NIH state-of-the-science panel calls for 'demedicalization' of menopause
An independent panel convened this week by the National Institutes of Health found that many women move through the menopausal transition with few disabling symptoms, and that it is important that menopause not be viewed as a disease. The tendency among women and their healthcare providers in the U.S. to medicalize menopause concerned the panel because the tendency can lead to overuse of treatmen...UNH launches 2nd spinout company with NIH grants
DURHAM, N.H.--A UNH physics professor's innovations enabling magnetic resonance imaging to better see inside the lungs form the core of the university's second spinout company, backed by three new grants from the National Institutes of Health.... ...With $300,000 awarded and another $2 million anticipated in NIH Small Business Technology Transfer grants over the next 2 years, Professor, and now C...NIH-funded UCSD rheumatic diseases center to facilitate collaboration, speed discoveries
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine has received a 5-year, $3 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for a Rheumatic Diseases Core Center (RDCC) designed to speed up the development of new diagnostic tools and therapies for the millions of individuals suffering from rheumatic diseases. ... ...The RDCC makes advanc...Scleroderma research receives a boost from multiple NIH grants
Ten new research grants on scleroderma (systemic sclerosis) have been funded by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) at the National Institutes of Health... (NIH). The grants, totaling more than $2 million per year, include both basic and clinical research studies. The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) co-funded two of the grants. ... ......NIH Honors Emory Researcher With Merit Award For Work On Renin-Angiotensin System
.The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.(NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted Kenneth.Bernstein, MD, professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, a MERIT award in.recognition of his "consistent and excellent contributions to scientific.knowledge." MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) awards extend the.normal time period for a.... Brand new ways to look at and evaluate medicine have flourished along.with the reach of managed care. But the language of population-based science is.foreign and even intimidating to many doctors, nurses and other health.professionals who were taught to focus on "the patient.". . Researchers at the Center for Clinical Evaluation Sciences at the Emory.University School of Medicin...Advances in Uterine Leiomyoma Research: 2nd NIH International Congress
The National Institutes of Health will host "Advances in Uterine Leiomyoma Research: 2nd NIH International Congress" on February 24 25. This conference will bring together researchers working in the fields of biomedicine, epidemiology, basic research, therapeutics, and translational medicine to foster an exchange of scientific information among members of the uterine leiomyoma (fibroids) rese...NIH awards USC $8.7 million to study tobacco use in China
Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 8, 2005-The National Institutes of Health have awarded $8.7 million to the University of Southern California to study genetic and environmental factors that influence tobacco and alcohol use among adolescents in China and the United States....... The new Pacific Rim Transdisciplinary Tobacco & Alcohol Use Research Center (PR TTURC) is conducting the research, under the d...Public interest advocates question NIH Enhanced Access policy
Thursday, February 3, 2005 (Washington, DC) Public interest supporters of the NIH Enhanced Public Access Plan today declared the just-announced policy falls short of their expectations and long-standing recommendations. In a letter addressed to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt, the Alliance for Taxpayer Access outlined its key concerns with the NIH plan: ...... The poli...Brenner Children's Hospital named to NIH Pediatric Heart Network
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Brenner Children's Hospital, part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, was recently invited to participate in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pediatric Heart Network. Brenner Children's Hospital will join 10 other children's hospitals in the nation conducting clinical trials on patients with heart defects....... "This is a real honor for Brenner Children...Brown and NIH create joint neuroscience graduate program
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The National Institutes of Health, the leading biomedical research agency in the United States, has chosen Brown University's graduate program in neuroscience to join its Graduate Partnerships Program. ......The program supports 300 students from around the world as they pursue doctoral degrees in fields ranging from biophysics to structural biology. ......Brown is one of 15 u...Alliance for Taxpayer Access asks NIH 'Who really owns publicly-funded medical research?'
WASHINGTON In a letter sent Tuesday to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director, Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, an informal coalition of stakeholders who support reforms that will make publicly funded biomedical research accessible to the public, expressed deep disappointment after NIH cancelled a planned briefing and announcement on new guidelines. No explanation w...2005 NIH Director's Pioneer Award program opens
The National Institutes of Health announces the 2005 NIH Director's...Pioneer Award, a key component of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. ... ..."The Pioneer Award supports scientists of exceptional creativity who take...innovative approaches to major challenges in biomedical research," said...NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "We look forward to adding a new...cohort of visionary thinke...NIH action plan charts future challenges for liver disease research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today released the trans-NIH Action Plan for Liver Disease Research, a comprehensive plan that addresses the burden of liver diseases in the United States and maps out challenges for future research. The Action Plan is available on-line at ......"Over the last 25 years medical research in liver disease has greatly improved the survival and quality-of-life...Ethics of neuroimaging research to be focus of NIH/Stanford meeting
STANFORD, Calif. - Learning about how the brain works often involves studying the brains of healthy volunteers. But what are researchers' obligations to the volunteers when those normal brains aren't so normal?...... That's the focus of a Jan. 6-7 meeting in Bethesda, Md., sponsored by the National Institutes of Health in collaboration with the Stanford University School of Medicine, designed to...NIH halts use of COX-2 inhibitor in large cancer prevention trial
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that it has suspended the use of COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib (Celebrex Pfizer, Inc.) for all participants in a large colorectal cancer prevention clinical trial conducted by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The study, called the Adenoma Prevention with Celecoxib (APC) trial, was stopped because analysis by an independent Data Safety and Mo...UGA researchers receive NIH contract to create a stem cell-based drug assay for SMA
Researchers at the University of Georgia have been awarded a $425,598 subcontract to develop a human embryonic stem cellderived test for screening drugs capable of treating spinal muscular atrophy, the number one genetic killer of children under the age of two....... The subcontract was awarded through the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Project, a model translation program established by the Natio...First US SARS vaccine trial opens at NIH
Powerful research tools that speed up vaccine development have led to the start today of human tests for a preventive vaccine against the respiratory disease SARS. The disease killed hundreds of people around the world before it was brought under control in 2003 with aggressive conventional public health measures. ...... Researchers at the Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy an...Supporters of NIH policy see publishers' gambit as possible diversion
Thursday, December 9 (Washington, DC) - Supporters of the NIH Enhanced...Public Access Plan today raised questions when learning about the plans of various publishers and patient groups that publish scientific journals to make a limited amount of taxpayer-funded content available through the groups' Internet sites. ...... The embryonic consortium formed by the publishers is called "patientINFORM"...Rice cartilage experts win $1.5M NIH grant to bioengineer TMJ discs
HOUSTON, Dec. 9, 2004 -- Bioengineers at Rice University have received a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop new methods of using a patient's own cells to grow replacement cartilage for surgical implantation in patients suffering from TMJ disorders.... ...The temporomandibular joint, or TMJ, is where the jawbone connects to the skull, and according to t...NIH panel issues State-of-the-Science statement on end-of-life care
Despite progress in end-of-life research, important aspects of this life stage remain poorly understood, according to a panel convened by the National Institutes of Health. The panel found that for many Americans, a lack of continuity of care and poor communication between healthcare practitioners, patients, and family members make the end-of-life period a struggle. ... ...In light of the proje...NIH convenes State-of-the-Sceince Conference on Improving End-of-Life Care
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will hold a State-of-the-Science Conference on Improving End-of-Life Care, December 6-8, 2004 at the Natcher Conference Center on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. A press briefing will be held at the close of the conference, at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 8.... ...Improvements in medical science and health care have gradually changed the nature o...Alliance congratulates Congress and NIH
Monday, November 29 (Washington, DC) The Alliance for Taxpayer Access, a national coalition of organizations that support enhanced public access to published NIH-funded research, today expressed appreciation to Congress for signaling support through the ...year-end omnibus appropriations bill for the proposed NIH policy. The conference report for this legislation recognized specifically that the...The NIH funds network to study drug-induced liver injury (DILIN)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a network of five clinical centers and a data coordinating center to conduct studies over the next three years of patients who have suffered severe liver injury because of both prescription and "over-the-counter medications," nutritional supplements, alternative medicines and herbals. The DILIN centers are located in North Carolina, Indiana, S...NIH launches new study to compare prostate surgery and drugs
BETHESDA, MARYLAND - The Minimally Invasive Surgical Therapies (MIST) Consortium for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) has launched a new study to compare long-term benefits and risks of transurethral needle ablation (TUNA) and transurethral microwave thermotherapy (TUMT) to a regimen of the alpha-1 inhibitor alfuzosin and the 5-alpha reductase inhibitor finasteride. The National Institute of D...USF neuroscientists awarded $1.1 million NIH grant to improve Alzheimer's vaccine
Tampa, FL (Nov. 10, 2004) -- University of South Florida College of Medicine neuroscientists have been awarded a $1.1 million federal grant to improve the safety and effectiveness of an Alzheimer's vaccine in a mouse model.... ..."This approach shifts the focus from treating symptoms of Alzheimer's disease to treatments that slow down the disease or prevent it altogether," said Jun Tan, MD, PhD,...NIH recognizes IU as leader in STD research
INDIANAPOLIS -- The National Institutes of Health has again recognized researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine with a major award, which bolsters IU's prominent position as one of only six sexually transmitted disease research centers in the United States.... ...The NIH awarded $7 million to establish the Midwest Sexually Transmitted Infections and Topical Microbicides Cooperative Re...Columbia Univ. Medical Center wins highly competitive stroke grant from NIH
NEW YORK (November, 4, 2004) Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have won a highly competitive $12 million stroke center research grant from the National Institutes of Health. Columbia is the first site in the eastern United States to receive this Specialized Programs of Translational Research in Acute Stroke (SPOTRIAS) grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disor...NIH funds seven science education partnership awards
Bethesda, Maryland -- The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today it will provide $8.1 million to fund seven FY 2004 Science Education Partnership Awards (SEPA). The projects will receive from two to five years of funding. SEPA programs are designed to improve the country's life science literacy by bringing together bi...UCSF receives $21 million NIH contract for sexually transmitted infection research
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $21 million to the UCSF Women's Global Health Imperative to conduct clinical trials for new treatments as well as prevention and diagnostic products for non-HIV sexually transmitted infections (STI)....... The trials will cover a full range of treatments and products, including microbicides, which are pathogen-killing topical creams or gels, and vacci...NIH awards OHSU $4 million biodefense contract to study tuberculosis
Portland, Ore - Oregon Health & Science University's research team is one of only 14 teams around the country that will help the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, look for proteins that activate the body's immune response to emerging infectious diseases. ......OHSU's team will focus on tuberculosis and will use cells from TB...NIH awards 1,400 new student loan repayment contracts
Bethesda, Maryland - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) reported today that it has awarded student loan repayment contracts to more than 1,400 health researchers across the nation in Fiscal Year 2004. ... ...This brings the total number of awards to over 3,200 since Fiscal Year 2002, the first year NIH implemented the loan repayment programs nationwide. The 1,407 new contracts for Fiscal Ye...NIH convenes state-of-the-science conference on preventing youth violence
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will hold a State- of-the-Science Conference on Preventing Violence and Related Health-Risking Behaviors in Adolescents, October 13-15, 2004 at the Natcher Conference Center on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland....... Many prevention and intervention programs to address violence and related youth behavior problems have developed out of need and have not...UCSD partners with Peru in NIH grant to battle malaria, world's number 2 killer
In the middle of the Peruvian Amazon, a battle against malaria the second largest killer of people worldwide will be undertaken by an international team of researchers led by tropical disease specialist Joseph Vinetz, M.D., from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine. The team will also study a variety of other tropical infectious diseases endemic to the area.... ......NIH awards Baylor, Texas Children's No. 1 spot in pediatric-research funding
HOUSTON For two consecutive years, the pediatric-research collaboration between Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston has taken the No. 1 spot in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. ...... The NIH, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has granted Baylor College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics faculty members working...Government psoriasis research funding down over last decade while NIH budget up 148%
Portland, Ore., May 17, 2004 Armed with statistics showing psoriasis research funding languished as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) enjoyed record budget increases, the National Psoriasis Foundation released its 2004 legislative agenda today as its members gathered in Washington, DC to meet with Congressional offices. The top policy goal of the Psoriasis Foundation will be to secure addi...NIH launches study of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severe, treatment-resistant lupus
Researchers at the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health (NIH) have launched a five-year study to see whether a therapy using transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells, blood stem cells found in bone marrow, can produce long-term remission for patients with severe, treatment-resistant systemic lupus erythematosus (or lupus), a rheumatic autoimmune disease that c...$5 million NIH contract to fund development of pediatric heart assist device
HERSHEY, PA Penn State researchers recently were awarded a $5 million contract from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to develop a pediatric heart assist device. ... ..."This contract will allow us to develop two blood pumps small enough to provide heart support for infants, children and teens," said William J. Weiss, Ph.D., principle investigato...Center for AIDS Research grant renewed with $8 million NIH award
The Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland Center for AIDS Research (Case CFAR) has received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health, providing a 39 percent increase in funding over the CFAR's previous award from the NIH. The NIH award provides $8 million for CFAR operations. Additionally, the NIH support provides the center with the opportunity t...Work on promising inorganic blood substitute to move forward with $1.5 million grant from NIH
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A patient who is losing large amounts of blood presents a medical emergency, requiring proper blood-typing and immediate access to multiple units of compatible blood. ... Health workers must hope that transfusing large amounts of blood doesn't add to the emergency and that the patient has no objection to receiving blood products. Then there are the cost and logistics of maintain...