New centers to research, reduce asthma disparities
...ood Institute (NHLBI) has created a new program to accelerate research aimed at understanding why certain racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups are more severely affected by asthma than other populations and at determining ways to close the gaps in prevalence and treatment of this common chronic disease. The...Brain images from patients with schizophrenia will be shared in first nationwide imaging network
... of treatment of schizophrenia, we believe we will accelerate progress in understanding how a wide range of diseases are caused and how they can be treated." The BIRN research effort will be affiliated with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2] to develop large-s...Brain shrinkage in ADHD not caused by medications
...lanos. "While we do not yet know if medication can accelerate white matter growth, we do know that treating children with medication helps their behavior while they're taking the drugs. There is no evidence that it helps after they stop." Animal studies will be required to determine the impact of medication o...Fred Hutchinson oversees two grants of nearly $8 million to develop blood test for breast cancer
...dy. The Breast Cancer Center of Excellence aims to accelerate such progress by bringing together laboratory investigators, informatics specialists, clinicians and outcomes researchers, among others, to facilitate the translation of laboratory findings to clinical use. Supporting communication among the 10 parti...Fred Hutchinson Research Center awarded $7 million grant
...as created in 1995. The goal of the program is to accelerate transfer of findings from the laboratory to clinical application. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society established the SCOR research program in 2000, recognizing the need to bring highly specialized individual researchers together to interact and cooperat...Is a malaria vaccine possible?
...ropriate Technology in Health (PATH). MVI seeks to accelerate the development of promising malaria vaccine candidates and ensure their availability for the developing world. For further information about MVI, visit the Web site at www.MalariaVaccine.org . PATH ( www.path.org ) is dedicated to improving healt...Experts highlight cardiovascular and drug interaction risks in elderly patients
...-administration of agents may slow (inhibition) or accelerate (induction) metabolism, which could lead to toxicity or therapeutic failure, respectively. Unlike other antiemetics, granisetron is metabolized exclusively by a single hepatic enzyme family without slowing or accelerating metabolism. Thus, the risk ...NIEHS announces $20 million, three-center effort to pin-point environmental triggers of Parkinson's
...c origins of Parkinson's. Working together we can accelerate the pace of research with a dream team of multi-di...three strong multidisciplinary teams should surely accelerate progress in what we continue to believe is a winnable war against Parkinson's Disease."...FINAL ALERT: RPB Science Writers Seminar in Eye Research to be held in Washington, DC Sept. 22-25
...surrogate" sites and better training strategies to accelerate vision rehabilitation. BACK-OF-THE-EYE DRUG DELIVERY. Judging from clinical trials currently in progress, it won't be long before eye specialists have at their disposal long-awaited drugs for preventing vision loss from AMD and diabetic retinopath...UCI researchers leading the effort to understand the causes and effects of air pollution
...f vehicle exhaust from heavily trafficked freeways accelerate lung conditions including asthma. Kleinman uses the nation's most busy freeway interchange, located just south of downtown Los Angeles, for his tests, where he places mice already exposed to asthma-like allergens in specially developed exposure chamb...Cancer revealed: New $10M grant establishes cancer imaging center
...aboratory discoveries made by its scientists could accelerate everything from diagnosis to the development of future medications. The center is one of only five in the nation funded after a competition run by the National Cancer Institute. It will build on the strengths and use the facilities of the U-M Compre...Pennsylvania chemist wins national award for pharmaceutical research
...mes costly," said Zhang. "This way we can not only accelerate drug discovery, which lowers prices, but we can also help generic drug makers manufacture established drugs more cheaply." Nowhere is the need more obvious than with AIDS drugs, particularly protease inhibitors, which are chiral, he noted. Chiral dru...Sites chosen for public-private Osteoarthritis Initiative
...enters will provide the building blocks of data to accelerate progress in osteoarthritis research." The NIA is the other principal federal sponsor of the OAI. At present, therapies available to treat osteoarthritis are limited. Most current treatments are designed only to relieve pain and reduce or preven...Sutter Health announces plan to deploy Bridge MedPoint error-prevention system
...t also encourage the entire healthcare industry to accelerate improvements in quality. We hope other hospitals follow Sutter's lead and recognize that investing in quality can pay off both for patients and in reducing costs." Best-equipped BPOC "Our information technology taskforce concluded MedPoint was th...U-M Depression Center receives $750K gift from Eli Lilly Foundation
... the University of Michigan Depression Center will accelerate new programs to help people with depression get th...ters and heart centers. This gift will allow us to accelerate the already emerging alliance of partners to promote and catalyze such a network in depression."...Exposure to hepatitis C has no effect on antiretroviral treatment outcomes in HIV patients
...ure to hepatitis C did not increase risk of death, accelerate progression to AIDS, or affect immune reconstitution following exposure to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). A notable difference between patients with both HIV infection and hepatitis C seropositivity and those with HIV infection alone w...Study confirms air pollution linked to slowed lung function growth in children
...rtance of these findings, it is imperative that we accelerate our efforts to achieve clean air in Southern California," says John Peters, M.D., D.Sc., Hastings professor of preventive medicine and one of the study authors. Researchers have found that, on average, lung function growth tends to be higher in clea...Angiogenesis reduces leg pain from clogged arteries
...of positive randomized, placebo-controlled data to accelerate further research," Annex said. "This study is an important step in that direction." Patients with clogged blood vessels in their legs suffer from a general condition known as peripheral artery disease. This chronic,progressive condition is sim...Type 1 diabetes safely arrested with short-term use of new drug
...by the NIAID, NIDDK, and the JDRF. The ITN aims to accelerate clinical trials of innovative immune therapies in autoimmune diseases, allergy and transplantation. The expanded study will evaluate a multiple dose regimen designed to amplify the effects of the drug, in a fashion analogous to the repeated administr...Applied Biosystems introduces next generation production level DNA analysis systems
...omes. These production level systems could further accelerate discovery and significantly expand the sequencing market by making a broader range of sequencing studies affordable - studies previously deemed too expensive." Sequencing production capacity, automation, and efficiency are critical to expansion of r...