Athletes, Fraternity Men Are Top Drinkers
...A total of 51,483 students on 125 college campuses across the United States answered the survey during the 1994 through 1996 school years. Among them were 20,595 males, 18 percent of whom played intercollegiate sports, and 30,888 women, 10 percent of whom played on intercollegiate teams. Data included res...Montana Fungus The First But Not The Best
...as sampled yew trees from Nepal, the Himalayas and across NorthAmerica and found taxol-making fungi in every one of them. "As a whole, yew is a microbial treasure trove of novel and interestingmicrobes interacting with each other and the plant," Strobel wrote in a 1996paper published in the Journal...Educational Intervention Can Reduce Sexual Behaviors Known To Transmit HIV
...k sexual behaviors reported significant reductions across a range ofsexual risk indicators over a one-year period. The more intervention sessionsthe participants attended, the less high-risk behaviors they engaged in. Among men who took the seven-session intervention, for instance, theincidence of...Landmark Study Shows Behavioral Interventions Reduce HIV-Related Sexual Risk Behavior
...sk sexual behaviors reportedsignificant reductions across a range of sexual risk indicators over a one-yearp...ed by public health and communityorganizations all across America. If these behavioral changes were maintainedfor even one year, there would be a profound, co...... intravenous (IV) conscious sedationtechnique used across clinical settings, MMI began aggressively encourag...use of pulse oximetry with this type of anesthesia across all settings. Over athree-year period, from 1994 through 1996, the percentage of cases in which thi...Research Explains Lithium's Dual Anti-Manic/Anti-Depressive Effect
...ge-bearing glutamate aimed at a neighboring neuron across the synapse. Astructure on the end of the releasing nerve cell, called a reuptake transporter,then shuts off the signal by reabsorbing the glutamate, pumping it back into thecell for reuse. If the reuptake mechanism malfunctions, inappropriate conce...Drug Prevents Hearing Loss Caused By Brain Tumor Therapy
... unexpectedly caused major hearing loss when given across an openblood-brain barrier. Approximately a third to one-half of cancer patients treated with theplatinum-based chemotherapy agent cisplatin develop some degreeof communication difficulty due to hearing loss, Neuwelt pointed out. Therelated d...Six Football Players Died In 1997 Season: New Study
...football players - all high school students --died across the United States last year as a direct result of injuries sufferedon the field, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows.Eight other players also died, but those fatalities were not directly tied tothe game and could have result...Anti-Depressants: Miracle Drugs Or Placebos With A Buzz?
...ved drugsnot considered anti-depressants. Looking across all 19 studies, the authorscalculated the extent to which the beneficial effects of the various drugs couldbeattributed to the drugs themselves and the degree of positive effects that couldbe attributed to the placebo effect. They concluded t...New Elementary School Program Lowers Cardiovascular Risks In Children
...hese children were from 18 rural and urban schools across the stroke belt State of North Carolina. There were equal numbers of males and females in the study, and the racial distribution mirrored that of the States population (19% African- American, 77% Caucasian, 4% other). The classroom-wide intervention...Repairing Cranio-Facial Deformities From The Inside Out
...train in Venezuela and then teach other physicians across the U.S. proper useand implantation technique for the distractor. The distractor works like those traditionally used in the jaw or leg butis much less cumbersome in size and virtually unnoticeable during use since itis implanted internally. ......a high of 77.1 percent in Connecticut. "Variation across thecountry is striking, but all areas can improve the care of such patients byincreasing the appropriate use of beta-blockers," Krumholz said. The researchers concluded: "This study represents the mostcomprehensive evaluation of the use of b...Tiny Pellets Could Deliver Alzheimer's Drugs
...eering, has developed a pellet, about 1 millimeter across -- less than the size of a pea -- containing up to 10 milligrams of NGF, that when embedded in rat brains has been "very effective" at regenerating dying cells. Cornell polymer chemist Nadya Belcheva has taken the same idea, but reduced it to the mi...UCSF Osher Center For Integrative Medicine Symposium
Prominent researchers and practitioners from across the country will join withUCSF faculty for a scientific symposium, called "Research Challenges inIntegrative Medicine: Toward a New Science of Healing," that will celebrate theestablishment of the new Osher Center for Integrative Medicine (OCIM) at ...Study Pinpoints Effectiveness Of Prostate Cancer Therapies To Patient Populations
...ifference in outcome was noted in low riskpatients across all treatment modalities for this short andlimited follow-up period. "These results suggest that a particular population ofpatients -- those we can pre-therapeutically determine to be"high risk" -- don't do as well with the seed therapy as judgedby p...National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
...erdisciplinary study of sequential decision making across animals and robots, with a focus on real-time learning and control of information gathering and navigational behaviors.The project will take a comparative approach, combining psychophysical and cognitive research techniques from the study of human ey......rst to show marked improvementin patient delay all across the country." During the 1990s, median delays had been between three and four hours -- halfthe individuals delay longer and half delayed less than three to four hours.The REACT study examined the influence of media campaigns in educating thepublic ab...UCSF Study Finds DHEA Benefits Cardiovascular Function
...cular Lab. Researchers at medical centers across the country are investigating anumber of DHEA-related issues, including DHEA?s role in brain diseases,including Alzheimer's disease, and autoimmune diseases, such as lupus. Some ofthe lingering questions also include why only humans and primates man......-soluble polymer used in medicine and cosmetics -- across the region of theguinea pig's spinal cord that had been severed but gently pressed back together.PEG was applied for two minutes, then removed. The polymer "fused" the membranesof a significant number of nerve cells together, making them continuous o......lm, and a thumb. In the RT found in HIV, DNA lies across this hand, stretching from where the wrist would be toward the metaphorical pinkie. The structure shows that active RT looks like a slightly clenched hand, with the thumb almost touching the finger nearest to it. Most drugs that target RT mimic nucle...