OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
...ications related to weight regulation. "We hope to advance an optimized molecule into the first stages of human clinical testing later this year." "While a lot of attention is paid to the country's obesity epidemic, researchers at OHSU also investigate the other side of weight regulation which is not as we...Can you read my mind? W.M. Keck Foundation funds innovative brain research at Carnegie Mellon
...cessful, our research will result in a significant advance in the scientific understanding of brain function during language processing. Such an understanding will have a major impact on the study of brain disorders involving language comprehension," Just said. An fMRI study measures brain activity in each ...NIAID initiates trial of experimental avian flu vaccine
.... The initiation of this vaccine trial marks a key advance in our efforts to prepare to respond to an avian flu pandemic," adds Dr. Fauci. Sanofi pasteur, Swiftwater, PA, manufactured the trial vaccine, which is an inactivated vaccine made from an H5N1 virus isolated in Southeast Asia in 2004. Sanofi pasteur...Energy and sports drinks attack enamel
...contain other additives and organic acids that can advance dental erosion. These organic acids are potentially very erosive to dental enamel because of their ability to breakdown calcium, which is needed to strengthen teeth and prevent gum disease. AGD spokesperson and President-Plect Bruce DeGinder, DDS, M...Genes for alcohol consumption identified
...ence behaviour. It is being hailed as an important advance in understanding why some of us drink more than others, and why some people might be more vulnerable to alcohol dependence....Dealing with conflict in caring for the dying patient
... an 84-year-old woman with advanced dementia whose advance directive states that she does not want artificial... care so that potential conflicts may be solved in advance of the situation. The authors also discuss how showing empathy is important because many family memb...Breakthrough in medical research: New chemotherapy gives hope to brain tumour patients
..."This landmark study represents the most important advance in the management of glioblastoma since radiotherapy was shown to be of benefit over 35 years ago", comments Dr. Warren Mason, a lead investigators in Canada and head of the neuro-oncology unit at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Torono, Ontario/Can...Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
... biotechnology, government and academia which will advance translational research overall, including the effo...d research that this funding supports will greatly advance the probability of a treatment in the near term. The funding provided by the Foundation will enable...$4 million grant boosts University of Michigan campaign for a new children's hospital
...f $4 million from The Carls Foundation, which will advance the hospital's campaign to build a new facility. ...nts from The Carls Foundation have allowed Mott to advance research and care in the area of jaw-related birth defects and to establish a new diagnostic and tre...Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) biennial meeting
... Academy of Sciences. The Society's goals are to advance interdisciplinary research in child development and to encourage applications of research findings. Its membership of more than 5,700 scientists is representative of the various disciplines and professions that contribute to knowledge of child devel...Columbia study finds hemophilia therapy dramatically improves outcomes for bleeding stroke
...VII (rFVIIa) has the potential to be a significant advance in treating bleeding stroke (acute intracerebral hemorrhage or ICH). Published in the New England Journal of Medicine (Feb. 24 issue), the study found a reduction in hematoma growth (bleeding in the brain), decreased mortality, and improvement in ...Lack of specific collagen type leads to osteoarthritis
...ntrol mice. "These findings represent an important advance in our understanding of osteoarthritis," Guilak said. "The study provides direct evidence of the role of type VI collagen in the biomechanical properties of the PCM. While the mechanism behind the accelerated development of osteoarthritis is not yet ...Study finds new designer drug is potent treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
...bitor. "While Gleevec represents a major treatment advance for CML approximately 95 percent of patients treated with Gleevec achieve remission there clearly is a need for therapies that produce longer remissions, are active against advanced disease, and can be used when Gleevec loses effectiveness," says D...Single-donor islet transplantation procedure shows promise for patients with type 1 diabetes
... longer than 1 year. "Our results mark a distinct advance in islet transplant efficacy. We not only achieved...are." "While these findings may suggest a distinct advance in islet transplantation, further study in a larger population with longer follow-up will be critica...Faster, less expensive test proven more effective in detecting bladder cancer
...ended," Grossman says. The findings are seen as an advance in screening for bladder cancer, Grossman says, which is the fifth most common cancer in the United States. Five-year survival is 95 percent for cancer caught early, but it is much lower for the 25 percent of bladder tumors that are advanced when fir...Test could improve detection of prion disease in humans
...ll alive. "This research not only is an important advance for the detection and diagnosis of prion diseases, but, with the identification of protease-sensitive infectious prions, will lead to a better understanding of the underlying disease processes," said Andrew Monjan, Ph.D., Chief of the NIA's Neurobiol...Study finds new designer drug is potent treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
...stems. "While Gleevec represents a major treatment advance for CML approximately 95 percent of patients treated with Gleevec achieve remission there clearly is a need for therapies that produce longer remissions, are active against advanced disease, and can be used when Gleevec loses effectiveness," says D...Northwestern Memorial Hospital receives $10 million commitment to support preeminent heart program
...eam of elite specialists, enabling them to further advance a destination, highly specialized heart care center that will be amongst the best in the world." The Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute is co-directed by Patrick McCarthy, MD, chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Northwestern Memorial and one of the cou...Mayo Clinic identifies key cellular process in prostate and other cancers
...treatments. Their report appears as an electronic advance article of PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/102/5/1649 ). The research was performed on human cells in the laboratory and was found effective against human cancer cells. Researchers say it w......s study shows the headway that can be made even in advance of the national adoption of health information technology in physician offices." said Jonathan Javitt, MD, MPH, Senior Fellow of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, scientific advisor to ActiveHealth and lead study investigator. "Once electron...