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Penn Animal Study Identifies New DNA Weapon Against Avian Flu; Broad Application of DNA Vaccine Could Allow for Quick Mobilization During an Epidemic.(Report)
July 1, 2008... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, July 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a potential new way to vaccinate against avian flu. By delivering...

New Oral Angiogenesis Inhibitor Offers Potential Nontoxic Therapy for Wide Range of Cancers; Nanotechnology Transforms an Old, Accidentally-Discovered Drug Derived From Mold.
July 1, 2008... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, July 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The first oral, broad-spectrum angiogenesis inhibitor, specially formulated through nanotechnology, shows promising anticancer results in mice, report researchers from...

Species Extinction Threat Underestimated Due to Math Glitch, Says University of Colorado at Boulder Study.
July 2, 2008... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., July 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Extinction risks for natural populations of endangered species are likely being underestimated by as much as 100-fold because of a mathematical...

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Again Supports Major NOAA and University of Oklahoma Forecasting Effort.
July 2, 2008... Byline: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center PITTSBURGH, July 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Once again this year during spring storm season, NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) mounted a major experiment in storm forecasting....

Ice Creamier: 'Edible Antifreeze' Puts the Smooth in Smoothie.
July 3, 2008... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., July 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- It's Friday night, and the movie's already spinning in the DVD player. You run to the kitchen to grab a gallon of ice cream and a spoon, but you find the...

Geologists Push Back Date Basins Formed, Supporting Frozen Earth Theory.
July 3, 2008... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., July 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Even in geology, it's not often a date gets revised by 500 million years. But University of Florida geologists say they have found strong evidence that a...

New Study Points to Agriculture in Frog Sexual Abnormalities.
July 3, 2008... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., July 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot. But University of Florida scientists have found the...

Note to Pediatricians: Taper Meds in Kids With Stable Asthma; Hopkins Children's Study Shows Many Doctors Wouldn't.
July 6, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study of how pediatricians prescribe asthma medications suggests that while most would readily increase a child's medication if needed, many are reluctant...

UC Berkeley Study Suggests the Role of Chief Economist May Be Inflated.
July 7, 2008... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., July 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Before becoming chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke said it was a "top priority" to "maintain continuity" with Alan Greenspan's...

Political Borders, Health-Care Issues Complicate Pandemic Planning.
July 7, 2008... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Panic, staffing issues and geographic boundaries are some of the challenges that public health experts need to address as they plan for a possible influenza...

Study: Golfers' Perception of Hole Size Influenced by Performance.
July 7, 2008... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Golfers who play well are more likely to see the hole as larger than their poor-playing counterparts, according to a Purdue University researcher. "Golfers...

Florida's Rental Markets Latest to Suffer Ill Effects in Housing Crunch.
July 7, 2008... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., July 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The spread of "For Rent" signs is the latest bad news as Florida's real estate market declines in all forms of rentals, a new University of Florida study finds....

Internet Crawling: A New Tool for Tracking Infectious Disease.
July 8, 2008... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, July 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- You don't have to be a public health official to know that as of July 1, there are over 40 states with alerts on salmonella outbreaks. Nor do you have to wait for...

Study Puts Solar Spin on Asteroids, Their Moons and Earth Impacts.
July 9, 2008... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Asteroids with moons, which scientists call binary asteroids, are common in the solar system. A longstanding question has been how the majority of...

Ocean Wind Power Maps Reveal Possible Wind Energy Sources.
July 9, 2008... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., July 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth's ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA. Scientists have been...

A Stress Meter for Fault Zones: Speed of Seismic Waves Is a Measure of Stress in Rocks During -- and Possibly Before -- Earthquakes.
July 9, 2008... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., July 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time, scientists from Rice University, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley...

Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts.
July 9, 2008... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., July 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have developed a new instrument that allows...

Sensing Tension: Molecular Motor Works by Detecting Minute Changes in Force, Find Penn Researchers; Understanding Its Inner Workings Applies to Range of Processes, From Hearing to Insulin Signaling.
July 9, 2008... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, July 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of nanometer-sized molecular...

RAND Study Suggests Crafting U.S. Policy to Utilize Vulnerabilities in Iran's Political, Economic Conditions.
July 9, 2008... Byline: RAND Corporation SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The United States should pursue a mixed strategy toward Iran, using a variety of means to promote favorable social developments within the country and at the same...

Middle Eastern Families Yield Intriguing Clues to Autism; Study Implicates Several Genes Involved in Helping the Brain Learn From Experience.
July 10, 2008... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, July 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research involving large Middle Eastern families, sophisticated genetic analysis and groundbreaking neuroscience has implicated a half-dozen new genes in autism. More...

Projected California Warming Promises Cycle of More Heat Waves, Energy Use for Next Century.
July 10, 2008... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., July 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- As the 21st century progresses, major cities in heavily air-conditioned California can expect more frequent extreme-heat events because of climate...

Environment News Tips From the University of California, Davis: Carbon-Free Keynote Curbs Academic Emissions; New Measurements of Toxics and Organics in Tahoe Smoke; Experts Call for New Program of Long-Term Ag Research.
July 10, 2008... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., July 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California, Davis today released the following environment news tips. - - - - CARBON-FREE KEYNOTE CURBS ACADEMIC EMISSIONS ...

Gene Test May Change Treatment, Extend Life for Lung Cancer Patients; New Study Shows That Patients Who Test Positive for EGFR Gene Live Twice as Long When Taking a Combination Drug Therapy as Those Who Test Negative.
July 10, 2008... Byline: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center AURORA, Colo., July 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Colorado Cancer Center have shown that a readily available gene screening test can help doctors know which...

Learning to Talk to Teens About Sex -- While at Work; Worksite Program Teaches Parents How to Broach Touchy Topics.
July 10, 2008... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, July 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Sex is one of the most difficult topics a parent can bring up with an adolescent, but a new study finds that parents who are taught specific communication skills can...

Physicists Tweak Quantum Force, Reducing Barrier to Tiny Devices.
July 14, 2008... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., July 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cymbals don't clash of their own accord - in our world, anyway. But the quantum world is bizarrely different. Two metal plates, placed almost...

Even Toddlers Get It: Data 'Chunks' Are Easier to Remember.
July 14, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, July 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Which is easier to remember: 4432879960 or (000)-000-0000? The latter, of course. Adults seem to know automatically, in fact, that long strings of numbers are more...

Growth in Giving to Education Likely to Slow in Coming Year; Council for Advancement and Support of Education Launches New Index to Gauge Fundraising Outlook.(Survey)
July 14, 2008... Byline: Council for Advancement & Support of Education NEW YORK, July 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- The rate of growth in giving to education in the United States is likely to slow in the coming year, according to a new forecasting tool launched...

Study: Legalization and Regulations for Online Gambling Needed; Research Shows Online Gambling Can Be More Dangerous Than Casino Gambling.
July 15, 2008... Byline: Richard Ivey School of Business LONDON, Ontario, July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Believing online gambling has the potential to become more habitual than casino gambling, a marketing professor with the Richard Ivey School of Business...

LSU Health Sciences Center Study Finds High-Dose Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Extends Survival Window After Cardiopulmonary Arrest.
July 15, 2008... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center NEW ORLEANS, July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A ground-breaking study by researchers at the School of Medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans published in the August 2008 issue of Resuscitation has...

'Smothered' Genes Combine With Mutations to Yield Poor Outcome in Cancer Patients.
July 15, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers have identified a set of genes in breast and colon cancers with a deadly combination of traditional mutations...

Evaluation to Measure Effectiveness of Oral Health Care Model in Rural Alaska Native Villages; Communities Involved in Project Experience Nation's Highest Rate of Oral Health Disease.(Company overview)
July 15, 2008... Byline: W.K. Kellogg Foundation BATTLE CREEK, Mich., July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A model oral health program serving isolated Alaska Native communities is being evaluated for effectiveness with a goal of improving the quality of services...

Scientists Close In on Source of X-Rays in Lightning.
July 15, 2008... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Florida and Florida Institute of Technology engineering researchers have narrowed the search for the source of X-rays emitted by lightning, a feat...

JAMA Revisits Classic Hopkins 'Blue' Baby Study That Revolutionized Cardiovascular Medicine.
July 15, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Johns Hopkins study published 63 years ago will make an encore appearance in the July 16 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)...

Study: Future Snowmelt in West Twice as Early as Expected; Threatens Ecosystems, Water Reserves.
July 15, 2008... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- According to a new study, global warming could lead to larger changes in snowmelt in the western United States than was previously thought, possibly increasing...

Gaining Ground on Sickle Cell Disease; Gene Variants Could Help Predict Disease Severity.
July 15, 2008... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Although sickle cell disease is a single-gene disorder, its symptoms are highly variable. In a study published online July 14 by the Proceedings of the National...

Calcium May Be the Key to Understanding Alzheimer's Disease; Penn Study Identifies Targets for New Therapeutic Options.(Report)
July 17, 2008... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, July 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown that mutations in two proteins associated with familial Alzheimer's...

Averting Postsurgical Infections in Kids: Give Antibiotics Within Hour Before First Incision, Hopkins Researchers Say.
July 18, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Giving children preventive antibiotics within one hour before they undergo spinal surgery greatly reduces the risk for serious infections after the surgery,...

Analysis of Quickly Stopped Rx Orders Provides New Tool for Reducing Medical Errors; Penn Study Shows 66 percent of Medication Orders Stopped Within 45 Minutes Are Bad Orders.
July 18, 2008... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, July 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- By studying medication orders that are withdrawn ("discontinued") by physicians within 45 minutes of their origination, researchers at The...

Challenging Work, Corporate Responsibility Will Lure MBA Grads, According to Stanford Business School Research.
July 18, 2008... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., July 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A survey of 759 graduating MBAs at 11 top business schools reveals that the future business leaders rank corporate social responsibility high on...

Ask and You're Likely to Get Help, According to Stanford Business School Research.
July 18, 2008... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., July 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- For many of us, the thought of asking someone for help or a favor - be it a colleague, friend, or stranger - is fraught with discomfort. We figure...

A Phonon Floodgate in Monolayer Carbon: The First STM Spectroscopy of Graphene Flakes Yields New Surprises.
July 21, 2008... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, July 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have...

Human Stem Cell Research: Stepping It Up a Notch.
July 22, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that the Notch protein helps human embryonic stem cells "decide" their own fate, a finding which may...

New Research Finds Live Influenza Vaccine Is Just as Safe for HIV-Infected Children; Current Recommendation Has Been for Inactivated Vaccine; Live Vaccine Delivered Through a Nasal Spray, Simplifying the Delivery for Children.
July 22, 2008... Byline: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center AURORA, Colo., July 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Between September and mid-November in 2004, 243 HIV-infected children ages 5 to 18 years, who were receiving antiretroviral therapy for their...

Kansas State Study Finds California Consumers Appear More Likely Than Kansans to Change Purchasing Habits in the Face of Foodborne Illness.(Survey)
July 22, 2008... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., July 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Metropolitan consumers in Kansas appear less likely to change their purchasing habits when it comes to foodborne outbreaks, according to a new study from Kansas...

'Stuffy Nose' Mouse: A Promise to Help Treat 31 Million With Sinusitis.
July 22, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mice with inflamed nasal tissue being tested at a Johns Hopkins laboratory may be unable to tell if something smells bad or good, but their sensory deficit...

Autism's Social Struggles Due to Disrupted Communication Networks in Brain, Carnegie Mellon Study Says; Faulty Brain Connections Conceal Intentions of Others in Autism.(Report)
July 23, 2008... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, July 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Picking up on innuendo and social cues is a central component of engaging in conversation, but people with autism often struggle to determine another person's...

Costs of Climate Change, State-by-State: Billions of Dollars, Says University of Maryland.
July 23, 2008... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Climate change will carry a price tag of billions of dollars for a number of U.S. states, says a new series of reports from the University of...

Pharmacy Study Finds Current Recommended Daily Intake of Vitamin D Not Sufficient in Seniors; Educational Interventions in Clinics Prove Valuable; UC Denver Clinical Pharmacy Researchers Suggest Minimum 1,200 IU Per Day of Vitamin D For Elderly Patients.(Clinical report)
July 23, 2008... Byline: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center AURORA, Colo., July 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study from the University of Colorado Denver's School of Pharmacy has found that a simple educational intervention provided by a...

'Nanonet' Circuits Closer to Making Flexible Electronics Reality.
July 23, 2008... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits...

Study Shows Parasites Outweigh Predators.
July 23, 2008... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a study of free-living and parasitic species in three estuaries on the Pacific coast of California and Baja California, a team of...

Law Review Questions Expertise of Congressional Witness; Misstatements and Sloppy Use of Evidence Subject of New Publication.
July 23, 2008... Byline: Michael D. Palm Center SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Palm Center announced today that a Duke University law review is publishing a critique of a chief Congressional witness who is testifying at today's...

Polarizing Filter Allows Astronomers to See Disks Surrounding Black Holes.
July 23, 2008... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time, a team of international researchers has found a way to view the accretion disks surrounding black holes and verify that...

Transplantation of Kidneys From Black Cardiac-Death Donors Provide Black Recipients With the Best Long-Term Survival; Finding Could Greatly Increase Transplantation of Rarely Used Kidneys.
July 23, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Contrary to prevailing assumptions, Johns Hopkins researchers have shown that kidneys recovered from black donors who died from cardiac death offer the best...

UC Santa Barbara Chemist Goes Nano With CoQ10.
July 24, 2008... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- If Bruce Lipshutz has his way, you may soon be buying bottles of water brimming with the life-sustaining coenzyme CoQ10 at your local...

Chemotherapy and Radiation After Surgery Prolongs Life for Pancreatic Cancer Patients.
July 24, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Pancreatic cancer patients treated with a combination of chemotherapy and radiation after surgery survive approximately six months longer than those...

Telescope Embedded in Spectacle Lens Promises to Make Driving Easier and Safer for Visually Impaired.
July 24, 2008... Byline: Schepens Eye Research Institute BOSTON, July 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Glasses embedded with a telescope promise to make it easier for people with impaired vision to drive and do other activities requiring sharper distance vision....

Cassava Could Help Poor Countries Overcome Food, Energy Crises; Scientists Call for Increased Funding for Research and Development to Boost Yields and Develop Industrial Applications.
July 28, 2008... Byline: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center GHENT, Belgium, July 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than 300 leading scientists from around the world are calling for a significant increase in investment in research and development on the...

Note to People With Scarred and Stiffened Lungs: Monitor Your Sleep Before Severe Fatigue Sets In; Mother's Legacy Shows Impact of Severe Fatigue, $2 Million in Research Funding to Help Study Disease.
July 29, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Family, friends and neighbors remember Lisa Sandler Spaeth as an active mother of two in Potomac, Md., with a lot on the go, juggling her son's baseball...

Summer Heat Too Hot for You? What Is Comfortable? Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover How Animals Sense the 'Comfort Zone'.
July 29, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Extreme heat or cold is not only uncomfortable, it can be deadly, causing proteins to unravel and malfunction For many years now, scientists have...

Mud Pots Signal Possible Extension of San Andreas Fault.
July 29, 2008... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., July 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- A linear string of mud pots and mud volcanoes suggest surface evidence for a southern extension of the San Andreas Fault that runs through the Salton...

Researchers Discover Cell's 'Quality Control' Mechanism; Discovery May Lead to New Treatments for Cystic Fibrosis, Other Inherited Diseases.
July 29, 2008... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, July 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers in Japan and Canada have discovered a key component of the quality control mechanism that operates inside human cells - sometimes too well. The breakthrough has...

Chabot Astronomers Join Hunt for Near-Earth Objects Posing a Risk of Collision With Earth.
July 29, 2008... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., July 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers at Chabot Space & Science Center have joined an elite team of cosmic watchdogs. Scanning the night sky for objects that could one day cross...

Could Evolutionary Computation Cut Billions of Years in Solving Problems?
July 30, 2008... Byline: Hampshire College AMHERST, Mass., July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Happy birthday, Darwin! A computer science and mathematics team from Hampshire College in Massachusetts and the State University of New York in New Paltz has used...

University of Florida Study: Isthmus of Panama Formed as Result of Plate Tectonics.
July 30, 2008... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new University of Florida study shows the Isthmus of Panama was most likely formed by a Central American Peninsula colliding slowly with the South American...

Nonprofits Face Serious Constraints on Policy Involvement; Charities Widely Engaged in Advocacy Work Despite Limitations, New Survey Finds.
July 30, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- America's nonprofit organizations are widely involved in efforts to influence the public policies affecting them and those they serve, but are constrained by tight...

University of Central Florida Professor Develops Vaccine to Protect Against Black Plague Bioterror Attack.
July 30, 2008... Byline: University of Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla., July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of Central Florida researcher may have found a defense against the Black Plague, a disease that wiped out a third of Europe's population in the...

Carnegie Mellon Researcher Says China's Growing Export Trade Fuels Climate Change Problems.
July 30, 2008... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University's Christopher L. Weber argues that China's new title as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter is at least partly due to...

Low-Gravity Training Machine Reduces Joint, Muscle Impacts on Runners by Half, Says University of Colorado Study.
July 30, 2008... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder study of a space-age, low-gravity training machine used by several 2008 Olympic runners showed it reduced impacts on...

Like Eavesdropping at a Party: Johns Hopkins Scientists Discover How a Tiny Protein Senses All the Communications in a Cell.
July 31, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cells rely on calcium as a universal means of communication. For example, a sudden rush of calcium can trigger nerve cells to convey thoughts in the brain...

New Uses for Old-Line Diabetes Monitoring Test: Screening and Diagnosis; Commonly Used Test Could Identify Millions of People With Undiagnosed Diabetes.
July 31, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, July 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- A blood test currently used as the gold standard for monitoring people already under care for diabetes may have far wider use in identifying millions with...

Wichita State University Professor Researches How to Speak to Children.
July 31, 2008... Byline: Wichita State University WICHITA, Kan., July 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- When it comes to speaking to children, the issue is not speaking up; rather, it's slowing down, according to Wichita State University audiology professor Ray...

How 'Hidden Mutations' Contribute to HIV Drug Resistance; McGill Researchers Explain How Previously Ignored Parts of HIV Genome Play Key Role.
July 31, 2008... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, July 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- One of the major reasons that treatment for HIV/AIDS often doesn't work as well as it should is resistance to the drugs involved. Now, scientists at McGill University have...