Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
...schools bombarded by frequent aircraft noise don't learn to read as well as children in quiet schools, Cornell University researchers have confirmed. And they have discovered one major reason: kids tune out speech in the racket. "We've known for a long time that chronic noise is having a devastating effe...... believes that if Americans want their children to learn safe and positive sexual behavior, parents have to...d them in the past. We should want our children to learn safe sexual behavior just as we teach them what moderate and responsible drinking is, even before th...'Bathtub' Equation Aids Diabetes Research
...mbers and using some basic principles allowed usto learn something of the physiology that no one ever considered, and thatno one had ever seen, because when cells die, the 'debris' is quicklycleaned up," she explains. Mathematical models provide the basis for much of Finegood's research on theturnover of c...Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Enhances Short-Term Brain Plasticity
...ical use. In most cases, researchersstill need to learn whether the changes in brain function that they see afterinjury play a beneficial role by helping the brain to compensate, or if they areharmful or simply irrelevant, says Dr. Cohen. They also need to understand moreabout how plasticity occurs so th......u are ofdying, you tend to listen very closely and learn to do things to prevent astroke," he says. In their two-phase study, the researchers assessed public knowledge ofstroke by randomly sampling 1,314 people by telephone in the cities ofBloomington and Normal in central Illinois. The survey co...... the workbased solely on what he or she sees. They learn from group discussions,reactions and observations. According to Dr. Braverman, Mrs. Friedlaender had independently been thinkingabout the same kind of observational exercise for residents in the orthopaedicsand rehabilitation department, which is cha...Exercise, Classroom Instruction Cut Kids' Cholesterol, Study Finds
...ildren study, a unique effort in North Carolina to learn about improvingchildren's -- and later adults' -- heart and lung health. Six hundredmiddle-school students, ages 11 to 14, from five rural N.C. schools in threecounties participated in the evaluation announced today. Subjects were divided int...National Health Study Launched On The Internet
...ion than they give. For example, individuals will learn how muchexercise they are doing relative to others of their same age and sex, and alsoreceive an evaluation about their weight and diet. These analyses will beprovided without cost or without any obligation to join the study. Data fromthose partici...Poor Heart Disease Patients Pay More For Medications, Get Less Preventative Care
...at Duke University Medical Center are beginning to learn why: many can't pay forlife saving medications and don't receive preventative care. Cardiologist Chen Tung and his Duke colleagues prepared their findingsfor presentation Tuesday at the 47th scientific sessions of the American Collegeof Card...... New EnglandJournal of Medicine, was an attempt to learn if earlier treatment ofventilator-dependent premature infants with the drug dexamethasone isbeneficial. The investigators enrolled 371 very-low-birth-weight infants whoweighed between 1 and 3 pounds from 12 centers of the NICHD Neonatal ResearchNetw...Most People Cant Identify Stroke Symptoms
...ery minute counts in stroke treatment, people must learn howto read the signals that are telling them to se... know what these symptoms are. People also need to learn about risk factors in order to prevent a stroke in thefirst place," said Dr. Pancioli. The NINDS has...Chemical Society's Highest Award Goes To Ronald Breslow
...he chemistry of life. But morethan that, I want to learn from nature -- to use that chemistry to make moleculesthat are better," said Breslow, an organic chemist. "It's a terrific honor to beselected for this award." The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientificorganization, has no ...Compound In Meat Prevents Diabetes, Study Suggests
... body," Houseknecht says. "We really have a lot to learn about this compound. For one thing, we have not optimized the dose. We picked a dose that is effective in fighting cancer, and started there." In addition to these projects, scientists in other disciplines already are working to take advantage of CLA...Pioneer In Nuclear Medicine Wins Lifetime Award
...pamine receptors," saidWagner, "and we continue to learn about addiction." Parallel to his work in medicine, Wagner also became an expert on thepublic health implications of radiation, and received an appointment at theHopkins School of Public Health in 1961. In that capacity, he has served on theM...States Must Be Held Accountable For New Health Plans For Children
... implement the newprograms, it is critical that we learn what works and what doesn't. If we donot have reliable, consistent ways of collecting information, we will never know--and we will miss a critical opportunity to improve accountability in healthcare. The time for action is now, while these new plan...UNC-CH Researchers Learning Ways To Help Black Women Cope With HIV
...Chapel Hill. "We are trying to help women learn more about infection with HIV, thevirus that causes AIDS, and cope better both with the disease and their feelingsabout it," said Dr. Margaret S. Miles, professor at the UNC-CH School ofNursing. The study Miles directs, supported by the Nation...UCSF To Establish Formal Hospitalists Training Program
...ts. "We believe that hospitalistsnot only need to learn to be excellent and efficient clinicians, but they alsoneed to learn to be leaders in making the system work better," Wachter said. Though hospitalists currently work in...Parenting CD-ROM Helps Reduce Children's Behavioral Problems
... the College of Arts and Sciences."Parents need to learn how to manage their kids' problem behaviors. If we don'toffer this training, we're in a world of trouble." Written by Kelli Whitlock...Remembering Your Medications: Older Are Wiser
...colleagues carriedout a study designed not only to learn who really is most likely to makemistakes, but also what kinds of errors occur and why they're being made. For eight weeks, the researchers studied 121 men and women between the ages of34 and 84, all diagnosed with moderately severe rheumatoid arthri......bes. "The focus of all of this research is to learn how cells stick to othercells or to vessel wallsunder flow conditions," Konstantopoulos explains. "In the lab, I can simulatethe conditions thatoccur inside the blood vessels, inside the body. In the past, biologists mainlylooked at how cellsintera...