Electronic records to improve care for children with asthma
...essible to clinicians in the emergency department, all primary care settings, hospital inpatient units and specialty care." Research will focus on asthma in children, the most common chronic illness in childhood, which is responsible for 25 percent of school absences. Shiffman said the prevalence and ...Are museum collections of ancient life representative?
... you collect, the more likely you are going to get all of the preservable organisms that lived in an area... was interested in one species or the diversity of all during the time period in question. Whether you are building a large database or doing a small study...Researchers unlock mysteries of toxic metals in the largest contaminated site in United States
...ech professor of geosciences Michael Hochella went all the way to the University of Munster, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, then as a Humboldt Fellow, to use sophisticated equipment that allowed him to examine lead, arsenic and other materials at the nanometer level (a nanometer being about the size of ...Antibiotic-resistant bacteria increased after clindamycin use for common vaginal infection
....S.; Leslie Meyn, M.S.; and Marijane Krohn, Ph.D., all of the University of Pittsburgh. The study was funded by an unrestricted grant from 3M Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of MetroGel-Vaginal, a metronidazole-containing treatment for bacterial vaginosis, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectio...Plentiful fossils of dinosaur contemporary allow population study
...ontribution to efforts to create a family tree for all protosaurs, a Virginia Tech graduate student is ta...t too far from the museum in Martinsville, Va. and all specimens are currently accessible through the Martinsville museum. The quarry reveals the late Tr...Safety and immunogenicity data available for new pertussis booster vaccine candidate for adolescents
...und in soil and the manure of many animals. Almost all reported cases of tetanus are in persons who have either never been vaccinated, or who completed a primary series, but have not had a booster in the preceding 10 years. Infants of unvaccinated mothers are at risk for neonatal tetanus. Early symptom...Loyola begins study on blood substitute in trauma patients at the scene of injury
...ygen, has a long shelf life and is compatible with all blood types," said Gamelli, who also is chief of Loyola's Burn Center and director of Loyola's Burn and Shock Trauma Institute. In order to receive approval for the field component of this clinical trial, U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulati...Economics and ecology combine at UGA in NSF-funded study of evolutionary game theory
...supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering, with an annual budget exceeding $5.5 billion. Keenan has a research background in the area of game theory, which he said was originally developed to study the conscious interaction of "rational" agents. "For instan...Research confirms that vCJD prions can be removed from blood
...sociated). The new filter also has an affinity to all types of prions including aggregated, denatured and normal. Pall expects to launch the new filter in Europe in early 2005 with a Council of Europe (CE) mark. It is also developing a dossier and documentation to meet regulatory requirements for submi...Other highlights in the November 3 JNCI
... obesity and lower levels of physical activity are all associated with an increased risk of endometrial c...osis colorectal cancer account for less than 3% of all colorectal cancer cases. Researchers have suggested that it is likely that many cases of familial co...Initial sensor for p53 tumor-suppressing pathway identified
...netis suggests - to form the dense chromatin. When all is as it should be with the DNA, a target site for 53BP1 lies at the center of each of the stacked nucleosome disks and is not available for binding. "But if you have a DNA break, you can imagine that the nucleosomes might unravel and the stacking of...Research team discovers possible genetic mechanism behind congenital heart defects
...journal Nature . "It was previously believed that all cells during development contained the same chroma...a, Dr. Fionnuala McAuliffe and Dr. S. Lee Adamson, all from the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at MSH, and Dr. Mark Henkelman and Dr. Johnathon Walls ...Structure of new DNA enzyme family member found
...with crystallized proteins, the building blocks of all living organisms, and has solved 50 protein struct...s don't have appreciable sequence similarity, they all contain three invariable amino acids. The similar shapes of the proteins position these three import...International Rice Functional Genomics meeting in Tucson Nov. 15-17
...ice genome: the quest to determine the function of all of the approximately 50,000 genes in rice. "Rice ... meeting will bring together rice researchers from all over the world to discuss how to tackle the next step: figuring out what all those rice genes do. Ri...People cause more soil erosion than all natural processes
...10 times more erosion of continental surfaces than all natural processes combined, an analysis by a Unive...ine is, we move about 10 times as much sediment as all natural processes put together," he said. Because soil formation proceeds at about the same rate as ...Stretching the supply of flu vaccine: Solution offered in new SLU research in New England Journal
...arning that the same size dose doesn't seem to fit all ages," Belshe said. "Younger people may need less ... year's shortages) include health care workers and all people who have contact with babies under 6 months. The publication of the research was put on a fas...Researchers discover transport molecule that allows boron into cells
...rs. Meeyoung Park, Qin Li and Nikolay Shcheynikov, all postdoctoral researchers, and Dr. Weizhong Zeng, assistant professor. The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health. ...Crucial evolutionary link points to origins of modern cells
...mmon architecture underlying the Nup84 complex and all three major classes of vesicle-coating complexes may be because all of the coating complexes have a common role in curving membranes," says Rout. "Moreover, we also bel...UNC Lineberger researchers identify molecular markers of aging
...e and genetics at UNC's School of Medicine. "We all know people that we consider to be a young 65, and we believe they won't demonstrate as much p16INK4a or ARF expression as others of the same age." In addition to identifying molecular targets that may slow aging in the f...Scientists find acid rain an unlikely ally in the battle against a greenhouse gas
...n, high temperatures and substantial precipitation all come together, to reduce optimal methane emissions...tury. "When we used all the field data with the NASA computer models and applied it to a global scale, it shows that the eff...