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Prematurity experts call for targeted research
A March of Dimes expert panel has recommended a targeted research agenda designed improve the lives of thousands of babies by preventing premature birth. view more (2005-09-16)
Middle school youth as young as 12 engaging in risky sexual activity
Middle school youth are engaging in sexual intercourse as early as age 12, according to a study by researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health. view more (2009-04-09)
Millions of children denied drug that costs less than $3 a year
Millions of children with epilepsy in developing countries are being denied an effective drug that costs less than $3 a year, according to an editorial in this week's BMJ. view more (2007-06-08)
Young children think gender-related behavior is inborn
Young children think about gender in the same way they think about species of animals. They believe, for example, that a boy's preference for football is innate, as is a girl's preference for dolls, just as cats' behavior is innately different from dogs'. view more (2009-04-29)
A Victory For Affirmative Action (p 1)
This week's editorial welcomes the recent US Supreme Court's decision to uphold an American law school's policy of affirmative action to increase the proportion of students from ethnic minorities. Considering the implications of the Supreme Court's decision, the editorial comments: 'The Association of American Medical Colleges' President Jordan J... view more... (2003-07-02)
Quality Profile Will Provide Fuller And Fairer Assessment Of Research
The next Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) planned for 2008 will use quality profiles to provide a fuller and fairer assessment of research carried out in universities and colleges in the United Kingdom. The four UK higher education funding bodies (Note 1) have agreed the framework and timing of the next RAE, following a major review and... view more... (2004-02-10)
10 years on, high-school social skills predict better earnings than test scores
Ten years after graduation, high-school students who had been rated as conscientious and cooperative by their teachers were earning more than classmates who had similar test scores but fewer social skills, said a new University of Illinois study. view more (2008-10-16)
Only half of hypertensive California adults take blood pressure-lowering drugs
About half of California adults diagnosed with high blood pressure, or hypertension, do not take medication to lower it, researchers reported today at the American Heart Association's 61st Annual Fall Conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research. view more (2007-10-01)
NEW CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF ETHNICITY AND CITIZENSHIP
In a year when genocide, ethnic cleansing, racial intolerance and institutional racism have been all too prominent in many parts of the world, the University of Bristol has established a new Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship. view more (1999-10-20)
University to pioneer accessible skills curriculum
The University of Leicester has won funding for a flagship initiative to improve employability opportunities for students with disabilities. The University's Educational Development and Support Centre (EDSC) has received a £100,000 grant from the Higher Education Funding Council, England, (HEFCE) to fund an innovative project to develop key... view more... (2003-03-27)
Breast cancer gene mutation more common in Hispanic, young black women, Stanford/NCCC study finds
A genetic mutation already known to be more common in Ashkenazi Jewish breast cancer patients is also prevalent in Hispanic and young African-American women with breast cancer, according to one of the largest, multiracial studies of the mutation to date. view more (2007-12-26)
The company Eurimage is interested in resolution improvement methods
Maria Gonzalez de Audicana, professor of the Public University of Navarre (Basque Country) proposes in her thesis new merging procedures to improve the quality of images used in the discrimination of cultivations. The company Eurimage is the distributor of satellite images of Europe. The images of the satellites IKONOS and QuickBird, which have... view more... (2002-08-28)
Many faces of diabetes in American youth: The SEARCH for diabetes in youth study
New findings from the nation's largest study of diabetes in youth paint an alarming picture of disease on the rise among every racial and ethnic group studied. view more (2009-03-02)
Gay men's risky sexual behavior linked to feeling undesirable
Gay men who are not considered sexually desirable are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior according to new research out of the University of Toronto. They may also develop psychological problems as a consequence of feeling undesirable. view more (2008-12-01)
African-Americans at increased risk for earlier preterm births
Using data from over 700,000 births in Missouri from 1989 to 1997, researchers found that African American mothers were 3 times more likely than Caucasian mothers to deliver prematurely at 20-34 weeks and almost 4 times more likely to deliver extremely prematurely at 20-28 weeks. view more (2007-02-12)
DNA variations signal lupus risk
Scientists have pinpointed a set of common variations in human DNA that signal a higher risk for lupus in women who carry them. view more (2008-01-21)
Study finds no relationship between PCR rate and race in women with breast cancer
Locally advanced breast cancer patients who received the same class of neoadjuvant chemotherapy were found to have no evidence of disease at the time of their surgery, or achieved pathological complete response, at the same rate regardless of race, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. view more (2009-10-12)
Misconceptions about Alzheimer's vary among races, survey suggests
Alzheimer's disease is still a mystery to people of different races and a large percentage of people across the board are unaware that treatments are available to reduce symptoms. view more (2007-09-19)
Raman spectroscopy to undergo a UV transformation - New technique could help rapid detection of infecting organisms in hospitals and prove authenticity of foods such
Researchers at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UWA) are about to put ultra-violet Raman spectroscopy through its paces as a new technique for studying biological materials. Dr Roy Goodacre and colleagues in the Institute of Biological Sciences have been awarded a grant worth £306,291 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research... view more... (2002-03-01)
The "Jew" as Research Object - Anthropology in Nazi Times
Scientific "objectivity" is moulded by contemporaneous general conditions. That is the central finding of a research project conducted by the Department of Anthropology of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna. In the scope of this work, the fate of 440 Jews abused as research objects in September 1939 was documented and analysed. As the project... view more... (2004-12-13)
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