MTCT-Plus makes HIV treatment a reality for poor countries
...and the United Nations Foundations. MTCT-Plus was launched at a meeting of leaders of private foundations with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in December 2001 and expects to mobilize $100 million from the community of foundations. "This initiative brings together many partners in an ambitious and comprehens...Top-rated NC hospital to 'go live' with third generation MedPoint patient safety system
...e when it completes rollout by end of Q1 2003. "We launched MedPoint in our largest unit where patients stay longer and receive many medications," explains Barry W. Hawthorne, RN, MSN, CNAA, NEMC's vice president, patient care services. "Scanning medications at the bedside avoids errors caused by 'look-alike/...Promising vaccine may provide long-lasting protection against malaria
...y to recognize so that an immune response could be launched against it. When a group of healthy, unvaccinated mice were injected with blood containing a deadly malarial parasite, all died. But when the synthetic toxin was injected into a group of healthy mice and they were subsequently injected with the para...Cancer revealed: New $10M grant establishes cancer imaging center
...'s the vision of a new cancer-imaging center being launched by the University of Michigan Health System and the Van Andel Research Institute in Grand Rapids, MI. Called the Center for Molecular Imaging, it will combine cutting-edge imaging technologies, and new knowledge about the genes and proteins involved ...Media focus on endostatin helped -- not hurt --
...all study, but it is reassuring." This study was launched 18 months after The New York Times ran a landmark, front page story on May 3, 1998, that heralded the discovery and development of an agent called recombinant human endostatin (rh-Endo), an angiogenesis inhibitor designed to dry up a tumor's source o...First trial of endostatin shows biological activity
.... Human tests of this angiogenesis inhibitor were launched in 1999 at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, the University of Wisconsin and Dana Farber Cancer Center. In their report on the Phase I clinical trial of rh-Endo, M. D. Anderson researchers concluded the agent was both safe and well tolerated, even at di...Lombardi Cancer Center to enroll current and former smokers in nationwide clinical trial
... deaths. The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), launched today by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), will enroll 50,000 participants at Lombardi and 29 other sites throughout the United States. Conventional wisdom suggests that finding tumors earlier, when they are smaller and less likely to have spread ...The National Cancer Institute (NCI) today launched a new study to determine if screening people with either spiral computerized tomography (CT) or chest X-ray before they have symptoms can reduce deaths from lung cancer. The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) will enroll 50,000 current or former s...Duke and federal government partner to create innovative health care model
...he Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have launched a new initiative that has the potential to help transform how health care in America is delivered. The initiative aims to create prospective health care for patients -- or customized health planning. Included in this initiative is the launch of a go...Initial Avon/NCI breast cancer research grants awarded in 'Progress for Patients' awards program
...of research. The Progress for Patients program was launched in October 2001 when the NCI received a $20 million pledge from the Avon Foundation to fund translational research on breast cancer. The pledge is Avon's largest single award ever. The funds were raised by the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade, which has ...United States to host World Sight Day celebration October 10
...ion a public health priority." World Sight Day was launched by Lions Clubs International in 1998 to recognize and reinforce the importance of eradicating preventable blindness. In the five years since its inception, World Sight Day events, including cataract and glaucoma screenings, collection of used eye gl...NHLBI funds new heart-health education projects in high-risk communities
...Utilization Centers (EDUCs). The EDUC program was launched in 2001 to implement focused heart-health education strategies in high risk communities. "These projects take what we have learned about the prevention, identification, and treatment of cardiovascular disease and apply that knowledge where it is mos...Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association moves to Web-based rapid access weekly publication
...ALLAS, Oct. 15 The American Heart Association has launched Stroke ASAP, a rapid access publication that provides Internet publication ahead of print for journal articles from Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. "Stroke ASAP stands for timeliness and accuracy," says Editor-in-Chief Vladimir Hac...Beijing conference to address lung cancer crisis in China
...centers in a National Cancer Institute (NCI) study launched last month to determine if screening people with either CT scan or chest x-ray before they have symptoms can reduce deaths from lung cancer. The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) will enroll 50,000 current and former smokers. Study participants ...OHSU researchers study healthy aging population
...Ruth H. Layton Alzheimer's Research Center at OHSU launched the study in 1989. The trial is unusual because few dementia studies have been conducted with healthy older subjects. Participants must be in good physical and mental condition. In addition, volunteers must not be in need of certain medications, incl...NIAID releases 20th anniversary edition of Jordan Report on vaccine research
...late vaccine research initiatives. To this end, he launched NIAID's Program for the Accelerated Development of Vaccines. To follow this effort, Dr. Jordan created an annual report intended to track and review progress in vaccine research now known as The Jordan Report. The Jordan Report 20th Anniversary ...New research projects major increase in Alzheimer's care costs for England
... of Economics and Political Science (LSE), will be launched by LSE's Professor Martin Knapp at the conference "A Biological and Socio-Economic Assessment of the Consequences of an Ageing Population" to be held at the British Academy in London on Thursday 23rd January 2003. The independent report, commissioned...Two major food allergy firsts in North America
...rtified allergen free : soon on labels! AQAA also launched today an ambitious new program designed to certify food products to be free of specific allergens, namely peanut free, egg free or milk free products. A pictogram will appear on labels to assure people with allergies that products comply with produc...Malaria project in funding crisis
...ller disease is lessthan 7% of what is needed. WHO launched the Roll Back Malaria movement (RBM) in 1998 withthe World Bank, UNDP and UNICEF. Its goal was to halve malariadeaths by 2010, and again by 2015. RBM set out to do this throughdetection and treatment of malaria cases, and preventativemeasures such as...Moores UCSD Cancer Center launches human trial for prostate cancer vaccine
...e Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center today launched a human trial of a new experimental vaccine a type of gene therapy for prostate cancer. The therapeutic vaccine is based upon technology developed at UCSD. The vaccine is prepared using the patient's own B lymphocytes, a type of immune-system cell...