The Gerontological Society of America announces Hartford Fellowship recipients
...ocial work students have been chosen as the newest recipients of the prestigious Hartford Doctoral Fellowship, a program funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, administered by The Gerontological Society of America, and directed by Dr. James Lubben. Robin Bonifas of the University of Washington School of Soc...Kandel pays tribute to Hubel's and Wiesel's 25-year partnership and work in neurobiology & vision
...torage in neurons. He shared the prize with fellow recipients Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard....Success of liver transplantation may be most influenced by three risk factors
...ival. "Five year graft survival was 72 percent for recipients of donors younger than 60 years and 35 percent for recipients of donors 60 year or older," the authors write. "A CIT of 12 hours or more was associated with short...Age shouldn't be a factor in kidney transplantation
...ney with the recipient, the ages of the donors and recipients did not affect either patient survival or short-te...he mean age of this group was 65, and seven kidney recipients were older than 70. Most of the patients (62 percent) in the older group received kidneys from older...Awards & fellowships at the International & American Association for Dental Research General Session
...ted by the AADR and consists of a plaque. Previous recipients of the Award are Jack W. Hein (1996), Gertrude Quigley (1997), Christopher Squier (1998), Jay Gershen (1999), Anthony Picozzi (2000), John Crawford (2001), Michael Barnett (2002), Judith Sherman (2003), and Michael Alfano (2004). William B. Clark ...Hopkins convenes 'consensus' conference to develop blueprint for nationwide matching program
...database experts. In addition, several donors and recipients who have participated in paired donation procedures in the United States will attend the conference. The conference was made possible through a financial contribution from a patient who benefited from a kidney transplant at Johns Hopkins, Margery P...Gender a factor in who gets bypass surgery
...acks who received bypass, there were only 59 women recipients for every 100 men who received bypass surgery. Women with comorbid conditions, i.e. diabetes or hypertension, were found to have significantly more conservative treatment decisions than men with the same conditions. Similarly, women were twice as li...Don't let your spouse become your caregiver
...ortality." In these situations, both caregiver and recipients can be at risk for long-term negative outcomes. The article states that potentially harmful caregiver behavior can be an early warning sign of even greater elderly abuse or neglect. Surprisingly, previous research has shown that abusive caregivers ar...Can routine commercial cord blood banking be scientifically and ethically justified?
...stically choose to donate cord blood for unrelated recipients to public banks. However, private banks are now open that offer expectant parents the option to pay a fee for the chance to store cord blood for possible future use by that same child (known as an autologous transplant). Is such private banking s...Hard choices: Pitt researcher presents findings on when to accept organ transplants
...amine the decision-making process facing potential recipients of livers from both living and cadaveric donors. The liver is a unique organ in that it can regenerate itself: If a living person donates a part of his or her liver, the livers of both donor and recipient typically grow to normal size within two wee...Single-donor islet transplantation procedure shows promise for patients with type 1 diabetes
...mmunosuppression-related adverse events. All eight recipients achieved insulin independence and freedom from hyp...esults of oral glucose tolerance testing in 4 of 5 recipients with sustained insulin independence) using significantly fewer islets," the authors write. "These fi...Johns Hopkins scientists receive presidential medals
...hysicist Riccardo Giacconi, Ph.D., have been named recipients of the 2003 National Medal of Science, the United States' top scientific recognition, the White House announced today. The two will be the seventh and eighth Johns Hopkins faculty members to receive this honor. Giacconi and Snyder will receive the m...Age should not be a factor in determining heart transplantation eligibility, researchers say
...rgery, the study shows that older heart transplant recipients fare just as well as their younger counterparts, e...ficant differences between the 50 heart transplant recipients who were older than 60 when they received their new heart and the 225 recipients who were younger th...Elderly people cared for by spouse are at greater risk for abuse, Pitt researchers find
...f more needy recipients. In those situations, care recipients were more likely to report that their caregivers screamed and yelled at them, used a harsh tone of voice, insulted them, called them names, or swore at them. However, when caregivers were nonspousal family members, such as adult children, they did no...AACR recognizes women in cancer research
... Center, San Francisco, Calif. are the first award recipients for 2005. They attended the AACR Special Conference "Regulation of Cell Death in Oncogenesis," which took place January 26-30, 2005 at the Hilton Waikoloa Village, Waikoloa, Hawaii. The stipulations of the award are as follows: candidates must be...World-first living donor islet cell transplant a success
...r, although it's too early to tell," he says. The recipients use the same drugs to prevent organ rejection as are used in the Edmonton Protocol. Dr. Shapiro was invited to participate in the operation in Kyoto, Japan, where he originally did living donor liver transplant training with Dr. Tanaka. Dr. Masumoto ...Public interest advocates question NIH Enhanced Access policy
... available for public use. The policy puts grant recipients in the untenable position of trying to meet the contradictory expectations of their funding agency and their publisher. Addressing Leavitt as well as NIH indirectly, members of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access emphasized the need to hold NIH accounta...National Academies news: Academy honors 17 for major contributions to science
...arch award of $50,000 given annually toeach of two recipients to recognize unusual achievement and to furthertheir research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology - goto GREGORY C. DEANGELIS, assistant professor of neurobiology, departmentof anatomy and neurobiology, Washington University School o...Severity of liver disease not a reliable indicator of quality of life
...more directly, to whom, among all of the potential recipients of a given donor liver, should that donor liver be offered." He maintains that quality of life should not outweigh mortality risk in organ allocation decisions and that a patient must first be alive in order to measure his or her quality of life.......Saunders were named as this year's Kozmetsky Award recipients on Jan. 12. The prestigious award includes a $5,000 prize. The awards are the first of their kind offered to U.S. graduate students working on nanotechnology. A Rice student has won one of the two awards in each of the first two years they have been ...