W.M. Keck Foundation announces 2007 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in medical research
... is hoped that the investment in the Keck Scholars will greatly benefit society for generations to come with continued advances in understanding and combating the fundamental mechanisms of human disease. The Young Scholars Program was initiated in 1999 and has awarded grants totalling nearly $45 millio...National quality agenda, payment reform, care integration keys to improving quality, patient safety
... Davis. My hope is that policymakers and providers will see the value in the kind of unified policy these ...m of care and move toward national strategies that will ensure all Americans the high performance health care system they deserve. Despite wide agreement...Science steps in to discover wonders of Toe-tankhamun
...ts owner walk like an Egyptian. If true, the toe will predate what is currently considered to be the ear...y in the British Museum, albeit without its mummy, will also be tested at the Human Performance Laboratory at nearby University of Salford. The toes date ...Nottingham center to help UK to meet its carbon targets
...bon dioxide and stores it permanently inside rocks will be developed at a new 1.1m research centre at The ... and Storage (CICCS) due to open in October 2007 will develop novel technologies to trap and store greenhouse gases permanently and safely, so they are no...Health reform bills could improve quality and efficiency, but fall short of national plan
...ken as a whole, they leave important gapsgaps that will prevent this country from providing accessible, hi...onwealth Fund, significant improvements in quality will require greater federal involvement in health care, not only in financing insurance coverage but als...Trials underway for 'essential' new TB vaccine
...inst TB in over 80 years. If successful, the tests will have major implications for TB control and could l... of the immune response induced by the vaccine, it will be given to infants to test its efficacy. This is important as one of the target populations for a n...RAND presents first Victor Fuchs Research Award to economists at Carnegie Mellon University
...yers from throughout the United States The award will be given annually by the Bing Center for Health Economics at RAND in honor of Victor R. Fuchs, a member of the Forums editorial board. Research by Fuchs demonstrated that economic analysis yielded valuable insight not only about medical resource use,...Worcester Polytechnic Institute to host national forum on locating first responders inside buildings
...STER, Mass. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will hold its second annual workshop on Precision Indoo...velopment of those technologies, and WPIs workshop will feature presentations onand demonstrations ofa number of leading technologies for indoors tracking a...American Cancer Society to hold third annual Virtual Relay For Life in Second Life
...nd 28, the American Cancer Society and Second Life will team up once again to celebrate survivorship and r...During this years event, as in past years, avatars will gather to donate money and walk on a custom-built track that encompasses a 512-acre park. Using t...New grant fulfills wish of late Baltimore Orioles team photographer
...of Medicine investigator Paul Nghiem, M.D., Ph.D., will enhance efforts to educate the public, patients, a...e or proper treatment, said Dr. Nghiem. This grant will make it possible for us to help close a critical gap in understanding of this deadly disease, allowi...Asia Pacific Family Medicine moves to BioMed Central's open access platform
...at the journal Asia Pacific Family Medicine (APFM) will join BioMed Centrals family of independent, open a...Med Centrals open access publishing platform, APFM will widen the exposure of its family medicine research. While APFM's articles were already freely availa...Support for Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act given to House leaders by ACP
...e.(over) Dr. Dale pointed out that the CHAMP Act will strengthen and expand access to care for children ...vices. The College notes that further legislation will be needed to avert payment cuts in 2010 and subsequent years and to develop an effective method for ...The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation invests in gastroenterology's future
...nt from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which will benefit high school students who demonstrate high ... Eli and Edythe Broad Student Research Fellowships will provide five students with $2,500 each to fund a 10-week session of research in digestive diseases o...From UF and IBM, a blueprint for 'smart' health care
...l Officer for IBM. Doing so in an open environment will remove market inhibitors that impede innovation in...mart assistive devices, Helal said. That, in turn, will make the devices more common. The hardware component of the system is an inexpensive sensor platfo...Landmark study finds adult Delawareans with disabilities in only 'fair' to 'poor' health
...Status Report for Persons with Disabilities, which will now serve as a tool for state agencies, policy makers, community organizations, health-care providers and families to improve the welfare of the state's adults with disabilities. "For the first time, we have an understanding of the health status of...Medical students respond positively to simulated patient experience
...h is published online today in Medical Teacher and will appear in the August print issue. It was hard...dents were overwhelmingly positive and the results will lead to future study of program expansion, he said. Survey results showed that 98 percent of partici...U of M researchers discover new method to combat HIV
...fficult for resistance to develop. The next step will be more research and testing to see how the drug reacts once distributed in the body. But, preliminary research and confirmation of the new concept shows promise because the quality of life for AIDS patients hinges on low costing medication and minim...New algorithm matches any tumor cells to best possible anti-cancer treatments
...d in research laboratories, the cost of drugs also will come down. Basically it brings the chemists making the drugs much closer to the clinic, saving time. Because the NCI-60 set of cells has been used to screen thousands of chemically defined compounds and natural extracts for anticancer activity, we...Should adult male circumcision be recommended for HIV prevention in the US?
... which is prone to bias. Adult male circumcision will likely have the largest impact in populations wher...gues conclude that "it is likely that circumcision will decrease the probability of a man acquiring HIV via penilevaginal sex with an HIV-infected woman in ......ynn Bedford, of the School of Biomedical Sciences, will lead a five-year study after receiving an award fr...duals working in Parkinsons research. Dr Bedford will be using a new genetic model of Parkinsons to further understanding of how and why nerve cells die. ...