Satellite survey enhances knowledge of Tuscan landslides
...end user requirements, the three SLAM products are designed for easy merging into user databases. The first is a Landslide Motion Survey to detect unknown unstable areas and updating information about the state or distribution of activity. The product has a 20-metre spatial resolution and depicts movements wi...Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
... their greater fear of the disease the vaccine was designed to prevent. Children not as lucky, who got polio and had been confined to hospital wards, some in total isolation from their parents, or handicapped by leg braces until they learned to walk again, have shared longer stories, including how they now co...Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
...he cancer. Herceptin is a monoclonal antibody drug designed to block the action of these receptors, but use of...uld look for evidence of an effect. The trial they designed was the first to compare preoperative use of Herceptin and chemotherapy against use of chemotherapy ...Consumers with disabilities empowered by American Disabilities Act
...DA). The study asks those for whom the policy was designed how well the policy works. The authors examined t...hey are. "This indicates the value behind efforts designed to empower consumers with disabilities by offering services that assist them and by creating environ...Organizational traits associated with quality patient care are essential to home care nursing
...nd based on the Nursing Work Index-Revised (NWI-R) designed to measure the degree to which these organizational traits are present in work environments. The survey was mailed to 660 home care nurses randomly selected from the American Nurses Association list and 635 New Zealand district nurses from the Nursin...Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
...A's Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School, designed by Safe School Specialist Ava de la Sota. Implications for school policyThe good news, Juvonen and Nishina said, is that schools can take effective actions to reduce bullying, and can teach students strategies for coping with and responding to bullyi...Novel therapy tested in mice could chase away cat allergies
A molecule designed to block cat allergies successfully prevented allergic reactions in laboratory mice, as well as in human cells in a test tube, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers report in the April issue of Nature Medicine, available online now...Hopkins begins human trials with donor adult stem cells to repair muscle damaged from heart attack
...ocardial infarct. The so-called Phase I study is designed to test the safety of injecting adult stem cells at varying doses in patients who have recently suffered a heart attack. An estimated 7 million Americans alive today have suffered at least one heart attack and so are at greater risk for chronic h...Stanford patient is first to test new treatment for peripheral arterial disease
...er, more flexible and more resilient. It has to be designed to be crushed, bent, telescoped and twisted yet capable of popping open and straightening out again without breaking. That's not necessary for the heart. In addition, the total dosage of the drug coating must be higher on the long leg stent than in a...UNH launches 2nd spinout company with NIH grants
...rk was driven by intellectual curiosity and wasn't designed for commercial development," said UNH Vice President for Research and Public Service John Aber. "This clearly demonstrates the value of basic research at UNH, both for our ability to improve the human condition and to support economic development." ...Simple intervention encourages sun protection behaviors
..., San Diego, and colleagues tested an intervention designed to address individuals' concerns about appearance in a small group of college students. One hundred forty six undergraduates (114 women and 32 men) were invited to participate in a study titled "Health Attitudes" for which they completed a questionna...Giant iceberg B-15A edges past floating ice pier
...aunch of CryoSat, a dedicated ice-watching mission designed to precisely map changes in the thickness of polar ice sheets and floating sea ice. CryoSat, in connection with regular Envisat ASAR GMM mosaics and SAR interferometry a technique used to combine radar images to measure tiny millimetre-scale shifts...Chemical decoy shows promise for slowing Alzheimer's by acting as decoy
...ryland-Baltimore County. Unlike most current drugs designed to treat Alzheimer's, this compound attempts to ta...rain cells, the researchers say. Good's group then designed a group of synthetic, star-shaped polymers with surface sialic acids to mimic the molecules found on...Epidemiologist Trichopoulos receives $5.8 million Department of Defense 'Innovator Award'
...l undertake a series of five complementary studies designed to investigate links between early life exposures, mammary gland stem cells, mammary gland mass, and adult breast cancer. The studies will focus on: whether the number of mammary gland-specific stem cells depends on the presence of certain growth ...Protecting human subjects focus of national FDA conference at UH
...arch involving human subjects. The conference is designed to benefit principal investigators, research staff and coordinators, those involved in institutional review boards (IRBs), institutional officials, pharmaceutical research personnel and medical personnel with an interest in human subjects protection,...Virginity pledges do not reduce STD risk: May encourage high risk sexual behavior
...x, it is important that public health policies are designed to help young people gain the information they need to protect themselves, and others."...Liverpool to lead 20M Department of Health initiative to develop medicines for children
... of the medicines used to treat children have been designed for adults, and have not been properly tested on t...ry, John Reid, said: "Currently most medicines are designed primarily for adults. The 20million we are spending on setting up the UK Medicines For Children Rese...Research suggests possible blood test for multiple sclerosis
...ly not a single marker to detect MS. This test was designed to look for a pattern of individual proteins that can differential people with MS from healthy people." The analysis combined mass spectrometry, a tool for analyzing proteins, with special software to recognize proteins patterns. The technology, know...Chemists identify immune system mechanism for methamphetamine binges
...iety's peer-reviewed journal. In a test tube study designed to simulate the chemical reactions that occur with the drug when it enters the bloodstream, the researchers showed that methamphetamine reacts with glucose and proteins to form a larger-size "glycated" product. This product is then recognized by immu......erviews. The BRFSS and NHANES survey results were designed to represent the entire U.S. population. Also among their findings: Hispanics were least likely to have health insurance, least likely to receive flu or pneumonia vaccinations, and had the highest prevalence of poor or fair health. Data from the R...