What the news and the movies leave out: Behind the scenes of disaster aid
...nd the tsunami that ravaged southeast Asia was the stuff one expects to see in overblown movies, not on the nightly news. In a policy briefing paper, Peter Walker, PhD, director of the Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts' Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, critically assesses what ...HIV patients of low socioeconomic status likelier to die more often and sooner than others
...pattern of services use --they had more of the bad stuff and less of the good stuff," he said. Other UCLA researchers in addition to Cunningham were Drs. Ron Hays, professor of general internal medicine and health services research ; Naihua Duan, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences; Ronald M...Mayo researchers lead team that discovers role of dendritic cells in childhood autoimmune disease
...anism in the muscle tissue. And that's really neat stuff for our patients." About JDM JDM is a rare (5 in 1 million children) autoimmune disorder of young children characterized by inflammation of the blood vessels under the muscle and skin. This results in muscle damage, as well as in tissue changes of...Awareness under anaesthesia-findings from research by University of Leicester professor
It is the stuff of nightmares - you are under anaesthetic during an operation but you are fully conscious. Aware of every incision -yet unable to communicate that fact. Now a leading Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Leicester is to reveal his vi...Pollution puts fat rats at heart attack risk
...hat exposure to fine particulate matter--the small stuff you can't see--correlates to diseases in the public," says Dr. Jim Russell, a researcher at the U of A's Alberta Institute for Human Nutrition. "Our research helps connect the dots and get at the mechanisms that put people at risk. It has major impli...Watch not, want not? Packard/Stanford study links kids' TV time and consumerism
...ir peers at the beginning of the study wanted more stuff nearly two years later - to the tune of one extra toy request every three to four months and one extra food or beverage request every three to six months for every additional hour of screen time daily. Although this may not seem like a large increase...The $6 billion (hu)man is becoming reality, as bionics restores or expands humans' abilities
...ger, faster," the field of medical bionics was the stuff of science fiction. No longer. On April 3, at Experimental Biology 2006, some of the leading scientists in the rapidly expanding field of bionics explain how much of what was once fiction is today at least partial reality including electronically-...Stanford doctors advance in bid to turn mice stem cells into blood vessels
...'re alive, and you start to believe this stem cell stuff has possibilities." For the study, Abilez received first place in the seventh annual International Society of Endovascular Fellows' research award in laboratory sciences. The findings are published in this month's edition of the Journal of Endovascul...Researcher brings space age to surgery equipment, procedures
Though robots were once the stuff of Star Wars and The Jetsons, commercially available systems have made robotic surgeries common in hospitals. Located just feet away from the surgeon, the systems are minimally invasive and offer surgeons better dexterity. Department of Defense-fu...Reconstructive surgeon aims for rejection-free limb transplantation
...nor limb onto a patient's body would have been the stuff of science fiction. But to date about two-dozen people around the world have received hand transplants. Thomas Tung, M.D., conducts research within this relatively unorthodox realm of surgery, investigating therapies that could potentially allow the ...'Mindless Eating' is a nourishing read
...riments involve graduate students, always ready to stuff themselves in the name of science. From them, and...rl thought she was drinking a $9.50 bottle of good stuff from Normandy instead of some $2 gem called "Night Train Express". One food expert called Wansink t...UW-Madison researchers clear way to stronger glass
..." Ediger says. "A glass is a teenager's room, with stuff packed in everywhere." Just as levels of messiness can range from cluttered to chaotic, levels of molecular disorder can vary between different types of glass. Glasses composed of more organized molecules are more stable and durable, while glasses ...MIT graduate student wins $30,000 Lemelson-MIT student prize for life-saving inventions
...ap tall buildings in a single bound used to be the stuff of comic-book fantasy. Nathan Ball, a 23-year-old graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and this years winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, has invented a device that makes the fantasy a reality. With the help o...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 28, 2007
...ice grown in South Central States Red pepper: Hot stuff for fighting fat? The Chemistry of the Holy Land ...ARTICLE #4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Red pepper: Hot stuff for fighting fat? Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Food scientists in Taiwan are repor...A new, nanoporous ceramic filter offers hope to kidney-dialysis patients
...ents. We hope to improve that by targeting the bad stuff more precisely while leaving in the good stuff." The new filter could also alleviate the stress resulting from the fast blood flow required to remove toxins and finish a dialysis treatment in four hours. "To get a session done in four hours," say...Gender, ethnic differences may hamper eating disorder diagnosis
...at other groups just don't mind. There is a lot of stuff we just don't know yet."...'Star Trek'-type scanning may reveal genetic activity of tumors, Stanford study shows
...dy and visualizing its molecular secrets, once the stuff of science fiction, is one step closer to reality with a study from researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. The research team is reporting that by looking at images f...Scientists train nano-'building blocks' to take on new shapes, as reported in Science
...n graduate school years ago. I'm now building on stuff I did in grad school in the '90s on rubber and plastics, he said. However, if you look at block copolymers as a tool for self-assembly, there are many more potential applications than rubber for your boot or plastic coating for your floor, he noted. ...