UQ scientist honoured for developing the world's first cancer vaccine
...n get a great deal of personal satisfaction out of doing good for others. "I think society has become very...financial benefit is the concept of social credit doing things that are of benefit to others. "You can get a great kick out of that for yourself but it's a...Free HIV tests cheaper than charging when goal is preventing AIDS
...assistance. "They are a remarkable group of women doing the hard work of taking care of AIDS patients for the long-term. They asked us to provide an HIV testing program as a means of promoting behavioral changes, and that's really the genesis of this project," Thielman said. The KIWAKKUKI program started...UNC nutrition researchers dispute claims that obesity problem is exaggerated
...al and economic interests of certain groups, while doing immense damage to those whom it blames and stigmatizes." Stevens and Popkin, both nutrition professors at UNC-Chapel Hill, beg to differ. "There is very strong evidence to indicate that...the incidence of obesity is increasing in just about all of th...Kegel exercises reduce urinary incontinence in women, study confirms
...y they tried Kegel exercises, but are actually not doing them right. "But by the time I have been through a...findings, many women say they clearly haven't been doing [Kegels] in the past -- they only thought they were."...Many new immigrants to US change diet -- and not for the better
...mmigrants who are perhaps less integrated, yet are doing well enough financially to afford meat. They may not have the nutrition information necessary to accurately assess the value of increased meat consumption or they may choose to ignore this information," Akresh wrote. Those who are married are more ...... to date is more than two years and the patient is doing well. Ventracor Limited Chief Executive Officer, Dr Colin Sutton said: "Early completion of enrolment in the CE Mark Trial sets the stage for collating and submitting the data to support the application for CE mark approval to begin selling the Ventr...Study finds room for improvement in angioplasty, shows what can be done to cut risks
...ospitals and doctors understand just how they were doing on delivering key medications or reducing risks and to adopt practices that would help them improve. For instance, the project's participants developed quick-reference tools that could be used to calculate how much dye was appropriate for each pati...Another failed New Year's resolution? New study shows how self-prophecies may help
... (such as recycling), the chances of them actually doing the good deed increases. "A clear benefit of the self-prophecy technique is its simplicity: a question followed by a simple "yes" or "no" elicits behavioral change," explain Eric R. Spangenberg and David E. Sprott (Washington State University). For ...Hormone linked to good hearing as we age
...exercise "all those things you know you should be doing to stay healthy with age," he said. Meanwhile, his team is looking at the possibility of using gene therapy to try to correct the problem. It may be possible some day to modify a person's inner ear to correct the potassium imbalance that is central t...UT Southwestern doctors test robotic surgeon for laparoscopy
...ections of tissue that need suturing and the robot doing it. That could potentially be integrated with computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging scans, which could offer opportunities for dress rehearsals of procedures. Another potential for the technology is for telerobotic surgery across distanc...Rice, M. D. Anderson win funds for bench to bed training
...and treating cancer, and with HHMI's help we'll be doing that." Rice and M. D. Anderson's program involves a unique training program for bioengineering Ph.D. students that integrates courses in cancer biology, clinical medicine, bioengineering and translational research; unique internships in clinical canc...Training benefits brains in older people, counters aging factors
...get training experienced a dip in activation while doing the tasks. Younger trained participants started the tasks with higher activation but showed a slight reduction after training. In the right hemisphere of this region, the young started out with higher activation levels than the old, and both groups s...What's the link between astronauts and osteoporosis?
...anauts", who spent three months lying flat and not doing any exercise, lost up to 15% of their bone mineral density. Pre-registration to the International Osteoporosis Foundation World Congress on Osteoporosis is available until May 2, 2006. Please go to http://www.osteofound.org/wco/2006/...World's pledge to halve hunger by 2015 looks like empty promise
...ving on less than a dollar a day by half, no one's doing anything about it," Pinstrup-Andersen says. "It's ...nited States and other developed countries because doing so would not only reduce terrorism but also improve trade and relieve immigration pressures. Pinstru...USF College of Public Health one of 12 institutions named to Kellogg Foundation initiative
...ur inclusion is acknowledgment that we are already doing good things in the area and being part of the initiative will help us do it better," said Hana Osman, PhD, assistant professor of public health and project leader. "This consultation will place us in a great position to apply for health disparities e...UVa scientists hot on trail of therapies for deadly lung failure
...Reutershan, M.D., an anesthesiologist from Germany doing research in Ley's lab, discovered that CXCR2 expressed on endothelial cells is involved in acute respiratory syndrome. "Our finding is that expression of this receptor is in the lung itself," Reutershan said. "Our hope is that drug companies might be...Innovative PhD program receives $850,000 grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute
...ucation to increase the pool of scientists who are doing medically oriented research."......member the word up to 50 minutes later - and after doing a series of other word tests. On the other hand, if the voltage was lower, the subjects were less likely to remember the word. Dr Otten said: "It would be nice to know what brain regions are involved in this preparatory activity, and whether it can b...Treatment of severe coronary artery disease with drug-eluting stents a viable alternative to CABG
...als," he said. "We are currently in the process of doing such a study."......he first time that Plaxco had high school students doing work for academic credit in his lab. "It was great," said Plaxco. "I thought they might be a distraction, but my students and post-doctoral fellows did a great job of mentoring and they all got a lot out of it, both the mentors and the mentorees." Fi...