Researchers discover 'window on the brain' that could help treat disorders
...iversity of Oregon's Department of Psychology. EGI licenses technology from the university and designs, produces and sells electrophysical neuroimaging equipment and related software. EGI also employs undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, serving as a training ground in the field of cogn...Alcohol abuse: Early diagnosis is key to treatment success
... become acceptable prior to restoration of driving licenses after a DWI offense. Perhaps it will be one option, that is, 'attend an alcohol program regularly or submit to regular biomarker testing.'" Harris added that biomarker developments discussed at the symposium are critically important for a number of...Wife influences husband's marijuana use during first year of marriage
...died couples recruited while applying for marriage licenses at Buffalo City Hall. Gregory G. Homish, Ph.D., RIA research associate, is Leonard's co-investigator. The research is funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The researchers collected data from 634 couples, 47...MCW Research Foundation licenses invention for stroke treatment
...ed by faculty and staff at the Medical College and licenses it in line with its mission to commercialize as many inventions as possible to help patients. The Foundation believes that its "Patents to PatientsSM" brand best describes its mission. The Foundation is wholly-owned and housed within the Medical Co...UCI-led research team recommends new tobacco control policies for lawmakers
...r license for stores that sell tobacco, and revoke licenses for repeated sales to minors. Fees from licensing of tobacco vendors can be used to fund enforcement activities and to develop and maintain active, large-scale programs. 4. Raise the legal age for sale or purchase and consumption of tobacco and nico...Who's available to help in times of crisis and disaster?
... A recent survey of nurses with lapsed or inactive licenses in Vermont reveals that 27% of respondents would be willing to volunteer in a disaster. The number potential volunteers is expected to grow in the next decade when 1/3 of the 2.7 million RNs in the US retire and might be available to be called upon i...Microbicide field praises agreement to license new AIDS drugs
...al Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) royalty-free licenses to develop, manufacture, and distribute new antiretroviral compounds as potential microbicides to protect women from HIV. Members of key classes of antiretrovirals known as entry inhibitors, the compounds are designed to keep HIV from efficiently en...Ames Laboratory innovation key to a 'lead-free' Europe
...ate University Research Foundation. To date, those licenses have generated royalties in excess of $5 million. ISURF holds the patents for research developed at Iowa State, including Ames Laboratory which is operated for the DOE through a contract with ISU. "With the European directives and a similar commerci...Cincinnati Children's applauds EU approval of rotavirus vaccine
...ceived approval in Mexico in 2004. Since then, 30 licenses have been granted worldwide, including 15 Latin American countries, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. There are plans to file in the United States, where discussions are ongoing with the FDA. "The use of a weakened human strain compared to an...Bars and restaurants with regular staff meetings are less likely to sell alcohol to drunk patrons
...ors. First, those establishments with full liquor licenses as opposed to only beer- or wine-sales licenses were less likely to sell to intoxicated patrons. "Nonetheless, their sales rates were still high...Penn researchers find many commercial drivers have impaired performance due to lack of sleep
...onnaires to 4,826 truck drivers who had commercial licenses and lived within 50 miles of the Penn sleep centers. After getting complete responses from 1,329 drivers, they focused on 247 drivers at high risk for sleep apnea and 159 drivers at low risk. The truck drivers, almost all men and on average 45 yea...U of M discovers protein linked to elevated BMI in people of American Indian and Mexican ancestry
...uen used income from the blood coagulation protein licenses and his endowment from the Samuel Kirkwood Chair to support the research that led to finding the abnormal variant of C1 lipoprotein. The funds were used to apply new proteomics technology to screen blood samples for proteins related to disease. Th...UCLA study finds severe shortage of Latino dentists
...ted from dental schools, and hence able to acquire licenses to practice dentistry in California, fell by nearly 80 percent between 1982 and 1999 from 74 to 15 percent, even as the states Latino population increased by 42.7 percent (7.7 million to 10 million) during that time. IMPACT: Latino dentists are li...Sports concussion research using fMRI provides insight for safe return-to-play decisions
... Inc., is a Pittsburgh-based company that owns and licenses the ImPACT tool. Recent years have marked exciting and important discoveries in sports concussion research but there are still many unanswered questions, said Dr. Lovell. Continued research designed to evaluate multiple parameters of concussion e...