New breast cancer screening tool helps general practitioners
...ing and rigorous screening. Several quantitative assessments are available to physicians to calculate an individual patient's risk for developing breast cancer. One example is the modified Gail model. Collecting familial and individual risk data, the tool is able to quantifiably assess both five-year and lifet...Georgetown leads effort to study safety of 'alternative' tobacco products
...o the public, Shields said. "We will provide rapid assessments of new products as they come on the market," he said. To do that, the multidisciplinary researchers, who have dubbed themselves PREPAC (PREP Assessment Consortia), have divided themselves into teams. Researchers at Georgetown and the University of ...Triple threat: World fin trade may harvest up to 73 million sharks per year
...aximum sustainable level," says Clarke. "But such assessments were not available for other, less productive shark species. It is quite likely that sustainable catch levels have already been exceeded in some cases." The United Nations FAO compiles catch records for sharks and other fish, based on information su...Early family experience can reverse the effects of genes, UCLA psychologists report
... and women who participated in the study completed assessments of depression, early family environment and current stress. They were asked, for example, how often they had been loved and cared for, shown physical affection or insulted and sworn at by their families. Saliva samples were used to determine if the p...Gene therapy research switches off joint inflammation; switches on genetic process of joint repair
... assess a variety of pain, mobility and functional assessments in subjects with moderate osteoarthritis of the knee. Prior to this clinical investigation Reparagen was found to be the first natural product to "silence" genes that promote joint damage while simultaneously activating the repair gene, IGF-1, in hum...USGS presents a world of science at GSA in Philadelphia
...l, oil and gas, coal, water, and earthquake hazard assessments being conducted by the USGS in Afghanistan. The data also act as base information for road construction and environmental restoration. Jeff Doebrich, PCC Exhibit Hall, 6:008:00 pm Monday, Oct. 23 Arsenic Toxicity Worldwide: An estimated 47-53 ...Kentucky first state to match federal SBIR-STTR Phase 1 and Phase 2 grants
...unities, the data collected from the two statewide assessments will be used to help develop an online database that will serve as a networking tool and as a means of attracting outside investments. The searchable database will contain information about Kentucky's leading science and technology innovators and can...New technology makes clinical research more precise
...ned a biological test that supplements the Epibase assessments with certain experimental data. The test exposes blood cells - which include T-cells - to the proteins under study. If the proteins being investigated induce an immune response, the T-cells will become active and produce cytokines. In this new test, ...'Lessons learned' highlighted as global politics of HIV/AIDS examined in new research
... the HIV/AIDS pandemic since 1981. Compelling new assessments of the politics of HIV/AIDS in seven countries appear as a research symposium in the December issue of Perspectives on Politics, a journal of the American Political Science Association (APSA). In her introduction to the symposium, available online ...New sucker-footed bat discovered in Madagascar
...shing the priorities for conservation programs and assessments of presumed rare and possibly endangered animals, the study concludes. Due to the physical similarities between M. schliemanni and M. aurita, the researchers concluded that one species probably evolved from the other, most likely after the bat dispe...Duke geologist's book assails unrealistic mathematical models
...hould still be full of fish," they write. In its assessments of the unfinished Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste site in Nevada, the U.S. government has used a "pyramid" of hundreds of quantitative mathematical models to predict the repository's long-term behavior, according to the authors. Those flawed ...NIH study finds MRI more sensitive than CT in diagnosing most common form of acute stroke
.... Stroke specialists conducted emergency clinical assessments with all patients, including the NIH Stroke Scale which is used to measure stroke severity. MRI was done prior to CT in 304 patients. Scans were initiated within two hours of each other, with a median difference of 34 minutes. Patients were exclud...Scientists to assess effects of multiple copies of genes on disease risk
... illness. "Right now, our results and other early assessments of human and other mammalian genomes are suggesting that about 10 percent of the genome features copy number variations," says Timothy Graubert, M.D., assistant professor of pathology and immunology and of medicine. "That's a huge number. As a percen...Standardized house dust aids health researchers
...but still are found in the environment. Accurate assessments of everyday exposure to many of these contaminants are difficult because of both the complexity of the analysis and the small quantities involved. "PCBs," for example, is shorthand for dozens of chemically similar compounds that may be found in hundr...The last wild hunt -- Deep-sea fisheries scrape bottom of the sea
...as fishing nations to conduct environmental impact assessments of deep-sea bottom fishing and to declare high seas areas where deep-sea corals, sponges and other vulnerable species are likely to occur closed to bottom fishing unless fishing nations can prove that their activities will cause no harm. On Februa...Study verifies more hazardous waste facilities located in minority areas
...l justice movement itself, presents a timeline and assessments of the movement, and gives testimonials from key people about the impact of the original 1987 report. The title of the report is "Toxic Waste and Race at Twenty 1987-2007, Grassroots Struggles to Dismantle Environmental Racism in the United States."...Research suggests a significant circadian rhythm in swim performance lasting 2-4 minutes
...s the 24-hour day and allowed multiple performance assessments to be conducted over a short period of time with relatively little sleep loss. Each swimmer performed six scheduled maximal-effort 200-meter swim trials that were distributed equally across eight times of day, with nine hours between each trial. ...Mistaken identity? When a white marlin may not always be a white marlin
... the threatened white marlin, as recent population assessments may have been overestimated since the species is virtually indistinguishable from the previously unrecognized roundscale spearfish. A prior petition to qualify the white marlin for the U.S. Endangered Species List, arguing its declining population s...Scientist converts UK nuclear energy policy
...nalysis Center (MPAC) provides policy makers "with assessments of the physical and mental health of key foreign actors." This could offer insights into the motivations and behavior of enemies and allies, according to physician Jonathan D. Clemente, who practices in Charlotte, North Carolina. Other articles loo...New UA / private partnership appraises climate and environmental risks by address
...zona and the company's founder, willoffer low-cost assessments of climate and environmental risks for anyaddress in the continental United States. The partnership was approved by the Arizona Board of Regents today. Climate Appraisal Services, LLC ( http://www.climateappraisal.com ) is the nation's first online...