NJIT expert recommends 16 easy, affordable ways to make homes safer for people with disabilities
...ese ideas emerged from two current projects. One, funded by the Health Care Foundation of New Jersey, consi...f the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded the other project. Researchers assessed the abilities and homes of 80 older people with intellectua...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 2005
...and Engineering Science & Technology divisions, is funded by ORNL's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program. [Contact: Ron Walli, 865-576-0226; wallira@ornl.gov ] GEOGRAPHY -- Case closed . . . "Cold case files" takes on new meaning for geochemists like Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Steven...Not-for-profit publishers call NIH public access rule a missed opportunity
...a significant portion of the articles based on NIH funded research; It will limit the ability of scientific societies to partner with NIH to nurture the next generation of scientists and future NIH grantees; and It will create confusion and put authors at risk of inadvertently violating copyright agreeme...PET/MRI scans may help unravel mechanisms of prenatal drug damage
...caine exposure during pregnancy. The research was funded by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research within the Department of Energy's Office of Science and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The monkeys were obtained from the Primate Laboratory, department of psychiatry, at the State Univers...Premature births from inflammation and infection rapidly detected by proteomics technology
...P. Weiner of University of Maryland. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and Ciphergen Biosystems....Weight-loss and exercise study compares center- and home-based programs
... The study, conducted in the School of Nursing, is funded by a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health. The study, which began in January 2004, compares two weight-loss and exercise programs that are identical except for their location...Scientists discuss improved biopesticides for locust control in West Africa
...at Virginia Tech manages two large global projects funded by USAID....Heroes of the sea, Pew Fellows' fifteenth class tackle sharks, reefs, mangroves and more
...d projects across the globe. Their fellowships are funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. "The Pew Fellows chosen this year are remarkable individuals, and they join a network that has been 15 years in the making," says Dr. Ellen Pikitch, Executive Director of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science at the Unive...Columbia study suggests brushing your teeth may reduce risk of stroke and heart attack
... to periodontitis.The research is part of the NIH- funded INVEST (Oral INfections and Vascular Disease Epidemiology STudy) at Columbia University Medical Center and the University of Minnesota and the NINDS-funded Northern Manhattan Study. According to Dr. Desvarieux, one possible explanation for the link...Dartmouth Medical School lab blends DNA and technology to aid in crime-solving
...enetics in Clinical Practice: a Team Approach," is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and used by hea...enetics in Clinical Practice: a Team Approach," is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and used by health care professionals and students to study genet...Researchers blend folk treatment, high tech for promising anti-cancer compound
...he compound's effectiveness. The current study was funded by the Artemisinin Research Foundation and Chongqing Holley Holdings....NIH to investigate Ohio State University spinal injury course
...al exercises before they are killed. The course is funded in part by NIH. The university states that the class teaches a 'standardized' methodology for inflicting spinal cord damage. "These procedures are as unnecessary as they are cruel," says Neal Barnard, M.D., president of the Physicians Committee for R...Bird brains show how trial and error may contribute to learning
...tant professor of physiology at UCSF, whose lab is funded in part by a grant from HHMI. "It makes sense that one part of the brain has as part of its job introducing that kind of variability." Kao began with an experiment to stimulate the region of the forebrain called LMAN (lateral magnocellular nucleus of...Scientists disprove two tenets of common leukemia
...ch Consortium (CRC), a multi-institutional project funded by the National Institutes of Health. The CRC includes LIJ Medical Center, University of California at San Diego, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Ohio State University, Johns Hopkins University, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Mayo Clinic, and several sit......I is a 10-year, approximately $600 million project funded largely by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health. The first half of this project--a pilot phase that started in 2000--has centered on developing new tools and processes that enable resea...UCF stem cell research may hold promise for treating Alzheimer's disease
...h project are licensed to NewNeural LLC, a company funded by Sugaya and two other founders. NewNeural works to develop and commercialize products that improve the brain's ability to repair and replace damaged brain cells....Rat brain's executive hub quells alarm center if stress is controllable
...er, Ph.D., University of Colorado, whose study was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Maier and colleagues posted their findings online in Nature Neuroscience, February 6, 2005. Lack of control over stressful life experiences has been i...Chemical analysis of mushrooms shows their nutritional benefits
... important to the two commodity organizations that funded this research, because they had little information on these components." It was already known that mushrooms offer high-quality protein, vitamins, unsaturated fatty acids and fiber, but a precise carbohydrate breakdown had been elusive. The mushrooms...Green tea extract shows promise as an anti-cancer agent, UCLA study finds
...ents. The study is part of a comprehensive program funded by the National Cancer Institute and designed to prevent the recurrence and progression of smoking-related bladder cancer. In addition to the trial, the program seeks to develop new biomarker tests to help predict who will get bladder cancer, discove...Findings suggests that blocking estrogen may be crucial to lung cancer survival
... signaling," said Dr. Siegfried. The studies were funded by a Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) award in lung cancer from the National Cancer Institute to the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Co-investigators on the first study include Jennifer S. Lyker, Christopher T. Gubish, We...