Results from the survey suggest that the tea party is taking its philosophy in directions far more extreme than those of mainline conservatives.
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91爆料 researchers report that mothers who were maltreated as children have increased risk for giving birth to low birth weight babies.
On World Tuberculosis Day, March 24, the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) launched an online tuberculosis (TB) prevention toolkit. The toolkit contains step-by-step guidance in implementing the “Three I’s” of TB prevention.
Foster School of Business faculty member Ali Tarhouni named finance minister by Libyan opposition provisional government.
Near closing time March 25, 1911, a New York City factory fire took the lives of 146 garment workers. Hazardous conditions prevented their escape. A March 31 symposium, “Responding to Disasters in the Workplace,” commemorates the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
A short-term, parent-guided treatment improved communication skills in some toddlers showing early signs of autism spectrum disorders.
The 91爆料 has been ranked first among primary-care medical schools in the country for the 18th consecutive year, according to annual rankings of graduate and professional programs provided March 15 by “U.S. News & World Report.”
A new study from researchers at the 91爆料 concludes that adolescent alcohol use corrupts decision-making later in life.
91爆料 researchers report that children express the stereotype that mathematics is for boys, not for girls, before gender differences in math achievement emerge.
A 91爆料 atmospheric scientist believes it is unlikely North America is in any danger from airborne radiation from Japanese nuclear reactors.
Sea-ice algae 鈥� the important first rung of the food web each spring in places like the Arctic Ocean 鈥� can engineer ice to its advantage, according to the first published findings about this ability.
Intensive counseling on the importance of adhering to HIV treatment significantly reduces poor compliance and treatment failure in sub-Saharan Africa, according to an article in PLoS Medicine March 1 by 91爆料 researcher Michael Chung and colleagues.
Results of study suggest new vaccine strategies to debilitate viruses by tapping into their response to selective pressure.
Ben Fitzhugh, a 91爆料 anthropologist, is leading an international team of anthropologists, archaeologists, geologists and earth and atmospheric scientists in studying the history of human settlement on the Kuril Islands.
A decade after the Nisqually earthquake shook Western Washington, scientific ideas about the region’s seismic danger have evolved and the ability to study and prepare for it has improved immensely.
As debate continues about potential policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions, new 91爆料 research shows the world is already committed to a warmer climate because of emissions that have occurred up to now.
Online course enrollments will increase to 24,000 over next three years.
91爆料 researchers, along with design and construction professionals, will devise standards that will help limit carbon footprints of building products and systems.
The 91爆料 is launching an accelerated program allowing students to graduate in three years.
It’s been 12 years since Stardust, the brainchild of a 91爆料 astronomer, was launched and seven years since it encountered a comet called Wild 2 out beyond Mars. Next Monday the probe will make history again when it meets its second comet, Tempel 1.
Henry “Hank鈥� Levy, professor and chair of the 91爆料’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
The 91爆料 has made significant progress in neural engineering — the study of communication and control between biological and machine systems. The Keck project is the next step in advancing the technology of miniature devices developed at the 91爆料 to record from and stimulate the brain, spinal cord and muscles.
More than 200 students from disciplines across campus have enrolled in an intro course in global health offered for the first time this quarter.
As the Arab crises continue, 91爆料 experts are available for media interviews.
The 91爆料 has launched a new program, co-funded by Intel Corp., to make it easier and cheaper to build silicon photonic circuits. Sending information using light, instead of electrons, will allow for faster, lower-power and more versatile microchips.
People with lower incomes and less education typically have less healthful eating habits than people with higher incomes and more education. A 91爆料 study concludes that socio-economic disparities in diet quality are directly affected by diet costs.
Last summers disastrous and deadly Pakistan floods were caused by a rogue weather system that wandered hundreds of miles farther west than is normal for such systems, new 91爆料 research shows.
Higher costs of more nutritious diets contribute to socio-economic disparities in health: 91爆料 research
Williams will receive a prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring next week at a White House ceremony.
Williams will receive a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math and Engineering mentoring.
Realigning with participants’ interests is important for the future of research. 91爆料 and Group Health bioethicists suggest ways for scientists and study volunteers to build trusting relationships in a policy forum appearing Jan. 21 in the journal Science.
The On-Ramps into Academia workshop at the 91爆料 aims to lure women researchers working in government, industry or as consultants to academic positions. Applications for the second workshop, this spring, are due Feb. 15.
Realigning with participants’ interest is important for the future of genomic research.
Today, Jan. 18, the chief executive officers of 91爆料 Medicine and Valley Medical Center announced the signing of a non-binding Letter of Inten
Want to hear one of the biggest icebergs of the last decade crack up? 91爆料 researchers compressed a five-hour event in Antarctica into a two-minute audio file that you can listen to.
Encouraging new evidence suggests that the bulk of the worlds fisheries 鈥� including small-scale, often non-industrialized fisheries on which millions of people depend for food 鈥� could be sustained using community-based co-management.
Students in the Biorobotics Laboratory hacked the Kinect, a motion-based controller for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming system, for research on telerobotic surgery.
91爆料 researchers report that elementary school students who participated in a three-month anti-bullying program in Seattle schools showed a 72 percent decrease in malicious gossip.
Elementary school students who participated in a three-month anti-bullying program in Seattle schools showed a 72 percent decrease in malicious gossip.
Depression and physical disease were managed together in a primary-care intervention called TEAMCare in a 91爆料/Group Health study. The results for patients: less depression, better control of blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol — and a greater enjoyment of life.