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...tional Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $4.6 million over the next five years to the Medical College of Wisconsin to establish a Research Center of Excellence in Pediatric Nephrology at Childrens Research Institute. As one of only two such Centers in the country, it will build on current groundbreaking...New treatment effective in counteracting cocaine-induced symptoms
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...impact is still to be fully understood. Around a million Australians who might normally enjoy productive working lives struggle with persistent pain with substantial interference to their daily lives that can be so extreme that it can sometimes result in suicidal thoughts or actions, said Dr Bennett. Pro...UCLA researchers awarded $9M contract for study identifiying antibiotic treatment for MRSA
..., has awarded a UCLA research team a five-year, $9 million contract to fund a multicenter study investigating antibiotic treatments for MRSA, a staph infection seen increasingly in communities across the nation that is resistant to antibiotics most commonly used to treat skin infections. The study, to be...'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for medical, energy, environmental breakthroughs
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...ion of Nephrology has been awarded a five-year, $6 million George M. O'Brien Kidney Research Center grant fro...ol received its initial O'Brien Center grant of $5 million in2002. Along with research in kidney disease and development of imagingtechnologies, the center has...States taking action to insure nation's 13.3M uninsured young adults
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...ts in human history, resulting in approximately 40 million deaths worldwide, including 550,000 in the United States, according to background information in the article. The historical record demonstrates that when faced with a devastating pandemic, many nations, communities, and individuals adopt what they p...Controlling prescription drug expenditures: a case report of success
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...Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has received nearly $1 million from the federal Department of Homeland Security t...o. 3). The DHS funds will augment the more than $3 million in funding the research team has already garnered from the U.S. Department of Justice. The focus o...Sports concussion research using fMRI provides insight for safe return-to-play decisions
...isease Control and Prevention, between 1.4 and 3.6 million sports and recreation-related concussions occur each year, with the majority happening at the high school level. An explosion of scientific research over the past decade has taught us more about mild traumatic brain injury or concussion than we have ...Backache sufferers who fear pain change movements
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FINDINGS: With 360 million smokers, China has more cigarette consumers than any other country a smoking prevalence of 31 percent among the general population. Physicians can play a key role in encouraging smokers to quit, yet up to now, little has been known about Chinese phy...Heat-related deaths in middle, high school football players spikes in 2006
...The survey tracks major injuries and deaths in 1.8 million football players from sandlot (organized, non-school affiliated teams), middle school, high school, college and professional teams. There were a total of 20 deaths in 2006; two sandlot players, three in college, 13 middle and high schoolers. Only o...Medical residents score poorly in diagnosing and managing tuberculosis
...or Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 10 million to 15 million Americans have latent TB and are at risk of developing active disease. On two-thirds of the questi...Medical residents unclear about TB guidelines
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