Cedars-Sinai endocrine researchers to discuss gene that may be linked to polycystic ovary syndrome
...udy of androgen excess disorders. He is one of the founders of the organization and its executive director. He also serves as director of Cedars-Sinais Center for Androgen Related Disorders (CARD), which offers in-depth testing, comprehensive treatments and support, and research into molecular mechanisms and ...Conference to focus on transfer of knowledge from research to practice in emergency medicine
...titutes of Health Research, Ian Graham. One of the founders of the Knowledge Translation field, Jeremy Grimshaw, will talk about Research Methodology in KT. Jean Slutsky, the Director for the Center for Outcomes and Evidence at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, will address funding opportunities...Eye diseases gave great painters different vision of their work, Stanford ophthalmologist says
...for artistic reasons." Degas and Monet were both founders of the Impressionist era, and their artistic styles were well formed before their eye disease affected their vision. But their paintings grew significantly more abstract in later life as, coincidentally, their eye problems increased. "Contemporarie...SCAI Founders' Lecture traces impressive progress in interventional cardiology
...pioneers of invasive/interventional cardiology and founders of SCAI....Women's silent health problem: Study finds fecal incontinence is prevalent in US women
... was "significant," says Fenner, who is one of the founders of the Michigan Bowel Control Program at the University of Michigan Health System. "We found that half of the subjects with FI reported that their bowel symptoms had a large impact on their quality of life," she notes. Treatments that can help peopl...New scheme will help London's most vulnerable people
...ople to access health care. In this week's BMJ the founders explain why such a scheme is needed, while an editorial explores what this says about society's attitude towards marginalised people. Providing health care to marginalised groups is an integral part of Medecins du Monde's work in developed and develo...Osteoporosis Patient Societies win US$ 126,000 in grants
... (UK) National Osteoporosis Society and one of the founders of the global osteoporosis patients movement. It was awarded to: Slovene Osteoporosis Patient Society (Slovenia) For more information visit http://www.osteofound.org ....Definitive gene screen confirms MS suspects
...causes also contribute to MS. Haines is one of the founders of an international team of researchers from many institutions that collected genetic data on 730 families with more than one case of MS from Australia, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Previous studies have implicated the MHC,...Researchers discover 'window on the brain' that could help treat disorders
...n received by the NIC in 2003. With the grant, NIC founders Malony and Tucker established the Integrated Cognitive Neuroscience, Informatics and Computation Grid, a high-performance computing system dedicated to the analysis of imaging data on brain structure and function. The grid harnesses the collective pr...Mayo researchers seek methods to make new cancer therapies available more quickly
...Meeting in Orlando, Fla. Dr. Sargent is one of the founders of the Adjuvant Colon Cancer Endpoints (ACCENT) Group that is studying whether there are ways to make results of clinical trials in oncology available more quickly, to provide effective treatments to patients faster. "We found last year that outcomes...... company is based on technologies developed by the founders and Steven Haynesworth, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Case. Don Brown, a former executive of Viacell and Schering-Plough, is the company's chief executive officer. The university invested $250,000 in Arteriocyte through its C...