Regents award grant to med school for neurogenetics
...iting the new faculty member and personnel for the facility is about $1 million. Nathan Berger, dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs, said, "Research in neurosciences and especially in the genetic aspect of neurosciences is one of our high priority developmental areas. We ar......uring ascent back to the water's surface. The HBO facility at UPMC is used primarily for carbon monoxide poisoning, wounds that are not healing, burns and other problems that may be helped by increasing the amount of oxygen delivered to the tissues....Why does an anti-depressant work for some people, but not others?
...he Research Imaging Centre, a specialized research facility at The University of Texas Health Science Centre at San Antonio. Dr. Mayberg is now with Toronto's Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care. In the double blind study, 15 male veterans diagnosed with severe depression at a Sa...NIAID events highlight global health research
...r. Louis Miller, who heads the MVDU. Tours of the facility will be conducted by laboratory personnel beginnin... The MVDU, located in NIAID's Twinbrook I research facility in Rockville, was established to help bridge the gap between basic research and malaria vaccine prod......splant pathologist working alone in a UPMC-managed facility in Palermo, Sicily, to receive real-time consults from transplant pathologists located in Pittsburgh. In the past year, more than 150 cases have been reviewed using the static image telepathology system, reported Yukako Yagi, at ATA 2001, the annual ...Wolfgang Glasser receives ACS award for wood chemistry, bio-based composites research
...help of the CIT, Virginia Tech established a pilot facility to demonstrate the conversion of carbohydrate-rich residues from agricultural and forest products, including waste paper, into fibers and chemicals. Fibers are useful sources for structural board products, and plant-based chemicals have been transfor...Extreme precipitation linked to waterborne disease outbreaks
...parameters such as land use patterns and treatment facility specifications, is needed to allow for the development of more localized predictive models," advises lead author on the study, Frank Curriero, an assistant scientist in biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "Such resea......posing data from a medical database with a medical facility and its available beds, staff, blood, supplies and equipment. The system will also provide alerts to patients in need of transportation to another medical facility. NavMedWatch allows you to pull the information out, organize it and put it in a displ...Dead leave stain of distress on mortuary workers
...slightly less affected and those who worked at the facility but saw few bodies were only marginally affected by their exposure, McCarroll and colleagues report. The study included 358 subjects who volunteered or were assigned to the mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, where all of the military personnel who die...Harlem residents suffer more from oral health problems
... program. A third medical and dental primary care facility will open this spring. The school also operates the "We Care" program, providing preventive dental care to patients with HIV/AIDS two days a week in Harlem. Dr. Zabos feels a comprehensive action plan needs to be developed so that these patients ca...Mets pitcher Al Leiter to dedicate Leiter's Landing Playroom
...t Giamatti Award. The worlds first and largest facility devoted to the treatment of adults and children with disabilities, the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine has been rated the top rehabilitation center in New York City by U.S. News & World Report for 12 consecutive years. NYUs Tisch Hospital, ...Health and fitness facilities need defibrillators
...ic access to defibrillation (PAD) plan at any host facility with unsupervised exercise rooms, such as those at many hotels, apartment complexes and office buildings. All health and fitness centers are also encouraged to implement PAD plans, including written emergency policies that are reviewed at least e...Intensity modulated radiation therapy at Fox Chase Cancer Center
... Center was the first and continues to be the only facility in the country to use a dedicated MRI-Simulator, located in the Radiation Department, in treatment planning for all of the prostate cancer patients. In addition to CT and MRI, physicians at Fox Chase use an advanced ultrasound system called the BAT...Brookhaven lab scientist wins Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
...earch Group, Fowler has helped the Laboratorys PET facility gain worldwide renown for its forefront discoveries. She has also been active in bringing Brookhavens Center for Imaging and Neurosciences to fruition. Researchers at the center use PET and magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the workings of th...Brain center searches for patterns
...Imaging and Analysis Center. The center is a joint facility of Duke and the University of North Carolina. The analytical technique of fMRI works by using magnetic pulses that produce telltale changes in the molecules within brain tissues that are already under a powerful-but-harmless static magnetic field. Si...New study explores pulmonary rehabilitation in women with emphysema and chronic bronchitis
...Clinical Trials Center at REI a 4,000 square foot facility that is dedicated to research in improving techniques to rehabilitate patients with chronic diseases. Harbor-UCLA Research & Education Institute, located on the campus of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, is a leading independent,...NIH-funded UCSD rheumatic diseases center to facilitate collaboration, speed discoveries
...ripps Research Institute, heads the DNA sequencing facility of the RDCC Molecular Biology Core. He studies autoantigens and autoantibodies in systemic autoimmune diseases and cancer, with the hope of understanding why specific large antigens are produced in various disease states. Mary P. Corr, M.D., UCSD a...UT Southwestern gerontologist offers ways to find the right nursing home
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...o identify people with memory disorders. Such a facility may benefit not only Alzheimer's patients, he said, but it will also help stroke and head injury patients, as well as those with schizophrenia. "We want to try to figure out, based on this approach to memory function, what sort of neurotransmitters a......essor and an investigator at the Waisman Center, a facility devoted to advancing the knowledge of human development. Without binaural hearing, different noises would blur together and become overwhelming. Thus, an impairment affecting binaural hearing could limit a child's ability to pick out important sounds...