AScribe Medicine News Service articles from November 2005

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from November 2005

Agnes Scott College, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Agree to Establish Program for Student/Faculty Internships, Research.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Agnes Scott College ATLANTA, Oct. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Agnes Scott College and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have agreed on plans to create the first exchange program for internships, research and instruction...

California Chicken Owners Should Be on the Lookout for Avian Flu.
November 1, 2005... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture FRESNO, Calif., Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- This fall and winter, as migratory birds make their way down the Pacific Flyway, they may be packing avian flu, including the deadly and...

Consumer Reports Medical Guide Provides Free Information About Childhood and Teen Depression Treatment; Information About Risk Factors, Early Warning Signs, Treatment Comparisons to Help Parents, Kids Cope and Seek Medical Care.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Consumers Union NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- To highlight the importance of recognizing the symptoms of depression in children and finding childhood and teen depression treatment, Consumer Reports Medical Guide...

UV Measurement Tool to Aid Defense Against Infection Spread by Tap Water.
November 1, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering have developed a new way to measure microbes' exposure to ultraviolet light. The tool could bolster efforts to use UV...

Edgar M. Gillenwaters Joins Development Leadership at Burnham Institute for Medical Research.
November 1, 2005... Byline: The Burnham Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Burnham Institute for Medical Research ("BIMR") announced today the recruitment of Edgar M. Gillenwaters to the newly-created position of Vice President,...

FDA Approves First New Therapy in a Decade for Most Lethal Cancer.
November 2, 2005... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first new therapy in almost a decade for pancreas cancer, the fourth leading cause of cancer death in...

Noted Georgetown Physician-Scientist Richard G. Pestell, M.D., Ph.D., Named Director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson.
November 3, 2005... Byline: Thomas Jefferson University PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Richard G. Pestell, M.D., Ph.D., an internationally renowned expert in oncology and endocrinology, has been named director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at...

Johns Hopkins Celebrates Its First Century of Neuroscience.
November 4, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Solomon Snyder, the neuroscience department's first and only director, leads a symposium and celebration that looks back at historic discoveries at Hopkins...

Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Cyclists Raise $23 Million for Jimmy Fund; Largest Sum Ever Raised by Any Athletic Fundraising Event.
November 5, 2005... Byline: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON, Nov. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Pan-Massachusetts Challenge, the most successful athletic fundraising event in the nation, today contributed $23 million to cancer research and treatment at...

Turning Sensation Into Perception.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Nov. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Perceiving a simple touch may depend as much on memory, attention, and expectation as on the stimulus itself, according to new research from Howard...

Mutations in BRAF Gene Predict Sensitivity to Novel Class of Cancer Drugs.
November 6, 2005... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of researchers led by scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have discovered that a new class of drugs - now in early stage clinical...

Developmental Origins of Health & Disease (DOHaD) Conducts Third International Congress, Nov. 16 - 19; Conference Dedicated to Exploring Pre-Natal Origins of Adult Disease Is Hosted for First Time in North America.
November 7, 2005... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Nov. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Increasingly, evidence supports the notion that events occurring in the earliest stages of human development - even before birth - may influence the occurrence...

Nationwide Poll: 47 Percent of Americans Mistakenly Believe Eating Chicken Can Spread Bird Flu; Consumer Group Calls on Federal Government to Calm Fears, Criticizes Animal Rights Groups for Fueling Needless Panic.
November 8, 2005... Byline: The Center for Consumer Freedom WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nearly half of Americans questioned in a new opinion poll mistakenly believe that they can contract bird flu by eating chicken. Forty-seven percent of...

Be Wise...Immunize! A Message for Families and Caregivers.
November 10, 2005... Byline: Family Caregiver Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Administration on Aging, in conjunction with the National Center on Caregiving at Family Caregiver Alliance, has released a new Fact Sheet, "Be...

Cincinnati Children's Molecular Biologist Wins Achievement Award for Advances in Heart Disease Research.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati CINCINNATI, Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Jeffrey Robbins, Ph.D., a molecular cardiovascular biologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, will be honored with one of...

Cells Derived From Heart Stem Cells Can Repair Heart Attack Damage.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Stem cells derived from human heart tissue develop into multicellular, spherical structures called cardiospheres that express the normal properties of...

Results of Exercise Test May Predict Death in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic DALLAS, Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Exercise capacity, as measured in terms of VO2max, is a powerful predictor of death in patients with coronary artery disease, not just patients with heart failure. That is the...

Dr. Steven Goodman Named Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Biology and Medicine; U.T. Dallas Professor to Assume Post at Prestigious Journal in 2006.
November 14, 2005... Byline: University of Texas at Dallas RICHARDSON, Texas, Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. Steven R. Goodman, who holds a chaired professorship and directs a research institute at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), was named...

Twelve Institutions Selected to Help Students Gain Acceptance Into Medical or Dental School and Succeed Once They're Admitted.
November 14, 2005... Byline: American Dental Education Association WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Twelve medical and dental institutions nationwide have been selected to participate in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Summer Medical and Dental...

Compound From Marine Bacteria Shows Potential as Multiple Myeloma Therapy; Kills Blood Cancer Cells With Low Toxicity in Preclinical Studies.
November 14, 2005... Byline: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON, Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- An anti-cancer compound derived from bacteria dwelling in ocean-bottom sediments appears in laboratory tests to be a potent killer of drug-resistant multiple...

Columbia University Awards 2005 Horwitz Prize to Israeli Structural Biologist Ada Yonath, Developer of Technique for Cell Analysis; Research Has Infectious Disease Implications.
November 15, 2005... Byline: Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Columbia University will award the 2005 Louis Gross Horwitz Prize to structural biology professor and crystallography pioneer Ada Yonath, Ph.D., from the...

University of California at Davis Researchers Shed New Light on How Chemotherapy-Induced Leukemia Develops; Potentially Fatal Side-Effect May Be Preventable, New Study Suggests.
November 15, 2005... Byline: Univ. of California, Davis, Medical Center SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Topoisomerase II inhibitors are among the most successful chemotherapy drugs used to treat human cancer. But a small percentage of patients...

University of California at Davis Researchers Discover Genetic Switch Involved in Cells' Response to Radiation Therapy; Finding Could Lead to More Effective, Less Toxic Radiosensitizing Drugs for Cancer Patients.
November 15, 2005... Byline: Univ. of California, Davis, Medical Center SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- UC Davis Cancer Center researchers have discovered a genetic switch that causes cancer cells to become more sensitive to a drug...

Connective Tissue Cells From Lungs Fused with Heart Muscle to Form Biological Pacemaker.
November 16, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- In guinea pig experiments, Johns Hopkins scientists used common connective tissue cells taken from lungs with heart muscle cells to create a safe and...

Young Cancer Researchers Honored; Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research Goes to Three Investigators Who Have Made Important Contributions to Understanding of Disease.
November 17, 2005... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Nov. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Three young investigators who have made major accomplishments in cancer research will be the recipients of the 2005 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research...

Warning Labels on High-Risk Drugs Inconsistently Heeded by Doctors; Better Means of Communicating Risks Needed.
November 17, 2005... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Nov. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a survey of approximately 930,000 ambulatory care patients, researchers from the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention (of Harvard Medical School and...

New Drug Target Identified for Fighting Parkinson's Disease.
November 18, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins' Institute for Cell Engineering (ICE) have discovered a protein that could be the best new target in the fight against...

Magnetic Probe Successfully Tracks Implanted Cells in Cancer Patients; Technique Shows Injection Accuracy Is Critical, but Not Perfect.
November 18, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Nov. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- By using MRI to detect magnetic probes of tiny iron oxide particles, an international research team for the first time has successfully tracked...

New York Academy of Sciences, FDA, National Institute of Standards and Technology to Present Conference on Development of Biologic Drugs: Scientific Issues in Assessing Similarity of Follow-On Protein Products; Conference at New York Marriott in Brooklyn Dec. 12-14.
November 21, 2005... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, Nov. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- What are the scientific issues associated with the characterization and demonstration of similarity of protein pharmaceutical products? How does the process...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards $10 Million for Interdisciplinary Graduate Education.
November 22, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., Nov. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Biomedical science is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, as reliant on the physical and computational sciences as on biology. But how are the...

Rochester Institute of Technology Leads Online National Campaign to Help Earthquake Victims in Pakistan; As Nation Marks Thanksgiving, RIT Professors and Students Urge Communities to Give Back.
November 22, 2005... Byline: Rochester Institute of Technology ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Jonathan Schull is a professor at Rochester Institute of Technology who, like many of us, will celebrate Thanksgiving in a warm house surrounded by...

Burnham Institute for Medical Research Names Blair T. Blum Senior Vice President, External Affairs.
November 29, 2005... Byline: The Burnham Institute LA JOLLA, Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Burnham Institute for Medical Research announced today the appointment of Blair T. Blum as Senior Vice President, External Affairs. Ms. Blum will manage the...

NIH Grant Builds Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center-UMass Boston Partnership; Focus on Health Disparities, Cancer Research.
November 29, 2005... Byline: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON, Nov. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and the University of Massachusetts Boston have received a five-year, $4.3-million grant from the National Institutes of Health...