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Students With Cell Phones May Take More Risks, Study Finds.
March 3, 2008... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carrying a cell phone may cause some college students -- especially women -- to take risks with their safety, a new study suggests. A survey of 305 students at...

Scientists Discover Who Is Likely to Get Dry Eye Syndrome After LASIK Surgery; Findings Could Be Critical for Soldiers in Desert Climate.
March 3, 2008... Byline: Schepens Eye Research Institute BOSTON, March 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have found that people with a certain low level of tear production are more likely to develop chronic dry eye...

Vanderbilt Class Explores Genetic Link to Voters' Behavior.
March 3, 2008... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- A quirky new Vanderbilt University course blends politics and biological science to explore the effect of genetic make-up on political choices. Distinguished...

Risk of Surgery for Lung Cancer Lower at Teaching Hospitals.
March 4, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Patients cared for by hospitals with residents in training have a 17 percent less chance of dying after lung cancer surgery compared with patients...

Health Risks After Cessation of Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy.
March 4, 2008... Byline: International Menopause Society LANCASTER, England, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) investigators have produced another article [1], which probably marks the opening of another set of publications,...

NIH-Funded Vanderbilt Research Seeks Ways to Avoid Information Overload in Health Care Choices Among Seniors.
March 4, 2008... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- People faced with too many choices when making complex decisions not only have difficulty discerning the right choice, they often make poor choices, contrary to...

Pacemaker Tune-Up Works Chemical Wonders on Damaged Hearts in Dogs; Study Points to Longer-Lasting Treatment Benefits for Congestive Heart Failure.(Clinical report)
March 5, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using pacemakers to electrically retune a heart damaged by long bouts of a wobbling heartbeat, where one heart muscle wall is beating sooner than the other,...

New Technique Takes a Big Step in Examination of Small Structures.
March 5, 2008... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team led by a Purdue University researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had previously been achieved. Wen Jiang, an...

Carnegie Mellon Study Shows Just Listening to Cell Phones Significantly Impairs Drivers; Brain Imaging Reveals Drivers Are Distracted Even if They Don't Talk.
March 5, 2008... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University scientists have shown that just listening to a cell phone while driving is a significant distraction, and it causes drivers to commit...

'Acting Black' Hinders Gifted Black Student Achievement.
March 6, 2008... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Gifted black students often underachieve in school because of efforts to "act black," new research has found, offering insights into the achievement gap between...

Excess Worrying Can Harm Parents' Relationships with Grown Children.
March 6, 2008... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The amount of worry shared by parents and their grownup children can feel like a warm comforter or wet blanket, a new University of Florida study finds. ...

Cardiac Effects Associated with Breast Cancer Treatment Appear Lower with Dose-Dense Delivery of Conventional Chemotherapy.
March 6, 2008... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new pilot study by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) found that breast cancer patients can be treated safely with a...

Kansas State University Professor Finds That Consumers Are More Open to Marketing Messages if They're Persuaded to Doubt Their Knowledge About a Brand.
March 6, 2008... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Opening yourself up to new ideas may be as easy as furrowing your brow or reading blurry print, according to the research of a Kansas State University marketing...

Purdue Study May Help Employers Uncover Truth in Job Interviews.
March 7, 2008... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than 90 percent of job candidates are less than truthful during a job interview, and they're more likely to dig the hole deeper during follow-up questions,...

Genetic Research Unveils Common Origins for Distinct Clinical Diagnoses.
March 9, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that two clinically different inherited syndromes are in fact variations of the same disorder. Reporting in the...

Finding Efficient Catalysts for Making Oxygen for 'Artificial Photosynthesis'; Research Could Lead to More Efficient, Cleaner Hydrogen Production.
March 10, 2008... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Institute for Molecular Science in Japan are trying to mimic part of the...

Investigator Attendance at Review Board Reviews: Hindrance or Help? Probably Neither, Johns Hopkins Study Says.
March 10, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Inviting researchers to attend institutional review board sessions designed to approve these same investigators' requests to conduct research involving...

University of Central Florida Researchers Discover New Protein Family Implicated in Inflammatory Diseases.
March 10, 2008... Byline: University of Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla., March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of Central Florida research team has discovered a new protein family that may play an important role in preventing inflammatory diseases such...

Physicists: After 30 Years of Study, Rare Particle Confirms Prediction.
March 10, 2008... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- High-energy physicists devoted to recreating the conditions at the beginning of the universe have for the first time observed a new way to produce those basic...

New Purdue Facility Aims to Improve NASA Moon Rocket Engine.
March 10, 2008... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University engineers are conducting experiments using a new hydrogen facility to help NASA create designs to improve the cooling efficiency and...

Scripps Research Scientists Identify Potential New Target for Treating Metastatic Cancer; Blocking Protein Tethers Cancer Cells in Place.
March 10, 2008... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., March 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have identified a human protein that may be a new target for future cancer therapies. By...

Minorities, Whites Get Equal Care in Hospitals.
March 11, 2008... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of Maryland study of whether people receive different quality of hospital care because of their race or ethnicity found that when...

Researcher Looks at Best Way to Treat an Unhappy Customer.
March 11, 2008... Byline: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- More and more, consumers are courted with individualized sales appeals. "Whether e-mails from a favorite restaurant or Web sites that allow buyers to...

Structure Reveals How Cells 'Sugar-Coat' Proteins.
March 11, 2008... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, and the University of Wurzburg, Germany, have...

Want to Lose Weight and Keep It Off? Personal Counseling Beats Web-Based Information; Differences Were Modest But Clear That Weight-Loss Web Site Is No Substitute for Chats With Trained Counselors, JAMA Study Says.(Website overview)
March 11, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Individuals are less likely to regain lost weight when they get monthly tips straight from trained counselors rather than from a weight-loss Web site,...

Researchers ID Behavioral Risk Factors for Head and Neck Cancers; Sex Practices and Lifestyle Are Culprits.
March 11, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have teased out two distinct sets of risk factors for head and neck cancers, suggesting that there...

Eastern Connecticut State University Student Presents Research at Council for Undergraduate Research Posters Conference.(Conference news)
March 12, 2008... Byline: Eastern Connecticut State University WILLIMANTIC, Conn., March 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Erika Harrington, a senior at Eastern Connecticut State University majoring in psychology, is presenting her research project, "Perceived Racism...

Americans Sleeping More, Not Less, Says University of Maryland Study.
March 12, 2008... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Contrary to conventional wisdom, Americans average as much sleep as they did 40 years ago, and possibly more, according analysis by University of...

A Protein That Triggers Aggressive Breast Cancer.
March 12, 2008... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., March 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- SATB1 is a nuclear protein well known for its crucial role in regulating gene expression during the differentiation and activation of T cells,...

DNA Detectives Find Genetic Markers for Lung Cancers Most Likely to Recur.
March 12, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, March 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have uncovered clearly recognizable genetic alterations in tumors and tissue removed from patients...

National Survey Finds Homeowner Situation Not As Bleak as Reports Indicate.
March 12, 2008... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Americans may own a larger share of their homes than is suggested by a recent Federal Reserve report, according to a new nationwide survey. In its quarterly...

News From the March 2008 American Physical Society Meeting.
March 13, 2008... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory NEW ORLEANS, March 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The following scientific talks are among those presented by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory at the American...

Sabotage of Inflammation Chemistry in Injured Kidney May Trigger Wider Organ Failure; Finding in Mice Could Help Prevent Common Complications of Kidney Damage.
March 13, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, March 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Kidney damage often sets off a slew of complications in patients, spreading organ failure like wildfire throughout their bodies. Now, researchers at Johns...

Adolescent Girls With ADHD at Increased Risk for Eating Disorders, Study Shows.
March 14, 2008... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Girls with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder stand a substantially greater risk of developing eating disorders in adolescence than girls without...

Hissing Cockroaches Are Popular, But They Also Host Potent Mold Allergens.
March 17, 2008... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Their gentle nature, large size, odd sounds and low-maintenance care have made Madagascar hissing cockroaches popular educational tools and pets for years. But...

Neighborhoods Play Key Role in How Much People Exercise, Study Says.(Report)
March 17, 2008... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The neighborhoods people live in can help inspire -- or discourage -- their residents to exercise and keep physically active, new research suggests. Residents...

Anthropology and Behavior News Tips From UC Davis: Natural Selection and the Human Skull; Tears on the Job.
March 17, 2008... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., March 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following are anthropology and behavior news tips from the University of California, Davis. - - - - NATURAL SELECTION AND THE HUMAN SKULL ...

Teens and Older Sexual Partners: New Research Points to Long-Term Negative Consequences.
March 17, 2008... Byline: Child Trends, Inc. WASHINGTON, March 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Teens who have a sexual relationship with an older partner may face adverse consequences not only in the short-term but also into young adulthood, according to new...

Physician-Owners of Ambulatory Surgical Centers Siphon Off High-Paying Privately Insured Patients, Say Researchers.
March 17, 2008... Byline: Health Affairs BETHESDA, Md., March 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Physicians who refer the most patients to physician-owned ambulatory surgical centers disproportionately send privately insured patients to these ASCs while sending...

Scientists Successfully Awaken Sleeping Stem Cells in the Eye to Regenerate Retina; New Hope for Regenerating the Human Retina Damaged by Disease or Injury.
March 18, 2008... Byline: Schepens Eye Research Institute BOSTON, March 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have discovered what chemical in the eye triggers the dormant capacity of certain non-neuronal cells to transform...

Findings Could Improve Fuel Cell Efficiency.
March 19, 2008... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new type of membrane based on tiny iron particles appears to address one of the major limitations exhibited by current power-generating fuel cell technology. While...

A Tale of Two Pathways: Molecular Biology of Sleep Apnea Could Lead to New Treatments, say Penn Researchers.
March 19, 2008... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have provided, for the first time, a detailed look at the molecular pathways...

How Iron Gets Into the North Pacific: Is the Dust-Storm Theory Overblown?
March 19, 2008... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Most oceanographers have assumed that, in the areas of the world's oceans known as High Nutrient, Low Chlorophyll (HNLC) regions, the iron...

Good Luck Indeed: 53 Million-Year-Old Rabbit's Foot Bones Found.
March 19, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- One day last spring, fossil hunter and anatomy professor Kenneth Rose, Ph.D. was displaying the bones of a jackrabbit's foot as part of a seminar at the...

Vanderbilt K-12 Experts Presenting New Research About Charter Schools, Drop-Out Rate and More in New York March 24-28.
March 19, 2008... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- K-12 experts from Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development will present their latest research March 24-28 in New York City at...

Vanderbilt Higher Education Experts Presenting New Research on Community Colleges, Student Retention and More in New York March 24-28.(Conference notes)
March 19, 2008... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Higher education experts from Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development will be presenting their latest research March 24-28 in...

Price of Medicine May Affect Its Efficacy, According to Stanford Business School Research.
March 19, 2008... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- You are offered two painkillers, one selling at full price for $2.50 per pill and the other discounted to 10 cents each. In most phases of life we...

American Symphonies Often Spend More Than They Earn, According to Stanford Business School Research.
March 19, 2008... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Most major symphony orchestras in the United States regularly spend more money than they take in, and some dip so far into endowments that they...

Dividends Encourage Consumer Spending, According to Stanford Business School Research.
March 19, 2008... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Imagine this scenario: Two households with stock portfolios of identical worth each see their investments appreciate by 10 percent one year. The...

Teamwork Can Boost Manufacturing Productivity, According to Stanford Business School Research.
March 19, 2008... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Those who work in the most complex manufacturing environments have the most to gain from the use of problem-solving teams, according to a recently...

University of Maryland-Led Team Finds Ancient Asteroids Formed at Solar System's Start.
March 20, 2008... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using visible and infrared data collected from telescopes on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, a team of scientists, led by the University of Maryland's...

Soybean Varieties Viable in Southern Indiana, Resistant to Root-Knot Nematode.
March 20, 2008... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University researchers have identified several soybean varieties that grow well in areas of the Midwest like southern Indiana and are resistant to...

New Method Offers Insight Into Radiation Damage to DNA; Suggests Mechanism for Why Some Types of Radiation Are More Harmful Than Others; Wins Pollution Prevention Award.
March 20, 2008... Byline: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, N.Y., March 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new technique for assessing the damage radiation causes to DNA indicates that the spatial arrangement of damaged sites, or lesions, is more important than...

Scripps Florida Scientists Develop a Process to Disrupt Hepatitis C Virion Production; Findings Offer Hope for New Therapies.
March 20, 2008... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, Fla., March 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute's Scripps Florida facilities have discovered a method to disrupt the production of infectious virus particles...

Therapeutic Cloning Treats Parkinson's Disease in Mice.
March 23, 2008... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, March 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Research led by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) has shown that therapeutic cloning, also known as somatic-cell nuclear...

Consistent Cost of Big Mac Meal Across Countries Proves Euro Didn't Cause Expected Price Jump, Vanderbilt Research Finds.
March 24, 2008... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Contrary to popular belief, the introduction of the euro in 2002 did not result in price increases, even for food items, a Vanderbilt researcher found by...

Computer Games Can Make Kids More Social, Not Less.
March 24, 2008... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., March 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Contrary to common education wisdom, computer games and other technologies can foster community-building, a strong sense of identity and higher-level...

Hospitality Tops List of Industries With Highest Rates of Alcohol Problems; New Study Analyzes Scope of Workplace Alcohol Problems, Proposes Solution.(Report)
March 25, 2008... Byline: Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems WASHINGTON, March 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new analysis of government data finds that 15 percent of employees in the hospitality industry suffer from serious alcohol-related problems....

Large Multi-Center Study Suggests New Genetic Markers for Crohn's Disease; Results Shed Light on Special Genetic Vulnerabilities of Ashkenazi Jews.
March 26, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, March 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- What is believed to be the largest study of its kind for the genetic roots of inflammatory bowel diseases has suggested new links to Crohn's Disease as...

Folate Scores Another Win in Animal Studies: Brief, High Doses of B Vitamin Blunt Damage From Heart Attack; Nutrient May Act as Heart Energy Reserve.
March 27, 2008... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, March 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Long known for its role in preventing anemia in expectant mothers and spinal birth defects in newborns, the B vitamin folate, found in leafy green...

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Announces Positive Early Results for Phase 2 Clinical Trial of VX-770, an Oral Compound to Treat CF; Emerging Data Shows Encouraging Response in CF Patients; Results Validate Investment in Venture Philanthropy Business Model.
March 27, 2008... Byline: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation BETHESDA, Md., March 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced today that VX-770, an oral drug in development that targets a basic defect in CF, showed promising results in an...

Findings Reveal How Dengue Virus Matures, Becomes Infectious.
March 27, 2008... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Biologists at Purdue University have determined why dengue virus particles undergo structural changes as they mature in host cells and how the changes are...

iPods and Similar Devices Found Not to Affect Pacemaker Function; Study Disagrees With Previously Reported Finding.
March 28, 2008... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, March 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Last May, a widely reported study concluded that errant electronic noise from iPods can cause implantable cardiac pacemakers to malfunction. This just didn't sound...

Mysterious Fevers of Unknown Origin: Could Surgery Be a Cure? Largest Study to Date Finds Tonsillectomy Works, for Reasons That Aren't Known.
March 28, 2008... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, March 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- A child spikes a high fever, sometimes as high as 104 or 105 degrees, and sometimes causing seizures. She's rushed to the emergency room, the hospital runs test after...

Survey: Many Women Aspire to For-Profit Board Membership; Simmons School of Management Advises Ways to Increase Gender Equity on Boards.
March 30, 2008... Byline: Simmons College BOSTON, March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Many women executives who currently serve on non-profit boards of directors actively aspire to serve on for-profit boards - where women currently are dramatically...

Scientists: New Technique Identifies Molecular 'Biomarkers' for Disease.
March 31, 2008... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Florida chemists are the first to use a new tool to identify the molecular signatures of serious diseases -- without any previous knowledge of...