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Hopkins Transplant Surgeons Remove Healthy Kidney Through Donor's Vagina; Minimally Invasive Organ Removal Could Increase Donations, Surgeons Say.
February 2, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- In what is believed to be a first-ever procedure, surgeons at Johns Hopkins have successfully removed a healthy donor kidney through a small incision in the...

Mayo Clinic Study Finds Younger Men With Erectile Dysfunction at Double Risk of Heart Disease.
February 2, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Men who experience erectile dysfunction between the ages of 40 and 49 are twice as likely to develop heart disease than men without dysfunction, according to a new Mayo...

Study Looks at Effect of 2004-2005 Flu Vaccine Shortage on Pediatric Care; Findings Indicate Computerized Systems and Public/Private Sector Collaboration Needed to Effectively Identify and Deliver Vaccine to High-Risk Pediatric Patients.(Survey)
February 2, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado Denver AURORA, Colo., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Influenza alone causes more than 20,000 hospitalizations and 260 deaths in children in the United States annually. During the 2004-2005 flu season, a severe...

New Version of Google Earth Features California's Marine Protected Areas - as Part of Large International Effort to Inform a Global Audience.
February 2, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- You don't have to get wet, or seasick, to find out what is going on in Marine Protected Areas worldwide. Just tune in through your computer....

Slow Down -- Those Lines on the Road Are Longer Than You Think.
February 2, 2009... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Take a guess -- how long are the dashed lines that are painted down the middle of a road? If you're like most people, you answered, "Two feet." The real...

Minority Stock Ownership Continues to Fall in Market Downturn.
February 2, 2009... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The recent severe downturn in the stock market may further reduce stock ownership by African American and other minority investors, new research suggests. ...

Penn Study Finds Link Between Parkinson's Disease Genes and Manganese Poisoning.
February 2, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson's disease has been discovered by a research team led by Aaron D. Gitler, PhD,...

Virus Found in Stillborn Babies May Impact Future Pregnancies, Study Finds.
February 2, 2009... Byline: Public Health Institute OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A virus connected to human stillborn babies may impact an affected woman's subsequent pregnancies and cause defects in the developing nervous system, according...

Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover New Schizophrenia Gene.
February 3, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are one gene closer to understanding schizophrenia and related disorders. Reporting in the...

Nominations Sought for Paul Marks Prize.
February 3, 2009... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nominations are currently being sought for the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research. This award, established by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center...

Reason or Faith? Darwin Expert Reflects.
February 3, 2009... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- This is going to be a big year for evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin: 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book "On the Origin...

Minnesota Partnership Targets Aphids: From Medical Research to Crop Protection.
February 3, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Feb. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Medical scientists in Minnesota are focusing their expertise on a pest that destroys soybeans. The goal of the Minnesota Partnership team is to develop an insecticide that...

U.S., East Africa Allies Must Overcome Radical Islam to Reshape the Region's Security, RAND Study Finds.
February 3, 2009... Byline: RAND Corporation SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- While al Qaeda is the primary terrorist/extremist threat in East Africa, the region suffers more broadly from a danger of radical Islamist groups and organizations...

U.S. Is Substantially Behind Other Nations in Providing Teacher Professional Development That Improves Student Learning; Report Identifies Practices That Work.
February 4, 2009... Byline: National Staff Development Council WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Every year, nine in 10 of the nation's three million teachers participate in professional development designed to improve their content knowledge, transform...

Johns Hopkins Offers Free Software Tool for Large-Scale Disaster 'Surge' Planning; Computer Modeling Program Developed by Hopkins' Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response and Applied Physics Lab Team.
February 4, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of Johns Hopkins experts is offering a free, Web-based tool it developed that calculates and predicts in advance the impact on individual hospitals of...

New Method Monitors Critical Bacteria in Wastewater Treatment.
February 4, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have developed a new technique using sensors to constantly monitor the health of bacteria critical to wastewater treatment facilities and have...

World's Largest Snake Shows Tropics Were Hotter in the Past.
February 4, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The largest snake the world has ever known -- as long as a school bus and as heavy as a small car -- ruled tropical ecosystems only 6 million years after the...

Global Warming May Delay Recovery of Stratospheric Ozone.
February 4, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Increasing greenhouse gases could delay, or even postpone indefinitely the recovery of stratospheric ozone in some regions of the Earth, a Johns Hopkins earth...

UC Santa Barbara Scientists Make Headway in Understanding Alzheimer's Disease.
February 5, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered that a protein called BAG2 is important for understanding Alzheimer's disease and may open up...

A Better Mesh: Researchers 'Tighten' Body's Protective Coating.
February 5, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A net with large holes won't catch small fish. Likewise, the microscopic fibers in the protective mucus coatings of the eyes, lungs, stomach or reproductive system...

Carnegie Mellon's Synthetic Interview Technology Enables Virtual Chats With Darwin's Ghost.
February 5, 2009... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Charles Darwin celebrates his 200th birthday this year and, with the help of technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center...

Penn Study Shows How Electronic Medical Records Can Be Used to Test Drug Efficacy; Implications for Circumventing Studies Too Costly or Unethical for Clinical Trial.
February 6, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- For years controversy has surrounded whether electronic medical records (EMR) would lead to increased patient safety, cut medical errors, and reduce...

Rochester Institute of Technology Study: Many Listeners Unhappy With Local Radio Programming; Music by Local Artists Neglected; Youth Abandoning Radio, Survey Says.
February 6, 2009... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Radio listeners in six U.S. cities - among them Rochester and Buffalo, N.Y., and Dallas - are largely dissatisfied with the programming aired on local...

Volunteer Work in Grade Schools Produces Persistent Health Benefit for Older Black Women.
February 9, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Johns Hopkins study reveals that older black women who spend time with young children in the classroom are not only more active than similar women who...

Iowa State Astronomer to Study Stars With Data From NASA'S Kepler Mission.
February 9, 2009... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Kepler Mission will be the first attempt to look for earth-like planets in our part of the Milky Way. It will also be the first chance for astronomers such as...

Tailor-Made Recombinant Proteins in Mammals; Aldehyde Tags Put Chemical Modifications Where They're Needed.
February 9, 2009... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new way to direct chemical modifications to specific sites on recombinant proteins - including the monoclonal antibodies so important in the...

University of Florida Study: Rapid Burst of Flowering Plants Set Stage for Other Species.
February 9, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new University of Florida study based on DNA analysis from living flowering plants shows that the ancestors of most modern trees diversified extremely rapidly...

Vigorous Exercise May Help Prevent Vision Loss.
February 9, 2009... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- There's another reason to dust off those running shoes. Vigorous exercise may help prevent vision loss, according to a pair of studies from the...

University of Florida Study: Rapid Burst of Flowering Plants Set Stage for Other Species.
February 10, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new University of Florida study based on DNA analysis from living flowering plants shows that the ancestors of most modern trees diversified extremely rapidly...

Simple Method Strengthens Schools, Other Buildings Against Earthquakes.
February 10, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Civil engineers using a specialized laboratory at Purdue University have demonstrated the effectiveness of a simple, inexpensive method to strengthen buildings...

Clinicians Override Most Electronic Medication Safety Alerts.(Clinical report)
February 10, 2009... Byline: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON, Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Computer-based systems that allow clinicians to prescribe drugs electronically are designed to automatically warn of potential medication errors, but a new study...

NCI-Penn Collaboration Finds Targeted Immune Cells Shrink Tumors in Mice.
February 10, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have generated altered immune cells that are able to shrink, and in some cases eradicate, large tumors in mice. The immune cells target...

Penn Study Shows Why Sleep is Needed to Form Memories; First-of-Its-Kind Study Shows How Brain Connections Strengthen During Sleep.
February 11, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- If you ever argued with your mother when she told you to get some sleep after studying for an exam instead of pulling an all-nighter, you owe her...

Study Suggests New Treatment Approach May be Needed for Management of Depression in Some People With Bipolar Disorder.
February 11, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Feb. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry (http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/rss/current.xml), a team of researchers led by Mayo Clinic psychiatrist Mark...

Improved Sensor Technology Could Someday Keep Tabs on Terrorists by Remote Control; Rochester Institute of Technology Professor John Kerekes Leads $1 Million Project.
February 12, 2009... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology are designing a new kind of optical sensor to fly in unmanned air vehicles, or surveillance drones,...

Researchers Crack the Code of the Common Cold; Study Also Sheds Light on the Suspected Cause of Asthma and Acute Asthma Attacks.
February 12, 2009... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists have begun to solve some of the mysteries of the common cold by putting together the pieces of the genetic codes for all the known strains of...

Mount Holyoke College Researcher Finds Tailless Lizards Lose Agility.
February 12, 2009... Byline: Mount Holyoke College SOUTH HADLEY, Mass., Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Among nature's more interesting wonders is the ability of many lizard species to escape their predators. When caught in a vulnerable position, they simply...

Molecular Motors in Cells Work Together, Study Shows.
February 13, 2009... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Even within cells, the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. Molecular motors, the little engines that power cell mobility and the ability of...

The Genome's Traveling Salesmen: Tips on Newsmakers at The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill.
February 14, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions CHICAGO, Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Transposons - the traveling salesmen of the genome composed of DNA sequences with no fixed address - are the focus of a symposium at the annual meeting of the...

What's Feeding Cancer Cells? Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover How Critical Cancer Gene Controls Nutrient Use.
February 15, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cancer cells need a lot of nutrients to multiply and survive. While much is understood about how cancer cells use blood sugar to make energy, not much is...

Mayo Brothers to be Inducted Into Healthcare Hall of Fame; The Doctors Mayo Combined Visionary Ideals and Medical Expertise.
February 16, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- William J. "Will" Mayo, M.D., and Charles H. "Charlie" Mayo, M.D., founders of Mayo Clinic, will be inducted into the Healthcare Hall of Fame. The Mayo brothers, who both...

Johns Hopkins Leads First 12-Patient, Multicenter 'Domino Donor' Kidney Transplant; Six Donor-Recipient Pairs Interchange Kidneys in Simultaneous, Multistate Procedure.
February 17, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Surgical teams at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City successfully...

Researchers Explore New Driver of Transplant Rejection: Platelets; 'Platelet Guy' at Johns Hopkins Finds There's a Lot More These Cells Than Blood Clotting.
February 17, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Platelets, tiny and relatively uncharted tenants of the bloodstream known mostly for their role in blood clotting, turn out to also rally sustained immune...

LSU Health Sciences Center Research May Benefit Diabetes by Increasing Understanding of How to Control Islet Cell Growth.
February 17, 2009... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Michael Lan, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, is the senior author of a paper revealing the molecular...

Berkeley Lab Analysis Finds Reduced Cooling and Heating May Improve Health.
February 17, 2009... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research conducted at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory suggests that operating buildings more energy efficiently...

Proton Swarms From Drexler's Dark Matter May Fill Universe; Create Microwave Noise Detected by NASA.
February 17, 2009... Byline: AScribe, The Public Interest Newswire SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- A loud cosmic microwave noise recently discovered by a NASA balloon may be generated by synchrotron emission via multitudinous swarms of...

Loud Microwave Noise Detected by NASA May Be Caused by Proton Swarms From Relativistic-Proton Dark Matter.
February 17, 2009... Byline: AScribe, The Public Interest Newswire SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- A loud cosmic microwave noise recently discovered by a NASA balloon may be generated by synchrotron emission via multitudinous swarms of...

Robot Playmates Monitor Emotional State of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders.
February 17, 2009... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The day that robot playmates help children with autism learn the social skills that they naturally lack has come a step closer with the development of a system...

Two Gene Mutations Linked to Most Common Brain Cancers - and Longer Survival.
February 18, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Duke University Medical Center have linked mutations in two genes, IDH1 and IDH2, to nearly...

New iPod Listening Study Shows Surprising Behavior of Teens.
February 18, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study involving iPods and teenagers by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children's Hospital Boston indicates teenagers who receive pressure...

New Recipe for Dwarf Galaxies: Start With Leftover Gas.
February 18, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Feb. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- There is more than one way to make a dwarf galaxy, and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has found a new recipe. It has, for the first time, identified dwarf galaxies...

Researcher Seeks to Turn Stem Cells Into Blood Vessels.
February 19, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Johns Hopkins engineer is trying to coax human stem cells to turn into networks of new blood vessels that could someday be used to replace damaged tissue in people...

Brookhaven Lab and BioSET Inc. Patent a Synthetic Peptide That Enhances Bone Growth; BioSET Inc. Uses the Peptide in Bone Graft System and Initiates Clinical Trials.
February 19, 2009... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Brookhaven Science Associates, the company that operates and manages the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), and Biosurface...

Shark Attacks Decline Worldwide in Midst of Economic Recession.
February 19, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- The recession may be responsible for a slump of a different sort: an unexpected dive in shark attacks, says a University of Florida researcher. Shark...

New Berkeley Lab Report Shows Significant Historical Reductions in the Installed Costs of Solar Photovoltaic Systems in the U.S.
February 19, 2009... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study on the installed costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the U.S. shows that the average cost of these systems declined...

Clot-Buster Boosts Survival, Decreases Disability for Deadly Subset of Stroke; Patients Continued to Improve Function Six Months After Treatment.(Clinical report)
February 19, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- New results from a multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins show that patients who got an experimental clot-busting treatment for a particularly lethal form...

University of Virginia Study Finds Teaching Quality Inadequate in Most U.S. First-Grade Classrooms.
February 19, 2009... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Calif., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Most American first-grade classrooms are pretty happy places to be. Children smile and enjoy working with one another and have positive interactions with...

Boost Economy or Avert Collapse? Stimulus Package Support Depends on How It's Framed, According to Stanford Business School Research.
February 19, 2009... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Feb. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Did President Barack Obama correctly sell the $787 billion stimulus package? Since it has been enacted into law by Congress and signed by the...

Prostate Specific Antigen Testing May Be Unnecessary for Some Older Men.
February 19, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Certain men age 75 to 80 are unlikely to benefit from routine prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing, according to a Johns Hopkins study published in the...

New Berkeley Law Study Finds Formerly Incarcerated Women Face High Hurdles to Employment.(Report)
February 20, 2009... Byline: University of California, Berkeley, School of Law BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law have documented the challenges...

Metastasis-Promoting Protein Identified; Could Provide a Prognostic Test and/or Target for Breast Cancer; Protein Detectable in Urine Predicts Invasiveness.
February 23, 2009... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Feb. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tumors that are about to progress and metastasize go through a process also seen in normal embryonic development, known as the epithelial to mesenchymal transition...

Shredding Corn Silage Could Produce More Ethanol At Less Cost.
February 23, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Purdue University researcher has found a way to get more bang for fewer bucks when it comes to processing cellulosic material to make ethanol. By shredding...

Peptides-on-Demand: McGill Researcher's Radical New Green Chemistry Makes the Impossible Possible; Fast and Simple 'Enabling Technology' Being Offered to the World on Open Basis.
February 24, 2009... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, Feb. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- McGill University chemistry professor Chao-Jun (C.J.) Li is known as one of the world leading pioneers in green chemistry, an entirely new approach to the science which...

Jordan's Fossil Water Source Has High Radiation Levels.
February 24, 2009... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ancient groundwater being tapped by Jordan, one of the 10 most water-deprived nations in the world, has been found to contain twenty times the radiation considered safe...

Johns Hopkins Safety Team Works to Eliminate Bloodstream Infections in the Nation and the World; Likely to Save the Health Care Industry Billions of Dollars and Tens of Thousands of Lives Annually in the United States Alone.
February 25, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Feb. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- A widely heralded Johns Hopkins safety initiative to reduce bloodstream infections in intensive care units (ICUs) was implemented in 30 states starting Feb....

Big-Hearted Fish Reveals Genetic Underpinnings of Enigmatic Cardiovascular Condition, According to Penn Study.
February 25, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have unlocked the mystery of a puzzling human disease and gained insight into...

Vanderbilt Scientists Invent World's Smallest Periscopes.
February 25, 2009... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of Vanderbilt scientists have invented the world's smallest version of the periscope and are using it to look at cells and other micro-organisms from...

Study Predicts When Invasive Species Can Travel More Readily by Air.(Report)
February 25, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Global airlines be forewarned: June 2010 could be a busy month for invasive plants, insects and animals seeking free rides to distant lands. A new study...

Predicting Risk of Stroke from One's Genetic Blueprint; Statistical Model Using Bayesian Networks Shows Promise as a Clinical Tool.
February 25, 2009... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new statistical model could be used to predict an individual's lifetime risk of stroke, finds a study from the Children's Hospital Informatics Program...

Many Faces of Diabetes in American Youth: High Rates in Those Under Age 20; Findings From the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study.(Report)
February 26, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado Denver AURORA, Colo., Feb. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- New findings from the largest nationwide diabetes surveillance effort show unexpectedly high rates of childhood diabetes in U.S. adolescents across most...

Study: Soybean Oil Reduces Carbon Footprint in Swine Barns.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- One of agriculture's most versatile crops could one day play a role in combating climate change, Purdue University research shows. In addition to using...

Spun-Sugar Fibers Spawn Sweet Technique for Nerve Repair.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Purdue University have developed a technique using spun-sugar filaments to create a scaffold of tiny synthetic tubes that might serve as conduits...

Prehistoric Global Cooling Caused by CO2, Research Finds.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ice in Antarctica suddenly appeared -- in geologic terms -- about 35 million years ago. For the previous 100 million years the continent had been essentially...

Statins Lower Stroke Severity, Improve Recovery.
February 26, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Feb. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers (http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/emergency_medicine_division/) have shown that patients who were taking statins before a stroke...

Purdue Study Projects Weakened Monsoon Season in South Asia.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- The South Asian summer monsoon - critical to agriculture in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan - could be weakened and delayed due to rising temperatures in...

Mayo Clinic Studies 'Squeaky' Hips, Joint Problems of the Superobese, Shoulder Relief for the Young and Arthritic; Orthopedic Discoveries Presented at Upcoming Scientific Meeting.
February 27, 2009... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Feb. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic orthopedic surgeons will contribute more than 100 presentations on their latest findings for improving orthopedic clinical care and scientific research at the...

University of Maryland Co-Chair of NRC Climate Report, Other UM Leaders in Climate Research Offer Insights on Report's Call for More Human Dimensions Research.(Report)
February 27, 2009... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- A major new report from the National Research Council (National Academies) says the U.S. government's climate change research program should...