Aboriginal researcher receives Fiona Stanley medal
Aboriginal researcher Annette Stokes has been awarded the Fiona Stanley Medal for her commitment to improving child health and wellbeing. Professor Fiona Stanley said Annette, who is a senior woman of the Wongutha Tribe of the Eastern Goldfields, has made a significant co...Binghamton University psychologist honored by NIH for alcohol, developing brain research
...award is given annually to "an outstanding alcohol researcher who has made significant and long-term contributions to our understanding of how alcohol affects the body and mind, how we can prevent and treat alcohol abuse and alcoholism, and how today's scientific advancements can provide hope for tomorrow."...Research unveils new, reliable approach to drug delivery for cancer patients
...ines the drug's efficiency," said Aleksandr Noy, a researcher in LLNL's Chemical Biology and Nuclear Sciences Division (CBDN), who along with CBDN postdoctoral student Todd Sulchek is the lead author of the paper that appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online edition for the week of ...Family meals cut teenage fatness
...nd University of Bristol researchers and fellow UQ researcher and Mater Study founder, Professor Jake Najman. The Mater Study was started in 1981 by Professor Najman as a health and social study of 7223 pregnant women. Researchers have followed the children's growth over the decades and study was widened to i...Primrose oil component cuts levels of cancer-causing gene Her-2/neu
...stern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a researcher at The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. Lupu and co-investigator Javier Menendez showed that treating cancer cells that overexpressed Her-2/neu with GLA not only suppressed protein levels of the oncogene, bu...Mayo Clinic: Sinusitis is common yet often overlooked cause of chronic cough
...e with chronic cough," says Kaiser Lim, M.D., lead researcher and Mayo Clinic pulmonologist and allergist. "It also confirms our impression in the chronic cough clinic that many of our patients have underlying sinus inflammation as a cause of their coughs. Our findings in this series of patients place sinusitis...Scientists show how thinking can harm brain cells
...le to excitotoxicity," said Matthew J. Bellizzi, a researcher and student in the M.D./Ph.D. program at the Medical Center and corresponding author of the journal article. "We also found that damage to the dendrites may not require abnormal glutamate exposure." The lab studies showed that elevated levels of PAF ...Tryptophan no turkey in boosting immune system, Stanford study shows
... When one of the lead authors, German postdoctoral researcher Michael Platten, MD, PhD, approached Steinman in 2...authors. Platten and Peggy Ho, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Steinman's lab, performed a rigorous series of experiments using mouse cells and a mouse model of...Duke engineers developing ultrasound devices combining 3-D imaging with therapeutic heating
...duate student Kenneth Gentry -- now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin -- described using a prototype device to first image and then raise the temperature of a tissue-mimicking rubber by 25 degrees Fahrenheit. That temperature increase was enough to ablate real tissue, he said. According t...Aspirin & similar drugs may cut risk of esophageal cancer in people with Barrett's esophagus
... Barrett's research team, led by Hutchinson Center researcher Brian J. Reid, M.D., Ph.D., and co-author of The Lancet Oncology paper, has shown that a systematic, multidisciplinary approach to early cancer detection can boost the five-year survival rate for esophageal cancer from about 10 percent to more than 8...MUHC investigators search for the root of sexual pain in women
...accurate and positive step," says the study's lead researcher Dr. Irv Binik, Director of the Sex and Couple Therapy Service at the MUHC and Professor of Psychology at McGill University. "It opens the door to new therapeutic possibilities including cognitive-behavioral pain management, physical therapy, surgery ...Youth obsession and reality of ageing set to collide
...f an ageing population, a University of Queensland researcher has warned. According to researcher Mair Underwood, who will present her work at the Emerging Researchers in Ageing (ERA) 2005 conferenc...Columbia study suggests benefits of Zyflamend in the early treatment of prostate cancer
...romise in the fight against prostate cancer," said researcher Dr. Debra L. Bemis of the Columbia University Department of Urology. "We hope that the magnitude of benefits shown in this research will be confirmed in the larger scale trial already in progress." Based on this research, Zyflamend shows value in...Less sleep, more struggles for elementary and middle school students
... Mo. At the time the study was conducted, he was a researcher at Bradley Hospital and an assistant professor of research at Brown Medical School. Research team members and journal article co-authors, are Christine Acebo, assistant professor of research at Brown Medical School and associate director of the Bradl...Exercise may ward off death in women with metabolic syndrome
... adverse effects of metabolic syndrome," says lead researcher Martha Gulati, MD, co-director of the Center for Women's Health at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern Memorial Hospital. "Fitness has a protective effect, likely because it reduces other risk factors, lowers heart rate and conditions...Alcohol biomarker test cuts care costs for chronically ill patients
...y prescribed for those conditions. Peter Miller, a researcher at the Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs at the Medical University of South Carolina, is working to encourage more physicians to consider CDT in their care of patients who have alcohol-sensitive illnesses. "You'd begin with a self-report question...ANU cancer researcher wins biomedical award
An ANU medical researcher who has an anti-cancer drug in commercial development has been awarded the prestigious Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Science for 2005. Professor Chris Parish, who has made fundamental and applied contributions to know...High tech imaging tells the tale of plaque from the inside out
...laque still lines the walls of vessels," said lead researcher Laura Marcu, Ph.D., director of biophotonics research at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and associate professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The laser pulse heats up or "excites" molecules in the plaque while researchers ...Australian National University's Anstey wins GSA's 2005 Margret M. Baltes Award
...cators as one of the top one percent of most-cited researcher in the social sciences over the past decade. Anstey has also been acknowledged by a range of international awards for early-career researchers. These include the Chinoin Young Investigator Award from the International Association of Gerontology, the ...Twelve-point plan tackles moral and ethical issues of using email for health research
...ing the confidentiality of any records kept by the researcher or by participants? 6. Will participants be provided with the opportunity to debrief once the study is completed? 7. What will be discussed in the research report? 8. Will participants be able to provide feedback about the written research report? 9....