Hopkins' Peter Agre receives 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry
...Hart, Ph.D., director of biological chemistry, the division housing Agre's laboratory. "He has been part of the Johns Hopkins family for more than 20 years, and we just couldn't be prouder." The discovery of aquaporin is an example of luck favoring the well-prepared. Beginning in the mid-1980s, he and his col...MRI accurately depicts spread of cancer to bone
.... White, M.D., associate professor and head of the division of musculoskeletal imaging in the department of medical imaging at the University of Toronto. Bone invasion by soft-tissue sarcoma is uncommon but requires bone resection. Bone invasion is associated with decreased survival and a greater proportion ...Salk news: A new view on brain function
...og devices to perform arithmetic functions such as division directly and economically, combined with the ability of digital devices to resist noise," he writes in Science . "This is an important era in our understanding of the brain," according to Sejnowski. "We are moving toward uncovering some of the funda...Deep brain stimulation offers benefits against Parkinson's
...wup," says Dr. Anthony Lang, professor in U of T's division of neurology, the Jack Clark Chair in Parkinson's Disease Research at the Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases and director of the Movement Disorders Clinic at Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network. He and his colleagues us...First steps towards a vaccine for pancreatic cancer
...e well anyway. Dr Maki, an assistant member in the division of GI oncology in the department of medicine, and co-director of the sarcoma programme at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA, told delegates that he and his colleagues had run a phase I trial on 10 pancreatic patients using a...British scientists receive Lasker Prize for discovering new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis
... based at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, a division of Imperial College London's Faculty of Medicine, at Charing Cross Hospital, began working together 20 years ago to establish which molecules in rheumatoid arthritis were driving the inflammation and joint destruction, seeking new avenues of treatmen...New study aims to prevent heart disease in pediatric lupus patients
...s and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The APPLE trial will be a randomized study in which half of the participants receive atorvastatin (trade name Lipitor), plaquenil (a treatment commonly used for lupus patients), folate and dietary counselin...Blood dilution during bypass surgery associated with kidney damage
...is of the data was supported by the cardiothoracic division of the Duke's department of anesthesiology. Members of Stafford-Smith's Duke team were Madhav Swaminatham, M.D., Barbara Phillips-Bute, Ph.D., Peter Conlon, M.D., Peter Smith, M.D., and Mark Newman, M.D....Organ transplant recipients face serious kidney-failure risk, study finds
...he Health Resources and Services Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "We compiled SRTR data on all the patients who had never received a kidney or pancreas transplant before they received their heart, lung, liver, intestine or combination heart-lung transplant," say...UNC study: Trails, places to excercise, streetlights can boost activity levels
...cardiovascular epidemiologist with the N.C. DHHS's division of public health; Dr. Kelly R. Evenson, also research assistant professor of epidemiology at UNC; Philip Bors, project officer with the UNC-based Active Living by Design National Program Office; and Dr. Ziya Gizlice of the N.C. DHHS's Center for Heal...New digital technique improves mammography results
...sistant professor at the University of Toronto and division head of breast imaging at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada. The researchers used intravenous iodine contrast in conjunction with digital mammography to evaluate 22 women with suspicious abnormalities disclosed ...Workplace exposure a significant cause of severe respiratory disease
...aper are: Gillian Earnest, MS, statistician in the division of occupational and environmental medicine; Melanie San Pedro, BS, project coordinator; John Balmes, MD, professor, and Mark Eisner, MD, assistant professor, both of occupational and environmental medicine; Edward Yelin, PhD, adjunct professor, and P...Oregon State chemist wins national award for synthesizing molecules in nature
...e of Technology in 1965. He is a member of the ACS division of organic chemistry. The ACS Board of Directors established the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards in 1984 to recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry. Cope was a celebrated organic chemist and ACS president. Each award consists of a $5,00...Chicago chemist wins national award for new ways to make drug candidates
...of Pennsylvania in 1986. He is a member of the ACS division of organic chemistry. The ACS Board of Directors established the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in 1984 to recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry in the tradition of Cope, who was a celebrated organic chemist and ACS president. The awa...Purdue chemist wins national award for new ways to fight cancer, AIDS
...bia University in 1988. She is a member of the ACS division of organic chemistry. The ACS Board of Directors established the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards in 1984 to recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry. Cope was a celebrated organic chemist and ACS president. Each award consists of a $5,00...New generation of smallpox vaccines to be tested at Saint Louis University
...nd associate professor of internal medicine in the division of infectious diseases at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. "A study starting this fall at Saint Louis University is being done to determine the effectiveness of two new investigational smallpox vaccines in healthy adults." The study will in...Childhood leukemia survivors not receiving radiation have same life expectancy as general population
...g-Hon Pui, M.D., director of the Leukemia/Lymphoma division at St. Jude. Pui, the American Cancer Society F. M. Kirby Clinical Research Professor at St. Jude, is lead author of the study. "The good news is that ALL patients who did not receive radiation therapy and achieved 10 years or more of survival after...Vaccine development sparks debate on changes to cervical cancer screening guidelines
... M.D., senior author on the paper and chief of the division of clinical and epidemiological research in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke. "We also need long-term data to understand when is the best age to administer the vaccine, how long the vaccine will last and its level of protection ove...Study affirms safety of oxaliplatin for colorectal patients with advanced cancer
..., lead investigator and associate professor in the division of hematology/oncology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "We found a relatively low occurrence of toxicity from treatment regimens that included oxaliplatin indicating that it may be a promising option for colorectal patients." Dr....UCSF-led team discovers possible cancer 'susceptibility' gene
...of rapid cell proliferation, says Balmain, as cell division will be occurring at an increased rate. Given this, he says, colon and skin cancers are particularly likely targets, as a diet high in saturated fat can prompt colon cells to proliferate, and ultraviolet radiation from the sun makes skin cells prolif...