National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
...esearch proposals were received and reviewed by an advisory panel of 235 experts representing the full spectrum of scientific disciplines within the purview of the KDI initiative. "We were impressed with the number of excellent proposals," said Michael McCloskey, NSF's KDI coordinator. "I wish we had been a...New Book (And Web Site) Use 'Currency' Of Aging To Guide And Motivate Healthy Choices
... ideas to health care. He puttogether a scientific advisory team to comb through the massive literatureconcerning the relationships between various behaviors and longevity. Theyasked not just whether specific acts, like aerobic exercise, strength training,wearing a helmet to ride a bicycle or flossing your te...New Anti-Inflammatory Drug Is Easy On The Stomach
...g COX-1." In April, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recommended approvalof rofecoxib for treatment of osteoarthritis and acute pain. The brand name ofrofecoxib will be Vioxx, according to Merck & Co., which manufactures the drug.It is likely that the drug will be approved to treat not only o...Less Toxic Bone Marrow Transplant Technique May Have More Powerful Anti-Cancer Effect
...hor Sachs ischairman of BioTransplant's scientific advisory board. Additional coauthors ofthe Lancet paper are Frederic Preffer, Ph.D.; Steven McAfee, M.D.; Susan Saidman,Ph.D.; Dina Weymouth; David Andrews, M.D.; Christine Colby, PharmD, and RobertSackstein, M.D., all of the MGH. The Lancet study was suppo...Workplace environment can improve eating habits
... "The experimental interventions involved employee advisory boards who workedwith researchers to identify ways to improve their co-workers' dietary habits,"said Biener. "For example, they encouraged cafeteria managers and vendingmachine companies to include more low-fat, high-fiber snacks among theiroffering...Study suggests potential new approach to glaucoma therapy
...h , M.D., agrees. He is chairman of the scientific advisory board ofThe Glaucoma Foundation, which also helped fund this project. "We're gettingcloser to finding the answers," Ritch said. "Although the current investigationsdo not yet translate into clinical use, this is the sort of breakthroughresearch that ...NIAID spearheads collaborative network for clinical research on immune tolerance
...dated Diabetes Research Working Groupand other NIH advisory panels, and is indicative of NIAID's commitment toimproving health for patients with a broad range of immune-mediated diseases." Participating with the University of Chicago to form the network are thefollowing: Australian National University, Can...Racial disparity in lung cancer treatment must be overcome, UCSF specialists assert
...ber of minorities whoconduct research and serve on advisory panels. In summary, the UCSF co-authors write, "If the poor statistics on survival forthe leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States are partially due toracial discrimination that results in inadequate emphasis on prevention orinsufficientl......n (D-92), a member of Yale's TTURCCenter community advisory group. "This is an exciting step forward for Yale andfor public health." In addition to the research projects, a key center objective is to interest newinvestigators in tobacco research. This will be accomplished through a varietyof career developm...LOS ANGELES (Oct. 25, 1999)--An advisory committee for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week urged college freshmen to consider being vaccinated against meningococcal meningitis. Moshe Arditi, M.D., the Director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Cedars-Sinai Medica...Meharry-Vanderbilt partnership aims to address racial disparity in cancer outcomes
...nderbilt representatives will sit on the program's advisory committee, and the program's students will be able to take courses at both institutions. Development of shared research resources at Meharry to provide scientists access to expertise and technology that would be too expensive for individual researc...Computerized prescription system reduces errors caused by bad handwriting
...Science, is considered the nation's top scientific advisory group. Rush's physician order entry (POE) system (also known as provider order entry, since nurses and other clinicians also enter orders) is a computer-based program that replaces written and verbal instructions, including drug orders (prescriptions...Interactive game could reduce heart attack deaths by teaching rapid response to symptoms
...E. It involved two types of evaluation activities, advisory groups and user tests. The advisory groups included two focus groups. The focus groups were medical faculty and clinicians at the Univer......n 1984-85 and currently serves on the editorial or advisory boards of numerous international journals. He served also on a study section of the National Institutes of Health and on committees of the National Research Council and the National Science Foundation.......y of Pennsylvania. The UCSF Center is guided by advisory committee members Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD, chair of the UCSF department of physiological nursing; Caroll Estes, PhD, professor in the UCSF Institute for Health and Aging; Dorothy Rice, ScD, professor in the UCSF Institute for Health and Aging,..."Dutch Nobel Prize" for three researchers
...onal recognition in the form of awards, scientific advisory positions and invitations to address congresses. She has an impressive list of international publications. Her articles in such periodicals as the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet have given enormous prestige to the clinical research in...Wolfgang Glasser receives ACS award for wood chemistry, bio-based composites research
...alth science products. He serves on the editorial advisory boards for Holzforschung, Cellulose Chemistry and Technology, and the Journal of Applied Polymer Scienc, and was recently been named editor-in-chief of the journal Cellulose. For five years, Glasser served as associate dean for research and graduat...Researchers recommend community advisory boards to prevent lapses in informed consent
CHAPEL HILL Expanding the use of community advisory boards could go a long way toward preventing lapse...ersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Community advisory boards reinforce the importance of community involvement in the decision-making process from the inc...Rollins family gives $4.2 million to establish new Office of Public Health Preparedness at Emory
... service: Experts from the Office will work in an advisory capacity with government agencies as well as foundations and other private organizations to address public health needs related to bioterrorism, emerging infectious diseases, and other public health threats. Dr. Berkelman, a native Atlantan, served...