Primary care office strategies may increase colon cancer screening
...com .) Editor's Note: This work was supported by a grant from the American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Ga....The Gerontological Society of America announces Hartford Fellowship recipients
...l Welfare will each receive a $50,000 dissertation grant plus $20,000 in matching support from their home institutions that will enable them to more fully concentrate on their dissertation research projects over the next two years. This fellowship program is a component of the nationwide Geriatric Social W...Can you read my mind? W.M. Keck Foundation funds innovative brain research at Carnegie Mellon
... has awarded Carnegie Mellon University a $750,000 grant to support research into how the human brain deciphers language, which could one day yield advances in the treatment of neurological disorders such as autism and dyslexia. This multidisciplinary research is being conducted by Marcel Just, the D.O. H...Employment prospects good for most cancer survivors -- but not all
...difficulty at work. " The study was supported by a grant from the National Cancer Institute....Scientist works on innovative treatments for brain tumors
...NSTON-SALEM, N.C. With a five-year, $1.25 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a Wake Forest ...ation of the drug is being tested in patients, the grant will allow Debinski to work to improve this treatment approach. For example, he hopes to re-engineer...Mailman School of Public Health receives Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Center grant
... -- The Mailman School of Public Health received a grant to create the Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Network,...d to quit. The Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Network grant will link smokers to proven treatments. "The network's primary goal is to promote systematic screen...Helping answer needs by developing specialists in autism
...ism). The program was established with a $468,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...he Indiana University School of Medicine. "The CDC grant enables us to get the right resources to those who work regularly with children having autism." In ...2005 Award for Basic Research in Biological Mineralization
...d director of a $5.5 million NIDCR program project grant investigating the molecular basis of tooth-specific gene regulation. In 2001, Dr. MacDougall received the IADR Distinguished Scientist Pulp Biology Research Award, and in 2003, the National AADR Student Research Group Mentor of the Year Award. In 20...Current daily smoking may be associated with increased risk for suicidal thoughts and attempts
... ) Editor's Note: This research was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Md....York study tests enhanced care for depression patients
...onth research project, which has secured a 170,000 grant from the Medical Research Council. The study, which involves academics based at the Universities of Leeds and Manchester as well as at York, will provide a test bed for enhanced care of depression. The supply of psychological therapy for depression s...$4 million grant boosts University of Michigan campaign for a new children's hospital
...s Hospital announced today it will receive a major grant of $4 million from The Carls Foundation, which wil...ign to build a new facility. The Carls Foundation grant carries with it the mission and commitment of its late founders, Detroit industrialist William Carls...Penn study will compare heart failure management technologies
...ania (HUP) have been awarded a $1.5 million dollar grant from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality and the National Institutes of Health to study disease management technologies in patients with heart failure, and patients with both heart failure and diabetes. The principal investigator for the...NASA awards $9.8 million NSCOR grant to UT Southwestern to study effects of space radiation exposure
...illion NASA Specialized Center of Research (NSCOR) grant that will allow researchers to study the effects o...mprehensive Cancer Center. The five-year research grant establishes a NASA Specialized Center of Research for the Estimation of Solid Tumor Cancer Risks fro...Columbia study finds hemophilia therapy dramatically improves outcomes for bleeding stroke
...won a highly competitive $12 million stroke center grant from the NIH. Columbia is the first site in the eastern United States to receive this Specialized Programs of Translational Research in Acute Stroke (SPOTRIAS) grant. Extending over five years, the funding will support three new research projects: o...When the brain, not the ears, goes hard of hearing
...r is currently funded by a five-year, $6.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health....NYU Child Study Center receives grant from the American Red Cross September 11 recovery program
...s project was supported by a September 11 recovery grant from the American Red Cross Liberty Disaster Relie...ental health problems. This September 11 recovery grant from the American Red Cross Liberty Disaster Relief Fund will allow the Child Study Center to help p...Researcher explores ways to make hypnosis a more effective therapeutic technique
... their level. One project, supported by a $376,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, explores the idea that the ability to respond to hypnotic suggestions "can be changed and enhanced when participants are instructed," Lynn said. Janet Ambrogne, assistant professor in Binghamton Universit...Computer model being developed at Stanford may help surgeons better predict patient outcomes
... happen under different circumstances. Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Taylor is testing his model in retrospective analyses, when a surgeon is going to do a procedure anyway. His team gets data before and after surgery and determines how well their model predicted what was actually...Americans support most uses of reproductive genetic testing, report on US attitudes reveals
...hnologies might best be regulated. Supported by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Center's research included 21 focus groups, 62 in-depth interviews, two surveys with a combined sample size of more than 6,000 people, and both in-person and online town halls meetings. The studies probed the use ...Stem-cell research hints at better looking cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
...hitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Research grant in 2002 for this line of work. In ongoing research, he has used adult stem cells to grow cartilage and bone in the shape of a human joint end, a potential medical implant for orthopedic and reconstructive surgeries. ( http://www.whitaker.org/news/mao...