Indiana University researchers closer to helping hearing-impaired using stem cells
INDIANAPOLIS -- Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are several steps closer to the day when a profoundly deaf patient's own bone marrow cells could be used to let him or her hear the world. ......The IU group, led by Eri Hashino, Ph.D., was able to transform, in the laboratory, stem cells taken from adult bone marrow into cells with many of the characteristics of sensory nerve c...Indiana a national leader in new federal funding for health information technology
Over the next 5 years, Indiana will receive $10.8 million, of which $9.3 million was awarded to the Indiana University School of Medicine, from a new federal program to promote the use of information technology in health care. It is the second largest amount awarded to any of the 38 states that received the recently announced awards. ...... The funding is part of a new $139 million initiative by...Grant expands Indiana University-Kenya AIDS program
The success of a two-year program to treat HIV/AIDS in adults and children in Kenya has attracted a one-year, $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development. The announcement was made today by Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.... ...The program, Academic Model for the Prevention and Treatment for HIV/AIDS (AMPATH), was creat...New Indiana University School of Medicine pediatrics program focuses on patient advocacy
INDIANAPOLIS Providing optimum health care to youngsters is far more than giving routine physical exams, making diagnoses, writing prescriptions and charting appropriate treatment plans. The ever-evolving role of pediatric physicians requires a fuller understanding of children's total environment and working with the community in which they live.... ...That's the driving force behind a newly cr...Indiana University orthopaedic surgeon to share cartilage growth research results
INDIANAPOLIS Degenerative joint disease is on the rise as the population ages costing untold dollars in lost productivity and medical expenses. Few remedies exist, other than joint replacement surgery, but a growing field of tissue engineering research is seeking less invasive and less painful ways to address the problem.... ...One of those researchers is Stephen B. Trippel, M.D., professor and...INDIANAPOLIS - Ultrasound technology, long known to expectant parents and used in the monitoring of fetal conditions, is making new waves at the Indiana University School of Medicine for its value in fighting prostate cancer.... ...A Phase I clinical trial at the IU School of Medicine investigates the efficiency and safety of using high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for prostate cancer. The...Indiana University Cancer Center receives National Cancer Institute designation
.INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana University Cancer Center has been recognized as a.premier national center for the study of cancer and the development of new.cancer treatments by the National Cancer Institute. As an NCI-designated.clinical cancer center, the IU Cancer Center will receive a five-year, $6.3.million support grant. The grant bolsters the $33.3 million annual funding.currently received for c...