Test tube baby saves ailing sister's life
In Minneapolis yesterday, doctors announced that a test tube baby successfully saved 6 year-old Molly Nash.
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In Minneapolis yesterday, doctors announced that a test tube baby successfully saved 6 year-old Molly Nash.
Thousands of years ago, a giant deluge of water from the Mediterranean Sea crashed against the Turkish coast, wiping out villages and possibly killing thousands. Houses and possessions disappeared under the massive cataclysmic floodwaters, which later became the Black Sea.
It all started when Frankenstein's misunderstood monster turned deadly. Then we had HAL, the apparently innocent computer from 1968's "2001: Space Odyssey" who methodically executed his crew. And a few years later, we had the Terminator, the cyborg with an unquenchable mission to kill.
The work of University physicians has helped bolster the fight against one of the deadliest diseases on the planet: lung cancer.
Imagine curling up under the covers at midnight, totally engrossed in "The Adventures of Huck Finn." Now imagine curling up under the covers with a blinking monitor in front of your face.
A wise graduate student once told me, "Once you become a second year, they're gonna forget you ever existed."
Someday the media will get it right. Recently Technology Review magazine ranked the top 50 universities on the amount of patents and innovations they introduced into the technological and medical world. All the big names showed up - MIT, the University of Rochester, Carnegie Mellon and the University of California system. But the University of Virginia didn't make the list.
The University stands to gain considerably from the 7 percent increase in national science research funding recently proposed by the Clinton administration.
If you are facing a long drive home and suffer from ADHD, Ritalin may help you get home safely.
Some day it may be the guy who takes the pill. In the next decade, new contraceptive drugs may give couples more options to protect themselves against unwanted pregnancy - and research for this type of drug is going on right here at the University.
It's not too often that professors let an undergraduate student miss school for three-and-a-half weeks to go on a trip, but in Lynnette Sobehart's case, her professors had to make an exception.
A University teaching program is carving out a future that someday will include third-grade students using electronic encyclopedias to research alligators and teachers using chat rooms to discuss how to teach geometry.
Although snoring is an annoyance among adults, among children it may point to a serious problem, according to the research of a pediatric and sleep apnea team of Pediatrics Asst. Prof. Lynn D'Andrea and Internal Medicine Prof. Paul Surratt.
If you were to meet the Santa Claus of the past, you would find an unmarried, slim religious man living in Europe.
The Environmental Protection Agency's investigation into waste management violations at the University will culminate with the release of a report next week.
Between 1993 and 1994, Newcomb Hall officials found floor-to-ceiling cracks in a stairwell leading from the Newcomb Hall Theater to the projection room. While it is uncertain when they initially appeared, Newcomb Hall Director Eddie Daniels now blames the cracks on the construction of the adjacent University parking garage and the subsequent unsettling of the earth.
Babies aren't the only ones - 30 million American adults wear diapers. But it's no laughing matter.
The gadgets in Psychology Prof. Dennis Proffitt's lab don't look like they could be of much use outside of an amusement park.