Dying To Quit: Why We Smoke And How We Stop
...lve learning to manage lapse and relapse episodes, turning them from catastrophe to beneficial experience.' Quitting smoking is a process, not a single event, as the author notes. DYING TO QUIT provides vital information that does away with simplistic notions about the lure of smoking and the problems involv...Infants With Eye Problem Sought For NIH-Sponsored Study Of Congenital Esotropia
...ts, grandparents, or others notice a baby's eye(s) turning inward,they should ask their pediatrician about it, or call the CongenitalEsotropia Research Line at 310-855-2294," says Dr. Wright. There is no costto patients or insurance companies to participate in this study....UCSF Study In Rats Suggests Synthetic Drug Mimicking Marijuana Might Be Used To Treat Pain
...on, the researchershad to test the hypothesis that turning off the RVM simply reversed the motordeficits and not the analgesic effects of the cannabinoid drug. To test thispossibility, they gave the rats a motor coordination test called the retardtreadmill, in which the rats are placed on a rod and the time...National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
...re, and colleges and universities are increasingly turning to distance-education technology to reach a broader customer base, it is critical to maximize the effectiveness of technology for learning. This project will improve understanding of how collaborative learning is facilitated by computer software wit...'Alternative' Medicine Becoming Mainstream, UF Study Finds
... American population in general, health facultyare turning to nontraditional measures to maximize health, not to replacetraditional, Western medicine. Many people are exploring new forms oftreatment because they fit well with their philosophy of a mind-bodyconnection. They also are seeking a personal relatio...Slowing Excess Weight Gain In Childhood Appears To Reduce Adult Heart Disease Risk
...o develop a strategy for healthierchildren without turning the childhood population into weight and dietoverreactors." The problem, acknowledges Sinaiko, requires new strategies to helpchildren, their parents and physicians cope with issues of excess weight gain. The sage advice to eat sensibly, stay...The Whole Truth From Five-Year-Olds
... test. "Kids get it. Thejudges find it useful." By turning the child's attention to a storycharacter, the test sidesteps two mistakes commonamong even the best prosecutors. In an attempt to get their young victims todemonstrate an understanding of the truth andlies, prosecutors tend to ask children to define......on in users' lives for whichthey wish to escape by turning to their keyboards."...Brain Resolves Sensory Contradictions By Creating Its Own Reality
...s a child? Remember the feeling that you werestill turning even after you'd flopped down on the grass?Researchers at the Neurological Sciences Institute at Oregon Health SciencesUniversity now can recreate that sensation so that it can be studiedscientifically. Results of a study incorporating the machine, b...Teen Line Panel Of Six High School Students To Address The Issue Of Teens And Tolerance
...school tragedy inLittleton, CO, America's focus is turning - once again - to identifying ways toprevent such occurrences. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's "Teen Line" program willpresent a panel of six high school students who will address the issue of teensand tolerance on Wednesday, April 28, at the Beverly H...Scientists capture images of brain in action as it's learning
...e the lightbulb is comingon, but different regions turning on like a symphony of fireworks." The Rotman study could have broad implications for the diagnosis andrehabilitation of brain injuries, says Dr. Black, who is also a senior scientistat the Rotman Research Institute. "In certain kinds of head injuries...UI study finds types of decision-making deficiencies depend on area of brain damage
...anticipatory SCRs, which weregenerated previous to turning a card (i.e., when individuals were pondering fromwhich deck to choose.) As the task progressed, the control group (people without brain damage)gradually began choosing more from the good decks (C and D) and less from thebad decks (A and B). By contr...Turning off cancer shield may allow safer cancer therapy
...ells in the body produce to protect themselvesfrom turning cancerous. Approximately 60 percent of all human cancers do nothave a functioning p53, which normally acts as a brake on cell division andtells a damaged cell to commit suicide for the greater good of the wholeorganism--a process called apoptosis. Fo...Brain chemical mellows male mice, but makes mouse moms tough
...d protection. Females, then, need a way of quickly turning onaggression, but then quickly turning it off." To further explore the link, scientists plan to test whether they can replicatethe effects ...NICHD funded researchers discover gene for Rett syndrome
...very of Dr. Zoghbi and her coworkers is a definite turning point,which we hope will soon lead to better diagnosis, and, ultimately, treatment,for this disorder." Rett syndrome affects roughly 1 in every 10,000 females, Dr. Zoghbisaid. Except for a few rare families in which more than one child is af...Researchers uncover gene related to acute leukemia
...hat inv(16) simply kept AML-1 from doing its jobof turning genes on and off, Hiebert and colleagues now demon.... Hispreliminary data suggest that the complex is turning off tumor suppressor genes. Tumor suppressors protect against malignancy by sending threatening cel....... "We found that although the general public is turning to these approaches more and more at their own expense, state Medicaid programs do not routinely reimburse parents for their children's alternative care other than chiropractic," Steyer explains. "Still, this is a trend that warrants observing and fu...American award recognizes Swiss researchers
...n, smaller size and easy synthesis," said Bauer. A turning point in the project came in 1979 with the arrival of Petcher, a Novartis chemist who specializes in computer modeling of drug design. "Ideas had been floating around for a few months to try radically smaller compounds," Petcher remembered. He sugges...Jefferson scientists hope to perfect gene therapy without viruses
...ene expression, one way or another," he notes. "By turning off some genes or correcting others, we may be able to treat each disease at its point of origin." Eventually, Dr. Wickstrom hopes to use his nonviral method to provide normally functioning genes in diseases such as hemophilia, sickle cell anemia, mu...NIH funds unique diabetes program that combines research with technology development
...nd molecular biology to develop a new approach for turning on specific genes in cells that circumvents the requirement for any prior knowledge of the naturally occurring transcription factors for that gene."Current therapies for diabetes and obesity are woefully inadequate, and I think it is going to take so...