Summa study finds portion control induces greatest weight loss
...ated to portion control. "Although we saw similar patterns of weight loss related to reduced dietary fat consumption, increased fruit and vegetable consumption, increased physical activity and increased planned exercise, the target behavior that induced the greatest weight loss was portion control." While...MRI shows brain changes underlying language deficits in autism
...ymmetrical, with similar groups of nerve cells and patterns of connections on each side, there are some differences. In most right-handed people, the left hemisphere of the brain dominates the understanding and production of language. Language centers such as Broca's area -- named for the 19th century French ...Global air pollution map produced by Envisat's SCIAMACHY
...attempt to retrieve very weak trace gas absorption patterns within the overall spectrum of backscattered light...ses the sky appear blue) along with the absorption patterns from the oxygen, nitrogen and water molecules that make up most of the atmosphere. Left behind afte...Under the surface, the brain seethes with undiscovered activity
...University of Rochester. "Adult ferrets had neural patterns in their visual cortex that correlated very well w... image of many lines, colors, etc. By watching the patterns of how these cells fired while watching The Matrix, Weliky could describe the pattern statistically,...Tar measurements on cigarette packets are misleading
...misleading for two reasons. Firstly, human smoking patterns vary greatly and are not mimicked by the machine. Secondly, modern cigarette design encourages over-inhalation, which may lead to the smoker taking in much greater amounts of tar and nicotine than are measured by the machine. The tobacco industry has...Researchers examine recurrence of low back pain
... People who become "stuck" in maladaptive movement patterns may be at greater risk for pain and re-injury, how...r of movement and re-injury -- actually can impact patterns of physical activity. "This investigation brings together promising ideas from the motor coordinati...NIH convenes state-of-the-science conference on preventing youth violence
...es in childhood and adolescence? 2. What are the patterns of co-occurrence of thesefactors? 3. What evidence exists on the safety and effectivenessof interventions for violence? 4. Where evidence of safety and effectiveness exists, are there other outcomes beyond reducing violence? If so, what is known...Smart lights, nonstick implants and 100th birthday of electronics at science & technology meeting
...er materials. Quasicrystals' highly complex atomic patterns are partly repeating (periodic) and partly nonrepeating (aperiodic). For the past ten years no explanation for their reduced friction has been found. Does it arise from some macroscopic cause---hardness or surface chemistry, say---or from some funda...Chicken pox vaccine saves $$, protects whole population
...to assess the national chicken pox hospitalization patterns for 2002 and beyond, to see what has happened as vaccination rates have risen above the 76 percent seen in 2001. "This first phase of national vaccination against chicken pox appears to have substantially reduced the burden of severe illness in all ...Taking apart a hurricane: Multi-sensor Envisat sees through Frances
...are what ultimately determine the spiralling cloud patterns that are characteristic of a hurricane. Florida-based scientists have begun to take advantage of this unique single-spacecraft combination of instruments the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) and Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR...NJIT business incubator helps start-up companies move out of the lab and into the marketplace
...lab for analysis. Menssana has identified distinct patterns made by more than 200 different volatile organic c...ed in every breath. Phillips has proved that these patterns vary with illness and can diagnose disease. In February 2004, the federal Food and Drug Administra...ACPM to host web-based conference on low carbohydrate diets and adolescents
... . Two of the nation's leading experts on dietary patterns and nutritional sciences, Dr. David L. Katz of the... will hear the latest evidence about which dietary patterns best promote overall health and lasting weight control in children/adolescents. Participants will be...Wartime spitfire strain test monitors stress on key heart artery - aortic aneurysm
...been used for decades in industry. It looks at the patterns of coloured light reflected from the surface of an object to gain a detailed understanding of the stresses on that object. In its most modern incarnation photoelectric stress analysis uses high tech light sources and computer analysis to get an even...New data reveals weather can trigger a migraine
...t carefully done study on the influence of weather patterns on headache. The study, conducted over a two-year ...ers. The study delved into the affects of weather patterns on headache as well as investigating whether or not patients could predict their own sensitivity to ...Tobacco sponsorship of Formula One must stop, say health experts
...ut 5 million deaths each year). If current smoking patterns continue, it will cause 10 million deaths each year by 2025. Half the people that smoke today - that is about 650 million people - will eventually be killed by tobacco 2 , and most of those deaths will be in the developing world. Regulation has curta...New study shows phonics is critical for skilled reading
...hat they meant. The model could use sounds, visual patterns or a combination of both. "The beauty of the model is that you can test out many different ways of teaching how to read words," says Seidenberg. "You can see what happens if you give the model a phonics-type experience, or if you just emphasize the ...Pediatricians are plentiful, but not in poorer states
...ces between pediatricians and family physicians in patterns of vaccination, infection care, asthma care, depression care and other practices. More studies are needed to determine if these differences have any major impact on children's overall health. During this same period, the number of pediatric sub-speci...Status syndrome: How your social standing directly affects your health and life expectancy
...o Australia, from Southern India to Japan, similar patterns emerged. In addition, class systems are not just at play in England they are just as bad, if not worse in Australia, America and other so-called classless societies. Studies in Sweden have shown that men with a doctorate had 50 per cent lower morta...Researchers find strong familial tendency in rare form of lymphoma
... tests from 181 Waldenstrom's patients to look for patterns of the disease within families and to see if they could identify differences between family and non-family forms of the disease. They found that 36 of the patients, representing 20 percent of the total, had at least one first-degree relative with eit......ter in men than in women because of differences in patterns of smoking habits, several studies in the 1990s su...hors write. "The continuing convergence of smoking patterns and lung cancer rates among men and women points to the primary need to focus broadly on enhancing p...