IADR & GSK announce 2005 Innovation in Oral Care Awards
...in Tao and co-workers) The awards will be formally presented during the 83rd General Session of IADR/AADR, to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, March 9-12, 2005. "The IADR is delighted to be partnered with GSK in delivering the Innovation in Oral Care Awards," noted Professor Paul Robertson, IADR President and D...... Distinguished Lecture Series (Plenary Sessions) - presented by J. Bernard Machen (W.J. Gies Distinguished Scientist Lecture, Thursday), Elias A. Zerhouni (Friday), and M. Michael Cohen (Saturday) Symposia/Hands-on Workshops (beginning Tuesday) (green section) Keynote Addresses (beginning Wednesday) (green sec...Meditation may reduce heart disease risk
...ssures tended to stay lower. This new study, being presented during the 63rd Annual Scientific Conference of the American Psychosomatic Society held March 2-5 in Vancouver, focused on 111 of those adolescents, 57 who meditated and 54 controls. MCG researchers found among the meditators an increased ability of...Innovation prize finalists announced in 'Science of Better'
...Palm Springs for the Franz Edelman Award, which is presented by INFORMS and CPMS, the Practice Section of INFOR...et Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University), which was presented with a potential $262 million in savings from a next-generation procurement process developed for th...Genetic amplification (NAAT) test detects HIV more effectively than standard tests in urban study
...rd HIV antibody tests alone. The research will be presented at the 12th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston on February 25, 2005 by Frances Priddy, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Physician/researchers at Emory, the University of North ...New book on anti-aging hype consolidates latest research
...ce of anti-aging medicine. Twenty-two articles are presented in total. Support for the preparation of the articles was provided by the Alliance for Aging Research, the American Federation for Aging Research, Ellison Medical Foundation, and the National Institute on Aging. The table of contents can be found a...New imaging technologies can enhance orthopaedic outcomes
... That Will Affect How Care is Provided," which she presented on Thursday, Feb. 24 at the annual meeting of American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) in Washington, D.C. "Doctors treating patients for orthopaedic problems often witness a placebo effect. It's not surprising because people want to feel bet...How links with tobacco industry may have influenced the publication of research on second-hand smoke
...essor Chapman concludes: "On the basis of evidence presented in this paper, there is a serious concern that the tobacco industry may have been unduly influential on the content of this journal. The industry and its lawyers expected that the establishment of the International Society of the Built Environment wo...Columbia study finds hemophilia therapy dramatically improves outcomes for bleeding stroke
... Preliminary results of this trial were initially presented at the Fifth World Stroke Congress in Vancouver, B.C. in June 2004 and, most recently, at the International Stroke Conference in New Orleans in February 2005. Study Results The trial included 399 patients who all underwent a CT scan to confirm they...Cartilage repair techniques shown to restore patient mobility and reduce pain
... D.C., February 26, 2005 Two separate new studies presented at a major medical meeting provide objective scien...s seeking relief from cartilage pain. Dr. Williams presented the research at American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeon's (AAOS) annual meeting, February 23-26, 2005...Mayo Clinic researcher calls for improved newborn screening
.... Pediatric geneticist Piero Rinaldo, M.D., Ph.D., presented the findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, D.C. Dr. Rinaldo said that tandem mass spectrometry a multiplex platform available to screen for upwards of 40 potentially life-threa...UCLA neuroscientists pinpoint new function for mirror neurons
...of an action -- ascribe intentions to actions when presented within a context. Previously, these neurons were t...tional MRI while alternately viewing three stimuli presented in the form of short videos: 1) a hand grasping a cup without context; 2) a tea service stocked with...Lack of specific collagen type leads to osteoarthritis
...nded to the stresses of everyday life. Alexopoulos presented the results of the Duke study Feb. 20, 2005, at the 51th annual scientific meeting of the Orthopedic Research Society in Washington, D.C. Alexopoulos, now a post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, conducted the research in ...Component of green tea protects injured livers in mice
... authors note. The authors conclude that "the data presented here indicates that EGCG protects the steatotic liver from I/R injury by reducing hepatic fat content, increasing energy stores, serving as an antioxidant and may stimulate the production of additional antioxidants such as GSH." They add that these a...Study finds new designer drug is potent treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
...linical studies in May 2004 21 months later. Data presented last December at the American Society of Hematology showed that AMN107 had demonstrated significant clinical activity in the most challenging setting: Gleevec resistant accelerated and blast crisis CML patients. "We're very encouraged by the results ...Stem-cell research hints at better looking cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
...o, Ph.D., of the University of Illinois at Chicago presented his results at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., saying that a stem-cell approach might eliminate the need for the additional surgery and may produce a long-lasting, shapely, and natura...Researchers confirm Vioxx nearly doubled cardiovascular risks in cancer prevention study
...xx-treated group compared to the placebo group and presented earlier. The data on these cases, however, is less firm, Bresalier notes, because, unlike heart attacks or strokes, these problems were not "adjudicated," or validated by a separate committee. This was not a cardiovascular trial, reminds Bresalier, s...No increase in sexual risk taking among gay men in HIV-study
... health of gay men. Additional study results were presented by Lampinen last summer at the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok , Thailand underscore the importance of the behaviour that did not increase during the trial. Those results showed the biggest risk for new infection was in the minority of gay m...Alcohol's damaging effects on adolescent brain function
...h Society on Alcoholism meeting in Vancouver, B.C. presented both animal and human research that clearly implic...of push the science further." Some of the findings presented were: The neurochemical, cellular, synaptic, and structural organization of the adolescent brain ......m dating relationships. Their findings will be presented in an upcoming issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior . Hurry Brands LLC, the parent company of HurryDate, did not fund Kurzban and Weeden in their research, but they did absorb the costs of compiling and generating the anonymous data fo...