UM researchers discover 'key' to blood-brain barrier
...of allowing us to deliver new types of medications across the blood-brain barrier. It would be a boon to humanity if the blood-brain barrier could be opened briefly, and safely, to allow passage of a new generation of drugs into the brain," says Ronald Zielke, Ph.D. co- author, professor of pediatrics and d......s." When patients of the same stage are compared across racial lines, black women more often show characte...ates. In an effort to foster better quality care across racial lines, the NSABP and other clinical trial groups have begun to encourage participation by bla...Cranfield pushes for greater child flight safety
...nt Use in Aircraft' gave experts the chance to put across their views on this crucial issue. At present many airlines allow small children to fly seated on an adult's lap either restrained with a supplementary belt, that attaches to the adult belt, or totally unrestrained. Neither mode of travel is optimum...U-M health leaders offer an innovative framework for keeping academic medicine viable
...Plan for a four percent reduction in base spending across every hospital, ambulatory and administrative adju...ences to integrate the education of Ph.D. students across departments and other health-related schools in the University. Founding of a Center for Clinical In...LOS ANGELES -- Pharmacologists from across the country and around the world will offer more than 350 presentations during the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics annual meeting March 15-18 at the Century Plaza Hotel & Tower. They include: Why do Chinese-Americans ...USGS information available on recent MTBE risk findings
...s in cooperation with more than 2000 organizations across the country to provide reliable, impartial, scientific information to resource managers, planners, and other customers. This information is gathered in every state by USGS scientists to minimize the loss of life and property from natural disasters, c...UNC-CH study finds N.C. outpatient heart rehabilitation programs mostly under-used
... -- use outpatient cardiac rehabilitation programs across the state, according to a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study. Medicare would pay for participation in many cases, but patients often do not know it. "In 1995, heart disease was responsible for 31 percent of deaths in North Caroli...National Alcohol Screening Day (April 6) A national wake-up call
... anonymous screenings at an anticipated 1500 sites across the country can assess their alcohol use and learn...ramare key to halting the tide of alcohol problems across the country. National Alcohol Screening Day is a public health and personal health investment that y...University of Rochester awarded patent for class of drugs known as cox-2 inhibitors
...actively pursuing. Several studies by researchers across the country have demonstrated that the use of cox-2 inhibitors is able to reduce the incidence of colon cancer - and deaths from the disease - by nearly half. Other studies have suggested that the use of cox-2 inhibitors can also be effective in red......l) and this evidence was consistent and conclusive across all countries and centres (p<0.0001). Total costs for all inpatient drug use were also significantly different (p<0.0001) and were substantially higher in the olanzapine group than in the Risperdal group (mean $297.5 +/- $301.10 USD for ola......ctric that prevents ohmic paths and stops "shorts" across the windows. A second dielectric surrounds the center conductor where the fields originate.These structures are carried in a flexible catheter, along with temperature measurement from at least one location. The Food and Drug Administration requires a...ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Three quarters of states across the country pay for children in low-income families to receive some sort of alternative therapy through their Medicaid programs, a new study from the University of Michigan Health System finds. Though the total amount spent - about half a million dol...Patients with social phobia benefit from long-term treatment with sertraline HCl
...ects. The most common side effects of sertraline, across indications, include nausea, insomnia, diarrhea, ejaculatory delay and somnolence....Biomedical informatics research group develops teaching/diagnostic software
...team of faculty members and graduate students from across the university collaborating as the Biomedical Informatics Research Group. The technology appears so successful the United States Department of Agriculture has funded the group with a Higher Education Challenge Grant to develop a diagnostic training ...Study: crime, lack of PE, recreation programs lead U.S. adolescents to couch-potato lifestyles
... teen-agers enrolled in the seventh to 12th-grades across the nation in 1996. Data came from detailed, confidential surveys of teens about their experiences, practices and attitudes and included 3,933 non-Hispanic blacks, 3,148 Hispanics and 1,337 Asians. The team looked chiefly at patterns of both physic...Women medical school faculty perceive gender bias, sexual harassment
... sent to 3,332 men and women at 24 medical schools across the United States. The respondents were spread across age, gender and specialties and were asked 177 questions about demographic characteristics, professi...Minister Of Health launches Canadian Institutes of Health Research
...es for nearly 400 researchers from 22 universities across Canada. $ 6.7 million over three to five years ...ps for three months to one year in 16 institutions across the country. The Minister also unveiled a new annual research scholarship embodying the legacy of p...Risk map will help predict encephalitis outbreaks
...s indicators for encephalitis show up or disappear across the country. The hope is that a risk map could provide valuable time for officials to educate residents about the risk of encephalitis and prevent an outbreak. Mosquitoes get the encephalitis virus from infected birds and pass it on to humans. Enceph...AAPS PharmSci article says data mining via internet key to identifying human genes
...embranes that translocate substances such as drugs across the membrane, as an example of how gene sequence data can be found on the Internet. The authors explain that antibiotics have proven highly effective in treating infectious diseases. Whereas some antibiotics need to be injected, many can be taken ora......antly more likely to have stopped taking medicines across the 11 therapy categories most utilized by seniors. These categories were predominantly represented by therapies used to treat chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and hypothyroidism. The risk of discontinuation was greate...