Oral Biology Research Award presented to Russell
...h in the field of oral biology other than in those areas already recognized by specific awards. It is one of the Distinguished Scientist Awards bestowed annually by the IADR, representing the Association's highest honor....IADR presents Research in Prosthodontics & Implants Award to Stanford
... University of Iowa, USA. Dr. Stanfords research areas deal with osteoblastic gene expression as a function of cell shape and the role of substratum topography on gene expression. Administratively, he runs the Office for Clinical Research in the College of Dentistry and is the Associate Director for the ...Baum to receive IADR Oral Medicine & Pathology Award
...ajor scientific contributions in the following six areas related to this award: His studies from 1978 to 1990 clearly demonstrated that a reduction in saliva production was not a normal result of growing old, to be accepted by elders, but rather a consequence of pathology that required clinical attent...Hersh receives IADR Research Award in Pharmacology
...tained an active program of funded research in the areas of analgesics and local anaesthetics used in dentistry. He is an author of numerous peer-reviewed articles in the scientific literature, and has contributed book chapters and performed editorial duties for various textbooks. In particular, Dr. Hersh ...IceSAR campaign provides glimpse of future Sentinel-1 images over ice
...ntinel-1 mission - which amongst other application areas will contribute to ice monitoring. Carrying a Sy...e conditions are examples of important application areas that are expected to benefit greatly from Sentinel-1, which is being developed by ESA in support of ...Study details catastrophic impact of nuclear attack on US cities
... would leave debris tens of feet thick in downtown areas with buildings 10-stories or higher. Roughly half of the population in downtown areas would be killed, mainly from collapsing buildings. Most of those surviving the initial blast in down...New reagent delivers a chemical breakthrough at FSU
...kthroughs in biomedical research and various other areas of organic chemistry might be made possible as a result of this reagent," Dudley said. The Sigma-Aldrich Chemical Company has licensed Dudley's patent-pending reagent from FSU and recently began marketing it to chemical research labs worldwide unde...First ozone and nitrogen dioxide measurements from MetOp-A
...ide concentrations over large urban and industrial areas of Europe. Note that the pollution patterns seen on a daily basis are also affected by the prevailing weather conditions and the resulting movement of clean and polluted air....New Washington study shows OB anesthesia equally safe when provided by CRNAs or anesthesiologists
...anesthesiology groups, particularly those in rural areas and those in medically underserved urban areas with large Medicaid populations, now have a possible long-term solution to their OB anesthesia staff...A new focus for health care reform -- realigning competition around patient value
...en convincingly demonstrated. In some very complex areas of care, such as intensive care, transplant surgery, cardiac surgery, and long-term care for cystic fibrosis, validated measures have been available for many years. Clinicians can and should develop meaningful measures," they write. "Results informat...William O'Brien, Jr., PhD, receives the 2007 AIUM William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award
...am J. Fry. His research interests involve the many areas of acoustic- and ultrasound-tissue interaction, including biological effects and quantitative acoustic imaging, for which he has published 318 papers and has recently received a National Institutes of Health MERIT (R37) award. Dr O'Brien is a fello...Jet engines help solve the mysteries of the voice
...own using an animal modeluntil now. Vortices, or areas of rotational motion that look like smoke rings, produce sound in jet engines. New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) uses methods developed from the study of jet noise to identify similar vortices in an animal model. Sid Khosla, MD, ...Framingham study shows parents who live long pass on
...estigators are expanding their research into other areas such as the role of genetic factors in cardiovascular disease as well as the use of novel biomarkers and new diagnostic tests to identify individuals at high risk....UW launches study testing adult stem cells for heart damage repair
...stem to deliver either CD34+ cells or placebo into areas of the heart that have poor blood flow. Subjects are randomly selected to receive either one of two dosing levels of CD34+ stem cells, or placebo. Subjects will receive follow-up examinations for 12 months following the investigative procedure. "Th...Mercury contamination of fish warrants worldwide public warning
...a number of fish-eating wildlife species in remote areas of the planet. The actual socioeconomic costs of mercury pollution are probably much greater than estimated because existing economic analyses don't consider mercury's impacts on ecosystems and wildlife. The concentration of methylmercury in fish ...Do specialty heart hospitals drive up heart care use? Study suggests the answer is yes
... in four years, compared with a 23 percent rise in areas where a general hospital offered new heart services, and a 24.8 percent rise in areas where no new services began. "We're not saying that specialty cardiac hospitals are bad, nor that ...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 28, 2007
...ic levels in rice from the two main rice-producing areas of the country the South Central States and California. They focused on inorganic arsenic, which the report describes as a known human carcinogen and implicated in several other diseases. Rice grown in the South Central States had more arsenic than ...Severe PTSD damages children's brains, Stanford/Packard study shows
...ience. But if the stress of the event is affecting areas of the brain responsible for processing information and incorporating it into a story, that treatment may not be as effective." Carrion and his colleagues are now using an imaging technique known as functional MRI to visualize whether and how the c...ESA contribution to International Polar Year 2007-2008
...ublic good and in support of public policy, in the areas of sustainable economic development, marine safety...roups interested in issues relating to those three areas in the polar regions. These groups include policy-makers, government departments, northern residents...Residents in disaster areas face medication adherence dilemmas
...ns when they evacuate. Patients in disaster-prone areas should develop a plan with their physicians for refilling prescriptions in the event of an evacuation. "We have a lot of drugs that work very well for high blood pressure, but if you dont take them correctly, you dont get the full benefits of the t...