AScribe Medicine News Service articles from December 2004

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from December 2004

Science and Medicine -- Bridging the Gap: HHMI Commits $10 Million to Bring Medical Knowledge to Ph.D. Studies.
December 1, 2004... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Dec. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The gap between basic biology and medical practice is growing. As knowledge in molecular genetics and cell biology accelerates, the biomedical community...

Cardiac Institute's 11th Annual Cardiac Symposium at Maimonides Medical Center: Progress in Cardiovascular Disease.
December 2, 2004... Byline: Maimonides Medical Center BROOKLYN, N.Y., Dec. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Maimonides Medical Center today released the following media advisory. WHAT: The media is cordially invited to the Cardiac Institute's 11th Annual...

Establishing Pediatric Stroke Trials.
December 2, 2004... Byline: Maimonides Medical Center BROOKLYN, N.Y., Dec. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Maimonides Medical Center today released the following media advisory. WHAT: The media is invited to "Towards the Establishment of Pediatric Stroke...

'Fossil Record' of Human Immune System Reveals Antibodies That Block Cancer Metastasis; Humans May Fight Battles With Cancer Every Day.
December 2, 2004... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., Dec. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of researchers at The Scripps Research Institute has reconstructed the "fossil record" of the immune systems of a group of human cancer patients...

Hospital for Special Surgery Introduces Institute for Cartilage Repair Offering New Hope to 400,000 Americans Who Each Year Suffer Cartilage Injury; Hospital to Hold Continuing Medical Education Meeting, Dec. 4.
December 3, 2004... Byline: Hospital for Special Surgery NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- For competitive athletes and weekend warriors alike, knee cartilage injuries that fail to heal properly can take someone "out of the game" for life and mean an end...

Blacks, Poor More Likely to Donate Than Receive Many Types of Transplant Organs; Study Raises Concerns About Efforts to Offer Financial Incentives to Increase Donations.
December 6, 2004... Byline: Pending CLEVELAND, Dec. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Blacks and poor individuals are more likely to be donors while whites and wealthier individuals are more likely to be recipients of many types of transplant organs, according to a new...

Boy Who Received Unique Transplant Goes Home for Holidays.
December 6, 2004... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, Dec. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A 2-year-old who has spent his entire life in the hospital will be going home for the holidays, 10 months after a pioneering double transplant operation. ...

New York Academy of Science Meeting Highlights Advances in Detecting Amish, Jewish, Icelandic, Micronesian Genetic Diseases; Genomic Medicine Discussion Group Set for Dec. 8 at Rockefeller University.
December 6, 2004... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- As a result of the Human Genome Project, we are now able to locate genetic mutations and know much more about a person's medical future than ever before. For...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Announce Promising Next Generation Treatments for Multiple Myeloma.
December 6, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Dec. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The combination of two pills -- thalidomide and dexamethasone -- may be an effective alternative to the intravenous chemotherapy commonly prescribed to patients with...

Got Heart Disease? The Answer May Be in Your Fingertips.
December 6, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Dec. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A noninvasive fingertip test can identify patients with the earliest stages of heart disease and may prove cost-effective as a screening test, according to the findings of...

Physicians May Need to Dig Deeper When Treating HIV-Related Lymphomas; USC Study Finds Differences in Survival According to Lymphoma Type in Post-HAART Era.
December 6, 2004... Byline: USC Health Sciences SAN DIEGO, Dec. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- When it comes to treating HIV-positive patients with blood cancers, not all lymphomas are created equal, according to hematologists from the University of Southern...

Forbes Magazine Lists Direct Relief International Among Top U.S. Charities for Efficiency; California Nonprofit One of Only 12 U.S. Organizations to Receive 100 Percent Efficiency Rating.(Column)
December 9, 2004... Byline: Direct Relief International SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Direct Relief International is one of only 12 U.S. charitable organizations to receive a 100 percent fundraising efficiency rating by the Forbes...

Fred Hutchinson Receives $9.7 Million to Lead Consortium to Develop Molecular Tools for Early Cancer Detection; Collaborators Include Institute for Systems Biology, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Plasma Proteome Institute.
December 13, 2004... Byline: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center SEATTLE, Dec. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, has announced that SAIC-Frederick Inc. has made two-year awards, under a...

New York City Council Hosts Asian American Hepatitis B Program Launch at City Hall.
December 14, 2004... Byline: NYU Medical Center NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- New York City Council will launch the Asian American Hepatitis B Program (AAHBP), which addresses the disproportionately high prevalence of hepatitis B within the Asian...

Team Engineers New Approaches to Understanding Malaria, More.
December 14, 2004... Byline: MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Subra Suresh has spent the last two decades studying the mechanical properties of engineered materials from the atomic to the structural scale. So, until recently, the head of...

To Help Your Mind, Take Steps to Help Your Heart: New Study Suggests That Keeping Blood Pressure, Cholesterol Low May Help Some Dementia Patients More Than Alzheimer's Drugs.
December 14, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Could the same actions that help prevent a heart attack or stroke also prevent or slow the memory loss, confusion and thinking problems of...

Think Twice Before Giving Kids a Poker Set for the Holidays.(Column)
December 14, 2004... Byline: U. Conn. Health Center FARMINGTON, Conn., Dec. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Poker has become a popular pastime for teenagers around the country, thanks to the booming popularity of television shows that feature celebrities and unknowns...

Analysis of 1918 Flu Pandemic Suggests Vaccines Could Control Future Flu Threat; Swift Manufacture, Distribution Will Be Essential.
December 15, 2004... Byline: Harvard School of Public Health BOSTON, Dec. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- If a flu pandemic similar to the deadly one that spread in 1918 occurs, it may be possible to keep the pandemic in check through vaccinations, a new study...

Indiana University Will Use $53 Million Lilly Endowment Grant to Boost Life Sciences in Indiana.
December 16, 2004... Byline: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Indiana University President Adam W. Herbert announced today that the Lilly Endowment Inc. is giving IU Bloomington $53 million to broaden and intensify its life...

Discovery of First Demethylase Molecule, a Long-Sought Gene Regulator; Elusive Molecule Found After 40 Years of Speculation Could Be Target for Cancer Therapeutics.
December 16, 2004... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Dec. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have discovered an enzyme that plays an important role in controlling which genes will be turned on or off at any given time in a cell. The novel...

Hospital for Special Surgery to Serve as New York Mets' Team Physicians, Athletic Trainers.
December 16, 2004... Byline: Hospital for Special Surgery NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and the New York Mets announced today that the hospital's sports medicine physicians and other health professional staff...

Animal Studies Show Stem Cells Might Make Biological Pacemaker.
December 20, 2004... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Dec. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- In experiments in the lab and with guinea pigs, researchers from Johns Hopkins have found the first evidence that genetically engineered heart cells derived...

New York Surgeon Jeffrey P. Gold Named Dean of Medical College of Ohio School of Medicine.
December 20, 2004... Byline: Medical College of Ohio NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- A New York City cardiothoracic surgeon with more than 20 years of experience in academic medicine has been named the new dean for the Medical College of Ohio School of...

No Holiday for AIDS: Fight for Treatment Access in Thailand Grows.
December 27, 2004... Byline: American Jewish World Service NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- AIDS has not taken a holiday. More than 8,000 people around the world die daily from this pandemic. An estimated 40 million mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters,...