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Released: 16-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
E-mail, Best Medium for Delivering Bad News
Case Western Reserve University

A study has found that people usually are more honest, and distort bad news less, when delivering bad news via e-mail than through other methods, such as by telephone or in person.

Released: 17-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Same Ads May Reach Both Minorities, Non-Minorities
Case Western Reserve University

A new study of the way individuals respond to advertisements shows how advertisers, through careful use of the individuals pictured in their ads as well as other visual cues, can appeal to minorities and non-minorities in the same ad.

Released: 17-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Gene Changes Might Affect Hypertension
Case Western Reserve University

The first detailed, systematic analysis of how gene sequences, and the proteins they encode, vary among human beings has taken a major step in identifying myriad gene changes that may cause hypertension.

Released: 17-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Single Mothers Want to Work, Need Skills, Child Care
Case Western Reserve University

Unemployed single mothers would prefer to work, but often lack the job skills or child care to do so, according to a study by nurse-researcher at Case Western Reserve University.

Released: 17-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Green Tea Helps Prevent Rheumatoid Arthritis
Case Western Reserve University

Antioxidants in green tea may prevent and reduce the severity of rheumatoid arthritis, according to a study from CWRU's School of Medicine published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

Released: 17-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Follow-up Reduces Hospital Readmission, Cost
Case Western Reserve University

Elderly patients at high risk for poor outcomes after hospital discharge who received comprehensive discharge planning and home follow-up implemented by advanced practice nurses were hospitalized less often, less quickly, and at far less Medicare cost.

Released: 17-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Music, Relaxation Complements Pain Medicine
Case Western Reserve University

A new study by a CWRU nurse researcher has found that relaxation and music, separately or together, significantly reduce a patient's pain following major abdominal surgery. Tested in addition to the usual pain medication, these self-care methods reduced pain more than medication alone.

Released: 20-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Cities' incomes rise faster with more college-educated workers
Case Western Reserve University

Metropolitan regions with highly educated workforces fare significantly better in income growth than do regions with fewer educated workers, and the gap between the two is growing wider, according to a new study from Case Western Reserve University's Center for Regional Economic Issues.

Released: 20-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
CWRU physicists invent "supershielding" for MRI devices
Case Western Reserve University

CWRU researchers have designed a unique method that can remarkably suppress the magnetic fields outside high-tech devices such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines. Bucking conventional wisdom, their "supershielding" uses a short and open outside shield which produces the same field supression that an infinitely large shield would.

Released: 21-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Researchers develop novel mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland scientists have developed novel genetically engineered mice that exhibit pathological characteristics of Alzheimer's disease. These mice will likely provide new insights into the disease and its treatment. The lack of an accurate animal model for scientific study has been an obstacle to understanding how Alzheimer's disease develops.


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