Health
Putting a bull's-eye on the flu: Paper details influenza's structure for future drug targeting
Beating the flu has always been tough, but it has gotten even more difficult in recent years.
Oct 21, 2010
Brain & Behavior
Preschool promises: Starting early on a new educational agenda for the United States
Two children, both age 3, enroll in publicly funded preschool. But they may have vastly different experiences: One child may attend preschool for 8 hours a day…
Oct 21, 2010
Technology
Carnegie Mellon researchers break speed barrier in solving important class of linear systems
PITTSBURGH -- Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have devised an innovative and elegantly concise algorithm that can efficiently solve systems…
Oct 21, 2010
Health
Researchers find better method to help mothers cope with child's cancer and related stress
BOSTON - Mothers who have children diagnosed with cancer now have a better approach to address and cope with stresses associated with their child's disease.
Oct 21, 2010
Health
Telementoring may address need for surgical subspecialty expertise in remote locations
CHICAGO (October 21, 2010) -- Telementoring may be an effective way for subspecialist surgeons to assist remotely located general surgeons in the care of…
Oct 21, 2010
Health
Studies show everolimus-eluting stent implantation reduces restenosis and repeat revasculariztion
Two new studies have determined that everolimus-eluting stent (EES) implantation reduced the incidence of restenosis and repeat revascularization in patients with calcified culprit lesions, and had fewer clinical events.
Oct 21, 2010
Technology
New research provides insights into space weather, could benefit satellites, aircraft
Settling decades of scientific debate, researchers from UCLA and the British Antarctic Survey have discovered the final link between electrons trapped in space and the glow of light from the upper atmosphere known as the diffuse aurora.
Oct 21, 2010
Technology
The sound of the underground! New acoustic early warning system for landslide prediction
A new type of sound sensor system has been developed to predict the likelihood of a landslide.
Oct 21, 2010
Health
Efforts underway to rescue vulnerable bananas, giant swamp taro, other Pacific Island crops
SYDNEY (22 October 2010) -- Hoping to save the vulnerable varieties of bananas painted by the artist Paul Gauguin, rare coconuts, and 1,000 other unique…
Oct 21, 2010
Health
Conventional, annual Pap smear cost-effective follow-up after cervical lesion treatment
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- A study of the options for reducing cancer incidence and mortality among women who have been treated for precancerous cervical lesions found that an annual conventional Pap smear is a cost effective strategy.
Oct 20, 2010
Health
Virtual colonoscopy option could improve colorectal cancer screening rates, patient survey suggests
Providing computed tomography colonography (CTC) -- otherwise known as virtual colonoscopy -- as an alternative to conventional colonoscopy could improve…
Oct 20, 2010
Health
Virtual colonoscopy and teleradiology bring colorectal cancer screening to patients in rural areas
Computed tomography colonography (CTC) -- otherwise known as virtual colonoscopy -- is feasible in remote health centers where optimal colonoscopy is limited…
Oct 20, 2010
Health
Study identifies barriers to successful treatment of children with sarcoma in low-income countries
BOSTON -- -- Raising the survival rate of children with sarcoma in low-income countries will require steps to diagnose the disease sooner, train cancer…
Oct 20, 2010
Health
Girls with ovarian germ-cell tumors can safely skip chemotherapy unless disease recurs
BOSTON -- Researchers from Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center (DF/CHCC) have found that as many as 50 percent of young girls treated for germ-cell…
Oct 20, 2010