OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
...ulation and Associated Disorders is a new research institute at Oregon Health & Science University in which scientists and physicians work together to address the important basic and clinical questions surrounding weight regulation. Researchers at OHSU have been involved in a number of key weight regulation di...The Lancet calls for the creation of a world institute for risk evaluation
...rld Institute for Risk Evaluation-- WIRE. This new institute would be an independent research-based agency, mandated to assess and adjudicate global risks. Evidence would be systematically gathered and peer-reviewed, risks would be quantified and prioritised, and issues would be targeted prospectively rather t...NIH action plan charts future challenges for liver disease research
...and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the NIH institute with lead responsibility for drafting the plan. "This trans-NIH plan summarizes challenges to advancing liver disease research and delineates the major goals for future research." Goals of the Action Plan for Liver Disease Research include: Improv...Ethics of neuroimaging research to be focus of NIH/Stanford meeting
...so timely that eight of the NIH institutes and two institute directors will be represented at the meeting. Illes said right now research groups handle these abnormalities, which they call incidental findings, in different ways. Some try to address all cases while others hold the view that when people volunteer...Assessing the season: LSU hurricane experts learned lessons during Hurricane Season 2004
...e landfall of Opal," he said. Studies conducted by institute researchers have monitored some of the worst-impacted areas for more than 10 years and captured the full effects of Ivan and Opal. Their work detailed the recovery process after Opal and the response of barrier islands to Ivan. Stone said they discov...Fred Hutchinson receives $9.7 million to lead early detection consortium
... addition to providing these key technologies, the institute will lend its expertise in designing mathematical tools and software for data analysis. ISB founding member Ruedi Aebersold, Ph.D., and senior research scientist Julian Watts, Ph.D., will oversee this effort.Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Ric...Immigration & psychiatric disorders
...e on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the NIH institute that conducted the study. "Additional careful research is required to fully understand the influences of individual and environmental factors in the causes of psychiatric disorders." "As often occurs, our epidemiologists--researchers who study ...Ongoing transfusions needed to avoid strokes in children with sickle cell disease
...BI because of the obvious transfusion benefit. The institute issued a physician advisory recommending regular transcranial Doppler studies in children age 2-16 with sickle cell disease and consideration of transfusions in children at risk. STOP II sought to determine whether the normalizing benefits of 30-plus...Radiologists use MRI to keep basketball players on their feet
...es individually with MRI, physicians can evaluate, institute appropriate therapy and document potential problems for further evaluation," Dr. Major said. The study examined 26 elite college basketball players prior to the 2003 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) season. Twenty-five of the ...Early detection reduces threat of foot injury in college basketball players
...es individually with MRI, physicians can evaluate, institute appropriate therapy and document potential problems for further evaluation," Major said. ...What happens in the brain when we remember our own past?
...using five intrepid volunteers drawn from research institute staff who were interested in memory research. Although the number of volunteers is small for this sort of study, the findings were robust and have been replicated in a larger sample. "I got the idea for doing this one day when I came across a lette...Data suggest ADDERALL XR significantly improved simulated driving in young adults with ADHD
...pport Phase III and Phase IV clinical trials. The institute specializes in computer-based neurocognitive testing and driving simulation. In addition, professional staff members are frequent lecturers at national and international medical and scientific meetings.......he study was supported by grants from the National institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and an appointment to the Research Participation Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science...Designing an ultrasensitive 'optical nose' for chemicals
...es of atmospheric gases. Ye works at JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder. The technique is a product of years of work and several innovations by NIST scientists. A gas sample is placed in an optical cavity containing two highly reflective mirrors. An infrared laser beam is...Eight New Hartford doctoral fellows in Geriatric Social Work selected
...on an Aging Society serves as the Society's policy institute and forum on aging issues. The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education is a special unit within the Society that focuses on education and training issues. More information about GSA is available at http://www.geron.org/ . Founded in 1929, ...VA beats managed care for diabetes, study finds
...t that the VA's national system makes it easier to institute sweeping changes and to monitor whether those changes are making a difference in how patients get care, whereas managed care organizations are working individually with fewer resources and often must implement change one step at a time. In addition t...University of Pittsburgh and French National Institute begin scientific collaboration
...ement that is the first of its kind for the French institute and an academic medical center in North America. Similar agreements are pending between INSERM, an organization analogous to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and institutions in Canada and Boston. The international agreement marks a substantiv...Baclofen holds promise for cocaine treatment
...pulations led by Shoptaw at UCLA and funded by the institute is scheduled to begin in February 2004. Shoptaw conducts his research as part of the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, a unit of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, and as a principal investigator with Friends Research Institute....Investigative study of stent grafting
...Surgery at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He heads an institute team of physicianscientists who are seeking better ways to prevent aneurysm ruptures and reduce surgical risks to patients. Dr. White has recently begun surgery in the VALOR trial, an effort to determine the safety and efficacy of the investigationa......e Institute of Medicine reported on the issue. The institute found that medical errors may be responsible for up to 98,000 deaths in hospitals and cost the U.S. health care system approximately $38 billion per year. Despite a wide array of quality, policy and financial incentives to use CPOE, fewer than 10...