• Coming soon: 3-D imaging that flies 'through' and 'around' cancer
• Position No. 1 at the Euroscience Open Forum in Munich
• Rush University Medical Center programs ranked among the nation's best in US News and World Report
• Rush University Medical Center maintains Magnet status for quality nursing
• Melanoma may be over-diagnosed
• Sharply-tuned nanostrings work at room temperature
• Women show 47 percent greater persistence with osteoporosis drugs if offered monthly tablet, support
• Radioactive crystals help identify and date ore deposits
• Study shows hope for ridding lakes of clawed invader
• Different genes may cause autism in boys and girls
• Penn researchers find role for microRNAs in angiogenesis
• U of MN uses robotic surgery techniques in cardiac cell therapy research
• Quicker, cleaner computers are in sight
• Researchers develop blood test to detect lung cancer
• Kentucky researcher receives prestigious Lew R. Wasserman Award
• NASA grant helps researchers remotely unlock mysteries of water on Mars
• Study pinpoints how genetic glitch could keep some people from feeling full
• Comparative Education Review special issue: Islam and education -- myths and truths
• A simple survey yields a cosmic conundrum
• Ebay: A good reputation pays off
• Scripps research scientists test anti-obesity vaccine
• Health-care workers' SARS protective clothing systems
• Debate continues on post-wildfire logging, forest regeneration
• New stem cell research grants announced
• Iowa State researcher studies gene families to explore diversity and evolution
• Institute of Ecosystem Studies director and scientist honored by the Botanical Society of America
• Media invitation for the 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union
• 2006 European Young Investigator Awards
• Mare Serenitatis: Crater statistics and lunar chronology
• EMBL-EBI and collaborators win bid to run UK PubMed Central
• DC-area media invited to tour state-of-the-art air quality experiment
• Gene discovery may shed light on kidney disease
• Variation in CHEK2 gene may triple breast cancer risk
• Tetracycline plus teeth equal gray smile
• AGD2006Denver: The only meeting for the entire dental team
• Laying the foundations for a green industry
• Pigeons provide clue to solving common problem in heart patients
• Media advisory: International mercury conference coming to Madison Aug. 6-11
• Penn researchers examine the effects of meditation on early cognitive impairment
• UGA study explains peaks and troughs of dengue epidemics
• UF scientists test improved gene therapy method for hereditary heart conditions
• Texas A&M system agencies join forces to hasten bioenergy revolution
• US grant targets genes behind severe arthritis
• UCLA psychology professor honored at White House for research on marriage
• An active Florida hurricane season adds to red tide
• MIT researchers watch brain in action
• Anatomy of a scientific revolution
• New genetic model for Parkinson's disease
• Iowa State researchers convert farm waste to bio-oil
• Onchocerciasis treatment reduces prevalence and intensity by 38 percent
• Granicus and Tinjar Valles
• ESA Astronaut Thomas Reiter's August 3 spacewalk from the ISS
• Pinning down a cancer threesome
• More efficient and ecological system for the production of electricity, cold and heat
• Thrombosis in children with leukaemia
• Teens and smoking: Why cessation interventions should start after the first puff
• Personal protective systems increasingly important for health care workers
• The myth of the 'security mom' and other insights from 'Gapology'
• Carefully mixed radiation cocktail reduces breast cancer treatment's collateral damage to skin
• Nanotechnology enables low-dose treatment of atherosclerotic plaques
• Researchers uncover how prostate cancer cells defy death
• Marine protected areas: it takes a village, study says
• University to develop new therapeutics for cancer
• University of Leicester produces the first-ever 'world map of happiness'
• Slippery stretching explains ocean floor formation
• £2.5M boost for marine biology in Liverpool
• University of Kentucky professor's child bereavement research makes psychiatric news
• Transmission congestion threatens to clog nation's power grid
• Distressed by your baby’s distress? How you respond matters
• Scientists develop new, molecular approach to early cancer detection
• UC Riverside researchers show how the brain turns on innate behavior
• Mosquito spray increases toxicity of pyrethroids in creek, study finds
• Drug triggers body's mechanism to reverse aging effect on memory process
• Honey helps problem wounds
• Researchers aim to give nurses a lift
• Solo living is a potential environmental time bomb
• Fingertip device helps computers read hand gestures
• Columbia University receives $16.9 million NIEHS award to study arsenic in ground water
• Cosmic dust in ice cores sheds light on Earth's past climate
• Anemic children with cancer benefit from erythropoietin
• Shoot up and cool down
• Traditional Chinese medicine for diabetes has scientific backing
• Spray-on skin relieves emotional trauma for child burn victims
• New study set to count the cost of front-line reporting
• Navigation guides robotic future
• Purdue creates new low-cost system to detect bacteria
• Penn State researchers say education, treatment key to averting child homicides
• In-home sensors spot dementia signs in elderly
• Malignant melanoma cells secrete protein required for embryo formation
• Top researcher-educators receive Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
• Communications team erects lifeline for firefighters battling California wildfires
• Supertron raises $3.5 million in Series C Financing
• Chemical in many air fresheners may reduce lung function
• Crash of Russian rocket destroys Montana's first satellite
• New strategy could increase number of kidney transplant matches
• 'Domino' transplant program makes best use of altruistic donated kidneys
• Message to older adults: embrace, don't fear the effects of sensible exercise
• Iowa State psychologists produce first study on violence desensitization from video games
• Trust in real time for secure digital certificates
• Shorter tuberculosis therapies could lead to substantial reductions in cases and deaths
• How the world watched Huygens
• African water authorities receive space tool training
• University of the Basque Country researchers believe methane storms on Titan
• Case Western Reserve University awarded science and technology center by National Science Foundation
• MicroRNA processing and cancer
• Identifying Piwi's partners
• Genome circularization and RNA virus replication
• Joe Sodroski wins the 2006 Retrovirology Prize
• Super blackcurrants with boosted vitamin C
• Cosmic dust in terrestrial ice
• ACP tells Congress: Pilot test patient-centered medical home
• American College of Physicians launches quality measures tool in PIER
• Medical steroid's baffling connection to osteoporosis becomes clearer
• New MRI technique quickly builds 3-D images of knees
• Flick of a protein switches immune response
• Penn researchers calculate how much the eye tells the brain
• Regular multivitamin use near time of conception significantly reduces preeclampsia risk
• Helium atoms sent by nozzle may light way for new imaging approach
• Plenty of nothing: A hole new quantum spin
• New genetic findings add to understanding of OCD
• UK hosts international digital design conference
• Scientists image 'magnetic semiconductors' on the nanoscale
• UF scientists discover evolutionary origin of fins, limbs
• New test could keep babies from contracting deadly infections
• Worker ants store fat to share with colony members during times of need
• Thieves promote stable coexistence among desert rodents
• Male praying mantids prefer not to be victims of sexual cannibalism
• Invasive plants prefer disturbance in exotic regions over home regions
• Human behavior changes the number of strains of infectious diseases
• UCI researchers 'text mine' The New York Times, demonstrating ease of new technology
• The Mount Sinai Medical Center recognized for excellence in bariatric surgery
• Sound investment: A new mathematical method provides a better way to analyze noise
• Rutgers College of Nursing professor elected Academy of Emergency Nursing Fellow
• Homeland Security awards $3 million to Rutgers-led research consortium
• GroPep awarded key patent for infertility treatment in Europe
• ACCC authorizes Medicines Australia Code of Conduct
• Treating medically unexplained symptoms
• Paying physicians to recruit patients into trials: The ethical concerns
• New, shorter TB treatments could advance TB control
• Abnormal pattern of brain development in premature babies
• Marine 'dead zone' off Oregon is spreading
• NYU becomes part of CERN project to explore fundamental nature of matter
• Identifying medical proxy should be part of routine medical care
• NASA Africa mission investigates origin, development of hurricanes
• Global coral reef assessment built on NASA images
• Take one small black hole
• Schizophrenia diagnosis gets help from the brain
• Study identifies potential drug target for Huntington's disease
• Who calls for stronger collaboration between HIV/AIDS and TB programs in the developing world
• Saving antiretroviral treatment in long-term HIV-positive patients
• National response needed in India to bring HIV epidemic under control
• NIH grant of $665K awarded to Rhode Island Hospital
• Men more at risk of recurrent blood clots than women
• Israel/Lebanon conflict should not overshadow crisis in Gaza
• CEO of GSK talks about HIV in the developing world
• NICE gives backing for the use of advanced biological therapies to treat severe psoriasis
• Johns Hopkins Children's Center to lead largest-ever study on kidney disease in children
• Diagnosis and referrals for kidney disease fall well short of need, Johns Hopkins study shows
• Joslin's new book demystifies nutrition and meal planning for people with diabetes
• Role of protein in immune response may aid HIV research
• A more powerful and efficient engine for rice: the C3-C4 challenge
• Real-time decision-support system can save lives
• Medical device test center expands capabilities to help reduce potential interference
• Island universes with a twist
• Where are the supermassive black holes hiding?
• Old pulsars still have new tricks to teach us
• EGNOS follows the Tour de France
• Scientists at the University of the Basque Country succeed in cooling solid material with laser
• Metabolic Engineering VI
• High-tech hydrogen scooter designed to sell clean technology
• Sandia-developed device determines how well wind turbines operate
• American Society of Plant Biologists Annual Meeting August 5-9 in Boston
• Feltrinelli International Prize awarded to Berkeley Lab's Saul Perlmutter
• Study shows good HR practices equal growth for small businesses
• Ocean microbe census discovers diverse world of rare bacteria
• Small-scale logging leads to clear-cutting in Brazilian Amazon
• Surgical instruments may not be fair trade
• Play in early childhood helps stunted children
• Is it time to give the NHS more independence?
• Food labels should list all fats to help cut heart disease, say experts
• Mortality rate is twice as high in patients with pneumonia caused by highly resistant bacteria
• ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- July 26, 2006
• Groundbreaking research highlights myriad health benefits of flavanol-rich cocoa
• W.M. Keck Foundation announces 2006 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research
• Study shows digitalis safe in patients with common form of heart failure
• UT Southwestern scientist named Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research
• Sunnybrook researchers identify which sets of molecules are required to induce T cells
• Weight lifting can help overweight teens reduce risk of diabetes
• New mothers should be screened regularly for postpartum depression
• How can identical twins be genetically different?
• Pre-life molecules present in comets
• Ancient global warming drove early primates' dispersal
• 3-D computer simulation to aid treatment of collapsed lungs
• New project to help solve problems of UK water shortage
• Food-crop yields in future greenhouse-gas conditions lower than expected
• Charles Yerkes, telescope benefactor, a stellar scoundrel, author says
• Constant din of barking causes stress, behavior changes in dogs in shelters
• UGA researchers find high rates of off-label prescriptions
• American Journal of Education special issue: Data use for school improvement
• UC Davis study finds HIV hiding from drugs in gut, preventing immune recovery
• Viral genetic differences are possible key to HIV dementia
• UCLA develops unique nerve-stimulation epilepsy treatment
• Multi-tasking adversely affects brain's learning, UCLA psychologists report
• Gene breakthrough heralds better prospect for malaria solution
• Improving livestock health, trade and human livelihoods in Africa
• Challenges to improving adolescent nutrition in Bangladesh and Tanzania
• National Academies advisory: TCE health risks
• Forest service researchers test Chinese tallow tree for use in building materials
• Something in the air: Nanoparticles and ...?
• Clean water, clean wounds
• CCLRC and PPARC welcome government announcement on 'Next Steps'
• Unusual mechanism keeps repair protein accurate
• There's a change in rain around desert cities
• NIDA announces recommendations to treat drug abusers, save money and reduce crime
• Screening for Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) among substance users is improved
• NC State scientists characterize protein linked to neurodegenerative diseases
• Old pulsars -- new tricks
• Order by motion
• Undergraduates devise inexpensive hand-held Braille writer
• Most doctors not adequately trained in family planning options
• Titan's pebbles 'seen' by Huygens radio
• Press update on World Congress of Cardiology 2006
• Brookhaven Lab wins R&D 100 Award for X-ray focusing device
• Study suggests TV watching lowers physical activity
• Native-born blacks more likely to marry whites than other blacks
• CU study finds connection between sound and meaning in words
• Illuminating science
• The future of race-based medicine
• Inhaled nitric oxide reduces lung disease in premature babies
• Prebiotics can cut development of skin allergy in babies at high risk
• Older, more rounded and artier applicants make better medical students
• Baylor Institute for Immunology research receives $3 million grant to create cancer vaccines
• Radiation-armed robot rapidly destroys human lung tumors
• Google-like process for mammogram images speeds up computer's second opinions
• ARVO's Cogan Award to Austrian biomedical professor
• Einstein researchers find 'key' to unlocking world's deadliest malaria parasite
• Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, August 1, 2006
• Study shows new drug helps elderly with insomnia
• Computational model simulates AZT metabolism in mitochondria
• Research simplifies diagnosis of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
• Timing of food consumption activates genes in specific brain area, researchers find
• Models show one nearby star system could host Earth-like planet
• Ice sheets drive atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, inverting previous ice-age theory
• Scientists map the flight of the bumblebee
• UK record heatwave and rising pollution observed by eyes in the sky: Images reveal hotspots
• University of Leeds receives Gates Foundation grant for material approach to malaria prevention
• 'Friend' protein keeps nerve signals in check
• Study pinpoints protein's role in cancer spread
• Promising therapy for ALS delivers antisense drug directly to nervous system
• Velvet worm brains reveal secret sisterhood with spiders
• Studying water quality in Colorado River Delta's Cienega de Santa Clara
• Stanford snake venom study shows that certain cells may eliminate poison
• Grueling four-day race becomes Stanford lab for cardiac experiments
• Sawing the ZZZZZs: getting old needn't keep you awake, Saint Louis University geriatricians say
• Stevens, N.J. Sea Grant to host coastal management workshop
• Stevens' Davidson Laboratory acquires new research vessel
• Kathryn Abel honored with the ASEE's Merl Baker Award
• Springer joins with the two largest materials societies in the world
• Celestial beauties
• Research adds weight to growing pains in children
• Scientists build 'magnetic semiconductors' one atom at a time
• When biology gets 'Quirky,' scientists turn to math
• Pine plantations may be one culprit in increasing carbon dioxide levels
• Radiation-killed bacteria vaccine induces broad immune response in mice
• Early treatment prevents lasting breathing problems in some premature babies
• New paradigm will help identify leads for drug discovery
• Transplant patients keep their new kidney longer with a CellCept-based drug combination
• Research project tests remote sensing to measure Earth's water cycle
• Turning on the rural broadband tap…
• Nano probe may open new window into cell behavior
• AVELOX as effective as multi-dose combination therapy for intra-abdominal infections
• European airborne campaign simulates Sentinel imagery over land
• Fulbright awards Senior Specialist grant to Carnegie's Marilyn Fogel
• Healthcare providers react more positively to men than women who reveal they're gay
• The $100 laptop is coming
• AGU journal highlights -- 24 July 2006
• Power plants are major influence in regional mercury emissions
• Clinical guidelines for recalled pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators developed
• Preclinical study shows chronic stress agitates ovarian cancer; reducing stress slows tumor growth
• Long-term ibuprofen regimen after brain injury worsens cognition in animal study
• UCLA researchers transform stem cells found in human fat into smooth muscle cells
• Virtual realities against pain
• Optical illusions, mirages that don't deceive
• SOPHE journals examine new research & practice solutions
• Progress report on Homogeneous Assay project
• Industry, C-SPAN leaders energize Lugar-Purdue summit
• Rise in sea level, loss of wet lands may account for unstable ground in Mississippi Delta
• It's all in the genes
• Mass. General study finds potential ovarian cancer stem cells
• Robot-assisted, laparoscopic surgery for vaginal vault prolapse found to be effective
• Prescription pain killers involved in more drug overdose deaths than cocaine or heroin in the US
• Johns Hopkins researchers find link between cell's energy use and genome health
• Heat therapy for cancer may be key to 'Lance Armstrong Effect'
• Hopkins researchers develop new tool to watch real-time chemical activity in cells
• Light to moderate drinking reduces risk of cardiac events, death
• Low-glycemic index diet promotes weight loss, cardiovascular risk reduction
• Estrogen plus testosterone therapy may increase risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women
• Complementary and alternative therapies show little benefit in treating menopause symptoms
• Researchers develop novel mouse model to witness immune system attack on chlamydia
• New study fuels Louisiana subsidence controversy
• August Geology and GSA Today media highlights
• Looking deep with infrared eyes
• ESA to help Europe prepare for space tourism
• Sandia work launched on space shuttle shows live cells influence growth of nanostructures
• Increased collaboration and awareness critical to managing climate variability and saving lives
• Reversing and accelerating the speed of light
• Bt cotton in China fails to reap profit after seven years
• Synthetic version of scorpion venom delivers radioactive iodine to malignant brain tumors
• Slowing Alzheimer's disease by keeping mind and body active
• Special Science issue examines HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Combination therapy may improve survival for pancreatic cancer
• UT Southwestern researchers find gene mutation that leads to 'broken hearts'
• Study identifies best online learning approaches for cancer patients
• High school students, teachers join Pitt's 'Gene Team'
• Bubbles go high-tech to fight tumors
• Skin cancer rare -- but more deadly -- in people with darker skin
• National trial gives 'unprecedented' support for steroid withdrawal in kidney transplants
• UCLA scientists strengthen case for life more than 3.8 billion years ago
• UCI receives $2.9 million grant to start 'LifeChips' program
• Tamoxifen for breast cancer prevention does not benefit most women
• Kidney donors pay the price
• Jefferson scientists show 'miracle' cancer drug Gleevec can be toxic to the heart
• SNM honors outstanding contributors
• News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
• Springer editor and author Koki Horikoshi to receive 2006 Japan Academy Prize
• Rice scientists unveil 'nanoegg'
• Rutgers-Newark researcher discovers new motor protein mechanism linked to heart disease and strokes
• Obesity an increasing obstacle to medical diagnosis
• Carotid stenting the new anti-depressant?
• Obesity experts back Abbott initiative
• Dark and distant heavenly bodies revealing the secrets of star and galaxy formation
• Top Canadian superstring theorist, Rob Myers of PI, inducted into Royal Society
• Road to AC voltage standard leads to important junction
• 'Micro-boxes' of water used to study single molecules
• Novel nano-etched cavity makes leds 7 times brighter
• NIST can help you 'MBARK' onto better biometric systems
• Add nanotubes and stir -- with the right force
• Shared ancestor to humans, present-day non-human primates may be linchpin in evolution of language
• NIH funds seven science education programs
• Aggressive heart pacing may work best in some spinal cord patients
• Neandertal genome to be deciphered
• Nuclear explosion on a dead star
• Much needed new antibiotic in fight against 'superbugs'
• Understanding what people with arthritis believe about exercise
• COX-2 inhibitors prescribed to reduce gastrointestinal toxicity prior to the market withdrawals
• Researchers reveal how long-term use of anti-inflammatory medication can cause osteoporosis
• JCI table of contents: July 27, 2006
• Cerebrospinal fluid used to deliver therapeutics for Lou Gehrig's disease to brain
• High BMI doesn't always spell obesity, Jackson Laboratory researchers show
• Test helps identify patients at low risk for recurring blood clots
• Study examines usefulness of cardiac CT scan for detecting blockages in coronary arteries
• Early-onset of diabetes associated with increased risk of kidney disease and death before age 55
• One-third in high-risk hurricane areas say they may ignore evacuation order
• European Science Writers Award will be granted in Munich
• Driving nanoscale microelectronics production
• Elephants avoid costly mountaineering
• Alternative approaches to marine management prove successful in reef conservation
• Seminal RNAi innovation is cleared for patenting in Australia
• Jahangir Amuzegar on the situation involving Iran's nuclear power
• Burnham Institute for Medical Research & UC San Diego establish Joint Center for Molecular Modeling
• Researchers demonstrate potential mechanism of food allergy
• Researchers develop and test prevention program for childhood obesity
• People unconsciously use 'verbal gestures' when they speak
• Seeing the serpent
• Study establishes safety of spinal cord stem cell transplantation
• Research finds that diabetes disease-management programs improve quality of care
• Physics encounters consciousness in a new book, Quantum Enigma
• Gas escaping from ocean floor may drive global warming
• Dogs itching to try homeopathic remedies
• Whether in mice or men, all cells age the same, Stanford study finds
• Bat Blitz: Media invited to learn about bats in the southeast
• Leukemia gene normally has mammary gland function
• Autistic brain has fewer neurons for processing emotion
• Drinking can be dangerous
• Understanding of cell protection mechanism points to therapies to prevent heart attacks and strokes
• Developing innovation leaders can be crucial to corporate competitiveness, growth
• Corn waste potentially more than ethanol
• For-profit research ethics committees: How are they performing?
• NASA announces media update on Africa hurricane mission
• Relic neutrinos join hunt for dark energy
• Are black holes at the center of galaxies?
• Minister Lunn puts spotlight on Canada as energy superpower
• NHGRI announces latest sequencing targets
• New tiger report release: Tiger habitat down from just a decade ago
• Men with multiple sclerosis pass disease to offspring more often than women
• Mayo Clinic researchers discover a genetic cause for atrial fibrillation
• Will FDA regulation of tobacco protect public health?
• Using the courts to gain access to essential medicines should be the last resort
• Matrilin-3 gene discovered to prevent onset of osteoarthritis
• International exercise guidelines for young people need to be changed
• Doctors highlight the dangers of unregulated Chinese herbal therapy
• Lower levels of anti-inflammatory proteins may contribute to chronic widespread pain
• Lower estrogen levels are a risk factor for knee osteoarthritis
• Culturally appropriate materials increase cancer screening rates
• Breast cancer prevention drug has little impact on mortality
• Giving up driving may be express lane to long-term care
• Antioxidants may slow vision loss
• Biometrics for secure mobile communications
• Fuel cells, a neglected clean source of energy
• Toward an extremely large European telescope
• Industry, academia, medicine and government leaders team up to tackle personal health records
• Deadly cone snails liven up Philadelphia Shell Show, Oct. 7-8
• DOE JGI sequences, releases genome of symbiotic tree fungus
• DFG presents the 2006 MAK and BAT value list
• Making hair realistic in computer animation
• Fish virus in Northeast spreading to other fish species
• Columbia University researchers discover on-off switch for chronic pain
• Children's surgeon to present results of new anti-rejection protocol at World Transplant Congress
• Don't use antibiotics for runny noses, say researchers
• Doctors reluctant to testify in child protection cases
• Doctors must embrace regulation changes
• Community hospital care as cost-effective as regular hospital care for older people
• Magnetism and mimicry of nature hold hope for better medicine, environmental safety
• ACCP 72nd Annual Medical Conference
• Scientists discover a genetic code for organizing DNA within the nucleus
• New study supports findings that periodontal bacteria may be linked to heart disease
• New insight into how serotonin reduces appetite could help in developing safer anti-obesity drugs
• UW-Madison team invents fast, flexible computer chips on plastic
• An exercise of the will
• Doctors treating pain from circumcision more seriously
• Small, but mighty
• Connect the Quantum Dots
• Wild bees and the flowers they pollinate are disappearing together
• Smooth sailing: 'Cruise Ship Virus' tackled by UH, Baylor College of Medicine
• Pollution threatens coral health by preventing lesions from healing, UCF study shows
• Nicotine exposure during development leads to hearing problems
• Irradiation preserves T cell responses in bacterial vaccine
• Enzyme inhibitor may provide strategy to treat some GI disorders, Jefferson researchers find
• UK aging expert signs on as keynote speaker for GSA's annual meeting
• Direct link established between tropical tree and insect diversity
• Stevens professor named an Early Career Principal Investigator
• Saving the planet from a mathematical perspective
• SIAM's Richard C. DiPrima Prize awarded to Xinwei Yu of UCLA
• SIAM's Julian Cole Lectureship awarded to Dr. Michael J. Shelley of the Courant Institute
• Stanford's George Papanicolaou selected speaker for the John von Neumann Lecture
• Students from U of Colorado at Boulder and Harvard triumph in SIAM's Math Contest in Modeling
• Students awarded prizes at Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Annual Meeting in Boston
• SIAM awards Outstanding Paper Prizes to a medley of meritorious mathematicians
• SIAM Awards Lagrange Prize to Roger Fletcher, Sven Leyffer and Philippe L. Toint
• Promoting women in mathematics
• Peter Kloeden of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University receives W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Boston
• George F. Lawler, Oded Schramm and Wendelin Werner receive George Polya Prize in Boston
• François Golse and Laure Saint-Raymond named recipients of SIAM's premiering SIAG/APDE Prize
• Dr. Peter D. Lax receives Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession of Applied Mathematics
• Cornell's Éva Tardos awarded George B. Dantzig Prize at SIAM Annual Meeting
• UQ helps Vietnam with health records
• Demand for community nurses grows
• Breast stem cells have features similar to 'basal' tumors
• Nuclear explosion on a dead star -- astronomers probe aftermath
• Blood test predicts sickle cell disease complication, identifies patients at high risk of death
• Mayo Clinic study suggests emergence of new most common form of heart failure
• UK hospitals can benefit from partnerships with developing world hospitals
• Be warned
• Study confirms males/females use different parts of brain in language & visuospatial tasks
• Feeling sleepy? Don't have a high sugar, low caffeine drink -- it could make things worse
• Early fetal gender test demands rapid ethical policymaking
• Figuring out function from bacteria's bewildering forms
• Iowa State, Ames Laboratory researchers win R&D 100 Award
• New training technique helps alcoholics in battle with the booze
• Migration trends -- new booklet gives insights into migrant population
• Study indicates heart damage from some cancer drugs worsens over the years
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel to hold live in-flight call with ISS
• Cluster hits the magnetic bull's-eye
• Paternal-side family history of breast cancer may be missed
• Sustainable chemistry: Implementing the research & innovation agenda for Europe
• European sustainable chemistry action plan -- August 27, 2006, Budapest
• Case Western Reserve University researchers find protein associated with brain cell death
• Carnegie Mellon study offers new clues about memory
• Costa Rican environmental leader to receive new conservation award
• Your outlook in life is forged in childhood
• Children with eczema have the same impaired quality of life as those with kidney disease
• Acquired susceptibility is an important factor of disease
• ASU's Biodesign Institute Director George Poste awarded 2006 Albert Einstein Award
• Digital mammography results in technologists' time savings but physician time loss
• HO-1 in sickle cell disease: friend or foe?
• ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- July 19, 2006
• Tiny airborne particles are a major cause of climate change
• AAAS urges US President to sign Embryonic Stem Cell Act
• Yale dean addresses biggest environmental threats in new book
• Major report on tigers to be released Thursday at National Zoo
• Test for esophageal reflux licensed to Bayer by Wake Forest University Health Sciences
• Research documents children's exposure to pesticides, suggests need for family education
• JRRD tipsheet: Focus on spinal cord injury, gait, stroke, power mobility and more
• UT Southwestern orthopaedic surgeons first in area to use knee replacements designed for women
• High altitude broadband is the platform for the future
• Diabetes drug shows promise in treating Alzheimer's
• Gatekeeping: Penn researchers find new way to open ion channels in cell membranes
• Discovery of agile molecular motors could aid in treating motor neuron diseases
• $1.4 million grant helps professor see the light
• Virtual reality puts telepathy to the test
• U of M researchers discover genetic key to treating deadly fungal infections
• Animation can be outlet for victimized children, a tool for research
• Anxious adults judge facial cues faster, but less accurately
• UF scientists reverse muscle contractions in mouse model of muscular dystrophy
• You argue when you care
• Unsure what to order? Study finds that decisions are easier when everything is priced the same
• Sticks and stones: Teenage ridicule has lasting effects on consumer behavior
• Online surveys are less effective than phone surveys
• Freedom to choose won't make you happier
• Study supports 'urgent' need for worldwide ban on lead-based paint
• UCLA researchers discover new disorder that causes chronic diarrhea in children
• Atomic-resolution structure of a ribozyme yields insights into RNA catalysis and the origins of life
• Germans set up an apartheid-like society in Britain
• Structure determined for p53 tumor suppressor protein as bound to DNA for anti-cancer activity
• It's 2025. Where do most people live?
• Arranged marriages in contemporary times: What's love (or chance) got to do with it?
• Nutritional knowledge improves lunch lady image
• Our Sun's fiery outbursts -- seen in 3-D
• OHSU surgeons challenge age-old practice
• Computer card game detects cognitive changes
• Research paves way for new composite materials
• MIT creates fiber webs that see
• Protein-coated dental implants could improve bone regeneration
• What does it take to maintain a normal body weight?
• RI Hospital Injury Prevention Center receives international award for gun safety promotion
• High estrogen levels associated with dementia in older men
• ISU researchers test combustion for NASA
• A WINning solution for risk management
• Take steps to protect against shoulder fired missiles, say operations research experts
• Study: Elders with dementia can tap into memory stores to give advice
• 31st ESMO Congress
• Discovery lands at Kennedy Space Center
• Biometric identification for on-line and off-line signature recognition
• Scientists isolate leukemia stem cells in a model of human leukemia
• Molecular DNA switch found to be the same for all life
• Titans of biodiversity science call for united, authoritative voice to inform decision-makers
• Medication plus behavior changes helps obese adolescents lose weight
• Do guidelines matter?
• Preventing ventilation induced lung injury depends on giving the right number of 'sighs'
• Experts present strategies to address adolescent violence and bullying
• Under certain genetic circumstances, naltrexone may increase the urge to drink
• The more alcoholic relatives a person has, the more they need to drink to feel alcohol's effects
• Smoking reduces alcohol's effects, likely encouraging more drinking
• Alcoholics' deficits in smell are linked to frontal lobe dysfunction
• Guideline helps predict outcome in comatose survivors after CPR
• Erectile dysfunction: Incidence rate linked to type and severity of coronary artery disease
• Undersea vehicles to study formation of seafloor deposits enriched in gold and other precious metals
• Watching TV could help your parenting
• UGA researchers find that hunting can increase the severity of wildlife disease epidemics
• 'Lord of the Rings' director makes donation to UCI stem cell research
• How purple corn and RNA break genetic laws
• Scientists discover why cornea is transparent and free of blood vessels, allowing vision
• Neurologists developing first standardized measurement scale for dyskinesia in Parkinson's patients
• Think fast! Rice undergrad unlocks nerve speed secret
• Energy-efficient buildings: Government of Canada supports the BC government strategy
• Mercury atomic clock keeps time with record accuracy
• Researchers uncover genetic clues to a common form of age-related dementia
• Percentage of women leading medical research studies rises, but still lags behind men
• Sub-millimeter astronomy in full swing on southern skies
• Eleven million Euros for Endotrack
• BACS breathes perception into robots
• Gene screen for breast cancer better than pathologist's 'eye'
• US IT infrastructure not adequately prepared for cyber attacks, says IEEE-USA
• Fundación BBVA and IDIBAPS reassess the intermittent treatment efficiency against malaria
• New strategy rapidly identifies cancer targets
• Mutations point the way to new leukemia drugs
• Beekeepers work hard for the honey, despite changing tupelo forest
• Landscapes from the ancient and eroded lunar far side
• The Euroscience Open Forum 2006 opens its doors to scientists and the public
• Starting to talk to a vehicle
• Carnegie Mellon, Pitt receive $15 million from NSF to found center to improve quality of life
• Carnegie Mellon collaborates with Taiwanese government
• UN review shows need to halt destructive fishing practice
• Children who live with smokers have more respiratory complications during surgery
• CERN Council adopts European strategy for particle physics
• Top notch football players sustain identical injuries following season
• Number of indoor swimming pools per capita linked to rise in childhood asthma across Europe
• Couch potatoes who start exercising after 40 can still stave off heart disease
• American College of Physicians releases MKSAP 14
• Yale biomedical engineers receive prestigious Early Career Awards
• Tumor wizardry wards off attacks from the immune system
• Witonsky honored with Pfizer award for work with EPM disease in horses
• Equine Medical Center records successful year for neonatal foals
• Researchers find cause of frontotemporal dementia
• Defining the limits of computerized physician order entry systems
• Centuries of land-use practices profoundly impact earth system, UNH scientists report
• Training for parents could help child anxiety disorders
• UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute researchers find fewer neurons in the amygdala of males with autism
• Wild meerkats school their young
• UCR researchers determine genetic origin of California wild radish
• Ultra low-dose estrogen shown safe for post-menopausal women
• Political allegiance impacts brain's response to candidates
• Bird brains shrink from exposure to contaminants
• IOM Advisory: Preventing Medication Errors News Conference on July 20
• Jefferson scientists show protein key to bladder cancer spread, potential drug target
• RFID chips could help surgeons avoid leaving sponges in patients, Stanford researcher finds
• Self-esteem key to not letting the job get in the way of your relationship
• News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
• Rice University press reborn as nation's first fully digital academic press
• Print deal makes Connexions leading open-source publisher
• Rosalind Franklin University and VA collaborate on amputation risk prevention profile
• Australia-US FTA threatens blood supply
• US trumps Europe in public funding for cancer research
• Research reveals tobacco company's role in China's cigarette smuggling crisis
• Routine HIV testing widely supported in Botswana
• Natural vitamin E tocotrienol reaches blood at protective levels
• Boosting killer cells might improve breast-cancer drug
• OHSU Cancer Institute researchers use shortcut to identify new treatment target for leukemia
• NASA explains puzzling impact of polluted skies on climate
• Paleontologists establish first age distribution of non-avian dinosaur population
• Gene variant increases risk of type 2 diabetes
• Bacteria give up secrets in war waged on plants
• Researchers discover mutations in the progranulin gene cause frontotemporal dementia
• MRIs show drug treatment slows brain deterioration on road to Alzheimer's disease
• Decline in concentration, decision-making and problem-solving
• Gene mutations responsible for Rett syndrome in females present sporadically in males
• Telephone quitlines help people stop smoking
• The Cochrane Library newsletter, Issue 3, 2006
• School-based prevention programs for aggressive children improve behavior
• Other highlights in the July 19 JNCI
• Dietary modifications may not benefit cancer patients
• Nicotine promotes growth of tumors already established by tobacco carcinogens
• JCI table of contents: July 20, 2006
• Study compares treatments for chronic plaque psoriasis
• Study compares gastric bypass and gastric banding surgeries in extremely obese patients
• Radio wand may help detect sponges left in surgery patients
• Migraines with aura associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease
• Genetic variation linked to age-related macular degeneration
• Combination anti-retroviral therapies associated with reduced infections in HIV-infected children
• The first science ever with APEX
• Taking on the interoperability challenge
• The European Research Council: Who are the movers and shakers?
• Being overweight as a teen associated with premature death in adulthood
• Geological Society of America 2006 Annual Meeting
• Deaf children to benefit from first Michael Young Prize
• Sub-millimeter astronomy in full swing on southern skies
• Duke researchers link newly discovered gene to hereditary neurological disease
• Moderate exercise improves survival rates for colon cancer survivors
• Dartmouth researchers study trends in how movies depict cigarette use
• First direct observations of spinons and holons
• Sharply-tuned nanostrings work at room temperature
• Possible birthplace of malignant brain tumors identified
• New clues to how major weight-loss drugs work
• Majority of health care opinion leaders say Medicare Part D helps beneficiaries, changes are needed
• Putting your computer to work to fight against malaria in Africa
• Brown engineers use DNA to direct nanowire assembly and growth
• No increase in punitive damages awards, study shows
• What's wrong with selling kidneys?
• Tackle 'aesthetic' genital surgery in rich countries before criticizing traditional practices
• Electronic patient record 'serious threat' to patient confidentiality
• British government violating right of failed asylum seekers to health care
• A new look at the state of the oceans
• Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
• APS awards more than $150,000 in fellowships to middle and high school science teachers
• 36 hour news cycles, secret lives of pebbles, cloudburst theory and entangled entanglement
• Mitral valve surgery may be safe option for elderly patients
• N.J., Pa., N.D. students named to US Chemistry Olympiad team
• Scientists identify protein with a crucial role in cell death
• Sleep deprivation doubles risks of obesity in both children and adults
• Fitting software to students
• New source of multipotent adult stem cells discovered in human hair follicles
• HIV infection requires B cells with special protein, University of Pittsburgh researchers report
• Scientists build brain box computer
• Allergy battle could be won in five years, says scientist
• UIC researchers link maternal smoking during pregnancy to behavior problems in toddlers
• Donor T cells change the fate of stem cells in transplantation
• Illicit trade led to modern globalization
• Clubs pay the price: report shows luck determines football managers' tenure
• Study: Boys trail girls in literacy scores
• Friend or foe: Could a protein linked to Alzheimer's be related to vision loss in seniors?
• State of Our Unions 2006
• Researchers discover communication signal for tissue development
• NYU Child Study Center offers unique summer experience for children with ADHD
• Increased risk of hantavirus forecast for US southwest
• Researchers gain insight into why brain areas fail to work together in autism
• New NIAID program aims to model immune responses and key infectious diseases
• Treatment developed for patients with medically unexplained symptoms
• March of Dimes urges federal legislation for IOM prematurity report
• Study shows pine bark naturally decreases severe chronic venous insufficiency
• Language barriers compromise health care for 50 million Americans who do not speak English
• Intensive care use has ramifications on health care costs, Mayo Clinic study finds
• Travelers advised about rare virus in Indian Ocean Islands
• Half of social inequalities in male mortality due to smoking
• Fertility technique not effective for all couples with difficulty conceiving
• Fear of liability risks patient care
• Combined treatment extends life expectancy for lung cancer patients
• Childhood autism more widespread in the UK than previously thought
• After the Big Bang: Project explores seconds that shaped the universe
• Scientists coax nerve fibers to regrow after spinal cord injury
• International rice industry prepares to gather in India
• Trust in global computing
• EU Nanotechnology Projects in Action in Munich at ESOF2006
• Radon testing as a campus community service
• SMART-1 view of crater Sulpicius Gallus
• Flying over the cloudy world -- science updates from Venus Express
• ESOC flight controllers ready for MetOp launch
• People with a sweet tooth eat more fruit, study finds
• Novel mechanism of taxane resistance
• Carnegie Mellon researchers discover key deficiencies in brains of people with autism
• Climate change not the only factor controlling distribution of plant species
• Heart has enough oxygen to survive hypothermia, CPR crucial
• ACS Weekly PressPac -- July 12, 2006
• American Chemical Society national meeting: San Francisco, Sept. 10-14
• Making a face: A new and earlier marker of neural crest development
• Pathway toward gene silencing described in plants
• 3-D model reveals secrets of metastasis
• Woods Hole engineering team from Titanic discovery to be honored
• PET imaging confirms link between receptor levels and cocaine abuse
• Supercomputers help physicists understand a force of nature
• Smoking to blame for more than half of difference in men's mortality risk across class lines
• Paint-on semiconductor outperforms chips
• Imaging technology points to small molecules that can fight treatment-resistant tumors
• Pitt phage hunter takes on tuberculosis
• Agreement to increase the flow of ideas from laboratory to clinic
• Powerful radiation source to further cancer research
• Chemistry research could produce faster computers
• Large dinosaurs were extremely hot in their day, UF study finds
• Brain-computer link lets paralyzed patients convert thoughts into actions
• Study shows that parasites form the thread of food webs
• Tyrannosaur survivorship -- tough times for teens
• Researchers build sharpest tip
• Institute of Medicine advisory: Reducing preterm birth
• Immobility and functional decline: Avoiding the spiral
• Late talking toddler: New research debunks the myth
• National Academies news: Young engineers selected to participate in engineering symposium
• Effects of nutrition on learning
• Self-cooling soda bottles?
• Caulerpa Taxifolia Eradication
• NIH media advisory: Report on well-being of America's children
• NDRI learns how to increase participation in vocational counseling
• Mayo Clinic study finds weight loss precedes dementia diagnosis in women
• Type 2 diabetes increases the risk of glaucoma in women
• NIH turns to FSU for top research on learning disabilities
• Dragon Symposium highlights success of projects
• Controlling robots that search for Mars life
• Science and security in the 21st century
• Mapping the protein world
• Dragon Symposium highlights success of projects
• Study identifies new role for breast cancer susceptibility gene
• Sperm created in the laboratory from embryonic stem cells produce viable progeny
• Warning signs for potential re-abuse of children identified
• People living alone double their risk of serious heart disease
• High humidity is a risk factor for heart attack deaths among the elderly
• Eye blood vessel width may indicate coronary heart death risk
• I forgive you for taking his lunch money
• Basic, regular training helps doctors treat alcoholism
• Quitting smoking improves lung function considerably
• Less expensive treatment for lung lining infection in kids
• TWAS, Illycaffè announce Trieste Science Prize winners
• Eye tissue shortage endangers clinical research's future
• ACPM to host Webcast on adolescent violence and bullying
• Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet, July 18, 2006
• Mental health providers can be successfully located with pediatricians
• Yellowstone ecosystem may lose key migrant
• JRRD tipsheet: Focus on multiple sclerosis
• UT Southwestern, BioTel system to test methods of improving cardiac arrest, trauma survival
• Anti-herpes drug reduces need for Caesarean sections in infected women
• Practice builds brain connections for babies learning language, how to speak
• Finding about cellular microtubule rigidity could lead to development of new nano-materials
• New procedure safer for detecting fetal anemia
• World-first stem cell research could aid male infertility
• New tool cracks genomic code quicker than ever
• Women still get lower-quality heart attack care than men, despite hospital improvement efforts
• A stitch in time saves lives: High survival seen for patients with condition that killed John Ritter
• U of M study finds new risk factors do not improve assessment of coronary heart disease risk
• Researchers identify energy gains and environmental impacts of corn ethanol and soybean biodiesel
• Leicester chosen for international space science workshop
• Scots medical researchers link up to share knowledge
• UCLA study of community health project shows how group dynamics affect fitness, eating habits
• Ten undergraduates at UCLA selected for CNSI Summer 2006 undergraduate research
• Researchers link specific antibody presence to prevention of mother-to-baby HIV transmission
• Laser tweezers sort atoms
• Racial differences found in emphysema onset
• Institute of Medicine advisory: Research involving prisoners
• Former Soviet Union Republic looks to Texas researcher for answers
• Tiny tremors and earthquakes provide intriguing clues about seismic activity, study finds
• Researchers unveil strategy for creating actively-programmed anti-cancer molecules
• Stevens' Disruptive Technologies Roundtable Series discusses SPOC
• Rice's Connexions prepares for Vietnam launch
• Pharmaceutical industry welcomes Labor Party's Innovation Blueprint
• New research promising for improving brain cell survival after brain injury
• Inner-Sydney study to investigate causes of hayfever and seasonal allergies
• Asthma -- obesity connection
• Twist on chest pain drug improves heart attack outcome
• NSF, NEH boost efforts to make digital records of dying languages
• Producing flu vaccines will be faster and cheaper, thanks to MSU technology
• Brain-computer link allows paralyzed patient to manipulate devices by thought
• Natural approach to immune regulation may help transplant patients
• Midgets and giants in the deep sea
• Science captures the essence of fruit
• Seeking to tighten the Net against attack
• FSU gets $6.2 million grant to build hurricane prediction model
• From the nanoworld to neurons and galaxies
• Women at greater risk from working long hours
• Routine ECGs for newborns would identify life-threatening heart condition
• Yttrium-90 to control hepatocarcinoma
• Which inflammatory markers predict the appearance of a stroke?
• Hypertension provokes cardiac insufficiency
• Sandia researchers apply energy surety model to military bases
• Suprising discovery may lead to new understanding of water quality
• Sandia applies a surety approach in creating solutions to energy challenges
• Minister Lunn to host visit of US Energy Secretary Bodman
• City trees blighted by plant disease and environmental stresses
• Brookhaven Lab and WARD'S Natural Science develop science education kits
• 11th International Deep-Sea Biology Symposium
• Energy-rich portfolio of new genome sequencing targets for DOE JGI
• Opportunities for structured doctoral research
• Researcher discovers new materials
• Pearl Jam and CI partner to offset climate footprint of band's 2006 world tour
• New reflux disease technology more comfortable, not more effective
• New model of brain sheds light on triggers of autism
• Controlling movement through thought alone
• Two-thirds of patients say erection drug didn't work for them
• How parachute spiders invade new territory
• ACP and The Doctors Company offer liability insurance credit
• Higher risk for cervical cancer seen among women infected with multiple HPV types
• Worcester Polytechinc Institute (WPI) to host forum on indoor precision personnel location
• UT Southwestern scientist named to Texas Women's Hall of Fame
• Penn researchers enlist proteins to 'switch on' heart tissue repair system in animal models
• UCSF study shows suppression of telomerase enzyme can inhibit spread of melanoma
• Beyond lipids: understanding the mechanics of atherosclerosis
• Medication use linked to farmers' injuries
• Researcher studies, treats military with 'silent disease'
• National Academies advisory: EPA dioxin risk assessment reviewed
• Institute of Medicine Advisory: Preterm births in the US
• Jefferson team designs program that helps elderly perform daily living tasks and live longer
• Prion disease agent causes heart damage in mouse study
• People more likely to help others they think are 'like them'
• Teens more vulnerable to peer influences from popular, well-liked classmates
• Toddlers exposed to cigarette smoke in utero exhibit greater behavioral problems
• Reading to young children improves language and cognitive development
• Lower child-to-caregiver ratios translate to better care
• Hard-working at school, sluggish at home
• Early childhood behavior predicts adolescent alcohol and drug use
• Children's ideas about fairness may depend on race
• One small step for Soft Matter...
• Prevention is the best option: fighting autoimmune diseases
• Published research on POMx shows similar health benefits to pomegranate juice
• Study finds no support for claims that alcohol industry targets youth
• Face blindness is a common hereditary disorder
• Supernova leaves behind mysterious object
• Mare Humorum: where craters tell the story of basalt
• ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter reports for duty onboard the ISS
• The brain, traffic and nano-circuits -- e-Science takes on major challenges
• PNNL wins prestigious R&D 100 awards for five technologies
• Live wires
• Sandia wins two R&D 100 awards
• Cracking the secret codes of Europe's Galileo satellite
• COPD patients using beta-agonist inhalers are at risk
• One therapeutic dose of radiation causes 30 percent spongy bone loss in mice
• Alpine glaciers could all but disappear within this century
• AACR awards $2.6 million in grants for metastatic colon cancer research
• Anxious, depressed people over 65 turn more often to alternative therapies
• Tigers get a business plan
• Genetic variation found that predicts response to heart failure medication
• Established eBay sellers get higher prices for good reputations
• U of I scientist develops enzyme inhibitor that may slow cancer growth
• Drug abuse among Katrina evaucees focus of $1.5M study at UH
• UGA researchers discover 'episodic-like' memory in rats
• UF study sheds light on cystic fibrosis-related diabetes
• Researchers aim to cut future need for liver transplants
• Drug combination may slow male breast cancer growth
• UCI receives $1.6 million grant to study eye training and brain mechanisms
• UCLA leads national effort to address New Orleans' mental health needs
• Genetics behind developmental brain disorders may play a wider role with congenital diseases
• Discovery of genetic mutation in Florida beach mice suggests extinct mammoth had light and dark fur
• Transgender experience led Stanford scientist to critique gender difference
• News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
• Male circumcision could prevent millions of AIDS deaths
• Giving African surgeons online health information; cancer in minority groups
• Solitons could power molecular electronics, artificial muscles
• Stress management: X-rays reveal Si thin-film defects
• Rust never sleeps: new SRM aids coated steel industry
• New ion trap may lead to large quantum computers
• Chronic middle ear infections linked to resistant biofilm bacteria
• Mayo Clinic, Indian Health Service form education, research and clinical practice collaboration
• Children in families with no adult in paid employment 13 times more likely to die
• Treating hepatitis C recurrence after liver transplantation
• Statins stop hepatitis C virus from replicating
• New blood test detects non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
• Corals switch skeleton material as seawater changes
• Women smokers have higher risk of lung cancer than men smokers, though lower lung cancer death rate
• Weight gain may increase risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women
• Removal of ovaries decreases risk of certain cancers for women at high-risk
• Research highlights risk factors for age-related vision loss
• Neurologists with expertise in brain stimulation therapy help Parkinson's patients
• New risk factors do not improve assessment of coronary heart disease risk
• Measuring proteins in spinal fluid may provide early clue to Alzheimer's disease
• Healthy lifestyle reduces women's stroke risk
• Higher levels of common daily activity associated with lower risk of death
• Improving your diet may not help you beat stress
• Coordination of primary health care and hospital care reduces readmission in COPD
• Researchers find link between developmental exposure to pesticide and Parkinson's risk
• Joint crew press conference with ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter onboard the ISS
• Gassendi crater -- clue on the thermal history of Mare Humorum
• DOE publishes research roadmap for developing cleaner fuels
• Researchers create broadband light amplifier on a photonic chip
• Carnegie Mellon computer poker program sets its own Texas Hold'em strategy
• Health savings accounts are not likely to stem rising health care spending
• Problem: implant infection, solution: nanotech surfaces
• Regular paracetamol use could reduce ovarian cancer risk by almost a third
• BioMed Central Journals join Medscape Publishers' Circle
• American Society of Hematology announces recipients of the Minority Medical Student Award
• Q&A with Jeffrey Sachs on July 10 at Soils Congress
• 2007 ARVO/Pfizer Ophthalmics awardees announced
• Newsbriefs from the journal CHEST, July 2006
• Emphasis on performance measures may lead to inappropriate antibiotic use
• Cancer researchers confirm brain tumor genetic subtype informs treatment, predicts outcome
• Study looks at ways to sustain lobster fishery
• Report: Canada's Yellowstone too small for wildlife
• New study shows antibiotic may protect the heart
• Illicit drug use and abuse may be genetic
• University of Utah to build telescope in southern Utah
• Prion find points way to test for human 'mad cow' disease
• Mutation in tumor suppressor gene causes pancreatic islet cells to reproduce
• We're lazy but Chinese want to be just like us
• U of M researchers discover compounds to shrink tumors
• Drug dials down the energy within cells, UM researchers find
• Watching rocks grow: Theory explains landscape of geothermal springs
• Medium is the message for stem cells in search of identities
• UCLA study finds same genes act differently in males and females
• PIMCO founder and wife donate $10 million to stem cell research at UCI
• Full 3-D image of nanocrystals' interior created by shining X-rays through them
• UB diabetes researchers participate in international study
• Reversing 'hibernating' heart muscle focus of UB researchers
• Earthquake engineering center changes name, expands focus
• Fibromyalgia increases pain and fatigue for pregnant women
• Researchers get closer to preventing Alzheimer's disease
• Oceanic invasions across Darwin's impassable barrier
• Saturn's faint rings share some of their secrets
• Saving the planet, from a mathematical perspective
• Taking the wrinkles out of motoneuronal disease
• Patient care threatened by workforce shortage
• New study into Australia ageing gracefully
• New funding for research in primary health care
• Developing countries take the lead in a global program to catalogue human mutations
• Thousands find connection and inspiration at nation's largest autism conference
• Math and fossils resolve a debate on dinosaur metabolism
• Variations in detoxifying genes linked to Lou Gehrig's disease
• Physical activity extends life of patients with peripheral artery disease
• New technology addresses female fertility preservation
• West develops taste for primates
• Prion disease infectivity causes heart damage in mouse study
• Report warns about carbon dioxide threats to marine life
• Long-lived magnetic fluctuations in a crystal
• A new life-course for an aging society
• A new guideline for screening apparently healthy individuals to prevent a heart attack
• Recently released prisoners in England and Wales at high risk of suicide
• Independent experts needed to save UK's NHS from failure and privatization
• Disfiguring facial infection in young children can be prevented
• Boost radiotherapy effective for very early breast cancer
• Land use, land cover affect human health, food security
• Targeted melanoma education of high risk groups improves screening
• Education campaign improves skin cancer screening rates
• Protein potentially links diet, obesity and asthma
• JCI Table of Contents: July 13, 3006
• Hopkins scientists show hallucinogen in mushrooms creates universal 'mystical' experience
• Cell survival depends on chromosome integrity
• Securing Europe's future information society
• Smoking increases risk and omega-3 fatty acids decreases risk of blinding disease
• Birds going extinct faster due to human activities
• ORNL wins six R&D 100 Awards, pushing total to lab-leading 128
• Life cycle of operons yields new look at bacterial genetics
• Berkeley lab wins four prestigious 2006 'R&D 100' awards for technology advances
• Exposure to radiation after Chornobyl increases risk of thyroid cancer in children and adolescents
• Sleep strengthens memories and makes them resistant to interfering information
• Jellyfish dominate fish in over-harvested Namibian waters
• Gorilla susceptibility to Ebola virus: the cost of sociality
• Flying in tune: Buzz brings mosquito pairs together
• Whooping cough 'endemic' among UK school children
• Tuberculosis must be tackled among socially excluded groups
• Poorest children face highest risk of death from injury
• ASH Katrina Relief Program receives ASAE's 2006 Associations Advance America Award of Excellence
• AGU journal highlights -- 5 July 2006
• Montefiore and Einstein receive $2-million grant from Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
• Findings by Einstein scientists reveal possible strategy against obesity, diabetes and infertility
• Einstein's Dr. Michael Brownlee receives prestigious new scholar award from JDRF
• Steroid abuse harms gingival tissues
• Parkinson patients can be apathetic without depression
• Research offers new hope for preterm babies
• Fertility hope as study shows eggs survive in older ovaries
• Measles Mumps Rubella and mercury-based immunizations cleared as causes of autism
• ESC recommends interdisciplinary collaboration in non-invasive imaging
• Software simulator improves quality of microwave reheated frozen foods
• 'Medical Spanish' course helps physician assistants examine, communicate with Hispanic patients
• Higher death rates associated with increasing degrees of obesity, PITT researchers report
• Infections link with diabetes, suggests biggest study yet
• 'Molecular assassin' targets disease gene
• Creative economy grows despite large population growth of creative people
• New study shows people sleep even less than they think
• Space shield could help image Earth-like planets, says study
• Warming climate plays large role in Western US wildfires, Scripps-led study shows
• Bioengineered tissue implants regenerate damaged knee cartilage
• Heat halts pain inside the body
• Silent earthquakes may foreshadow destructive temblors, study finds
• Literature review highlights options for self-management of asthma exacerbations
• Composer reveals musical chords' hidden geometry
• Researchers peg magnetism as key driver of high-temperature superconductivity
• Biology-Oriented Synthesis (BIOS): From natural product to new therapeutics
• Neurosurgical treatment of anxiety disorders effective -- but risky
• Lung diseases represent major costs for society
• Inflammatory processes in arteriosclerosis revealed
• A protein complex that untangles DNA
• Building trust in virtual organizations
• The Altran Foundation for Innovation reveals 2006 winner in Technological Innovation and Energy
• Falling onto the dark
• Jules Verne passes acoustic test
• When victims are white, stereotypes of blacks influence who gets death sentences
• Did the outreach really work? CU team to develop evaluation tools
• Beta-agonist inhalers more than double death rate in COPD patients, analysis shows
• Science reporters' top challenges include finding photos and well-spoken researchers
• Whiplash injuries -- are they caused by startle reflexes?
• Study details why listeriosis rates are 20-fold higher during pregnancy
• Experiments with fruit quality improvement lead to new approach for halting spread of cancer cells
• FDA changes to accelerate patient recruitment
• Healing the heart with bone marrow cells
• University of Minnesota researchers take new look at cellular suicide
• UCSD biologists solve plant growth hormone enigma
• More large forest fires linked to climate change
• Major initiative proposed to address amphibian crisis
• Dopamine drug leads to new neurons and recovery of function in rat model of Parkinson's
• Early drinking linked to higher lifetime alcoholism risk
• New research: Soy germ isoflavones reduce bone loss
• Scientists describe face transplant technique in the Lancet
• Teen sexual assault survivors seldom complete HIV prevention therapy
• Obesity associated with psychiatric disorders, decreased odds of substance abuse
• Mild sadness provokes depressive thinking in some recovered patients
• Early drinking linked to risk for alcohol dependence
• Commonly recommended sedative does not improve infant sleep
• Improving urban environments: why children's voices should be heard
• New Down syndrome gene identified by Stanford/Packard scientists
• News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
• Novel gene therapy may lead to cure in hemophilia A patients
• Other highlights in the July 5 JNCI
• Chornobyl radiation ups risk of thyroid cancer in children and adolescents
• Childhood cancer survivors are more likely to go through early menopause
• Graduated driver licensing reduces fatal crashes by 11 percent
• Studies indicate medication can be an effective therapy for smoking cessation
• Results of hospital performance measures do not always reflect patient outcomes
• Higher levels of obesity associated with greater health risks
• Adopting multiple healthy habits may significantly lower risk of coronary heart disease in men
• Migrant workers -- welcome up to a point
• The aging-clock connection
• Cause of neuronal death in Down's syndrome, Alzheimer's disease could be surprisingly simple
• Prostatic irradiation doesn't lead to any appreciable increase in rectal cancer risk
• Minimally invasive procedure restores blood flow to kidneys, research suggests
• Women given specialized treatment half as likely to attempt suicide
• For men, catheter type makes a huge difference in urinary infection risk, study finds
• New sleep gene discovery wakes up scientists
• UCLA researchers develop T-cells from human embryonic stem cells
• Ancient raindrops reveal the origins of California's Sierra Nevada range
• Eco-friendly bug sucker
• SARS vaccine development
• Randomized trial in Zimbabwe suggests how to make HIV testing and counselling attractive
• HIV/Hepatitis information service through the Internet
• How best can we train health workers to deliver HIV care in poor countries?
• Gene expression in lung tumors
• Cost-effectiveness of treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
• Children's health and human rights are at risk in Nepal
• Avoiding punishment is its own reward
• Large-scale cross-platform study of research microarrays uncovers high concordance across platforms
• Trouble putting the kids to sleep?
• Study shows strong link between obesity and depression
• Potato blight pathogenicity explained by genome plasticity
• The right kind of oil
• Genetic parallels found between lung development and lung cancer
• A surprise about our body clock
• Gabapentin cools hot flashes as well as estrogen
• Pomegranate juice helps keep PSA levels stable in men with prostate cancer
• DDT in mothers linked to developmental delays in children, UC Berkeley study finds
• Researchers discover inhibitor of infection by HPV
• Scientists develop a new diagnostic approach for carriers of recessive genetic disorders
• Genes linked to daily flux in drug toxicity
• Fat-generated hormone drives energetic capacity of muscle
• Pomegranate juice slows PSA acceleration rate after prostate cancer surgery, radiation
• Survey of animal shelters says dogs fare better than cats
• Aspirin and other NSAIDs may not reduce the risk of colorectal cancer in long-term smokers
• miRNA-mediated silencing of mRNAs
• New study predicts child injuries by consumer fireworks
• Annals of Internal Medicine Tip Sheet for July 4, 2006
• Most effective antipsychotic drug has serious health consequences
• Conservation planning loopholes threaten imperiled species, researchers say
• Man emerges from 19 years in minimally conscious state as brain repairs itself
• JCI table of contents: July 3, 2006
• Nearly two-thirds of babies receive most of the recommended newborn screening tests
• Could dental disease contribute to increased risk of stroke?

Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 21 Feb 2009