Polish journalist scoops first prize in prestigious European award
... excellence in cancer journalism ESO is pleased to announce the launch of its Cancer Media Service (CMS) at www.cancerworld.org/mediaservice . By setting up this Service ESO hopes to encourage more intelligent and critical coverage of cancer and to cultivate a more positive but realistic image of cancer. Th...Cancer on the agenda of the Portuguese EU Council Presidency
...an Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is proud to announce that it is collaborating closely with the Portuguese EU Presidency on a key European meeting on health care issues, where cancer will be an important part of the agenda. The Round Table on Health Strategies in the European Union (Lisbon, 12-13 Jul...SAGE to publish British Journal of Infection Control
...d Singapore (July 2, 2007) -- SAGE is delighted to announce a new partnership with the Infection Control Nurses Association to publish the British Journal of Infection Control (BJIC) from September 2007. As the worlds fifth largest journals publisher, SAGE has continued to invest in a flourishing STM publi...... during the previous decade. Health officials will announce today that 60% of New Yorkers 50 and older had a colonoscopy in the past ten years, an increase of some 350,000 tests compared with 2003. The announcement is being made at the 4th Annual Citywide Colon Cancer Control Coalition (C5) summit at the Amer...GlaxoSmithKline honors cancer research pioneer Gianni Bonadonna with new ASCO Award and Fellowship
...l Oncology (ASCO) and The ASCO Foundation, proudly announce today the creation of the Gianni Bonadonna Breast Cancer Award and Fellowship as a tribute to Dr. Bonadonnas outstanding contributions in the field of cancer research. The annual Award and Fellowship will acknowledge clinical or translational resear...Elsevier partners with European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics
...tific and medical publisher Elsevier is pleased to announce the formation of a publishing partnership with the European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (EFOMP), a Federation of professional societies representing more than 6000 physicists and engineers in the field of medical physics in Europe...FDA approves Dey, L.P.'s Perforomist inhalation solution for maintenance treatment of COPD
...ory products and patients. The company expects to announce the commercial launch of Perforomist Inhalation Solution in the near future. About Perforomist (Formoterol Fumarate) Inhalation Solution The clinical evaluations of Perforomist Inhalation Solution included two clinical trials involving a total ...SNM's 54th Annual Meeting speakers address state of molecular imaging/nuclear medicine technologies
...tion. At SNMs June 4 press conference, Wagner will announce his pick for the annual Image of the Year, an image that illustrates a direction he sees nuclear medicine heading in a dynamic and ever-expanding field....National addiction treatment leaders to meet at first NIATx Summit
...r families." NIATx invites interested parties to announce the first NIATx Summit - which takes place during San Antonio's FIESTA! Celebration - or to cover this first-of-its-kind event in full....Rotavirus vaccine papers win the Lancet's Paper of the Year 2006
...Medicine (See notes to editors). In a Comment to announce the winners, James Butcher, Executive Editor at The Lancet, states: "The editors were impressed by the efficacies of these two vaccines, which one day are likely to stand alongside smallpox, measles, and poliomyelitis vaccines in their global public ...Drug combination slows progression of treatment resistant bone marrow cancer
...ere so positive and encouraging that we decided to announce this information earlier than anticipated so more people could be aware of the benefits of this combination," said Orlowski. "This study establishes that this combination is one of the standards of care for relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma," O...Melts in your body, not in your hand
..., appearing in the Dec. 8, 2006, issue of Science, announce a method to deposit glass materials layer by layer as a vapor onto a surface with an ideal temperature for yielding stable glasses, an advancement over earlier vapor deposition efforts and different from the more traditional practice of quenching mol...Georgetown establishes leading institute for global and national health law
...hington, DC -- Georgetown University is pleased to announce the establishment of the Linda and Timothy O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. The Institute, which was created by a generous $10 million gift from Linda and Timothy O'Neill, is among the first for the study of global and national h...Telebriefing on NCI's Network of Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer Teams
... Institutes of Health, will host a telebriefing to announce five Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer (CPTAC) teams. A major component of its $104 million, five-year Clinical Proteomic Technologies Initiative, the CPTAC awards total $35.5 million over five years. The CPTAC teams will bring com...A world first in the treatment of a young patient with a completely blocked yet vital heart artery
...ter and the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) proudly announce the achievement of a world first in the treatment of a young pediatric patient's coronary arteries. Marie-Jeanne, an 11 years old, who suffers from severe heart problems as a result of Kawasaki disease, became the first child in the world to have be...New tool helps blood specialists improve patient care
...M ) and American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) announce the development of the first in a new wave of performance evaluation tools for blood specialists. In response to a change in requirements to maintain ABIM certification, ASH and ABIM have co-developed the Hematology Practice Improvement Module (PI...ASTRO awards $240,000 to four cancer researchers
...r Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2006 Junior Faculty Career Research Training Award and Resident/Fellow in Radiation Oncology Research Seed Grants. The total value of the awards is $240,000. "Educational support by the way of grants is an excellent motivator fo...NDRI receives Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation grant
NDRI is pleased to announce the receipt of a starter grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation to support the implementation and evaluation of a training program on the hepatitis C virus for clinical and non-clinical staff in 5 New York City outpatient drug treatment programs....Elsevier and UCLA announce the publication of Carranza's Clinical Periodontology
...geles School of Dentistry, Section of Periodontics announce the publication of the 10th edition of Carranza's Clinical Periodontology. The landmark 10th edition is authored by Michael G. Newman, DDS, Henry H. Takei, DDS, MS, Perry R. Klokkevold, DDS, MS and Editor Emeritus, Fermin A. Carranza, DR ODONT. Th......r Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology is pleased to announce the recipients of the ASTRO Poster Recognition Award. The 2006 awardees are Asif R. Harsolia, M.D., Sandeep S. Hunjan, Ph.D., and Ping Zhang, M.D., Ph.D. The winners will be honored at ASTRO's 48th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Nov. 5-9. "The work ...