"I am deeply saddened by the death last night of Congressman George E. Brown (D-CA), Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on Science in the U. S. House of Representatives."
The Narcolepsy Network announced that it is joining forces with sleep centers nationwide to launch "Wake Up to Narcolepsy," an educational initiative to raise awareness and increase understanding of narcolepsy and its treatment.
Dr. Paul Bertsch was appointed the new director for the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory(SREL).
Harrison A. (Skip) Hartman, Jr., vice president and managing director for Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C. and regional vice president of Loews Hotels, will receive the 1999 Hospitality Executive of the Year Award from Penn State.
Wake Forest will receive $300,000 from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to enrich science education in local schools.
CityLab at Boston University School of Medicine is one of 35 institutions nationwide to receive a precollege science award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to improve the science education of underserved schools and populations in Massachusetts.
Professor William F. Greenlee of the University of Massachusetts Medical School has been named the fourth president of the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology.
Eric Moon-shong Tang, Ph.D., a prominent molecular biologist whose research established a direct genetic link between smoking and lung cancer, has joined the faculty of New York University School of Medicine as Professor of Environmental Medicine.
With a $1.1 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, a Wake Forest University School of Medicine researcher is exploring a possible link between stress and depression.
The American Red Cross named Dr. Bernadine P. Healy as its president and chief executive officer.
The MESSENGER mission to investigate the planet Mercury -- led by a Carnegie Institution of Washington Principal Investigator and managed by The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory -- has been selected by NASA as a new Discovery mission.
Organon Inc., makers of the fertility treatment FOLLISTIM(r) and sponsors of the new "START SMART" educational campaign for couples exploring assisted reproductive technology (ART), has received a "Stars of RESOLVE Award" from RESOLVE's New Jersey chapter for the company's assistance and support of advocacy efforts.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will honor former Rep. Edward R. Roybal by dedicating its main campus to him and by presenting him with the Champion of Prevention Award, CDC's most prestigious award.
Computer science and engineering students at UC San Diego will study computer science, software engineering, multimedia Web design, and database design this Fall using a newly outfitted Microsoft Windows NT Laboratory.
After biking more than 3,800 miles in four months, two Red Cross HIV/AIDS instructors complete their journey, crossing a ceremonial finish line, at the American Red Cross national headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Friday, July 2.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration today is presenting one of its most prestigious awards to Alexander McPherson, a UC Irvine professor of molecular biology and biochemistry.
Pharming Healthcare Inc., the American subsidiary of Pharming Group N.V. of Leiden, Netherlands, will locate two unique pharmaceutical production installations in Southwest Virginia, a "transgenic" cattle farm in Craig County and a purification facility at the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center.
AHCPR today announced funding for 10 new research projects which reflect the key goals in the Agency's strategic plan: improving health outcomes; strengthening quality measurement and improvement; and identifying strategies to improve access, foster appropriate use, and reduce unnecessary health care expenditures.
The Spina Bifida Association of America (SBAA) will hold its annual conference "Patchwork of Our Lives" at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center, June 28-30.
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids spokesperson Tara Lipinski, New York City Health Commissioner, and New York tobacco prevention advocates recognize the New York City Department of Health's anti-smoking campaign.
Boston University Medical Center's (BUMC) Office of Clinical Research (OCR) recently received one of 35 Clinical Research Curriculum Awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
A team of University of Illinois at Chicago researchers has obtained a five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue testing plants from around the world for their ability to prevent cancer.
AHCPR plans to spend up to $11 million to support two to three centers of excellence for health care market and managed care research.
The Cancer Research Center at Boston University School of Medicine has been awarded one of only two new national grants awarded this year for cancer research from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Hazim J. Safi, M.D., has been appointed the chairman designate of the new department of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery being created at The University of Texas-Houston Medical School.
American Public Health Association today began work in its new headquarters at 800 I Street, N.W., in Washington, D.C.
The nation's first birth and family center will be launched in the District of Columbia on Monday, June 28.
The National Institutes of Health has granted $8.24 million to a team of Lerner Research Institute scientists led by Chairman George Stark, Ph.D., for continued studies on cellular defenses against cancer.
As part of the Special Olympics Healthy Athlete Program, the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) will provide skin screenings to the athletes at the 1999 Special Olympics World Summer Games.
The American Academy of Dermatology will be part of the effort to support extraordinary athletes through its participation in the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes Program.
The Academy of Natural Sciences Receives $2.1 Million to Assess Health of Nation's Largest Watersheds.
HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala, joined by U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), today announced 41 grants totaling $7 million to expand a program that recruits and trains retired professionals to identify waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala announced that Detroit, Philadelphia and Miami will be the first of 11 U.S. metropolitan areas to receive special technical assistance from federal teams of experts to help combat the spread of HIV/AIDS among racial and ethnic minority populations.
Leif Hallberg, Ph.D., M.D., of Goteborg University in Sweden, is the recipient of the second Danone International Prize for Nutrition for his lifelong research on iron and his development of the process for measuring iron absorption in the body.
Through the largest international public/private partnership ever undertaken by a U.S. academic medical center, specialized clinical services such as liver transplantation will be available in the coming weeks to the citizens of Sicily and southern Italy.
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a multi-disciplinary group of scientists in the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center a major grant to learn more precisely how aspirin and similar drugs may play a role in preventing colon cancer.
Kirk Thomas of Pelham was prepared for life-with-paralysis by UAB's Spain Rehabilitation Center -- now he heads an organization that opens the great outdoors to others with disabilities.
The Academy of Natural Sciences today announced the receipt of a $148,779 grant from the federal government's Save America's Treasures program to preserve its priceless collection of plant specimens from the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
With the help of Earvin "Magic" Johnson, AstraZeneca, announced its west coast launch of "The BREATHE Program"-Bringing Education on Asthma To Homes Everywhere-a national asthma education initiative focusing on families who face the daunting task of managing asthma.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering's new Laurence S. Rockefeller Outpatient Pavilion will house the country's first fully computerized photography system to follow patients at risk for melanoma,a deadly skin cancer.
A new standard for cancer care and comfort has been established with the opening of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Laurence S. Rockefeller Outpatient Pavilion.
Three leading vascular and podiatry surgeons have joined the Department of Surgery at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and are establishing a Foot Center at BMC to treat those with diabetes and lower extremity ulcers that often result in unnecessary foot amputation. Gary W. Gibbons, MD; Geoffrey M. Habershaw, DPM; and James S. Chrzan, DPM, will assume active roles at BMC on August 1, 1999.
Researchers at the University of Michigan and the KHC National Center of Cancer Control in Haifa, Israel, have been awarded a $4.8 million grant to study genetic aspects of colon cancer.
Officials from the Dominican Republic and Cornell University will celebrate the construction start of a multipurpose facility -- a biodiversity laboratory for undergraduate students and a distance-learning center for scholars of that Caribbean nation -- in ceremonies set for June 18 in the Punta Cana region of the Dominican Republic.
Richard A. Cosier, dean of the business school at the University of Oklahoma, will be the next dean of the Purdue University School of Management and the Krannert Graduate School of Management.
The USDA has provided more than $70 million for mental health facilities in the nation's rural areas during the Clinton-Gore Administration.
Two University of Michigan students have proposed a disease prevention program that is designed to encourage teen girls on Depo-Provera to use condoms and to educate them about sexually transmitted diseases.
A $90,000 fellowship from the National Institutes of Health will allow a University of Idaho Computer Science researcher to explore biological evolution and help him learn nature's rules to use in his research into genetic programming.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received one of 35 Clinical Research Curriculum Awards from the National Institutes of Health.
A two-part series on heart disease -- focusing particularly on the risks to Hispanic women -- was awarded a 1999 C. Everett Koop Media Award by the American Heart Association Western States Affiliate.
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