Q Chip helps make cures more effective
...earch carried out at Cardiff University. Q Chip is collaborating with Biocompatibles International, a medical device company that is focused on the treatment of cardiovascular disease, cancer and benign tumors to develop its next generation of microspheres. These would allow the effective delivery of drugs to targ...Microbicide partners receive $5.7 million from Gates Foundation
...ntinue to speed the development of microbicides by collaborating with researchers, policy-makers, and health experts to track the microbicide pipeline, clarify and influence regulatory processes, problem-solve, and conduct research and convene participants around critical issues. "Without the generosity of the Gat...New therapy may give options to those with neuroendocrine tumors
...srael Deaconess Medical Center. Lenz is currently collaborating with Kulke to identify patients who are more likely to respond to SU11248 by studying their tumor for expression levels of the targets of the drug, such as vascular epithelial growth factor receptor and platelet-derived growth factor receptor. The dr...Pilot studies to look at how mind drives or prevents disease
...e College of Arts and Sciences. More than 10 other collaborating disciplines contribute to the center, including immunology, vaccine biology, cardiology, rheumatology, neurology, family medicine, dermatology, and clinical and social psychology. One long-term goal is to secure funding for a dedicated mind-body buil...Queen's poll - Ontarians don't want to close institutions for those with intellectual disabilities
...l disabilities transitioning from institutions. By collaborating with researchers in Boston the Queen's group compared its findings to findings from the Multinational Survey of Attitudes toward Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities conducted in 2002 with over 7,000 respondents from nine other countries. No Ca......st at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine collaborating in the research, will test the newly developed protease inhibitors to determine whether and how quickly they slow the enzymes' activity inside living cells. The prototype drug developed earlier by Ghosh, an inhibitor of 3CLpro, was an improvement on...Mayo collaboration: Discovery blocks breast cancer growth, stimulates immunity
... high as 90 percent. Mayo Clinic researchers -- collaborating with colleagues at the University of Washington -- showed that their experimental therapy to remove the block did not harm the immune system -- in fact, it boosted it. Mice that received the toxic injections that killed the immune system blockages ha...Armed forces search for ways to improve survival in the combat zone
...duct development, two branches of the military are collaborating to find new resuscitative products that can be easily transported and used on the frontline. These products must be effective in reducing blood-loss-related fatalities. A new report outlines how the military can best identify, nurture and support t...New funding for health research in N.S.W.
...y concern of Government. The three groups will be collaborating with colleagues in Canada, the UK and New Zealand. These projects are three of 12 around the nation funded by APHCRI in its second major funding round for 2005. Each of the 12 projects will be funded for 12 months with results expected in September n...Mars breaks new ground in heart health with Cocoavia
... Mars is the global leader in cocoa science, collaborating with researchers at leading universities like Harvard and the University of California-Davis to explore the health benefits of cocoa flavanols the powerhouse compounds found naturally in cocoa beans that are similar to those found in red wine and gr...Academic medical centers face multiple challenges for conducting medical research
...sue their own ideas into one that fosters teams of collaborating investigators to pursue "big science". Promoting Public Understanding "Having raised expectations with tantalizing promises of scientific breakthroughs, the research community has an obligation to help the public understand the process of medical ...Johns Hopkins researchers discover key protein linked to transverse myelitis and multiple sclerosis
...ents are telling us about their suffering and then collaborating across disciplines to open up new avenues of investigation," said Kaplin. "TM is related to other autoimmune disorders of the nervous system, including Guillain-Barr syndrome, MS and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. This study may give us a foot...Research offers new approach to developing treatments for cocaine and amphetamine addiction
...zie, Dr. Douglass, Dr. Richards and Dr. Bannon are collaborating researchers at Amgen Inc. The manuscript is available online at http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/cgi/reprint/jpet.105.091678v1 and will appear in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics later this year....Massachusetts General Hospital launches magazine that examines medicine's leading edge
...al science," Libassi says. "We are thrilled to be collaborating with such an esteemed institution as together we move into new territory with this cutting-edge publication." The inaugural issue of Proto featuring articles about xenotransplantation, stroke, avian flu, medical simulation and genetics is being mai...Mayo Clinic reports breakthrough treatment for breast cancer
... Wilma Lingle, Ph.D.; and James Ingle, M.D. Other collaborating researchers on N9831 included Nancy Davidson, M.D. (ECOG); Silvana Martino, D.O. (SWOG); and Peter Kaufman, M.D. (CALGB)....NIST develops health care IT standards repository
...ct Tom Rhodes at trhodes@nist.gov . Organizations collaborating with NIST on the HCSL include the Agency for Health Research and Quality, which is providing funding; the American National Standards Institute's Health Informatics Standards Board; and the Consolidated Health Informatics program, a Presidential elec...Mayo Clinic Tobacco Quitline to provide Minnesota QUITPLAN Helpline service
... have called for support. "We are pleased to be collaborating with Mayo Clinic, whose Nicotine Dependence Center has been a leader in tobacco cessation since 1988," said Michael Vekich, MPAAT board chair. "We know from experience that people who seek help from stop-smoking services are seven times more likely t...Bacterium present in eyes with 'wet' age-related macular degeneration
...patients." Kalayoglu and colleagues are currently collaborating with CFH researchers to study this hypothesis. "It may be possible to stop or reverse progression of AMD by identifying susceptible patients by diagnostic testing, and then treating these susceptible patients. Although C. pneumoniae is a bacterium th...Grant will fund study of tics and Tourette syndrome
...he same behavioral intervention in children. Other collaborating sites including the Johns Hopkins University, the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee are conducting the study in children with TS. Together, the funding for the two studies amounts to $6 million. The ......esponse to fearful stimuli. The work at NIMH and a collaborating site in Germany suggests new approaches to treating diseases thought to involve amygdala dysfunction and social fear, such as social phobia, autism, and possibly schizophrenia, report Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, M.D., Ph.D., NIMH Genes Cognition and Ps...