UNC-CH wins $42.1 million federal contract to study drugs for schizophrenia and Alzheimer's
... the project's co-principal investigators.Over the next five years, they and their study colleagues will enroll 1,000patients with schizophrenia and 400 to 500 Alzheimer's patients. The terms ofthe NIMH award include an option for expansion studies and a five-yearextension. Federal grants are outright for...Use it or lose it applies to nervous system, scientists find
...cell, on theirway to the garbage disposal. In the next experiment, the researchers added just enough bungarotoxin to poisononly 20 percent of the receptors. This time, they didn't see rapid flight. Aslong as a muscle fiber still could receive signals from a nerve, its receptorsstayed. The researchers the...Photodynamic therapy reduces risk of vision loss in some macular degeneration patients
... in an armvein over a 10-minuteperiod. During the next five minutes, the drug is picked up by molecules in theblood calledlipoproteins -- proteins that combine with fats and that are prevalent in theabnormal bloodvessels. Then, doctors shine a beam of red laser light into the eye for about aminute and a...Pathway may provide target for treating chronic pain
...rvice. Each evening, manypackages come in. But the next morning, those packages go back out, allowing theoffice to maintain a balance between arriving and departing packages. Too manyarrivals or too few departures leads to a buildup of packages at the office andalso can harm businesses that don't receive ...New tests for blood clots, lung cancer use NIDCR patented technology
...hod to link the Tc99 isotope onto the peptide. The next phase of development for NeoTectä will be the creation of a therapeuticpeptide or "Theratideä". Instead of tagging on a low-energy isotope, such asTc99, which allows clinicians to merely see a cancerous tumor, Diatideresearchers have attac...Cedars-Sinai Medical tip sheet for Oct. 14
...l Center's Division ofNeonatology, will be honored next week in Washington D.C. by the AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics for his long-standing efforts to improve the lives ofnewborns and infants throughout the world, particularly in under-served areas ofCentral and South America....CWRU medical school announces $300 million campaign
...as set a target of raising $300 million during the next seven years. Among the goals for the campa...ans to recruit 125 new research faculty during the next decade, about a30 percent increase in research faculty. "If the School of Medicine is to con...Duke team seeks novel vaccine strategy for HIV
...els. "I think we will be able to start testing our next generation of candidatevaccines in humans in a cou...he research in the amount of $5.5 million over the next five years.According to a recent report by the U.S. surgeon general, of the estimated 33.4million pe...Lack of sleep alters hormones, metabolism
... sleep for eight hours, from 11 p.m. to 7a.m. The next six nights they slept four hours, from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. Thefollowing seven nights they spent 12 hours in bed, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Allsubjects received identical diets. The researchers constantly assessed each volunteer's wakefulness and heart rat...Emotional and physical toll of being poor
...nated more than $60 million to be granted over the next five years for the programs. The University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Mellon University, University of Wisconsin, University of Miami and Ohio State University also received funding. # # # # # #...A new strain of flu has turned up in Hong Kong
...mplacent. A team at the CDC has predicted that the next pandemiccould kill up to 200 000 people in the US ... nations have produced pandemic action plans. "The next pandemic couldbegin anywhere at any time," says Martin Meltzer, a CDC official working on theUS acti...Targeted toxins may revolutionize pain therapy
... also offer hope to chronic painsufferers. "In the next few years, these tools are definitely going to extend ourunderstanding of the neurobiology of pain," Wiley said. "In addition, theyoffer novel, previously never available, therapeutic potential." Wiley and others will participate in a Society for Neu...Studies of growth hormone result in new class of drugs
...on approval for the drug's use in acromegaly early next year. "Not many university professors are able to see something discovered in their laboratory be used successfully in the treatment of a human disorder. We are very proud of our discovery of this new class of drugs," said John Kopchick, Goll-Ohio E...Hostility, coercion, sexism among causes of harassment in military
... Manpower Data Center to revise the survey for use next year by the Defense Department. "The data reported here cast new light on the nature (as opposed to simply the incidence) of sexual harassment of female military personnel and suggest the wisdom of reframing both policy debates and interventions," ...Research challenges conventional thinking on ways to treat prostate cancer
... Cancer Center and lead author of the study. "The next step is to develop drugs that will target the growth arrested prostate cancer cells." Recent research conducted by Memorial Sloan-Kettering investigators may offer one such approach. In a separate laboratory study aimed at developing therapies to tr...HDL -- 'good' cholesterol -- helps bypass surgery
...lesterol were nearly twice as likely to die in the next two decades than men whose HDL levels were higher. "Men with higher HDL cholesterol levels survived longer and had fewer cardiac events during their lifetime," says Foody. "It looks like HDL cholesterol is playing a bigger role than previously thou...Emotional support during conflict situations elevates blood pressure in African-American boys
...d ask the teacher what to do to improve your grade next time," or an emotionally reassuring one such as, "This is really hard but you can do it." Blood pressure readings were taken during the role playing and several times during the recovery period. Results obtained from female subjects in the study d...More bad news for cocaine users: Drug can triple risk of aneurysm
... developing aneurysms in the heart arteries." The next step for researchers, Satran says, is to try to figure out what mechanisms are involved in the association between cocaine use and the development of aneurysms. Aneurysms in heart arteries have been associated with certain rare connective tissue dis...