Can Immunology Help Win the War on Cancer?
...all is a surgeon, oncologist, medical educator and leader in professional civic organizations. His significant achievements are chronicled in his recent autobiography, No Boundaries: A Cancer Surgeon's Odyssey, published by Howard University Press (2005). Ralph M. Steinman, M.D., is the Henry G. Kunkel P...Sports medicine journal available to journalists
...he papers are published in the Journal.AJSM is the leader among 9 orthopaedic journals evaluated in the qual...ety for Sports Medicine (AOSSM). AOSSM is a world leader in sports medicine education, research, communication, and fellowship. The Society works closely wi...Cartoons help measure hostile assumptions, risk of aggression in urban girls
...ions of provocative social situations," said study leader Stephen S. Leff, Ph.D., a pediatric psychologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. "In addition, we found that these cartoon versions were as valid as the conventional written versions i...People often forgo using lifesaving beta blockers despite health insurance
... are important to long-term adherence," said study leader Judith Kramer, M.D., an associate professor at the Duke University Medical Center. The researchers published the findings in the September 2006 issue of the American Heart Journal. The study was funded by the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcar...Dieting danger: Female athletes limiting calories more likely to get stress fractures
...gh scores on the eating behaviors survey. Long a leader in health professions education, Saint Louis University began its nursing program in 1928 and the first baccalaureate degree program in an allied health profession in 1929. Today the Doisy College of Health Sciences offers degrees in nursing, clinica...Brown seaweed contains promising fat fighter, weight reducer
...uce obesity in the U.S. and elsewhere," says study leader Kazuo Miyashita, Ph.D., a chemistry professor at Hokkaido University in Hokkaido, Japan. The compound appears to fight fat through two different mechanisms, he says. The study involved more than 200 rats and mice. In obese animals fed fucoxanthin,...Health effects of 'functional foods' featured during four-day symposium, Sept. 10-13
...tion associated with diabetes), according to study leader Minoru Sugiura, Ph.D. (AGFD 210, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 1:05 p.m.) Scientists create new types of flour with enhanced antioxidant levels -- Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a newly patented process that transforms ordinary fl...Licensing arrangement reached for antiepileptic drug
...he Hebrew University School of Pharmacy. Bialer, a leader in the discovery of antiepileptic agents, has authored over 180 publications in the area of pharmacokinetics, antiepileptics and central nervous system (CNS) drugs. Epilepsy is a widespread neurological disease. Approximately one percent of the w...The lower the blood pressure the better
...ing from public investment. Australia is a world leader in health and medical research on a per capita basis, our research output is twice the OECD average. Medical research makes good health and economic sense. A report by Access Economics shows that for every $1 invested in medical research, $5 is retu...HIV drug could be used to prevent cervical cancer, say University of Manchester researchers
...onal HPV meeting in Prague on 5 September. Group leader Dr Ian Hampson, who is based at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, said: "It is very exciting to find such a significant new use for this HIV drug which is already licensed and FDA-approved for oral administration. We are currently exploring the means o...Scripps research team reverses Friedreich's ataxia defect in cell culture
...ripps Research Department of Molecular Biology and leader of the project. "I've met the parents of many children affected with the disease and some of the patients and it would be just a dream to be able to help them." "Dr. Gottesfeld's work holds tremendous promise of real therapeutic benefit for Friedr...Rush researchers explore nanotechnology as diagnostic and treatment tool
... added Dr. Liaohai Chen, a molecular biologist and leader of the nano-bio group in the Biosciences Division at Argonne, and an adjunct faculty at Rush University Medical Center. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter or 1/80,000 the width of a human hair. Nanoscale devices can perform tasks inside the b...Two UCSF faculty named fellows of the American Academy of Nursing
... Aging, a nonprofit in San Francisco. Dowling is a leader in designing improvements in health-care delivery for older adults with neurological impairments. She served on the NIH committee that developed national government research priorities for Alzheimer's disease, providing recommendations from a nursing...Flavanol-rich cocoa improves blood vessel function in aging baby boomer study participants
...institutions throughout the world, Mars has been a leader in unlocking the nutritional and medical potential of the cocoa bean -- with more than 100 peer-reviewed research articles and 80 patents related to flavanols. "The body of evidence on blood flow-related benefits of cocoa flavanols is impressive,"...Inhaled nitric oxide reduces lung disease in premature babies
...so these results are very encouraging," said study leader Roberta A. Ballard, M.D., a neonatologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, adding that the researchers will continue to follow the infants' health outcomes up to two years of age. The multicenter Nitric...Inflammatory processes in arteriosclerosis revealed
...s carrying on the work into eicosanoids and is the leader for a major EU project, EICOSANOX ( www.eicosanox.org ) that is looking at these central substances and the role they play in several major widespread diseases: cardiovascular disease, arteriosclerosis, dementia and cancer....Hopkins scientists show hallucinogen in mushrooms creates universal 'mystical' experience
...dern clinical pharmacology techniques," says study leader Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., a professor with Hopkins' departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Behavioral Biology. "That gap is large because, as a reaction to the excesses of the 1960s, human research with hallucinogens has been basically frozen ...American Society of Hematology announces recipients of the Minority Medical Student Award
...p patient-oriented research questions, to become a leader in hematology research and osteopathic medicine." In 2004, ASH launched the MMSAP as part of the Society's overall Minority Recruitment Initiative. Each year ASH awards up to 10 medical students from the United States and Canada in their early ye...Mount Sinai Global Health Center receives $1M grant
...tablishing Mount Sinai's Global Health Center as a leader among academic medical centers," says Dr. Muller. "Humanitarian medicine is one of the founding premises of Mount Sinai. Students and faculty travel the world on their own to pursue humanitarian health efforts." Mount Sinai students and residents...Shire's DAYTRANA, first patch medication for ADHD in children, now available in pharmacies
... to our portfolio, reinforcing Shire as the market leader in ADHD." ADHD affects approximately 7.8 percent of all school-age children, or about 4.4 million children in the U.S. ADHD is considered the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric disorder in children and adolescents. ADHD is a neurological brain ...