AScribe Medicine News Service articles from February 2004

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from February 2004

Oregon State University, Portland Firm Develop Portable Kidney Dialysis Machine.
February 2, 2004... Byline: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore., Feb. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Portland company is using an emerging microtechnology from Oregon State University to develop a portable kidney dialysis machine that will make in-home...

Jimmy Carter Calls for Urgency in Fight to Eradicate Guinea Worm Disease in West Africa; Ghana Accepts Challenge.
February 4, 2004... Byline: The Carter Center TAMALE, Ghana, Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Today, 650 kilometres north of Ghana's capital city, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and senior officials from The Carter Center, the World Health Organization, and...

Purdue University Researchers Create Device That Detects Mass of Single Virus Particle.
February 4, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Purdue University have developed a miniature device sensitive enough to detect a single virus particle, an advancement that could have many...

Two U. T. Dallas Scientists Named Guest Editors of Journal's Special Issue on Sickle Cell Disease; Publication to Examine State of Research of Blood Disorder.
February 5, 2004... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two scientists from The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) will play key roles in the production of a special issue of the prestigious journal Cellular...

Grant Expands Indiana University-Kenya AIDS Program.
February 5, 2004... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The success of a two-year program to treat HIV/AIDS in adults and children in Kenya has attracted a one-year, $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Agency...

Joslin Diabetes Center Announces Affiliate in Charleston, S.C.; New Center Devoted to Prevention.
February 5, 2004... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, the world leader in diabetes research and care, announced today its affiliation with prevecare, a preventive medicine center in...

Yeast Mutations Offer Window Into Human Disease; McGill, University of Toronto Researchers Collaborate on Encouraging Discovery.
February 5, 2004... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Different combinations of genetic mutations may give rise to diverse human traits, including complex diseases such as schizophrenia, say scientists at the University of...

University of Virginia Team Designs Computer Model to Predict Pathways of Blood-Vessel Growth; Model May Have Applications in Pharmaceutical Industry for Treatment of Heart Disease, Diabetes, Cancer.
February 5, 2004... Byline: University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of researchers at the University of Virginia has developed a complex computer model that can accurately predict how and where new blood vessels will...

University of Puget Sound Ethicist Calls South Korean Cloning Breakthrough 'Wonderful Science'.
February 12, 2004... Byline: University of Puget Sound TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Prominent bioethicist Suzanne Holland, associate professor and chair of the Religion Department at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., reacts...

Expert: Duke University Bioethicists Take Differing Views on Cloning Breakthrough.
February 12, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Thursday's announcement that South Korean scientists had cloned human embryos for stem-cell research raises troubling questions about the fundamental ethical boundaries of...

Anthrax Spores Can Germinate, Grow, Reproduce in Soil; Contrary to Prevailing Wisdom, University of Michigan Research Shows Mammalian Host Not Required.
February 14, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System SEATTLE, Feb. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- For Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax, nothing beats the inside of a warm human or animal host for triggering an intense spurt of rapid...

Study: Inexpensive Four-Drug Combo Saves Heart Patients' Lives; 90 Percent Cut in Death Risk From Aspirin, Beta Blocker, ACE Inhibitor, Statin.
February 16, 2004... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- An inexpensive cocktail of four tiny pills can make a big difference in heart patients' death risk, a new University of Michigan study finds. And...

Chemical That Turns Mouse Stem Cells Into Heart Muscles Discovered by Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute.
February 17, 2004... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- A group of researchers from The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at The Scripps Research Institute and from the Genomics Institute of the Novartis...

Spinning the Losing Cancer War -- by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., and Quentin D. Young, M.D.
February 23, 2004... Byline: Cancer Prevention Coalition CHICAGO, Feb. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following is an editorial by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition and professor emeritus of Environmental & Occupational Medicine at...

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Awarded $125 Million from CDC for Multicountry Antiretroviral Program in Africa; Builds Upon School's MTCT-Plus HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Initiative in Developing Countries.
February 24, 2004... Byline: Columbia University Health Sciences Division NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- A consortium led by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health received a $125 million five-year cooperative agreement from the Centers...

Purdue University Chemists 'Put the Twist' on Protein Building Block.
February 25, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University scientists have made an important biological molecule "swing," in work that might clarify the process by which proteins fold as well as lead to...

Genetic Alliance Hires Sharon Terry As President, CEO; Non-Profit Organization Veteran Brings Extensive Expertise in Genetic Disease Innovation, Lay Advocacy Capacity-Building.
February 26, 2004... Byline: Genetic Alliance WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Genetic Alliance today announced the appointment of Sharon Terry to the new role of President and Chief Executive Officer. Terry, who will join the staff effective...

National Leader in Oral Health Issues Named Associate Dean of Dentistry.
February 26, 2004... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, Feb. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Caswell Evans, executive editor of the U.S. Surgeon General's landmark 2000 report on the state of the nation's oral health and advocate for the subsequent...

Biological Sciences, Physics Converge at Idaho State University Idaho Accelerator Center.
February 27, 2004... Byline: Idaho State University POCATELLO, Idaho, Feb. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Biological science and accelerator research are converging at Idaho State University where Dr. Linda DeVeaux is firing accelerator beams at yeast cells and other...