Emory study lights up the political brain
...mory who led the study. "What we saw instead was a network of emotion circuits lighting up, including circuits hypothesized to be involved in regulating emotion, and circuits known to be involved in resolving conflicts." Westen and his colleagues will present their findings at the Annual Conference of the So...Breast ducts: A new site for cancer treatment?
...t cancer earlier by extracting fluid from the vast network of tiny milking-producing ducts in the breast. The idea is based on the finding that most breast cancers sprout from cells lining the milk ducts. This same idea led Kimmel Cancer Center researcher Saraswati Sukumar, Ph.D., to explore the possibilit...CNIC commits 5 million Euros to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
...s a landmark partnership and the start of a global network for cardiovascular research," shares Dr. Fuster. "We have put into place a highly aggressive scientific interrelation between Mount Sinai and CNIC, as well as with other U.S. and European Centers."...Bank of America grant to expand community-based childhood immunization program in northern Manhattan
...am, linking the Coalition members in a coordinated network to reach and vaccinate all 6,000 children born ann...nto the ongoing social service programs within its network of community social service organizations. Serving Harlem and Washington Heights through a true pa...Florida Tech funding increases for Alzheimer's care technology
...hnology in linking caregivers to a virtual support network of family and friends. PocketPCs are used by caregivers to obtain information about healthcare, be reminded of daily events and activities, and to record family information in a journal. Family, friends and healthcare personnel stay connected through...Common reflux treatment linked to life threatening bowel infection in premature infants
Researchers in an NIH network have found that premature infants given a common class of non-prescription drugs used to treat acid reflux are slightly more likely to develop a potentially fatal bowel disorder than are infants who are not treated with the drugs. The drugs, known as...$4.5 million CDC grant funds Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness
... Health Preparedness. The Yale Center is part of a network of 52 CDC-funded centers nationwide. The Center staff will assess the preparedness training and education needs of Connecticut's public health workforce, develop and adapt continuing education curricula to meet those needs and, in collaboration with ...Columbia receives up to $15 million from Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation
...muscular Clinical Research Network, a multi-center network that will conduct clinical trials in SMA patients as drug candidates are discovered. The center is also led by Dr. De Vivo. A 2004 Young Investigator Award in Spinal Muscular Atrophy to Umrao Monani, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurology, who was ...NIH grant to support research on new treatment for severe OCD
...will also attempt to determine exactly which brain network is disrupted in OCD in hopes of fine-tuning treatm...l center that focus on the understanding the brain network involved in OCD to improve current treatment and suggest new treatment approaches. Past studies show...Study shows relationship between oral and cardiovascular health
...n Northern Manhattan, as well as the international network investigating the oral health-cardiovascular disease relationship, spoke today at the American Medical Association and American Dental Association media briefing, Oral and Systemic Health: Exploring the Connection, in New York City. Most research to ...Conference examines latest research on drug-induced liver injury
...siasm for the resources being created by the DILIN network and a general optimism regarding the ability to use these resources to identify the susceptibility factors underlying idiosyncratic DILI."...Improving recovery from spinal cord injuries: $3.7 million grant will create rehabilitation network
...injuries by creating an interdisciplinary research network in spinal cord injury and rehabilitation throughou...own University Medical Center. "This comprehensive network will also strengthen Washington's position as one of the leading areas in the country for spinal cor...Study finds dentists in research network do not discriminate
...ected data from 120 practices in a dental research network established by the Case dental school in 1998 to have access to what dentists actually do in their practices. Researchers reviewed the practices of 124 dentists and 128 hygienists during 3,400 patient visits. The data was collected between June 200...Elderly have higher risk for cardiovascular, respiratory disease
...easurements of fine particle concentrations from a network of air monitoring stations provided by the Environmental Protection Agency's Aerometric Information Retrieval Service. The average fine particle concentration for the 204 counties over the three-year period was 13.4 micrograms per cubic meter of air,...Study: Local TV news covers health a lot, but not always well
...l coverage have focused on newspapers and national network television shows. The study focused on broadcasts from October 2002, which had been stored in Newslab's servers for analysis pertaining to elections held that November. They offered a goldmine of health stories. Each story was viewed by two trained...Free antiretroviral therapy key to success of AIDS treatment in developing countries
...researchers compared the ART-LINC Collaboration--a network of 18 HAART programmes in Africa, Asia, and South America--with a similar network of 12 HAART programmes in Europe and North America. They found that mortality was higher in low-inco...A role for dental professionals in detecting, reporting domestic violence
...Justice to develop a dental screening and referral network for victims of domestic violence. While much remains to be done to educate dental professionals on assessing and referring victims of domestic violence, this research is making progress in ensuring that adequate care is obtained for victims of domest...U of M reports telephone support helps smokers quit more than routine medical care
...this study lends support to the idea of a national network of quit lines that would provide both phone counseling and access to free stop-smoking medications to smokers across the country....Telephone counseling and care may help smokers quit
...ional support to the recommendation for a national network of quitlines that would make these services available to all tobacco users in this country."...Cardiovascular flow disturbances study aimed at improving diagnosis and treatment
...explained. "The arteries and vessels in this large network are short, curved, flexible pipes with many branches that deform as pressure increases during each heartbeat." The curvature, branching, flexibility and pressure pulse characteristics of these "pipes" result in a complex environment where flow distur...