Raising The Retirement Age In The United States Could Save Billions In Social Security Payments
...ition, the Kerry-Danforth commission has studied a proposal that wouldhike the retirement age to 70, and Manton said he's even heard talk of raisingit to 72. He acknowledged that it's hard to predict how such changes would be receivedby the American public. "The trend actually has been in recent years that ...UB Plants "Seeds" By Investing In Research Projects; Researchers Leverage Investment 14 Times Over
...ofessor of neurology. Lockwood's 1993 seed project proposal funded for $19,100 resulted in a $46,000 grant fro...om UB to get enough data that allowed us to make a proposal to the American Tinnitus Association," said Lockwood. In 1996, the association awarded $46,000 to th...One-Time Needles Don't Reduce HIV Among Addicts, Study Shows
...dlereuse have received considerable attention. One proposal is engineering anddistributing syringes that are not easily shared. Currently, there are severaldifferent possible designs of difficult-to-reuse syringes, also known as DTRs. Mathematical modeling, the key tool employed by management scientists andop...EPA Choosing Lab Science Over Epidemiology To Establish Drinking Water Guidelines
...n University School of PublicHealth cites a recent proposal from EPA as a modern example of how epidemiologyis...of drinking water disinfection. Ozonoff blames the proposal to establish a threshold for chloroform in drinkingwater on EPA's faulty conclusion that there must ...Policy Methods For Eliminating Child Labor
...e, Basu and Van refer to a United States senator's proposal last year to make illegal the importing of goods produced with child labor. Shortly after the senator suggested the law, a Bangladesh manufacturers' association fired its child employees, who then ended up in more debilitating jobs and even prostitut...Reassuring Findings About Infants Exposed To Zidovudine
...alth of all children exposed to antiretrovirals, a proposal that is beingactively discussed within the medical community....Preliminary Study Proves Centuries Of Herbalists Right About Echinacea
...h the goal ofone day submitting a full-scale study proposal to the National Institutesof Health. For centuries, echinacea, commonly known as purple coneflower, has beenused by cold sufferers who believed it would reduce the severity andduration of colds because it boosts the immune system. But until now there...IOM Report Offers New Look At U.S. Vaccine Priorities
...14-member IOM committee. NIAID drafted the project proposal with input from other institutes at theNational Institutes of Health (NIH), which funded the project. VACCINE RANKINGS (alphabetically ordered within categories) Most Favorable Cytomegalovirus vaccine given to 12-year-olds. Influenza virus vacc......ts' private information. Denley and Weston Smith's proposal should be applauded, says Dr Martin Gardner from the University of Glasgow in an accompanying commentary. However, the implications of spending patients' taxes on sophisticated computer systems to protect the privacy of their data, as opposed to fun...Anti-Depressant Drug Shows Promise As Weight-Loss Treatment
...hed Glaxo-Wellcome, which markets the drug, with a proposal totest bupropion SR=s weight-loss properties in non-depressed women weighing anaverage of 222 pounds. He chose a 1,600-calorie diet because it is just 500calories below what an average woman would eat and thus is considered safe andwell-tolerated. At...You have to break a few (hundred) eggs to make a good crystal
... into theanalysis. In 1998, NASA accepted Judge's proposal to determine the best conditions underwhich the best crystals would grow. Growing protein crystals in the microgravity of space has yielded strikingresults, such as determining to a fine resolution how certain molecules ofinsulin join so scientists c...University Of Wisconsin to launch center to study how emotions affect health
...arks, Carol Ryff and Burton Singer. "What made our proposal unique relative to others around the country was, infact, the scope of the mind-body research we already had under way here atMadison," says Carol Ryff, director of the Institute on Aging. Several other UW interdisciplinary institutes and centers wil...We do 'feel with the mind's eye,' confirm Emory researchers in Nature
...tivation noted previously, ourfindings support the proposal that visual processing facilitates normal tactilediscrimination of orientation," the authors write. "Perhaps this is related tothe fact that we generally rely on the visual system for orientationdiscrimination. Thus, involvement of the visual corte...CDC funds will enable UNC-CH to help minimize domestic violence in flood areas
...ooded areas and invited the university to submit a proposal for funding. Dr. Marci Campbell, assistant professor of nutrition at the schools of public health and medicine, is principal investigator, and Benedict is project manager. Others include assistant professors Pam Frasier of family medicine and Laura L...Getting older and feeling weaker?
...nd mechanics faculty at Virginia Tech, developed a proposal for NIOSH funding. "Our central hypothesis is that older, more experienced workers would have greater endurance on the job if we could learn how tasks can be adjusted to their work capacity," Nussbaum says. To test this hypothesis, Nussbaum will ...Application deadline extended for new AstraZeneca neurology, psychiatry awards
...of the application deadline to August 31, 2001 for proposal submissions for its international Young Minds in CNS Awards Program, which recognizes and promotes promising work from young physicians and investigators working in the central nervous system (CNS) therapeutic area. AstraZeneca created the Young Mind...Virginia Tech students discoveries can help prevent water-borne diseases
...ns a competitive grant through AWWARFs unsolicited proposal process." Scardina will use the grant to "get a handle on the magnitude of the problem," he says. Working with treatment plant engineers, he is investigating air bubbles in Boulder and Denver, Colorado; Bay City, Michigan; San Diego, California; Myr...Duke researchers identify the mechanisms by which drug combinations kill fungal infections
...azole drugs to kill the fungal cell?' One previous proposal was that cyclosporin inhibits the pumps that extrude the fluconazole drug from the cell. We found that this is not the mechanism of action. Instead, both cyclosporin and FK506 enter the fungal cell and inhibit calcineurin, which is their well-establi...Calling all young minds 2002 AstraZeneca CNS awards program launched
...y. Those wishing to apply are required to submit a proposal demonstrating their academic promise and how winning an Award will assist them in the advancement of their career. The proposals can cover a wide range of activities including: innovative research, educational efforts, travel, and materials. The deci......lept through the night." Inglehart has submitted a proposal for a three-year study aimed at finding ways to educate parents and teachers about the impact of dental problems on children's lives. She hopes to create a Web site for teachers and intervention workshops for parents. "If you tell a parent their chi...