New health information resource from Tufts for Asian-language speakers
...rsity's Health Sciences Library announces today an unprecedented health resource for Asian Americans whose first language is not English. Dubbed SPIRAL for "Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages," it is a Web site ( http://spiral.tufts.edu ), with detailed health information in seven Asian lang...Institute of Medicine advisory: April 19 public briefing on HIV/AIDS crisis abroad
...nd treating HIV/AIDS in these nations will require unprecedented health systems and human resources to deliver medication and oversee patients long term. HEALERS ABROAD: AMERICANS RESPONDING TO THE HUMAN RESOURCE CRISIS IN HIV/AIDS, new from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, offers the federal ...Institute of Medicine news: Human resource crisis in HIV/AIDS
... HIV/AIDS in these developing nations will require unprecedented health systems and human resource initiatives. GHS should be based in the federal government, but private agencies should also play supporting roles, the report says. Furthermore, an international advisory committee should be established to provid...Second consecutive UH win puts national spotlight on pharmacy student
...country for a total of 90 contenders. Hausmann's unprecedented win gave UH the distinction of being the first pharmacy college or school to capture back-to-back titles. At last year's APhA annual meeting, Michelle Edwards, a 2004 UH alum, won the contest, becoming the first UH College of Pharmacy student to tak...A new look at genes that cause testicular cancer
...s do in the embryo and how they do it, and so gain unprecedented insight into what goes wrong in a cancer cell," he said....Officials simulate bioterrorist attack to test APL-developed disease surveillance
...re the health and safety of its residents. With an unprecedented collaborative network among public health programs, the NCR disease surveillance system offers a first line of defense in the national capital area. Wednesday's exercise was designed to test the system, using a simulated terrorist attack to observe t...Mailman School shares new virus identification technologies
...ll attend the Greene Lab training course. China's unprecedented participation in a global meeting of this kind provides an extraordinary opportunity for continued technology sharing and coordinated surveillance. The workshop will provide an overview as well as hands-on sessions in the Greene Lab where participan...New partnership launched to accelerate and evaluate national malaria control program in Africa
...model for how to use the tools we have today in an unprecedented assault against this killer of children," said Carlos C. (Kent) Campbell, MACEPA program director at PATH. "The new partnership will also have the flexibility to address logistical or financial bottlenecks that might otherwise bring a project to a gr...Medical whistleblowers speak out
...x, said FDA drug safety officer David Graham at an unprecedented roundtable of medical whistleblowers sponsored by the Public Library of Science (PLoS) and the Government Accountability Project. In comments that echoed his now infamous testimony to the US Senate Finance Committee, Graham said that, "Nearly 60,00...IBM and EPFL join forces to uncover the secrets of cognitive intelligence
...g system in the world, giving scientists access to unprecedented levels of computing power," said Tilak Agerwala, Vice President of Systems, IBM Research. "What really matters is not the power itself, but how it is applied to accelerate innovation and discovery in science, engineering and business." By using a Bl...Research results from the 'Era of Hope' Department of Defense breast cancer research program meeting
...efense's Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP), an unprecedented partnership between the military, scientists, clinicians, and breast cancer survivors. Since 1992, the BCRP has been working to prevent and cure breast cancer by fostering new directions in research, addressing underserved populations and issues, en...Investigating 'brain shrinkage' in alcoholics
...o brain imaging and animal research allows for an unprecedented examination of underlying mechanisms of damage. "Alcohol dependence follows a longitudinal course," explained Harper, "from initiation to development of dependence, maintenance, withdrawal, and more often than not, a return to drinking. Throughout ...'Apollo Program' for hydrogen energy needed, Stanford researcher says
...alent per gallon of gasoline). The Stanford study, unprecedented in its detail, used an inventory of morethan 600,000 pollution sources reported by the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency from August 1999. Colella altered the EPA emission inventory inresponse to each of the different scenarios. Her work led to a s...UT Southwestern professor supports development of report cards on hospital infection rates
...," the authors conclude. "These challenges present unprecedented opportunities to improve patient care, if we can only put our anxieties to rest and move forward."...Academic medical centers face multiple challenges for conducting medical research
...ormation in medicine; their confluence has created unprecedented opportunity for spectacular breakthroughs in human health." The authors write that despite this promise for progress, many challenges await medical research: The need to manage high (and often unreasonable) public expectations for lifesaving disco...Polar explorer delivers rare snow-depth data to ESA for CryoSat validation
...o produce global maps of ice thickness change with unprecedented accuracy. The planned 1,000 km expedition was unfortunately cut short when the Pole Track logistics provider was denied permission to build their base camp near the North Pole. Nevertheless, Marc and his fellow explorers Petter Nyquist from Norway a...EU benchmark study on mental disease in Elsevier ECNP journal
...Size and Burden of Mental Disorders in Europe", an unprecedented EU-wide task force report commissioned by the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) and the European Brain Council (EBC). The report covering critical findings on the state of mental health in Europe will appear in a special issue of Eur...UCI-led research team recommends new tobacco control policies for lawmakers
...f smoking, policy makers and educators now have an unprecedented opportunity to adopt bold new measures for preventing adolescent smoking and nicotine addiction," said Larry Jamner, UCI professor of psychology and social behavior, who launched the consortium in 2003 with Stokols. The group now offers the following...NIAID launches first Phase II trial of a 'global' HIV/AIDS vaccine
...inated with two other planned clinical studies, an unprecedented collaboration among researchers in three clinical trial networks and NIAID. The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative plans to conduct a Phase I study of the VRC vaccine at sites in Kenya and Rwanda, and the U.S. Military HIV Research Program plans P...Innovative drug Tarceva now available in Europe to tackle growing lung cancer epidemic
...cancer care, the patient experience and Tarceva an unprecedented improvement in the treatment of advanced lung cancer. WHO: Professor Nick Thatcher CRC Department of Medical Oncology Christie Hospital Manchester, UK Dr. Jesme Baird Global Lung Cancer Coalition and Director of Patient Care, Roy Castle Lung Can...