Diabetes drugs may help multiple sclerosis sufferers
...d collaborations with researchers at several other universities and hospitals, including Dr. Michael Heneka of the University of Bonn in Germany, and was supported by a grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Feinstein's journal article can be found at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstra...Rutgers' announces Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
...g $2.4 million will be awarded to 13 scholars from universities across the country. The national RWJF Investigator Awards program, administered by Rutgers' Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, funds approximately 10 research initiatives annually. Projects must develop, interpret or substa...Columbia University receives $2.75 million for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease research
...d licensing opportunities ranking first among U.S. universities for the past three years, says Ofra Weinberger, director of Science and Technology Ventures, Columbias technology transfer division. Marubenis interest in supporting our research and technology development opens the doorfor other Japanese companies a...College drinking problems and research solutions
...r predominantly or historically black colleges and universities drink the least. Recommended Strategies and Futur... developed a 3-in-1 Framework to help colleges and universities design prevention programs that target each of these constituencies. The framework identifies the ta...Buck researcher awarded Brookdale Fellowship
...search. This year, nearly 80 organizations, mostly universities and medical schools, were asked to compete. It was the second year the Buck Institute was invited to apply. The aim of the Brookdale National Fellowship program is to support young researchers who are likely to emerge as leaders in the field of aging...Eye drops to treat childhood eye disorder work as well as patching the eye
... the PEDIG, a network of eye care professionals at universities in North America and in local community offices. The PEDIG professionals have a goal of determining the best treatment for various eye problems in children. Between April 1999 and April 2001, 419 patients entered the trial. The average age of the chi...Alcohol researchers find genetic locus of human brain wave
...enter at Brooklyn, and others from six of the nine universities that comprise NIAAA's Collaborative Study of the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) report in today's online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (99[6]:3729-3733) significant linkage and linkage disequilibrium between beta brain...More students choosing health profession sciences as major due to unstable job atmosphere
Colleges and universities are experiencing a boom in heath major applicants. Northeastern University's Bouv College of Health Sciences School of Nursing, for example, saw a surprising 75 percent increase of applicants from last year to this year - and the deadline has not yet...College freshmen more politically liberal than in the past, UCLA survey reveals
...ercent of students entering four-year colleges and universities characterize their political views as liberal or f...2 million freshmen entering four-year colleges and universities as first-time, full-time students last fall. The vast majority of these respondents (97.5 percent) c...Hospitalist care destined to become dominant model of inpatient care in the US, say UCSF researchers
..., residency track and fellowship programs at major universities nationwide. At UCSF, 15 faculty hospitalists now staff about two-thirds of the inpatient general medical service and all medical consult months. Preliminary evidence indicates that resident teaching evaluations of hospitalists are significantly highe...Team studies use of Sandia technology to ensure 'farm-to-fork' safety of the nation's food supply
...) laboratory, is working with several agricultural universities and agencies to search for ways to apply Labs-developed technology to agricultural and food-safety issues. The agricultural infrastructure is a multibillion-dollar industry in the United States, says Darryl Drayer, who heads up Sandias agricultural ...Unique study to begin examination of whether treating periodontal disease cuts heart disease
... a unique new study is starting at five major U.S. universities to begin answering that question. Faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the State University of New York at Buffalo are leading the new study because they pioneered investigations into the effects of gum disease -- al...Bangladesh flood and drought forecasting could bring farmers, cholera victims relief
...udy of Indian Ocean monsoons involving a number of universities and federal agencies showed the ocean has its own El Nio-like phenomenon. Led by Webster, the research team crisscrossed 10,000 miles of the Bay of Bengal aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship, the Ron Brown, measuring wate...UNC to share in $34 million study of what happens to cancer patients
...te and Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, the universities of Iowa and Alabama and RAND Health in Santa Monica, Calif. The Farber institute will receive a larger share of the grant because, besides serving as a clinical center, it also will operate the studys statistical coordinating center to gather and ana...Studying growth, poverty and well-being in Africa
...l fund technical assistance from the collaborating universities and a series of small grants to support U.S.-based researchers seeking to work in Africa. The small grants portion of the award will be administered by CAU, which is a private, coeducational institution of predominantly African-American heritage, f...Patent rights stimulate R&D, but fall short in helping poor countries obtain lifesaving drugs
...organizations, non-governmental organizations, and universities who gathered recently in Cambridge, UK to address these issues. "This forum and the resulting report is really an attempt to bridge the gap between drug makers, who defend their right to patent protection, and activists, who argue that patents unfair...Study: Children with more hours of child care act more aggressively
..., other data collection centers are located at the universities of Arkansas at Little Rock, California at Irvine, Kansas, New Hampshire, Pittsburgh, Virginia, Washington at Seattle and Wisconsin and Temple University. Research Triangle Institute staff in Research Triangle Park, N.C., also participates in the proj...Undergraduate conducts high-tech tests on dental enamel
...ecent years the leader among the nation's research universities in winning federal research and development grants. The opportunity to be involved in important research is one of the distinguishing characteristics of an undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins. About 80 percent of the university's undergraduates...Unergrad's invention may deliver life-saving medicine
...ecent years the leader among the nation's research universities in winning federal research and development grants. The opportunity to be involved in important research is one of the distinguishing characteristics of an undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins. About 80 percent of the university's undergraduates...Beyond Viagra: other phosphodiesterase inhibitors are candidates for potential therapies
...cations). Researchers at drug companies and other universities are examining how PDE inhibitors may be used to improve memory, treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and blood clotting disorders. In all of these examples, considerable work and testing will be needed before there are clinical benefits, Beav...