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.
By the end of next year, scientists will likely know the entire genetic makeup of the Arabidopsis thaliana plant, a mustard that is closely related to many food plants and used as a model for all aspects of plant biology.
A graduate student at the University of Georgia surprised mathematicians at the University of Illinois Number Theory Conference in Champaign, Ill., on September 17 by announcing his solution to a long-standing open question in mathematics.
The Food Marketing Institute Foundation announces its inaugural grant to the Partnership for Food Safety Education on Thursday, Sept. 30, at the National Press Club.
The University of Maryland School of Medicine will receive $24 million over six years from the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis Pharma AG to discover new treatments for schizophrenia.
As this year's Nobel Conference(r) at Gustavus Adolphus College, Oct. 5-6, examines the emerging areas of genetics and predicts its effects into the next millennium, genetic experts, high school and college science students, and people around the world will -- for the first time -- be able to watch the conference live via the Internet.
University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists will study how the emotions affect health at a new center funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Virtual medical libraries have invaded Kosovo and Turkey, as physician relief groups working in and near those regions are using the Internet to tap into MD Consult, the world's most comprehensive full-text clinical information service.
A new $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help University of Missouri-Columbia researchers search for the causes and cures of rheumatoid arthritis.
The University of Maryland School of Medicine will receive $24 million over six years from the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis Pharma AG to discover new treatments for schizophrenia.
The Department of Health and Human Services launched a 3-year nationwide effort to test new ways of increasing organ donation.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo today announced an $895,000 research grant to Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago to protect families in low-income housing from the health hazards of soil and dust contaminated by lead-based paint.
UCSD Healthcare announces the opening of a new family-centered birthing unit called The Birth Center where pregnant women are assisted by a Certified Nurse Midwife.
The National Science Foundation is providing a boost to plant biology research through 15 grants totalling $62 million over the next five years.
John P. Curtin, M.D., a nationally recognized cancer surgeon and researcher, has joined NYU School of Medicine as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology.
AmericasDoctor.com announced the addition of the Yale-New Haven Hospital and the University of Chicago Hospitals as its newest sponsors and partners in the nation's only Internet-based, 24-hour/seven-days-a-week, real-time physician chat, health information and resource system.
The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences announced today the membership of the Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem.
The National Quality Forum launched its efforts to develop and implement a national strategy for measuring and reporting health care quality.
Ford Motor Company will grant nearly $2.1 million over five years for education and research programs in the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering and School of Business.
A professor of child development and family studies, has pledged his Purdue retirement funds to the Purdue School of Consumer and Family Sciences after his death. The bequest, which has a current value of more than $1 million, will benefit the marriage and family therapy program.
Richard Amasino, a University of Wisconsin-Madison plant molecular biologist, will receive the 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Award at a ceremony Oct. 27 in Madison, Wis.
Partners in the University of Arkansas' Latin American studies program have three new reasons to celebrate the program's 25th year -- new professors in foreign languages, history and anthropology whose research and teaching focuses on issues south of the U.S. border.
The National Science Foundation has named oceanographer Margaret Leinen of the University of Rhode Island to head its geosciences directorate.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today announced that successful end-to-end testing has been completed to ensure Y2K readiness for CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and their partners.
Dr. Walter Plowright was awarded the World Food Frize for developing one of the most important animal health victories of the modern age.
The University of Michigan will receive $5 million from the Warner-Lambert Company to help establish a new Program in Bioinformatics.
Seven dermatologists from across the United States were appointed today to the National Psoriasis Foundation's Medical Advisory Board.
Dr. Margaret Kripke of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has been honored by two professional societies for her research in skin cancer.
GeneMachines, a California-based genomics instrumentation company, has entered into a research agreement with the University of Georgia and the Georgia Research Alliance to test and develop protocols on its most advanced instrumentation.
With a commitment of $1 million annually from the state of Indiana, Purdue and Indiana universities are cooperating to advance paralysis research and speed the process of bringing new developments to human trials.
University of Arkansas research professor Ken Vickers spent years as an engineering manager at Texas Instruments wishing his new college graduate employees had received a broader selection of courses in their graduate degree programs. Now Prof. Vickers heads a university program that offers exactly the type of training he sought in graduate students.
The largest construction project ever proposed by Sandia ó the $300 million Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Application (MESA) facility ó received DOE approval for the Laboratories to produce a conceptual design for weapons, business and university applications.
A $5 million, 5-year program project grant to simulate brain function has been awarded to the UT-Houston Medical School Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes.
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