HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala and Tipper Gore today announced the start of a new component of the successful "Back to Sleep" campaign that will focus on reducing the incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) among African Americans.
In recognition of American Diabetes Month, the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society will sponsor a series of free diabetic foot screenings Nov. 8-14 at locations throughout the country.
The National Science Foundation has made a first round of grants to 31 institutions nationwide enabling talented graduate students and advanced undergraduates in science, mathematics, engineering and technology to serve as teaching fellows in K-12 schools.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Trace Research and Development Center has received $3.4 million for a project to make standard telecommunications systems more accessible for people who are older or disabled.
The Mayo Clinic / Williams-Sonoma Cookbook will be honored as the world's best health cookbook on Oct. 23 at the Versailles World Cookbook Fair near Paris, France.
Structural biologists at Purdue University have received a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study a family of viruses that includes the West Nile-like virus that has caused numerous illnesses and at least five deaths in the New York region.
University of Michigan scientists will receive $4.4 million from the National Cancer Institute to develop an innovative approach to cancer treatment --nanomolecular "smart bombs" that sense pre-malignant and cancerous changes inside living cells and then destroy the cells before they can grow into tumors.
The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx has just become the first major herbarium in North America to make high-quality digitized images of plants in its type specimen collection--the largest in the Western Hemisphere--available to researchers on the World Wide Web.
A Colorado State University researcher will join colleagues in Germany in using laser microscopy to track protein molecules on the surface of cells.
Marlboro College announced this week that it will receive the largest single gift in history of Vermont colleges.
The University of Arkansas, Oklahoma State University and the University of Nebraska have received nearly $2 million to stretch the current limits of collaboration through virtual reality and study sub-microscopic systems. The scientists seek to create these small systems for use in medical drug delivery, space craft parts and defense systems.
The Polycystic Kidney Research Foundation announces a major funding breakthrough in its battle to discover a treatment and cure for polycystic kidney disease, the most common of all life-threatening genetic diseases.
A major initiative aimed at identifying the genes that cause cancer is to be established in the UK. Scientists are setting up a £10 million Cancer Genome Project to find the gene abnormalities associated with all forms of human cancers.
AmericasDoctor.com, the Internet health information site with the unique, 24-hour/seven-day-a-week Ask-the-Doc feature, announced today the signing of Jackson County Memorial Hospital (JCMH) in Altus, Okla., as its 100th hospital partner (Complete list of partner hospitals follows.)
Today researchers announced the formation of the University of Missouri-Columbia Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory, the first one in Missouri and only the third of its kind in the nation.
The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health have designated LSU's Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices as a regional center for protein crystallography.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will help showcase a new kind of graduate business school for his nation at a ceremonial opening Friday, Oct. 22. In an initiative prompted by Schroeder, a private German foundation contracted with Purdue University to establish the German International School of Management and Administration.
A new national research project headquartered at Wake Forest University School of Medicine will study three generations of family members to determine how many of the precursors to adult onset (Type 2) diabetes and obesity are inherited.
"Doctors Without Borders" has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1999 in recognition of the vitally important work carried out by this organization, as well as a recognition of all humanitarian work.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has won a $42.1 million federal contract to determine the effectiveness and safety of a new class of anti-psychotic drugs for people with schizophrenia and those with behaviors associated with Alzheimer's disease.
ESPN the magazine wins Temple University's 1999 "Acres of Diamonds" award for best new magazine.
I congratulate the Nobel Laureate for 1999 in chemistry.
Martinus J.G. Veltman, Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, has been awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in physics. Veltman's work made it possible for physicists to mathematically predict properties of the sub-atomic particles that make up all matter in the universe and the forces that hold these particles together.
Proteins produced by cancer cells may someday give doctors new ways to find tumors earlier, determine how malignant they are and target them with custom therapies. Now, a $10 million effort will explore this new area using the latest technology and biomedical knowledge.
President Clinton announced that AHCPR, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and HRSA will provide $9.1 million to fund a set of studies to help improve the quality of, and access to, health care for low-income children.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine has been selected as the national coordinating center for a major study aimed at preventing cardiovascular disease in diabetes. The study will involve 10,000 patients and last at least nine years.
A University of Iowa Health Care psychiatrist has received one of the highest honors awarded by the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences.
Gunter Blobel, an investigator at The Rockefeller University, has won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Blobel, 63, was awarded the prize for his discovery that "proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell."
Schoolchildren across Washington, especially "high needs" students who are at the greatest risk of failure, will benefit from a 5-year, $9.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. to the Washington State University College of Education.
Physician members of the American College of Gastroenterology , a national specialty association representing nearly 7,000 clinical gastroenterologists and other specialists in digestive diseases, have elected liver disease expert Luis A. Balart, M.D., of New Orleans, LA as their 1999-2000 president.
Augusto Sola, M.D., director of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Division of Neonatology, will be honored next week by the American Academy of Pediatrics for his long-standing efforts to improve the lives of newborns and infants.
George Washington University Hospital, GW University and Universal Health Services, Inc, today held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new $96 million George Washington University Hospital.
Dr. Harold E. Varmus, Director of the National Institutes of Health and co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, will be the next President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala today announced the appointment of Stephen E. Straus, M.D., as the director for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health.
John MacChesney, a scientist at Bell Labs, will receive the engineering profession's highest honor, the Charles Stark Draper Prize, for his invention and development of the modified chemical vapor deposition process, a world standard for optical-fiber manufacturing.
In observance of Mental Illness Awareness Week, October 3-9, 1999, the American Psychiatric Association has completed an initial launch of a new public service announcement (PSA) alerting the public to the reality of suicide.
The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy has received a $7.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create one of the nation's first centers to research dietary supplements.
Ten individuals and five institutions are receiving the 1999 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. The award is administered and funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF).
A major seven-year national study on whether weight control can slow the advance of heart disease in persons with diabetes will be headquartered at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Swarthmore College has established two first-of-their-kind study-abroad programs in Poland.
Carnegie Mellon Research Institute has established a proactive, for profit CyberSecurity Center to help business and commerce improve networks before a security breach occurs. It's leveraged from the Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon.
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research announced that data from the State Inpatient Databases (SID) needed for health care research and market analysis may now be obtained from an AHCPR-sponsored central coordinator and distributor.
Avon Products, Inc. announces the launch of its "Make the Promise" internet campaign, an online program that encourages women to take the steps toward breast cancer early detection and to urge friends and family to make breast health a top priority.
As transplant waiting lists grow even longer and the supply of cadaver donors remains fairly stable, major centers are increasingly turning to the patients' family and friends for help.
The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research today announced it has established four Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERT) to boost the positive impact on patient care of medical products -- drugs, biologics and medical devices.
Repairing tornado damage in Oklahoma City -- helping Washington, D.C. food banks -- tutoring children in Atlanta -- this is how the Austin College Sesquicentennial will culminate: in a day of volunteer service by alumni from coast to coast as the college takes its 3rd annual Great Day of Service nationwide, October 16-17, 1999.
West Virginia University and six industry groups, together with the U.S. National Guard Bureau, have announced a public and private partnership to apply information technology to help communities in the United States and across the globe respond to natural or man-made disasters. These partners have formed the International Telemedicine Collaboratory.
Janice Miller, D.O., has opened a new primary care clinic in a unique location - a high school - in an attempt to reach younger patients and establish a lifetime of healthy habits.
The National Science Foundation has announced that 14 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will receive more than $42 million over five years to promote diversity and increased participation of underrepresented groups in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.
The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration has launched two new e-business / e-commerce education programs to address the growing demand by managers and information technology consultants who want to excel in the information economy.
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