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Study: Heart's ability to pump effectively is diminished among people with common lung disease

A new study from Columbia University Medical Center researchers, has found that the heart's ability to pump effectively is diminished among people with a common lung disease, even in people with no or mild symptoms.

21 Jan 2010

Cognitive scientists link ancient questions to newest emerging fields of research in various areas

Cognitive Science represents the exploration of the human mind in the hope of answering some of humanity's oldest questions, from the origin of thought to the nature of knowledge.

20 Jan 2010

Taking opioids long term could hold small risk of addition

Coping with chronic non-cancer pain is a way of life for millions of Americans. Unfortunately, many older adults, in particular, hesitate to take opioids — a kind of narcotic — for fear of addiction. However, a new review finds that taking opioids long term is associated with clinically significant pain relief in some patients with a very small risk of addition.

20 Jan 2010

AMRI’s Rensselaer labs and manufacturing facilities receive SafeBridge Potent Compound Safety Certification

SAFEBRIDGE® CONSULTANTS, INC., headquartered in Mountain View, California, has announced that AMRI’s high potency research laboratories and GMP-manufacturing facilities in Rensselaer, New York have met the criteria established under the SafeBridge program for “Potent Compound Safety Certification” and have been deemed competent and proficient in the safe handling of potent active pharmaceutical ingredients (“APIs”).

20 Jan 2010

Omega-3 fatty acids may protect against cellular aging in coronary heart disease patients

Patients with coronary heart disease who had higher omega-3 fatty acid blood levels had an associated lower rate of shortening of telomere length, a chromosome marker of biological aging, raising the possibility that these fatty acids may protect against cellular aging, according to a study in the January 20 issue of JAMA.

20 Jan 2010

UF Institute on Aging receives $15M NIH construction grant

The University of Florida's Institute on Aging has received close to $15 million from the National Institutes of Health to construct an almost 40,000-square-foot complex for clinical and translational research.

20 Jan 2010

UTSA receives $9.2M in stimulus funding for scientific research

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) announced today that it received $9.2 million in stimulus funding for scientific research and university recruitment during 2009. The majority of that funding, from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, will support researchers in UTSA’s College of Sciences and College of Engineering.

20 Jan 2010

Boston University School of Public Health explores changing global health system for malaria research

This week PLoS Medicine publishes the third in a four-part series of policy papers examining the ways in which global health institutions and arrangements are changing and evolving.

20 Jan 2010

Perception of discrimination influences smoking in minority teen boys

The perception of discrimination increases the amount teenage minority boys smoke but does not increase the amount teenage minority girls smoke, according to a new study from the Indiana University School of Medicine.

20 Jan 2010

Zeshaan A. Rasheed receives the 2010 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network-AACR Pathway to Leadership Grant

The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network and the American Association for Cancer Research have awarded Zeshaan A. Rasheed, M.D., Ph.D., the 2010 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network-AACR Pathway to Leadership Grant.

20 Jan 2010

Human-milk diet nourishes very low-birth-weight preterm infants in NICU

Prolacta Bioscience, the first and only company to offer human milk fortifier (HMF) made from 100% human breast milk for premature and critically ill infants, has announced the results of a groundbreaking study that will have long-term benefits for the nutritional care of very low-birth-weight preterm infants (less than 2 pounds, 12 ounces or 1250 grams) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

20 Jan 2010

National Institutes of Mental Health awards $8M for HIV research

A multidisciplinary research team at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has been awarded $8 million in funding by the National Institutes of Mental Health to develop methods to rid the body of HIV.

20 Jan 2010

Cognitive fluctuations more likely to occur in older persons with Alzheimer's disease

Cognitive fluctuations, or episodes when train of thought temporarily is lost, are more likely to occur in older persons who are developing Alzheimer's disease than in their healthy peers, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

19 Jan 2010

Study of link between vitamin D deficiency and hypertension uses SunTech Medical’s Oscar 2 ABPM

A study led by Dr. William White and Dr. Pooja Luthra at the University of Connecticut Health Center is using the Oscar 2™, 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitor (ABPM) to investigate a possible link between vitamin D deficiency and hypertension.

19 Jan 2010

People with "mental lapses" more likely to have Alzheimer's disease

Older people who have "mental lapses," or times when their thinking seems disorganized or illogical or when they stare into space, may be more likely to have Alzheimer's disease than people who do not have these lapses, according to a study published in the January 19, 2010, print issue of Neurology-, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

19 Jan 2010

New study examines amputation-specific pain severity in men and women

With increasing numbers of men and women serving in combat and risking traumatic injury and limb loss, a new study published in The Journal of Pain, the peer-reviewed publication of the American Pain Society, concludes that self-reported amputation-specific pain severity is similar in men and women but there are considerable gender variations in overall pain outcomes, such as emotional health and pain-coping responses.

18 Jan 2010

NIH awards IU School of Optometry $2.35M for glaucoma research

An Indiana University School of Optometry researcher's ongoing work to improve testing for and treatment of one of the world's leading causes of blindness will advance with support from a $2.35 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

18 Jan 2010

Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease are the same

Nearly 20 years ago Huntington Potter kicked up a storm of controversy with the idea that Down syndrome and Alzheimer's were the same disease. Now the evidence is in: He was right.

18 Jan 2010

PATH MVI announces collaboration in development of malaria TBV

The PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) today announced a new collaboration to initiate development toward a vaccine that may eventually help eliminate and eradicate malaria. This collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) and the Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin) marks MVI's first investment in transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs). This vaccine approach aims to stop the malaria parasite from developing in the mosquito, effectively blocking transmission of malaria from mosquitoes to humans. Malaria kills nearly 900,000 people per year, most of them children younger than age five.

18 Jan 2010

Researchers discover how cells flatten out as they adhere to internal bodily surfaces

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have discovered how cells in the body flatten out as they adhere to internal bodily surfaces, the first step in a wide range of important processes including clot formation, immune defense, wound healing, and the spread of cancer cells.

18 Jan 2010

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Study: Heart's ability to pump effectively is diminished among people with common lung disease

Cognitive scientists link ancient questions to newest emerging fields of research in various areas

Taking opioids long term could hold small risk of addition

AMRI’s Rensselaer labs and manufacturing facilities receive SafeBridge Potent Compound Safety Certification

Omega-3 fatty acids may protect against cellular aging in coronary heart disease patients

UF Institute on Aging receives $15M NIH construction grant

UTSA receives $9.2M in stimulus funding for scientific research

Boston University School of Public Health explores changing global health system for malaria research

Perception of discrimination influences smoking in minority teen boys

Zeshaan A. Rasheed receives the 2010 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network-AACR Pathway to Leadership Grant

Human-milk diet nourishes very low-birth-weight preterm infants in NICU

National Institutes of Mental Health awards $8M for HIV research

Cognitive fluctuations more likely to occur in older persons with Alzheimer's disease

Study of link between vitamin D deficiency and hypertension uses SunTech Medical’s Oscar 2 ABPM

People with "mental lapses" more likely to have Alzheimer's disease

New study examines amputation-specific pain severity in men and women

NIH awards IU School of Optometry $2.35M for glaucoma research

Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease are the same

PATH MVI announces collaboration in development of malaria TBV

Researchers discover how cells flatten out as they adhere to internal bodily surfaces

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