TB Prophylaxis Unnecessary In HIV-Infected People With Anergy, Study Suggests
...atients with HIVdisease and AIDS. NIAID currently funds 15 CPCRA units in 14 cities throughoutthe United States. NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIAID conductsand supports research to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as AIDS andother sexually transmitted disease...Cancer Protection Compound Abundant In Broccoli Sprouts
...hemoprotective vegetables such as sprouts to raise funds for chemoprotectionresearch....Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
... Under the research agreement, one half of the funds are designated fordrug/technology discovery grants...via clinical studies. The remaining portion of the funds will support pre-clinicaland clinical trials of new compounds developed at Duke, or other institutio...UB Plants "Seeds" By Investing In Research Projects; Researchers Leverage Investment 14 Times Over
...ch projects have had overall in attracting outside funds is partly attributable to the program's unique rev... technician. "The multidisciplinary pilot project funds helped us over a hump when we had no money," he said. "Faculty have to be able to apply three, even ...Cost-Effective Treatment Possible In Africa For HIV-Positive Pregnant Women If Drug Prices Lowered
...t be a good investment compared with other uses of funds for HIVprevention in low-income countries," said Elliot Marseille, DrPH, MPP, UCSFsenior research associate and lead investigator of the study. "When we did this study, we had to make educated guesses about how effectivethis therapy is likely to be....National Office Of Drug Safety Is Needed, Experts Say In JAMA
...ce of drug safety with the authority,independence, funds and legal mandate to undertake all four of the maj...enhanced drug safety monitoring program.Additional funds raised the same way "could finance other needed initiatives inlong-term drug testing, safety researc...Wistar Scientist Awarded American Cancer Society Grant For Study Of Tumor Suppressor Proteins
...-year grant from the American Cancer Society. The funds will beused to support his research into the structure and function of proteinsinvolved in the development of a variety of human cancers. Lung, breast, brain, bone, skin, bladder, kidney and ovarian cancers all share acommon characteristic -- the gen...States Must Be Held Accountable For New Health Plans For Children
...latitude under the act, theymust apply for federal funds through the U.S. Department of Health and HumanServices (HHS), which approves and funds each state's plan. While the committee supported the versatility under the act, it is concernedabou...Voluntary HIV Counseling And Testing Reduce Risk Behavior In Developing Countries
...to counseling and testing programs because limited funds cannot supportthem. "But this study shows that such services should be routine and availableeverywhere," he said. Coates was a principal investigator on "The Voluntary HIV Counseling and TestingEfficacy Study," the basis of several presentations here......Health Organization (PAHO) hasissued an appeal for funds to aid the health sectors of the Dominican Republicand Haiti and to make emergency repairs to health facilities in the northeasternCaribbean damaged by Hurricane Georges. PAHO has mobilized its disaster preparedness and emergency relief experts to t...Women With Cancer Want More Control
...edical policy matters, such as providingsufficient funds to evaluate nontoxic (or less toxic) alternatives that mightprovide some answers that have eluded cancer researchers for decades. Aspatients learn more about the disease, Hess says, the ethics of medical practicewill change. "There is a critical mas......ms and reserves are important to assurethat enough funds will be available to make the promised payments. P...e the numberof required payments and the amount of funds needed to cover those payments. In the article, the researchers noted that joint survival has typica......n Aging, adds to the debate about whether Medicare funds arebeing well-spent. "Medicare is under substantial financial strain, and one of thesubsidies that is on the table is the payment to teaching hospitals for indirectmedical education and possibly the disproportionate share subsidies for tre...Komen Foundation Announces Application Deadline For 1999 National Grants
...nt program, which is made possible throughmatching funds from the Joseph Drown Foundation, was created to f...is one of the nation's largestprivate providers of funds for breast cancer research, awarding more than $11million in grants in 1998....Management Academy To Boost Training For Local, State Public Health Departments
...ities via distance learning and theInternet. Grant funds over four years will come from the Centers for Disease Control andPrevention in Atlanta, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration inRockville, Md., the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Mich. and theRobert Wood Johnson Foundation ...Fetal Cell Therapy Benefits Some Parkinson's Patients
...current Congressional prohibition on use offederal funds for human embryo research extends only to studies in which a humanembryo is created for research purposes or is subjected to risks greater thanthose allowed for fetuses in utero. In addition to Dr. Freed and his colleague Robert Breeze, M.D., at theU...Measles Eradication Plan Approved
...aiti,Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela. The CDC funds will be used to hire staff,provide training, strengthen surveillance, improve communications and laboratoryinfrastructure, "and evaluate and learn from these activities," Dr. Koplan said. The PAHO-CDC partnership, said PAHO Director Dr. George Alleyn...Mother's depression impedes baby's development
...nitive milestones. The research was supported with funds from the Swan Foundation of Denver andfrom a National Institute of Mental Health grant....Success of plasma centers could hurt Red Cross, study finds
...s don't need the money to get by, but are usingthe funds to pay for nonessential goods, says sociologist and study author LeonAnderson. Anderson, who published the research in the latest issue of thejournal Sociological Spectrum, became interested in characteristics of paidplasma donors while doing researc...Pennsylvania voters believe tobacco settlement funds should be used for cancer research
...hat they would like the state's tobacco settlement funds to be used forincreased cancer research. In fact,...llars in damages over the next 25 years. How those funds are used has yet to be determined. The Pennsylvania Cancer Alliance has asked that 25 pecent be comm...