four cities: Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco, conducted by Harris Interactive.... ...The groups will also present results of a Har...Breast cancer risk increased for African-Americans with mitochondrial DNA variant
PHILADELPHIA--African-American women who carry the 10398A mitochondrial DNA allele are 60 percent more likely to develop invasive breast cancer than African-American females without that genetic marker, according to research published in the September 1 issue of "Cancer Research." ...... "These findings support the notion that variations in the genetic sequence of mitochondrial DNA are underappre...Silenced gene suggests greater risk, possible marker for African-Americans with prostate cancer
Among African-Americans with prostate cancer, a tumor-suppressing gene called GSTP1 is inactivated at a rate 3.5 times higher than among Caucasians, according to a study conducted at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC)....... "This could be one of the mechanisms for the higher incidence of prostate cancer in African-Americans compared to Caucasians," said Rajvir Dahiya, PhD, Director of...African-Americans and Caucasians have similar emotional brain activity when seeing African-Americans
African Americans and Caucasians viewing African American faces display extremely similar changes in the activity of brain structures that respond to emotional events, a new UCLA study finds. ......The changes occur in the amygdala, a region of the brain that serves as an "alarm" to activate a cascade of other biological systems to protect the body in times of danger, said Matthew D. Lieberman, a...Hypertension in African Americans linked to two genomic regions
St. Louis, Feb. 9, 2005 -- A first-of-its-kind application of a novel statistical method of analysis to African Americans has identified regions on chromosomes 6 and 21 that likely harbor genes contributing to high blood pressure in that group. The novel statistical method, called admixture mapping, narrowed the search for genes related to hypertension, bringing researchers and doctors closer to...National survey shows Americans are in the dark regarding genetically modified foods
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ-- Americans pay little attention to genetically modified foods, have difficulty separating fact from fiction when it comes to the science behind them and are willing to believe unsubstantiated rumors about them. According to a national study of 1,200 Americans commissioned by the Food Policy Institute (FPI) at RutgersCook College, while most Americans say they are interested in...Hypertension risk in African-Americans linked to genetics, Stanford study finds
STANFORD, Calif. - National health records have shown that African-Americans are more prone to high blood pressure than Caucasians, but pinning down the roots of that difference has proven elusive. Now, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have narrowed down the search for genes that contribute to this difference in disease risk....... Finding such a gene could have several b...Higher blood pressures among African Americans - genes not likely to be an explanation
Genetics may not be enough to explain the rates of high blood pressure in US African-American populations, according to new research published today in BMC Medicine. The international study gives a different interpretation to the previous US data and suggests that high rates of hypertension might have more to do with lifestyle and socio-economic background than with racial origin....... Previous...Military hazards are greater for Native Americans, according to sociological research
WASHINGTON, DC-A new study by sociologists at Washington State University (WSU) suggests Native Americans and their lands are disproportionately exposed to hazards posed by the U.S. military's explosive and toxic munitions....... The research, conducted by Gregory Hooks, chair of the WSU Department of Sociology, and Chad L. Smith, Texas State University-San Marcos professor and a former WSU gradu...