Al Gore recipient of Harvard Global Environmental Citizen Award
...TV, a new cable and satellite news and information network for young people. Gore is also a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University. The Global Environmental Citizen Award is presented annually by the Center for Health and the Global Environment to the citizen who does outstanding work toward...Public forum on breast cancer issues 'call to action'
... to screen patients from any location via a secure network connection. In addition, these core features allow a single operator to administer multiple patient scans simultaneously from a central location and transmit the data in real time to a designated location. "We saw a tremendous need in our area for im...17th annual medical ethics conference to focus on global and personal issues
...s Ave., Room P117. The Center's aim is to foster a network of clinical scholars worldwide who use clinical ethics to improve the quality of patient care and patient outcomes. This year's conference remembers benefactors Dorothy Jean MacLean, who helped found the Center and was deeply committed to its work, a...$50 mil. gift from the Simmons to expand cancer care, clinical research programs at UT Southwestern
...ough numerous nationwide patient trials run by the network of comprehensive centers. "UT Southwestern has long been a research powerhouse with Nobel caliber science," said Dr. Willson, who holds the Lisa K. Simmons Distinguished Chair in Comprehensive Oncology. "Building on the foundation laid by Dr. Eugene...Multilateral initiative on malaria seeks international effort
...id, is that Africa would not be building a malaria network from scratch. Though insufficient in number, there is a core group of highly trained African experts working in malaria endemic areas, and, in just the last few years, their numbers have been growing. For example, Kilama said that when he returned ...Feinstein Institute neuroscientist wins top honor in Parkinson's research
...e to various treatments. "When we began working on network analysis and brain imaging, we never thought that the results would have yielded so many interesting insights into how this disease alters brain function, and how treatment can successfully repair these abnormal brain pathways. We hope that this work...The therapeutic role of melatonin in cancer worthy of study
...ved in their study were from Europe from a related network of clinical researchers in Italy and Poland. The researchers, from McMaster University and the University of Toronto in Canada, say that their analysis also shows that clinical trials in North America should have been initiated back in 1996/7 as the ...Drug may combat weight loss during radiation treatments
... Research Base, a National Cancer Institute funded network of 93 community cancer centers in 19 states working with Wake Forest to conduct clinical trials in cancer patients. Wake Forest is one of only six NCI-designated Cancer Center Research Bases in the nation performing community-based cancer clinical tr...AIUM to host annual convention
...view the newest and best in ultrasound technology, network with colleagues from around the world, and enhance their professional skills through categorical courses and scientific, Meet-the-Professor, Just Images, and film panel sessions. The 2006 convention will also feature scientific poster exhibits, comme...Coffee jump-starts short-term memory
...s of caffeine consumption on brain activation in a network of modules subserving short-term memory of 15 heal...e frontal lobe, where a part of the working memory network is located, and the anterior cingulum, the part of the brain that controls attention. In the "placeb...JCI table of contents: December 8, 2005
... of the vessel wall in regions of the blood vessel network that are relatively resistant to the development of atherosclerosis. TITLE: Integration of flow-dependent endothelial phenotypes by Kruppel-like factor 2 AUTHOR CONTACT: Guillermo Garcia-Cardea Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA ...Cataract surgery rates and costs related to physician reimbursement methods
...4 Medicare beneficiaries receiving eye care from a network of ophthalmologists and optometrists in St. Louis, Mo., between 1997 and 1998. The rate of cataract extractions per 1,000 beneficiaries, the costs of cataract procedures, the rates of non-cataract procedures, and the level of professional reimbursem...Researchers identify key protein involved in neuropathic pain
...ommunicate with nerve cells in the pain-processing network in the spinal cord. However the mechanism for this communication was not known," said Dr. Michael Salter, co-principal investigator, senior scientist at SickKids, professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto (U of T), and director of the U of...Virtual microscopy project wins educational technology award
...rded project utilizes advanced digital imaging and network technology to digitise, store, and view microscopy specimens over the internet. 'Virtual specimens' incorporated into educational applications on a web server can be viewed by students on an ordinary PC screen, from any location with a broad band in...New neurons take baby steps in the adult brain
...roughout life and are integrated into the existing network of cells. The researchers also figured out why the mouse's new neurons were excited by GABA -- they have greater amounts of chloride ions, making for a different chemical environment. By the time they are fully integrated, their chloride levels have ...NCI issues clinical announcement for preferred method of treatment for advanced ovarian cancer
...., and her colleagues in an NCI-supported research network known as the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG). This is the eighth trial evaluating the use of chemotherapy delivered into the abdomen for ovarian cancer. Together, these trials show a significant improvement in survival for women with advanced ovaria...American Academy of Neurology names Advocate of the Year at leadership forum
...ommendations were issued, including establishing a network of stroke centers and an operational stroke program within the Department of Health, and increasing public awareness of stroke. He was also named the Medical Volunteer of the Year by the 10-state Pacific Mountain Affiliate of the American Stroke Asso...Successful medical outcomes? It's the relationship that counts
...cal team and a patient's family and social support network are crucial to the delivery of health care and to patient satisfaction with that care. The Regenstrief Institute Inc. hosted nearly 100 of the nation's top scientists in an interdisciplinary conference to discuss research on relationship-centered car...Autism Speaks makes major funding commitment for unprecedented national autism database
...aw. "Our expectation is that, by creating a unique network of research scientists and families, the database will become an unprecedented source of information that will dramatically increase our knowledge and understanding of autism spectrum disorders," said Dr. Law. Today, one in 166 individuals is diag...Viral, gold nanoparticles can assemble themselves to potentially find and treat disease
...ound that by manipulating solution conditions, the network of scaffolds would form a "hydrogel," a bio-inorganic environment capable of sustaining and nurturing stem cells. This biological matrix can potentially be used in two ways, according to Pasqualini and Arap. First, it could be used to grow needed tis...