Study shows soy is well accepted in school lunches
...this problem by offering high-fat lunches. Working together on this and other projects, we hope to become part of the solution for overcoming this increasingly important health issue."...Satellite survey enhances knowledge of Tuscan landslides
...y of the Environment is a national level SLAM user together with the Italian National Research Council Group for Hydro-geological Disaster Prevention (GNDCI), a research network advising the Italian Civil Protection Department (Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, DPC). Local end users are the environmental...U of M researcher says Viagra may cause permanent vision loss in some men
...t the blood vessels and nerves are tightly bundled together into the small space in the back of the eye. "Viagra regulates a chemical in the body to constrict the arteries. This constriction may cut off the blood flow to the optic nerve, especially in people with a low cup to disk ratio, where the blood vesse...Hausman to give keynote address at 'Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Feminism' symposium
...feeding, Motherhood and Feminism," that will bring together a panel of women who are mothers, feminist scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and advocates. The symposium will take place at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 15, in the Elliott University Center's...Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
...or, Buzdar says. Giving a new combination of drugs together and for a longer time Between 25 percent and 30 percent of breast cancers are known to over-express the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER-2), a protein that fuels the growth, and thus the aggressiveness, of the cancer. Herceptin is a mono...OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
...University in which scientists and physicians work together to address the important basic and clinical questions surrounding weight regulation. Researchers at OHSU have been involved in a number of key weight regulation discoveries, including identification of specific cells in the brain that are crucial to ...A marker for new blood vessel formation in tumors
...ibe how a compound they have developed can be used together with highly sensitive positron emission tomography...is, integrins are important in holding tumor cells together and connecting them with the extracellular matrix; what happens when these interactions break down i...Indiana University researchers closer to helping hearing-impaired using stem cells
...es -- known as Sonic hedgehog and retinoic acid -- together caused the marrow stromal cells to further develop into cells with many of the characteristics of auditory neurons, such as the presence of specific genes and proteins. Dr. Hashino said she and her colleagues are beginning new experiments to test the...RIT takes eye-tracking research to next level
...t monitors both eyes to study how people move them together to explore the third dimension. "By tracking both eyes, we can measure the angle between them and calculate not only the direction, but also the distance to objects in the world," Pelz says. "This lets us identify the point in 3-D space where they a...Yale technology translates to sonic golf training tool
...uctor, allowing them to explore the sound and data together and to make swing changes by altering the soundscape. "This is a great example of the joy in practical application of basic science and engineering." said Paul Fleury , Dean of the Engineering Faculty and Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Enginee...UNH launches 2nd spinout company with NIH grants
...id Hersman. "The challenge is to bring everything together into a small space without the three magnetic fields involved interfering with one another." UNH has already filed for three patents based on Hersman's innovations and is in the process of filing for two more. "This is great for UNH and New Hampshire...Rural America vulnerable to bioterrorism and natural disaster threats
...Paul, MN, Sept. 27 - 28, 2004. The session brought together more than 80 public health preparedness leaders fr...nd health care leaders in rural areas need to work together to assure that emergency preparedness is achieved in a cost-effective manner. Paul Campbell, Harvar...New thrust needed to tackle health inequalities globally says UCL scientist
... Health Organisation on Friday 18th March bringing together scientists and policy-makers to help reverse the negative impact of social policy on ill-health. Writing in the Lancet paper, Professor Marmot said: "To reduce inequalities in health across the world there is need for a third major thrust that is ...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
... at the European Heart House, 23-25 June, bringing together experts in the field of cardiology to formulate a scientific statement Special focus on women and CVD at the upcoming ESC Congress, 3-7 September 2005, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe's largest medical meeting with over 25,000 attendees Release of the Eur...Liverpool to lead 20M Department of Health initiative to develop medicines for children
...specifically for children. This network will bring together the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS to achieve better development of children's medicines." Rosalind Smyth, Professor of Paediatric Medicine, will become Director of the new Co-ordinating Centre. She said: "This national initiative has the...Mechanism of RNA recoding: New twists in brain protein production
...nots and loops bring regulatory regions of the RNA together with sites destined for recoding, guiding editing enzymes to act there. As proof, Reenan coaxed fruit fly RNA to adopt a "mosquito-like" structure by making small changes in the molecule--a procedure he dubbed "guided evolution." Predictably, cells e...Fixing of the lumbar column aided by simple radiological techniques
...the neurological complications. This system groups together a series of radiological projections by means of which we can see to the borders of the vertebrae, thus enabling the path of the screws to be ascertained with precision. Advantages The PhD research undertaken by Dr. Alfonso confirms that the pedic...Balance and better interactions between primary-care and specialist physicians improve US health
...for primary care and specialist physicians to work together so that health services are more effective, efficient and equitable," said Dr. Starfield....Newly discovered pathway might help in design of cancer drugs
...he cancer cells' DNA and sticking its genetic code together so it dies. Our discovery takes that a step further, establishing that there is a way to efficiently create this type of damage by modifying the DNA itself." In the lab, Greenberg and his team used organic chemistry to create a synthetic, double-stra...Binge drinking can impair both mood and cognitive performance
... and if the effects of binge drinking and mood add together to impair cognitive performance. We plan to study how such effects of binge drinking on cognition and mood interact with stress," she said....