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Lighten Up in 2009: Resolving to Save Money? And the Planet? Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Promise a Win-Win; Environmental Working Group Finds Government's 'Energy Star' Label Outdated, Calls for Overhaul.
January 2, 2009... Byline: Environmental Working Group WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- An Environmental Working Group (EWG) investigation called "Lighten Up in '09" has identified seven compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb lines that trump the rest,...

New Hope for Cancer Comes Straight From the Heart; Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover New Use for Digoxin.
January 5, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Digitalis-based drugs like digoxin have been used for centuries to treat patients with irregular heart rhythms and heart failure and are still in use today....

Jupiter-like Planets Could Form Around Twin Suns; Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen Cyanide Found in Gas Cloud Orbiting V4046 Sgr.
January 5, 2009... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Life on a planet ruled by two suns might be a little complicated. Two sunrises, two sunsets. Twice the radiation field. In a paper published in the...

Prolonged Nevirapine in Breast-Fed Babies Prevents HIV Infection But Leads to Drug-Resistant HIV.
January 5, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Babies born to HIV-positive mothers and given the antiretroviral drug nevirapine through the first six weeks of life to prevent infection via breast-feeding...

Viagra's Other Talents: To Help a 'Signaling' Protein Shield the Heart From High Blood Pressure Damage.
January 5, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins and other researchers report what is believed to be the first direct evidence in lab animals that the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil...

Four, Three, Two, One ... Pterosaurs Have Lift Off! Hopkins Researcher Reports That Ancient Flying Reptiles Used Four Legs to Launch.
January 6, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity crisis. Pop culture heedlessly - and wrongly - lumps these extinct flying lizards in with dinosaurs. Even...

Obesity: Reviving the Promise of Leptin; The First Known Leptin-Sensitizing Agents Induce Mice to Lose Weight.
January 6, 2009... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The discovery more than a decade ago of leptin, an appetite-suppressing hormone secreted by fat tissue, generated headlines and great hopes for an effective treatment...

Most Babies With Uncomplicated Febrile Seizures Can Avoid Spinal Tap; Largest Review to Date Questions Current Recommendations.
January 6, 2009... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- When babies develop a fever high enough or abrupt enough to cause a seizure, frightened parents often rush them to the emergency room, where their workup frequently...

Old Gastrointestinal Drug Slows Aging, McGill Researchers Say; Clioquinol Inhibits Action of the CLK1 Aging Gene, May Alleviate Alzheimer's.
January 6, 2009... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Recent animal studies have shown that clioquinol - an 80-year old drug once used to treat diarrhea and other gastrointestinal disorders - can reverse the progression of...

Scientists Publish First Ever Evidence of Asteroids With Earth-Like Crust; Findings Are Latest Discovery From University of Maryland's Geo-Detectives.
January 7, 2009... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two rare meteorites found in Antarctica two years ago are from a previously unknown, ancient asteroid with an outer layer or crust similar in...

Lost in Translation: Perfectionist Protein-Maker Trashes Errors.
January 7, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The enzyme machine that translates a cell's DNA code into the proteins of life is nothing if not an editorial perfectionist. Johns Hopkins researchers,...

Avian Flu Becoming More Resistant to Antiviral Drugs, Says University of Colorado at Boulder Study.
January 7, 2009... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows the resistance of the avian flu virus to a major class of antiviral drugs is increasing through...

Restoring Trust Harder When It Is Broken Early in Relationship.
January 7, 2009... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- In relationships built on trust, a bad first impression can be harder to overcome than a betrayal that occurs after ties are established, a new study suggests. ...

Consumers Willing to Pay More for Products They Touch.
January 7, 2009... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Consumers are often told that if they break an item, they buy it. But a new study suggests that if they just touch an item for more than a few seconds, they may...

To Climate-Change Worries, Add One More: Extended Mercury Threat.
January 7, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mercury pollution has already spurred public health officials to advise eating less fish, but it could become a more pressing concern in a warmer world. So...

Astronomers Discover New Radio Signal Using Large Balloon.
January 7, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of NASA-funded scientists, including two from UC Santa Barbara, have discovered cosmic radio noise that they find completely...

Growth of New Brain Cells Requires 'Epigenetic' Switch.
January 8, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- New cells are born every day in the brain's hippocampus, but what controls this birth has remained a mystery. Reporting in the January 1 issue of Science,...

McGill Researchers Discover Gene That Increases Susceptibility to Crohn's Disease; 'Broken' Bacterial Sensor Doesn't Detect Harmful Bacteria in the Digestive System.
January 8, 2009... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at McGill University, the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC) and the McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, along...

Rebates vs. Returns: UC Berkeley Business Professor Recommends Manufacturer Incentives to Help Retailers Better Forecast Demand.
January 9, 2009... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Wall Street Journal reports U.S. retailers are already cutting prices on early spring merchandise in order to move inventory out the door. New...

Carnegie Mellon to Unveil New Plan for Safer Development of Clean Energy Technologies.
January 9, 2009... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University's M. Granger Morgan will unveil a novel "two-stage'' approach for developing new energy technologies that can help society reduce...

Research Shows Cell's Inactive State is Critical for Effectiveness of Cancer Treatment.
January 9, 2009... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study sheds light on a little understood biological process called quiescence, which enables blood-forming stem cells to exist in a dormant or...

Penn Researchers Unlock Molecular Origin of Blood Stem Cells; Implications for New Blood Disorder Therapies.
January 9, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A research team led by Nancy Speck, PhD, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, has...

Older Women Less Likely Than Men to Be Listed for Kidney Transplants.
January 12, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon has found strong evidence that women over 45 are significantly less likely to be placed on a kidney transplant list than...

Colgate Professor's Research Sheds Light on Foreign Language Learning; Use of Hand Gestures Is Key to Picking Up Vocabulary in a New Tongue.
January 12, 2009... Byline: Colgate University HAMILTON, N.Y., Jan. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Interested in learning a new language? If so, you may want to choose a teacher who talks with his or her hands. A new study conducted by Colgate University...

Wireless Microgrippers Grab Living Cells in 'Biopsy' Tests.
January 13, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Jan. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- In experiments that pave the way for tiny mobile surgical tools activated by heat or chemicals, Johns Hopkins researchers have invented dust-particle-size devices...

Study: Most Young Violent Offenders in Two NYC Neighborhoods Have Seen Someone Killed.
January 13, 2009... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than three-quarters of young violent offenders interviewed in two poverty-stricken New York City neighborhoods had seen someone die in a violent incident, a...

Johns Hopkins Nursing Winter Research Briefs: Nursing Research News, Winter 2009.
January 14, 2009... Byline: School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Jan. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following are research briefs from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. For media inquiries, contact Lynn Schultz-Writsel at...

New Drug Holds Out Promise of Normal Diet for Sufferers of Devastating PKU Genetic Disease; Severe Protein Restrictions Normally the Only Way to Avoid Brain Damage and Retardation.
January 14, 2009... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, Jan. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Imagine being forced to say no to a child crying for more food at supper. Sadly, Margie Fischer doesn't have to imagine it; that was normal life at her family's dinner table...

NASA Discovers Loud Synchrotron-Emission Radio Noise; Source May Be Relativistic-Proton Dark Matter.
January 15, 2009... Byline: The Drexler Foundation SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Bell-Labs trained Jerome Drexler has authored a trilogy of astro-cosmology books and two scientific papers during the past five years supporting his 2003...

Popular Employees Receive Favorable Attention at Work, University of Florida Study Finds.
January 15, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Remember the cool kids back in high school who always seemed to get all the breaks, even from some people who actually hated them? Turns out that magic mojo...

Kansas State Contributes to Research That Could Help Scientists Understand How Plants Respond to Climate Change; Results in the Journal Science Express.
January 15, 2009... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., Jan. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers from Kansas State University contributed to a $5 million study of plant responses to varying climates. The results appear in the journal Science...

Mumbai Terrorist Attacks Show Rise of Strategic Terrorist Culture, RAND Study Says.
January 16, 2009... Byline: RAND Corporation SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Mumbai terrorist attacks in India suggest the possibility of an escalating terrorist campaign in South Asia and the rise of a strategic terrorist culture,...

Kidney Transplant Survival Can Be Long-Term for People With HIV.
January 19, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Johns Hopkins study finds that HIV-positive kidney transplant recipients could have the same one-year survival rates for themselves and their donor organs...

Researchers Discover Three Genes That Increase Risk of Severe Obesity in Kids and Adults; McGill Scientists Play Key Role in International Genome-Wide Association Study.
January 19, 2009... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, Jan. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- European and Canadian researchers have, for the first time, drawn a map of genetic risk factors that can lead to two forms of severe obesity: early-onset obesity in...

Control Your Hunger? Study Shows Men Can, Women Can't; Findings May Help Explain Gender Differences in Rates of Obesity, Binge Eating.
January 19, 2009... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Jan. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A groundbreaking brain-imaging study at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory shows that men, but not women, are able to control...

Researchers: Molecular Forklifts Overcome Obstacle to 'Smart Dust'.
January 20, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Algae is a livid green giveaway of nutrient pollution in a lake. Scientists would love to reproduce that action in tiny particles that would turn different...

Scientists: Earthquakes, El Ninos Fatal to Earliest Civilization in Americas.
January 20, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- First came the earthquakes, then the torrential rains. But the relentless march of sand across once fertile fields and bays, a process set in motion by the...

Kansas State Psychology Research Shows How Popular Songs Can Cue Specific Memories.
January 20, 2009... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., Jan. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Whether the soundtrack of your youth was doo-wop or disco, new wave or Nirvana, psychology research at Kansas State University shows that even just thinking...

Surviving Dance Club Music (Noise) With Hearing Intact.
January 20, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- By tweaking a system in the ear that limits how much sound is heard, a global team of researchers has discovered one alteration that shows that the ability...

Semi-Conducting Nanotubes Produced in Quantity at Duke.
January 21, 2009... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- After announcing last April a method for growing exceptionally long, straight, numerous and well-aligned carbon cylinders only a few atoms thick, a Duke University-led...

Purdue Technology Detects Contaminant in Milk Products.
January 21, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new analysis method can detect the kidney-damaging chemical melamine, used to contaminate infant formula in China last September, at very low levels within a...

Study: Sometimes 100 Cents Feels Like It's Worth More Than $1.
January 21, 2009... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- We all know that $1 is equal to 100 cents. But a new study suggests that, in some situations, people may behave as if 100 cents actually has more value. That's...

Politics Can Influence Who Receives Coveted NIH Research Grants, According to UC Berkeley Study.
January 22, 2009... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite the general perception that biomedical research funding decisions are apolitical, Congressional members steer billions of dollars in...

New Survey Examines U.S.-European Academic Collaboration; Research Report Provides Data on Transatlantic Joint and Dual Degree Programs.
January 22, 2009... Byline: Halstead Communications NEW YORK, Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- In today's global economy, professional collaboration with colleagues and customers in other countries is important for successful careers in business, government and...

Web Site Following Archaeologists' Return to Bottom of Mut Temple's Sacred Lake Online at: http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/.
January 22, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Follow along online as Johns Hopkins University Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her team of students, artists, conservators and photographers return to their...

How Chemotherapy Drugs Block Blood Vessel Growth, Slow Cancer Spread; Implications for Further Personalizing Cancer Treatment.
January 22, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered how a whole class of commonly used chemotherapy drugs can block cancer...

New Stretchable Electrodes Created to Study Stresses on Cardiac Cells.
January 22, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Engineers at Purdue and Stanford universities have created stretchable electrodes to study how cardiac muscle cells, neurons and other cells react to mechanical...

Nano-Tetherball Biosensor Precisely Detects Glucose.
January 22, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have created a precise biosensor for detecting blood glucose and potentially many other biological molecules by using hollow structures called...

Survey: Few People Believed Campaign Rumors About Obama, Mccain.(Survey)
January 22, 2009... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- About nine in 10 Americans heard the rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim, making it possibly the most prevalent rumor of the 2008 presidential campaign, according...

Preventative Phosphonate Treatment for Sudden Oak Death Effective for Up to Two Years.
January 22, 2009... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Treatment with the fungicide phosphonate was effective in stemming the spread of sudden oak death - a tree disease that has killed...

Long-Distance Teleportation Between Two Atoms Achieved.
January 22, 2009... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time, scientists have successfully teleported information between two separate atoms in unconnected enclosures a meter apart - a...

Gambling: A Game of Emotions, Not Odds.
January 23, 2009... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- UC Berkeley marketing professors find that even when gamblers predetermine a spending budget, all bets are off after the first loss. When UC...

Depression Babies and Their Investment Behavior Examined in Stanford Business School Research.
January 23, 2009... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Jan. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Your grandmother's habit of hoarding pennies in a jar notwithstanding, until now there's been no hard evidence that economic events like the Great...

Acquiring Power Inspires People to Take Risks, Act, According to Stanford Business School Research.
January 23, 2009... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Jan. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the wake of Barack Obama's "yes we can" victory, a timely study has emerged from the Stanford Graduate School of Business about what motivates...

Developing Countries That Open Their Markets Thrive, According to Stanford Business School Research.
January 23, 2009... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Jan. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- When a developing country opens its stock market to foreign capital, the resulting economic effect usually helps more than just big business. As...

Gene's Past Could Improve the Future of Rice.
January 23, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- In an effort to improve rice varieties, a Purdue University researcher was part of a team that traced the evolutionary history of domesticated rice by using a...

Plasmonic Whispering Gallery Microcavity Paves Way to Future Nanolasers.
January 23, 2009... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The principle behind whispering galleries - where words spoken softly beneath a domed ceiling or in a vault can be clearly heard on the opposite...

Scientists Identify Bacteria That Increase Plant Growth; Findings Have Implications for Increasing Biomass for the Production of Biofuels.
January 26, 2009... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., Jan. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Through work originally designed to remove contaminants from soil, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and...

Statewide Study Confirms 'Paperless' Hospitals Are Better for Patients.(Clinical report)
January 26, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Results from a large-scale Johns Hopkins study of more than 40 hospitals and 160,000 patients show that when health information technologies replace paper...

New Study, Online Tool Address Critical Knowledge Gap in Out-of-School Time: the Cost of Quality Programs; Study, Commissioned by The Wallace Foundation From The Finance Project and Public/Private Ventures, Offers New Knowledge, Tools for Policymakers to Use in Planning for Quality Out-of-School Time Programs.(Report)
January 27, 2009... Byline: The Wallace Foundation NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- To assist policymakers, providers and funders, The Wallace Foundation releases today one of the most comprehensive studies to date analyzing the costs, funding streams,...

New Liquefaction Hazard Maps of Santa Clara Valley: February issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
January 27, 2009... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., Jan. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- New hazard maps for communities from San Jose to Palo Alto in Northern California delineate the probability of earthquake-induced liquefaction, based...

Penn Study Identifies How Ebola Virus Avoids Immune System.
January 27, 2009... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have likely found one reason why the Ebola virus is such a powerful, deadly, and...

Why Cancer Drugs Are So Expensive and Why Medicare Can't Fix the Problem.
January 27, 2009... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new health policy report suggests that the swift and dramatic rise in cancer-drug spending is due to laws that keep Medicare from managing the use or...

Lung Transplants: Doing More Is Better and Safer, a Johns Hopkins Study Suggests; Findings Set Safety Benchmark for All Transplant Programs at 20 Per Year, on Average.
January 27, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Transplant surgeons at Johns Hopkins have evidence that hospitals performing at least 20 lung transplant procedures a year, on average, have the best...

Most Large Galaxies Formed Without Mergers, Say Jerome Drexler, Michael J. Disney, and Avishai Dekel.
January 28, 2009... Byline: The Drexler Foundation SILICON VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Three leading-edge researchers in the field of galaxy formation have published their findings that most large galaxies have formed and developed without...

'Fossil Earthquakes' Found Surprisingly Abundant in Sierra Nevada.
January 28, 2009... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Rocks formed only under the extreme heat and friction during earthquakes, called pseudotachylytes, may be more abundant than previously reported,...

Early Warning Systems Underestimate Magnitude of Large Earthquakes.
January 28, 2009... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists seek to create reliable early warning systems that accurately estimate the magnitude of an earthquake within the first seconds of rupture....

A Supercharged Metal-Ion Generator: Higher-Quality Coatings Through 'Runaway' Self-Sputtering.
January 28, 2009... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the electronics industry, thin metal films are deposited on silicon wafers with a sputter gun, which uses energetic ions - atoms with a...

Domain Walls That Conduct Electricity: Exploring the Ultimate Nanoscale for Future Electronics.
January 28, 2009... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically - to one or two nanometers (billionths of a meter) instead...

University of Florida Coastal Engineer: FEMA Should Update Flooding Prediction Methods.
January 29, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Loss of life and destroyed property could be avoided if the Federal Emergency Management Agency replaced current flood maps with ones containing high-resolution...

UCLA Study: U.S. Women at Greater Risk From Teflon Chemical; Infertility Jumps Dramatically Among Those With High Exposures.(Clinical report)
January 29, 2009... Byline: Environmental Working Group WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- A major new study published yesterday in Human Reproduction, a European reproductive medicine journal, has found that pregnant women and women of child-bearing...

Study Confirms Persistence of Diversity Problems in Academic Medicine.
January 30, 2009... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Jan. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- A survey study believed to be one of the first efforts to put hard numbers around long-held beliefs about diversity in medical school faculties has affirmed...

LSU Health Sciences Center Researchers Find Potential New Target for Hypertension Treatment.
January 30, 2009... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Huijing Xia, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Eric Lazartigues, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at LSU Health Sciences Center New...