Study shows soy is well accepted in school lunches
...d the recommended fat and calorie content given in federal and state regulations," said Barbara Klein, co-director of the center and professor emeritus in the department of food science and human nutrition at Illinois. "The goal of the ISOY program was to show that products made from soy ingredients can help...Mental health service costs offset by savings in other public sectors
...ort to adopt the system of care approach through a federal initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The Penn State study focused on one of these communities in Stark County, Ohio, and compared it with a non-syst...Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
...ongress enacted Public Law 105-78, which prohibits federal funding of any program that distributes sterile needles for the injection of illegal drugs. Consequently, only 120 NEPs current operate in the United States, with funding from state or city governments, private foundations and/or individuals. Martin...Flu pandemic coming, US not prepared
...rch and develop new anti-flu therapies. Strengthen federal agencies' responses. The Food and Drug Administra...national to international, including links between federal authorities and clinicians throughout the country. IDSA is working with congressional leaders to int...Tracking trends in cochlear implant complications using a federal database
CHICAGO Changes in the format of a federal database for mandatory reporting of major and minor complications for medical devices, including cochlear implants, could make it a valuable resource, according to an article in the March issue of Archives of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery , on...HIV and ID doctors oppose ideologically driven STI prevention policies
HIV and infectious disease experts are urging the federal government to stop funding unproven strategies, li...ise choices." "When spending taxpayer dollars, the federal government has an obligation to provide accurate information to sexually active people," adds Paul V...Protecting human subjects focus of national FDA conference at UH
...that provide a wide range of perspectives from the federal government, private industry and academia, many notable figures will be in attendance, as well as giving presentations on topics such as the use of unapproved devices, bioterrorism and space research. Included in this prestigious list is Charles F. ...Multi-center study shows direct link between residential radon exposure and lung cancer
...ada. The original studies were funded from several federal sources, including the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Cancer Institute. The investigators' review of 3,662 cases and 4,966 controls from these combined studies represents the largest analytic radon epidemiologic ...End AIDS drug waiting lists, HIV care providers tell policymakers
...zing the Ryan White CARE Act, the nation's primary federal program dedicated to providing care and support fo...le. Patients need those medications to live. The federal government should guarantee access to these essential medicines for low-income people living with HI...Student identifies electrical changes preceding heart failure
...mong the nation's research universities in winning federal research and development grants. The opportunity to be involved in important research is one of the distinguishing characteristics of an undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins. The Provost's Undergraduate Research Awards program provides one of the...Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
...tes of Health in creating awareness and increasing federal funding for the disease....Pioneering nanosystems degree wins approval
...ing to the National Nanotechnology Initiative -- a federal coordinator of multi-agency efforts in nanoscale science, engineering and technology -- about 20,000 researchers are at work in nanotechnology today, and 2 million workers will be needed within 15 years to support nanotechnology industries worldwide....Many postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease don't use lifesaving aspirin therapy
...herapy than white women. "In the late 1980s, the federal government sought to eliminate such disparities between racial and socioeconomic groups, so to find that such a divide still exists illustrates the work that still needs to be done," he said. Berger recommends that consumers get more involved in the...Immediate access to antibiotics stems spread of sexually transmitted diseases
...gure is nowhere near meeting the objectives of the federal Department of Health and Human Services' 2010 Healthy People Initiative, which is 19 per 100,000, Erbelding adds. In the study, which was led by Hopkins-trained University of Washington researcher Matthew Golden, M.D., newly infected patients and t...NIAID seeks applicants to lead clinical trials units for revamped HIV/AIDS networks
...nd local government, eligible agencies of the U.S. federal government and non-governmental agencies. Four pre-application meetings devoted to a comprehensive overview of application submission requirements for the Clinical Trials Units RFA will take place at venues in the United States and abroad. The firs...Physicians call for increased funding for federal infectious disease programs
...urged Congress and the Administration not to allow federal infectious disease programs that are vital to the ... is necessary during a time of war and significant federal budget deficit, we urge the Administration and Congress to acknowledge the need for a sufficient inv...Rice's CNST awards Smalley/Curl funds for innovation
...ting the preliminary data required to secure large federal grants," said Drezek, the Stanley C. Moore Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. "Jason Hafner and I tremendously appreciate the support provided by the Smalley/Curl Fund for Innovation ...A Family's Guide to Living with HIV
...nsive AIDS Resources Emergency Act, which provides federal support for health and social services for individuals living with HIV. An estimated 900,000 people in the United States are living with HIV, including up to 200,000 who do not know they are infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Dur...Smoking hurts wealth as well as health, study suggests
...direct proof, but taking the study results and the federal statistics together, it seems that the money smokers spend on cigarettes comes out of income that normally would be saved," Zagorsky said. "It may be that smokers spend as much as others on everything else, and pay for smoking out of potential saving......efits with patients and their caregivers." Because federal expenditures for dementia are expected to triple in the next 10 years, the authors said it is essential to find more effective treatments. They said non-drug therapies should always be considered first, and that some small studies have shown that mus...