CIRM awards $3.79 million to Burnham Institute
...s for stem cell research, research facilities, and other vital research opportunities....DFG approves 11 new Collaborative Research Centers
...archers aim to do this using ab initio methods and other numerical processes, validated by experiment. (Host university: RWTH Technical University of Aachen, Coordinator: Wolfgang Bleck) Researchers in SFB 766 The Bacterial Cell Envelope: Structure, Function and Infection Interface aim to develop molecul...Extra pay does not improve hospital performance
...s, nor that hospitals had shifted their focus from other areas in order to concentrate on the areas being evaluated for possible increased payments. These findings will add to the national debate over the use of pay for performance as a strategy for encouraging hospitals to use drugs and therapies that h...Benefits of trastuzumab are lasting, reducing both HER2 + breast cancer deaths and recurrence
...ncer or contralateral breast cancer (cancer in the other breast), compared with 243 patients in the chemotherapy group. In one of the trials (NCCTG-N9831), Dr. Perez reports that the risk of weakened heart muscle was greater in the trastuzumab-treated group compared to patients receiving just chemothera...New drug shows promise in treatment of advanced thyroid cancer
...e to grow. Another 18 patients left the trial for other reasons, including toxicity. Five of them withdrew because of treatment-related adverse events. The most common side effect was fatigue, affecting 50 percent of patients, but only 5 percent had severe fatigue and only one patient left the trial fo...MU researchers find mechanisms that may unlock answers to Alzheimer's disease
...l inflammatory responses that can harm neurons and other brain cells. The next phase of the study include.... Woods previous research showed that statins have other beneficial effects in addition to lowering cholesterol. His study will test if the drugs also combat...Trial shows circulating tumor cells predict how prostate cancer patients do with chemotherapy
...ngs show that CTCs can be a stronger marker. The other exciting aspect is in looking at men with earlier stage prostate cancer, he says. One in four men may have circulating tumor cells at an early stage of prostate cancer. If we can identify those patients, perhaps we can observe and not treat with radi...Researchers call for investigation into links between khat use and psychiatric disorders
...s, Dr Warfa and his team argue that there are many other alternative hypotheses to a causal relationship between khat use and mental illness including the use of khat for self-medication. The researchers suggest that only by improving the quality of future research, and integrating social, medical and phar...U-M study finds lymphoma drug effective over long term
...3 to treat follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after other treatments have failed. The current results involve Bexxar as a first-line treatment for this disease. ...After epilepsy surgery, quality of life related more to seizures than memory
...e likely to have memory problems after surgery and other risk factors make people more likely to continue to have seizures after surgery, doctors can use these results to help determine who is a good candidate for surgery and also to closely monitor those who are at risk, Langfitt said. ...Benefits of school-based fitness programs fade after summer
...ty and reduce risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus and other morbidities of insulin resistance should include e... the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc. ...Dating violence and sexual assault associated with suicide attempts among urban teens
...risk behaviors such as use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, unintentional injury and violence, sexual b...dolescents. Furthermore, clinicians, educators and other professionals working with youth should be trained to routinely screen for violence victimization an...Study examines characteristics of female high school students who report steroid use
...tive athletics and is associated with a cluster of other health-harming behaviors, including smoking and ta...participation as well as steroids, ecstasy use and other illegal or unhealthy behaviors. A total of 5.3 percent of the participants reported prior or ongo...Low doses of ecstasy associated with decline in verbal memory
...subjects. There were no significant differences on other test scores. In contrast to other studies, which have suggested that Ecstasy affects women more than men, there was no difference in t...Antipsychotic drugs increase risk of death in older people with dementia
... (Editorial p. 814). But the writer says that many other studies in the past quarter century "provide convincing support that health insurance improves health outcomes." So, the writer asks, How much longer will uninsured persons have to wait before "we, as a nation, decide to provide health insurance to e...Stanford researchers track human stem cells transplanted into rat brain
...d he and others are interested in testing these or other stem cells as a way of treating a wide range of diseases....Blocking stress protein decreases Alzheimer's peptide in mice
...ieved to be a primary cause of the memory loss and other mental damage inflicted by Alzheimer's disease. Th...reasing amyloid beta levels. But because there are other factors that can accelerate plaque build-up, they needed to test the link. For that new test, scient...Bias in statin trials, failure to control malaria, and more
...esults and conclusions of those studies, even when other factors were taken into account. However, it is no...re may also be implications for research involving other types of drug. Citation: Bero L, Oostvogel F, Bacchetti P, Lee K (2007) Factors associated with fi...Tony Hunter receives Robert. J. and Claire Pasarow Award for Cancer Research
...he road to cancer. Dr. Hunter has received many other honors, including the 2005 Wolf Prize in Medicine, Israel's top recognition for achievements in the interest of humanity, and the 2004 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, a leading national award for scientific achievement. Dr. Hunter will receive his award,......mited to athletes and often goes hand in hand with other unhealthy choices, including smoking and taking di... participation, anabolic steroid and drug use, and other illegal or unhealthy behaviors. Approximately 5 percent of participants reported prior or ongoing an...