W.M. Keck Foundation announces 2007 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in medical research
...onsoring institution receives an award of up to $1 million to support the scientists research activities for ...n 1999 and has awarded grants totalling nearly $45 million to date. Each grant applicant must be nominated by his or her research institution and then evaluate...Takeda responds to the FDA advisory committee recommendation
...he introduction of ACTOS in August 1999, almost 70 million prescriptions have been written, covering more than 8 million patients and 4.5 million patient years. Takeda has consistently emphasized the importance of physi...Trials underway for 'essential' new TB vaccine
... M. tuberculosis bacterium, is thought to kill two million people every year. The UK's Health Protection Agency recorded over 8,000 cases in 2005, including almost 3,500 in London alone. The vaccine has been developed by Dr Helen McShane, a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Research Fellow, working with Profe...Worcester Polytechnic Institute to host national forum on locating first responders inside buildings
...ey could not locate, and supported by more than $3 million in awards from the U.S. Department of Justice, a WPI research team has been developing precision personnel location and tracking technology that employs principles from orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), which transmits high-speed dat...American Cancer Society to hold third annual Virtual Relay For Life in Second Life
... raising $75,000 by raising nearly $90,000 (or $24 million Linden dollars, the official Second Life currency) to support cancer research and programs. The Societys virtual Relay For Life began in 2005 when Society volunteers in the Second Life community contacted Society staff to discuss the idea of creat...From UF and IBM, a blueprint for 'smart' health care
...of people 85 and over is expected to rise from 4.2 million in 2000 to 6.1 million in 2010 and 9.6 million by 2030, according to federal government statistics. Meanwhile, the percenta......ssage. Cardiovascular disease is kills almost 20 million people each year, with around 22 million people at risk of sudden heart failure at any one time around the world. Lives can often be saved if...Device helps physically disabled turn on computer
More than 14 million Americans under age 64 have a physical disability, according to the 2005 American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. A large percentage of these persons have little or no use of their hands to manipulate a computer or access the Internet. Wh...Nonsmall cell lung cancer -- chemotherapy before surgery appears better than surgery alone
... is important because around the world more than a million new cases of lung cancer are diagnosed each year, around 80% of which are non-small cell lung cancer. In addition, many patients are only diagnosed after the disease has progressed, so survival rates across all stages of disease tend to be fairly low...Sucampo Pharmaceuticals submits supplemental new drug application for Lubiprostone to treat IBS-C
...le living with this condition. Approximately 58 million Americans have irritable bowel syndrome, with IBS-C accounting for approximately one-third of these cases. IBS-C symptoms include abdominal pain and discomfort associated with defecation or a change in bowel habits with features of disordered defeca...European Space Agency's Envisat captures breath of volcano
...ted along the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'. At least 500 million people live close to an active volcano. As world population increases, so does the potential threat from every eruption. Although there is no way ground-based monitoring can be carried out on all volcanoes across the globe, space-based monitoring ...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...atory, the DWA can accelerate protons to up to 100 million electron volts in just a meter. A two-meter DWA could potentially supply protons of sufficiently high energy to treat all tumors, including those buried deep in the body, while fitting in a conventional radiation treatment room. The DWA is a holl...New heart disease risk score will help minimize health inequalities
... cardiovascular disease or diabetes, there are 3.2 million adults under the age of 75 in Britain at high risk...Ps. The researchers tracked the progress of 1.28 million healthy men and women, registered at 318 general practices over a period of 12 years up to April 200...Wesley Research Institute study targets pharmacists to help diabetes sufferers
...g community pharmacists. There are more than one million Australians with Type 2 Diabetes who are at an increased risk of developing serious health problems including heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and blindness. Chief investigator of the project, Mr David Brand of The Wesley Pharmacy, said this s...IOF Bone Apptit campaign wins prestigious communications award
...arger IOF Family who helped us reach more than 100 million people worldwide with the Bone Apptit campaign messages and to have more than 1.8 million visitors to the IOF website last October." CIPR President Lionel Zetter said: "The Excellence Awar...Hib vaccine: A critical ally in Asia's effort to reduce child deaths
...r in children under five years of age and around 3 million cases of serious illness resulting in long term consequences such as deafness, learning disabilities, paralysis and mental retardation. This simple, life-saving vaccine can prevent Hib pneumonia and meningitis in children, often called the invisi...New study shows Rescue Remedy is an effective all-natural stress, anxiety reliever
... situations every day, but particularly for the 40 million Americans who suffer from physician-diagnosed anxiety, said Ronald Stram, MD, who regularly prescribes Rescue Remedy to his anxious and stressed patients. Stress compromises your ability to fight off disease and infection. It can even rewire the brai...U of M researchers assess effectiveness of computerized physician order entry system
... drugs errors did not decrease. More than one-half million patients suffer injuries or death from adverse events, causing up to $5.6 million annually per hospital, according to the review....New research spares children the pain of the needle
...oner than those given injections. Two-and-a-half million children are affected by pneumonia each year in Europe. Until now, most children have been admitted to hospital and treated with injected antibiotics. The findings suggest that these injections endured by generations of children may be unnecessar...Nepalese researchers identify cost-effective treatment for drug-resistant typhoid
...poor. The best global estimates are of at least 22 million cases of typhoid fever each year with 200,000 deaths. Drug resistance is becoming a major problem and treatment is becoming increasingly difficult, leading to patients taking longer to recover, suffering more complications and continuing to spread th...