AHRQ announced the availability of new sets of data files that provide information on demographics, charges and payment source, diagnoses, and discharge status for patients treated in outpatient surgery settings in Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Utah.
PhotoDetection Systems, Inc., has received a first round of venture funding in the amount of $2.75 million. The company develops advanced, low-cost, 3-D medical imaging systems that can detect very small tumors and determine whether or not they are malignant.
The federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today unveiled a newly redesigned Web site that offers reporters easier access to AHRQ news and information through its online Newsroom.
Researchers and engineers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won three R&D 100 Awards, pushing their national lab-leading total to 107 since the awards began in 1963.
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Aventis Pharma signed agreements covering the joint development and commercialization of inflammatory disease drugs; joint development of new drug discovery technologies; transfer of elements of Millennium's technology to Aventis; and purchase of an equity interest in Millennium by Aventis.
Michael S. Benninger, Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, is the new Editor in Chief of the jounal Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery.
Scientists studying the ability of bacteria to clean up contaminated groundwater and soil will be able to do basic research at a field site at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Reservation.
UAB has received a three-year, $805,000 grant from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality to establish one of seven national Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics of musculoskeletal disorders such as arthritis and osteoporosis.
A field research facility in the Amazon rainforest sponsored by NASA and the Brazilian government will be completed this month as part of an experiment to study the region's impact on global change and develop information for sustainable resource management.
Purdue University, IBM and Dassault Systemes announced Friday (6-23) a collaborative alliance to create a digital enterprise applied-research center in the School of Technology on the university's West Lafayette campus.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently awarded the UIC School of Public Health $347,000 to increase the number of African-Americans and Latinos enrolling and graduating with advanced degrees in the public health sciences.
The New York Botanical Garden has entered into a licensing agreement with San-Mar Laboratories, Inc., to develop botanical-based consumer products that promote environmental awareness and support conservation programs of the Garden.
AEGON has committed $2 million to Johns Hopkins for prostate and breast cancer research. The Oncology Center will split the funds with the Free University Oncology Research Institute in Amsterdam for a collaborative research project.
An award-winning business professor at Elmhurst College has authored a research article, which will be unveiled June 19-20 at the U.N. forum in Geneva, that focuses on the development of online trading in the U.S.
Environmental engineer Charles O'Melia wins $50,000 prize for career studying water pollution; he plans to give the money to educational institutions where he and his wife studied.
Press briefing to discuss June 21 JAMA article that presents first-ever recommendations for establishment of stroke centers in hospitals is slated for June 20 at National Institutes of Health.
As this summer's gasoline prices soar skyward, Purdue University has joined with the Midwest Consortium for Sustainable Biobased Products and Bioenergy, which was created to combine research efforts in the development of new, renewable chemical products.
The University of Missouri-Rolla in fall 2000 will become the first university in Missouri to offer a master's degree program in manufacturing engineering.
Former astronaut and lunar explorer Col. Buzz Aldrin, USAF (Ret.), Ph.D., joined the Scientific Advisory Board of ScienceWise.com, the B2B workplace on the Web for science and engineering.
Colgate University professor of anthropology Gary Urton, who has been working to crack the code of the quipu, an ancient system of dyed, intricately knotted strings that the Incas used to record their history, environment and culture, has been selected to be a MacArthur Fellow.
The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine will share a $1.6 million gift from the estate of Evelyn Grollman Glick, the Baltimore philanthropist and golf champion who died last year.
Drexel will operate as a fully wireless CyberCampus as of fall 2000, University President Constantine Papadakis recently announced.
BioMedNet is creating a new resource which will allow researchers to create their own customized "virtual journals."
Exactly how toxic substances in the environment adversely affect human health will be the focus of a new UCSD Superfund Basic Research Program, established with a five-year federal grant, funded by NIEHS, of approximately $20 million to the School of Medicine.
The Association of American Medical Colleges, in collaboration with Pfizer, Inc., and the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative, awards five U.S. medical schools with grants to develop medical student-initiated services and programs to local communities.
The National Drosophila Species Stock Center-the major source of diverse species of living Drosophila flies used by scientists around the world-is moving to the University of Arizona.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has launched a spin-off company, Dot21 Real-Time Systems Inc. (Dot21), to commercialize a type of APL-developed software, commonly referred to as message-oriented middleware.
A doctoral student at UAlbany has won a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program for Minorities for his work on urban issues; he is writing his dissertation on "The Politics of Black-Church Based Community Development."
Fred Schubert of Boston University is one winner of the DISCOVER Magazine Awards. Schubert's Photon Recycling Semiconductor Light-Emitting Diode combines up to three different wavelengths of light to produce a highly efficient, long-lasting, white light suitable for many lighting situations.
A U.S. Department of Education grant totaling $1.14 million over a three-year period will allow Ohio University's African Studies and Southeast Asian Studies programs to expand their outreach across the state through educational programs for teachers, students and residents.
The University of Tulsa and Williams (NYSE: WMB) today announced plans to establish an energy risk management center integrating the latest in trading floor technology with a new graduate program focusing on the integration of financial theory with the practice of risk management in the energy industry.
AHRQ announced it is accepting applications for the newly established Kerr White Visiting Scholars Program; this initiative provides collaborative research opportunities, linking both new and recognized health care research scholars with AHRQ researchers.
The University of Illinois at Chicago has licensed the worldwide rights to develop betulinic acid, a compound that in animal tests has shown activity against malignant melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, to Advanced Life Sciences, Lemont, Ill.
Ohio University has selected two doctoral programs -- one in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the other in the Department of Psychology -- for the initial round of selective enhancement under a new Ohio Board of Regents directive.
Purdue University will upgrade its research computing facilities with a $10 million IBM supercomputer that will be among the most powerful research tools in the nation.
The California Cancer Research Program has awarded a University of California, San Diego, physician-scientist a $600,000 grant to conduct a 3-year study of colon cancer in African-Americans.
A four-year, $1 million federal grant to continue research on how people's sense of control affects their health as they age has been received by two Ohio State University sociologists.
The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation presented five Mary Woodard Lasker Awards for Public Service in Support of Medical Research and the Health Sciences at a dinner in Washington, DC.
A near million-dollar grant will provide LSU's Earth Scan Lab with a new satellite-data receiver system that will show such detail that researchers will be able to see a specific house or tree. The day-and-night radars will be particularly useful for damage assessment during or after a hurricane.
Patrick White will join FASEB as its Director of Legislative Relations on July 5; Mr. White will serve as senior legislative advisor, gather intelligence on legislative issues and assist FASEB leaders by proposing, planning and executing legislative and advocacy strategies.
Southwestern Energy Company and the University of Arkansas will join forces to search for new gas reserves and to study the tectonic history and petroleum geology of the Arkoma Basin in north-central Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma.
Broadcast, print, and on-line journalists are invited to submit entries to the annual media awards competition of the American Psychiatric Association, which will honor outstanding contributions to the public understanding of mental illnesses, psychiatric treatment, and psychiatry.
The Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center (AEWC) at the University of Maine will celebrate its leadership in this area of research with a grand opening June 1.
Purdue University announced 5/23/00 that Martin C. Jischke, president of Iowa State University, will become Purdue's 10th president. The board is expected to confirm the appointment at its June 1 meeting, and Jischke will assume the responsibilities of the office on Aug. 14.
Steven C. Beering will leave a 17-year legacy of growth in academics, facilities and reputation when he relinquishes the Purdue University presidency this summer.
Christopher Merrill has been appointed director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa; he also will have a faculty appointment as professor in the UI department of English.
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is announcing a call for entries for its year 2001 ACOEM Corporate Health Achievement Award competition.
NSF has awarded high performance network connections for ten additional universities, bringing the total number of institutions assisted through such grants to 177.
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine announces that Dow Chemical Company, General Electric Power Systems, and Sherman Health Systems are winners in its fourth annual Corporate Health Achievement Award competition.
General Mills, GTE Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, and U S WEST were named winners of the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership.
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