Children's Hospital, Oakland's Dr. Barbara Staggers wins prestigious award
...al model. This safe haven provides students with a host of health and psychological care services as well as afterschool and educational programs. Dr. Staggers will open a second adolescent clinic in at the Youth Uprising site in East Oakland this summer. Friday, April 15, 20052 p.m. (reception to fol...NIST to host public forum on robot standards
...and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will host a public forum on robot standards from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., May 13, at NIST's Gaithersburg, Md., campus. The meeting will explore ideas and timelines for standards related to urban rescue robot development, testing and certification. Penrose Albright, ...7th Annual AIDS Science Day at Yale April 22
...for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) will host the 7th Annual AIDS Science Day on Friday, April 22 at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St. CIRAaffiliated scientists from Yale, the Hispanic Health Council and The Institute for Community Research, will present their findings to scientif...The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners hosts 20th Annual National Conference
...merican Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) will host its 20th Annual National Conference in Fort Lauderdale, FL, June 17 - 21. For more information about the annual conference, go to www.aanp.org and click on 2005 national conference. Not only has this year's conference format changed dramaticall...Cleveland physician to receive Benjamin Spock Award
...on, hosted by actor Alec Baldwin and attended by a host of other celebrities, including Daryl Hannah, Alicia Silverstone, and singer Emmylou Harris. While serving as chairman of the Cleveland Clinic's Breast Cancer Task Force, Dr. Esselstyn became concerned about how physicians approach the problems of ca...Seattle inventor to receive Henry Heimlich Award
...on, hosted by actor Alec Baldwin and attended by a host of other celebrities, including Alicia Silverstone, Darryl Hannah, and singer Emmylou Harris. Toly is the principal designer and inventor of the TraumaMan® Surgical Training System, a patented technology that replaces the use of live dogs in the ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (second issue)
...gators pointed out that immunopathologic injury of host cells triggered by the immune response to virus plays a key role in the pathogenesis of virus infections. Many cytokines/chemokines released from activated immune cells not only take part in the process of antiviral immune response, but are also inv...Institute of Medicine news: Human resource crisis in HIV/AIDS
...uired skills; and the readiness of institutions to host corps participants. They would be assigned for at...ning," can strengthen institutional work forces in host countries by providing staff to fill vacancies and to offer specialized training and development opp...Top AIDS researchers to discuss latest advances on vaccine development for HIV-1 at academy meeting
...h the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC), will host an evening symposium, "HIV-1 Vaccines Update - Where Are We Now and Where Are We Headed?" featuring talks by key figures in the pursuit of the elusive goal of developing an HIV vaccine. WHEN: May 11 at 5 p.m. Q & A session and ...Role of soy foods in addressing obesity to be topic of Illinois forum
...he University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host a forum May 25-26 to examine the role that soy foods can play in managing a person's weight. The forum will bring together food industry representatives, health-care professionals, dietitians and university scientists to review the latest research. T...New insights into HIV immunity suggest alternative approach to vaccines
...e a window into how to study HIV vaccines from the host side of the problem," he said. Collaborators on the study include Judith Fleming, William St. Clair, Richard Scearce, Kelly Plonk, Herman Staats, Thomas Ortel, Hua-Xin Liao and Munir Alam of Duke; Herman Katinger, Gabriela Stiegler and Renate Kunert ...Soliciting organs over the Internet
...dical School (HMS) Division of Medical Ethics will host a public forum, titled "Soliciting Organs Over the Internet," which will bring together an Internet donor matching service MatchingDonors.com and ethicists to discuss the changing landscape of organ donation. The event will be held at HMS in the To...Connecting to cure spinal cord injury
...d the Michigan Paralyzed Veterans of America, will host the conference Connection to SCI Cure: The Science, Ethics and Politics of Spinal Cord Injury Research. The conference begins at 9 a.m., Saturday, May 21, at the Marriott Hotel in Ypsilanti. The conference will include world-renowned experts from acr...Innovative study finds way to 'bio-synthesize' an anti-cancer compound
...specific microbe contributes to the biology of its host organism: "This study is particularly important since it helps reveal how a bacterial symbiont plays a role in the biology of a tunicate, which as a representative of the chordates, is not so far away from humans in the tree of life." Eisen says the ...Digestive Disease Week 2005 spotlights breakthrough research in digestive health
...ng highlights include symposia and fora covering a host of current topics in the GI arena, including new developments and reviews of various hepatitis treatments, capsule endoscopy, digestive cancers, GERD therapies, liver disease and genetics and Barrett's esophagus controversies, among others. Press r...Changing medication packages could help patients follow prescriptions, study suggests
.... If left untreated, the disease can cause a whole host of health problems, including changes in the blood vessels in the back of the eye, heart attacks, kidney damage and stroke. "There often aren't any symptoms that signal high blood pressure," Schneider said. "And medications like lisinopril that are g...Richard A. Meyer, MD, receives the 2005 AIUM William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award
...l. Over the years, Dr. Meyer has contributed to a host of scientific and professional organizations, especially the AIUM. Dr. Meyer served as vice president of the AIUM, 19761978; as treasurer, 19811982; as president-elect, 19821984; and as president, 19841986. During his term as president, Dr. Meyer pla...Infants with rare genetic disease saved by cord blood stem cells
...strophy, Tay-Sachs disease, Sandhoff disease and a host of others. "The diseases may be uncommon, but the cost to the child, their family and to society at large is enormous when one considers the burden of caring for a severely disabled child," said Joanne Kurtzberg, senior author of the study. "It's si...Umbilical cord-blood transplants save lives of babies with rare genetic disorder
...strophy, Tay-Sachs disease, Sandhoff disease and a host of others. All the infants in the study who received cord-blood transplants as newborns are still alive, with the oldest being 6 years old, up to four years after an untreated sibling with the same disorder had died. Moreover, most newborns who were ...Scientists observe infectious prion proteins invade and move within brain cells
...omething that replicates within an animal or human host cell," says Dr. Baron. "I wanted to know how such a pathogen binds to the host cell, and how it enters, replicates and spreads to other cells." Dr. Baron says researchers have tra...