Growing body of research links lead to osteoporosis
...oes so in an odd way. "As a child, lead appears to accelerate bone development and maturation, so that lead-exposed children actually have a higher bone density than those not exposed to environmental lead," said James Campbell, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of Pediatrics and a co-investigator of the study....FOSRENOL significantly reduces tablet burden for end-stage renal patients with hyperphosphatemia
... to pretreatment serum phosphorous levels may help accelerate serum phosphorus control in ESRD patients."...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Cleveland Clinic establish biomedical research collaboration
...of drug delivery devices. "This collaboration will accelerate scientific progress by bringing together the strengths of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a top-notch engineering and basic science university, with the translational biomedical research expertise in the Clinic's Lerner Research Institute," sai...The Lancet Neonatal Series at one year of age has anything changed?
...ill needs to be done to reduce neonatal deaths and accelerate progress towards MDG 4. In their Viewpoint, the authors restate their call for action from last year, and emphasise four points. Governments and partners to work together to develop country action plans in all high-mortality countries by the end o...MSKCC received record gift of $100 million from Mortimer B. Zuckerman for cancer research facility
...dvance brings, I am determined to do what I can to accelerate the pace of progress and to help the Center's extraordinary scientists and physicians achieve their crucial goals." The commitment to establish the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Research Center, through the MBZ Charitable Trust, comes at an important time fo...Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine receives $8 million from Third Frontier Program
...er academic investigators and industry partners to accelerate moving cutting-edge research into the clinic. The center has had remarkable success in developing interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborations. Aided by their immediate proximity, Case, Cleveland Clinic, UHC and Athersys each bring scie...Nobel Laureates featured in symposium in honor of new research center at NYU School of Medicine
...ation and synergy among researchers that, in turn, accelerate the development of new treatments. The labs are separated by neither walls nor doors, promoting interaction and the sharing of equipment and ideas. COMPLETE SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE: May 24, 2006, 1:30 p.m. (All lectures will last approximately 30 minu...How to cut energy waste in China, India, Brazil said crucial to forestalling climate change
...king communities, to develop new ideas to ease and accelerate the financing of energy efficiency projects. Via workshops, training and other initiatives, including an international roundtable on energy efficiency financing in Rio de Janeiro April 2, attracting scores of banking, energy efficiency and government...New model makes diagnosing osteoporosis easier
...and colleagues from China, showed that obesity can accelerate bone loss (conference abstract P152). The finding undermines prior assumptions that obesity--a risk factor for everything from diabetes to heart disease--made skeletons stronger and more resistant to fractures. But Deng's research showed that the bon...Health risks continue well after the surgery is over
... coronary bypass surgery he needs, ironically, may accelerate it. "It's like stepping on the gas pedal," says Dr. Meiler. Studies have shown that taking drugs such as statins, used to treat high cholesterol, or beta blockers and clonidine, used for hypertension, can protect against some of this risk. "Giving be...NIH holds state-of-the-science conference on tobacco use, June 12-14
...s diverse segments of the population is crucial to accelerate progress; meeting the "Healthy People 2010" prevalence goals would prevent a projected additional 7.1 million premature deaths after 2010. This conference has been planned to facilitate an objective review of the available evidence to clarify what is...Monkeys vaccinated against SIV survive longer after infection
...ly worth evaluating in humans and may considerably accelerate future efficacy trials." The SIV vaccine regimen used in the two studies was a simplified version of a preventive human HIV vaccine strategy developed by VRC scientists and currently undergoing Phase II human clinical trials in the United States, the...Study uncovers 'significant' functional differences of novel estrogen receptor
...initiated in the cell plasma membrane may actually accelerate the course of tamoxifen-resistant human breast cancer. "The apparent ability of hER-?36 to trigger membrane-initiated estrogen and anti-estrogen signaling that leads to cell growth makes it an important new member of the estrogen signaling pathway,...ESF sets out research strategy to push rheumatic diseases up the health agenda
...d clinical groups working at a national level, and accelerate research in the field. The European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) meeting in Amsterdam will be briefed on the findings of an expert group on rheumatic diseases, established by the ESF to set out research priorities for Europe, to improve treatmen...Eczema and asthma connection to be explored through $5 million grant
...seases. The purpose of creating such centers is to accelerate the application of fundamental knowledge of immune function to the investigation, prevention, and treatment of asthma and allergic diseases....Giving African surgeons online health information; cancer in minority groups
...obicides, an international coalition that works to accelerate microbicide development, outlines the campaign's consensus statement on providing antiretroviral therapy to patients who become infected during a microbicide trial. The campaign's position is that: "People who seroconvert [become HIV positive] durin...A new guideline for screening apparently healthy individuals to prevent a heart attack
Houston, July 10, 2006 To accelerate the adoption and standardization of heart attack screening methods, the July 10th edition of the American Journal of Cardiology will feature a new practice guideline for screening subclinical cardiovascular disease in the asymptomatic at-risk popula...Inflammatory processes in arteriosclerosis revealed
...n these critical enzymes and signal substances may accelerate the development of drugs for both the treatment and the prevention of hardening of the arteries and heart attacks. The research at Karolinska Institutet into eicosanoids, of which both leukotrienes and prostaglandins are examples, has long been in...Wear and tear of stress: the psychoneurobiology of aging
...modify some of these hormonal effects that seem to accelerate aging. Compared to healthy older adults under 100 years of age, healthy centenarians, said Epel, tend to show slower insulin and glucose rates when fasting, have higher or similar thyroid hormones and have similar cortisol and growth hormone levels...International AIDS Vaccine Initiative calls for new measures to search for an AIDS vaccine
... proposed new scientific and policy initiatives to accelerate AIDS vaccine development, foster capacity building in developing countries, and build and sustain long-term commitment from multiple stakeholders. The initiatives are detailed in IAVI's biennial flagship publication, the AIDS Vaccine Blueprint 2006: ...