Respiratory health endowment to coordinate public education about asthma
...eminate new knowledge about respiratory health and advance the creation of best practices in patient care. Dr. Martin will receive an annual stipend over a three-year period and then serve in a mentorship role on a Distinguished Scholar Advisory Council. "The Distinguished Scholar program allows speciali...Beckman Laser Institute to improve breast cancer detection
...nical trials and form commercial partnerships that advance development of the technology. "This technology will provide added insight into the origins of breast disease and practical approaches for addressing several key challenges in breast cancer clinical management," Tromberg said. "This includes detecti...Preliminary study finds stem cells in blood restore damaged heart muscle
...America. Still, Yeh says he hopes his research can advance in the near future....Device measures force used to deliver a baby
...ns device was one of six undergraduate projects to advance to this stage of the contest. During the week of Oct. 20, the students will travel to New York City, where the final judging and announcement of winners will take place. The assignment that produced the device came from design course instructor Rober......at it can add life, although no one can predict in advance which patient will be so fortunate, says Roy Herbst, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology. Herbst, who has been a principal investigator for Iressa lung cancer trials, can tick off on his f...Monkeys consciously control a robot arm using only brain signals
...ilitation methods for people with such damage. The advance was reported in an article published online Oct. 13, 2003, in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) , by neurobiologists led by Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., who is professor of neurobiology and co-director of the Duke Center for Neuroengineering. Lead aut...Pfizer's ZYVOX(TM) more effective than vancomycin in treating complicated SSTIs caused by MRSA
... moderate. "These data show that ZYVOX is a major advance from traditional vancomycin therapy as it provides improved outcomes for patients with serious MRSA infections," said Dr. Weigelt. "In addition, ZYVOX offers significant advantages by decreasing the need for IV therapy and getting patients out of th...Researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center wins lifetime achievement award
... recognize outstanding research contributions that advance the treatment and prevention of leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma. The award is named for the founders of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the de Villiers family, whose son, Robert, died of leukemia. The award consists of a medal and ...New treatment improves long-term outlook for breast cancer survivors
...acebo. The results of the study appear in today's advance on-line edition of the New England Journal of Medi...king letrozole, if they wish. "This very important advance in breast cancer treatment will improve the outlook for many thousands of women," said Andrew von Es...New treatment significantly improves long-term outlook for breast cancer survivors
...lacebo. The results of the study appear in today's advance on-line edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. The clinical trial has been halted early because of the positive results and researchers are notifying the 5,187 women worldwide who have participated in the study. Women on letrozole will conti...NIAID initiative addresses primary immune deficiency diseases
..., director of the NIAID. "The consortium will help advance our understanding by focusing research priorities, uniting established researchers with new investigators, funding small-scale clinical and preclinical projects, and creating or expanding research resources, including a cell line repository and Web-b...Study highlights efficacy of sirolimus stents to prevent restenosis for PTS with CAD
...drug delivery from intravascular stents is a major advance in medicine. With this technology, endoluminal therapy is likely to produce similar or even better results than bypass surgery in most patients, not in a selected few. The way this technology is being delivered, however, may have to be revisited. The...Wavefront LASIK advances refractive surgery
...od and Drug Administration (FDA). "This is a major advance in LASIK technology," said Roy Rubinfeld, MD, a spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology and an Eye M.D. at Washington Eye Physicians and Surgeons in Chevy Chase, Md. "With wavefront LASIK the visual results are more predictable than wi...UCSD-TCAG collaboration to focus on transformation of genome-based knowledge into health benefits
...ators, physicians and pharmacists can determine in advance which drugs will work best for specific individuals and which are more likely to cause harmful side effects, and prescribe the most effective therapies. While most humans share 99.9 percent of the same genetic sequence, scientists are discovering dif...Duke to lead first comparative trial of hepatitis C therapies
...tive treatment for hepatitis C infection. A recent advance in hepatitis treatment is "pegylated" interferon, which has improved pharmacokinetic characteristics compared to standard interferon, thus allowing more convenient once weekly dosing. In comparison, standard interferon treatments must be given three ...Tip sheet for the September 23, 2003 Neurology Journal
...lable at www.Neurology.org or can be obtained in advance from AAN Media Relations staff. Guillain-Barre' Syndrome in lay terms With the September 23 publication of AAN guidelines recommending early treatment of Guillain-Barre' to speed recovery, neurologists developed a summary of the guideline for patie...Roche pledges continued support for Organ Transplantation Research Foundation
...ng-edge research worldwide. Ultimately, this helps advance our knowledge in transplantation and save lives." ROTRF is a not-for-profit research foundation, whose remit to support ground-breaking research projects attracts new researchers with innovative scientific ideas, who aim to tackle areas of unmet medi...New blood test could detect lung cancer in its earliest stages
...a MALDI-TOF MS platform is a particularly exciting advance because current diagnostic tools -- such as PET and CT scans -- have had no obvious impact on lung cancer mortality rate over the last several decades," said Patz. The overall five-year survival rate remains about 14 percent, despite major advances i......m "These articles are posted on this site to give advance access to other authorised media who may wish to quote extracts as part of fair dealing with this copyrighted material. Full attribution is required, and if publishing online a link to www.newscientist.com is also required. Advance permission is re...Longer commute for cancer treatment associated with better survival
...ity of biased conclusions about which drugs should advance to phase III evaluation. The study, conducted by Elizabeth B. Lamont, M.D., of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston, and her colleagues at the University of Chicago, involved 110 patients with head and neck cancer who were enr...