UC Irvine's undergraduate research programs receive $900,000 funding boost
...nary Summer Undergraduate Research Experience will enable approximately 35 UCI undergraduates to explore health and wellness through a variety of disciplines from sociology to biology. For example, students may look at the social inequalities in access to health care or the brain's chemical reaction to nic...Biochip for detection of inflammatory bowel disease
...rials. The polymorphisms analysed are diverse and enable the establishment of the risk of suffering from the disease, its prognosis and the response of the patient to the pharmacological treatment. From a clinical practice viewpoint the implantation of the IBDchip has a twin usefulness: it enables the sel...Study estimates number of excess cases of coronary heart disease caused by Vioxx
...ase was matched by age and sex to four controls to enable a comparison of coronary heart disease risk among people taking Vioxx and users of other NSAIDs. People taking Vioxx had a 34% higher chance of coronary heart disease when compared with people who used other NSAIDs. Coronary heart disease was 1.6 ti...Rebuilding wounded veterans: Annual review of limb loss & prosthetics research
...bilitation practices, techniques, and devices that enable veterans and others with limb loss to improve their health outcomes, to participate in sports and leisure activities, and to perform the mundane activities of daily-living able-bodied people take for granted. March/April 2004 (Volume 41, Number 2)P...Two minutes of magnetic stimulation can change your brain for an hour
...econds of stimulation. Longer-lasting effects will enable scientists to use TMS to modify brain activity in conditions ranging from depression to brain damage. TMS stimulates the brain via a magnetic coil held outside the skull which can be moved over different parts of the brain. The magnetic fields creat...RelayHealth selected by Columbia University to link doctors and patients online
...a University Medical Center. "This technology will enable our patients to have expanded access to the quality medical care provided by CPPN providers." CPPN provides a "single-voice" for its members in managed care negotiations. As a self-governing organization of physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners ...A comprehensive response to HIV could prevent 10 million AIDS deaths in Africa by 2020
... the same time. As the authors say: "Treatment can enable more effective prevention, and prevention makes treatment affordable. Sustained progress in the global fight against HIV/AIDS will be attained only through a comprehensive response." ...Doctors must consider potentially inappropriate medications when treating elderly
...fying potentially inappropriate medication use can enable providers and insurers to plan interventions . . . " that would decrease the ill effects of these drugs on the elderly and improve their care....Consumers to benefit from organic potato breakthrough
...we hope that these blight resistant varieties will enable UK organic farmers to produce more potatoes and reduce the reliance of imports. It is encouraging that the supermarkets are recognising the challenges of growing organic potatoes and have started giving these new varieties a chance on the supermarke...New programme will train the next generation of health leaders
...infectious diseases. A key aim of the course is to enable participants to begin using their new knowledge as soon as they return home and one-to-one tutoring sessions will be used to develop strategies for their particular situations. This will be followed by a period of project development at home with lon...NIH action plan charts future challenges for liver disease research
... Improved means of prevention and treatment should enable a decrease of at least 20 percent in the age-adjusted death rates from liver disease in the United States. Liver disease is an important cause of sickness and death in the United States. According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control a...Mayo Clinic researchers find PDAs okay with pacemakers
...stalled wireless local area networks (WLAN), which enable users to establish a wireless network connection with computers or other data devices throughout a building or multiple buildings that have the necessary data infrastructure in place. The wireless capabilities allow physicians and other health care p...Harlem Hospital Center, Columbia affiliate, recognized for efforts to fight glaucoma
...ysician, Harlem Hospital Center. "This grant will enable Harlem Hospital Center to pursue an aggressive screening program. We are extremely grateful for this assistance from the Foundation." "I am pleased that the dedication of our Harlem Hospital faculty is being recognized in this way," said Stanley Cha...New technique scans electrical 'brainscape'
...y believe that their new analytical technique will enable unprecedented insights into function of both the h...e researchers used is an extension of that used to enable monkeys to control a robot arm using only their brain signals, which Nicolelis and his colleagues re...Surgeons pinch more than an inch from the arm to rebuild a micropenis
...e transplanted skin. Patients receive a urethra to enable them to urinate, and an inflatable penile prosthesis to allow an erection to engage in sexual intercourse. UCL surgeons performed the operation on nine men aged 19 to 43 with a range of medical backgrounds, including three hermaphrodites and two men...Long-term benefits for newly diagnosed patients with CML receiving first-line therapy with imatinib
...by the Independent Data Monitoring Board (IDMB) to enable patients in either arm to cross over if no MCR had..., instead of 2 years as initially required, and to enable patients in the IFN + ara-C arm to cross over to imatinib at any time, if desired....Medical negligence system is 'secretive, unaccountable and unregulated'
...sistency in the treatment of negligence claims and enable doctors to better learn from errors. At a time when several high profile expert witnesses have been called into question, the profession must make itself transparent to restore the faith of its medical colleagues and ensure the protection of the publ...NIAID seeks applicants to lead revamped HIV/AIDS clinical trials networks
... epidemic and evolving scientific challenges, will enable NIAID and its many collaborators to effectively co...rch structure resulting from this competition will enable NIAID's Division of AIDS to more effectively respond to global research needs, including those of pe...Researchers debate recreational use of PDE-5 inhibitors
...d. While PDE-5 inhibitors are technically used to enable men to have an erection when ED is caused by problems like diabetes, depression, hypertension or prostate surgery, others see these drugs as an opportunity to enhance their lifestyle through sexual performance. Dimitrios Hatzichristou, M......at improve quality of life or symptom severity may enable women to pursue vocational or social relationships to a greater degree," they say. In a 2003 study of women age 65 and older, Rutledge and colleagues found that women with larger social networks were less likely to die at a certain age than those wit...