Young cancer researchers honored
...tors in the field of cancer research, particularly focusing on development of new therapeutic approaches," said Bruce Stillman, President of CSHL. "I believe he has made major contributions in his career and will continue to do so in the future." In his most recent research, Dr. Lowe has used the relatively n...$3.2 million MERIT Award for study on disability and recovery in older persons
...f home interviews and monthly telephone interviews focusing on essential activities of daily living, such as bathing, dressing and walking. Based on this information, Gill, associate professor of medicine/geriatrics, and his team, have written many articles for leading medical journals. "Through this effort, ......f interdisciplinary researchers and businesses are focusing on needle-free immunization delivery methods, says Mitragotri, helping ensure that needle-free immunizations will eventually be commonly used....Advance in cholera bacteria points to new treatment and vaccine
...a to bind to the intestine, and they are currently focusing their research to identify any other areas of attachment.. "There may be more of these factors and as we find them and knock them out, we'll decrease the ability for cholera bacteria to colonize even further," said Taylor....Chronic disability in older Americans greatly overestimated
... home assessments and monthly telephone interviews focusing on essential activities of daily living, such as bathing, dressing and walking. Patients were classified as having chronic disability based on the presence of disability during consecutive monthly interviews immediately before or after the fourth co...Toward the future of cancer prevention
...going chemoprevention trials at M. D. Anderson are focusing on reducing chronic inflammation, which has lately been associated with cancer development. An agent of current interest in these investigations is Celebrex, given its proven ability to prevent inherited colon cancer. Celebrex works by blocking cyclo...Federal grant funds research on novel HIV therapy
...n immune cells known as neurokinin-1 receptors. In focusing on those sites, researchers hope to achieve a triple benefit: fighting HIV by blocking the virus from immune cells, improving innate immune function and reducing symptoms of depression that are associated with the disease. Steven D. Douglas, M.D., pr...State board-disciplined physicians more likely to have shown unprofessional behavior in med school
...one way that we can improve health care quality by focusing on human factors that ultimately affect physician performance," she said. "This research is an excellent example of how medical boards and medical schools can collaborate to improve patient care by quantifying available data, with the ultimate goal ...Clinical performance measures raise bar in heart attack care
... have today released Clinical Performance Measures focusing on the most critical steps in the treatment of patients with heart attack. "These Clinical Performance Measures define key healthcare processes for which the supporting evidence is so strong, every patient ought to have the opportunity to receive the......ing all of the United States instead of a snapshot focusing on a particular region or patient group," said Dr. Berg. The study results, published in the Jan. 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, send a hopeful message. With appropriate interventions, more than 27 percent of the children...AstraZeneca and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center form umbrella scientific collaboration agreements
...nd clinical research on new treatments for cancer, focusing initially on aerodigestive diseases (e.g., lung cancer, head and neck cancers or colorectal cancers). These renewable, three-year, master agreements establish a framework for collaboration on a variety of initiatives across a range of AstraZeneca onc...First baseline data by REACH supports and extends ESC's Euroaspire findings
...scular risk estimation and management, rather than focusing on single risk factors." The REACH study also revealed that the type of treatment patients received depended on the specialty of the physician. Cardiologists, for example, prescribed statins significantly more often than physicians with other special...Newest M.D. Anderson SPORE to fund breast cancer research
...itute, 58 such grants have been awarded nationally focusing on 14 disease sites. M. D. Anderson currently holds SPORE grants in leukemia and melanoma as well as cancers of the pancreas, ovaries, uterus, head and neck, bladder and prostate, and shares a lung cancer SPORE grant with UT Southwestern Medical Cent...Mayo Clinic collaboration discovers protein amplifies DNA injury signals
...ich is why cancer researchers around the world are focusing on understanding the DNA damage response pathway. Knowing how the cell communicates DNA injury to alert the repair system is an important first step to designing new therapies for cancers and other diseases. Background Biology The damage control pr...Alzheimer's drugs offer modest improvements, equal effectiveness
... over a course of three months. In a second review focusing on Aricept only, Birks and researcher Richard Harvey found that a 5 milligram a day dose of the drug was only slightly less effective than a 10 milligram a day dose, with fewer side effects. In another, newly updated Cochrane review, Dr. Clement Loy ...Mathematics and statistics combat epidemics & bioterror
... researchers have three areas of modeling they are focusing on: model specification, which describes the number of people utilizing health services of interest under normal conditions when there are no outbreaks, adjusting for natural seasonal and day-of-week effects; model building, which includes implementi...Medical centers vary in disclosing conflicts of interest
...al relationship?" Weinfurt said. "We are currently focusing on these sorts of issues."...Children with asthma more likely to have behavior difficulties
...or issue, such as being nervous and having trouble focusing on tasks. All of these behavior problems can interfere with learning. "The stress related to having asthma might contribute to behavioral problems because the family's focus on the medical issue may make managing behavior more difficult. Or, on the o...Mayo Clinic researchers challenge sepsis theory
...teria or their poisons. "We think people have been focusing too exclusively on a single causal factor of sepsis for the last 150 years and, as a result, therapeutically aiming at the wrong target -- the bacteria and the poisons they produce," says senior author Jeffrey Platt, M.D. "That's why the death rate r...Study shows media coverage on flu influences parents to vaccinate their children
...a spike in media coverage on the influenza season, focusing on the season being early and severe. Parents said there were many other factors that influenced them to seek a flu vaccination, including physician recommendation, other family members receiving a vaccination and media coverage, among others. When ...