Aflac expands decade-long partnership with AACR
...er. "Providing scholarship and training awards toward cancer treatment and research is a part of Aflacs commitment to help stamp out the disease," said Buffy Swinehart, Aflacs Manager of Philanthropy and Cause Related Marketing. "AACR highlights the best and brightest individuals to help make this possi...Nancy Brinker and Lance Armstrong honored with Centennial Medals at the AACR 2007 Annual Meeting
...individuals to raise funds and spurring scientists toward a cure. Through the LIVESTRONG campaign with its signature yellow bracelets worn by 55 million people worldwide, LAF has raised millions of dollars and tremendously increased public awareness about cancer. In his role as a mentor for the President'...Drugs for Parkinson's disease may ease stroke-related disability
...lect, a condition that makes patients slow to move toward the left side. Like stroke patients with motor n... motor neglect. This causes them to be slow to act toward the left side of their environment. It might, for example, make them slow to swat at a bug that land...Drug used to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child damages DNA
...ins recent findings on the toxicity of these drugs toward mitochondrial DNA. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, the official journal of the Environmental Mutagen Society, is published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and is available online via Wiley InterScience at ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jour...AACR awards minority and other underrepresented scientists
...rs chosen this year will receive financial support toward expenses associated with attending the AACR Annual Meeting. A committee of the AACR Minorities in Cancer Research Council administers both of these award programs. AACR-Women in Cancer Research Brigid G. Leventhal Scholars in Cancer Research Awa...Adoption of health information technology will lead to higher standard of quality care
...ination of the three. HIT alone will not lead toward full recognition of the potential benefits that include improved quality and better outcomes. The use of HIT should be directly linked to the concept of organizing care around primary and principal care. This model, called the "patient-centered med...Mayo Clinic study shows drug-eluting stent use in heart patients determined more by insurance type
...hat nonclinical factors introduce a treatment bias toward drug-eluting stents for this patient group really merits immediate, further study....First step in developing heart hormone-based pill to control high blood pressure
...portunities for cures that weve made good progress toward exploring," Dr. Burnett says. The researchers were the first to harness the natural properties of the heart hormone BNP, working in partnership with scientists from the biotechnology firm, Biocon, and to formulate it so it can be taken orally, in pil...Light-based probe 'sees' early cancers in first tests on human tissue
...onsistent size. However, when you go down the road toward cancer, you get irregular and enlarged cell nuclei. "Our device lets us measure those changes with much better accuracy than any imaging technique," Wax said. His team plans to begin a small clinical trial of the advanced endoscope in collaborati...Studies highlight advances in diagnosis, medical therapy
...ven these outcomes, I would expect a further shift toward bivalirudin, based on the reduction in bleeding as...that were not statistically significant. The trend toward a reduced late death rate among patients treated with bivalirudin alone could be attributed to a red...Scientists progress in successful tissue engineering
...neering methods used, and promise further advances toward therapeutic tissue engineering by laboratory means....Scientists re-grow dental enamel from cultured cells
...urther development of this technique will be aimed toward production of tissue to replace damaged or missing enamel, and ultimately, regeneration of whole teeth....Energy supplement under study for Parkinson's disease
...s that forestall breakdown of dopamine are geared toward treating symptoms. Dopamine, a neurotransmitter critical to movement, is depleted in Parkinsons. Researchers hope newer therapies, including creatine, can be added to the mix to help slow the disease. The creatine study will enroll patients who hav...Baum to receive IADR Oral Medicine & Pathology Award
...1984 to the present have contributed significantly toward our understanding of the pathogenesis of the salivary gland damage that accompanies head and neck irradiation and occurs with Sjgren's syndrome. Beginning with pioneering studies in 1991, Dr. Baum developed highly novel applications of gene transfer ...Congressional proposals would cover all uninsured, reduce US health spending by up to $61B
...8 million in 2007, and could serve as a first step toward universal coverage. According to the report, prem... proposals demonstrate that it is possible to move toward the high performance health care system Americans want and deserve while assuring access to health c...US adults now discovering the secrets of probiotics
...t into current U.S. knowledge levels and attitudes toward probiotic supplements and intestinal health. These are some highlights of the findings: Only one in three U.S. adults (35 percent) indicates that they have not only heard of probiotics, but know what probiotics are: 16 percent indicate they have...Genetic pathways to curable and incurable forms of pancreatic cancer identified
...ible for sending cells down the less-traveled path toward cystic pancreatic cancer versus the well-traveled route to the more fatal form of ductal pancreatic cancer. Sunil Hingorani, M.D., assistant member of the Hutchinson Center's Clinical Research and Public Health Sciences divisions, led a study to be ...High BMI linked to lower chance of being discharged directly home after hospitalization for stroke
...gories showed a statistically nonsignificant trend toward extended length of hospital stay when compared with the lowest BMI category (6.3 days vs. 5.2 days). "Eighteen of the 451 patients died and in-hospital mortality did not differ among the BMI groups," the authors note. "No significant differences in t...Many Americans at high risk of vision loss do not have access to eye care
...States. Better targeting of resources and efforts toward people at high risk may help reduce these disparities." (Arch Ophthalmol. 2007;125:411-418. Available pre-embargo to the media at www.jamamedia.org .) Editor's Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, au...National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research activities
...of representatives from CTSA awardees, with a view toward informing the oral health research and education community about the ways in which the dental community has successfully participated in this initiative. Thursday, March 22 9:00 am 1:00 pm, Symposium, Essentials in Grant Writing, Room 288 10:...