Business and political leaders honored for their commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS
...to secure HIV/AIDS funding atthe local, state, and national levels will be presented to San Francisco MayorWillie Brown, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, State Assemblywoman Carole Migden,State Assemblyman Kevin Shelley, and San Francisco Supervisor Mark Leno. "These six individuals are among the best of the best ...90 high schools will participate in UNC-CH head injury study
...gram. A study he published two years ago attracted national attention after itshowed athletes demonstrated thinking and balance deficits up to three days following concussions. Hisgroup's recommendation at that time was to institute baseline testing for thinking and balance in highschools and colleges nationw...'Chaos' theory empowers researchers to predict epileptic seizures
...led to present relatedresearch today (12/8) at the national meeting of the American Epilepsy Society in Orlando. The researchers began to suspect in 1988 that the emerging field of chaos science would be able toshed light on epilepsy. In a nutshell, chaos theory offers a mathematical approach for seeing a ki...Researchers find one in five children not getting care they think they need
...said. Results of earlier Add Health analyses made national headlines in 1997 because they showed, among other things, that feeling connected with family, school and religious organizations helped steer adolescents away from unhealthy acts. A graduate of Florida State University and the University of Florida...Cigarette smoking among American teens
...o decline gradually in 1999, according to the 25th national survey of the Monitoring the Future Study, conducted at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR) under grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Cigarette smoking peaked in 1996 among eighth- and 10th-graders nationwid...Drug trends among American teens
... for Social Research (ISR). Reporting on the 25th national survey of high school seniors, and the ninth national survey of eighth- and 10th-graders, ISR research scientists Lloyd D. Johnston, Jerald G. Bachman, an...NIH grant keeps University of Maryland on the cutting edge of complementary and alternative medicine
...nation. "This grant confirms our position as a national leader in the effort to find complementary treatments for painful and debilitating conditions that affect millions of Americans," says Brian Berman, M.D., the principal investigator and director of the School of Medicine's Complementary Medicine Prog......Oregon Health Sciences University researchers made national headlines when they found a way to outsmart this natural defense mechanism in the brain. Following years of additional research, OHSU scientists now are releasing the encouraging results of a long-term study involving patients who have beaten the odd......, which can accelerate disease progression. When national guidelines are followed, such indicators of poorer.... Conversely, studies focusing on settings where national treatment guidelines were followed show similar outcomes between black and white patients at the sam...Chemist Percy Julian captures spirit of black history celebration scientist
...ostigmine in treating glaucoma has been declared a national historic chemical landmark by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. These achievements are all the more remarkable given the circumstances of Julian's life. Born in 1899 in Montgomery, Ala., he was barred from the ...Study: Productivity can be increased even as baby boomers retire
...sh insights into problems many fear will overwhelm national economic resources, individuals' resources or both...onomic observers predict financial disasters, both national and personal, when the baby boomers retire. They say that as nations of workers and investors becom......chines. The machines at the Department of Energy's national security facility are etched from a surface of amorphous diamond, the hardest material in the world after crystalline diamond, in a manner compatible with current silicon chip and surface micromachine manufacturing techniques. Diamond interests resea...Promising new research on schizophrenia causes
...iversity in the Chicago area and is one of only 88 national Research I universities. Located just west of Chicago's Loop, UIC is a vital part of the educational, technological, and cultural fabric of the entire metropolitan region....Chronic disease: the overlooked & understudied epidemic
...keptical of how for-profit entities fit into their national healthcare system, offer a checklist of quality standards to use in negotiating with disease management companies. Other papers contributed to this issue of BMJ conclude that: Most systematic reviews of asthma treatments -- many of which were sup...12 UNC institutions to examine how N.C. counties handle welfare reform
...t understanding how counties have responded to the national and state challenges of welfare reform. Most previous research on the subject has evaluated the changes' impact on recipients and on poverty reduction. The new statewide project will describe how all 100 N.C. counties have organized to implement th...New plastic heals damaged nerves
... The findings were presented today at the 219th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, by Christine Schmidt, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin. Currently, the most effective way to rep...Conference to examine nutritional supplements, medicinal herbs for managing health problems
...niversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosts a national conference on those subjects. The second annual "Clinical Relevance of Medicinal Herbs and Nutritional Supplements in the Management of Major Medical Problems" meeting will be held at the William & Ida Friday Continuing Education Center and include ......arch today - the first on white tea - at the 219th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Among the rarest and most expensive varieties of tea, white tea is produced almost exclusively in China. It belongs to the same species (Camellia sinensis) as other t...