Prostate cancer program at UCLAs Jonsson Cancer Center designated a site of research excellence
...ere at the point now where we can make significant advances in prevention, detection and treatment, deKernion said. UCLAs Jonsson Cancer Center is the only prostate cancer SPORE in Southern California, and one of only nine in the United States. This year alone, an estimated 189,000 American men will be diagno...Beijing conference to address lung cancer crisis in China
...y translational in nature with the intent to bring advances from the laboratory to clinical application. Its scientists focus on genomic analysis of lung cancer and mesothelioma and application of gene therapy and oncolytic viral gene therapy for these malignancies. UCSF is one of 30 centers in a National Can...Patients with chronic illness not benefiting from advances in care
...ents with chronic diseases are not benefiting from advances in care because of a lack of financial and staff resources, inadequate information systems, and doctors' heavy workload, argue US researchers in this week's BMJ. They assessed the extent to which evidence-based chronic care management processes and c...Endovascular coils beat neurosurgery for treating brain haemorrhage
...rther bleeding a risky invasive procedure despite advances in techniques. Relatively few patients return to a normal lifestyle and many are left with persistent disability. In 1990 the alternative of the detachable platinum coil became available. The coil is introduced into a major artery in the groin inside...Brain images from patients with schizophrenia will be shared in first nationwide imaging network
...re behavioral data," said UCSD's Ellisman. "Using advances in information engineering and broadband networking on the causes and effects 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 resear...New horizons in cortical cartography
... Essen says, because a growing number of technical advances have greatly accelerated the pace at which neuroscientists acquire experimental data about cerebral and cerebellar cortex. Nonetheless, science still has a long way to go. "Our present level of understanding of cortical organization and function rem......, Heikki Joensuu and colleagues discuss the recent advances in understanding of these difficult-to-treat tumours and discusses the impact of imatinib on outcome for patients with GISTs. The authors conclude that imatinib "has provided physicians with a well-tolerated and highly effective therapeutic option fo...NIDA sponsors Frontiers in Addiction Research at Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Orlando
...om a wide array of scientific disciplines to share advances and discuss future directions in the neuroscience of drug abuse and related areas. The symposia will run from 9:00 a.m. to9 p.m. on Friday, November 1 and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, November 2. The schedule is as follows: Friday, November ...Distortion and lack of openness - Information provision from the pharmaceutical industry
...ir commercially determined goals represent genuine advances in health-care provision, but most often they are implicated in excessive and costly production of information that is largely kept secret, often duplicated, and can risk undermining the best interests of patients and society." Ike Iheanacho conclude...University of Pittsburgh researchers link gene to depressive disorders in women
...or susceptibility genes may provide more immediate advances in the treatment of major depression. For example, individuals with particular genetic markers in these regions may respond better to particular current treatments than others. This strategy may enable clinicans to use genetic markers to better match...Perception of punishment undermines HIV treatment adherence
Although advances in drug therapies have made HIV a manageable illness, patients' negative attitudes about the disease may undermine treatment, according to new research. Perhaps the most disturbing attitude among many people with HIV is that their infection is "punis...New technology separates cancer from benign tumors
...trast substance leaks from the blood vessels as it advances in the circulatory system. Thereby, we can also determine quite accurately if the tumor is cancerous or not. The blood vessel network is as a rule greater in the cancer tumor than in a benign one. The blood vessels in a cancer tumor also leak more th...NIAID releases 20th anniversary edition of Jordan Report on vaccine research
...field of vaccinology. Recent years have seen rapid advances in our understanding of the immune system and how it interacts with pathogens. Technological advances such as recombinant DNA technology, microbial genome sequencing and the ability to synthesize organi...Asthma severity is variable and unpredictable
...eath and chest tightness. Though there is no cure, advances in research and preventative treatments in the past decade have made asthma a more controllable condition. Yet, for many of the 24.7 million Americans who have been diagnosed with asthma at some point in their lives,2 the disease remains out of cont...Fluorine chemists take their expertise to the sunshine state
... andrew.e.feiring@usa.dupont.com ) Computer chip advances (Computational approaches to the design of 157 nanometer photoresists) In the design of faster computers, new chemicals are being used to make new computer chips with refined features. The presenter will highlight these new computational approach...Study: old age wont boost health-care costs as much as some have predicted
...rugs, surgery and high-tech equipment. While those advances are good, they are going to cost money that we can't estimate yet." ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for January (second issue)
...ess of the problem, the researchers point out that advances in diagnosis and treatment have led to substantial increases in survival. Yet, in light of the progressive nature of the disease, the question of disability always arises. The investigators said that educational and work accomplishments of their stu...UF researchers report: Immunosuppressant drug prevents late rejection of transplanted kidneys
...erformed in the United States. Although remarkable advances in organ transplantation have made headlines in recent decades, preventing the body from recognizing a transplanted organ as foreign has impeded long-term survival for many patients. "One of the big questions has been how long you should stay on thi...Brookhaven spotlights: News from the March 2003 American Chemical Society Meeting
...mics, and imaging methods have achieved tremendous advances in velocity resolution," Suits says. "So we have combined both methods to explore the detailed dynamics of the reactions of oxygen with alkanes, which are hydrocarbons such as natural gas and fossil fuels." By using this approach, Suits and his colle...Parkinsons symptoms indicated for first time on pet scans of brains of living patients
...while a cure may be years away, a number of recent advances have improved the treatment of Parkinson's and give hope for "neuroprotective" therapies that would delay the progression of the disease. The University of Pittsburgh has one of the most active research efforts in Parkinson's disease in the country, ...