The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has been awarded a four-year, $24 million gift from the Las Vegas-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to establish a multidisciplinary center focused exclusively on reducing the rate of sudden cardiac death.
Uninsured people recorded a double-digit increase in visits to the dentist, but the improvement still left them far behind the percentage of those seeing a dentist with private dental insurance, according to a study in this month's Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA)
An image-enhancing tool which could lead to both earlier diagnosis and improvements in monitoring treatment of cancers has been developed by researchers at UT-Austin College of Engineering and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
UAB gene therapy researchers have changed how the common cold virus binds to and infects cancer cells.
"A Place for All" is a new curriculum guide developed specifically for religious educators to help teach students about the inclusion of people with disabilities.
In Wisconsin, the parents of a child with Down syndrome allegedly slapped by a school bus driver are calling for video cameras on special education buses.
The decision by some students at Taylor County High School in Georgia to hold one prom that included all students and another private prom 50 miles away for white students has raised questions about how these decisions are made and why.
As the temperatures warm and kids head outdoors to play, UAB Optometrist Leo Semmes, O.D., reminds us that when it comes to sun protection, "the younger, the better."
The University of Maryland holds its May commencement on Thursday evening, May 22 at the Comcast Center. Individual schools and departments will hold their own ceremonies Friday, May 23.
UAB has received a two-year, $290,000 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, a division of the National Institutes of Health.
Silver is a key ingredient in new high-tech, powder coated finishes that hospitals and doctor"šs offices are using to protect walls, counters, and other germ-gathering surfaces. Tomorrow those finishes may be used in home kitchens, bathrooms, doorknobs, handles...
Roberta J. Zito will celebrate this Mother's Day watching her son, Barry Zito, pitch against the New York Yankees. Barry, 24, is a major league pitcher for the Oakland Athletics and winner of the 2002 American League Cy Young Award. But for him, the real story this Mother's Day isn't about baseball awards or even wins and losses. It's about his mom, whose attendance at the game is a miracle in itself.
Prions--their existence is intriguing and their links to disease are unsettling. These infectious agents are involved in mad cow disease and other fatal brain illnesses in humans and animals, rattling prior assumptions about the spread of infections.
"Health care policy must be based on sound science because our patients deserve nothing less," stresses Frederick Eichmiller, D.D.S., director, American Dental Association Foundation's Paffenbarger Research Center, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
At 100 years of age, Lillian Keirstead, of Easton, Maine, will don an academic robe to help celebrate her alma mater's centennial. Lillian will join other alumni, including several from the 50th class, for the University of Maine at Presque Isle's commencement ceremony on May 10, 2003.
Contrary to popular opinion, people who integrate their work and families are not always happier, Michigan State University researchers say.
Recent charges against a Milwaukee school bus driver for abuse of a 9-year-old with Down syndrome are the latest in long litany of problems, says a University of Alberta expert violence against children with disabilities.
A monoclonal antibody shows promising results in treating children with Crohn"šs disease, according to a multi-center study. The treatment's clinical benefits may reduce the need to treat children with steroid drugs, which carry risks of impaired growth and osteoporosis.
A UIC researcher has identified a protein that may help predict which patients will respond to tamoxifen, a drug used to treat certain kinds of breast cancer.
Results of a three-week follow-up study of 75 people with SARS from the Amoy Garden housing block in Hong Kong provide a new insight into the progression of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
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