Wildlife officials in Missouri are trying to get boaters to help stop the spread of invasive zebra mussels through the region's lakes and rivers.

Space & Earth - Environment

May 28, 2007 4.3 / 5 (4) 0

The incidence of antibiotic-resistant staph infections associated with being acquired in the community and not in health care institutions increased almost seven-fold in Chicago's Cook County Hospital system between 2000 ...

Medicine & Health - Other

May 28, 2007 5 / 5 (1) 0

Substituting soy nuts for other protein sources in a healthy diet appears to lower blood pressure in postmenopausal women, and also may reduce cholesterol levels in women with high blood pressure, according to a report in ...

Medicine & Health - Health

May 28, 2007 5 / 5 (1) 0

Women who consume higher amounts of calcium and vitamin D may have a lower risk of developing premenopausal breast cancer, according to a report in the May 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

May 28, 2007 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

ST. PAUL, MN – A simple personality test could help doctors detect dementia with Lewy bodies, a form of dementia often confused with Alzheimer's disease, sooner, according to a study published in the May 29, 2007, issue ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

May 28, 2007 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

Regular exercise appears to modestly increase levels of high-density lipoprotein, or "good," cholesterol, according to a meta-analysis study in the May 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Medicine & Health - Health

May 28, 2007 3.9 / 5 (9) 0

Though diabetes contributes to nearly a quarter million deaths in the United States annually, patients with chronic ailments don't always take their medication as prescribed. A Mayo Clinic research team has designed a simple ...

Medicine & Health - Medications

May 28, 2007 4 / 5 (2) 0

People whose blood shows signs of inflammation are more likely to later develop Alzheimer's disease than people with no signs of inflammation, according to a study published in the May 29, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

May 28, 2007 3.3 / 5 (3) 0

In just a short amount of time, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has bagged more than a thousand previously unknown dwarf galaxies in a giant cluster of galaxies.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

May 28, 2007 4.4 / 5 (20) 0

Northwestern University's Charles Bennett, M.D., is a super sleuth of potentially deadly prescription drug reactions. He leads a national SWAT team of doctors called RADAR (Research on Adverse Drug Events and Reports) based ...

Medicine & Health - Other

May 28, 2007 4.5 / 5 (8) 0

McGill researchers discover that coral reef fish colour patterns are responsible for the emergence of new species A team of researchers from McGill University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) has provid ...

Other Sciences - Other

May 28, 2007 3.6 / 5 (5) 0

Do you have an apple tree that hasn't produced fruit, or a berry bush with no berries? There are several reasons why fruit trees or shrubs may not bear fruit, but you can sift through the alternatives and hopefully find an ...

Biology -

May 28, 2007 4.2 / 5 (17) 0

Warm temperatures late into last fall are partially to blame for damaged wheat showing symptoms of yellow dwarf, said a Purdue University expert.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

May 28, 2007 3.8 / 5 (4) 0

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have greatly strengthened the case that supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies may have formed through ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

May 28, 2007 4.6 / 5 (27) 0

Astronomers are hunting an elusive target: rogue black holes that have been ejected from the centers of their home galaxies. Some doubted that the quarry could be spotted, since a black hole must be gobbling matter from an ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

May 28, 2007 4.7 / 5 (14) 0