Heart specialists call for cardiovascular screening for all young competitive athletes
...st involving nearly six million young people every year and the test leans heavily on the use of 12-lead ECG. In one 17-year study by the Center for Sports Medicine of Padova involving nearly 34,000 athletes under 35, over 1,000 were disqualified from competing on health grounds, 621 (1.8%) because the te...New study in JAMA details trends in diagnosis, treatment of brain tumors
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 2, 2005 -- A two year study involving over 560 patients with the newly-diagnosed malignant brain tumors shows that patterns of care are varied and there is a need for new, detailed clinical guidelines for management of brain tumors. The study is published in the Feb. 2, 2...Research using mouse models reveals a novel key player in the initiation of colon cancer
...unt for more than 1 million deaths worldwide every year and several research groups have been working to identify the molecular events that result in the initiation and progression of these tumors. It has been established that interfering with the function of one gene, called Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (A...Calit2 launches prize program to encourage bioinformatics research by UCSD undergraduates
...als in bioinformatics. Since he still has another year of study at UCSD, he plans to continue working in Nicholas Schork's Polymorphism Research Laboratory and continue his research. "Working in this lab has been the most academically rewarding thing that I have done," said Kohlenberg. "It was cool work...Heroes of the sea, Pew Fellows' fifteenth class tackle sharks, reefs, mangroves and more
...w Charitable Trusts. "The Pew Fellows chosen this year are remarkable individuals, and they join a network that has been 15 years in the making," says Dr. Ellen Pikitch, Executive Director of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School, and a Pew Fellow herself. "Th...Melatonin shrinks bird gonads. What does the popular supplement do in humans?
...e melatonin cycles through the day and through the year with changes in the length of the day, it's unclear the role it plays in the brain. Ubuka in Japan removed all the organs in the Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica, that are known to produce melatonin and found that GnIH levels dropped significantly. ...The effects of economic growth on interior forests of the Southeast
...nsistent across the region. "Our forecasts to the year 2020 show the future loss of interior forest highest in the southern Appalachian piedmont of North and South Carolina, with the Gulf prairies and marshes in Texas and the Florida coastal lowlands following," says Wear. "We project that 66 percent of ...Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease moves forward in animals
...has been debated since trials in humans ended last year without showing clinical improvements. Amgen, the world's largest biotechnology company, conducted the trials and later halted use of the drug because of safety concerns, creating an outcry from hopeful Parkinson's patients. But the gene therapy use...EMBO, HHMI join forces to promote brain gain
...icant difference." HHMI will contribute $50,000 a year for three years for up to six grants. Another $25,000 a year per grant will come from the participating member countries and EMBO. EMBO will oversee the EMBO/HH...NIH to investigate Ohio State University spinal injury course
...scheduled July 15-20, 2005. This will be the third year OSU has offered this course. University officials have so far refused to meet with PCRM and local humane organizations to discuss their concerns about the course....Falling ants glide back to trunk to avoid dangers of forest floor
...tively direct their fall were first observed last year outside Iquitos, Peru, by insect ecologist Stephen P. Yanoviak of UTMB. While perched 100 feet up in the rainforest canopy waiting for mosquitoes to alight and feed on his blood, Yanoviak casually brushed off a few dozen ants that were attacking him ...New monkey species name to be auctioned
...he currently unnamed, brown-and-orange monkey last year in Bolivia's Madidi National Park, the most biologically rich protected area on earth situated in South America's poorest nation. Over the past few centuries, newly discovered species have been named after royalty, patrons of science, and even the e...JCI Table of Contents, March 1, 2005
...al infarction (MI) affects 1.5 million people each year and could lead to cardiac rupture, or tear in the cardiac muscle. Since cardiac rupture accounts for a percentage of deaths, it is imperative to learn more about the mechanisms underlying it. After MI, there is an increased expression of matrix met...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2005 inductees
...g invention. The 2005 class will be inducted this year on May 14th at the annual induction ceremony held in Akron, Ohio. "This impressive group of inventors worked hard to give us the benefit of their inventions," said Rick Nydegger, President of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation. "We loo...Chemical analysis of mushrooms shows their nutritional benefits
...ural and Food Chemistry. The same researchers last year reported in the same journal the carbohydrate profile of selected plum and prune products. The findings will become part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Nutrient Database. "What we've reported in these papers are the complete carbohy...Tree-ring data reveals multiyear droughts unlike any in recent memory
...the Columbia River Basin drought of 1992-1993 as a year of misery. Now researchers using tree-ring data have determined six multiyear droughts between 1750 and 1950 that were much more severe than anything in recent memory because they persisted for years, including one that stretched for 12 years. "Ima...American Chemical Society meeting March 13-17 features wide variety of new research
...ego area Exploring the chemical enterprise in the year 2015 A free, hands-on Spanish-language science program for Hispanic children More than 60 papers on the burgeoning science of nanotechnology, ranging from delivering antibacterial compounds more efficiently to producing more environmentally friendl...Educators in Pennsylvania and North Carolina earn top 2004 Mentoring Awards from AAAS
...enter for Nanoscience and Nanomaterials in 2003. A year later, he set up the Center for Multifunctional Materials for Homeland Security for the Navy. At the same time, George said, "His programs have become a home in the truest sense for the nurturing of high-potential African-American and other underrepr...Spit, and call me in the morning
...uids]. What we're bound to see is that in the next year or two the fruits of these projects are going to come together," said Wong. One reason the field of oral fluid testing is gaining momentum now is that an effort has just gotten underway to decipher the entire set of proteins, or "proteome," present i...Map of human genetic variation across populations may promise improved disease treatments
...ption of genetic variations is expected later this year from the international HapMap Project, directed by government agencies from Japan, China and Canada, as well as The Wellcome Trust of London and the U.S. National Institutes of Health. That mapping effort will describe variation across individuals of...