Joint-custody arrangements good for children of divorce -- but only if there is no parental conflict
... each other and asked them to describe their emotions and ways to make them feel better if similar situations occurred in real life. Lee said one key reason she conducted the study was that she perceived children as a...Do the ivory towers need ramps
...in a political and social context that the authors describe as increasingly challenging. The 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, for example, offers no specific accommodation standards but instead mandates "reasonable" efforts by employers that will cause them no "undue hardship," thus leaving room for vari...Fluorine chemists take their expertise to the sunshine state
... scales comparable to the pH and pK scales used to describe acidity in swimming pools, skin cleansers and shampoos. The researcher will explain this quantitative scale. (Karl Christe, Edwards Air Force Base and the University of Southern California, Air Force Research Laboratory, Edwards, Calif., 661-275-5194...New book highlights ergonomics research on sound
... as telephone directory assistance. The news media describe the hazards of increasingly noisy surroundings and the need to protect people living or working in these environments. Not only human factors/ergonomics professionals but also those in telecommunications, computer systems, law, consumer products, hea...Night blindness may explain fear of the dark
...ness a diagnosis which can be easily missed. They describe two children with an inherited form of stationary night blindness. Both were very frightened of the dark, had a history of bumping into things at night, and insisted that curtains were drawn much earlier than others would choose. One child had fear o...Study shows declines in payment for emergency care
...avid Baker, M.D., of Northwestern. The researchers describe their findings in the paper "Declining Payments for Emergency Department Care, 1996-1998," published today in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. The researchers tempered their conclusions somewhat because the data did not permit them to examine change...NPSF Patient Safety Congress looks at safety from nine points of view
...d MedPoint(TM) to intercept medication errors, and describe their interdisciplinary team approach to addressing safety concerns. (St. Marys' use of MedPoint was among the programs Baldrige examiners reviewed before honoring the Madison, Wis., hospital's parent organization, SSM HEALTH CARE, with thehe...Enzyme structure holds key to cocaine, heroin metabolism
...t for cocaine overdose. Second, the same system we describe can be engineered to detoxify chemical weapons, in...ood plasma. In their report, Redinbo and his group describe how hCE1 is responsible for metabolizing the first step of cocaine breakdown in the body and the fir...Secret documents reveal how tobacco industry targeted gay men
...obacco Control, UCSF School of Nursing researchers describe the beginnings of Philip Morris' relationship with the gay community through analysis of a 1990-91 boycott of Marlboro and Miller beer. The boycott was designed by ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) to persuade Philip Morris to withdraw support...World's largest scientific society convenes regional meeting May 30 - June 2 in Chicago
...totoxic biological properties. The researcher will describe preliminary studies for the synthesis of elisabethanes. (Viresh H. Rawal, University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry, 773-702-2194, v-rawal@uchicago.edu ) Organic pollutants in sediments of the Great Lakes Sediments of the Great Lakes are con...Physics and medicine in San Diego
...t. George's Hospital Medical School in London will describe progress toward a white-matter atlas on Wednesday at 2:00 PM (Paper WE-D23A-3, Wednesday, 1:30 PM). NATIONWIDE EVALUATION OF X-RAY TRENDS (NEXT) Each year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration conducts a study, called NEXT, that explores trends in...... Professor Hyojin Kim of Chungnam University will describe a new approach to understanding the molecular basis for shock compression of biological systems, the "energy landscape" approach. He will present data where shock waves are used to study large amplitude motions of proteins and will discuss the first ...Cedars-Sinai researchers detail events that enable brain tumors to weaken immune system
...cal Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute describe a complex cell-level process that allows malignant brain tumors to protect themselves by damaging the thymus, rapidly degrading the immune system. In a second article, Institute scientists identify a molecular mechanism that causes cell death of canc...Children with bowel disease prone to emotional problems
... emotionally at home, while teachers were asked to describe each child's behavior at school. The children described themselves by filling out a self-esteem and body image checklist. According to parental reports, more than three times as many chi...... 80-to-85 percent of the time. Dr. Sunderland will describe the rationale behind, and progress to date, of a comprehensive study to examine the spinal fluid of Alzheimer's patients during the course of their illness compared to healthy patients. The research study also involves an extended view of a special g...First relapsing fever outbreak in Montana identified
...RML) in Hamilton, Montana, and their collaborators describe this outbreak and the results of laboratory and clinical investigations. "Given the 100-year history of research into ticks and tick-borne diseases in Montana, we are gratified to have helped solve the mystery of this outbreak and to have identifie...Infectious disease expert to speak at American Academy of Ophthalmology's annual meeting
...ding the United States. Dr. Holland's address will describe advances in the understanding of ocular toxoplasmosis, since it was first recognized as a cause of blindness in adults 50 years ago. He also will use these advances in the understanding of toxoplasmosis as a model for how an international and multidi...UCSD researchers decipher function of blood-brain barrier in bacterial meningitis
...al of Clinical Investigation. The scientists also describe two bacterial factors specific to the meningitis pathogen that thwart the normal protective role of the blood-brain barrier, leading to serious infection. Composed of a layer of blood vessels called brain microvascular endothelial cells (BMEC), the b...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet, September 16, 2003
...ine Standardization asks that guideline developers describe how the evidence was collected or evaluated, mention funding sources or sponsors, state who reviewed the draft guidelines and state the recommended action precisely, among other actions to improve the quality of guidelines. The group hopes that the n...Nanoneurosurgery, search for E-T life, bioscan technology and home holograms at frontiers of optics
...PREVIEW OF NEW RESEARCH The following news briefs describe some of the most innovative technical highlights to be presented at the meeting. For the full abstracts of any of these papers or for more information on the conference's program, visit the meeting's website at www.frontiersinoptics.org or contact...