Natural scenes calm drivers more than city views, study finds
...a six-lane highway through an area of strip malls, commercial signs and utility poles, and relatively little vegetation. The researchers made sure that the video that they believed would be most calming the scenic parkway drive actually had the most traffic shown. "Though this choice may have reduced the bene...Training GPs to manage obesity does not affect weight loss
...ecialists, use of leisure services, and use of the commercial weight loss sector....Enormous X-ray solar flare seen by SOHO
...s people on the Earth, but passengers and crews on commercial jets at high latitudes could receive exposure equivalent to a normal medical chest X-ray. The CME associated with this flare is larger than the Sun itself and is one of the most dramatic halo CMEs ever recorded by SOHO. The material ejected by this...The statin wars: Why AstraZeneca must retreat
...d safety-and AstraZeneca is facing unusually acute commercial pressure to force rosuvastatin into the market-doctors should pause before prescribing this drug. Physicians must tell their patients the truth about rosuvastatin-that, compared with its competitors, rosuvastatin has an inferior evidence base support...Foundation trusts threaten core NHS principles
...able to subcontract clinical services and staff to commercial companies. They will also be able to enter into joint ventures with companies for the sale of health care and other services including health insurance. Their new freedoms include the power to buy and sell NHS land and assets and retain the proceeds ...Outbreak of foodborne botulism traced from food sold at Texas salvage store
...ld be responsible for maintaining the integrity of commercial food, customers should maintain standards of health. Kalluri's final recommendation for shopping is to always "err on the side of being safe."...What trials do the NHS spend their money on?
...ally funded programme, or funded by a charity or a commercial company Have all research costs fully met by the NHS Trust's internal research and development budget To make sure that the trials are identified unambiguously, they have all been assigned an International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Numbe...Beckman Laser Institute to improve breast cancer detection
... creation of multi-center clinical trials and form commercial partnerships that advance development of the technology. "This technology will provide added insight into the origins of breast disease and practical approaches for addressing several key challenges in breast cancer clinical management," Tromberg sa...US DoE awards $4 million in funding to Stevens' Center for MicroChemical Systems
...manufactured at 70wt% concentration; however, most commercial applications use 15wt% concentration. End users ha...nd desktop workstations in conjunction with robust commercial and in-house CFD software packages. Apart from the relevance of these projects to the DoE mission, ...NASA research propels development of new glass
...NASA levitator facility, is available for numerous commercial applications including lasers and optical communic... the glass in Evanston, Ill. "We're already making commercial quantities of glass rods and plates for use in lasers," he said. REAl Glass -- made from Rare Earth ...HFES Annual Meeting papers feature work on critical health and safety issues
...with their eyes closed. Drowsy drivers--especially commercial truck drivers--pose a major threat to roadway safety. Drowsy driver crashes cost $12 billion and contribute to up to 35% of the 4,400 annual truck driver deaths. Progress has been made in measuring drowsiness and understanding its effects on human p...Health of independent clinical trials in danger, scientist warns
...few children get cancer and therefore it is not of commercial interest to the pharmaceutical industry. It is through academic research and trials that we have come to see such big improvements in mortality from childhood cancers the rates have fallen in the past 25 years from nearly 100% to 25%. The Directi...HIV researcher at Rush awarded grant from Doris Duke Foundation
...pidemic in that country, created by drug users and commercial sex workers. According to surveys done on those patients, approximately 50 percent of the drug users are HIV positive. "Doctors in these areas of the world simply do not have the resources to use state of the art CD4 testing," Landay said, pointing ...Many children in Medicaid managed care do not receive same quality of care
...d managed care plans had lower rates than those in commercial plans for quality indicators such as immunization ...n Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) in 423 commercial and 169 Medicaid plans. Across all plans, the mean plan performance for commercial enrollees on chil...Pancreatic cancer linked to developmental cell signaling pathway
...y recently, small cell lung cancer, university and commercial labs are screening for more effective Hedgehog blockers. "If Hedgehog is involved in pancreatic cancer, these other blockers might offer a bright prospect in treating a disease that has eluded effective treatment up to now," Hebrok said. A second pa...University of Illinois at Chicago receives $15.7 million grant to stop anthrax
...thrax is a national priority, it does not have the commercial potential to be a prime development area for the pharmaceutical industry, Johnson said. But in the academic setting at UIC, he said, "the breadth of expertise will allow us collectively to pursue therapeutic development across the full spectrum, from...UCR scientists to study effects of ethanol in automobile exhaust and emissions
... concentrations of ethanol using a fleet of twelve commercial vehicles with advanced emission control technologies. The test fleet will include vehicles ranging from Low-Emission Vehicle (LEV) to Super-Ultra-Low-Emission Vehicle (SULEV) certification. Testing will include regulated emissions and real-time eng...Black cohosh may reduce hot flashes by targeting brain's thermostat
...g receptors for estrogen, the same hormone used in commercial hormone replacement medicine that has recently been associated with adverse side effects, including breast cancer and stroke. "This study shows that black cohosh does not appear to be estrogenic whatsoever and, as a result, is less likely to pose so...U.S. pedestrians, cyclists at greater danger than European counterparts
...e walking and riding by clustering residential and commercial building developments together. Pucher and Dijkstra say that German and Dutch traffic laws are strictly enforced as well, with motorists "almost always found to be at least partly at fault" in accidents with pedestrian and cyclists, and jaywalking a...Three Abbott chemists honored as Heroes for development of HIV therapy for children
...proving children's health and wellness by creating commercial products based on chemistry....