Improving accuracy of cross-cultural neuropsychological testing
...gated schooling, shorter school years, and limited funding devoted to African American schools in the 1920s and 1930s explain the poorer quality of education for the African Americans in the study. Many elderly African Americans, now living in New York, were educated in the rural South where state school boa...... changed to be more companionable," she says. With funding from the Alzheimer's Association (USA), the Melbourne Women's Midlife Health Project is now investigating if declining hormones levels also affect women's memory. Professor Victor Henderson, a visiting academic from the University of Arkansas for Med...UCSF health economists urge global AIDS fund to finance prevention first
...aharan Africa is 28 times more cost-effective than funding highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), even when HAART is priced extremely conservatively, according to UCSF researchers. Focusing first on relatively inexpensive prevention efforts such as ensuring a safe blood supply, using antiretrovirals t...Studying smallpox without smallpox
...rists has prompted the U.S. Government to increase funding for research involving the study of anthrax, variola, and other dangerous pathogens. Variola attacks only humans, and is fatal in 30 to 40 percent of cases. The only current defense against smallpox is containment, supportive measures, and vaccinatio...Experts recommend increased funding, focus on resuscitation science
DALLAS, May 28 Increased research, education and funding will improve the treatment of people who experienc...iller of Americans, but it gets less than half the funding devoted to cancer research, says co-author Max Harry Weil, M.D., Ph.D., of the Institute of Critical...Despite resources, at-risk infants in US fare no better, researchers find
...ption and prenatal care and suggest the US improve funding and access for reproductive care, while retaining ...e are marked differences beyond the four countries funding levels. The availability of health insurance and the organization of physicians, clinics and hospita...Medical press releases may exaggerate results and fail to include study limitations
..., the format least prone to exaggeration. Industry funding was noted in only 22 percent of 23 studies receiving such funding." The authors write: "A number of authors have criticized the accuracy and balance of the news media in reporting on medical science. As a direct means of communication between medical...Other highlights in the June 5 issue of JNCI
...on the quality of cancer care; they recommend that funding be increased to support data collection by cancer registries. Blocking Growth Factor Receptor Prevents Local But Not Distant Metastases Blocking signaling by the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3 (VEGFR-3), which stimulates tumor lymp...Learn and Serve announcement and call for proposals
...ite at http://www.gt.pitt.edu . The next round of funding for Intergenerational Service Learning through this grant from the Corporation for National Service Learning will be selected later this year. Requests for Proposals will be available on June 1st, 2002. The proposals will be due to the reviewers by...NIAID expands vaccine testing network
...ew VTEU contracts will last five years; first-year funding is $23.3 million. The new VTEUs and principal investigators (PIs) are listed below: Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas PI: Wendy Keitel, M.D. Cincinnati University Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, Ohio PI: David Bernstein, M.D. H...Smart solutions for clearer vision
... Eye Research and Technology are hoping to attract funding to start human trials in the near future....Dartmouth researchers question use of tobacco funds
...ork City has not made good use of public assets in funding the study. They conclude that NY-ELCAP will be unable to determine whether screening for lung cancer with spiral CT will save lives. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the US, with a five-year survival of less than 20 percent; smokin...CWRU/University Hospitals of Cleveland researchers investigate new cancer treatment
...ndary of the tumor tissue," said Gao. "Our current funding from the National Cancer Institute provides the necessary support and brings us closer to a viable treatment option." The researchers are confident that their polymer device will be of interest to clinical oncologists, radiologists and others in th...Undisclosed payments to doctors recruiting trial patients is unethical
...er clinically important questions, but without the funding available to pay recruiters, fail to attract doctors. Although guidelines insist that such payments are divulged to a research ethics committee, commercial sponsors regularly flout these recommendations, they add. Patients believe that such payments ...Heart experts call for urgent action to implement new findings on cholesterol-lowering treatment
...nducted and analysed entirely independently of all funding sources by the Clinical Trial Service Unit of Oxford University. ** Currently, 40mg daily simvastatin (or an equivalent dose of another statin) costs approximately 1 per day in the UK and $4 per day in the US. The patent for lovastatin (Mevacor) ex...Powerful burn-prevention video wins national award
...-M Hospitals and Health Centers for their generous funding that made this possible." "We're thrilled to have our work recognized in this way, but the award truly belongs to the children and families who had the courage to tell their stories and share their pain, so that others won't have to endure what they'...Postcode prescribing is alive and well in Scotland
...f a new drug should result in automatic top-sliced funding going direct to the departments dispensing the drugs, so that clinicians do not have to apply locally for approval and funding," they conclude....Schepens is recipient of the most National Eye Institute funds in 2001
...the recipient of more National Eye Institute (NEI) funding in 2001 than any other eye research organization i...tributes the organization's steady increase in NEI funding in recent years to the quality of the science underway at The Schepens and a decade-long transformat...Columbia neurobiology fellow wins major career award from 2002 Burroughs Wellcome funding program
...hese longer-lasting awards provide the freedom and funding security that will enable new investigators to develop innovative and independent research programs during a critical time in their careers," says BWF President Enriqueta C. Bond, Ph.D. "It is expected that by the end of the five-year period, recipi...