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The CWRU-TV News Service offers the latest research reports for your morning, noon, evening, and weekend newscasts on BetaCam cassette. Customize your own graphics. Voiceover is on separate audio channel so you can substitute your own reporter. Includes edited feature plus un-edited B-roll and sound bites.
These features are free for unrestricted news use. All broadcast permissions are granted. The only cost is return shipping of the cassette.
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On This Tape...
TESTICULAR CANCER GENES (1:49) -- Medical researchers at Case Western Reserve University have narrowed the search for genes responsible for susceptibility to testicular cancer to a single chromosome. The progress was made possible by a strain of mice bred to make tracking of the cancer genes easier.
SOT: Joseph Nadeau, CWRU professor of genetics
BURNING MOUTH SYNDROME (1:52) -- A little-known oral condition known as "burning mouth syndrome" leaves sufferers longing for relief. Millions of adults suffer from BMS and doctors, did not know the cause or have a cure. Now doctors have found effective treatment for the problem with the drug Clonazepam.
SOT#1: Noreen Carlozzi, Burning Mouth Syndrome patient
SOT#2: Miriam Grushka, D.D.S., CWRU associate professor of oral diagnosis
CARCINOGEN SUPER DATABASE (1:40) -- A super database of known carcinogens is helping to speed safe new drugs to market and spare test animals in the process by allowing drug developers to compare harmful substances on computer. The database was developed at Case Western Reserve University, but now receives data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and researchers throughout the world.
SOT: Gilles Klopman, CWRU professor of chemistry
BAD NEWS E-MAIL (1:31) -- No one likes to give the boss bad news, but business experts say management needs to receive important information, whether the news is good or bad. Stephanie Watts Sussman, assistant professor at CWRU's Weatherhead School of Management, found that employees are more likely to give negative feedback by e-mail.
SOT: Stephanie Watts Sussman, CWRU assistant professor, information systems, Weatherhead School of Management