AScribe Medicine News Service articles from June 2005

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from June 2005

UC Davis Cancer Center Awarded $4.5 Million to Reduce Cancer Disparities in Asian Americans; U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui Announces New Grant in Sacramento.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Univ. of California, Davis, Medical Center SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- UC Davis Cancer Center has received $4.48 million from the National Cancer Institute to lead a new nationwide effort aimed at reducing...

Scientists Create Digital Bacteria to Forge Advances in Biomedical Research; Biological Assays on Computer Study Molecular Basis of Cellular Behavior.
June 3, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, June 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have constructed a computer simulation that allows them to study the relationship between...

University of Maryland Medical Center Surgeons Perform First 'Domino' Liver Transplant in Maryland; Rare Surgery Optimizes Limited Organ Supply.
June 3, 2005... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, June 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Maryland Medical Center is the first in Maryland to perform a "domino" or sequential liver transplant, an unusual procedure in which one...

Healthy Campers Are Happy Campers: New Advice Helps Parents, Camp Directors Prepare for a Safe and Healthy Summer Camp Season.
June 5, 2005... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- In just a few short weeks, 10 million American children will start heading off to summer camp. But before they go, health experts are issuing strong...

Statistical Method Provides Unprecedented Look at Genetic Underpinnings of Complex Diseases.
June 5, 2005... Byline: Harvard School of Public Health BOSTON, June 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a conceptual breakthrough, a team of researchers led by statisticians at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has figured out how to analyze huge...

Study Supports Whooping Cough Booster Shot for Adolescents; Analysis Weighs Costs, Efficacy, Disease Severity, Vaccine Side Effects.
June 5, 2005... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, June 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Despite childhood vaccination rates at all-time highs, pertussis (whooping cough) has re-emerged over the past two decades, especially among adolescents, adults,...

'Watch and Wait': Shift in Approach to Kids' Ear Infections; Educating Parents, Physicians Could Reduce Overuse of Antibiotics.
June 5, 2005... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, June 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The most frequent reason pediatricians prescribe antibiotics to young children is for an ear infection (acute otitis media). With increased concerns about high...

Promise of Stem Cell Research Focus of June 8 Meeting of Genomic Medicine Discussion Group at New York Academy of Sciences.
June 6, 2005... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, June 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Recent reports by Korean and British research groups that they have made significant progress in creating cloned human stem cell lines made headlines not only in...

New Tooth Whitener Could Help Heal Teeth.
June 8, 2005... Byline: American Dental Association NEW YORK, June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tooth whiteners that could enhance teeth's natural healing ability may soon be available in over-the-counter gels and strips, according to a dental researcher who...

Dental Scientists Seek to 'Tissue-Engineer' New Facial Skin and Bone.
June 8, 2005... Byline: American Dental Association NEW YORK, June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dental scientists are pushing tissue engineering technology to new levels, investigating a combination of therapies to more efficiently regenerate facial skin and...

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Marks 1,000th Unrelated Blood Stem Cell Transplant; Partnership With Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston First to Achieve Medical Milestone in New England.
June 8, 2005... Byline: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON, June 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in partnership with Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston, recently marked its 1,000th unrelated blood stem cell...

Joslin Diabetes Center Study Shows Weight Control Protects Against Low Birth Weight-Related Glucose Intolerance; Study to Be Presented Today at American Diabetes Association's 65th Scientific Sessions in San Diego.
June 10, 2005... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, June 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Obesity, physical inactivity, genetics and age have long been recognized as risk factors for developing high blood glucose and diabetes. But over the past few years,...

Joslin Scientists Confirm Link Between PKC Enzyme and Kidney Disease in Diabetes; Study Showing Role of PKC-beta 2 in Diabetic Complications to Be Presented at American Diabetes Association 65th Scientific Sessions in San Diego.
June 11, 2005... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, June 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have investigated PKC-beta - a critical enzyme implicated in the devastating complications of type 1 and type 2 diabetes - for more...

Iowa State Scientist Hopes to Boost a Flower's Production of Chemotherapy Drugs.
June 13, 2005... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, June 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Jackie Shanks' work to make periwinkle plants better producers of chemotherapy drugs started with her sister's diagnosis. Shanks was a graduate student at the...

Scientists Streamline Method for Making Key Virus.
June 13, 2005... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., June 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- By devising a novel way to package the genome of a common human tumor virus -- the virus that causes common warts, genital warts and that is implicated...

Mass Production of Human Papillomavirus May Lead to Gains Against Cervical Cancer.
June 13, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers may be on the verge of exploiting the vulnerabilities of a virus that causes cervical cancer, thanks to a newly developed technique that...

National Institutes of Health Awards $10.4 Million to Scripps Research Institute and Scripps Florida; First Grant for Research at Both Campuses Is Part of NIH Effort to Speed Progress of Discoveries From Lab Bench to Patient Bedside.
June 16, 2005... Byline: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., June 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A group of researchers at the La Jolla, California, and Palm Beach County, Florida, campuses of The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded a $10.4...

U.S. Department of Defense Honors Palo Alto Medical Foundation As Patriotic Employer of the Year.
June 20, 2005... Byline: Palo Alto Medical Foundation PALO ALTO, Calif., June 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Department of Defense recently awarded the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) a "Patriotic Employer of the Year" award for its efforts in...

Cancer Researcher Susan Band Horwitz, Ph.D., Wins Warren Alpert Foundation Prize for Work Developing Taxol.
June 22, 2005... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Susan Band Horwitz, Ph.D., the Falkenstein Professor of Cancer Research and Co-Chair of the Department of Molecular Pharmacology at the Albert Einstein College...

Survey Shows That Physicians Are More Religious Than Expected.
June 22, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago Hospitals CHICAGO, June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- The first study of physician religious beliefs has found that 76 percent of doctors believe in God and 59 percent believe in some sort of afterlife. The survey,...

23rd Annual Vintage Affaire Wine Auction to Benefit Peninsula Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
June 22, 2005... Byline: Peninsula Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired PALO ALTO, Calif., June 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tickets are now on sale for the 23rd annual Vintage Affaire, a charity wine auction and dinner to be held in the gardens of a...

'Laser Tweezers' Permit Penn Researchers to Describe Microscopic Mechanical Properties of Blood Clots; Better Understanding of Clot Physiology Can Lead to More Effective Therapies.
June 23, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time ever, using "laser tweezers," the mechanical properties of an individual fiber in a blood clot have been determined by...

Harvard School of Public Health Student Kevin Chan Wins $160,000 Trudeau Foundation Scholarship, Canada's Largest Scholarship for Doctoral Studies.
June 23, 2005... Byline: Harvard School of Public Health BOSTON, June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Harvard School of Public Health doctoral student, Dr. Kevin Chan, has been awarded Canada's largest scholarship for doctoral studies in the social sciences and...

Johns Hopkins Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Prevent Heart Arrhythmias From Stem Cell Transplants.
June 23, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins believe they have figured a way around a persistent barrier to successful adult stem cell therapy for millions of...

Jefferson Neurosurgeons, Radiation Oncologists Wrap Radiation Around Spine to Provide Cancer Pain Relief.
June 24, 2005... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, June 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using the most advanced radiation technology currently available in the region, neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists at the Jefferson Hospital for...

UC Davis Experts on Mad Cow/BSE.
June 27, 2005... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., June 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed Friday the nation's second case of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). UC Davis...

Joslin Diabetes Center Announces New National Joslin Vision Network Affiliation Program; First Affiliate is Koch Eye Associates in Rhode Island.
June 27, 2005... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, June 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Joslin Diabetes Center has launched a new affiliation program designed to bring Joslin's world-class vision resources to local communities across the United States and...

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia Collaboration Selected as One of 10 World Health Organization Worldwide Knowledge Network Hubs.
June 29, 2005... Byline: University of the Sciences in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The World Health Organization's (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) has selected University of Sciences in Philadelphia...

Drug to Treat Deadly Complication of Stroke Tested in Clinical Trial.
June 29, 2005... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Roanoke, Va., woman is the first U.S. participant in an international, multi-center trial of a new drug that shows promise in treating...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Names First Group Leaders for Janelia Farm Research Campus.
June 29, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced today that it has selected seven dynamic researchers to be group leaders at its Janelia Farm...

Identifying Blood Stem Cells Is a SLAM Dunk.
June 30, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers have developed a simple technique to identify hematopoietic, or blood-forming, stem cells based on a set of characteristic markers that the...

American Dental Hygienists' Association Announces 2005-2006 Leadership.
June 30, 2005... Byline: American Dental Hygienists' Association CHICAGO, June 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Katie L. Dawson, RDH, BS, of Oakland, Calif., was elected the 2005-2006 president of the Chicago-based American Dental Hygienists' Association on June...

Fighting Malaria by Manipulating Mosquitoes' Sense of Smell.
June 30, 2005... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Combating the spread of malaria by manipulating the mosquitoes' sense of smell is the object of an ambitious research project, led by Vanderbilt University, that...

Snoring Now, Hyperactive Later? Suspected Link Between Kids' Sleep-Breathing Problems and Daytime Behavior Gets Boost From University of Michigan Study.
June 30, 2005... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Several years ago, University of Michigan researchers published some of the strongest evidence yet that children who snore when they sleep are far...