Six organizations vie for INFORMS 'science of better' innovation prize
...ticket holders. Anticipating an enormously complex planning challenge, the Committee, working with the Athens ...parent Nanzan University, developed an educational planning system to cope with alarming national trends in higher education. In Japan, the number of students e...Insomnia, falls in elderly linked
...essons in these data, primarily collected for care planning purposes but now usable for understanding ways to improve the care in our nation's nursing homes," says Brant Fries, Ph.D., a professor at the U-M School of Public Health and Institute of Gerontology, who was both a study author and helped develop th...People can learn motor skills by watching
...ill would engage their neural systems for movement planning and control, and that the subjects would construct...activate the same neural circuitry responsible for planning and executing our own actions." In their experiments, the researchers tested "the intriguing possibi...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
...ns for such things as personal savings, retirement planning and "safety net" government programs for the seriously ill and disabled. The study will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Society. It's based on an analysis of data from 47...Charter activation brings space dimension to European emergency exercise
...-to-date maps of buildings, roads and railways for planning responses to a disaster and carrying out rapid damage assessment. The EURATECH 2005 exercise begins on 10 April, with the two-day simulated disaster officially commencing on the morning of 12 April. Part of the aim of EURATECH 2005 is to showcase th...Will cancer vaccine get to all women?
... But some problems have already surfaced. India is planning to do its own clinical trials, but will not test the vaccine in young girls. "This is not possible until around the age of marriage in India," Ganguly says. Once licensed, the vaccine should be given to younger girls, he says. "But people will say 'M...American Society of Travel Agents urges healthy travel for consumers
...to stay healthy while overseas. I encourage those planning to travel abroad to log on to http://www.travelsafely.com for tips on how to prepare for a safe and healthy trip." American Travelers Unprepared for Health Risks Abroad According to the ASTA survey, many U.S. travelers don't know which countrie...Increasing benefit seen in novel drug that treats Gleevec resistance
...AMN107 is better than Gleevec." Giles, however, is planning to open a clinical trial at M. D. Anderson this summer to test AMN107 as a "frontline" therapy - the first treatment given - in chronic phase CML patients. Another six clinical trials testing the drug in all three separate phases of CML, as well as i...Feeling safe and secure? CUMC scientists find it's all in the caudoputamen
...e safety circuits are present in people. He is now planning a brain imaging study that will look for activity in the caudoputamen of people conditioned to link a sound with safe conditions in the midst of aversive events (in this case, a blood-curdling human scream, not electrical shock). Eric Kandel, the sen...Adolescents not receiving health counseling, Stanford study shows
...sexually transmitted diseases. The rate for family planning discussions was about 8 percent. The study also found the most common reason for teen girls' medical visits was prenatal care, and the most common diagnosis was pregnancy. "That's really alarming," especially in light of the low counseling rates for...New grants to Georgetown to help build national cancer biomedical informatics grid
...roposed caBIG site to be visited by NCI leadership planning the network. caBIG now involves over 50 funded cancer centers across the nation. Of the $20 million slated for caBIG development in year one, Georgetown researchers have received more than $810,000 to fund different caBIG projects. Clarke notes that ...Antibiotic might fight HIV-induced neurological problems
...he current study, but who is one of the physicians planning the clinical trial. "One needs to proceed with a clinical research trial first to prove its safety and efficacy against HIV-associated cognitive impairment." SIV and HIV both affect the same tissues in the same way and use the same tricks to infect c...Rush University Medical Center studies advanced 3D imaging system for radiation therapy
...specta Spatial 3D system to improve evaluation and planning of radiation treatments. This unique system, developed by Actuality Systems, Inc., consists of a 20-inch dome that plugs easily into a PC to display full-color and full-motion MRI, x-ray, CT, and nuclear medicine images in true 3D space. "We believe ...Saving virtual lives with nanobots goal of UH-led project
...a logistics problem that you are solving, and path planning is a big part of it," Dowdall said. "The strategy involves a collaborative multi-agent programming system of nanobots, and you must give them intelligence the algorithm so they know how to react in their environment." To put it very simply, a c...Work fatigue and working overtime are associated with weight gain
...conditions should be taken into consideration when planning worksite health promotion programmes. It is possible that work fatigue and working overtime reduce the possibilities to eat according to recommendations and engage in leisure time physical activity. As a result, these important goals of health promot...New class of drugs may treat lung tumors resistant to Iressa and Tarceva
...ical trial. And MGH Cancer Center researchers are planning to lead a multi-institutional phase 2 trial in NSCLC patients whose tumors have sensitizing EGFR mutations but have become resistant to Iressa or Tarceva....Weighing the evidence: A forum to examine the latest news about overweight, obesity and mortality
...discuss weight and morbidity. Members of the media planning to attend should RSVP to Kelly Teixeira by 4pm, Wednesday, May 25. kteixeir@hsph.harvard.edu 617-432-4388. Sponsored by the Department of Nutrition and the Office of Communications at the Harvard School of Public Health....Richard A. Meyer, MD, receives the 2005 AIUM William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award
... president, Dr. Meyer played a crucial part in the planning and designing of the AIUM office, then in Rockville, Maryland. Much of his planning and design efforts were carried over to the current AIUM office in Laurel, Maryland. In addition, he...Researchers find way to streamline new non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment
...the indium 111-labeled Zevalin. Conti is currently planning further radioimmunotherapy trials at USC, including a potential trial for AIDS-related lymphoma done in conjunction with hematology faculty. Because Conti reviewed patient data from Biogen Idec's original clinical trials with Zevalin, the research wa...Narcotic drugs effective for severe, chronic pain in older patients
...tudy rather than a retrospective one, and they are planning a follow-up study. In an animal study, the scientists sought to confirm the age-related difference in tolerance to opioid drugs. They note that no study had systematically evaluated how quickly rats develop tolerance to opioid pain medication as a fu...