NIH conference to assess state of medical implants
...be overcome? What information is necessary to evaluate and improve implant and material performance and device design? What future research and institutional support is necessary to ensure continuing advances in implantable devices? The lead NIH agencies sponsoring the conference are the Nationa...Consortium focuses on new mouse models of human cancers
.... These groups will work separately to develop and evaluate mouse models to parallel the development and progression of human cancers of eight major organ systems - breast, prostate, lung, ovary, skin, blood and lymph system, colon and brain. They will share their findings and work together to set research pr...Cooperation, not competition, to usher in new era of federally funded cancer research
...nsformation and should also enhance our ability to evaluate a range of biomarkers prior to their clinical use." While the consortium will share models and technology, there's the issue of publishing new findings-will this be a team effort as well? "Joint publication? Most certainly," Van Dyke said. "Some wi......y be overcome? What information is necessary to evaluate and improve implant and material performance and device design? What future research and institutional support is necessary to ensure continuing advances in implantable devices? The lead NIH agencies sponsoring the conference are the Office o...Study suggests that logging may affect monkey health
...dy, Olupot's findings point to the need to further evaluate the effects of logging on primates, says Melissa Remis, assistant professor of anthropology at Purdue who studies the impacts of human activities on gorillas and other wildlife in central Africa. "This is the largest radio-tracking study of African f...President Clinton awards nation's highest honor for science and technology
...ne research; for influencing worldwide policies to evaluate global environmental impact; and for exemplary public service; Robert M. Solow, Nobel Laureate and Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for creating the modern framework that analyzes the effects of new technology ...Pain drug reveals what most already know - men's and women's brains are simply different
...ical finding, and highlights,they say, the need to evaluate drugs by gender. Traditionally, kappa-opioids have been dismissed as ineffective analgesics inhumans, though the drugs have shown mixed results in animal studies, dependingon how they have been administered. The finding, published in the March issue ...X-ray studies shed light on frog deformities
...he biochemist responsible for the NIEHS efforts to evaluate whether agents present in the water may be contrib...this work clearly parallels some of our efforts to evaluate possible water-borne factors by analysis of water and sediments. We have not identified single cause......l tumor cells. These data further encourage us to evaluate the clinical utility of the AC Vaccine not only in melanoma and ovarian cancer (O-Vax™), but in other cancers as well." AVAX is currently conducting a multi-center pivotal registration trial of M-Vax in stage III melanoma and a Phase 2 trial i...AVAX Technologies' AC Vaccine™ improves relapse-free survival
... are collaborating with the University of Tokyo to evaluate the application of our vaccine to the treatment of breast cancer in a study, which is the equivalent of a Phase1/2 in the U.S. This strategy follows our continued objective to utilize the AC Vaccine as a platform technology to demonstrate the promis...Anti-convulsant treatment benefits disruptive, explosive youth
...e-blind placebo-controlled crossover study did not evaluate use of the medication in other forms of disruptive behavior, and did not examine the long term consequences of its use. Herbert Sacks, M.D., noted Yale child and adolescent psychiatrist and a past President of the APA, cautioned that the study, w...Biomarkers: testing for alcohol consumption among women
...team have "started a study in animals to precisely evaluate the kinetics of these markers and to compare continuous or daily ethanol intake with discontinuous or binge ethanol intake on their levels in serum."...Acid rain revisited: ESA releases report on the ecological response to acid deposition
...n March 1999 with three specific goals in mind: to evaluate the long term trends emerging from research data o...d be included in monitoring efforts. "In order to evaluate the effectiveness of environmental policies and programs," states the report, "a firm commitment is ...Carbon diem: Grants awarded to research that seizes excess carbon dioxide
... transport abilities. INEEL chemists will test and evaluate the composite materials....DFG to launch 21 new priority programmes
...development of new methods has become necessary to evaluate the flood of data. Scientists working in the priority programme Mathematical Models of Time Series Analysis and Digital Image Processing are going to combine methods to this end that have been developed in various scientific areas and compile new mat...Mice unable to synthesize vitamin C should become valuable research tool, scientists say
...as not been a good animal model system in which to evaluate it," Smithies said. "Breeding the vitamin C-dependent mice with mice carrying defined genetic mutations will provide numerous opportunities for systematic studies of the role of antioxidants in health and disease." A report on the continuing ...Introgen Therapeutics reports progress in gene therapy studies at annual ASCO meeting
...5. The dose escalating studies were designed to evaluate the safety and toxicity of intratumoral injection of RPR/INGN 201 in Phase I and II clinical studies for the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN), non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and prostate cancer. The analysis of b...Targeted Genetics presents clinical data on E1A cancer gene therapy
... study, initiated in December 1999, is designed to evaluate safety and establish the maximum tolerated dose of combination therapy in this patient population. Biological effect, tumor response and pharmacokinetic responses also will be evaluated. Data from preclinical studies of tgLPD-E1A, a formulation ...... detailed subsurface information that is needed to evaluate how a future westward progression of earthquake activity might affect the region. It also provides a look at an unusual type of microplate margin and gives further insight into the complex nature of intracontinental deformation along transform bounda...