Rising young psychiatry researchers receive prestigious international award
...inds in Psychiatry Awards Programme' is also being launched to coincide with the APA meeting. Researchers within 5 years of completing a psychiatric residency can now apply for this award by submitting a proposal of scientific merit that demonstrates academic promise while explaining how winning an award will...Rx pain medicines hard to find in pharmacies serving minority neighborhoods
... the U-M pain specialist who led the study. Green launched the study after hearing from a patient who couldn't find a pharmacy in her mostly African-American neighborhood where she could fill a prescription that Green had given her to treat chronic pain. She had to go to a pharmacy in the suburbs to get the ...Minimally invasive colon cancer surgery is effective
...eons did something rare in the medical field: They launched the first systematic study of the procedure and put a moratorium on laparoscopically assisted colectomy performed outside the scope of their study. The team also enforced qualification requirements for the 66 surgeons who participated in the study, ...Specialized care from hospital to home improves the health of elderly with heart failure
...sult of these findings, a major health insurer has launched a $1 million pilot program to test Dr. Naylor's research in practice. Participating APNs were given specialized training that emphasized application of educational and behavioral strategies in the home to address patients' and caregivers' unique lea...Research aims to improve nation's health
A major new research institute, launched next week at Cardiff University, aims to improve t...n Funding Council for Wales. It will be officially launched on Tuesday May 18th, when speakers will include Dr Ruth Hall, the Chief Medical Officer for Wales, a...NIH launches study of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severe, treatment-resistant lupus
...Services' National Institutes of Health (NIH) have launched a five-year study to see whether a therapy using transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells, blood stem cells found in bone marrow, can produce long-term remission for patients with severe, treatment-resistant systemic lupus erythematosus (or lupus)...Cedars-Sinai Medical tipsheet for May 2004
...ed, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has launched an ambitious and innovative model designed to beat these dire odds. The Institute for Professional Nursing Development opened in June 2002, and is already helping to meet the needs of local nursing schools and students, while simultaneously creating ...NIAID forms network to tackle potentially fatal reaction to smallpox vaccine
... of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today launched the Atopic Dermatitis and Vaccinia Network (ADVN), a nationwide research group that seeks to reduce the risk of eczema vaccinatum (EV), a severe and potentially deadly complication of smallpox immunization. EV occurs almost exclusively in people with...New data demonstrates that Benicar(R) and Benicar HCT (TM) achieve JNC 7 blood pressure goals
... partner Forest Laboratories, Inc. Sankyo Pharma launched WelChol, a non-systemic lipid-lowering agent, in September 2000. Currently, WelChol is the number one prescribed branded agent in its category with 2003 sales in excess of $100 million dollars. Sankyo Pharma's parent company, Sankyo Co. Ltd. of Tok...Status syndrome: How your social standing directly affects your health and life expectancy
...(UCL), new popular science book "Status Syndrome," launched by Bloomsbury Publishing, on 7th June from 6pm at UCL, Gower Street. "The lower in hierarchy you are, the less likely it is that you will have full control over your life and opportunities for full social participation," says Michael Marmot in the b...Tony Blair launches UK's new global AIDS strategy
... to tackle HIV and AIDS in the developing world' - launched today - sets out how we plan to provide timely and effective global leadership to tackle the pandemic." "We have placed a special focus on the needs of women, young people and orphans in this strategy. These are the people most vulnerable to...Drug to fight virus in transplant patients moves forward in trials
... ViroPharma licensed maribavir, and in February it launched a phase 1 trial to study drug interaction and the drug's safety in healthy volunteers. ViroPharma hosted an informational session on July 21 about CMV; click here to download the PDF: http://www.viropharma.com/TEACH%20IN%20MASTER_%20FINAL_FOR%20PRIN...Statins effective in long term, Nordic study suggests
...niversity of Helsinki, Finland) and colleagues was launched in 1989. Patients from five participating countries-Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden-were randomly assigned to 5 years of statin therapy with simvastatin or allocated a placebo. The results of the trial were published in THE LANCET 10 yea...CRESTOR leads in 1st international prospective study of statins in the metabolic syndrome
...n 60 countries across five continents and has been launched in over 45 countries worldwide, including 13 European markets, the US and Canada. Over 2.8 million patients have been prescribed CRESTOR and more than 8 million prescriptions have been written worldwide. The post-marketing experience supports the f...Millions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders at increased risk for type 2 diabetes
...' (HHS) National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) launched a public awareness campaign today called "Two Reasons I Find Time to Prevent DiabetesMy Future and Theirs" at the Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, a San Diego suburb. The campaign delivers the message that type 2 diabetes can be prevented o...Stanford scientists help bring study of smallpox virus into 'molecular age'
...caused disease," Relman said. The Stanford team launched its project after learning that a study of smallpox infection in monkeys was under way at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That project is being conducted jointly by the CDC and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Di...Primary instrument is delivered for ESA's CryoSat mission
...ryoSat is the first Earth Explorer satellite to be launched as part of ESA's Living Planet Programme. It is now generally agreed that the Earth's atmosphere is warming, however, it is very difficult to predict what effect this is having on polar ice cover. Since ice plays such an important role in the regulat...Revolutionary HIV drug Fuzeon wins most prestigious award for innovation
...e who are not taking Fuzeon 1 . Roche has recently launched comprehensive nurse-to-patient and patient-to-patient support initiatives to help coach patients through the first three critical months of therapy by which time dramatic benefits of Fuzeon can be seen and self-injection becomes routine. "The immedi...Global air pollution map produced by Envisat's SCIAMACHY
...argest satellite for environmental monitoring, was launched in February 2002. Its onboard Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) instrument records the spectrum of sunlight shining through the atmosphere. These results are then finely sifted to find spectral absorpti...National Institute on Aging, industry launch Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative
...gencies, private companies and organizations today launched a $60 million, 5-year public-private partnership -- the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative -- to test whether serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), other biological markers, and clinical and neuropsycho...