Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America selects Wiley to publish Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
...ll allow us to build on the journal's success, and expand our outreach to the medical community."...$10 million gift funds innovative predictive health study
...rdiovascular Center, but the study will eventually expand to a wider population of participants. Calling the study "the next generation of cardiac research," Dr. March said the results should identify sets of markers (signatures) that are predictive for heart disease, and help us understand how to lower ris...Evanston Northwestern Healthcare first to use latest robotic surgical system
...i is a state-of-the-art robotic-system designed to expand the surgeon's capabilities, providing patients with a minimally invasive option for many complex procedures for the very first time. The da Vinci System allows surgeons to perform complex procedures including prostate, heart and gynecological surg......s of their effort for all European patients and to expand their work even further....Friedman addresses UN-sponsored African workshop on E-Governance
...development in complementing government efforts to expand service delivery in the region underscores the nee...Although efforts have been made in recent years to expand the use of e-governance in the region, the pace of progress has generally been slow, reflecting part...President's budget proposal cuts critical infectious diseases programs to the bone
...f sufficient funds will block an essential plan to expand surveillance sites in Asia to monitor the emergenc...budget proposal includes a $93 million increase to expand HIV testing. Roughly 25 percent of those infected don't know it. Identifying them earlier means they...National ICD Registry becomes official database for Medicare
...enters for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand Medicare coverage of ICDs increased the number of eligible Medicare beneficiaries to nearly 500,000 and also required hospitals to submit data to an ICD registry as a criterion of coverage. Effective today, the national ICD Registry TM replaces the ...Mayo Clinic leaders offer health reform vision, prescriptions
... organizations as places "where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly de... in a learning organization," they write, " should expand their knowledge through perpetual education, pass on knowledge through teaching or mentoring, and ad...Finding a better way to quiet noisy environments
... of Engineering. "Our new technique should greatly expand the potential of active noise-cancellation technologies." Basic active noise-cancellation is composed of four inter-related parts: a microphone that measures incoming noise and feeds that information to a computer, a computer processor that converts ...UQ research will move medicines to market more quickly
... potential to generate significant revenue, and to expand the Australian drug development industry by creating jobs for highly-skilled scientists and training opportunities for PhD students," he said. TetraQ began in May 2005 with $8.1M in investment funds from the Smart State Research Facilities Fund. It ...A virtual healthcare assistant for a healthier lifestyle
...d their doctor in the virtual realm. It could also expand the boundaries of the traditional healthcare sector to include food and beverage producers, manufacturers of healthcare products and information providers all of whom can play a role in lifestyle decisions." Sanna likens the rollout of user-driven in...Older donor hearts just as good, University of Alberta study shows
...ude potential donors, the study noted. "If we can expand the donor pool by using older donors, we will be able to save more lives," Dr. Wang said....Chemical guidance of T cells leads to immunologic memory and long-term immunity
...are activated. These antigen-specific CD8+ T cells expand into a large population of active clones, which then sweep through the body, hunting down and killing infected cells. For CD8+ T-cell activation to occur in the lymph node, the cell must encounter its target antigen--but that antigen must be display...New survey finds rising numbers of uninsured in moderate and middle income American families
...dy co-author Karen Davis. "If we don't act soon to expand coverage to the uninsured, the health of the U.S. population, the productivity of our workforce, and our economy are at risk." The study finds a startling number of adults are now grappling with medical debt--unpaid medical bills. One of five (21%) ...Small Business grant helps Chadwick Optical bring Schepens Institute invention to patients
...ntral vision. In the new grant Keeney proposed to expand the effect to 30 degrees and to try a new approach that might bring it to 40 degrees. At a chance meeting at a conference after he came up with his prototype, Peli and Keeney hatched a plan to bring the glasses to the public as soon as possible. "Wit...Enzyme inhibitor may help lower cholesterol and unclog arteries
...w the inner cholesterol esterrich core of HDL-2 to expand to carry greater amounts of cholesterol. In an accompanying commentary, Robert Mahley and colleagues from the University of California, San Francisco, comment that as CETP does not appear to be essential for reverse cholesterol transport in humans, t...JCI table of contents: May 1, 2006
...w the inner cholesterol esterrich core of HDL-2 to expand to carry greater amounts of cholesterol. In an accompanying commentary, Robert Mahley and colleagues from the University of California, San Francisco, comment that as CETP does not appear to be essential for reverse cholesterol transport in humans, t...Effective alcohol dependence treatments defined
...care and general mental health care settings would expand access to effective treatment dramatically, while offering patients greater choice." To expand its application, NIAAA will develop an abbreviated version of MM to be available in early summer. P...Delta Dental donates $5M to Tufts Dental School to expand care to underserved populations
...ecial needs and other underserved populations, and expand Tufts' use of a clinical database to create best p...ntry and the endowment will enable that program to expand its leadership and care to people in great need. Additionally, data will be collected and analyzed t...Health Partnership Act endorsed By American College of Physicians
...h Partnership Act proposed federal legislation to expand health insurance coverage through state health reform projects was endorsed today by the American College of Physicians (ACP). "Federally supported state experimentation encourages innovation and allows for highly-debated, yet rarely-tested health ...