GSA confers 2005 M. Powell Lawton Award to Yale University's Tinetti
...cientific Meeting the following year. The award is sponsored by the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life's Polisher Research Institute....IOF agencies receive global recognition of osteoporosis campaigns
... more than 50 countries. The amount of donated and sponsored airtime worldwide has reached some USD one million. "These campaigns are important public health initiatives and we are pleased to work with IOF and its member societies worldwide to convey the message that people must take responsibility for their o...Depressed heart patients skip medications, have elevated stress hormones
...rt disease that is in its fifth year. The study is sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs Epidemiology Program, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the American Federation for Aging Research. "The overall goal of the Heart and Soul Study is to try to understand why depression predicts adverse card...U of MN study shows nicotine vaccine has promise for helping smokers quit
...sconsin and University of Nebraska. This study was sponsored by the National Institute of Drug Abuse and Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, developer of the NicVax vaccine.Paul Pentel, M.D., with Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, previously evaluated the vaccine in rats and found that the vaccine-induced an...U of MN study finds type of childhood cancer relates to physical problems later in life
...CI) and the Children's Cancer Research Fund (CCRF) sponsored this research study. Ness analyzed information reported by 11,481 survivors enrolled in The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, an ongoing follow-up study of survivors of childhood cancer coordinated by the University of Minnesota. These survivors were ...As Montreal Conference considers deforestation issues, ESA presents space solution
...ns for consideration next week. That same day, ESA sponsored a special Conference side event addressing the topic of deforestation monitoring, together with the national delegations of Greece, Italy, Spain, South Africa and Switzerland. The subject was 'Supporting Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Reporti...Popularity doesn't necessarily make Prozac best antidepressant choice
...majority of randomized controlled trials have been sponsored by pharmaceutical industry and data have shown a possible relationship between industry sponsorship and trial outcomes," said Cipriani, "We need further analyses on the possible confounding role of sponsorship and new tools to improve the quality of ...How the neuron sprouts its branches
... of Duke's Department of Physics. The research was sponsored by The National Institutes of Health. The Golgi apparatus is a cellular warehouse responsible for receiving, sorting and shipping cargoes of newly synthesized molecules needed for cell growth and function. Until the new findings, researchers believed...Mayo clinic reports some chronic leukemia patients may improve by taking an extract of green tea
...the lead investigator in an ongoing clinical trial sponsored by the National Cancer Institute studying pharmacologic doses of EGCG in pill form for patients with CLL. CLL is a blood and bone marrow cancer that affects 8,000 to 15,000 new patients each year in the United States. Its called chronic leukemia ...Tight glucose control cuts heart disease by half in type 1 diabetes
...ults with type 2 diabetes. Results of this study, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and co-funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), are due in 2009. DCCT and EDIC were funded by the NIDDK, other components of the National Institut...Effective government/industry collaboration bolsters flu vaccine supply
...osely with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), sponsored the clinical trial that demonstrated the vaccine's safety and ability to generate an immune response and ultimately led to its expedited approval by FDA in August 2005. Fluarix is the first vaccine to receive FDA approval under the agency's accelerat...New evidence to support combination therapy for achieving remission of early rheumatoid arthritis
...cted with aggressive RA. The study was sponsored by Abbott Laboratories and conducted at 133 sites throughout North America, Europe, and Australia. It focused on patients with active RA for less than 3 years who had never been treated with the DMARD methotrexate (MTX). A total of 799 patients wer...New insight into machinery of immune cells' 'tentacles'
..., 2006, issue of Current Biology. The research was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Another paper in the same issue -- by Daniel Billadeau and colleagues of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine -- confirmed the Duke researchers' findings and also implicated the same machinery in regulating calciu...Race/ethnicity predict lipids, heart-disease risk in HIV-1 patients on protease inhibitors
...ts on antiretroviral therapy enrolled in federally sponsored AIDS clinical trials across the country, including 440 on regimens that included a protease inhibitor. Researchers analyzed the DNA of these patients and examined their lipid profiles when on stable antiretroviral therapy. The researchers found abno...University of Utah surgeon returns from Iraq to help start-up company fight cancer
...s of up to $50,000 in research voucher credits for sponsored research at the University. "The VIP's encourage technology spin-off companies to further partner with the University to access its unique resources for product development and support, and this promotes the acceleration and success rate of these spi...Experts to address use of patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials at joint Mayo-FDA forum
... used in clinical trials. This symposium, jointly sponsored by Mayo Clinic and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is a forum for discussion and feedback regarding the soon-to-be-released FDA draft guidance for industry on using PRO measures to support medical product labeling claims. The draft guid...Unique vascular dysfunction in women's heart disease described in major journal supplement
...SE) Study, a multi-center, long-term investigation sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, is presented in a supplement to the Feb. 7, 2006 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Cardiologist C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., chairs the WISE study, which was launched in 1996. B...From pills to bills: Pharmacist turned senator to speak at UH event
...ay, Feb. 15. The event is open to the public and sponsored by the UH College of Pharmacy and the Upsilon Chapter of Phi Lambda Sigma (PLS), the national honorary pharmacy leadership society. Working as a pharmacist for more than 26 years, Van de Putte is now serving her third term as a Texas State Senator ...High blood pressure and kidney disease increase risk for heart disease and stroke in older Americans
...Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center. The study was sponsored by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and coordinated by the Clinical Trials Center at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston. The study looked at more than 31,000 men and women 55 years and older who have high blood pr......Psychological and Brain Sciences. The research was sponsored by The National Institute of Mental Health, The National Science Foundation and the John Merck Fund. In their study, Jordan and Brannon used the same basic experimental design that they had previously used to demonstrate that monkeys show numerical p...