New Test May Improve Treatment Of Kidney Disease
...he college. It is presented annually to an author publishing anoutstanding researchpaper in the journal. "Individualizing treatment plans for patients is not a new idea inmedicine, but this is the firsttime this notion has been applied to improve glomerular diseases," says Briggs. "A major problem incarin...New Book (And Web Site) Use 'Currency' Of Aging To Guide And Motivate Healthy Choices
...spentmy career building the necessary credibility, publishing papers, testingnew drugs, running a department and taking very good care of patients,one at a time. Now's my big chance. I'd better not blow it." He 's off to a good start. The book, published by Harper Collins, wasreleased March 3. An appearance on ...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...es like Wang Qi (1600-1688),who inherited a family publishing business printing "fiction, travel guides formerchants, examination aids, medical works, model letters and other how-to booksfor daily living." Wang expanded his house's offerings with a line of healthbooks aimed expressly at a new market of literate...Controversy Over The Effects Of Passive Smoking
...r this year. No surprises there. Butin addition to publishing the authors' estimate of how dangerous passive smokingis, the journal took the unusual step of running an editorial in the same issuethat appeared to rubbish the research findings. According to the researchers, from Tulane University in New O...Scientists identify new pathway of antidepressant action
...o improve severe mood swings. The researchers are publishing their study in the November 9 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft are thought to relieve depression by increasing the availability of one of the body's natural mood-enh...New publisher announced for Journal Of Pharmaceutical Sciences
...erican Chemical Society will discontinue its joint publishing arrangement for the Journal ofPharmaceutical Scien...ished it jointly withACS since 1993, will continue publishing the journal with John Wiley & Sons, Inc., beginning January1. Over the last six years ACS has enhan...BioMed Central -- freedom of information for the science community
...nnounced today by oneof the key players in the web publishing revolution. BioMed Central(www.biomedcentral.com) ...lishtheir data quickly and easily on the web. 'The publishing model of BioMedCentral is different from the current forms of science publishing,' statedVitek Tracz...Scientists construct interactive molecular model
... therapy. "This paper is breakthrough scientific publishing because it allows the scientist to actually interact with the molecular model in the publication," said Wolfgang Sade´e, Ph.D., AAPS PharmSci editor-in-chief and co-author of the study. "The electronic format not only enables the scientist to v...Women medical school faculty perceive gender bias, sexual harassment
...ation appear to be as productive as other women -- publishing similar numbers of research articles -- but are less satisfied overall with their careers. However, many more women than men also felt that gender had worked in their favor, giving them an advantage in professional advancement. While other studies ha...NIH awards grant to UCSF and Kaiser to strengthen women's health research
... in Biomedical Science, and help with research and publishing papers. A key component of this program is mentor...ds meet. "This program frees them up to spend time publishing papers, completing their didactic education and writing grants to acquire their own independent rese......unds. Require disclosure to journals considering publishing related research, something only seven percent of institutions do now.* Encourages all biomedical science journals to require and publish disclosure of financial interests, something only 43 percent do now.* "The consensus document developed under...Generic vs. name brand medications
...ations vs. their generic equivalents, and they are publishing their findings in a seven-article series in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association ( http://www.aphanet.org/JAPhA/japha.html ). Three of the pieces appear in the current September/October issue. "We feel there's a lack of knowledge o...New study provides mixed report card on informed consent to cancer clinical trials
...re using simplified consent forms for all studies, publishing sets of guidelines for informed consent to research, and strengthening educational programs for physicians and other professionals involved in clinical research. Cancer patients who participate in clinical trials generally receive treatment that is ...'Telephone Medicine,' guide for physicians published
...vide the best quality care for their patients. Its publishing program includes journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, electronic products, and books for the medical community and general reader....Costly cancer treatment aimed at protecting kids hearts offers no additional benefit
...tric cardiology researchers, has been studying and publishing about the long-term effects of chemotherapy on children for 20 years. This was the first randomized, controlled, multi-center study created specifically to learn how we can protect childrens hearts from chemotherapy, he says. What we found was that c...Iron supplementation enhances aerobic training in iron-depleted women
...educing their endurance capacity. Brownlie et al., publishing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, investigated the effect of iron supplementation on aerobic fitness in women who were previously untrained and iron-deficient. The 41 healthy women in the study, ages 18-33, were all iron-deficient but......tion Journal suggests the criteria for accelerated publishing may be inconsistent. To assess whether fast-tracked articles are as important as their designation implies, William Ghali and coauthors selected 6 articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine and 6 in The Lancet that were either prerele...American Medical Women's Association honors Dr. Marianne Legato with 2002 Women in Science Award
...are doing at the Partnership for Womens Health and publishing in our peer-reviewed and indexed Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine is aimed at showing the relevance of gender to normal human function and the unique ways in which men and women experience disease. As a consequence of all we have learned about wom...Columbia dental students chosen for three out of nine NIH summer fellowships in national competition
...tage of professional growth opportunities, such as publishing in scholarly journals and presenting research findings at scientific meetings. In turn, the recipients gain access to the state-of-the-art laboratories, clinics, and technologies --giving them the tools to undertake valuable and rewarding research in......ting blood vessels. The researchers are publishing their findings in the July 2002 edition of Nature Medicine, which posted the study as an advance online publication today (June 3, 2002) at http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/dynapage.taf?file=/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/index.html . The scientist...