The rate of increase for funding of biomedical research in the U.S. has slowed since 2005, and the level of funding from the National Institutes of Health and industry appears to have decreased by 2 percent in 2008, after adjustment for inflation, according to an article in the January 13 issue of JAMA.
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that a “longevity gene” helps to slow age-related decline in brain function in older adults. Drugs that mimic the gene’s effect are now under development, the researchers note, and could help protect against Alzheimer’s disease.
1) Green tea reduced the risk of lung cancer in smokers; 2) Benefit was also seen in non-smokers.
1) Researchers divided tumors into three types of growth patterns; 2) Independent predictive value for survival found in these patients; 3) This is useful in patients undergoing operations.
1) 93-gene signature developed that correlates with EGFR mutation; 2) Testing also being conducted in head and neck, colorectal and breast cancers; 3) Clinical results of the BATTLE trial to be presented later this year.
1) Chemoresistance to first-line therapy affects about 6,500 patients a year; 2) Only two first-line chemotherapies are currently standard treatment.
1) Currently, high rate of false positives occur with X-ray examination; 2) New blood test provided 88 percent sensitivity, 79 percent specificity.
1) Smokers tolerated higher doses of erlotinib; 2) Erlotinib is used as a second-line therapy; 3) Side effects included rash and diarrhea.
1) ASA404 effective and well tolerated, regardless of histology; 2) Possible use for targeted therapy for this patient group.
1) ALK gene rearrangements occur in about 3 to 5 percent of cases; 2) Lung cancer is recognized as different diseases at a molecular level; 3) Results may speed ALK-inhibitor approval in ALK-positive lung cancer.
1) Gefitinib treatment ineffective as first-line therapy; 2) Limited treatment options are available in this patient group; 3) Disease stabilization is observed in many cases.
Older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) might benefit from a drug that reactivates genes that cancer cells turn off, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and collaborating institutions. The researchers say the findings support further investigation of the drug, decitabine, as a first-line treatment for these patients, who have limited treatment options.
Is there anybody out there? In Alejandro Jenkins’ case, the question refers not to whether life exists elsewhere in the universe, but whether it exists in other universes outside of our own.
The National Association For Continence (NAFC) is offering free, monthly educational webinars stemming from their educational women’s forum, Lifelong Bladder Health & Pelvic Support.
Expert at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center provide insight to parents based on what we've learned about about the HPV vaccine in the past four years.
As shareholders of publicly traded companies look ahead to corporate board elections this spring, new research at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business suggests that a lack of enthusiasm for slated directors can affect stock prices and lead to management turnovers.
Consumers – especially women -- felt slightly more stress concerning their debt during December, but the increase was relatively small considering their holiday shopping spree, a new survey suggests.
A new Cornell study of online poker seems counterintuitive: The more hands players win, the less money they’re likely to collect – especially when it comes to novice players.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences student-run Health, Education, Active Living (HEALing) Clinic is expanding its services and will be opening an additional site to see patients in the Anacostia neighborhood of Southeast Washington, D.C. The new, expanded site, which will be located at the Family and Medical Counseling Service Inc., will expand GW’s HEALing Clinic’s primary care services, to serve many more medically underserved patients per week including the growing number of patients in the District receiving treatment for HIV/AIDS.
CAN DO Houston (Children and Neighbors Defeating Obesity) will expand its community-based efforts with a $360,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities” initiative.
With job satisfaction rates at a record low Loyola University Health System expert helps individuals and businesses stay healthy during difficult times.
Dr. Eugenie C. Scott Joins Carl Sagan, C. Everett Koop in National Academy of Sciences honor.
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has created the strongest form of collagen known to science, a stable alternative to human collagen that could one day be used to treat arthritis and other conditions that result from collagen defects.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital will break ground on property west of Parsons Avenue and north of Livingston Avenue in early 2010 for its third research facility as the last piece of its $840 million strategic facilities expansion plan, first announced in 2005. Nationwide Children’s Board approval of the final construction budget is expected in early 2010.
Using texts and images, a University of Arkansas researcher has for the first time reconstructed the time when the use of porticos – roof-covered structures supported by columns – gave way to loggias, or recessed porticos.
There may be a strong link between our political affiliation and how we react to certain labels. Democratic, Republican, and Independent volunteers support a mandatory environmental surcharge if it is described as an “offset,” while only Democratic volunteers support the surcharge when it is labeled as a “tax.”
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology is honored to announce this year’s class of distinguished Fellows. The title of ARVO Fellow recognizes members for their accomplishments, leadership and contributions to the Association.
Retiring art chair at Baylor University rises to challenge of painting small.
As skiers and snowboarders prepare to flock to the slopes, a Geisinger physician offers advice for staying safe this winter season.
Leaders looking for ways to improve learning in urban schools can depend on five key factors which, when working together, have proven to boost student achievement, according to a landmark study that led to a new book, Organizing Schools for Improvement, Lessons from Chicago.
Social media has been used extensively in several high profile missing person cases, and Washington and Lee University journalism professor Claudette Artwick says these may show a digital divide.
The death rate from injuries in rural areas of China is higher than in urban areas, according to a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. Rural males of all ages were 47 percent more likely to die from injuries than urban males, and the overall rate in rural females was 33 percent higher than in urban females.
A fast-acting compound that appears to improve cognitive function impairments in mice similar to those found in patients with progressive Alzheimer’s disease has been identified by scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Program in Drug Discovery. Researchers hope to one day replicate the result in humans.
Studying genes that regulate early heart development in animals, scientists have solved a puzzle about one gene’s role, finding that it acts in concert with a related gene. Their discovery contributes to understanding how the earliest stages of heart development may go awry, resulting in congenital heart defects in humans.
Partnership will include academic, industrial and government partners to create a world-class research facility focused on renewable energy and education.
When assessing the amount of help someone needs, people's perceptions can be skewed by their racial biases, according to a Kansas State University psychology study.
While much of the promise of stem cells springs from their ability to develop into any cell type in the body, the biological workings that control that maturation process are still largely unknown.
He’s completing their challenging journey and making them whole. Reconfigured body after reconfigured body, the hands of Alexander Moya, M.D., Director of the Center for Weight Loss Body Contouring and Assistant Director of the Geisinger Center for Aesthetics and Cosmetic Surgery at Geisinger Medical Center (GMC), skillfully addresses the excess skin his patients contend with following the loss of dozens, if not often hundreds, of pounds.
The Association to Advance Collegiate Business Schools (AACSB) has extended accreditation to Saint Joseph’s University’s Erivan K. Haub School of Business (HSB). The international accrediting agency maintains the school has furthered its commitment to ethics, justice and social responsibility while managing rapid enrollment growth. The school’s industry-focused programs also received recognition.
"Immunization is the best defense we have to prevent the spread of H1N1 influenza in the months ahead," says Richard Whitley, the director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and current president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). The reminder comes during National Influenza Vaccination Week, Jan. 10-16.
Prof. Kobi Rosenblum, University of Haifa, has been awarded a €1.6 million grant from DIP, a German-Israeli Project Cooperation. It will fund Prof. Rosenblum's international research of the role of protein expression in memory formation and stability.
A new and previously unknown species of spider has been discovered in the dune of the Sands of Samar in the southern Arava region by a team of scientists from the Department of Biology in the University of Haifa-Oranim. Unfortunately, however, its habitat is endangered.
Older women with hypertension are at increased risk for developing brain lesions that cause dementia later in life, according to data from the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS).
The Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) unveils Ingredient Central, an online gateway to where consumers can find specific cleaning product companies' ingredient information. The page is available at www.cleaning101.com/IngredientCentral.
People experience better moods, greater vitality, and fewer aches and pains from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, concludes the first study of daily mood variation in employed adults. And that ‘weekend effect’ is largely associated with the freedom to choose one’s activities and the opportunity to spend time with loved ones.
Cognitive scientists from Indiana U. and elsewhere compared the dieting behavior of women following two radically different diets. The more complicated people found their diet plans, the sooner they were likely to bail.
The public, including parents of babies with severe heart defects, is invited to submit questions for inclusion in a tweet chat about surgical approaches for heart defects to be held from noon-2 p.m. Jan. 20 on Twitter.
On the marine microbial stage, there appears to be a vast group of understudies only too ready to step in when "star" microbes falter. New work provides the first evidence that microorganisms can be rare for long periods before completely turning the tables to become dominant when ecosystems change.
A growth factor that is a common target of cancer drugs also plays an important role in the heart's response to stress, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report online this week in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
For adults and children diagnosed with celiac disease, the only treatment is a gluten-free diet, which can be very challenging. Gastroenterologists at Rush University Medical Center are conducting a new study to see if mind/body techniques could help patients with celiac disease adhere to the very strict diet.
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