NIH awards USC $8.7 million to study tobacco use in China
...he National Institutes of Health have awarded $8.7 million to the University of Southern California to study genetic and environmental factors that influence tobacco and alcohol use among adolescents in China and the United States. The new Pacific Rim Transdisciplinary Tobacco & Alcohol Use Research Center (...Children's Hospital Oakland opens new $5.6 million infectious disease lab
...Oakland has completed construction of its new $5.6 million Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development (...ys we never could before." CHORI was awarded a $2 million construction grant from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) at the NIH to build the CI...Anti-depressants used during pregnancy linked to neonatal withdrawal syndrome
...ins information from 72 countries and holds over 3 million records dating from 1968. Use of other medications and symptoms were carefully reviewed in the original reports to rule out alternative causes of withdrawal syndrome. The investigators found that by November 2003, a total of 93 cases of SSRI use asso...University of Washington joins new Autism Treatment Network to provide better medical services
...enter this effort has been given a boost with a $1 million donation by Fade and his wife. This gift will be u...s, who have a family member with autism, made a $5 million donation in 2000 to help found the UW Autism Center. Autism is the most common developmental disabi...Binghamton University launches microelectronics research center
With a $10 million competitively bid contract from the U.S. Display C...turing (CAMM). The USDC will initially provide $10 million in equipment to establish CAMM, which will combine resources from the USDC, Binghamton University, C...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
..., and about 163,000 of them die. An estimated 5.4 million Americans are stroke survivors and stroke is the leading cause of serious, long-term disability, according to statistics compiled by the American Heart Association. The statement, issued today, and published in the online edition of Stroke: Journal o...Illness and medical bills cause half of all bankruptcies
... affected by medical bankruptcies to more than two million annually. Surprisingly, most of those bankrupted by medical problems had health insurance. More than three-quarters were insured at the start of the bankrupting illness. Among those with private insurance, however, one-third had lost coverage at l...Suffering from fatigue, abdominal discomfort or bloody diarrhea?
...lammatory bowel disease that affects more than one million Americans and causes inflammation and bleeding of the colon and rectum. Since none of the scales have been rigorously tested, experts in the field, especially those in clinical research, tend to use multiple disease activity indices, including those ...New bedside tool gauges mortality risk in heart failure patients
...s. Heart failure is a condition that affects five million Americans and is the leading cause of hospitalization for those over age 65. "The new tool is a first for the treatment of acute heart failure, and offers a simple quick way for clinicians to assess mortality risk upon hospital admission and quickl...AHA urges earlier diagnoses, referrals for PCI in women
...e Pharmacotherapy In Women statement. More than 1 million Americans undergo PCI each year, but only 35 percent of these procedures are performed in women, said Alexandra J. Lansky, M.D., chair of the statement writing group and director of the Women's Cardiovascular Health Initiative at the Cardiovascular R...Clinicians report missing patient information is common
...esults could have serious implications for the 220 million primary care visits that occur in the United States each year," the authors write. "This is the first direct study of missing clinical information in primary care, in contrast to retrospective detection of missing information as the etiology of a med...Calcium and vitamin D most effective for treatment of Crohn's-related bone loss
...l Health Interview Survey, there are more than two million prevalent cases of Crohn's disease in the United States. According to results of the study from researchers at the University of Alberta, adding the bone-building drug etidronate (Ditronel) to calcium and vitamin D therapy to treat bone loss in peo...Promise of 'bladder pacemaker' for people with spinal cord injury
... Institutes of Health awarded Grill a 5-year, $1.8 million grant to develop a system to sense involuntary bladder contractions and trigger a calming low-frequency electrical signal. The project also seeks to enable patients to generate a high-frequency signal on demand so they can empty their bladders at wil...Dartmouth awarded $21.8 million NSF grant
... researcher Michael Gazzaniga has received a $21.8 million National Science Foundation grant to establish the Center for Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience (CCEN), as part of NSF's new Science and Learning Center (SLC) initiative. Researchers and students involved in the CCEN will work to understand the ...Smoking causes cognitive impairment in adolescents
...ale study in Biological Psychiatry. More than 4.5 million teenagers smoke cigarettes in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Census Bureau. Leslie Jacobsen, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, and her research team tested...ASGE announces grant recipients in annual research awards program
...was initiated in 1985 and has awarded more than $3 million in research dollars. Its objective is to foster research in gastrointestinal endoscopy both within and outside of academic centers. The institutions receiving ASGE grants in this 20th year of the program include: Case Western Reserve University, Cle...$10-million study explores men's role in transmitting HPV
...ute, the National Institutes of Health awarded $10 million to Anna Giuliano, Ph.D., to help determine men's roles in spreading the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes deadly cervical cancer in women. The grant is the largest of its kind in the world. Up to this point in the world of cancer research, li...New way to diagnose sciatica may point to a different cause
...ith routine imaging tests. Consequently, over one million patients each year undergo magnetic resonance imag...h a disc or discs may be damaged. But, of the 1.5 million MRI scans performed each year, only about 20 percent show a herniated disc serious enough to be trea...Stents and going with the flow
...es that sirolimus-eluting stents could consume $75 million of our health care budget. Given the inconclusive evidence on efficacy and long-term benefits of sirolimus-eluting stents and the limited budgets, Brophy suggests that increased alternative investments in more basic primary and secondary prevention a......DDLs. According to the researchers, BCA is about 1 million times more sensitive than the next best thing standard enzyme-linked immunoassays (ELISAs). ELISAs do not have the sensitivity required to detect ADDLs in cerebrospinal fluid. BCA could eventually be configured to detect hundreds of diseases simulta...