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California Academy of Sciences becomes first aquarium in US to breed dwarf cuttlefish

Anchored to an algae-covered rock in a 120-gallon tank at the California Academy of Sciences' Steinhart Aquarium, a cluster of inky-colored cuttlefish eggs is beginning to swell -- evidence of succ

Harvard nutrition expert offers family physician group no-cost alternative to funding from Coca-Cola

Leading Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) nutrition and health researcher Walter Willett, M.D., Dr. P.H., has written a letter to the President-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) offering an alternative to the organization's decision, announced in October, to accept a six-figure grant from the Coca-Cola Company to develop web content on beverages and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Record highs far outpace record lows across US

Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows.

Coffee break: Compound brewing new research in colon, breast cancer

COLLEGE STATION -- A compound in coffee has been found to be estrogenic in studies by Texas AgriLife Research scientists.

Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across US

BOULDER--Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows.

Trimming US health care spending will require new approaches, study finds

Slowing the growth in U.S. health care spending will most likely require adoption of an array of strategies as well as an improved approach to moving promising strategies into widespread use, according to a new analysis by the RAND Corporation.

IACC includes vaccine research objective in strategic plan for autism research

NEW YORK, NY (November 11, 2009) -- Autism Speaks is encouraged by yesterday's decision of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) to include vaccine research studies in the objective

Rice sociologist looks at pediatric physicians' views on religion, spirituality

Pediatricians and pediatric oncologists express differing views on religion and spirituality, largely based on the types of patients they treat, according to a survey that will appear in the curren

Workplace BPA exposure increases risk of male sexual dysfunction

November 11, 2009 (Oakland, Calif.) -- High levels of workplace exposure to Bisphenol-A may increase the risk of reduced sexual function in men, according to a Kaiser Permanente study appearing in

Implications of past forecasting errors often underestimated

When managers issue a forecast of their firm's earnings, they do not always take into account prior forecasting errors, according to research in the current issue of the Journal of Business Finance

'Escaped' proteins add to hearing loss in elderly, UF researchers find

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Age-related hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder among the elderly.



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