New 'ITN Scholars Program' provides junior faculty opportunity to develop clinical trials expertise
...) has announced a new clinical research fellowship program that will provide promising junior-level faculty with intensive, hands-on training in the planning, design and implementation of clinical trials. The "ITN Scholars Program" aims to begin addressing the need for well-trained clinical research professi...Social development program in childhood aids in positive functioning as an adult
... who participated in a social development training program in elementary school reported greater job stability, less incidence of drug use, and greater overall emotional well being compared with a control group, according to an article in the January issue of The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine,...Exercise combats metabolic syndrome in older adults
...determined that in people age 55 to 75, a moderate program of physical exercise can significantly offset the ...s and stroke." To assess the benefits of a fixed program of exercise training, the Hopkins team studied a group of 104 older people for a six-month period be...Mayo Clinic finds restless legs syndrome in children linked to family history, iron deficiency
...who had been seen in the pediatric sleep disorders program at Mayo Clinic between Jan. 2000 and March 2004. New, rigidly defined diagnostic criteria established by a consensus conference of the National Institutes of Health and the International Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation in 2003 allowed the Mayo Clin...Finding lymph node metastases in cancer
...t nodes. It was then possible to design a computer program that could recognize metastases. And then the program was able to produce a 3-D reconstruction of the lymph nodes which could possibly be used by oncologi...Study investigates value of 'center of excellence' designation
...arch and Quality (AHRQ). In 1971 the NCI created a program to award cancer centers special designation as centers of regional excellence if they demonstrated excellence in three areas: research, cancer prevention, and clinical services. NCI cancer centers are well staffed with specialists, tend to have high ...ASTRO patient education campaign wins award
...he prestigious Associations Advance America awards program recognizes associations that propel America forwar...often go unnoticed by the general public. "ASTRO's program truly embodies the spirit of the Associations Advance America Campaign," said David Gabri, 2004-2005...McMaster researchers develop test for rare bleeding disorder
...Jeimy is enrolled in the medical sciences graduate program at McMaster and holds a master's studentship award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. Her research was supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) grant, and by Dr. Hayward's Heart and Stroke Foundation Career Investiga...Blocking molecules protects health of implants
...of pathology and a member of the interdepartmental program in Vascular Biology and Transplantation at Yale School of Medicine. "Implantation of biomaterials and tissue-engineered devices into tissues cause the development of a foreign body reaction that can lead to implant failure," Kyriakides said. "The for...Potentially fatal toxicities occur with off-label use of cancer drugs
...mide Education and Prescribing Safety (STEPS), the program does not provide patients, pharmacists or health care providers with information on thromboembolisms. Evens presented the RADAR (Research on Adverse Drug Events and Reports) data on the thalidomide-associated blood clots on at the 46th Annual Meeti...International gathering at UH examines top computer code
...fool you FLUKA is serious stuff. It's a computer program used by physicists to simulate the effects of various forms of radiation as it passes through things. A course on FLUKA, one of the top radiation transport computer codes in the world, is coming to the University of Houston Jan. 10-14, 2005. Call...Risk of tuberculosis doubles in first year of HIV infection
...e to the miners, including a voluntary HIV testing program and tuberculosis screening and treatment programs. The unique setting of the gold mines also provides a caveat: because the study population was not diverse and was characterized by unusually high rates of tuberculosis, the results may not be applica...Assessing the season: LSU hurricane experts learned lessons during Hurricane Season 2004
...een working with producers from the PBS television program NOVA and from the cable channel FX on future shows depicting the potential impacts of a major hurricane (such as Ivan) strike on Louisiana. According to Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Brian Wolshon, of LSU's Transportation Research Labora...Report on health insurance coverage of Iowa children shows gaps
...ither Medicaid or hawk-i, which is a state/federal program that provides insurance to children in low-income ...epartment of Human Services showed that the hawk-i program increases access to health care for Iowa's children. For more details, see this UI news release at ...Free nicotine patches increase short-term smoking quit rates
...ased participation in a Maryland smoking cessation program and helped 27 percent more people stop smoking dur...tes. Dr. Alberg explained that the ideal cessation program includes attending a counseling program, in addition to using pharmacotherapy products such as nicot...Daily social/physical activity improves sleep and cognition in the elderly
...n in a short-duration social and physical activity program improved cognitive performance by 4 to 6 percent and improved subjective sleep quality in older adults. Future controlled randomized clinical studies of behavioral approaches are needed to confirm the benefits of increasing social and physical acti...UGA researchers receive NIH contract to create a stem cell-based drug assay for SMA
...uscular Atrophy (SMA) Project, a model translation program established by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at the National Institutes of Health, to accelerate the process of developing safe and effective treatment of SMA. The goal of the SMA Project is to identify and comp...Broad-based vaccination of wild mice could help reduce lyme disease risk in humans
... certain species, much like the rabies vaccination program that has met with success in the United States and Europe. Such a vaccination program would be environmentally beneficial, say the researchers, because it would not detrimentally affect ...Fred Hutchinson receives $9.7 million to lead early detection consortium
...en sorted with an artificial-intelligence computer program that identifies the discrepancies in protein patterns between people with and without cancer. Proteins linked to cancer may then serve as biomarkers to detect early disease and predict responsiveness to therapy or the likelihood of recurrence. Such b...Rice cartilage experts win $1.5M NIH grant to bioengineer TMJ discs
...red TMJ disc. Rice's new TMJ tissue engineering program aims to develop methods for growing replacement TM...ying the groundwork for the TMJ tissue engineering program for four years. Earlier this year, he and his students published a review of the complex biochemical...