AASM to school-bound: Sleep is the right ingredient for academic success
... New York. That is a three-day adjustment for the most itinerant traveler. To the teen and the family, it is a battleground where biology meets the harsh new reality of school bells. To adjust, follow a rule that seems to help many: When in Rome, do as the Romans do. That means, start a week ahead pre...Medical residents score poorly in diagnosing and managing tuberculosis
...l concern when a traveler was believed to have its most severe form. According to researchers, the ove...rcent) for recognizing and treating latent TB, the most common form of the infection. In latent TB, a person is infected with the tubercle bacterium but la......ual to the vengeful. After conducting one of the most comprehensive studies on why people have sex, psychology researchers David Buss and Cindy Meston uncovered 237 motivations, which appear in the August issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior. Peoples motivations ranged from the mundane (I was bored) t...USC law professor battles schizophrenia
...val at USC in 1989, she has been among the schools most productive and respected scholarly writers. Edward McCaffery, Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law at USC, was one of the early colleagues Saks confided in. Elyns contributions to the law school as a scholar, teacher, colleague, and now associa...HealthGrades study: Bariatric surgery patients have fewer complications at high-volume hospitals
...chance compared to all hospitals studied. The most common major complications include respiratory, bleeding, gastrointestinal and laceration complications. The average length of stay was 26 percent shorter in five-star hospitals as compared to one-star rated hospitals. Among the 19 states s...W.M. Keck Foundation announces 2007 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in medical research
...g Scholars program is designed to give the nations most promising young scientists the resources they need to pursue potentially breakthrough research projects in biomedicine. We are very pleased to support this group of Young Scholars who clearly exhibit extraordinary promise for future research and acad...Africa: International volunteer impact small, but significant
...isations (such as Mdecins sans Frontires) send the most volunteers and adding more annually. Junior and inexperienced NGO volunteers were often ill prepared to work in low-income countries, country experts said. Volunteers didnt always value local knowledge, and increased tension by creating parallel sys...Science steps in to discover wonders of Toe-tankhamun
...h as 700 years, said Jacky. The Cairo toe is the most likely of the two to be functional as it is articulated and shows signs of wear. It is still attached to the foot of the mummy of a female between 50 and 60 years of age. The amputation site is also well healed. The British Museum artefact named t...Nottingham center to help UK to meet its carbon targets
...ring the permanent storage of the CO2 has been the most controversial issue in carbon storage. Moreover, the end result is a commercial product. Fossil fuel power plants could utilise the new process by adding a reactor to their emissions treatment system, allowing CO2 to be turned into a useful buildin...Floods and fires across Europe captured from space
...aters. Flooding is estimated to be the world's most costly kind of natural disaster. The flooding of June and July in the UK is expected to cost the insurance industry at least 2 billion, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI). Floods Minister John Healey said recovery and clean-up eff...Health reform bills could improve quality and efficiency, but fall short of national plan
...ing to change Medicares payment structure hold the most promise for health care savings and quality improv...ly to lead to real improvements in quality and the most likely to lead to savings in the health system, according to the analysis. Early evidence from pay-...Trials underway for 'essential' new TB vaccine
...red to infants throughout the developing world and most of the developed world. However, the vaccination is only thought to be protective in preventing severe forms of the disease and is not effective in adults. In addition, antibiotics to deal with infection must be administered over many months and are ...The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation invests in gastroenterology's future
...unction disruption and host cell death We are most grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Broad for their understanding and generosity in allowing us to increase our efforts to interest talented young people in science generally and in gastroenterology in particular, said Dr. Cohen. He noted that a 2002 survey of ...From UF and IBM, a blueprint for 'smart' health care
...ctors to determine who in a waiting room needs the most immediate care....Barrow scientists make headlines for their research on fixational eye movements
...xational eye movements are responsible for driving most of our visual experience and without them humans would become blind to stationary objects. We are thrilled to have our research highlighted in Scientific American, says Dr. Martinez-Conde. Fixational eye movements have long been debated and our re...Landmark study finds adult Delawareans with disabilities in only 'fair' to 'poor' health
...ons by trained interviewers. Among the findings of most concern, Riddle said, were the number of responden...o not engage in any type of physical activity, and most do not eat the daily amount of fruits and vegetables recommended by the Centers for Disease Control....U of M researchers discover new method to combat HIV
... drugs are taken separately. The cocktail approach most commonly prescribed to HIV-infected patients is expensive and high in toxicity because many drugs are taken at one time. The researchers named the new concept Portmanteau Inhibitors, and the results were published in a July 4 issue of the Journal o...New algorithm matches any tumor cells to best possible anti-cancer treatments
...ed chemotherapies, docetaxel and tamoxifen. The most exciting aspect of this research is that in addition to predicting patient responses to therapy, the COXEN algorithm can be used to discover effective compounds in any form of cancer. By the nature of the algorithm, which examines both cancer cells a...Should adult male circumcision be recommended for HIV prevention in the US?
...hereas the US has a concentrated HIV epidemic with most sexual transmission occurring among men who have sex with men (MSM). The African trials did not study MSM. While some observational studies have suggested that circumcised MSM in the US may have a decreased risk of HIV infection, say the authors, it ......heme, which aims to support the careers of the UKs most promising individuals working in Parkinsons research. Dr Bedford will be using a new genetic model of Parkinsons to further understanding of how and why nerve cells die. Her research will also take a closer look at the reasons for the formation of ...