AstraZeneca announces SYMBICORT is now available in the US
...ses in the U.S. It is estimated that more than 20 million Americans suffer from the condition and, if not properly managed, asthma can be life-threatening. The U.S. availability of SYMBICORT holds great promise for millions of Americans that suffer from asthma, said Tony Zook, president and chief executiv...Smoking rate has plummeted in New York City
...e-free air legislation. With nearly a quarter of a million fewer smokers, New York City is leading the way on... much farther to go, said Dr. Frieden. More than 1 million New Yorkers are still smoking, and nearly 9,000 are dying from smoking-related disease every year. B...Damon Runyon renews its $2.25 million investment to support young clinical cancer investigators
...er Research Foundation has committed more than $30 million to support the careers of 39 physician-scientists across the United States since 2000. The 2007 awardees are Colleen Delaney, MD, from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington; Douglas K. Graham, MD, PhD, from the...Columbia dentists to improve oral health in sub-Saharan Africa
... The initiative is the result of an anonymous $1.5 million gift to support the Millennium Villages, which aims to fight extreme poverty and related challenges such as disease, hunger and lack of access to water and sanitation though scientifically sound and sustainable interventions. A third of the gift will...Diabetes professionals join forces to identify gaps in diabetes care and better self care
...operly managing their care." For the nearly 21 million Americans who have diabetes1, and estimated 39 million who will have it by the year 20502, the challenge is to juggle the many aspects of their lives with ...Paying taxes, according to the brain, can bring satisfaction
... whom to ask for money. To do this, we needed a $3 million scanner, some liquid helium and a few weeks of computer time, Harbaugh said. If a participant moved her head, Burghart added, we had to start all over. It will be a while before this is built into cell phones....Weill Cornell Medical College announces gifts totaling $400M
... The largest of the gifts announced today is $250 million -- believed to be the single largest gift ever giv.... Additionally, Mr. & Mrs. Weill are making a $50 million gift to Cornell University -- the largest gift ever to the Ithaca campus from an individual -- to he...Advocates ask fashion industry to support braille clothing tags; talking Web site
...in 2005, the World Health Organization reported 46 million blind people and 161 million visually impaired people. We thought all our ideas had to have been done, Brill says. We Google...Alzheimer's disease to quadruple worldwide by 2050
More than 26 million people worldwide were estimated to be living with ...e of Alzheimers disease will grow to more than 106 million by 2050. By that time, 43 percent of those with Alzheimers disease will need high-level care, equiva...FPG receives $8 million for autism research
...sm have never been evaluated, until now. With a $3 million federal grant, FPG Child Development Institute (FP...uestions about the programs efficacy. Another $5 million federal grant will establish a national autism professional development center, which will help stat...Experts call for urgent research into anti-epileptic drugs given to children
... findings included: More than a quarter of a million prescriptions (257,663) were issued for AEDs during the study period. Of these, 69 per cent were for conventional AEDs and 31 per cent were for newer AEDs. The most commonly prescribed newer AED was lamotrigine, which accounted for 20 per cent of...Rochester spreads knowledge of cancer-related fatigue
...he journal: -- Scale of the problem. Of the 1.3 million Americans diagnosed with cancer in 2005, 95 percent of the people scheduled to receive chemotherapy or radiation expected to experience fatigue. Studies show the frequency of actual fatigue during chemo ranges from 70 to 100 percent; likewise, 90 per...New study reports hotel guests at risk from carbon monoxide poisoning
...n a jury verdict. Jury verdicts have averaged $4.8 million per incident (range=$1 million-17.5 million). Poisoning occurred at hotels of all classes. According to Lindell K. Weaver, MD, medical director of the LDS Hospital Hyperbaric Medicine Center and Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah Scho...UK and other European countries should introduce universal childhood hepatitis B vaccination
...on with hepatitis B causes between 500,000 and 1.2 million deaths per year worldwide, with around 22,000 of these deaths occurring across Europe. Hepatitis B is also the leading cause of liver cancer. Dr Jane Zuckerman, Academic Centre for Travel Medicine and Vaccines, Royal Free and University College Me...UGA study finds that violence costs nation $70 billion annually
...lion spent on medical care. Americans suffer 2.2 million medically treated injuries due to interpersonal vi...n in costs. The average cost per homicide was $1.3 million in lost productivity and $4,906 in medical costs. The average cost per case for a non-fatal assaul...UK scientists set their sights on cure for AMD
...some degree of visual loss due to AMD, and some 14 million people in Europe currently suffer blindness throug...ents and are often only temporary. Thanks to a 4 million donation from a US private donor, the London Project will now be able to assemble the necessary spec...CIRM awards $3.79 million to Burnham Institute
...Medicine (CIRM) announced today the award of $3.79 million to the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) for development of a collaborative shared laboratory and expansion of the Institutes training courses in stem cell research. Burnham was one of 17 institutions receiving grants from CIRM for a ...USC and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles both receive grants for stem cell facilities
...ital Los Angeles have been awarded a total of $6.4 million in Shared Research Laboratory Grants from the Cali...." Childrens Hospital Los Angeles received $2.8 million to build a 3,000-square-foot centralized laboratory area that will be housed at the hospital's Smith...DFG approves 11 new Collaborative Research Centers
... on 1 July 2007. They will receive a total of 75.5 million euros in funding over the next four years. Researc...g volume for 2007 will amount to approximately 388 million euros. The committee also amended the funding programme: the SFB independent junior research grou......y small. Over a two-year period, a total of $17.55 million was paid to 123 hospitals the first year and to 115 hospitals the second year. Medicares strategy of trying to use the payment system to improve performance of hospitals is certainly laudable, said Kevin Schulman, M.D., professor of medicine and bu...