AScribe Medicine News Service articles from October 2005

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from October 2005

Cerebellum Found to Be Important in Cognition, Behavior; Premature Babies With Cerebellar Damage Have Wide-Ranging Developmental Delays.
October 2, 2005... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Higher cognitive functions, like language and visual processing, have long been thought to reside primarily in the brain's cerebrum. But a body of research in...

Wicell Research Institute Receives $16 Million NIH Grant to Create National Stem Cell Bank.
October 3, 2005... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The WiCell Research Institute has been selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the federal government's first and only National...

Hopkins Study Shows Living Kidney 'Paired Donation' an Effective Strategy in Overcoming Donor-Recipient Incompatiblities; Results Suggest Technique Can Offer Transplants to Many More Patients.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Oct. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Johns Hopkins study has affirmed the success of living kidney "paired donation" (KPD) as a means of efficiently finding more kidney donors who are a match...

University of New Mexico Cancer Research & Treatment Center Earns National Cancer Institute Designation.
October 5, 2005... Byline: University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Oct. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of New Mexico Cancer Research & Treatment Center (CRTC) has been named a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer...

University of Texas at El Paso, University of New Mexico Awarded Multi-Million Dollar Grant From National Institutes of Health; Researchers to Study Impact of Air and Soil Quality on El Paso's Children.
October 5, 2005... Byline: University of Texas at El Paso EL PASO, Texas, Oct. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- UTEP and the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center will partner in a five-year study to examine the relationship between air, soil, household...

Purdue Alumnus Contributes to Future of Structural Biology.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University today will announce a major step toward creating a new home for one of its most internationally renowned research groups, thanks to alumnus...

Cleveland Bioethicist Heads Bowling Green State University's Values Exploration Program.
October 7, 2005... Byline: Bowling Green State University BOWLING GREEN, Ohio., Oct. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Cleveland bioethicist has been named director of BGeXperience, a Bowling Green State University program that leads first-year students to reflect on...

Penn Study Finds Direct Role for Glial Cells in Brain Cross-Talk; Findings May Help Elucidate Mechanisms of Wake-Sleep Transitions and Epileptic Seizures.
October 11, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated that star-shaped glial cells in the brain called astrocytes are...

Hutchinson Center to Help Lead, Coordinate Major Initiative to Study Link Between Obesity and Cancer; Center Receives More Than $18 Million as Part of $54 Million Effort Funded by National Cancer Institute.
October 11, 2005... Byline: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center SEATTLE, Oct. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - home of the world's largest and most well-established research program dedicated to understanding the causes of...

National Cancer Institute Grants $12.1 Million for USC Center to Study Obesity and Cancer; Keck School of Medicine to House New Research Center on Energetics and Cancer.
October 11, 2005... Byline: USC Health Sciences LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Cancer Institute has awarded researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California $12.1 million over five years to create a...

Avian Flu: Michigan State University Experts Available for Comment.
October 11, 2005... Byline: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich., Oct. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- From the health of fowl to biosecurity; from controlling infectious disease in animals to communicating risk to humans; from how human medicine merges with...

Immune Therapy Could Treat Leukemias, Autoimmune Diseases, Transplant Rejection.
October 11, 2005... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- In studies with mice, treatment with a new monoclonal antibody that targets immune system B cells has shown considerable promise for treating leukemias, autoimmune...

Institute Taps Computer Power to Advance Medical Research; Blending IT, Biology Could Lead to Earlier Diagnoses, Improved Disease Treatment.
October 12, 2005... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Oct. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Institute for Computational Medicine, launched today at The Johns Hopkins University, will address important health problem by using powerful information...

Low Blood Glucose Levels May Complicate Gastric Bypass Surgery, Study Shows.
October 12, 2005... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, Oct. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Physicians monitoring patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery should be on the alert for a new, potentially dangerous hypoglycemia (low blood glucose)...

Flu Virus Reported to Resist Drug Envisioned for Pandemic.
October 14, 2005... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Oct. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- An avian influenza virus isolated from an infected Vietnamese girl has been determined to be resistant to the drug oseltamivir, the compound better known...

Hopkins Researchers Receive $1 Million to Establish Interdisciplinary Pain Research Fellowships.
October 14, 2005... Byline: School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Oct. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new $1 million grant awarded to Johns Hopkins University from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will prepare postdoctoral fellows to work...

University of Chicago Breaks Ground for 10-Story Medical Research Facility; $162.5 Million Center for Biomedical Discovery to Focus on Science of Pediatrics, Cancer.
October 17, 2005... Byline: University of Chicago Hospitals CHICAGO, Oct. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- At 6 p.m. on Monday, October 17, 2005, the University of Chicago will break ground for a 330,760-square-foot, 10-story, blue-green, glass-walled building that...

New Site Gives Consumers Brand-by-Brand Safety Ratings for More Than 14,000 Personal Care Products; Finds Few Popular Health, Beauty Brand Ingredients Are Industry-Screened for Safety.
October 17, 2005... Byline: Environmental Working Group WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Through a new, interactive personal care product safety guide, "Skin Deep," consumers can consult brand-by-brand safety ratings for more than 14,000 products....

Notch Signaling Molecule Important in Type 2 Immunity; Findings May Lead to New Treatments for Asthma, Other Inflammatory-Related Diseases.
October 17, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Defects in immune system cells called T helper cells may lead to diseases characterized by a faulty inflammatory response such as autoimmunity and...

Radical Approach to Cardiac Resynchronization Shows Promise.
October 18, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Maryland, Oct. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Correcting the timing of heart contractions through cardiac resynchronization therapy can be a lifesaver for people with advanced heart failure....

University of California at Davis M.I.N.D. Institute Clinician Receives Grant for Fragile X, Social Anxiety Research.
October 18, 2005... Byline: Univ. of California, Davis, Medical Center SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded David Hessl, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences with the UC...

Judith Reppy to Discuss History of Bioterrorism at Lecture.
October 19, 2005... Byline: University of Puget Sound TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientist Judith Reppy will visit University of Puget Sound to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture at 4:30p.m., Monday, Nov. 7. The talk, which...

Mayo Clinic Cancer Center Finds Possible Genetic Link to Pancreatic Cancer; Study Shows Cystic Fibrosis Gene Mutation a Risk Factor for Young-Onset Disease.
October 20, 2005... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Oct. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mayo Clinic researchers have found the risk of developing pancreatic cancer at a young age (under 60) to be twice as high for people who carry a mutation of the gene that...

New Analysis Suggests Sirolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent Is Cost Effective in Treatment of Multi-Vessel Disease Versus Bypass Surgery.
October 20, 2005... Byline: Edelman Public Relations WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- An independent analysis of a clinical trial comparing the cost-effectiveness of the CYPHER(r) Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent vs. bypass surgery suggests that...

Using T-Cell-Based Vaccines, Penn Researchers Achieve Rapid Restoration of Immunity in Immune-Suppressed Cancer Patients; Novel Approach Reduces Time to Achieve Protective Levels of Immunity in Myeloma Patients by Nearly One Year.
October 20, 2005... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Patients with multiple myeloma suffer from a malignant proliferation of plasma cells in their bone marrow. The standard treatment for this form of...

University of Virginia Health System Wins Renewal of $6.2 Million Grant for Crohn's Disease Research.
October 21, 2005... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- A federal grant to The Digestive Health Center of Excellence at the University of Virginia Health System to study the cause of Crohn's disease...

Dr. Jonathan Moreno Elected to Prestigious Insitute of Medicine.
October 24, 2005... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Jonathan Moreno, PhD, Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the...

Doctoral Student's Research Brings Lessons, Insight to a Looming Pandemic.
October 25, 2005... Byline: Lehigh University BETHLEHEM, Pa., Oct. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- If health officials and media prognosticators are accurate, this coming winter may bring with it one of the most sweeping, deadly outbreaks of killer flu that the...

Wistar Institute Emeritus Professor Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D., Elected to Institute of Medicine.
October 25, 2005... Byline: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies has announced the election of 64 new members, including Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D., an emeritus professor of...

Purdue's Gold Nanorods Brighten Future for Medical Imaging.
October 25, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at Purdue University have taken a step toward developing a new type of ultra-sensitive medical imaging technique that works by shining a laser...

Study Examines Climate Change[sup.1]s Impacts on Health, Environment, Economy; Research Led by Harvard Medical School[sup.1]s Center for Health and the Global Environnent With Sponsorship From Swiss Re, United Nations Development Programme.
October 25, 2005... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Oct. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, along with co-sponsors Swiss Re and the United Nations Development Programme, will...

UC Santa Barbara's Autism Research and Training Center, a National Leader, Receives Major Gift from Brian and Patricia Kelly to Expand Program, Build New Facilities.
October 25, 2005... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Autism Research and Training Center at UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz Graduate School of Education has received a $2.35-million gift from...

Bloomberg School Receives $6.7 Million Contract to Investigate Health of Poor in Developing Countries.
October 26, 2005... Byline: Bloomberg School of Public Health BALTIMORE, Oct. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was awarded a $6.7 million contract to investigate the health of poor residents living in developing...

Video Game Prepares Health Workers for Disasters.
October 27, 2005... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, Oct. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- A video game that simulates biological, chemical, radiological and natural disasters in a major metropolitan area, developed by a team from the University of...