Mayo Clinic discovers 'new pathway' against pancreatic cancer
...spite recent advances in understanding how cancers work at the molecular level, pancreatic cancer lacks an effective treatment. Approximately 30,000 Americans are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer annually, and the disease kills the same number each year. Ninety percent of these cancers are pancreatic duc...Euroscience Open Forum 2006 launches call for proposals
...ther German science-funding organisations. In its work ESOF2006 is supported by a number of committees. The Steering Committee is chaired by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Heckl, General Director of the Deutsches Museum in Munich,. Host of the conference is Wissenschaft im Dialog. ESOF2006 is to date generously supp...Helping answer needs by developing specialists in autism
...enables us to get the right resources to those who work regularly with children having autism." In addition to the primary training program, the CSATC staff will provide outreach activities including education and awareness efforts to a variety of community groups. "Ultimately, we want to expand the p...Balance and better interactions between primary-care and specialist physicians improve US health
...untries other than the U.S., specialists typically work in hospitals and see patients only on referral fro...ways for primary care and specialist physicians to work together so that health services are more effective, efficient and equitable," said Dr. Starfield....Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
...ervention Program (IVIP), requires participants to work up to 20 hours per week at a paid work placement while attending weekly group and individual CBT sessions. The IVIP manual helps people wit...Orchestra pit no danger to hearing
... personnel manager that the musicians play for 300 work hours per year, including performances and rehearsals. They then tested 67 volunteers who were requested to wear a noise dosimeter a small cigarette-sized instrument used to measure sound during 18 sessions of an activity that was either a rehearsa...New fingerprint visualization method uses X-rays to reveal missing clues
...te forensic information. They also hope that their work will lead to a smaller, portable MXRF device that can be easily carried by forensic investigators to quickly test samples directly at the crime scene. More studies are planned, they say. Besides Worley, other Los Alamos investigators involved in this...Gene for age-related macular degeneration discovered by Yale researchers
... studies with results pending publication." "This work is not only important for the gene we have found, but also highlights the value in new paradigms for whole genome analysis for chronic diseases," Hoh added. "I believe that in order to find genes responsible for diseases, you have to use a totally di...Study examines lessons learned at Africa's first public antiretroviral treatment clinic
... schools. Many nurses are often forced to look for work outside Botswana due to a lack of positions that pay well, but physicians have to be contracted from other countries, said Dr. Marlink. If the country's government institutionalizes the ARV clinic's practice of having specialists train junior staff ...2005 H. Trendley Dean Memorial Award
...Public Health and oral epidemiology. His scholarly work and innovations have been adopted nationally and throughout the world. He has been active in public health service, and is known for his unfailing commitment to improving the quality of dental health practice. He directs one of the worlds leading tra......hanges of collagen with dentin-bonding agents. His work is an essential and fundamental counterpart to the...ce of clinical dentistry. A notable feature of his work is the combination of scientific techniques he brings to bear on these problems. These include IR sp......e Dr. Castle's many significant contributions. His work is characterized by being meticulously and rigorou...s of his studies. As a result, the majority of his work has appeared in journals of the highest and first rank, including Cell, Journal of Biological Chemis...2005 Behavioral Sciences & Health Services Research Award
...lished at the University of Kuopio. His pioneering work in the field of Community Dentistry in Finland is ...blic oral health centers in Finland. The reported work is always thorough, always measured, and invariably incorporates recent thinking into the analysis a...2005 Geriatric Oral Research Award
...al-facial disorders in geriatric populations. His work in the development and application of molecular biological techniques for detecting oral pathogens from saliva and oral mucosal tissue samples has allowed scientists to simplify and enhance diagnosis of oral and systemic conditions. He is the recipi...Awards & fellowships at the International & American Association for Dental Research General Session
... person, and the papers to be chosen must describe work which has very significantly advanced knowledge in some aspect of dental research. Papers eligible for consideration are those published during the 12-month period (July-June) immediately preceding the IADR General Session. The award consists of a ca...Dartmouth researchers find where musical memories are stored in the brain
...researchers say that this finding extends previous work on auditory imagery and parallels work on visual imagery, which both show that sensory-specific memories are stored in the brain regions th...Breakthrough in medical research: New chemotherapy gives hope to brain tumour patients
...i, PhD signing author for the translation research work and leader of the laboratory of Tumor Biology and Genetics of the University Hospital Lausanne Neurosurgery department and project leader at the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR Molecular Oncology). "In 25 years of academic cancer med...New scale predicts recovery of consciousness from coma after brain injury
...aborated on the research. The study was based on work supported by grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration; the Midwest Center for Health Services and Policy Research; and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. ...Is your job giving you a heart attack? Occupational health conference answers that, and more
...evious studies in Japan have shown that people who work more than 40 hours a week have a higher rate of hy...more likely to report hypertension than people who work less and 40 hours a week. Abstract No. 106. Job pressure raises blood pressure all day, all night ...Decreased levels of 'good' cholesterol in children with Progeria may cause premature heart disease
...tes the metabolism of fat and sugar. Both factors work to remove fat from plaques in arteries, and the lower levels may contribute to accelerated plaque formation. However, LDL--or "bad" cholesterol--and triglyceride levels, which are elevated in adults with heart disease, are usually at normal levels i...