News tagged with years
Intense chemotherapy wards off recurrence in half of mantle cell lymphoma patients after seven years
Dec 09, 2008 |
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More than half of younger mantle cell lymphoma patients who received an intensive regimen of chemotherapy as frontline treatment remain in remission seven years later, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...
Global warming aided by drought, deforestation link
Dec 08, 2008 |
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In the rainforests of equatorial Asia, a link between drought and deforestation is fueling global warming, finds an international study that includes a UC Irvine scientist.
Are men hardwired to overspend?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bling, foreclosures, rising credit card debt, bank and auto bailouts, upside down mortgages and perhaps a mid-life crisis new Corvette—all symptoms of compulsive overspending.
Program to deter youth alcohol use also reduces conduct problems, study finds
Dec 08, 2008 |
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A University of Georgia program designed to reduce alcohol use, drug use and risky sexual behavior in African-American youth also reduces the likelihood of engaging in conduct problems by up to 74 percent two years later, ...
Moon geology could solve three mysteries of early Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Not much is known about the Earth before 4 billion years ago, the earliest period in the planet’s 4.5-billion-year history. Because Earth has lost almost all geological records of this era ...
Mayo Clinic identifies best treatments for long-term survival in brain tumor patients
Dec 03, 2008 |
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A new Mayo Clinic study found that patients with low-grade gliomas survived longest when they underwent aggressive surgeries to successfully remove the entire tumor. If safely removing the entire tumor was not possible, patients ...
Old as you want to be: Study finds most seniors feel younger
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Older people tend to feel about 13 years younger than their chronological age. That is one of the findings of a study forthcoming in the Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Science. The researchers analyzed the respon ...
Discovery of virus in lemur could shed light on AIDS
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 01, 2008 |
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The genome of a squirrel-sized, saucer-eyed lemur from Madagascar may help scientists understand how HIV-like viruses coevolved with primates, according to new research from the Stanford University School ...
Fujitsu's 'Laptop4Life' program gives you a new laptop every 3 years
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Buy any LifeBook laptop from Fujitsu Siemens, and the company will provide you with a new laptop every three years until you die. The only requirements are that you need to buy a three-year ...
Good pre-school and home-learning boosts academic development
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Attending a high quality pre-school followed by an academically effective primary school gives a significant boost to children's development. These are the findings of a new study which shows that a stimulating early years ...
Pseudoephedrine use common among young children
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found that exposure to pseudoephedrine, a decongestant found in many cough-and-cold and allergy medications, has been common among U.S. children, especially ...
Plate tectonics started over 4 billion years ago, geochemists report
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new picture of the early Earth is emerging, including the surprising finding that plate tectonics may have started more than 4 billion years ago — much earlier than scientists had believed, ...
26 percent of sleepless children become overweight
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Between the ages of six months and six years old, close to 90 percent of children have at least one sleep-related problem. Among the most common issues are night terrors, teeth-grinding and bed-wetting.
Glacial Erosion Changes Mountain Responses To Plate Tectonics
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Intense glacial erosion has not only carved the surface of the highest coastal mountain range on earth, the spectacular St. Elias range in Alaska, but has elicited a structural response from ...
Mineral kingdom has co-evolved with life
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Evolution isn't just for living organisms. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found that the mineral kingdom co-evolved with life, and that up to two thirds of the more than 4,000 ...
