Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) today is releasing materials presented to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in a scientific briefing requested by the MPAA last Feb. 23, 2007 in Hollywood on the health impact of youth smoking and the behavioral influence of films that depict tobacco use.
Adding the once daily, investigational medication REQUIP(R) (ropinirole HCl) XL 24-Hour(TM) Extended-Release Tablets to Parkinson’s patients’ existing levodopa (L-dopa) therapy significantly reduced ‘off’ time, allowing patients to continue their daily activities for a longer period of time.
British researchers at Harefield hospital have grown part of a human heart from stem cells that works in the same way as human heart valves.
People and organisations that in the past have been excluded from the process are now being invited to participate in decisionmaking about their own communities, but a new booklet entitled “Localism and local governance,” published today by the Economic and Social Research Council, questions whether it is really happening.
An international team of researchers has come up with a feasible way of making universal red blood cells from any blood type. It is hoped that it might relieve blood bank shortages.
Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are at the forefront on a number of seismological fields, including helping the world better determine whether an earthquake is big enough to generate an ocean-wide tsunami.
A new theory shows how wealth, in different forms, can stick to some but not to others. The findings have implications ranging from the design of the Internet to economics.
In the event of a nuclear or radiological catastrophe — such as a nuclear accident or a ?dirty bomb? — thousands of people would be exposed to radiation, with no way of quickly determining how much of the deadly substance has seeped inside their bodies.
University of Rochester researchers announce in the current issue of Applied Optics a technique that in 60 seconds or less measures multiple chemicals in body fluids, using a laser, white light, and a reflective tube.
Not necessarily, according to the American College of Physicians. In a new set of guidelines for clinicians of 40-something patients, the group recommends that mammography screening decisions be made on a case-by-case basis.