Tequila! Chemists help assure quality of popular Mexican beverage
...an standards and labeling regulations," says study leader Dirk Lachenmeier, Ph.D., a chemist with Chemisches und Veterinruntersuchungsamt Karlsruhe (Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Laboratory of Karlsruhe) in Germany. Thanks to advancements in chemistry, the quality of this ancient Mexican beverage ca...Neighborhood safety may play role in obesity
...idemic by decreasing outdoor activity," said study leader Hillary Burdette, M.D., a pediatrician at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Despite a hypothesized link between neighborhood safety and obesity, this was the first study to evaluate this association among adults." Using data collected in 20 l...San Francisco VA Medical Center invites public to celebrate VA Research Week
..., and liver and kidney transplants. Today, VA is a leader in many areas of research, including AIDS, mental health, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, infectious diseases, and spinal cord injury." "VA research is good medicine at the San Francisco VA Medical Center," said SFVAMC Director Sheila Cullen. "We h...Technology to improve learning for visually-impaired children
...n. For example, Reachin Technologies AB is a world leader in haptic technology; France Telecom has experience in developing applications for the blind. "MICOLE offers an outstanding opportunity and the critical mass for the consortium to integrate and realise results of their earlier work and to test the mo...Heart rhythm society issues draft recommendations on performance policies for pacemakers and ICDs
...recall and advisory process. "As the international leader in science, education and advocacy for cardiac arrhythmia professionals and patients, we believe these suggested changes will ensure that patients continue to have access to these lifesaving treatments," said Anne B. Curtis, M.D., President of the He...28-site trial studying Chinese herb as Alzheimer's treatment
...ive. Paul Aisen, M.D., professor of neurology and leader of the new multi-site study, says huperzine A shows great promise as a treatment for AD. "Based on studies in China, huperzine A may be more effective and better tolerated than currently prescribed drugs for Alzheimer's Disease. In addition, labora...OHSU joins the NIH in obtaining a 'two-of-a-kind' MRI magnet
...esearch at the University of Minnesota, a national leader in imaging technology and expertise. "The possibility to conduct experiments at 12T will certainly lead to important discoveries and to an expansion of MRI's role in assessing functional and molecular properties of diseases non-invasively." Once in...Novel device shows potential in better detecting oral cancer
...nt has been largely organizational," said Rosin, a leader of the British Columbia Oral Cancer Prevention Program. "No one scientific discipline possesses sufficient expertise to build such a sophisticated imaging device, and the needed interdisciplinary groups weren't forming to tackle the problem." This l...UQ research will move medicines to market more quickly
Queensland is set to become a global leader in drug development, thanks to State Government fu...rnment and private industry funding. "TetraQ is a leader in translating cutting-edge research into products that can lead to improvements in many lives," Pro...Shire's DAYTRANA(TM) transdermal patch approved by FDA for treatment of ADHD
...e's portfolio reaffirms our position as the market leader in ADHD." Shire and Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. submitted an amended New Drug Application (NDA) for DAYTRANA to the FDA in June of last year. DAYTRANA is licensed globally to Shire by Noven and will be available in pharmacies in the U.S. in mid 200...ISHLT celebrates 20th anniversary of infant cardiac transplantation
...iac transplantation, Dr. Bailey has become a world leader in pediatric cardiac transplantation," said ISHLT president Mark Barr, M.D. "The ISHLT is honored to host Dr. Bailey as a Pioneer Lecturer this year." The ISHLT Pioneer Lecture series honors enduring contributions to the field of heart and lung tran...Daniel Rader, MD, of PENN, selected to direct a 2006 'Freedom to Discover' biomedical research grant
...ound the world. Rader, a physician-scientist, is a leader in the field of preventive cardiovascular medicine, cholesterol metabolism and atherosclerosis. He is recognized for his translational research in applying basic research in pathways of cholesterol metabolism and atherosclerosis to the development of...UPMC joins Italian government to create $398 million biomedical research center in Sicily
...d later this year, building on its reputation as a leader in cancer care. Leveraging relationships with major companies, such as IBM and General Electric, UPMC will help the BRBC move promising research quickly from the lab to the marketplace, just as it's done in western Pennsylvania. The University of Pit...VCU Medical Center team implants total artificial heart
... die while waiting for a transplant. As a national leader in treating heart failure and in heart transplanta...ams in the country and is recognized as a national leader in developing and implementing cardiovascular procedures," said Eugene P. Trani, Ph.D., VCU presiden...President's budget proposal cuts critical infectious diseases programs to the bone
...ans," Dr. Blaser said. "In addition, as the global leader in infectious diseases research and prevention, the United States will see these benefits translate into worldwide health benefits."...New hope for tissue regeneration and joint repair
...sages, preserving their multipotency," notes study leader Dr. Cosimo De Bari, an MRC clinician scientist and consultant rheumatologist at King's College London, UK. "A small periosteal biopsy represents a relatively easily accessible source of MSCs." This groundbreaking study calls attention to the need fo...Powerful new tool for studying brain development
... development, said Perdeep Mehta, Ph.D., the group leader in bioinformatics at St. Jude's Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and Biotechnology. Bioinformatics is the use of computers, software and other technologies to gather, organize, format and use large amounts of biological information. "Our ability to...$10 million gift funds innovative predictive health study
...nstitute will put Indiana on the map as a national leader of studies to predict health outcomes and to design personal, health system and community interventions to prevent the common diseases that result in excess disability with aging. To achieve this goal, we are designing a collaborative study that brin...Avantogen and Hawaii Biotech to combine vaccine businesses
... Research, Development, and Regulatory Affairs and leader of Hawaii Biotech's vaccine programs, will become ...sion is to create a public company that is a world leader in the development of recombinant vaccines for prevention of common, deadly, incurable diseases usin...AACR supports the nomination of Andrew von Eschenbach as the commissioner of the FDA
...as a medical researcher, cancer physician and as a leader of a major government health agency lend support to his qualifications as FDA commissioner," Jones added. Among his other professionalactivities, Dr. von Eschenbach was president-elect of the AmericanCancer Society, and also served as a speaker in ...