NIH awards Baylor, Texas Children's No. 1 spot in pediatric-research funding
HOUSTON For two consecutive years, the pediatric-research collaboration between Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston has taken the No. 1 spot in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. ...... The NIH, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has granted Baylor College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics faculty members working...UCSF/Baylor team uses new method to measure bone loss in astronauts flying long mission
A team of NASA-funded researchers from UCSF and Baylor College of Medicine has used a new method to measure and characterize bone loss caused by prolonged spaceflight....... ....... The researchers used three-dimensional x-ray computed tomography [CT] to study the effect of prolonged weightlessness on the bone mineral density and structure of the hip in a group of 14 American and Russian crew mem....HOUSTON--(May 17, 2001)-A common virus that infects the heart is a major reason for heart transplant failure in children, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered. ."This finding should lead to a change in diagnostic testing and treatment," said Dr. Jeffrey A. Towbin, a professor of pediatric cardiology at Baylor. "It could also improve long-term survival." .The discovery, rep...