AScribe Medicine News Service articles from January 2004

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from January 2004

Study Links Fast Food to Overall Poor Nutrition, Obesity Risk; Fast Foods Displace Milk, Fruits, Fiber, Non-Starchy Vegetables While Children Consume More Calories.
January 5, 2004... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Jan. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- On a typical day when children eat fast food, they consume substantially more total calories, with poorer nutritional quality, than on a day when they do not eat fast...

Friendships Play Key Role in Suicidal Thoughts of Girls, But Not Boys.
January 5, 2004... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Relationships with friends play a significant role in whether teenage girls think about suicide, but have little impact on suicidal thoughts among boys, according...

UC San Diego Medical Center Receives National Institutes of Health Contract to Set up National Tuberculosis Educational Curriculum.
January 7, 2004... Byline: University of California, San Diego LA JOLLA, Calif., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California San Diego (UCSD) Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Division, was recently awarded a 5-year, $6.2 million contract by the...

Air Pollution May Significantly Worsen Respiratory Allergies in Individuals with Genetic Risk; Study in Lancet Points to How Diesel Exhaust Might Trigger More Sneezing, Coughing.
January 8, 2004... Byline: USC Health Sciences LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- As if the sneezing and watery eyes were not bad enough, California researchers have found that airborne components of diesel engine exhaust significantly worsen allergy...

Mayo Clinic Genomics Researchers Observe Genetic Fusion of Human, Animal Cells; May Help Explain Origin of AIDS.
January 8, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic genomics researchers are the first to demonstrate that mixing of genetic material can occur naturally, in a living body. The researchers have discovered...

Indiana University School of Medicine Researcher Receives International Honors for Career of Discovery.
January 9, 2004... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- An Indiana University School of Medicine physician-researcher is the first recipient of the prestigious Pasteur-Weizmann/Servier International Prize in...

TRI/Princeton Receives NIH Grant 'Nanofibrous Supports for Biomedical Sensors'; To Be Performed Under Direction of Dr. Alexander V. Neimark, Research Director.
January 9, 2004... Byline: TRI/Princeton PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- TRI/Princeton's Center for Modeling and Characterization of Nanoporous Materials recently received a two-year exploratory project from the National Institutes of Health...

Mayo Clinic Researches Ways to Better Treat Patients With Heart Defects.
January 13, 2004... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- In studies appearing in the January issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Mayo Clinic researchers report on procedures that were successful in closing an opening in the heart...

Consumer Group Says Mad Cow-Like Disease May Already Be Killing Americans; Organic Consumers Association Releases Report, Calls for Mandatory Reporting of Sporadic CJD.
January 13, 2004... Byline: Organic Consumers Association LITTLE MARAIS, Minn., Jan. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Organic Consumers Association, a nationwide citizen grassroots lobby, is releasing their latest report on the mad cow disease crisis written by...

UC Irvine, FDA to Pursue Joint Research, Education Opportunities; Historic Partnership to Benefit Programs in Social Ecology, Engineering, Chemistry, Biology and Medicine.
January 14, 2004... Byline: University of California, Irvine IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Believing that good neighbors make good partners, University of California, Irvine and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have agreed to jointly...

New University of Illinois at Chicago Programs to Address Nursing Shortage in Illinois.
January 15, 2004... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, Jan. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a major effort to reverse declining numbers of nurses in Illinois, the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in conjunction with the...

University of Maryland Expert: Avian Influenza Transmission.
January 15, 2004... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the wake of at least three confirmed human deaths from an avian influenza in Viet Nam this week, the question of the possibility of these...

First Live Webcast of Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair Will Originate From University of Maryland Medical Center.
January 21, 2004... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- People who log on to the Internet on Feb. 4, 2004, at 5:30 p.m., will see cardiac surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center perform an...

NHPCO in Collaboration with VistaCare and VITAS Provide $300,000 Grant to Fund Palliative Care Fellowships.
January 22, 2004... Byline: National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and the National Hospice Foundation are providing funding to support individual...

Jimmy Carter: 'Stop Guinea Worm Now'; Carter Center, WHO, UNICEF Escalate Efforts Against Guinea Worm Disease in West Africa; President Carter 'Blogs' for Peace, Health in West Africa.
January 23, 2004... Byline: The Carter Center ATLANTA, Jan. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and his wife, Rosalynn, will travel on behalf of The Carter Center to West Africa Feb. 2-6, 2004, to call international attention to the...

Medical Center, University Partnership Begins Innovative, $15 Million Accelerated RN/BSN Nursing Program to Address Nursing Shortage.
January 26, 2004... Byline: Calif. State University, Long Beach LONG BEACH, Calif., Jan. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- A precedent-setting $15 million collaboration between Long Beach Memorial Medical Center/Miller Children's Hospital and California State...

$500,000 Awarded for Glaucoma Research.
January 26, 2004... Byline: Glaucoma Research Foundation SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Glaucoma Research Foundation announced annual grants totaling more than $500,000 for research to find a cure for glaucoma. Research grants were awarded to...

Early Intensified Treatment Improves Outcomes for Children, Adolescents With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
January 27, 2004... Byline: National Childhood Cancer Foundation ARCADIA, Calif., Jan. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Cancer Institute-supported Children's Oncology Group (COG) has reported the results of a recent clinical trial of 1,318 patients,...

Head Start Children Receive More Health, Dental Services Than Other Poor Children: New Analysis of Most Recent Program Data.
January 28, 2004... Byline: Center for Law and Social Policy WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- As the Senate gets ready to vote on its Head Start reauthorization bill, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) has released a new policy brief that...

Experts Say Ocean Changes Triggered by Global Warming, Other Factors, Pose Growing Dangers to Human, Animal Life; Biosketches Below.
January 29, 2004... Byline: Harvard University Medical School WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The world's oceans are under stresses today from global warming and changes in coastal marine ecosystems resulting in loss of aquatic life and increasing...

Timothy Springer and Eugene Butcher Win Crafoord Prize, Royal Swedish Academy's Prestigious Bioscience Award.
January 29, 2004... Byline: The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research BOSTON, Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Timothy Springer, Ph.D., Senior Investigator at The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research in Boston, and Latham Family Professor at Harvard Medical...

New Guidelines for Drug Studies for Relapsed Prostate Cancer Patients: National Working Group Recommends Efficacy Be Proven Before Trial Progresses.
January 29, 2004... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- An abnormal or rising prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test is often the first indication that a man may have prostate cancer. Even after diagnosis,...