AICR Launches Cancer Research Update
The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) adds a new biweekly newsletter to its electronic offerings today, with the launch of Cancer Research Update. This email-only publication spotlights the important work of scientists who study cancer prevention.
'Trust Machinery' Identified In The Brain
The brain centers triggered by a betrayal of trust have been identified by researchers, who found they could suppress such triggering and maintain trust by administering the brain chemical oxytocin.
NARSAD Researchers Showcase New Treatment Options For Severe Depression; Provide New Clues About Treating Clinical Anxiety And Schizophrenia
New findings from research supported by NARSAD, the world's leading charity dedicated to mental health research, and conducted by scientists at Washington University's School of Medicine (WUSM) now point to new options for treating preschool-aged children with significant clinical depression as well.
Modeling How We See Natural Scenes
Sophisticated mathematical modeling methods and a "CatCam" that captures feline-centric video of a forest are two elements of a new effort to explain how the brain's visual circuitry processes real scenes. The new model of the neural responses of a major visual-processing brain region promises to significantly advance understanding of vision.
Chronic Constipation - Movetis Presents New Data At Digestive Disease Week
Movetis NV, a European-based GI specialist pharmaceutical company, today announces that it has presented substantial new data from different studies this week at the prestigious Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2008 Congress.
AMA Indigenous Scholarship Winner Has Eye On Community Health, Australia
A medical student with a passion for improving health in remote communities has won the AMA Indigenous Peoples' Medical Scholarship for 2008.AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, awarded the scholarship to Ms Gemma Johnston, a medical student at The University of Western Australia.
White House Opposes Use Of Medicare Advantage Indirect Medical Education Funds As Offset In Medicare Bill, Sen. Baucus Says
Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on Tuesday after a meeting of committee leaders said that the White House opposes the use of a decrease in Medicare Advantage indirect medical education funds to offset the cost of a provision in a broader Medicare bill that would delay for 18 months a scheduled 10.
Superiority Of Bivalirudin In Heart Attack Patients At 30 Days Revealed By Landmark Study
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) has announced that the New England Journal of Medicine published results of the HORIZONS AMI trial which showed the use of the anticoagulant bivalirudin following angioplasty in heart attack patients reduced net adverse clinical events by 24 percent compar.
Cancer Research UK Garden Wins Gold At The 2008 RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Leading charity Cancer Research UK has won a Gold Medal at the 2008 Chelsea Flower Show for its garden. Designed by three-time Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal winner Andy Sturgeon, the inspiration for this year's garden was the enormous amount of progress that Cancer Research UK is making in beating cancer.
Federal Appeals Court Declares Virginia Abortion Ban Unconstitutional
On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., declared a Virginia law banning so-called "partial-birth" abortion unconstitutional, the Washington Post reports. In a 2-1 decision, the panel said the law infringed on a woman's constitutional right to abortion (Barnes, Washington Post, 5/21).