U of M report says early-childhood intervention improves well-being through young adulthood
..., according to a report by University of Minnesota professors Arthur Reynolds and Judy Temple. The study is published today in the Journal of the American Medical Associations (JAMA) Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Reynolds is a child development professor in the College of Education and Human Dev...How to market diet pills: Prescription and over-the-counter pills may increase unhealthy behavior
... dollar marketing campaign. A new study by Wharton professors and doctors at the University of Pennsylvania Scho...rch, Lisa Bolton and Americus Reed, both marketing professors at Wharton School of Business, and Kevin G. Volpp and Katrina Armstrong, both professors at the Univ...MU researchers find mechanisms that may unlock answers to Alzheimer's disease
...t the disease, two University of Missouri-Columbia professors have identified new mechanisms that could have maj...ontinue their study. Grace Sun and Gary Weisman, professors of biochemistry in the School of Medicine and the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources...Commercializing university research -- Hopping robots, liquid shoes, electricity from heat
...on. Michael J. Heller and Geert Schmid-Schnbein, professors of Bioengineering, for a project titled, "Protease Detection System for the Inflammatory Response and Disease Diagnostics."The team is proposing a novel protease activity detection system for the monitoring of clinically relevant inflammatory respons...Head and neck cancer vaccine targets proteins to create immune response
... Ph.D., directed the study. Both investigators are professors of pathology and immunology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "Through animal models and human cells in culture, we have found that this strategy is very effective at stimulating T cells into action," said Dr. Whiteside, who also di...New asthma inhaler propellant effective, but costlier
...Journal of Medicine. Conducted by two university professors and a director for the Food and Drug Administration, the review examines the consequences of switching to hydrofluoroalkane, which is replacing chlorofluorocarbon, or CFC, as a key ingredient in albuterol inhalers designed to relieve asthma. The FDA ...A remedy for what ails medicine
..., on average there are only thirty-five women full professors compared with 188 male full professors per school. Finally, women hold only eight percent of clinical science department chairs and eight p...Trans-Atlantic Healing Collaborative gets underway at DFCon 07
...es. The collaborative is being formed by medical professors at Cardiff University School of Medicine in Cardiff, Wales, and Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago. Spearheading the international program are David G. Armstrong, DPM, PhD, Professor of Surgery, Chair of Research an...US child health system needs total overhaul, UCLA researchers say
...er. That is the underlying message from three UCLA professors who are calling for a complete overhaul of the U.S child health care system, which they describe as a "patchwork of disconnected programs, policies and funding" that lacks "clear accountability or performance goals." In their report, which appears...Mimicking how the brain recognizes street scenes
...e Sloan School. This center helps MIT students and professors bridge the gap between an intriguing idea or technology and a commercially viable concept. Recognizing Scenes The IEEE paper describes how the team "showed" the model randomly selected images so that it could "learn" to identify commonly occurri...UGA study finds that caffeine cuts post-workout pain by nearly 50 percent
...derate-intensity cycling. O'Connor, who along with professors Kevin McCully and the late Gary Dudley co-authored the current study, explained that caffeine likely works by blocking the body's receptors for adenosine, a chemical released in response to inflammation. Despite the positive findings in the study,......t by inviting 63 distinguished nutritional science professors at a leading university to an holiday ice cream social. When they arrived, they were given either medium-size 17-ounce bowls or large-size 34-ounce bowls. "Even though these people think, sleep, lecture and study nutrition," Wansink said, "They still...'Moral clarity' espoused in debate over health-care reform
...ology, edited by Timothy Engstrm and Wade Robison, professors of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, call for a renewed national dialogue committed to revamping the U.S. health care model guided by moral principles in balance with political and economical realities. Health Care Reform grew from a...NC State start-up looks to turn 'lights out' on flu, other viruses
...Igor Stojiljkovic and Gordon Churchward, associate professors at Emory University's School of Medicine in Atlanta. NC State has applied for a patent on the invention, which has been licensed to Research Triangle Park-based start-up LaamScience, Inc. The company whose name stands for Light Activated Anti Micr...BC catalyst discovery promises faster, cheaper drug production
...Sept. 7 issue of the journal Nature, a team led by professors Amir Hoveyda and Marc Snapper of the Boston College Chemistry Department said they had found a first-of-its-kind catalyst that will eliminate several costly and wasteful steps from the process of synthesizing certain molecules. "Our new catalyst wil...Unique results from Swedish study of HIV vaccine
...ations, on site. The project is being led by KI professors Gunnel Biberfeld and Britta Wahren at the SMI and Eric Sandstrm at Karolinska University Hospital. ...Just breathe: Ozone forecaster unveiled at University of Houston, available via Web
...e a sigh of relief thanks to University of Houston professors who have recently unveiled a forecasting system that provides air quality data on ozone conditions. With the intent to not only increase public awareness, but also help Texas manage air quality issues, the Institute for Multi-dimensional Air Qual...Global study shows all tobacco bad for the heart
... increase the risk of heart attack. The study by professors Salim Yusuf and Koon Teo of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences in Hamilton, is published in this week's issue of The Lancet. In collaboration with colleagues from 52 countries, they calcul...Cancer drug is first to alleviate devastating scleroderma symptoms
... AUTHORS: Drs. Donald Tashkin and Michael Roth, professors of pulmonary and critical care medicine; and Drs. Philip Clements and Daniel Furst, professors of rheumatology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA....Pauletta and Denzel Washington to present Cedars-Sinai neuroscience scholarships June 7
...search experience and glowing recommendations from professors that contributed to their selection. "I would ran...research institutes in California." One of Urban's professors wrote, "I've been a professor at Penn State for 36 years, and Chris has to rank in the top dozen of ...