Initial findings of first comprehensive study into ageing process published
...nglish Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) will be launched at a briefing at 5.30pm on Thursday 4th December at the Royal College of Physicians, Regent's Park, London NW1. Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Director of the International Centre for Health and Society at UCL, will be available for interviews ahead o...UCSF launches comprehensive HIV website in South Africa
...ies of two comprehensive HIV/AIDS websites will be launched on an Internet server at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The two sites, "HIV InSite" and "Women, Children, and HIV" are resources developed and maintained by the UCSF Center for HIV Information, or CHI. The center's director is Laurence Peiperl, MD...Survey shows impact of psoriasis is more than skin deep
...matology Nurses Association (DNA). The new program launched today at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD). "Comprehensive care of psoriasis goes beyond treating the symptoms. This survey validates the need for an understanding about how psoriasis can impact a patient's social ...FIRST fellowship program proves worthy model for training faculty in biological sciences
... a five-school Atlanta consortium has successfully launched faculty careers in the biological sciences for 8 of its graduates and is continuing to train 31 current fellows. The Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching (FIRST) program, is a collaboration among Emory University and four historically minorit...At AAAS: Biocomplexity panel on human-nature interactions
...dress them,the National Science Foundation in 1999 launched a major researcheffort aptly called "Biocomplexity in the Environment." On Saturday, Feb. 14, from 9 a.m. to noon at the annual meetingof the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)in Seattle, an expert panel will describe results...Database on blood and marrow stem cell transplants now available online
... of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today launched the first public database of results from clinical blood and marrow stem cell transplants involving unrelated donors. Accessible at http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/mhc , this centralized resource provides genetic as well as age, gender and ethnicity data on...Randomisation phase of the DIRECT programme (DIabetic REtinopathy Candesartan Trials) completed
...sartan cilexetil or placebo. The DIRECT programme, launched on Nov. 1, 2000, is being coordinated through EURODIAB, a European diabetes research network, based at University College, London, and Imperial College, London, and overseen by an independent Steering Committee, chaired by Professor Anne-Katrin Sjol...Lack of awareness about stroke hinders use of life-saving drugs, precludes testing of new therapies
...or severe disability. In June 2003 UT Southwestern launched a trial of Desmoteplase, a second-generation clot-buster made from the saliva of vampire bats that can be administered up to nine hours after the onset of a stroke. But only 16 percent of 252 stroke patients screened for the study since its inception...Acrylamide in food: Unraveling exposure and risk
... some breads. Since then, researchers have quickly launched dozens of acrylamide studies worldwide. How does acrylamide form? Which foods carry the highest levels? Does acrylamide pose a significant cancer risk? At the 227 th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, the ACS Division of Agricultural...UCSF Medical Center palliative care experts mentor health care organizations in end-of-life care
...eir families, he said. The program for adults, launched in 1999, has cared for over 1,000 patients. In addition to providing expert advice to physicians and their patients, palliative care experts operate a two-bed unit called the Comfort Care Suites. Designed to be more like home, the suites are quiet an...HeartScore(R): New tool for cardiovascular disease risk prediction and management
...tool for CVD risk prediction and management, to be launched by the ESC on 2 April 2004. A fully functional computer program, HeartScore offers significant advantages over former static risk chart formats, by providing physicians with a fully interactive piece of software that they can run from their PC and w...SOS Rx: National medication safety group organized
...specially for senior citizens. Today the coalition launched its online home, www.sosrx.org , which will provide information for consumers about upcoming educational campaigns on topics ranging from the safe use of anticoagulants to the advantages of e-prescribing and the benefits of maintaining a personal me...Diet of worms protects against bowel cancer
...ining thousands of pig whipworm eggs could soon be launched in Europe. The product will be called TSO, short for Trichuris suis ova, and will be made by a new German company called BioCure, whose sister company BioMonde sells leeches and maggots for treating wounds. Chief executive Detlev Goj says he expects...WHI study finds no heart disease benefit, increased stroke risk with estrogen alone
...h their health will be closely monitored. WHI was launched in 1991 and consists of a set of clinical trials to test the preventive effects of postmenopausal hormone therapy, diet modification, and calcium and vitamin D supplements on heart disease, fractures, breast and colorectal cancer, as well as an obser...Heart disease and stroke hit younger in developing countries, new report shows
..." in most developing countries. The report will be launched at Columbia University on April 26th What: A Race Against Time: the challenge of cardiovascular disease in developing economies When: Monday April 26, 2004, 10:00a.m. Where: Schapiro Center, 4th Floor, Davis Auditorium, Columbia University (...1st data show CRESTOR highly effective at lowering LDL-C in patients with type 2 diabetes
...n 50 countries across five continents and has been launched in over 40 countries worldwide, including 13 European markets, the US and Canada. Over one million patients have been prescribed CRESTOR and more than two million prescriptions have been written worldwide. The post-marketing experience supports the...Preliminary results are promising in Alzheimer's gene therapy trial
... amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Ceregene was launched in January 2001 and is a majority-owned subsidiary of Cell Genesys, Inc. (Nasdaq: CEGE), which is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA. The University of California and some of its investigators have a financial interest in Ceregene....AAN 2004 Public Leadership Award goes to Leon Fleisher, musician who overcame dystonia
...s primary spokesman of the new campaign, which was launched March 30-31 in New York....HHS launches diabetes prevention campaign
...and the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) launched the first national multicultural diabetes preventi... for developing type 2 diabetes. The campaign was launched during National Minority Health Month at Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. to highlight comm......998. In 2002, the Ambulatory Pediatric Association launched the first fellowship programme in paediatric environmental health. The National Children's Study, a longitudinal study of environmental influences on children's health, was authorised by the federal Children's Health Act in 2000, and will follow more...