A panel of experts in national security policy, public health planning, terrorism financing, and counter-terrorism law enforcement will be presented by the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security to discuss threats to the nation and the world.
Nationally recognized academic leader Janet D. Allan, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been appointed by President David J. Ramsay, DM, DPhil, as dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing.
Michael Greenberger, JD, a former high-ranking government terrorism expert and a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, has been named director of the University's Center for Health and Homeland Security (CHHS).
The University of Maryland School of Law will choose its fall 2002 class from the largest applicant pool in its history, with nearly 5,000 applicants vying for 225 spots. The record number of applications marks an almost 85 percent increase over last year, continuing a strong upward trend in applications.
The Center on Drugs and Public Policy, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore will host "Healthcare Financing in the 21st Century: Cost Implications for Employers, Insurers, and Policy Makers," April 15-16, 2002 in Washington, DC.
January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month and women of childbearing age and expectant mothers are being reminded in January to take folic acid supplements to lessen the risk that their babies will be born with serious birth defects.
The professor and chair of the Department of Oral and Craniofacial Biological Sciences in the Dental School, and colleagues have received a $6.8M grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to study how the body's response to pain is shaped by previous experiences with pain.
A research team at the School of Pharmacy has found that while newer drugs comprise 45 percent of those most frequently prescribed, they are responsible for 75 percent of overall drug spending increases.
The University of Maryland has experts on terrorism and post-disaster coping available from the Schools of Law and Social Work.
The students from Fort Smallwood Elementary School in Anne Arundel County who built the "Braces In Space" experiment with the help of the University of Maryland Dental School will pack their experiment for the space shuttle.
An economic impact report prepared for the University of Maryland Baltimore shows it changes every $1 in state funds into $10 in economic activity.
Nationally recognized leader in the treatment of sexual problems will speak at the School of Social Work's winter seminar.
Mary A. Nichols has joined the new University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation, Inc. as assistant to the vice president.
Researchers at the University of Maryland schools of medicine and pharmacy found that anti-fever drugs such as aspirin and acetaminophen may prolong influenza A infections. (Pharmacotherapy, 12-00)
University of Maryland Baltimore President David Ramsay, DM, DPhil has been elected chair of the Association of Academic Health Centers.
The causes of fever blisters and the connection between oral skin health and the rest of the body are two of the topics a University of Maryland professor will include in his report to the American Dental Association meeting in Chicago October 14.
The Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry unveils its newest exhibition, "Watch Your Mouth! Sports & Dentistry," on Friday, October 6 at 6:30 p.m. at the University of Maryland Baltimore.
Educators, child welfare advocates, health care providers, social workers, community leaders gather to improve child welfare in Baltimore.
The University of Maryland and the Baltimore City Fire Department will showcase a new capping device designed to help deter vandalism on the University's outside sprinkler connections.
A $200,000 gift from Marla Oros, an assistant dean at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, and her entrepreneur husband, David Oros, will make it possible for the school to purchase and outfit a third mobile health clinic to serve uninsured children and adults in Maryland.
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.
Dentists and dental students, hygienists and faculty members from the University of Maryland Dental School will participate in the Special Olympics, Special Smiles Program, in an effort to provide oral health exams and screening to nearly 300 athletes.
A University of Maryland professor is lending his expertise to the search for a simple and accurate test for the detection and identification of illegal drugs on surfaces such as desks, computer keyboards and steering wheels.
Rite Aid Corp. has donated $50,000 to the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy to partially fund renovations to its Pharmacy Practice Lab; the gift represents the first half of a two-year, $100,000 commitment to the school.
Sworn in two years ago as the 16th Surgeon General of the U.S., David Satcher will address the candidates for professional degrees when he delivers University of Maryland Baltimore's commencement address on May 26.
Deborah Daro will deliver the 10th Louise Ranier Makofsky Lecture in Child Welfare, and Myra Hettleman will be honored with the 10th Annual Louise Ranier Makofsky Award in Child Welfare.
The National Association of Social Workers, Maryland Chapter, has selected Gust Mitchell as Social Worker Educator of the Year; it has also selected Pamela College as the Social Work Student of the Year.
The Victims' Rights Conference, a free, daylong forum at the University of Maryland's Baltimore campus, will be held on Friday, April 14, as part of National Victims' Rights Week (April 9-15).
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.
Some bacterial structures and disease-causing genes actually come from viruses that have integrated into the bacterial cell, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found.
The University of Maryland Psycbiatric Research Center will be the site of one of three centers funded nationwide by the National Institute of Mental Health to focus on schizophrenia research.In controlled studies, the new Intervention Research Centerwill evaluate the relative effectiveness of new drugs for treating schizophrenia.
When a person's heart stops, standard resuscitation includes treatment with 100 percent oxygen. Now researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences report that regular air - which is 21 percent oxygen - may be a better choice in some casess, helping prevent neurological damage that can occur after the brain is deprived of oxygen.
For the first time, researchers have published scientific data documenting novel, serious but reversible neuropsychological effects of exposure to waterways infested with Pfiesteria toxins.
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have discovered a mechanism that creates mutations in the DNA of cancer cells. They also have identified a component of the protein machinery responsible for copying the cell's DNA that is structurally different from the same protein in normal cells.
Animal studies using human cancer cells show that a natural sugar-phosphate compound found in rice and wheat bran and in legumes slows or stops teh growth of several kinds of cancer and shrinks existing tumors, a University of Maryland pathologist reports.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, aerobic exercise is a safe and effective way to improve the strength and cardiovascular fitness of stroke patients, even if they begin exercising six months or more after their stroke.
What if a common, naturally occurring substance could shrink tumors, stop their growth, even make cancer cells normal again? A University of Maryland researcher is finding that it can.
Low estrogen levels caused more than 50 percent miscarriage in pregnant baboons, primates whose hormones during pregnancy act much like those of humans. The fetuses died before miscarriage.
Interferon-alpha is used to treat several kinds of cancers. It is also effective against hepatitis B and C. However, interferon-alpha can cause central nervous system side-effects, includimg depression, slowed thinking and memory impairment. Fortunately, these side-effects can be treated successfully.
Embargoed release: University of Maryland scientists transform sodium channels into calcium channels. Their findings have important implications for development of new drugs for cardiovascular, neurological and muscular diseases.
Protection from strokes may be found in high doses of vitamins B6, B12 and folate. A University of Maryland researcher reports that high doses of B-vitamins lower homocysteine, an amino acid associated with increased stroke risk when levels in the blood are even slightly elevated.
Two studies by University of Maryland neurologists-one completed and one just beginning-address the higher risk of stroke that young African-Americans face.
Research has shown that children exposed to common environmental toxins like dioxin and PCBs prenatally or during infancy can suffer behavioral and learning problems. A University of Maryland researcher suggests that the underlying mechanism may be thyroid hormone disruption.
Sometimes cells are supposed to die. When cells don't die when they are supposed to, the result is cancer. Pathologists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine report research that brings them closer to their goal of understanding the process of programmed cell death, which could lead to development of drugs to cause or prevent it as appropriate.
Treatment using conventional antipsychotics show high rates of recidivism which, in turn, is costly for the system. However, new research from the University of Maryland shows that patients treated with the novel antipsychotic risperidone experienced a lower readmission rate than patients who received conventional antipsychotic treatment.
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have discovered a new type of sodium channel, a previously unknown step in the electrical process that controls heart beat. The discovery could pave the way to effective drug therapy for life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias.
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy are reporting on a new cancer drug delivery system that reduces toxicity, on a laser for measuring levels of a cancer drug in the body , and on the effectiveness of caffeine and sleeping aids for women in all three phases of their menstrual cycle, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Pharmceutical Scientists Nov. 2-6 in Boston.
Geneticists from the University of Maryland School of Medicine will present research findings on fetabl diagnosis of dwarfisms, diabetes genes among the Amish, and mutations leading to cardiovascular or kidney disease at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in Baltimore Oct. 28-Nov. 1.
More than 2,000 geneticists will present their latest research results at the 47th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics in Baltimore, Maryland October 29-November 1, 1997. Topics range from determining genetic predisposition to certain cancers, to revealing the genetics of HIV and obesity.
University of Maryland,Baltimore, neuroscientists report on herbal brain-cell armor, pain as a 2-way street, helpless rats as a model for depression therapies, and location in the brain of pain proscessing.
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