USC and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles both receive grants for stem cell facilities
...hment in the field. In the spring of 2006, USC, along with its partner institutions Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and Caltech, received a three-year, $5.6 million stem cell training grant from CIRM to train graduate students as well as post-doctoral and clinical fellows across 27 departments at USC. Th...Benefits of trastuzumab are lasting, reducing both HER2 + breast cancer deaths and recurrence
...ed the monoclonal antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin) along with chemotherapy are living longer and with less risk of recurrent disease, compared to patients treated with chemotherapy alone. These studies, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), were undertaken to test whether trastuzumab adds to...The Burroughs Wellcome Fund awards $8 million to infectious disease investigators
... field. Following are the 2007 award recipients, along with their institutions and research projects: Benjamin K. Chen, M.D., Ph.D. Mount Sinai School of Medicine Dissemination of HIV through virological synapses Andrew Darwin, Ph.D. New York University School of Medicine Mechanisms of Pseudomonas a...Stanford researchers track human stem cells transplanted into rat brain
...ricles. From there, the iron-filled cells migrated along the path that stem cells normally take to populate the developing brain. Those stem cells also matured into the proper types of brain cells. In adult rats that had a simulated stroke, the human stem cells migrated into the damaged region, matured i...New Orleans levee report finished by panel including University of Texas at Austin engineer
... and how this fed into the failure at 50 locations along the system during Hurricane Katrina;- how the hurricane protection system was under-designed to handle a major storm surge produced by hurricane winds that would reach New Orleans. No one had ever estimated the height of the surge likely to reach dif...Medicalizing the human condition
... the major forces promoting medicalization, helped along by developments such as direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. In such ads, ubiquitous on television, consumers are invited to take direction from pharmaceutical promotion, paradoxically diminishing the traditional role of the physician with ...Chemotherapy may enhance the effectiveness of brain tumor vaccines
...or, were given both a vaccine aimed at tumor cells along with the chemotherapy drug temozolomide. "Conventional wisdom has been that chemotherapy, by suppressing the immune system, would prevent the vaccine from working," said Amy Heimberger, M.D., an oncologist at M.D. Anderson and senior investigator o...Harboring hostility may be linked to unhealthy lungs
...s examined whether the tendency to be hostile went along with having decreased lung function in otherwise healthy young adults. The results indicated that the more hostile ones personalitycharacterized by aggression or anger, for examplethe lower levels ones of lung function even after controlling for age,...International studies show high efficacy for HPV vaccine
...tion. Widespread immunization with the HPV vaccine along with continued screening will help decrease the burden of cervical cancer and other HPV-related diseases," he says....Huge waves from 1 storm slam coasts some 6000 km apart
...s, or 'imagettes', of the sea surface every 100 km along the satellite orbit. These small 'imagettes' are then mathematically transformed into averaged-out breakdowns of wave energy and direction, called ocean-wave spectra, which ESA makes available to scientists and weather centres. As part of the Glob...Alien soundscapes, crackling jets, stalking volcanoes
...ake City, the detailed descriptions in the papers, along with speaker contact information and supplemental visuals and sound files, will enable you to cover many of the meeting's stories. None of the highlighted papers are embargoed, so you are welcome to cover the meeting presentations at any time. Durin...Experimental gene therapy 'abolishes' arthritis pain and lessens joint damage
...en they dock, prevent the sending of pain messages along nerve pathways. In the current study, researchers used gene therapy to increase by about one thousand times the number of opioid receptors expressed on the surfaces of nerve cells that carry pain messages back and forth between an osteoarthritic j...Telephone 'quitlines' may help dental patients stop smoking
...ng regarding smoking cessation or brief counseling along with referrals to a tobacco-use quitline for patients who reported that they were currently smoking cigarettes. Of 82 patients, 60 were referred to the tobacco-use quitline and 22 received only brief counseling. At six months, 25 percent of the patie...Both alcohol and neighborhood characteristics can affect intimate partner violence
...rbate this link. "Social disorganization theory, along with other macro-sociological theories, incorporate the larger environmental context of people's interactions within their neighborhood context into explanations of the conditions under which problem behaviors such as IPV may grow and thrive," explai...Panel offers guidelines on skin reactions to new class of cancer drugs
...e guidelines call for reduction in the EGFRI dose, along with other medications. Treatment should be interrupted only if the reaction still hasn't cleared within two to four weeks. Once the rash has decreased, treatment with EGFRIs can be restarted if the skin reaction returns, it will likely be managea...Medical, high-energy physicists collaborate to improve PET scans
...he locations of the signals can only be determined along the direction of the detector face. But collecti...omplete surprise to find out that we were thinking along absolutely parallel lines," Frisch said of the ideas that Le D presented in his talk. Scientists a...Nationwide study compares surgeries to treat urinary incontinence in women
...University of California, San Diego Medical Center along with nine other clinical research institutions across the United States has completed the largest randomized clinical trial to date comparing two commonly performed surgical procedures to treat urinary stress incontinence. Findings reveal that a p...Erectile dysfunction -- the canary in the mineshaft?
...ectile and ejaculatory dysfunction were gathered, along with data on the incidence of hypertension, coronary artery disease and diabetes mellitus were compared among the 88 men in the study. Men were divided into three groups based on waist circumference (30-36 inches, 36-40 inches and greater than 40 inc...Topical retinol helps reduce wrinkles associated with natural skin aging
...ikely to withstand skin injury and ulcer formation along with improved appearance."...Epidemiology of TB: Updates from CDC studies to be presented at ATS 2007
...s in the African-American community. Our findings, along with the research of others will help us develop effective interventions to address TB prevention and control in the African-American community and help close the gap for the elimination of TB. Data from the first phase will be used to develop and ...