New technology separates cancer from benign tumors
...an see by using these images, how the blood vessel network appears within the cancer tumor and how much of th...if the tumor is cancerous or not. The blood vessel network is as a rule greater in the cancer tumor than in a benign one. The blood vessels in a cancer tumor a...New centers to research, reduce asthma disparities
...and deaths, and it provides a vital communications network for more than 40 local asthma coalitions nationwide....Brain images from patients with schizophrenia will be shared in first nationwide imaging network
...l utilize a nationally linked, high-speed computer network established by the Biomedical Informatics Research...he past year, BIRN has utilized the new Internet 2 network and broad-band networking technologies to link several sites in the United States. With this new tec...HHS awards University of Wisconsin $55.8 million to fight asthma in inner-city children
...This contract will establish a nationwide research network with the goal of reducing the severity of asthma a... Texas "The researchers and institutions in this network are the cream of the crop of asthma investigators in this country," said Anthony S. Fauci, NIAID dir...Doctors surprised that older women patients can tolerate powerful treatment
...amme on the elderly patient with cancer. "In this network we are trying to develop a common evaluation and therapeutic approach," explained Dr Braud. The team at the Fdration Nationale des Centres de Lutte Contre le Cancer also plan to collaborate with the other 20 cancer centres (the Gerico Project) and s...Memory training may help some Alzheimer's patients in the early stages of the disease
...of 12 photos that included people in their social network and famous people. They used such memory aids as mnemonic devices, which use the image to jog memory through some kind of meaningful association; "vanishing cues," a method in which participants fill in more and more letters in the person's name, un...St. Jude to receive multi-million dollar grant for sickle cell program
...ward the development of a national clinical trials network for sickle cell disease," said Winfred Wang, M.D., director of the St. Jude Hematology Division. "This is an approach that has been successful in improving outcomes for pediatric cancers and thalassemia (a genetic blood disorder) but has not been ava...U-M Bioterrorism Preparedness Initiative gets $1 million from CDC
...on of Schools of Public Health, joins a nationwide network of academic centers in public health preparedness, including Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University and the University of California-Berkeley. "Our goal is to help the state of Michigan and the nation evolve a public health system that is robus...UW-Madison leads $26 million study on aging
... a decade earlier when Ryff, along with a national network of researchers from the MacArthur Foundation, participated in MIDUS I. Ryff says data collected from the two studies will enable researchers to track changes in the subjects' daily lives with changes in their health during the last 10 years. Differe...NHLBI funds new heart-health education projects in high-risk communities
... The new awards extend to12 the NHLBI's nationwide network of community-based organizations known as Enhanced Dissemination and 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 ha...NIDA and SAMHSA agreement expedites transfer of research findings to clinical practice
...'s Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (ATTC), a network comprised of 14 independent regional centers and a national office charged with increasing the knowledge and skills of addiction treatment practitioners and fostering alliances to support and implement best treatment practices. The purpose of the ag...Fogarty International Center announces first awards for international tobacco and health program
...ards, FIC and its partners will establish a global network of researchers who will develop research data; train the next generation of tobacco-control scientists; and share state-of-the-art findings with each other about best practices, opportunities, and obstacles in tobacco-control research. The successfu......wo research networks funded by the Institute: one network has been conducting the lung screening study calle...an College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN), a network of researchers who conduct imaging studies. In addition, NCI is collaborating with the American Can...NIH awards grants for two new autism research centers
... support the first two research centers of a major network of facilities to focus on the biomedical and behavioral aspects of autism. The overall initiative, called STAART (Studies to Advance Autism Research and Treatment) Centers Program, was established in response to the Children's Health Act of 2000, whi...Ecstasy may be drug of choice for those trying to cope with lonelienss, study finds
... professional help and support), 3) Social Support network (re-establishing friendships which can help one feel connected to and valued by others), 4) Distancing and denial (denial of loneliness and the pain that comes with it by using alcohol, drugs or through other deviant behaviors), 5) Religion and faith...Sandia helps public health officials with anti-terror 'decision analysis' tool
...t should go into developing a stronger information network between physicians? And how important are early warning sensor technologies? These are some of the issues that the WMD-DAC program can help address," said Hirano. The hub of the program is Sandia's Visualization Design Center (VDC), a "war room" of s...Sutter Health announces plan to deploy Bridge MedPoint error-prevention system
...m. Headquartered in Sacramento, the not-for-profit network of hospitals and physicians operates more than 5000 inpatient beds in Northern California. "Patient safety and quality care are paramount at Sutter," said Sutter Health President and CEO Van R. Johnson. "We are fully committed to doing everything pos...Potent experimental drug shown to slow the growth of breast and prostate cancer tumors in mice
...that 2C4 blocked signaling activity within the HER network in prostate tumors grown in mice and significantly reduced tumor growth. But in this study, the investigators wanted to see whether 2C4 would disrupt growth signals in breast cancer cells that did not express high levels of HER-2/neu and in prostate...Changing Life, Challenging Cancer conference
...e of ideas and the establishment of a professional network and community for cancer support in the Midwest."......cells produced rapidly growing tumors with a dense network of blood vessels. In contrast, fewer tumors and blood vessels formed in mice lacking the MMP-9 gene. "Targeting expression of MMP-9 in tumor cells, and more so in nontumor cells, may therefore be an effective approach to control angiogenesis and car...