AScribe Medicine News Service articles from October 2006

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from October 2006

Progesterone Shows Promise as Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Emory Medical Center ATLANTA, Sept. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Giving progesterone to trauma victims shortly following brain injury may reduce the risk of death and the degree of disability and appears to be safe, according to a...

Penn Leads $98 Million Translational Medicine Collaboration; 11 Other Health Centers Across U.S. Also Receive Awards.
October 3, 2006... Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine $68 million over the next five years, along...

University of Virginia Studies Potential Target for Skin Cancer Treatment.
October 3, 2006... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- When normal skin cells become a melanoma tumor, they sometimes turn on genes not usually found in the skin. According to researchers at the...

California Pacific Medical Center Donates Another $2 Million to Help Uninsured.
October 3, 2006... Byline: California Pacific Medical Center SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- California Pacific Medical Center President and CEO, Dr. Martin Brotman, today pledged to contribute another $2 million in 2007 to help provide medical...

New Allergy Vaccine Provides Long-Lasting Hay Fever Relief After Just Six Weeks of Shots.
October 4, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Oct. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have successfully used an experimental DNA-based vaccine to protect against ragweed allergies,...

Dr. Zilda Arns Neumann to Receive 2006 Opus Prize at Notre Dame.
October 5, 2006... Byline: University of Notre Dame SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Dr. Zilda Arns Neumann, a pediatrician who founded and leads Pastoral da Crianca (the Pastoral of the Child), an innovative public health program that works...

New Website Describes Marine Biotechnology and Tales Behind the Research.
October 5, 2006... Byline: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution FORT PIERCE, Fla., Oct. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Since the 1970s, marine scientists have been working in earnest to scour the world's oceans in search of organisms that produce drugs with the...

Hopkins Researchers Uncover Critical Player in Cell Communication; Implications for Cause of Rare Cognitive Disorder.
October 5, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Oct. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Johns Hopkins researchers have teased out the function of a protein implicated in Williams-Beuren syndrome, a rare cognitive disorder associated with overly...

Rescuing Injured Hearts by Enhancing Regeneration: Animal Study Suggests Novel Way to Reverse Heart-Attack Damage.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Oct. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using a two-drug approach, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have demonstrated that it may be possible to rescue heart function after a heart attack and...

University of Virginia Researchers Awarded $1.5 Million From National Cancer Institute to Develop Office-Based Cancer Screening Test.
October 9, 2006... Byline: University of Virginia Health System CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Patients go to see their doctors for answers, but when it comes to cancer, physicians admit they need better tests to detect the earliest...

Key to Lung Cancer Chemo Resistance Revealed.
October 10, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Oct. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered how taking the brakes off a "detox" gene causes chemotherapy resistance in a common form of lung cancer. ...

Burnham Institute Awarded $12.7 Million From NIH to Create One of Nation's Top Neuroscience Research Centers; Collaborative Research Award Will Be Shared With Salk Institute, Scripps Research Institute, UC San Diego.
October 11, 2006... Byline: The Burnham Institute LA JOLLA, Calif., Oct. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $12.7 million to the Burnham Institute for Medical Research for a collaborative research program including...

Mouse Tests Predict Drug Response in Relapsing Pancreatic Cancer Patients.
October 11, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Oct. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- By slicing up bits of patient tumors and grafting them into mice, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center specialists have figured out how to accurately "test...

FDA Approves New Drug for Advanced Lung Cancer; Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Led Clinical Trial That Helped Show Drug's Promise.
October 12, 2006... Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- Promising results from a clinical trial led by lung cancer specialist, Alan Sandler, M.D., director of Thoracic Oncology at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center,...

Public Health Advocacy Institute's Fourth Annual Conference on Legal Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic: 'Targeting Kids: The Food Industry and Children's Diets'.
October 13, 2006... Byline: Public Health Advocacy Institute BOSTON, Oct. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Leading legal and academic scholars as well as public advocacy experts will explore potential legislative, regulatory, and litigation strategies dealing with...

Berkeley Cancer Genome Center to Study Tumor Genomics.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The newly established Berkeley Cancer Genome Center, led by members of the Life Sciences Division in the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley...

Study Finds Mass Vaccination Unnecessary in the Event of a Large-Scale Bioterrorist Smallpox Attack in the U.S.; Prompt Surveillance and Containment of Victims Would Effectively Thwart an Epidemic.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center SEATTLE, Oct. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mass vaccination would not be necessary in the event of a large-scale smallpox bioterrorist attack in the United States, according to a study led by...

University of Chicago Team Successfully Uses Chemistry to Predict Dynamics of Clotting in Human Blood.
October 16, 2006... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Oct. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- University of Chicago chemists have demonstrated for the first time how to use a simple laboratory model consisting of only a few chemical reactions to predict when and...

Preparing for a Deadly Flu Pandemic: New York Academy of Sciences Meeting Highlights Latest in Vaccines, Therapeutics, Public Preparedness; Emerging Infectious Disease Discussion Group Meeting Set for Oct. 23.
October 18, 2006... Byline: New York Academy of Sciences NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists agree it's only a matter of time before the next flu pandemic strikes. In 1918, a particularly lethal strain of the flu killed at least 50 million...

HYPER-CEST MRI Breaks New Ground in Molecular Imaging.
October 19, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley...

Joslin Diabetes Center Partners With Acadie-Bathurst Health Authority in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada; Marks First Canadian Affiliate for Global Leader in Diabetes Treatment.
October 19, 2006... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, Oct. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Joslin Diabetes Center, the global leader in diabetes research, care and education, has announced its partnership with Acadie-Bathurst Health Authority (ABHA) in New...

Racial Disparities Widespread in Health Plans Serving Medicare Patients, Even in High-Quality Plans; Routine Reporting of Health Plan Disparity Measures Could Help Improve Equity, Outcomes.
October 24, 2006... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Oct. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Numerous studies show the African-Americans receive worse quality of care relative to white Americans across a broad array of medical conditions - disparities...

Dynamic Stabilization Provides Alternative to Fusion Surgery.
October 24, 2006... Byline: Univ. of California, Davis, Medical Center SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Phyllis Eres is passionate about golf. She plays a few times each week and, at recent golf tournaments in Northern California and Oregon,...

University of California, Davis Vascular Specialists to Perform Live Cases Broadcast to International Gathering.
October 24, 2006... Byline: Univ. of California, Davis, Medical Center SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nearly 12,000 physicians, technicians and other specialists will observe University of California, Davis vascular specialists John R. Laird...

Cardiovascular Researcher Is New Johns Hopkins Nursing M. Adelaide Nutting Professor.
October 25, 2006... Byline: School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Oct. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Jerilyn K. Allen, RN, ScD, FAAN, a leading researcher in cardiovascular nursing and medicine, has been named the M. Adelaide Nutting Professor in...

Space Radiation Threats to Astronauts Addressed in Federal Research Study.
October 25, 2006... Byline: University of Colorado, Boulder BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- A better understanding of solar storms and how best to protect astronauts from space radiation is needed as NASA pushes toward manned missions to the...

Christopher Kennedy Lawford Urges America to Face Its Silent Epidemic -- Hepatitis C; Lawford Joins Hep C STAT! Campaign, Encourages Others to Stop, Test and Treat.
October 26, 2006... Byline: Manning Selvage & Lee NEW YORK, Oct. 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Christopher Kennedy Lawford today announced his new role in helping to educate America about hepatitis C, a silent viral infection of the liver that affects an estimated...

National University of Singapore Establishes New Centre for Education and Research Into Biomedical Ethics.
October 27, 2006... Byline: National University of Singapore SINGAPORE, Oct. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National University of Singapore (NUS) is pleased to announce the setting up of a new Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine....

Texas Christian University's School of Nurse Anesthesia Achieves National Accreditation; Program Is Fourth Largest in Nation.
October 27, 2006... Byline: Texas Christian University FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Texas Christian University's School of Nurse Anesthesia, in the Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences, exceeded national accreditation standards on...

Joslin Study Shows Durability of Insulin Pump Therapy for Adolescents, Identifies Factors to Help Them Overcome Barriers to Success.
October 31, 2006... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, Oct. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- In spite of its many advantages, there are many challenges to using an insulin pump to treat type 1 diabetes. Despite these challenges, however, more and more youngsters...

Newer Approach Urged in Screening for Aggressive Prostate Cancer; Start in 40s, Measure Rate That PSA Increases, Hopkins Researchers Say.
October 31, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Oct. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine say that how fast the amount of PSA (prostate-specific antigen) in a man's blood increases,...

Reading Disabilities Put Students at Risk for Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior, Dropping Out of School.
October 31, 2006... Byline: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Nov. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Teen-agers with reading problems are at significantly higher risk for suicide and for dropping out of school than typical readers,...