Stress: It's Not Just All In Your Head; Scientists Map The Wear And Tear Of Daily Life
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...areparticipating in the clinical trials are making enormous contributions to thefight against breast cancer. "If we continue to see positive results from the study, as we expect, women whoare concerned about breast cancer should consult their doctors about whetherraloxifene is a treatment they should conside...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
... "And none of these figures takes into account the enormous increase inlearning disabilities, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder and otherbehavioral problems that we know are part of the outcome of maternal smoking." Children and adolescents who take up smoking also may suffer braindamage, s...The Health Consequences Of Nuclear Arms Trade In The Subcontinent Should Not Be Overlooked
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... tissue cross-sections. The resulting datasets are enormous (altogether some 55 gigabytes) and open up a new world to researchers. In November 1994 the Visible Human Project data were made available to the public on the Internet with just one requirement: users, who sign a licensing agreement, are required t...National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
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...er 10,000 amongwomen aged 45-64. "Influenza has an enormous impact because 10 percent of adults and close to 30percent of school-age children are infected each year," said Dr. Marie R.Griffin, professor of Preventive Medicine and senior author of the study. This study also provides the first population-based ...Early stroke treatment with t-PA has long-lasting benefit, according to NEJM report
...ans to reduceits disabling effects translates into enormous cost-savings and improvements inquality of life." Patients treated with tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) within threehours of experiencing symptoms of acute ischemic stroke, "?were at least 30percent more likely to have minimal or no disab...... we canavoid much suffering and spare society this enormous cost." The results of the study suggesting a potential cure for osteoporosis mustovercome a concern from a related finding, however. A recent parathyroid hormonestudy by the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, using laboratory rats, found thata small p......like regions that are shared byall members of this enormous family of recognition devices. Itis only a small and well-defined region containing about 20 amino acids thatvaries greatly from one receptor to another. That's precisely the site where anodor molecule can fit like a key into a keyhole. These results...Keck Foundation funds research to repair the injured spinal cord
...very pleased that the Keck Foundation has seen the enormous potential ofthis work and is willing to fund it in its early stages," says William A. Peck,M.D., executive vice chancellor for medical affairs at the University and deanof the School of Medicine. "We believe that Washington University, with its longt...Double-edged effect of inflammatory response discovered after brain injury
...Medical Center have found that the brain undergoes enormous changes for monthsfollowing the initial damage. In the latest development in this ongoing work,the team found that tumor necrosis factor (TNF) -- a cytokine molecule that isnormally released during inflammation -- may be damaging and then protective ...UI researchers identify prostate tumor suppressor
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