Breath of the dragon: ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China's air quality
...s GOME and Envisat's SCIAMACHY reveals the world's largest amount of NO2 hanging above Beijing and northeast ...a's industrial boom has seen it become the world's largest consumer of copper, aluminium and cement and the second bigger importer of oil. Car ownership within...Ways to detect, thwart terrorist acts scrutinized during ACS national meeting
...eting of the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society, in Washington, D.C., Aug. 28 Sept. 1. Highlights from the special symposium, "Sensors and Instrumentation for Counterterrorism," are listed below: (All sessions are at the Washington Convention Center, Room 154A) Sunday, Aug....Does the workplace damage your brain?
..., Partner, The Tower Companies Tower is one of the largest green commercial developers in the United States. Over 75% of executives and employees practice Transcendental Meditation as a company-sponsored health program. Arthur "Bud" Liebler, Former Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Da......Sept. 15, 2005) Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN), the world's largest biotechnology company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an update to the Neulasta (pegfilgrastim) prescribing information to include data from a landmark Phase 3 study demonstrating the white blood cell booste......rsen hypertension or kidney problems. However, the largest study of the issue, a new analysis of Medicare records on 24,012 patients who had been hospitalized for heart failure with coronary artery disease, indicates that those prescribed aspirin (54 percent of the total) fared as well or better than those n...Breast cancer screening trial shows digital mammogram benefits
...ing Rhode Island Hospital, the trial is one of the largest breast cancer screening studies ever performed. Br...trauma center for southeastern New England and the largest teaching hospital of Brown Medical School. The site enrolled 642 participants. A radiologist and dir...UVa participates in landmark breast cancer screening trial
...ense breasts, according to results from one of the largest breast cancer screening studies ever performed. However, the study showed no difference between digital and standard x-ray mammography in detecting breast cancer for the general population of women. More than 1,300 women took part in the trial at th...Scientists develop screening method for pancreatic cancer
...ons - a phenomenon known as anticipation. In the largest study of its kind, the team surveyed 600 families with a history of pancreatic cancer and identified a subgroup of over 80 families whose lifetime risk of developing the cancer was 50 per cent. Dr Bill Greenhalf, from the University's Division of S...Largest ever Asian smoking study reveals cardiovascular health risks
The largest ever study of smoking in the Asia Pacific Region, and one of the largest smoking studies ever conducted anywhere in the world, has dispelled a long-held myth that smokers in...Funding for biomedical research doubles in last decade
...ned for new pharmaceuticals. The NIH is by far the largest federal funder of biomedical research. Adjusted for inflation, NIH obligations nearly doubled (in 2003 dollars) from $13.4 billion in 1994 to $26.4 billion in 2003. Private support for biomedical research, adjusted for inflation, increased 36 percent...MRI pioneer wins national physics prize
... from the sales of MRI systems, and GE retains the largest market share for MRI. Siemens, Philips, and Toshiba, which are some of the other major manufacturers of the machines, also profited greatly from physics-based MRI research at GE, those companies, and elsewhere. While Edelstein retired in 2001 from th...Definitive gene screen confirms MS suspects
...es failed to include enough subjects. "This is the largest genetic linkage study on MS, and the first to be done using the latest technology, which provides very detailed coverage of the entire human genome," said Haines. "Other genes may still play an important role in MS, but finding them will require usin...Resistance to anti-flu agents increasing worldwide
...of resistance to these drugs was published. In the largest study of adamantane resistance to date, Rick Bright (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA) and colleagues screened 7000 influenza A isolates for gene mutations known to confer drug resistance. They found that drug resistance i...Hebrew University receives its largest NIH research grant ever -- $5.6 million biodefense award
... of toxins called superantigens. The award is the largest competitive grant ever made to the Hebrew University and to an Israeli researcher from the NIH. Funds were awarded under the NIAID Biodefense Challenge Grants program, which encourages private industry to work with academic investigators in order to ...Study shows Hurricane Katrina affected 20,000 physicians, up to 6,000 may have been displaced
...h Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows. That is the largest single displacement of doctors in U.S. history, and Hurricane Rita over the weekend will have boosted the total to an unknown degree. "The nearly 6,000 is the approximate number of physicians doing primarily patient care in the 10 counties and parish...Statins use associated with lower risk of fractures
...s were using statins, making this study one of the largest to evaluate the association between statins and fr... authors conclude. Our study represents one of the largest studies to date of individuals receiving statins and the evaluation of fracture risk. Although we we...Kidney transplant patients face higher cancer risk
...ed to be studied to discern an association. In the largest study to date, Christopher S. Hollenbeak, Ph.D., of Penn State College of Medicine and his colleagues compared melanoma incidence rates from a registry of renal transplant patients (89,786 patients) to general population data. They found that renal t...Eating foods with 'weak estrogens' may help reduce lung cancer risk
...eople participated in the research - making it the largest case-controlled study to examine dietary phytoestrogens and lung cancer risk in a U. S. population, according to the researchers. The researchers also found gender specific benefits for different classes of phytoestrogens. Men who ate the highest am...Kidney transplant patients face higher skin cancer risk
...he importance of routine self-examination." In the largest study to date, Hollenbeak and his colleagues compared melanoma incidence rates from a registry of renal transplant patients (89,786 patients) to melanoma incidence rates from general population data. Of the various types of skin cancer, melanoma is o......oups in a working paper. Poultry processing is the largest and fastest growing sector of the meat products industry, according to the authors. In 2002, North Carolina and four other states accounted for 70 percent of all broiler production in the United States. Many of the workers are immigrants from Mexico ...