UCSF Cancer Center joins elite group of National Cancer Institute-designated centers
... UCSF Cancer Center is eligiblefor a five-year NCI renewal grant. Typically, this grant amounts to 20 percentof the total NCI funding an institution receives to support peer-reviewed cancerresearch studies. Currently, UCSF receives $25 million from the NCI to support 94 cancer researchprojects, and this amo...Fogarty International Center announces new AIDS international training and research program grants
...15 million to fund six new awards, three competing renewal awards, and 32 competing supplements to U.S. universities under the fourth funding cycle of the FIC AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP). As the international training arm of ...Analyses of Violence Against Women Act suggest legislation saved US $14.8 billion
...undertake the study when the act was coming up for renewal last year to determine whether the legislation had any measurable effect. Biddle and Martin were her advisers. Using data available through the National Institute of Justice, they compared victimization rates for women from 1992 and 1993 before the a...Ecstasy may be drug of choice for those trying to cope with lonelienss, study finds
...nt and understanding (the increased self-intimacy, renewal and growth that often comes with active participation in organized focused groups or from receiving professional help and support), 3) Social Support network (re-establishing friendships which can help one feel connected to and valued by others), 4) ...USC consortium receives $15 million NCI grant to determine causes of colon cancer
...ty of Southern California as part of a $50 million renewal grant for the Cooperative Family Registries for Colorectal Cancer Studies, an international collaboration between six different centers, including a consortium of researchers from USC and several other institutions. "This is the largest single resour...HRT and breast cancer: better prognosis more likely due to frequent screening than hormone use
...women to the doctor once a year for a prescription renewal - and a mammogram," said Daling, a member of Fred Hutchinson's Public Health Sciences Division. Daling and co-authors from five study sites nationwide reported that 90 percent of women who used combination estrogen/progestin HRT had undergone a scree...... activates pathways leading to increased stem cell renewal and provokes accumulation of DNA damage. These pathways are critical to the ability of AML-associated fusion proteins to induce leukemia. TITLE: Acute myeloid leukemia fusion proteins deregulate genes involved in stem cell maintenance and DNA repai...Innovation attracts new research funding
...million Swiss Francs over the first five years and renewal donations of 15 and 10 million Swiss Francs for the following five years (a total of 50 million Swiss Francs over 10 years). The funds are distributed as grants of up to 300,000 Swiss Francs over three years. The next deadline for research grant sub...Center for AIDS Research grant renewed with $8 million NIH award
...CFAR, responded to the receipt of the grant: "This renewal of our Center for AIDS Research is wonderful news. It represents recognition by the NIH of the strong AIDS research program at Case and UHC, and the hard work of the more than 130 AIDS researchers who comprise this center of excellence. This five-ye...Poor kids' health insurance situation changes often, affecting their medical care, study finds
...grams (SCHIP), or implemented new requirements for renewal of benefits that can act as barriers to continuous coverage. Meanwhile, many families have lost private insurance coverage as employers lay off workers or pass more of their benefit costs on to employees. The U-M authors say their findings point to a...Wound healers cause skin disease
... case of psoriasis, not only is there a more rapid renewal of the skin, but the number of cell layers on the surface also increases. The skin condition causes red marks that are rich in blood and often inflamed. These red marks are covered with shiny white flakes of skin and sometimes itch. Psoriasis is not ...RelayHealth selected by Columbia University to link doctors and patients online
...ultation service, the eScript® prescribing and renewal service, online appointment requests, lab and test...patients can electronically request a prescription renewal directly from their doctor or route a physician-approved prescription to their pharmacy for processi...Computerized order entry systems can increase risk of medication errors
...mistaken for dosage guidelines, ignored antibiotic renewal notices placed on paper charts rather than in the CPOE system, separation of functions that facilitate double dosing and incompatible orders, and inflexible ordering formats generating wrong orders. Three-quarters of the house staff reported observin...