Largest NIH grant for NYU will create research network in dental practices
...luestone Center for Clinical Research (the largest center of its kind in any dental school in the world), a world-class data coordinating center (EMMES Corporation in Rockville, MD), the largest dental marketing and practice management firm in t...Golf-related head injuries in children increasing along with sport's popularity
...ries treated over six years at an academic medical center in Georgia. A review of 2,546 patients under age 1...MCG's designation as an adult and pediatric trauma center likely account for the number of serious golf-related injuries treated at MCG, Dr. Rahimi says. An o...Scientists to study actions of botanical oils
...ce of Dietary Supplements (ODS) to open a research center to study dietary supplements. The school of medici... plant-based dietary supplements. The Wake Forest center is a partnership with Harvard Medical Center and will be known as the Wake Forest and Harvard Center...Fifteen-year hunt uncovers gene behind 'pseudothalidomide' syndrome
...g that the two copies are lined up together at the center of the dividing cell. Once lined up, tiny molecular "motors" attach to the centromere of each copy and pull the original and the new copy away from each another as division proceeds. However, in cells from people with Roberts syndrome, the chromosom...ACHRI study finds CellCept improves survival in pediatric heart transplant patients
...e nation approved as a Medicare cardiac transplant center and one of only three approved by the BlueCross BlueShield Association....Smart plastics change shape with light
...entist, is institute director at the GKSS research center in Teltow, Germany. With Jiang and Jnger, he is also affiliated with RWTH Aachen, Germany. SHAPE MEMORY Plastics with "shape-memory" that can change shape in response to a temperature increase are well known. In 2001 Langer and Lendlein were the f...Study shows symptom-driven therapy may be ok for some adults with mild persistent asthma
...of California, San Francisco The data coordinating center is at Penn State College of Medicine, PennState Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA. The medications for IMPACT were donated by Astra-Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania....Scientists identify protein that controls cancer cells
... tumors. In addition to its focus on research, the center provides a comprehensive program for patient care, and is the first center in the state to offer Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery, a knifeless approach to brain surgery a...Scientist works to reduce side effects of radiation therapy
... tumors. In addition to its focus on research, the center provides a comprehensive program for patient care, and is the first center in the state to offer Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery, a knifeless approach to brain surgery a...Propensity for obesity, diabetes, may occur in utero
...lso found changes in the hypothalamus, the brain's center of appetite regulation, that result in appetite stimulation. While these studies were done with rats, Mulchand Patel, Ph.D, UB distinguished professor of biochemistry and first author on the study, speculated that there is good reason to think the m...Genetic variation linked to alcohol dependence found in a Russian population
...lcohol-dependent men at a St. Petersburg treatment center and100 local military personnel as controls. Each sample was genotyped for seven GABRA2 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which are variations between individuals in the genetic code. Lappalainen and his colleagues found significant association...NIH awards funding to biotech firm for heart disease
...Cleveland and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. The center was established with the help of $19 million in st...l therapy." Stanton Gerson, M.D., director of the center said, "This innovative technology will use stem cells initially to regenerate diseased blood vessels...Breast cancer detector that uses electricity instead of X-rays under study
...r-shaped grouping of electrodes with a hole in the center for the nipple over each breast. A small amount of electricity is sent through the breasts and a computer immediately calculates and presents findings based on Z-Tech's benchmarks for negative and positive results. Rather than waiting for a radiologi...Jefferson Lab scientists build small-animal imager for German Cancer Research Center
...vice isn't available commercially and the research center didn't have the capability to fabricate its own," Smith explained. The basic device is along the same line as other small animal imaging gamma cameras developed by the Detector Group. However, the group is constantly refining their work, according to...Study of iron overload yields surprising results
...University School of Medicine was the coordinating center for the study, which recruited more than 100,000 participants in primary care settings and seven blood drawing laboratories in the United States and Canada. The five-year study is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Natio...Rush designated Center of Excellence by Huntington's Disease Society of America
...ng, social work, therapy and family services. "The center plans to provide neurologic care at John H. Stroge...Excellence at Rush r include Dr. Kathleen Shannon, center director; Jean Jaglin, RN, center coordinator; Dr. Melany Danehy, psychiatrist; and Brian Bernard, P...Patients swallow 'camera-in-a-pill' to help doctors check for diseases of esophagus, GERD
...Brown of Rush University Medical Center, the first center in Chicago to offer this to patients. "In traditional endoscopy, a long, flexible tube (endoscope) is put into the mouth and advanced down the throat into the esophagus. It requires sedation and several hours of recovery. With the camera pill, we now...Tools for diagnosing heart attack could be inaccurate in some populations
...ents of eight U.S. medical centers and one medical center in Singapore. Any patient who came in with symptoms that might be cardiac chest pain, shortness of breath, etc. was included in the study. The researchers looked at the accuracy of ACI-TIPI in predicting acute coronary syndrome (ACS). ACS is an umbr...Study is first to implicate dietary fat in 'fatty liver'
...ssion as the body's central shipping and receiving center for fat. No longer does it take in dietary fat, repackage it and send it on its way back out into the blood. In obesity, fat builds up in the liver. The fat comes both straight from the diet and also from sugars that the liver turns into fat. As a r...Stents that release medication appear more effective than traditional stents
...luded 175 patients presenting to a single referral center in Italy with STEMI or presumed new left bundle-branch block between March 6, 2003 and April 23, 2004. Patients received either tirofiban regimen plus sirolimus-eluting stenting (n = 87) or abciximab plus bare-metal stenting (n = 88). The researcher...