Scott Barrows, internationally known biomedical artist and co-developer of the process for age progression of faces to find missing children, will become head of the biomedical visualization program at the University of Illinois at Chicago in August.
AmericasDoctor.com, the privately held, online health care product and services company, today announced the addition of the University of California, Irvine Medical Center as its first West Coast sponsor and partner in the nation's only Internet-based, 24-hour/7 days a week, real-time physician chat, health information and resource system.
The University of Minnesota is one of two universities to receive the first Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Technology Development Grant, which will provide up to $2.5 million for development of "Sleeping Beauty," a novel system for transferring genes into vertebrate cells.
The University of Illinois at Chicago department of disability and human development has received a $3-million grant to help ensure that people with disabilities are included in the national effort to promote health and prevent disease by increasing physical activity.
Statement by Dr. Rita R. Colwell on Being Appointed to the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century.
A new outpatient Center for Sympton Control andPalliative Care has opened at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center under the direction of Dr. Eduardo Bruera, newly appointed chairman of the Department of Symptom Control and Palliative Care.
A 3.7 million pound (UK) research programme to investigate the transmission of disease-causing bacteria in cattle is underway. These new studies will improve our understanding of food-borne infections which often have major public health implications.
The dirt beneath your feet holds many secrets, not the least of which may be the next miracle drug.
Forty years worth of proprietary paleontological research will be released to the public this week when BP Amoco hands its Paleontological Data System software and database to the Energy and Geoscience Institute (EGI) at the University of Utah. Recently appraised at $11.3 million, the database contains information on the evolutionary origination and extinction of all fossil groups necessary for making geological interpretations relevant to the exploration and development of oil and gas. It contains almost worldwide coverage of evolutionary sequences for these fossils across 500 million years.
AmericasDoctor.com, the Internet-based, real-time physician chat and health information system has formed an exclusive partnership with the Betty Ford Center, the renowned alcohol and drug dependency treatment service provider. The relationship strengthens AmericasDoctor.com's role as a major resource for addiction and rehabilitation information available on the Internet.
Fred L. Brown, vice chairman of BJC Health System in St. Louis, and Chairman of the American Hospital Association, has been named Chairman of the National Professional Advisory Board for AmericasDoctor.com, the nation's only Internet-based, 24-hour/7 days a week, real-time physician chat, health information and resource system.
For the second time in as many years, a unique group of 34 American liberal arts colleges is hitting the road to 10 cities across the country to collectively deliver a special message to prospective students. What they have in common, besides their size and commitment to the liberal arts, is their appearance in a 1996 book entitled "Colleges That Change Lives."
The W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles has made two $1 million awards to the University of California, San Diego. One award will establish two state-of-the-art satellite sites in support of interdisciplinary biomedical research. A second $1 million award has been given to Partho Ghosh of UCSD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry under the Keck Foundation's new Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research program.
Science@NASA is pleased to announce XRayTelescope.com, a new web site featuring science news and information about x-ray astronomy and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
A $1.4 million grant will help three medical schools improve the formal teaching of good doctor-patient communication skills, and better incorporate this instruction into clinical work during the third and fourth years of study, when medical students interact daily with patients.
"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.
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