NIH awards $1 million to Temple University Hospital for neurological treatment studies
... reasons. "We service such ethnically and racially diverse communities, some of which are often under-represented in clinical studies. Temple also has expertise in neurological emergencies and significant experience in neurological clinical trials." The NETT network research will begin with a study to det...Launch of Queens Library Healthlink initiative
...lationships that the Queens Library has within the diverse neighborhoods it serves. Include 20 Queens Library community libraries that will join in the effort, serving as outlets for health outreach where they will partner and work closely with other organizations such as community agencies, religious in...New Congress should focus on covering the uninsured, reducing health costs, according to new survey
... The survey of leading health care experts with a diverse range of professional and ideological perspectives is the ninth in a series by The Commonwealth Fund, and the first conducted in partnership with the publication Modern Healthcare. Opinion leaders included experts from four broad health care sectors:...Race impacts professional lives of physicians of African descent
...nvironments that successfully foster and sustain a diverse physician workforce are unlikely to be created unless sufficient attention is paid to the specific ways in which race shapes physicians' work experiences, according to Nunez-Smith and her co-authors. "Increasing racial and ethnic diversity in the ph...Study explains how NSAIDs halt cancer growth
...of numerous types of cancer but also among various diverse classes of NSAIDs, makes this discovery particularly exciting. The level of MDA-7/IL-24 gene expression in cancer patients may emerge as a new biomarker for monitoring patients responses to certain therapies, and may help determine whether drugs such...Doctors' extended duration work shifts are associated with medical errors and adverse events
...dy shows that extended duration shifts worked by a diverse population of interns across the U.S. are also associated with reporting of medical errors, adverse events and attentional failures. The authors conclude that These results have important public policy implications for post-graduate medical educati...UCSF pharmacy school receives major grant from Amgen Foundation for Medicare Part D outreach
...l leverage the talents of student pharmacists with diverse backgrounds and language skills. "Meeting the ...D program will: Leverage the core strengths of a diverse student population from the California schools of pharmacy to meet the healthcare needs of a multi-c...Novel program enhances dementia caregivers' quality of life
...nent caregiver intervention provided to ethnically diverse populations. Follow-up studies, the researchers su...ates that the intervention can readily benefit the diverse communities of caretakers who provide care to individuals with Alzheimer's disease," adds NINR Direc...Ultrasound mammography, volcano monitoring for aircraft safety
...aratus-the larynx and vocal tract--can be found in diverse animal species. For example, the male hammerhead bat has a larynx so enlarged that it fills the chest cavity, pushing the lungs and heart down into the abdomen. Lions and other big cats have massive vocal pads within the larynx. Their very loud ro...Want fair and affordable health insurance for the uninsured? Ask the public to design it
...tudy involved nearly 800 California residents from diverse backgrounds who took part in a project that asked them to design the best possible health plan for the uninsured, using a limited amount of dollars. The project, funded by the California HealthCare Foundation and organized by the nonprofit Sacramento...Duke researchers highlight gender differences in heart failure
... The women tended to be older and more ethnically diverse than the men, and they had greater incidences of diabetes and high blood pressure, the researchers said. The women also tended to report more symptoms and to be hospitalized more often than men. "In general, women and heart disease has not been wel...Diabetes drug may reduce cardiovascular risks
...tients. They enrolled 462 racially and ethnically diverse adults with type 2 diabetes. The 289 men and 173 women, whose average age was 60, were randomly assigned to receive either pioglitazone (a thiazolidinedione sold as Actos), a drug that increases the body's sensitivity to insulin, or glimepiride (sold...Inexpensive test detects H5N1 infections quickly and accurately
...r period from people and animals in geographically diverse locales. In tests on 24 H5N1 viral isolates, the chip provided complete information about virus type and subtype in 21 cases and gave no false positive results, report the scientists. They say the MChip could provide a significant advantage over avai...A new way of classifying addictive drugs
Although addictive drugs have diverse molecular targets in the brain, they share the common initial effect of increasing the concentration of a substance called dopamine. In an article in PLoS Medicine, researchers Christian Lscher (University of Geneva) and Mark A. Ungless (Imperial C...ESSP launches project on the effects of global environmental change on human health
...). Changes in each of those systems influence, via diverse pathways, human wellbeing and health as well as societal sustainability. The co-chairs of the Health Project are Anthony McMichael with the National Centre of Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, ...Nonminority medical students more satisfied than minority students, study finds
...rriers to development of a racially and ethnically diverse physician workforce," says Dr. Dyrbye. "Understanding these barriers will hopefully result in support programs and other interventions that will improve both the quality of life of physicians in training and maximize their learning." Stress among m...Heart failure: Mayo Clinic reveals abnormality in filling of the heart is frequent culprit
...d author. "Specifically, our results highlight the diverse nature of heart failure as a syndrome in which defects in both the pumping and the filling phases need to be considered for optimal patient management. It is not a case of one or the other." To clarify the role of diastolic dysfunction in heart fail...Kennedy Krieger awarded $9 million to study learning disabilities in growing ranks of adolescents
...etation of grade appropriate text. Drawing on the diverse talents of researchers from the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Haskins Laboratories, Educational Testing Services and University of Maryland, the Center will undertake a variety of projects to improve our understanding of what is going wrong in strugglin...Newest in CT imaging technology -- dual energy source -- now being utilized on patients at Penn
...o better freeze the motion of the heart and obtain diverse information about the anatomy in a single scan. Radiologists utilize these images to search for narrowing or blockages in the coronary arteries of the heart. Litt continues, "We can use these images to figure out the cause when patients are compla...The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology looks at effects of smoking cessation drug, varenicline
...ysiologic processes associated with aging can have diverse effects, particularly in the elderly population." The researchers concluded that the pharmacokinetics evident in elderly smokers with normal renal function taking varenicline were similar to that of younger, healthy persons and that the drug was well...