Fink receives National Pharmacy Leadership Award
...nk III, B.S. Pharm, J.D., professor of pharmacy at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, has received the 2005 Phi Lambda Sigma-Procter & Gamble National Leadership Award. The award is the highest recognit...Salk's legacy, current and future challenges to vaccine development topic of briefing
...nd children WHAT: Press briefing to reflect on the historical achievement of the Salk polio vaccine and its impact on today's vaccine industry and research agenda and discuss curren...Scientists discover way to control allergic reactions
...hod to reduce cat allergic reactions by topping up the immune cells responsible for controlling them. According to research published this week in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine, the team from Imperial College London and Royal Brompton ...Asthmatics naturally deficient in antiviral immunity, report scientists
...cientists have discovered. The finding reported in the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine, helps to explain why asthmatics are more susceptible to respirator...Insomnia, falls in elderly linked
ANN ARBOR, Mich. In nursing homes across the country, elderly people with insomnia often go untreated, because of the perception that sleeping pills increase the risk of falls and injuries that are a bane of old age. ...Children's hospital neurologist receives Young Investigator Award in spinal muscular atrophy
...en's Hospital Boston, has been selected to receive the 2005 Young Investigator Award in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). SMA is the leading genetic killer of infants and toddlers. Sahin will be honored during the American Academy of...Study reveals drinking alcohol reduces breast milk supply in women
... milk supply. The findings were published today in the April issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, one of the four journals of The Endocrine Society. With April as Alcohol Awareness Month an annual program de...Study finds that women with PCOS are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease
...ffer from polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), one of the most common causes of female infertility in the U.S., have an increased chance of developing cardiovascular disease, according to a new study publis...A possible new phase for rheumatoid arthritis treatment
The pathology of rheumatoid arthritis within the first few months after symptom onset is distinct from that of the early phases of other inflammatory joint diseases and also of established rheumatoid arthritis. New ...People can learn motor skills by watching
...e watching an expert golfer or carpenter can learn the procedural steps to a better golf swing or buildin...ently at McGill University) and Paul L. Gribble of the University of Western Ontario have developed startling evidence that people can unconsciously learn ...New health information resource from Tufts for Asian-language speakers
... A native speaker of an Asian language would go to the main web site, select his/her language, and then search for the information that was needed. Material is also provided in English so that an English-speaking physic...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
...money doesn't buy happiness' may hold true most of the time. But when a serious health problem comes along, financial resources may really cushion the blow to a person's psyche, a new study suggests. The finding, made by researchers at the University...Bacterial infection associated with heart attack in young men
...s infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae may increase the risk of heart attack in young men, according to an article in the April 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online. C. pneumoniae is a relative of...Women with heart attacks benefit from stenting
...ing to a study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. A new analysis of the CADILLAC (Controlled Abciximab and Device Investigation to Lower Late Angioplasty Complications) tri...Vigorously active adolescents are leaner, fitter
...ers have shown. "The leanest and fittest kids are the ones who have the most vigorous activity for longer periods of time," says Dr. Bernard Gutin, exercise physiologist at...Dr. Gutin selected as Fulbright Senior Specialist
..., a Medical College of Georgia researcher studying the relationship between fitness, fatness and health i...tion strategies. Dr. Louis Moreno, pediatrician at the University of Zaragoza, is coordinating his country's initiative to reverse increasing obesity rates...Hemodialysis causes antioxidant loss leading to long-term complications
... published in Hemodialysis International discusses the role of oxidative stress (OS) in dialysis patients...compounds and defense mechanisms, and prevalent in the dialysis process, has been linked to numerous adverse complications in end-stage renal disease (ESRD...ISHLT updates guidelines for heart and lung transplants
...art and lung transplant candidates and determining the treatments they receive while awaiting donor organs is under review by the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) during its Annual Meeting and Scien...9th Annual Public Forum at AACR Annual Meeting
WHAT: "Progress and New Hope in the Fight Against Cancer: A Public Forum Highlighting the Latest Discoveries." A Public Forum sponsored by the AACR the world's leading organization dedicat...PSA screening for prostate cancer to be debated at annual meeting forum
... a source of controversy. Questions continue about the test's overall effectiveness and its ability to ac...tate cancer has grown and spread to other parts of the body, sometimes resulting in death. Nevertheless, if caught early, men have a 100 percent, five-year...