Cancer Survivors Center funded for children
...mstrong Foundation and helped to bring the project proposal to the Board's attention: "We believe that the proposed Rainbow Center could be a model for survivorship programs around the country." The former president of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Michael Sherwin's connections to University Hospitals run de...University of Minnesota to lead national effort in food bio-security
...ity activities." One of the major strengths of the proposal lies in a unique farm-to-table private sector industry group that has been collaborating with the University for nearly two years to identify security gaps in the nation's food supply and to develop comprehensive plans to respond to those gaps. "The...Rising young psychiatry researchers receive prestigious international award
... Dr Galanter received an award for her exceptional proposal outlining her research of investigating and charac...spear deserved the award for his original research proposal to use novel analytic methods to investigate functional brain disturbances in patients with schizoph...Study finds lung transplants increase survival of cystic fibrosis patients by more than four years
... medical urgency," explained Dr. Yusen. However, a proposal currently being considered prioritizes patients on the waiting list for lung transplantation based on the medical urgency and the probability of survival after transplantation. Dr. Yusen and colleagues studied all patients with CF who were on the wai...TIGER Workshop puts focus on space for African water management
... as well as various stages of the water cycle. One proposal from Burkina Faso is to combine radar and multispe...forestation will also be observed. In Sudan one proposal is to use Earth Observation to improve the effectiveness of 'water harvesting' from wadis shallow d...Who really owns publicly-funded medical research?
...r no extra charge to the American public. The NIH proposal is found at http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-04-064.html Patient advocates and public interest groups are increasingly concerned that their voices are being left out of this critical dialogue between governm...Panel offers recommendations for monitoring adverse events from dietary supplements
...e the effectiveness of the system including: (1) a proposal of a surveillance program for the dietary supplements sector that would make such a system practical and auditable; (2) a user-friendly approach for consumers that was simple and concise, and available 24-hours a day, 365 days per year; (3) creation ...'Fatally flawed' legal analysis will not stand
...ers to do so for Federal purpose. Nothing in this proposal alters the terms of NIH's license and consequently...gal doubt, where, in fact, there is none. The NIH proposal builds on current practice and it advances NIH's aim to use today's information technologies to fulf...Supporters of NIH policy see publishers' gambit as possible diversion
... prepared lay explanations are always welcome, the proposal fails to respect all patients' direct right to know or their power to comprehend." "We worry about any attempts to confuse an overdue outreach effort by journal publishers with enlightened public policy," Johnson added. "This can be a positive move, ...The Lancet calls for the creation of a world institute for risk evaluation
...ats to human survival. As world leaders backed the proposal for an earthquake early warning system for the Indian Ocean in Jakarta last week, a unique opportunity to create a broader mechanism to determine human risks has arisen. Gaining a total picture of the risks facing populations, be that economic, geop...Penn researchers add more evidence to demonstrate role of COX inhibitors in heart-disease risk
...creased incidence of heart attack and stroke. This proposal was based initially on his studies of how celecoxib (Celebrex) and rofeocoxib (Vioxx) worked in human volunteers. The first unequivocal evidence of this risk emerged with the Merck-sponsored APPROVe study of Vioxx, leading to withdrawal of the drug i...How links with tobacco industry may have influenced the publication of research on second-hand smoke
...e smoking. Among the many strategies proposed one proposal made by Philip Morris USA was to 'establish a genuine scientific journal on indoor air quality'. In 1989 the international tobacco industry assisted the establishment of the International Society of the Built Environment, which published the journal ...HIV testing should be routine part of primary health care for sexually active
... substance abuse centers, the researchers say. The proposal for routine testing, which was published electronically February 28 and will appear in the April 1 issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases , is based on a review of surveillance reports from the CDC and recent research data. Current guidel...