Research improves treatment of bladder cancer
... a new approach, said Jessie L-S Au, distinguished university professor and Dorothy M. Davis Chair in Cancer Research at the College of Pharmacy at Ohio State University. Patients receiving the experimental treatment went an average of 29.1 months before their cancer recurred, while those receiving the stand...Undergraduate conducts high-tech tests on dental enamel
...raly presented an overview on his project during a university awards ceremony. The Johns Hopkins University is recognized as the country's first graduate research university, and has been in recent years the leader among the nation's research universities in winning federal research and development grants. Th...UC Davis recycling expert wins Stockholm Water Prize
...eering. He has beena teacher and researcher at the university for 20 years. Asano received the prize for "his outstanding contributionsto efficient use of water in the domain of wastewaterreclamation, recycling and reuse through theoreticaldevelopments, practical research and worldwide adaptation andpromotion,"...Hartford Institute/AACN award honors nursing schools for innovative gerontology education
...al therapy, and occupational therapy students, the university provides students with the opportunity to investig...rement for all baccalaureate nursing students, the university has continued to integrate concepts of health promotion and disease prevention as they relate to agi...... at the Medical University of South Carolina; that university and Wisconsin have both established Ralph F. Hirschmann professorships in his honor. He holds honorary doctorates from these two institutions as well as Oberlin, where he also served on the Board of Trustees. Hirschmann has authored some 150 scien...CDC funds will enable UNC-CH to help minimize domestic violence in flood areas
...pany team members to flooded areas and invited the university to submit a proposal for funding. Dr. Marci Campbell, assistant professor of nutrition at the schools of public health and medicine, is principal investigator, and Benedict is project manager. Others include assistant professors Pam Frasier of family..."Radical" Discovery Advances Medicine and Plastics
...25 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The university is celebrating the centennial of Gomberg's work and will receive a commemorative plaque from ACS President Daryle Busch. Most 19th century chemists believed it was impossible to isolate an organic free radical - a molecule with a free electron capabl...Biomedical informatics research group develops teaching/diagnostic software
...ulty members and graduate students from across the university collaborating as the Biomedical Informatics Resear...st several years, Bender says, and it appears that university seed funding is beginning to reap dividends. The $90,000 USDA project is just one example of what Be...Most acquisition of meningitis bacteria among students occurs in first week of university term
...ging carriage rate of Neisseria meningitidis among university students during the first week of term: cross sect...for meningitis occurs during the first week of the university term, reports research in this week's BMJ. A study of 2,500 first year Nottingham University studen...Promising new research on schizophrenia causes
...llinois at Chicago is the largest and most diverse university in the Chicago area and is one of only 88 national Research I universities. Located just west of Chicago's Loop, UIC is a vital part of the educational, technological, and cultural fabric of the entire metropolitan region....U-M health leaders offer an innovative framework for keeping academic medicine viable
...dical school applications, negative stereotypes of university medical centers and increasing demand for high-tech treatments? Only through a coordinated effort among the teaching, research and patient care areas of one of the nation's largest and oldest academic medical centers, say U-M Health System leaders. I...Eastman gives Clemson University $38 million fiber technology
...research and educational initiatives, according to university Chief Research Officer Y.T. Shah, bringing the university that much closer to achieving its goal of earning $100 million in research funding annually. The te...AAPS co-sponsors FDA science forum
... discussion groups that include FDA, industry, and university leaders in the field on the following topics: research on errors in medical care, the food safety initiative, postmarket surveillance, contemporary issues in risk assessment, women's health and the science of gender differences, and risk assessme...Studies of growth hormone result in new class of drugs
...ug's use in acromegaly early next year. "Not many university professors are able to see something discovered in...atment of many diseases, including acromegaly. The university also recently received notice that a European patent will be issued on the technology before the end...Hartford Institute/AACN award honors nursing schools for innovative gerontology education
...on of Colleges of Nursing is the national voicefor university and four-year-college education programs in nursing'the nation'slargest health care profession. Representing more that 500 member schools ofnursing at public and private institutions nationwide, AACN's educational,research, governmental advocacy, da...USC receives $12.8 million to study teen smoking
...vention among teen-agers fromPacific Rim cultures, university researchers announced today. The new Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC) at USC will befunded by a $12.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. The center will investigate how culture, immigration and adaptation to theAme...UNC-CH wins $42.1 million federal contract to study drugs for schizophrenia and Alzheimer's
...t ever awarded by the federal agency. It placesthe university in charge of a multi-center, five-year effort aime...ors contributed to UNC-CH's successful bid. "The university and the psychiatry department have a long tradition of researchin the pathological basis of mental i...Annual UNC-CH study shows state gaining health providers, but big imbalances remain
...nter Program, the UNC-CH School ofMedicine and the university provost's office supported the research. Informationcame from the N.C. Medical Board, the American Medical Association, the N.C.State Library, N.C. boards of chiropractic examiners, nursing, pharmacy,physical therapy, podiatry, dentistry and optometr...University Of Wisconsin to launch center to study how emotions affect health
...r funded by the National Institutes of Health. The university will receive $10.9 million to create a Center for the Study ofMind-Body Interaction. The center's goal is to gain a clearer understanding ofhow emotions are encoded in the brain and then influence other body systems thataffect health, according to Ri...