Process used to judge asylum seekers is questioned
...rs. It has important implications for national and international policy in the assessment of asylum seekers....Wake Forest establishes Maya Angelou Research Center on minority health
...chief executive officer of B&C Associates Inc., an international public relations firm based in High Point, and Eldridge C. Hanes, vice chairman of the Encore Group, a giftware company with administrative offices in Winston-Salem. Brown and Hanes co-chair the center's national advisory board. The center's nationa...... professor of medicine and assistant dean of international programs. In the clinic, the program will be designed to collect basic data used to formulate treatment plans. Patients will be asked about their social and medical history, social and medical risk factors, general ...New low-cost vaccine offers better protection against cholera
...d encouraging results, especially for children, an international team of researchers reports in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. The team, headed by Professor Dang Duc Trach at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi, concluded that the vaccine was "safe and im...Disability scholar named Science Fellow
...nderful to be recognized and accepted as a serious international scholar." Albrecht has received continual research funding for 31 years, totaling $24 million. He has received numerous teaching and research awards and has published 15 books. His most recent book, the "Handbook of Disability Studies," published in ...NIAID Phase III HIV vaccine trial to determine correlates of protection will not proceed
...itary mission. USAMRMCs experience conducting international drug and vaccine development and testing and their...y parts of the world will enhance NIAIDs expanding international efforts. In turn, USAMRMC programs will benefit from NIAIDs vast HIV/AIDS pre-clinical research prog...Calling all young minds 2002 AstraZeneca CNS awards program launched
...ard of $20,000 (USD) and sponsorship to attend key international congresses. Five Young Minds in CNS Awards will be made in the following categories: - Bipolar Disorder/Mania - Depression and Anxiety - Migraine - Schizophrenia - Stroke (acute) The Awards Program achieved great success in 2001, Applications to the...Stopping statins may cause rebound that triples risk of death
...616 patients who had previously participated in an international clinical trial called PRISM Platelet Receptor Inhibition in Ischemic Syndrome Management study. The study compared the effectiveness of two blood-thinning drugs tirofiban versus heparin in coronary heart disease patients hospitalized with acceler...Light-weight heparin has heavy-weight results in heart attack treatment
...heir findings from the ENTIRE-TIMI 23 study. This international study involved 483 patients who presented with severe heart attacks at hospitals in the United States and Europe. Participants were randomly assigned either standard reperfusion with a full dose of the clot-dissolving drug tenecteplase (TNK) or comb...New awards, expanded focus for Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group
...nd a greater focus on both adolescent research and international pediatric research. The new five-year awards will...ll also directly support clinical research at four international sites, two in South Africa and two in Thailand. "The Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group has been...Food the center of celebration and subject for concern
...ctional foods," sources of public information, and international perspectives. The day will conclude with a panel discussion of food bioterrorism, moderated by Craig Reed, administrator of the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and visiting professor in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veteri...Costly cancer treatment aimed at protecting kids hearts offers no additional benefit
... Cancer Center. Its been written into national and international treatment protocols to protect the heart. The study involved 240 children who had high-risk, acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Physicians compared cardiac outcomes of children receiving bolus treatments - a injection of doxorubin done within one hour - ...Implantable heart device reduces deaths by one-third
... patients into a clinical trial at 76 national and international medical centers. Each patient had suffered at least one prior heart attack and had been diagnosed with a low ejection fraction. Of the total, 742 patients were randomly assigned to ICD therapy and 490 did not receive an ICD. Both groups received opti...Use of invasive heart procedures decreases after the age of 75
...ed and analyzed the data gathered from two related international trials -- SYMPHONY and Second SYMPHONY (Sibrafabin vs. aspirin to yield maximum protection from ischemic heart events post-acute coronary syndromes). These trials compared the effectiveness of aspirin to a new class of drugs that dissolves blood clot...CDC MMWR: New data on TB epidemics worldwide
...rough strong partnerships with local, national and international organizations....Doctors investigating one stop shop radiotherapy at time of surgery
... problem of scar tissue after treatment). A major international trial comparing external radiation with or without...h median follow up was still only 29 months. Their international randomised trial began in March 2000. Dr. Rutgers warned: "We must be very cautious still about thi...Action needed to tackle fake drugs trade
...rce. Researchers in this weeks BMJ call for urgent international action to tackle this murderous trade. Recent exam...upulous politicians, say the authors. Much greater international political will to eliminate the problem is required, they conclude....NCI hosts Sixth International Conference on Malignancies in AIDS and Other Immunodeficiencies
WHAT: National and international experts will meet at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on April 22-24, 2002, to present new findings on the biology, epidemiology, and treatment of AIDS-related cancers, including Kaposi's sarcoma, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and anal and cer...Early promise for dementia drug
...l, Finland, and colleagues report results from an international study which investigated the effects of galantamine in patients with a diagnosis of probable vascular dementia or AD combined with cerebrovascular disease. Around 600 patients were randomly assigned galantamine 24 mg/day or placebo in a multicentre, ...Researchers uncover brain patterns that differentiate humans from chimpanzees
A team of international researchers from Germany, the Netherlands and San Diego may have shed light on why chimps and humans are so genetically similar (nearly 99 percent of shared DNA sequences), and yet so mentally different. In a study published in the April 12, 2002 iss...