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Trains, planes, buses and automobiles do not only effect the environment via their exhaust pipes. There is a full life-cycle of processes associated with getting from a to b that we rarely acknowledge.
Women continue to be under-enrolled in cancer clinical trials, according to a new review, published in the July 15, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's results suggest that greater efforts are needed to ensure that oncologists know the true effects of treatments and medical procedures in female patients.
A new study finds that many women with breast cancer take antioxidant supplements while undergoing cancer treatment, even though the consequences of doing so are unknown.
WESTCHESTER, Ill. ?Napping may have a significant influence on young children's daytime functioning, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Monday, June 8 at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
WESTCHESTER, Ill. ?According to a research abstract that will be presented on Monday, June 8, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, race significantly influences the risk of obesity conferred by short sleep duration, with blacks having a greater risk than whites.
WESTCHESTER, Ill. -- According to a research abstract that will be presented on Monday, June 8, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, active problem solving strategies are associated with successful use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
WESTCHESTER, Ill. -- Men who work with their female partners while receiving continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are more likely to adhere to their treatment, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Monday at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
WESTCHESTER, Ill. -- Men with insomnia and sleep duration of six or fewer hours of nightly sleep are at an increased risk for mortality, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Monday, June 8, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies
WESTCHESTER, Ill. -- The genes that play a role in adolescent insomnia are the same as those involved in depression and anxiety, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Monday, June 8, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
Screening adults for diabetes could result in significant cost-savings for health care systems compared to the costs of not screening individuals at all.
Emory University researchers will present the findings of their diabetes screening cost analysis today at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in New Orleans.
Despite increasingly frequent references to global health from media, scholars and students, the term is rarely defined. And when it is defined, it is often merely a rephrased definition of public health or an updated definition of international health. What, then, is global health?
Information exchange processes developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be at the center of the effort to design and build the next generation of modern, highly efficient nuclear power plants.
New nuclear power plants will be designed, procured and constructed using advanced software applications for three-dimensional modeling and exchange of engineering inform
June 13th of this year marks the 125th anniversary of the first roller coaster at Coney Island, the “Switchback Railway.” The 1884 precursor to the modern roller coaster, the Switchback Railway was an example of a “gravity railroad.”
Roller coasters are a popular topic in introductory physics courses because they provide a real-life example illustrating a basic physics principle, according to Ha
To harvest the wind: Cornell University will host “Large-Scale Wind-Generated Power,” a scientific workshop on gathering wind energy, June 12-13, 2009, at Hollister and Kimball halls on the Cornell campus.
Information: http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/wind
PULMONARY HYPERTENSION: A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY?
