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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced today that Michele Pagano, M.D., the May Ellen and Gerald Ritter Professor of Oncology in the Department of Pathology at NYU Langone Medical Center, is among the 56 top scientists who will be appointed as HHMI Investigators this year.
New York City-based research and patient care for Neurofibromatosis (NF), a common but often unrecognized genetic disorder, is getting a boost this week when the Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF www.ctf.org ) makes its first gift to NYU Langone Medical Center (NYUMC www.nyumc.org ).
The following news tips are based on abstracts or poster presentations at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) to be held in Chicago, Illinois, May 30 "“ June 3, 2008.
A combination of genomics and proteomics yields a surprising finding.
Infants who are exposed to television and video in low socio-economic households tend to have limited verbal interactions with their mothers, according to a new study led by Alan L. Mendelsohn, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Clinical Research for the divisions of General and Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at NYU School of Medicine.
Skin lesions that are about the size of a pencil eraser are more likely to be melanomas, a deadly form of skin cancer, than smaller moles, according to a new study led by NYU Langone Medical Center researchers.
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Children with an inherited blood disorder called alpha thalassemia make unusually small red blood cells that mostly cause a mild form of anemia. Now, researchers have discovered that this disorder has a benefit"”it can protect children against one of the world's greatest killers, malaria, according to a new study.
Advanced techniques enable cardiac surgeons to perform valve replacement procedures in high risk patients with greatly reduced mortality.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and disability in American women. More women than men die of cardiovascular disease. 462,000 women die annually, and 410,000 men die from the same cause, yet only 17 percent of cardiologists knew this, according to an AHA 2005 study. Women are twice as likely as men to die when they suffer a heart attack. Why? For one thing, they typically wait longer (20 minutes to 2 hours) to call 911.
Two new animal studies show for the first time that the deadly transformation of amyloid beta into plaques can be prevented through an interaction between amyloid beta and another protein called cystatin C.
Researchers have discovered that a molecular switch in the protein making machinery of cells is linked to one of the most common forms of lethal breast cancer worldwide.
People who have a mother with Alzheimer's disease appear to be at higher risk for getting the disease than those individuals whose fathers are afflicted, according to a new study by NYU School of Medicine researchers.
A clinical trial evaluating a brain cancer vaccine in patients with newly diagnosed brain cancer has begun at NYU Medical Center. The study will evaluate the addition of the vaccine following standard therapy with surgery and chemotherapy in patients with glioblastoma multiforme, a deadly form of brain cancer.
Many of the most successful microbes are those that inhabit but do not kill their host. What explains their success? A new mathematical model, devised by a microbiologist renowned for his study of H. pylori and a mathematician, provides the framework for understanding how persistent microbes obtain equilibrium with their human hosts.
Children with older delinquent siblings are at high risk for becoming juvenile delinquents themselves. Researchers have been studying family interventions that prevent young high-risk children from following in the footsteps of their older siblings. Now a new study shows that a non-medical early family intervention that improves caregiving also results in important changes in children's biological response to stress.
Counseling and support for people caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's disease helps to preserve their health, according to a new study.
A new study shows for the first time that the immune system can combat the pathological form of tau protein, a key protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease. The researchers created a vaccine in mice that suppresses aggregates of tau. The protein accumulates into harmful tangles in the memory center of the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
Pregnancies in Jerusalem in the 1960s and 1970s may hold vital clues about how pancreatic cancer and diabetes are linked. According to research published in the online open access journal BMC Medicine, women with a history of gestational diabetes had a higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer later in life.
Researchers at NYU School of Medicine have developed a handheld device that can detect subtle brain damage immediately after concussion. The sophisticated yet simple-to-operate device, the researchers say, may prove especially useful on the battlefield or the football field, enabling brain damage to be detected almost immediately after mild head injuries.
Researchers funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, launched the first large-scale national study evaluating a treatment for addiction to prescription opioid analgesics (i.e., painkillers) such as Vicodin and OxyContin. NIDA's National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) is conducting the multi-site study, known as the Prescription Opiate Addiction Treatment Study (POATS).
Eva Hernando, PhD of the Department of Pathology at the NYU School of Medicine and her team have received a $50,000 year long grant from the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative and the Leiomyosarcoma Direct Research Foundation. The project is titled, "MicroRNA Deregulation in Mesenchymal Transformation and Sarcoma-genesis." The specific sarcoma under investigation is leiomyosarcoma.
Dolores Malaspina, M.D., MSciPH, Chairman of NYU Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry, has been selected by NARSAD: The Mental Health Research Association, to receive its prestigious "Distinguished Investigator" Award.
The faculty of the NYU Skirball Institute are pleased to invite you to the Ninth Annual Skirball Symposium on Friday, June 1, 2007. Each year, one of the four programs in our institute hosts this symposium and this year the Molecular Neurobiology Program is hosting. This year's symposium title is "Genes, Environment and Behavior."
The stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which causes stomach cancer and peptic ulcers, may not be all bad. According to a new study, it may help protect kids from asthma.
On Monday, March 26, The Biotechnology Study Center of NYU School of Medicine will hold its annual awards symposium to honor three outstanding pioneers in biomedical research.
Robert I. Grossman, M.D., a renowned Professor of Radiology, was today appointed the 15th Dean of the 165-year-old NYU School of Medicine -- a leading institution in research, education, and clinical care which counts Nobel Prize winners, the inventors of the polio vaccines, and the creators of the first department of forensic pathology among its faculty and alumni.
It appears that the skin, the largest organ in our body, is a kind of zoo and some of the inhabitants are quite novel, according to a new study.
Lap band surgery appears to be an effective procedure to combat obesity in adolescents, according to a new study conducted at NYU Medical Center. It is the first study to evaluate the lap band in patients under the age of 17, and it revealed that patients on average lost about 50% of their excess weight by one year after surgery. Currently, the lap band device is only approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in adults.
Being a member of a large family may not be best for your health. A new study found that family size greatly influenced the development of stomach cancer linked to the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, and younger siblings from large families appeared to be especially vulnerable to the most common type of stomach cancer.
Scientists have finally deciphered the genome of the parasite causing trichomoniasis, a feat that is already providing new approaches to improve the diagnosis and treatment of this sexually transmitted disease. According to the World Health Organization trichomoniasis affects an estimated 170 million people a year and is an under-diagnosed global health problem.
As biomedical science progresses, physicians apply increasingly refined tools to treat disease. Researchers hope it will eventually be possible to use tools based on the emerging field of nanomedicine. The idea is to repair the body on the tiny scale of molecules"”at the nano-scale or roughly one millionth the size of an ant"”to reach inside cells and fix what may be broken.
The pathological embrace between two proteins plays a key role in the development of Alzheimer's disease by triggering the formation of neuron-killing plaques of amyloid beta protein. Now a group of scientists have devised a way to reduce amyloid beta deposition by interfering with the deadly embrace of these proteins.
According to a new study, septic shock"”a dangerous, often deadly runaway immune response"”is controlled by a genetic on/off switch. The research also suggests how a drug might temper sepsis. This is the first time this genetic mechanism has been revealed in an experimental animal.
In the days following a heart attack, patients who have no or mild symptoms and undergo a procedure called angioplasty to mechanically open their totally blocked coronary arteries do not reduce their risk of having another heart attack, going into heart failure, or dying, according to the results of a new study.
A program of individual and family counseling sessions and ongoing support for people who are caring for a husband or wife with Alzheimer's disease has a major impact on how long they can keep their spouses at home with them. Alzheimer's disease and other dementias are a major reason why people are placed in nursing homes in the United States.
Soot particles spewing from the exhaust of diesel trucks constitute a major contributor to the alarmingly high rates of asthma symptoms among school-aged children in the South Bronx, according to the results of a five-year study by researchers at New York University's School of Medicine and Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Evgeny A. Nudler, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry at New York University School of Medicine has received the prestigious Director's Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "The Pioneer Award supports exceptionally creative scientists who bring their talents, expertise, and perspectives to bear on some of the biggest challenges in biomedical research," says Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director of NIH.
Scientists at NYU School of Medicine have unraveled the signals in a feedback loop governing ovarian development. This work has been several years in the making and is being published on 27 August in the Advance Online issue of the journal Nature.
NYU Medical Center was recently awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to begin the planning phase of a regional health information network in the New York City area. The grant is part of a National Library of Medicine sponsored program called Integrated Advanced Information Systems (IAIMS).
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation selected the NYU Vaccine Discovery Consortium as one of the participants in its Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery. The goal of these grants is to accelerate the development of an AIDS vaccine. Susan Zolla-Pazner, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology at NYU School of Medicine and Chief of Immunology at VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, a longtime AIDS researcher specializing in immunology, will lead the NYU AIDS Vaccine Discovery Consortium, which received a three-year grant for $8.4 million.
Despite advances in treatment, people with a heart attack who survive the first hit and get to a hospital remain in danger.
Beginning at 1:30 PM on May 24th, at NYU School of Medicine at 550 First Avenue (bet. 30th and 33rd Street), distinguished scientists including David Baltimore, Paul Greengard, and Eric S. Lander will give lectures at a scientific symposium in honor of the opening of NYU School of Medicine's Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center.
Beginning at 1:30 PM on May 24th, at NYU School of Medicine at 550 First Avenue (bet. 30th and 33rd Street), distinguished scientists will give lectures at a scientific symposium in honor of the opening of NYU School of Medicine's Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center, a 13-story, state-of-the-art research facility and the largest and most dramatic addition to midtown Manhattan's eastern skyline in half a century.
Approximately 15% of Asians living in New York City are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus, according to a new study by New York University School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues. Chronic hepatitis B infection usually will lead to liver inflammation and can progress to cirrhosis and liver cancer. The reported infection rate is 35 times higher than the rate in the general U.S. population.
Sadly, none of the treatments for epilepsy"”anti-seizure medications, a procedure called vagus nerve stimulation, a special diet "”could quell the electrical storms in the young boy's brain. Caused by a rare genetic disease called tuberous sclerosis, the seizures began when he was only 2 months old. By the time he was 5, he was having more than 10 a day.
For many of the 7 million passengers who ride New York City's subway system daily, the intense dread of ending up on the tracks can be hard to shake. Until recently, no public record has been available to address those fears. Over the past several months, however, NYU School of Medicine physicians published studies that provide rare insight into subway injuries.
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