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...ld raise cigarette prices by $1.10 a pack over the next five years with hopes of cutting teen-age smoking by 40 percent over the next 10 years. Also, President Clinton has said he favors price hikes by as much as $1.50 a pack in orde...Most People Cant Identify Stroke Symptoms
...e survey respondents listed was dizziness, and the next most common responses were numbness, headaches, and weakness. The respondents also demonstrated poor knowledge of risk factors for stroke, which include hypertension, cigarette smoking, heart disease, diabetes, and atrial fibrillation. Only 68 per...UB Plants "Seeds" By Investing In Research Projects; Researchers Leverage Investment 14 Times Over
...on grants to try to get preliminary data for their next proposals," he said, "so the university needs to reinvest." Now in its fifth year, the program has met with great enthusiasm from faculty, attracting about 50 proposals each year, about 15 of which are funded. "We had a great idea and no data," said ...Chemical Society's Highest Award Goes To Ronald Breslow
...at the Washington-based Society's national meeting next spring. "I think it's nice to aim to under... thebasement of our house, right near the air duct next to our furnace," he said."My father was a physician, and I remember his patients would come streamin...Compound In Meat Prevents Diabetes, Study Suggests
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...f 63 patients are scheduled to beenrolled over the next 18 months. In order to be eligible for the study,patients must already be undergoing treatment with either indinavir ornelfinavir, the two most commonly prescribed protease inhibitors for HIVinfection. "Our main goal is find out what is safe for HIV...New Treatment Targets Most Malignant Brain Tumors
...nserted a catheter into the cavity. In the next phase, a monoclonal antibody called 81C6 prepared inBigner's lab was chemically linked to Iodine-131 by Professor of RadiologyMichael Zalutsky and his colleagues. Professor of Radiology Edward Coleman theninjected the preparation into the resection c...New Radiation Procedure Targets Liver Malignancies
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...these health behaviors on the risk of dying in the next 7.5 years in a national sample of 3,617 adults who were first interviewed in 1986. The researchers found that those with low levels of income and education were significantly more likely both to engage in risky health behaviors and to die. F...Synthetic Detergent Found To Fight Multi-Drug Resistance
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... Health Organizationestimates that sometime in the next decade, the annual number of deaths fromtobacco around the world will pass the 10 million mark, which eclipses virtuallyany disease that we have a chance of controlling." "Damage from increases in cigarette smoking certainly eclipses AIDS ind...Pioneer In Nuclear Medicine Wins Lifetime Award
... led to muchwork in addiction and drug design. The next year, they located the opiatereceptors. "We now know that cocaine affects the dopamine receptors," saidWagner, "and we continue to learn about addiction." Parallel to his work in medicine, Wagner also became an expert on thepublic health impl...Montana Anti-Cancer Discovery Sublicensed To Major Drug Manufacturer
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...Alcoholism. He also willpresent them in Copenhagen next week at a meeting of the International Societyof Biomedical Research on Alcoholism. St. John's wort, or Hypericum perforatrum, grows wild in Europe, westernAsia, North Africa and in North America, particularly the Pacific Northwest, hesaid. I...... stages of CML. He underwent chemotherapy for the next four years, butnever went into remission. "For the past four years, leukemia has been the first thing on Bud'smind when he wakes up in the morning and the last thing on his mind when he goesto bed," said Yvonne Romine, his wife. "But we still...World's First Producer To Repair Brain Damage From Stroke
...brain. If the phase I trial proves successful,the next step would be a multi-center trial," said Lawrence...closed with one stitch. The patient goes home the next morning. Follow-up assessments for safety and efficacy will be done at 1, 2, 4,8, 12, 16, 24...Researchers Begin Drug Trial In Hope Of Finding New Ways To Treat Acute Kidney Failure
...searcher,has been awarded $40,000 per year for the next three years to study a drug thathas reversed the onset of acute kidney failure in animals. "With the mortality rate being anywhere from 25 percent to 50 percentfor individuals who develop acute renal failure, new methods for detecting,preve...Brain Regions Identified That Influence What We Remember Or Forget
... would think, 'Outdoordesert scene. . . What's the next scene going to be'" ? The first person'smemory of ...that have beendestroyed." Gabrieli said one of the next steps is to "apply these new techniques to olderpeople at risk for Alzheimer disease and see if they...Tiny Pellets Could Deliver Alzheimer's Drugs
... brain to another, and placing the polymer capsule next to the cells. Because rats do not suffer from Alzheimer's, the researcher looked for the activity of an enzyme called CHAT (for cholinacetyltransferase) that is important in synthesizing the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. A neurotransmitter is a che......eral Hospital, will receive $5.76 million over the next four years. The award will support ongoing UCSF work in the basic, clinical, and behavioralscience areas of HIV/AIDS, with an emphasis on developing new treatmentapproaches, understanding the biology of HIV transmission to prevent infection,and impro...