Mountaineering doctors hike medicine to new heights with Xtreme Everest
...m have yet to be recruited, include cardiovascular geneticist Dr Hugh Montgomery, GP Dr Sundeep Dhillon, high altitude clinician Dr Mike Grocott, clinician Dr Roger McMorrow and diving expert Dr Denny Levett. Space expert Dr Kevin Fong along with Dr Levett will act as medics for the expedition teams. Dr Dhillon...Mayo Clinic researcher calls for improved newborn screening
...es than is now performed in some states. Pediatric geneticist Piero Rinaldo, M.D., Ph.D., presented the findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, D.C. Dr. Rinaldo said that tandem mass spectrometry a multiplex platform available to screen fo...Fred Hutchinson receives $9.7 million to lead early detection consortium
...Fred Hutchinson's Clinical Research Division, is a geneticist and clinical oncologist. She will supervise personnel and coordinate experimental work across all sites of the consortium. She'll also be involved in study design across all participating institutions. Her work focuses on finding biomarkers of can...'Musical fruit' rich source of healthy antioxidants; black beans highest
...adership of co-author George L. Hosfield, Ph.D., a geneticist who recently retired from the USDA. The study found that one class of compounds in particular, anthocyanins, were the most active antioxidants in the beans. Based on a previously published study of the anthocyanin content of black beans, Beninger ...Mayo Clinic researchers discover genetic syndrome linked to inherited birth disorder
...health concern," says Syed Jalal, Ph.D., a medical geneticist and professor at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and the study's chief author. While some symptoms can be treated, the syndrome cannot be cured until researchers discover a gene therapy to repair the microduplication errors. Precisely defining th......), and Lyndon Eaves (geneticist, second most cited geneticist in world). The conference is hosted by A Campaign for Forgiveness Research, a non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating research for personal health, maintaining relationships, peace among nations and biological connections with primates. Th......), and Lyndon Eaves (geneticist, second most cited geneticist in world). The conference is hosted by A Campaign for Forgiveness Research, a non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating research for personal health, maintaining relationships, peace among nations and biological connections with primates ...Medical geneticist at Cedars-Sinai awarded $8.5 million NIH research grant
LOS ANGELES, August 18, 2003 Medical geneticist and scientist, Jerome I. Rotter, M.D., has received an $8.5 million grant to further his search for the genes that contribute to heart disease in Mexican-American, African American, and Chinese populations within the U.S. Heart disease is the leadin...Enzyme replacement therapy found to effectively treat patients with Fabry disease
...Maryland by William Wilcox, M.D., Ph.D., a medical geneticist at Cedars-Sinai. The findings show that patients receiving enzyme replacement therapy for a near-two-year period via infusion with a drug called r-haGAL (Fabrazyme TM ) continue to benefit from reduced pain and prevention of further organ damage. "...Fred Hutchinson receives $12.7 million to lead prostate-cancer consortium
...itute for Systems Biology, co-founded by former UW geneticist Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D. Together, the two hefty grants, totaling $23.2 million, give area researchers unprecedented opportunities in their ongoing efforts to better understand prostate cancer and develop improved therapies, particularly for men with ...Skin test may detect subarachnoid hemorrhage risk
...n be diagnosed by a skin test." Grond-Ginsbach, a geneticist and Holger Schnippering, M.D., a neurosurgeon, both at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, are lead authors of the report. About 3 percent to 6 percent of adults age 30 and older have unruptured aneurysms and about 20 percent of them have multi...Mastiffs could aid treatment of retinitis pigmentosa
...n altogether. " Gregory M. Acland, another Cornell geneticist in the vision studies, explains that in one form, human RP is an early-onset disorder with rapid loss of rods throughout the retina soon after birth, whereas in another form of RP, the loss of rods begins later in life and is more gradual. This is p...Statement by Dr. Colwell on Nobel Prizes in Science and NSF onnection
... Aklerlof, Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence; and geneticist Leland Hartwell -- received the prize for work funded by NSF. The impact of the Nobelists and their NSF support extends beyond the research itself, into the network of people who support or benefit from it. Most of the laureates serve regularly as ......enes that confer a risk of developing autism, Duke geneticist Margaret Pericak-Vance and her colleagues have found evidence of two defects that may be linked to the complex combination of behaviors called autistic spectrum disorder. Such behaviors include failure to make eye contact, social withdrawal, lack of...