Molecule targets and kills tumor cells, starves blood supply
...Institutes of Health. UIC ranks among the nation's top 50 universities in federal research funding and is Chicago's largest university with 25,000 students, 12,000 faculty and staff, 15 colleges and the state's major public medical center. A hallmark of the campus is the Great Cities Commitment, through ...Cosmetic plastic surgery patients chose needle over knife
...ess than the more invasive cosmetic surgeries. The top five minimally-invasive procedures this year and since 2000 are Botox (3.8 million), chemical peel (1 million), microdermabrasion (840,000), laser hair removal (780,000), and sclerotherapy elimination of spider veins (590,000). "For facial rejuvena...Radar altimetry confirms global warming is affecting polar glaciers
... Greenland's glaciers are gaining more snow at the top suggests global warming is affecting the ice sheets. When the environment becomes warmer, it builds up water in the atmosphere which can then increase snow fall over Greenland. At the same time, however, the oceans are warming causing the outer sheet...Jon Epstein, MD, of Penn, wins Outstanding Investigator Award
...Outstanding Investigator Award, the organization's top honor for medical investigation. The award was given out at the Clinical Research 2006 Annual Meeting, held March 16-18, in Washington, DC. The Outstanding Investigator Award is presented annually to an outstanding investigator age 45 or younger in r...Research team sweeps the board with intensive care innovations
...ne Cup, a technological 'Olympic games' which sets top young technologists from around the globe on the world's toughest problems. The theme for the awards this year was "Imagine a world where technology enables us to live healthier lives." Dr Dark said: "It is so rewarding to achieve this national reco...American Indians with alcohol problems have more medical conditions
...pancreatitis. "Among American Indians, five of the top 10 causes of death are strongly associated with alcohol use: accidents, alcoholism, suicides, homicides, and cirrhosis," said Jay Shore, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado at Denver, the Health Sciences Center's American ...Sweet chemistry: Symposium explores sugar alternatives, science of taste
...e symposium, which will feature some of the worlds top experts on taste, are listed below. All sessions will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center, Rm. C107. Monday, March 27 Taste cell model developed: May lead to new treatments for taste disorders Researchers at Monell Chemical Senses ...Genes and environment interact to promote cancer
..., epigenetic changes so named because they sit on top of the gene and leave its sequence unchanged can also be passed down from one generation to the next, said Jirtle, who has extensively studied the phenomenon. They can also be reversible. Methyl groups can be added or knocked off following exposure ...UC Berkeley team helps win approval for life-saving drug for African women
...f the many causes of maternal death, PPH holds the top spot, accounting for one in four. Risk factors for PPH include malnourishment, anemia, poor health and giving birth to many children. In Nigeria, where most of these factors are widespread, PPH is the cause each year of almost 15,000 of the 55,000 ma...Funding for, and societal impact of, cancer research to be discussed during AACR press briefing
...arch funding, with the likelihood that some of the top investigators in the U.S. will be drawn overseas, eroding this nation's competitive advantage in this field. The cuts come at a time when deaths from cancer are falling for the first time in 70 years, according to recent reports from the National Ce...University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ranked #3 in nation by US News and World Report
...ty of Pennsylvania School of Medicine is among the top three research-oriented medical schools in the nat...Schools, on April 3rd. Penn was also ranked in the top ten in four specialty programs including Internal Medicine (#5), Drug/Alcohol Abuse (#6), Women's He...Brain power combined to form new $125M institute
... for brain disorders and create one of the world's top 10 neuroscience research institutes, the Howard Florey Institute, Brain Research Institute and the National Stroke Research Institute will amalgamate to form a new neuroscience institute in Melbourne. As part of the Victorian Government funded projec...HealthGrades patient safety study shows increase in hospital incidents, gaps among state, hospitals
...icare patients going to hospitals ranked among the top 15 percent in terms of patient safety incidents ha...ls If all hospitals performed at the level of the top 15 percent, 280,134 fewer patient safety incidents and 44,153 fewer deaths among Medicare patients w...Jefferson researchers uncover genetic signature that predicts colon cancer
...at proliferate, eventually making their way to the top of the crypt, where they become specialized colon cells. Simply put, mutations in the stem cells lead to mutant daughter cells and cancer. To try to understand some of these processes, Bruce Boman, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Division of Genetic and......correct one (in this case, top: tank top, hilltop, top secret). In two parallel experiments, participants solved these problems while brain activity was monitored either with electroencephalograms (EEG), which provide precise timing information and approximate anatomical information, or with functional m...Novel and pioneering research offers hope for cardiovascular disease
...wards Dinner attended by around 300 of Australia's top medical researchers. Levon Khachigian's discovery that within minutes of an angioplasty, key transcription factors like EGR-1 awaken in blood vessels from their usually dormant state, led him to study its role in triggering artery re-narrowing. "I re...Scientists discover new genetic subtypes of common blood cancer
... the disease in humans, it immediately goes to the top of the list as a prime candidate for drug development."...Cancer vaccine developer honoured with fellowship
...s Fellowship. The prestigious Fellowship comes on top of his recent Australian of the Year award for his work in developing a vaccine for cervical cancer. The Smart State Premier's Fellowships provide funding to entice experienced and distinguished researchers of national and international prominence t...Surgical critical care team at HUP earns Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence
...nd specifically designed to recognize the nation's top hospital critical-care units. HUP is the only hospital in Philadelphia, as well as all of Pennsylvania, to earn this recognition in Spring 2006 from the AACN, the largest specialty nursing organization in the world. Critical care units that receive ...Benefit of chemotherapy in breast cancer depends on estrogen-receptor status
...e research team, which includes investigators from top cancer centers nationwide, studied outcomes from three large randomized clinical trials which tested the optimal use of chemotherapy in node-positive breast cancer. But none of these trials, all of which were conducted by the Cancer and Leukemia Grou...