Galileo to support global search and rescue
...and rescue satellite system. Galileo joined the meeting in a formal capacity as a major contributor to the MEOSAR programme, following the signature of the 'Declaration of Intent to Cooperate on the Development and Evaluation of MEOSAR'. MEOSAR, which stands for Medium Earth Orbit Search And Rescue, is a ...'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for medical, energy, environmental breakthroughs
...shments in Boston on Aug. 19 at the 234th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Twenty-two research chemists will be named Heroes of Chemistry by the ACS for improving health and well-being by creating new drugs or other products and inventing environmen...Takeda responds to the FDA advisory committee recommendation
Deerfield, IL, July 30, 2007 Following a joint meeting today of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FD...o follow the recommendations. This joint committee meeting reviewed the cardiovascular ischemic/thrombotic risks of the thiazolidinediones, with focus on rosig...Journalists: Register now for CHEST 2007 in Chicago
...25, in Chicago, IL. CHEST 2007 is the only medical meeting focusing on clinical chest medicine, including pulmonology, critical care, cardiology, and sleep medicine. For details on the keynote address, session topics, special events, or Chicago tourism, check out the CHEST 2007 Advance Program. Exclusive O...American Cancer Society to hold third annual Virtual Relay For Life in Second Life
...tual world. The building includes presentation and meeting rooms for cancer education sessions and fundraising meetings, and will soon feature a staffed link to the Societys National Cancer Information Center that provides free cancer information 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. The headqu...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...noteworthy presentations can be found on a special meeting webpage ( http://www.aapm.org/meetings/07AM/Specia... radiation to the correct location. AAPM's annual meeting provides some of medical physicists latest innovations, which may be coming soon to a hospital near ...Cancer on the agenda of the Portuguese EU Council Presidency
...ith the Portuguese EU Presidency on a key European meeting on health care issues, where cancer will be an imp... Diseases in Portugal, to be a key partner in this meeting for aspects related to cancer. Under the broad theme of creating a European Health Strategy, this ......tics and Operations Research in Baseball will be a meeting of the baseball, industrial, and academic worlds. The focus is on how Statistics and Operations Research methodology is used within baseball and associated businesses and on how baseball inspires the expansion of the frontiers of Statistics and Opera...Emergency department guidelines enhance quality patient care
...re then presented during a monthly, evidence-based meeting in the UC emergency medicine department for input from faculty, residents and nurses. The committee then finalized the physician and nursing guidelines, developed an order set and discharge sheets and put them on the Web at www.cpqe.com. Since the ...Millennium development goals: Are we on track?
...ting resources towards such key priorities. This meeting of Member States, UN System Organizations, other major institutional stakeholders, as well as non-governmental organizations, academics and foundations concentrated on the theme Eradicating poverty and hunger Joining forces to make it happen. The co...New survey uncovers how insomnia affects job performance and safety
...ults of a new survey this week at the annual SLEEP meeting showing the significant impact our 24/7 culture is having on healthcare professionals job performance and patient safety. The survey of 2,082 nurses found that more than one quarter of nurses (27.23%) suffered from insomnia; 32.10% had difficulty st...New nutritional research: College students face obesity, high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome
...ressure, and more than two-thirds of women are not meeting their nutritional needs for iron, calcium or folat...95 percent of women and 82 percent of men are not meeting nutrient recommendations for fiber. Womens intake of the important nutrients iron (23 percent meet r...How to lose weight and not go hungry: HU researcher develops drug that mimics feeling of 'fullness'
...which was presented today (June 6) during the 70th meeting of the Hebrew University Board of Governors. Linde and his associates have developed a compound that mimics the activity of the naturally occurring hormone called aMSH. This hormone is naturally excreted during eating and binds to a receptor in t......alth Department is two years ahead of schedule for meeting its 2008 goal of having 60% people 50 and older screened for colon cancer. The agency now hopes to push the rate to more than 80% by 2011. This would represent a doubling of the 2003 rate, and would bring screening rate closer to those for breast or ...Smokers given more help to quit since GP performance pay introduced
...e quarterof GP income is currently derived through meeting quality targets in thetreatment of such chronic diseases. Previous studies had showed that GPs were not routinely offeringcessation advice during consultations, in spite of evidence showing thatit improves quit rates, because some found it too time...GSK announces launch of largest ever Phase III trial in lung cancer treatment
...merican Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, [Abstract No: 7554]. Final trial analysis showed a 27% reduction in the relative risk of cancer recurrence following surgery in patients treated with the MAGE-A3 ASCI, compared to placebo. Final results from this trial confirm...Cedars-Sinai researchers present new endocrine findings at 2 international conferences
... Cedars-Sinai researchers at The Endocrine Society meeting are: Management of Acromegaly: Prolactinoma, Cushings and Acromegaly: an Update in Medical Therapy for Pituitary Ademomas, (Ancillary Symposium) Bench to Bedside: Effects of Hormones on Breast Cancer, Oct-1 Induces hPTTG1 Expression in Hum...USC researchers show that molecular markers predict tumor recurrence
...y was presented Tuesday, June 5 at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) held at McCormick Place in Chicago. For patients who undergo surgery for stage III colon cancerin which the tumor has spread to the lymph nodesadditional chemotherapy is recommended to prevent tum...Benefits of trastuzumab are lasting, reducing both HER2 + breast cancer deaths and recurrence
...enting results of the joint analysis at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Trastuzumab has revolutionized the care of HER2 + breast cancer, and this study clearly shows the statistical and clinical significance of the therapy, says Dr. Perez. The four-year data show ...New drug shows promise in treatment of advanced thyroid cancer
...oid cancer, a research team reported at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology in Chicago. In this exploratory phase-2 trial, 18 out of 60 patients (30%) had their tumors shrink by 31 to 83 percent. Another 25 patients (42%) had stable disease, with no tumor progression or sligh...