Study finds no link between cell phone use and brain tumors
...h brain tumors and 47 people without brain tumors, researchers obtained phone records from cell phone companies t...aid that finding minimizes the possibility of what researchers call "recall bias," or the chance that people with brain tumor may exaggerate or underestimate their...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...e, a new four-year study reports. The findings by researchers at Johns Hopkins, to be published in the journal A...d pressure. For a six-month period, the Hopkins researchers analyzed blood pressure in 104 men and women ages 55 to 75. Half were randomly placed in a standard...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...cientists are working in nanotechnology. Brazilian researchers are investigating the use of modified magnetic nan...ology Initiative is a national network of academic researchers involved in areas such as nanophase catalysts, nanofiltration, nanowires, nanotubes, and quantum dot...Abnormal lung cancer screening results may help smokers quit
...s undergoing screening say they want to quit, many researchers have been interested in using cancer screening results as an opportunity to motivate smokers to quit. Previous studies have found smokers recently diagnosed with medical conditions are more interested in, and successful at, quitting. Studies of low...Little answers to world's biggest problems
...d's most vulnerable inhabitants. In a new study by researchers at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB), published in PLoS Medicine , the open access global health journal, an international panel of 63 experts were asked to rank the nanotechnology applications they think are most likely to ...Grandmothers' smoking linked to grandchildren's asthma decades later
...hild whose grandmother did not smoke, according to researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University...ad ever realized." Keck School preventive medicine researchers interviewed parents or guardians of 908 Southern California children participating in the USC Childr...Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
...y within in situ cancers themselves," Li said. The researchers also found that rates of a less common precancerous condition called lobular carcinoma in situ, or LCIS, has increased nearly fourfold in postmenopausal women since 1980. These findings, based on the most comprehensive assessment to date of age-speci...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
... Whitaker Foundation. Sakiyama-Elbert said lots of researchers are adopting the concept of affinity-based drug de...s really going on." This ability is important for researchers to get insight into the biological activity of different drugs and how they might be modulated for d...Tops in technology: UH math professor honored for aneurysm work
...omen. In particular, Canic has collaborated with researchers at the Texas Medical Center to develop improved stents to treat arteries damaged by aneurysm. She uses complex mathematical models to perfect stent design and has initiated interdisciplinary alliances among experts in cardiology, mathematics, biolog...NIST to host public forum on robot standards
...ical, radiological, nuclear, explosive) providers; researchers working on robotic components, platforms and algorithms; government agencies working on applicable robotic technologies and sensors; federal, state and local responders and response agencies; and testing and evaluation sites and laboratories....Chemical present in clear plastics can impair learning and cause disease
...ated neurodegenerative diseases, according to Yale researchers and colleagues. "These data heighten concerns about the potential longterm consequences of human BPA exposure," said Neil J. MacLusky of Helen Hayes Hospital, who conducted the study with Csaba Leranth, M.D., professor in the Department of Obstetrics...Obesity and insomnia linked by excitability of brain cells
...d and sensitive to stress, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the April issue of Cell Metabolism . "If these neurons are over-activated by environmental or mental stress in daily situations, they may support sustained arousal, triggering sleeplessness, leading to overeating," said lead author Tam...ARVO annual meeting features over 6,000 presentations
Rockville, Md. More than 9,000 eye and vision researchers will gather to attend the Association for Research...ip organization of more than 11,200 eye and vision researchers from over 70 countries. The Association encourages and assists its members and others in research, ...Columbia research suggests need to rethink causes of heart failure
... of this problem," said Dr. Maurer. The Columbia researchers measured left ventricular end-systolic and end-diastolic volumes in 35 heart failure patients with normal ejection fractions and hypertension, as well as 11 patients with heart failure and no high blood pressure and 99 asymptomatic normal controls. ...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
...acteristics than to modest misdosing of the drugs, researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) h...t heart attacks. These findings are important, the researchers said, because approximately one in three patients rushed to emergency rooms with heart attack sympto...Late-breaking science presented at 57th AAN Annual Meeting
...mosome 19. In this study, an international team of researchers identified the responsible gene as Dynamin 2 (DNM2... cases in North America and Europe. In this study, researchers found that 41 percent of autosomal dominant PD in North African patients were due to a single mutati...Combination vaccine produces lower immune response than vaccines administered separately
...toxoid protein conjugate, oral polio vaccine). The researchers found: "Pnc9-MenC combination vaccine administered to infants at ages 2, 3, and 4 months demonstrated reduced group C meningococcal immunogenicity compared with MenC vaccine. The immunogenicity of concomitantly administered Hib and DTwP vaccines was ...Adverse outcomes from blood clot therapy may be due to patient characteristics, not dosing errors
...ved both an active fibrinolytic and a placebo, the researchers were able to hypothesize that if the incorrect dos...lus plus infusion, with tenecteplase placebo). The researchers found that incorrect dosing occurred in 4.9 percent of patients who received active alteplase and in...To boost efficiency, hospitals borrow principles from factory floor
...roduction lines on the factory floor, according to researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo. At UB's Center of Excellence for Global Enterprise Management, Li Lin, Ph.D., professor of industrial engineering, and his colleagues apply industrial-engineering ...The world's leading researchers in clinical immunology to gather for FOCIS 2005
The world's leading researchers in clinical immunology will gather in Boston, May 12-16, 2005, for the 5th Annual Meeting of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS 2005). FOCIS 2005 will serve as a forum for scientists and practitioners from around the world to meet...