University student named Young Scientist of the Year
...ire's research, in association with crown research institute ESR (Environmental Science and Research), has identified a method of distinguishing between skin, vaginal and mouth cells. This easy-to-use test, which identifies the source of cells through colour staining techniques, is of particular interest to fo...The Allergan Foundation donates $2 million to advance eye research and treatment
...n will be used support retinal research within the institute and the Department of Ophthalmology....Ozone recovering, but unlikely to stabilize at pre-1980 levels, says study
...te for Research in Environmental Sciences, a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But by the end of the century, ozone levels could be slightly higher or slightly lower than before 1980 because of high natural variability and human caused changes like warming ...Successful treatment of alcoholism found in the doctor's office
...of theprotocol in its Clinician's Guide, which the institute expects to release inearly summer. The COMBINE team, meanwhile, is conducting a cost-benefitanalysis on medical management with either naltrexone or CBI and will alsostudy DNA samples from trial participants to try and better understand therole genes...JK Rowling and the MS Society Scotland fund a new MS Research Centre
...'s Medical School and adjacent to the new research institute and the Royal Infirmary, we will be able to draw together strands of expertise to better understand MS, and to develop new treatments so that we can take advantage of the strong neuroscience base in Edinburgh." Professor Peter Sandercock, Professor ...Researchers find why prostate drug increases likelihood of heart failure
..., sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood institute and conducted from 1994 to 2002, a test of doxazosin was stopped early because subjects taking it proved to be at substantially increased risk for heart failure. Nonetheless, according to Simpson, a very large number of men with prostate problems co...Brain power combined to form new $125M institute
...stitute will amalgamate to form a new neuroscience institute in Melbourne. As part of the Victorian Government ... over $125 million and the participants in the new institute are currently seeking further financial support from philanthropists. The new institute will focus o...$10 million gift funds innovative predictive health study
... Aging Research at the IU School of Medicine. "The institute will put Indiana on the map as a national leader o...for this disease and how to reduce that risk. This institute should provide valuable information and a unique window into the future health of Americans because ...No-smoking rules not common enough for asthmatic children
...diately possible. Another option is for parents to institute a "no-smoking" rule in the home and the car, and allow no exceptions to this rule. It is best if smokers always go outside to smoke, and this strategy may also help the parents to eventually quit." The study surveyed 231 parents of children with pers...Accomplishments at UH earn spot in French Academy of Sciences for professor
... Marie Curie and at INRIA, the French government's institute of computational science, where he later became scientific director. More recently, Glowinski received an honorary doctorate from the internationally recognized research campus of the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, where he has been a docent p...Three Pitt 'teacher-scholars' honored by NSF with CAREER awards
...ntary Science Methods class, and a weeklong summer institute for teaching physics to K-12 teachers will be conducted with the Pittsburgh Public School District. Leibovich received the Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1997 and the B.A. degree in physics from Co...Monitoring system needed to prevent safety hazard of problem physicians
...ate medical boards and healthcare organizations to institute a formal monitoring and prevention system for catching "problem doctors" before they do further harm. Research has shown that "the vast majority of mistakes and injuries can be attributed to faulty systems that cause injuries or lead even competent, ...Emergency angioplasty patients do best at hospitals where it's the 'default' treatment
...imizing that approach, or determine better ways to institute emergency angioplasty protocols and staffing for around-the-clock care. Nallamothu notes that public policy can also play a role such as the state of Michigan's recent requirement that hospitals newly licensed to perform emergency angioplasty witho...International research reveals proven ways to reduce drug costs
...aid that congressional action would be required to institute some of the other practices that are common in the rest of the world. "Congress already mandates that Medicare contain costs in most other areas of health care," said Furberg. Why should prescription drugs be treated differently?"...Researchers investigate the case of the disappearing teaspoons
.... The teaspoons were placed in tearooms around the institute and were counted weekly over five months. After five months, staff were told about the research project and asked to complete a brief anonymous questionnaire about their attitudes towards and knowledge of teaspoons and teaspoon theft. During the stud...MSG-2 will advance long-term monitoring of Earth's energy balance
...segment, operated by RAL, the Royal Meteorological institute in Brussels, and Imperial, is working highly effectively." The idea for such a sensor was first proposed in 1958, and a number of earth radiation budget instruments have flown before the first GERB launched on MSG-1. What makes the GERB series uniq...UCI wins $2.4 million grant to study how brain understands language
...ed or conducted by NIDCD. Established in 1988, the institute is mandated to conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech and language. Hickok also has been named director of the newly created...Federal grant funds research on novel HIV therapy
...ptor) Antagonists for HIV Therapy." NIMH, a member institute of the National Institutes of Health, issued the four-year, $6.7 million grant award this fall. The grant builds on more than a decade of investigation by Dr. Douglas into substance P, a neurotransmitter long known to be active in the brain and ner...... Force and the Children's Hospital, Westmead. Each institute would have collected and stored heart tissue and DNA samples obtained at the time of heart transplants and other procedures, which would then be catalogued and stored in a database for national distribution," Professor Graham said. "Given not only th....... 4. Governments and the health care sector should institute measures and processes to guarantee provisions and support services to individuals and/or communities affected by restrictive measures, such as quarantine orders, implemented during a pandemic influenza emergency. Plans should state in advance what b...