Student identifies electrical changes preceding heart failure
...pkins. The Provost's Undergraduate Research Awards program provides one of these research opportunities, open to students in each of the university's four schools with full-time undergraduates: the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the Peabody Conservatory and the Schoo...English-speaking Hispanic youth more likely to have sex early
...ntercourse based on age, gender, family structure, program location, religiosity, free school lunch, grades, ...ve had intercourse than white youth. "In terms of program development and evaluation, public health professionals should understand that language differences ...New trials for counseling caregivers and patients with Alzheimer's begin
...leagues found that a unique counseling and support program substantially eases the depression of spouse caregivers of Alzheimer's patients, and the effects were evident even three years after counseling. Even when spouse caregivers have supportive networks, there can still be communication difficulties withi...Jefferson Lab medical imager spots breast cancer
...ding detectors for Jefferson Lab's nuclear physics program allowed us to build a device that's sensitive to the presence of the radioactive molecule, FDG," Majewski says, "And now we're seeing the results of that. They detected an additional lesion that was not on mammography. That can directly impact patien...Hopkins convenes 'consensus' conference to develop blueprint for nationwide matching program
...ant Center at Johns Hopkins. "A national matching program for paired kidney exchange will save thousands of lives each year and drastically reduce the medical costs associated with kidney disease." The goal of the conference is to develop consensus among experts about criteria, operational standards, ethica...School-based smoking prevention programs ineffective
...lar Project DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program were included in the final analysis. Seven of the studies, including Project DARE, showed no statistically significant difference in smoking prevalence between students enrolled in school based smoking prevention programs and students not enrolled in...MRI proves useful in assessment of suspected breast cancer patients
...sary biopsies. However we used a special computer program (computer assisted diagnosis), which helped us analyze the MRI images, looking at both morphology and kinetics. Morphology looks at the shape of the lesion, while kinetics looks at how quickly the contrast agent lights up the lesion then fades away....Meditation may reduce heart disease risk
...ering drugs, but it's remarkable that a meditation program can produce such a change," the researcher says. In the April 2004 issue of the American Journal of Hypertension, Dr. Barnes and his colleagues reported that 15 minutes of twice-daily transcendental meditation steadily lowered the blood pressure of 1...$4 million grant boosts University of Michigan campaign for a new children's hospital
...he total funds raised through the Mott capital and program campaign, led by U-M Regent David Brandon and his ...ts and to establish a new diagnostic and treatment program for children at risk for profound hearing loss in the U-M Section of Pediatric Otolaryngology. Whil...Fewer false alarms when mammographers have greater experience screening healthy breasts
...comes Research Lab and part of the breast oncology program of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. The authors hypothesize that physicians who read more mammograms overall and who have been reading them longer develop a higher threshold for identifying cancer and overall do better. Those who read a higher p...More training needed to care for growing geriatric population
...onprimary-care specialists." The authors reviewed program requirements of 91 specialties accredited by the residency review committees of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). They found, as of 2003, that only 27 of the 91 specialties had specific geriatric training requirements....NASA awards $9.8 million NSCOR grant to UT Southwestern to study effects of space radiation exposure
...hay said. "This award solidifies an already strong program in lung cancer biology here and will help in our efforts to obtain recognition from the National Cancer Institute as a 'Comprehensive Cancer Center.' " Dr. Chen, who received a $1.36 million NASA grant last fall to study "DNA Damage Responses Induced...Study examines harm reduction among injection drug users
..."Safe sources" were the Baltimore syringe exchange program or pharmacies. "Safe disposal" was defined as disc... participants cited the Baltimore syringe exchange program as their primary source for acquiring needles compared to 18 percent from pharmacies and 50 percent ...Pioneering nanosystems degree wins approval
...uate degree. Tech's new Bachelor of Science degree program will be implemented this fall. According to the N...gineering, and others involved in devising the new program Rea called "timely and innovative." Tech President Dan Reneau said the program will tap the strength...Plant derivative attacks the roots of leukemia
...ranslational Research for Hematologic Malignancies program at the Wilmot Cancer Center and associate professor of Medicine and Biomedical Genetics. Guzman is senior instructor of hematology/oncology. Other co-investigators include: Randall Rossi, associate scientist; Lilliana Karnischky, laboratory technici...A safer route to school makes children more likely to walk and bike, study shows
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 23, 2005 -- A state program designed to make children's routes to school safer...ctiveness of the California Safe Routes to Schools program is the first to evaluate whether changes to the built environment can increase pedestrian travel to ...OHSU scientists develop MRI approach to improve breast cancer detection
...earchers to adjust the mathematics of the computer program analyzing the signals to account for the movement of water molecules in and out of cellular compartments in diseased and healthy tissue. When the MR shutter speed increases, this movement appears to slow. In the case of tumors, using shutter speed a...UIC offers new weight loss surgery for obese teens
.... Allen Browne, associate professor of surgery and program director for the adolescent bariatric program at UIC. "As pediatric surgeons, we feel strongly that the adjustable gastric band is a better option...NYU Child Study Center receives grant from the American Red Cross September 11 recovery program
...erican Red Cross Liberty Disaster Relief Fund. The program offers a new emphasis on life enrichment programmi...omprehensive outreach, assessment and intervention program to offer counseling services to approximately 500 children and adolescents and their families. "In o......ng researchers provided a 12-week Tai Chi exercise program to older Chinese women who had one major risk fact...e in the School of Nursing at UCSF. "The exercise program was provided at a community center where a large number of Cantonese-speaking senior citizens gather...