Issues surrounding genetic medicine and the Jewish population to be explored at conference
...Lenny, who is also an attorney. "One of my primary goals as a patient advocateis to increase education and awareness about genetic and chronic disease amonghealth professionals as well as society as a whole." Another important focus is bringing those most knowledgeable and concerned aboutthese health condi...CWRU medical school announces $300 million campaign
...ion during the next seven years. Among the goals for the campaign: * $75 million fo...d vicepresident for medical affairs, said that the goals of recruiting faculty,expanding research programs, and renovating facilities are essential if themed...Meharry-Vanderbilt partnership aims to address racial disparity in cancer outcomes
...rtnership will address at least two of the overall goals of the alliance - to move toward an integrated health delivery system between the two institutions and to increase participation by African-Americans in clinical trials of new treatments. "Nationally, African-Americans are under-represented in clinic...New book asks ethical questions about human subjects research
...bjects and that researchers can both achieve their goals and respect subjects by applying those universals alone. Many conference participants, including the editors, weren't completely satisfied with that viewpoint. The cases, commentaries and essays thus focus on ethical reasoning based not only on appli...UT Southwestern scientists develop method of synthesizing antibodies
...y as antibodies do to epitopes, so one of the next goals for the investigators is to increase the affinity of the peptides for the epitopes. Other researchers who contributed to this study were graduate student Zhiwen Zhang and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Weiguang Zhu. The Welch Foundation and the Texas ...NIH grant keeps University of Maryland on the cutting edge of complementary and alternative medicine
...d at Kernan Hospital. One of the program's primary goals is to find new ways to alleviate the pain of arthritis and its related disorders. According to the Arthritis Foundation, 40 million Americans (1 in 6) suffer from arthritis, costing the economy billions of dollars a year in treatment expense, lost w...AAPS presents workshop on macromolecules
...maceutique (FIP), and U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP). The goals and objectives of the workshop are to: Determine industry and regulatory standards established for BMV in support of the estimation and characterization for macromolecules in drug development. Evaluate special validation considerations for quant...NHLBI funds asthma coalitions to improve care among high risk populations
...together towards achieving the Healthy People 2010 goals of eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in he...s a lead role in achieving the Healthy People 2010 goals in the Respiratory Diseases focus area. Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care is...Psychologist finds low-cost methods to prevent pharmacy mistakes
...rds as a means for getting feedback helps them set goals and and makes them more aware. They find that very useful." Grasha also noted that improvements in accuracy didn't always require high technology and new computers. "People find they can till get the job done without a lot of high technology, so th...Establishing "stroke centers" in hospitals would reduce deaths and disabilities, say stroke experts
...treatments to be safe and effective. The two major goals of the stroke center recommendations are the improvement in the level of care provided to stroke patients and the standardization of some aspects of acute care for such patients. The JAMA article presents a blueprint of the components necessary for...Rapid improvements in lower back care possible
... made major progress toward attaining their chosen goals over the one-year study period, and most of the remaining organizations saw modest improvement. One organization decreased diagnostic x-rays by 30 percent, another increased the use of patient education materials by 100 percent, and a third reduced p...Breast reconstruction during mastectomy boosts well-being most, study finds
...ce again that breast reconstruction is meeting its goals of improving patients' well-being and promoting their recovery," Wilkins says. "Our findings appear to justify recent efforts by legislators and policy makers to widen the availability of reconstruction after mastectomy." On the whole, the authors sa...Welfare to work does not improve mental health
...t is moving us farther away, as a nation, from the goals that we set out for ourselves."...AAPS kicks off new century with workshop on bioanalytical methods validation
... by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The goals and objectives of this workshop are to: Review the progress, impact and advances during the last decade of bioanalytical methods validation since the first workshop, held in 1989; Identify, discuss and resolve scientific issues related to the v...Columbia presbyterian to participate in accord diabetes study
...ill be randomly assigned to one of two blood sugar goals (intensive goal vs. less intensive goal). Also, depending on the initial blood pressure and blood cholesterol results, participants will be assigned to either the blood pressure or blood cholesterol parts of the trial. Study medications will be mad......t of Health and Human Services outlines prevention goals and objectives to be achieved by 2010. The two primary work-site objectives are to have all employers, regardless of size, offer a comprehensive employee health promotion program and have all employees participate in employer-sponsored programs. Gar...Fogarty International Center establishes Sheldon M. Wolff, MD Fellowship On International Health
...ector Gerald T. Keusch, M.D. "Since these are the goals of the FIC at Dr. Wolff's beloved NIH, we are thrilled to name this fellowship in his honor." Describing the new international health fellowship as a fitting part of her late husband's scientific legacy, Mrs. Lila Wolff said, "There is a quote by Ma......nt and CEO of the Lance Armstrong Foundation. "Our goals are to reduce the presence of cancer on this planet, continue to define, refine and improve cancer survivor services and facilitate the delivery of those services - along with a large dose of hope - to patients and their families and loved ones." Sin...One more visit could close demographic gaps in infant immunization efforts
...gh America has made rapid strides toward achieving goals for infant immunization set by the Healthy People initiative, many African-American and poor infants have been left behind, according to data from the 1999 National Immunization Survey. Those data also reveal that many infants fall just one doc...New UNC center plans intensive studies of retired athletes suffering disabilities
...rom the general population," he said. "Our overall goals will be to find out what happens to professional and other top athletes and, over time, to try to lessen whatever negative impacts playing has on their health and quality of life." The UNC Center for the Study of Retired Athletes grew out of Guskiewi...