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AScribe Medicine News Service archives from April 2006
Bird Flu Symposium Registration Deadline Is Wednesday.
April 3, 2006... Byline: University of California, Davis
DAVIS, Calif., April 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The registration deadline for the public April 15 symposium on the threat of an epidemic of avian influenza is Wednesday, April 5.
UC Davis experts on...
Vanderbilt LifeFlight Receives National Accreditation; First Program in Tennessee to Meet National Accreditation Standards.
April 4, 2006... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center's LifeFlight air ambulance program has become the first program in Tennessee to receive accreditation from the...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Names 20 New Million-Dollar Professors; Top Research Scientists Tapped for Their Teaching Talent.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
CHEVY CHASE, Md., April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Teaching often takes a back seat to research at leading American universities. Determined to change that fact, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
Cambridge Health Alliance Appoints Chief of Geriatrics.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Cambridge Health Alliance
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) announces the arrival of Anne Fabiny, MD, as Chief of Geriatrics in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Fabiny, a clinician and...
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Launches Five-Year Program to Improve Public Health Education in Africa; USAID Provides $2 Million to Build Leadership and a Public Health Network.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Bloomberg School of Public Health
BALTIMORE, April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will lead a five-year initiative to strengthen the capacity of public health schools in East Africa. Work...
Two Cambridge Health Alliance Psychiatrists Named Distinguished Fellows by American Psychiatric Association.
April 5, 2006... Byline: Cambridge Health Alliance
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is honored to have two psychiatrists elected as Distinguished Fellows by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
Jean...
Partnership Announced to Promote Leadership in Dental Education.
April 6, 2006... Byline: American Dental Education Association
WASHINGTON, April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Three leading oral health promotion organizations announced today the creation of a partnership to expand leadership development for the nation's dental...
Researchers Use Mass Spectrometry to Detect Norovirus Particles; New Process Could Aid Biodefense in Rapidly Detecting Dangerous Pathogens.
April 7, 2006... Byline: Bloomberg School of Public Health
BALTIMORE, April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists have used mass spectrometry for decades to determine the chemical composition of samples but rarely has it been used to identify viruses, and...
Columbia University Names UC San Francisco Professor Lee Goldman as New Executive Vice President for Health Sciences; Internationally Recognized Expert in Health Outcomes Research, Public Health to Lead University's Medical Center.
April 10, 2006... Byline: Columbia University Medical Center
NEW YORK, April 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced the appointment of Lee Goldman, M.D., MPH, as Columbia University's new Executive Vice...
Myeloproliferative Disorders Foundation Funds Research for Incurable Blood Disorders.
April 10, 2006... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago
CHICAGO, April 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Myeloproliferative Disorders Foundation has awarded $750,000 to establish the MPD Research Alliance, a collaboration of the University of Illinois at...
USC Receives First Round of Stem Cell Training Funds From California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
April 10, 2006... Byline: USC Health Sciences
LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California received funds to begin a 3-year, $3.16 million stem cell training grant as part of the...
New York Academy of Sciences Conference Highlights Latest Advances in Primary Immunodeficiencies (SCID) - the 'Boy in the Bubble' Disease; One-Day Conference Scheduled at Rockefeller University April 25.
April 12, 2006... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences
NEW YORK, April 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Thirty years ago, a film entitled "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" starred John Travolta as a child stricken with Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID) who...
Therapeutic Prospects Beyond Vioxx: Penn Study Suggests New Class of Anti-Inflammatory Drugs That Might Lessen Chance of COX-2 Cardiovascular Problems.
April 17, 2006... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System
PHILADELPHIA, April 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have clarified the mechanism by which drugs like Celebrex and Vioxx cause heart...
Scientists Discover a Genetic Switch That Links Animal Growth, Cancer.
April 17, 2006... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Laboratory discoveries by scientists at two universities may lead to new directions in cancer therapy drugs. The researchers have...
Purdue Scientists Find Hypertension Drug Reverses Death of Cells.
April 17, 2006... Byline: Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University researchers have identified a drug commonly used to treat hypertension that may also reverse damage from spinal cord injuries, cancer and...
Engineers Creating Small Wireless Device to Improve Cancer Treatment.
April 17, 2006... Byline: Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Engineers at Purdue University are creating a wireless device the size of a rice grain that could be implanted in tumors to tell doctors the precise dose of...
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Public Health School Helps Shape Future Disaster Planning by Documenting Unmet Health Needs of Katrina-Displaced.
April 20, 2006... Byline: LSU Health Sciences Center
NEW ORLEANS, April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Working with Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, a group of students from LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans' School of Public Health...
New Method Designed to Analyze One of the Most Complex Regions of the Human Genome: Genes That Regulate the Immune System.
April 21, 2006... Byline: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
SEATTLE, April 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have developed a new method for analyzing the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) of the human...
National Institutes of Health Awards $13.3 Million to Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh for National Technology Center for Networks and Pathways.
April 24, 2006... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University
PITTSBURGH, April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh has received a five-year, $13.3 million grant from the National Institutes...
Predicting Outcomes for Kidney Transplant Patients.
April 25, 2006... Byline: Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati
CINCINNATI, April 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new study in the American Journal of Transplantation cites evidence in favor of using the protein biomarkers NGAL and IL-18 as a means to...
Professor Addresses Importance For More Chernobyl Studies.
April 25, 2006... Byline: Texas Tech University
WASHINGTON, , Apr. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Texas Tech University professor Ron Chesser addresses importance for more Chernobyl studies.
WHO:
Ron Chesser, director for the Center of Environmental...
Keeping Amyloid -- and Alzheimer's -- in Check.
April 26, 2006... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
CHEVY CHASE, Md., April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have identified a protein that reins in the rogue activity of the molecules that make the amyloid-beta protein-which may prevent normal...
Sludge Recycling Sends Antiseptic Soap Ingredient to Agriculture.
April 26, 2006... Byline: Bloomberg School of Public Health
BALTIMORE, April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health measured levels of an antibacterial hand soap ingredient, triclocarban, as it passed...
Penn's Center for Bioethics Presents 10th Anniversary Symposium: 'The Legacy of the Terri Schiavo Case: Why Is It So Hard to Die in America?'.
April 26, 2006... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System
PHILADELPHIA, April 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Pennsylvania Health System today released the following advisory; media are invited to cover the event.
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Surgeon Trained at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore Brings Advanced Surgery to Troops In Afghanistan.
April 27, 2006... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System
BALTIMORE, Apr. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- The first minimally invasive gall bladder surgery ever to be performed in Afghanistan is scheduled for Friday, April 28, 2006. It paves the way for this...
Nancy Andreasen Receives First Annual Vanderbilt Prize.
April 28, 2006... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa, has been selected as the first recipient of the Vanderbilt Prize in...