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Health & Medicine The Asheville Project U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill Endeavors How a six-year-old experiment is still making people healthier. -- Neil Caudle research.unc.edu/endeavors/win2004/asheville.html Disease That Invades From the Mouth U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill Endeavors What do a healthy baby and a healthy heart have to do with gums? -- Neil Caudle research.unc.edu/endeavors/win2004/gums.html Uncovering the Capacity for Concern U. Iowa Illumine Is there an answer to war and hate? A research scientist at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is looking inside our heads for the key to universal love and understanding. -- Gary Kuhlmann www.uiowa.edu/~illumine/ISSUES_2003/FALL/concern.html The New Age of Aging U. Iowa Illumine What a drag it is to get old. Or, so sang one Baby Boomer, not a few years ago. Researchers in The University of Iowa's College of Nursing are singing a tune that's a lot more upbeat about facing the inevitable. -- Diana Thrift www.uiowa.edu/~illumine/ISSUES_2003/FALL/newage.html What It Means to Care Indiana U. Research & Creativity Witnessing some of pediatric medicine's hardest cases, an ethicist says medical ethics models are not ethics fit for kids. -- Lauren J. Bryant www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v25n2/miller.shtml When the Heart Stops Beating U. Chicago Medicine on the Midway Less than 5 percent of cardiac arrest victims survive. University of Chicago scientists and Argonne engineers are teaming up to improve these odds--with the help of some ice, a blender and the power of collaboration. --Yudhijit Bhattacharjee www.uchospitals.edu/midway/summer-03/heart.pdf Running on Empty Ohio U. Perspectives Caroline Annis got her period at 14. At 16, it suddenly stopped. The Tampa, Florida, native wasnÕt pregnant, or sick by any traditional definition of the word. She was a runner in the middle of track season. At 56 and 116 pounds, Annis was running about 45 miles per week, sometimes working out twice a day, when her period went on hiatus.-- Megan Ballinger www.ohiou.edu/perspectives/0302/story2.html A Grave Diagnosis Ohio U. Perspectives Nancy Hord Patterson couldnÕt sleep. She tossed and turned. Hot and feverish, she threw off the covers. Work wasnÕt going much better. Four doctors and six months later, the diagnosis was in: GravesÕ disease, an overactive thyroid condition that speeds up the bodyÕs metabolism. -- Ellen Gerl www.ohiou.edu/perspectives/0303/story2.html Singing in the Brain Florida State University Research in Review How do we learn to talk? No one really knows, but some of the best clues are being whispered by a tiny bird with a cheery song. -- Don Wood www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/fall2003/singing.html Early Hope Florida State University Research in Review New findings show that autism can be detected in children up to a year earlier than many thought possible. -- Frank Stephenson www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/summer2003/earlyhope.html Last Rights Florida State University Research in Review Floridians spending their final days in the state now have it better than many Americans in their twilight years, thanks to a set of compassionate laws crafted by an FSU-led panel. -- James Call www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/winter2003/lastrights.html 2003 issue: A CASE FOR C Arizona State U Research In the line-up of nutritional deficiencies, we pay attention to osteoporosis and iron-deficiency anemia. Nobody worries about scurvy. Maybe we should.—Diane Boudreau http://researchmag.asu.edu/stories/vitaminc.html A SIMPLEX PLAN U of Chicago Medicine on the Midway For more than three decades, virologist Bernard Roizman has waged microscopic war on the herpes virus. His research team has won its share of battles—some on pretty unexpected fronts.—Paul Karr http://www.uchospitals.edu/midway/fall-02/simplex.pdf CONFRONTING THE TRANSPLANTATION CRISIS Georgia Tech Research Horizons Thousands of patients die each year waiting for compatible organ donations. Combating this crisis are Georgia Tech and Emory University tissue engineers whose research may one day provide living tissue and organ substitutes.—Jane M. Sanders http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-f01/s-tissue.html DECODING LIFE'S INSTRUCTION Research/PennState From drug-design to issues of privacy, from family planning to food production, from evolution to environmentalism to medical ethics, the results of the Human Genome Project will color our arguments from now on. A special report from the 2001 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science. http://www.rps.psu.edu/0109/decoding.html DIETING ITALIAN STYLE Research/PennState The Mediterranean diet, rich in olive oil, tomatoes, and pasta, is both delicious and good for your health. But has something been lost in the translation?—David Pacchioli http://www.rps.psu.edu/0205/dieting.html EPIDEMIC IN THE MAKING: TYPE 2 DIABETES Yale Medicine The disease poses alarming health risks as obesity soars and exercise is crowded from modern life. Yale investigators are seeking better ways to prevent and treat the disease and to understand the science of fat.—Randi Hutter Epstein http://www.med.yale.edu/external/pubs/ym_au01/diabetes/diabetes1.html EYES WIDE OPEN Yale Medicine The suffering of the boy who had fallen into boiling water was like the misery of the city streets—possible for some to ignore but searing to a medical student working in the hospital burn unit.—Monique Aurora Tello http://www.med.yale.edu/external/pubs/ym_su02/guatemala.htm GRAND DESIGNER U of Georgia Research Reporter A team of University of Georgia scientists are developing drugs that may lead to effective vaccines for HIV and other viral diseases.—Paul Karr > http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/researchnews/summer2001/design.html HEADACHES ON TRIAL Ohio U Perspectives Results from a five-year clinical trial offer hope for millions of chronic tension-headache sufferers.—Kelli Whitlock http://www.ohiou.edu/perspectives/0102/story003.html LIFE IN THE ER U. Chicago Medicine on the Midway It has plenty of pathos and drama, but life in today’s emergency room isn’t like any TV show you’ve seen. Take a personal look inside today’s ER at the University of Chicago Hospitals.—John Easton http://www.uchospitals.edu/midway/fall-02/ER.pdf LIFTING PEOPLE: IT CAN BE A REAL PAIN U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Profile With all the heavy equipment and bulky materials handled by many laborers, it’s easy to forget about one of the most hazardous objects workers can handle—other people.—Peter Hansen http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Grad_Sch/Publications/ResearchProfile/Vol24No1/garg.html MOLE IN THE MOUSE HOUSE UNC-Chapel Hill Endeavors Last April, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals PETA announced that one of its employees had been working in a lab-animal facility at UNC, secretly videotaping mice, rats, researchers and staff. Some of PETA’s claims were alarming. But were they true? Here’s what we’ve learned.—Jason Smith http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/fall2001/pfennig.htm OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY: UNITING PERCEPTION AND MOVEMENT U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Profile In occupational therapy, perception and movement have traditionally been studied separately. In Kathi Kamm’s laboratory, they are inextricably linked. It’s this connection that unites her seemingly disparate research areas.—Andrew Muchin http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Grad_Sch/Publications/ResearchProfile/Vol24No2/kamm.html OF MICE & MAGNETS Florida State U Research in Review It very well could be the strangest form of radiation on Earth. And the well of mystery around magnetism just got a bit deeper.—Frank Stephenson http://www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/issue2001/mice.html QUIET ON THE HALL: REDUCING NOISE IN NURSING HOMES Georgia Tech Research Horizons Acoustical engineers and geriatrics researchers want to know if they can improve nursing home residents’ sleep—and ultimately their health and quality of life.—Jane M. Sanders http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-f02/quiet.html RETURN OF THE MATRIX UNC-Chapel Hill Endeavors Graphic new findings revive a long-neglected idea about the existence of structural frameworks in cells. This time, will scientists believe?—Angela Spivey ttp://research.unc.edu/endeavors/fall2002/matrix.html SPLINTERED MINDS U of Georgia Research Reporter University of Georgia researchers studying schizophrenia look to relatives for cognitive traits that may be hard-wired on the genes.—Kathleen Cason http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/researchnews/summer2002/schizo01.htm THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES S. Illinois U-Carbondale Perspectives Why are some memories so vivid, while others fade away? Our vagus nerve is what makes nostalgia possible, SIUC researchers have discovered—and it may offer a way to hasten recovery from brain injury or stroke.—Marilyn Davis http://www.siu.edu/%7Eperspect/01_fall/vagus.html THE TALE OF TAXOL Florida State U Research in Review The tortured trail of the best-selling cancer drug in history began 40 years ago. A thunder-clap of uncommon science and luck, it’s a grand story still in the telling.—Frank Stephenson http://www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/fall2002/taxol.html |
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