Students Show Restraint Could Cut School Bus Injuries
...l bus safetystudy. Some parents and safety experts believe seat belts should be installed in buses,but only two statesrequire them in the most common large school buses, those weighing more than10,000 pounds.Proponents say seat belts would reduce school bus injuries, curb behaviorproblems and helpstudents ge...Semiconductor Plants May Be A Danger To The Health Of Employees
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...ion at the NINDS and a co-author of thestudy. "We believe that this finding is important because branching processes appear toplay a key role in human cognition," says Etienne Koechlin, Ph.D., also of theNINDS Cognitive Neuroscience Section and a co-author of the study. "In everydaylife, we often need to i......to initiate anattack against the donor organ. "We believe this measure of unresponsiveness to the donor graf.... Starzl TransplantationInstitute. The researchers believe that by giving donor bone marrow, anti-rejection drugscan work more effectively and the cellular env...Abgenix Reports Positive Survival Data From A Phase II Trial Of ABX-CBL In Graft Versus Host Disease
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...st women (59 percent)and men (65 percent) say they believe leg crossing is a method of flirting forwomen. It also lends a touch of class, according to 51 percent of women and 71percent of men who say it makes a woman look elegant. Men get turned on when women cross their legs, with 70 percent saying they fe...Controversy Over The Effects Of Passive Smoking
...cientists into two camps. Onone side are those who believe it reveals the existence of a highly non-lineareffect of tobacco smoke on the body, where just a whiff can trigger a dramaticincrease in risk. On the other side are those who, like Bailar, suspect the discrepancyhighlights fundamental flaws ...New cancer treatment facility opens
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...any people will later recall theword and appear to believe incorrectly that it was indeed presented as part ofthe list. Such lists of semantically associated words, first developed in 1959 by JamesDeese, have recently become a popular and powerful paradigm for the study ofmemory function. By applying the sim...Aging alone does not affect brain system related to memory loss
... processand a compromised brain," Sarter said. "We believe that people who developAlzheimer's disease have something wrong with their brain long before thesymptoms appear. It is the aging process that then makes the disease appear." Sarter said it is not yet known exactly what pathologies some people may hav...Early warning signs of violence often overlooked, study finds
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...pear to be reversible. Therefore,Newcomer does not believe the memory effects demonstrated in this study are ... vulnerable to other types of injury, but we don't believe the memoryimpairments we saw in this study are in any way associated with an irreversibleprocess. In...Universal antenatal HIV screening needed in areas of high prevalence
... the Netherlands, along with their colleagues also believe that serious consideration of such a policy should be given for other areas in England, depending on prevalence and screening costs The lifetime costs of care for a child infected with HIV have been estimated at 178,300. However, screening pregnant......c. TheBrandeis and Children's Hospital researchers believe that to understandepilepsy, it is important to understand memory, and vice versa. Thisunderstanding could lead scientists to better treatments for epilepsy and memorydisorders. Madsen, a neurosurgeon at Children's Hospital with a special interest in ......endless army of foreign invaders.Pilpel and Lancet believe they have uncovered the long-sought equivalent of theantibodies' "hypervariable" region in the receptors for odormolecules. If the Institute model of olfactory receptors is supported by further studies,it may prove useful for the development of new f...