First relapsing fever outbreak in Montana identified
... when five of 20 people became ill during or after visiting a cabin on an island in Flathead Lake in western Montana. RML investigators and tick experts Dr. Schwan and Paul Policastro, Ph.D., worked with physicians in Seattle; Montana State Epidemiologist Todd Damrow, Ph.D.; the Lake County Health Department;...American Academy of Ophthalmology announces outstanding humanitarian service award recipients
...lectured in more than 50 countries and served as a visiting surgeon in 16 countries. His commitment to transferring skills and knowledge to help patients around the world led to the development of Cyber-Sight in 1999. Using the technology of the Internet and digital photography, he is providing a continuing c...Technique reduces time spent on radiation doses
...r the algorithm was performed by Mathieu Picard, a visiting undergraduate student working on his honor's thesis for the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, considered France's finest technical university. The three co-authored a paper describing the technique in Medical Physics, 29 (10), October 2002. T...Sandia nanolaser may help extend life-spans by rapidly analyzing possible neuroprotectant drugs
ALBUQUERQUE, NM. - Anyone visiting a nursing home has seen the horror of humans surviving beyond their brains' ability to make sense of their surroundings. That loss of discrimination is caused by neurons killed by malfunctions in mitochondria - the submicron-sized power packs found i...Experts present new research on the hot topics of aging at GSA's Annual Meeting
...s may register and customize their own schedule by visiting http://www.eshow2000.com/geron/about_the_meeting.cfm . Increasing Life Expectancy: The subject of anti-aging is perhaps the most publicly sought-after gerontology news topic today. How far can science extend the human lifespan? This question is ...Sept/Oct Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...f avoidable hospitalization, greater likelihood of visiting a physician and higher expenditures, especially fo...f avoidable hospitalization, greater likelihood of visiting a physician and higher expenditures, especially for testing. They found no significant relationship ...First reported cases of North Asian tick typhus among North Americans
A prospective study of paleontologists visiting Mongolia has resulted in the first-reported cases of North Asian tick typhus among North Americans. The findings are detailed in a research letter in this week's issue of THE LANCET. The risk of acquiring North Asian tick typhus (infection by the ba...Study finds few substance abuse treatment programs for elders
...ary care or they may be receiving improper care by visiting treatment facilities without elderly-specific programs in mind," said Arndt, who also is director of the Iowa Consortium for Substance Abuse Research and Evaluation. According to Arndt, people over age 65 may have any number of special needs that dif...HHS awards $14 million to support Bioethics Research Center
...d teaching facilities for faculty, researchers and visiting scholars for studies in bioethics, public health a...s Living Learning Complex. The complex will house visiting scholars and interns who participate in bioethics programs. Participants will include representativ...Poorer performing Philadelphia schools have more undiagnosed asthma, Jefferson study finds
...xhibitfor Philadelphia school children. The bus is visiting middle schools, aswell as health fairs and other medical centers. In addition, a set ofcartoon characters - The AsthmaBUSters - were created, along with a relatedcomic book and set of trading cards, to be the voice of the bus and theliaison for this ...Jefferson Scientists define new cell type that may lead to clues about Kaposi's sarcoma
...sity in Philadelphia, and Masatoshi Deguchi, M.D., visiting scientist from Tohuku University in Sendai, Japan, have created a mouse model that resembles an early form of KS. To accomplish this, they have grown and characterized a line of mouse skin cells in the laboratory that they believe are analogous to th...Jefferson scientists show low lead levels can affect development of brain cells
.... Dr. Schneider and his colleague, Funan Huang, a visiting scientist from China, found that low levels of lead below the levels of exposure deemed safe for humans by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can significantly affect the proliferation and development of neural stem cells. Lead signific...Weizmann Institute Prof. Moshe Oren named winner of NIH MERIT Award
...1981 and became a Full Professor in 1991. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University from 1988-1989. In 1993 he was appointed Director of the Leo and Julia Forchheimer Center for Molecular Genetics at the Weizmann Institute, and he served as Dean of the Biology Faculty at the Weizmann Institute from ...Experimental drugs reduce neuron death in rats following insulin shock
...ology Service, SFVAMC; and Yasuhiko Matsumori, MD, visiting postdoctoral scholar, and Jialing Liu, PhD, adjunct professor, both with Neurosurgery Service, SFVAMC and the Department of Neurosurgery, UCSF. The study was supported by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, a...UCLA teams with Drew to provide cancer care
...olunteers there, driving patients to appointments, visiting them in the hospital and even bringing them wigs when treatments result in hair loss. Gonzales said she's excited about the new partnership program and the experimental treatments that will be available for patients there. "There are a lot of Spanish...NHGRI launches Social and Behavioral Research Branch
...al assessment technologies, statistical expertise, visiting scholars and trainees, and common library and meeting space. Third, it gives an identity and high visibility to social and behavioral research within the NIH intramural research program. And finally, it allows for interdisciplinary and cross-institut...Stevens' Cattabiani helps link doctors, hospitals worldwide
... physician offices, and mobile initiatives such as visiting nurse and physician house call activities." "TIMA has developed a globally deployable healthcare information system designed to meet the needs of both providers and patients across the entire range of healthcare delivery - clinically and technical...U of MN study first to detect tobacco-specific carcinogens in non-smokers in public setting
...ing area was contiguous with smoking areas. Before visiting the casino, levels of NNAL were below of the limit of detection in eleven participants. Three of these participants also had NNAL levels below the limit of detection in the after-visit samples; all others were in the detectable range. The article is ...Midlife brain crisis spawns late-life Alzheimer's
...bility," said Dr. George Bartzokis, the author and visiting professor of neurology at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. He also is director of the UCLA Memory Disorders and Alzheimer's Disease Clinic and Clinical Core director of the UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. "Close analysis of brain tis...American Lung Association calls on governors and legislatures to stand up for public health
... laws and policies to protect everyone's health by visiting the American Lung Association's website at www.lungusa.org . The website includes information for sending a personalized letter to state leaders demanding tough measures to combat tobacco use and addiction. In addition to advocacy efforts to help ...