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... of the Division of Vascular Surgery, is principal investigator for the Rochester trial site. Cardiologist John D. Bisognano, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of Medicine, who has been involved in development of this technology, and nephrologist James A. Sloand, M.D., associate professor of Medicine, serve as pri...AACR establishes new lectureship in honor of Dr. Jane C. Wright
...ender The Award will be presented to an individual investigator Institutions or organizations are not eligible Nominations may be made by any scientist, whether an AACR member or nonmember, who is now or has been affiliated with any institution involved in cancer research, cancer medicine, or cancer-related biome...Largest NIH grant for NYU will create research network in dental practices
... Dr. Jonathan Ship, the PEARL Network's principal investigator and chair, said, "The PEARL Network seeks to organize, train, inspire, and facilitate a network of dental practitioners to conduct research of immediate relevance to the profession and the public. This is the first time that the NIH has allocated fun...Metabolic side effects of antipsychotics are known, but rarely monitored
...ect that concern," said Dr. Peter F. Buckley, lead investigator on the study and chair of the MCG Department of Ps...re believed to improve it. Dr. Terry is principal investigator on a $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health examining the impact of long-term use...Injectable drug, combined with counseling, shows promise in treating alcohol dependence
...n the Center for the Study of Addictions, and lead investigator for Penn's component of the trial. "Long-acting naltrexone represents a promising new development for treatment, and I hope that it can play a role in helping the large number of individuals in the U.S. who suffer from alcohol dependence." Naltrexon...Less cognitive impairment seen in women taking drug for osteoporosis
...mpairment," says Kristine Yaffe, MD, the principal investigator of the trial. Yaffe is UCSF associate professor of psychiatry, neurology and epidemiology and chief of geriatric psychiatry at SFVAMC. Raloxifene is one of the most broadly prescribed drugs for the treatment of osteoporosis (it is also used to treat ...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
...ral medicine at the U-M Medical School, a research investigator at the Ann Arbor VA, and a faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research....Dr. Gutin selected as Fulbright Senior Specialist
...itute work to do just that. He has been principal investigator on a half-dozen National Institutes of Health grants in the last 10 years examining the impact of fitness on fatness and vice versa. He and his colleagues are in the middle of the MCG FitKid Project, funded by a $3.3 million NIH grant, looking at whe......ctor of the Center for Cancer Research at MIT, and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Jack's laboratory has pioneered and constructed a series of mutant mouse models of many human cancer types that also have been used to study cancer-associated genes. The topic of Dr. Jacks' talk is "Model...Data show cyclosporine inhalation solution improves long-term survival in lung-transplant patients
... persists long-term," said Aldo Iacono, M.D., lead investigator of the study and Medical Director of the Lung Transplantation Program at University of Maryland Medical Center, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "Despite the medical community's best efforts, currently...Case finds dental patients agreeable to tobacco interventions
...s annual meeting in Baltimore, Md. He is the lead investigator on the study with Kristin Victoroff, D.D.S, Case assistant professor of community dentistry. The research was supported by an American Cancer Society Joseph Silber Student Fellowship, awarded to Lewis for summer research. Seventy-one percent or 422 ...ACHRI study finds CellCept improves survival in pediatric heart transplant patients
...sas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine, lead investigator of the study. "Our research shows that we can achieve very high survival rates by using therapies such as CellCept in our pediatric transplant recipients." More than 26,000 American children have received an organ transplant. However, organ rejecti...Probable cause sequences for WTC collapses finalized
...a combination of factors," said Shyam Sunder, lead investigator for the agency's building and fire safety investigation into the WTC disaster. "While the buildings were able to withstand the initial impact of the aircraft, the resulting fires that spread through the towers weakened support columns and floors that...Delay in Alzheimer's disease onset seen for first time
...sen, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic neurologist and lead investigator of the trial. "This may be the sign of new horizons to come in attempting to alter the Alzheimer's disease process as early as possible, buying time for those who may later progress." Dr. Petersen and his co-investigators are optimistic about these f...Obesity adds risk of cardiovascular disease in siblings in families with a history of heart problems
...h two-thirds of Americans overweight," says senior investigator Diane Becker, M.P.H., Sc.D., a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. "Because overweight and obesity are risk factors for heart disease, physicians and the public should know what additio...Columbia study shows women benefit from drug-eluting stents as much as men
...ntific basis for this," said the study's principal investigator Alexandra Lansky, MD, associate professor and director of clinical services for interventional cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center and director of the Women's Health Initiative at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. "There is no rea...Anthrax treatments' cost effectiveness shown in Stanford study
...eatment alone," said Douglas Owens, MD, MS, senior investigator at the VA-Palo Alto and associate professor of medicine at Stanford's Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research and the Center for Health Policy in the Stanford Institute for International Studies. "And the best strategy is actually the least exp...Spice it up or just veg out, either way you may be helping to defend against cancer
...r process," said Sanjay K. Srivastava, Ph.D., lead investigator and assistant professor, department of pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "The contribution of diet and nutrition to cancer risk, prevention and treatment has been a major focus of research in recent years because certain nutr...Heart failure drug associated with higher risk of death
...han Sackner-Bernstein, M.D., the study's principal investigator and director of clinical research at the Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Center at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY. He notes that a Scios spokesperson was quoted in the press saying that the kidney effect was already "well-known" an......sure therapy against a viral disease," says senior investigator Michael Diamond, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular microbiology, pathology and immunology and of medicine. "They also suggest antibody-based therapeutics may have a broader utility against other infectious diseases."Diamond points out th...