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NBA Cares, SAHM and Tulsa Shock guard partner for teen vaccine awareness campaign

Tulsa Shock guard Andrea Riley and Basketball Hall of Famer Bob Lanier teamed up with NBA Cares and the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine today to bring Vaccines for Teens to the Tulsa community.

5 May 2011

Desmond Tutu calls on youth to lead next generation in HIV/AIDS fight

Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday at a meeting on Robben Island, South Africa, that "was meant to be a symbolic passing of the torch from an older generation of activists to younger people," called on youth to lead the next generation in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Agence France-Presse reports.

5 May 2011

New poll: 57% of women believe mammograms should start at age 40

A U.S. health task force stunned much of the medical world and many women in November 2009 by recommending that most women didn't need to get their first mammogram until age 50.

5 May 2011

Marianjoy Medical Library launches new website on developmental problems, chronic conditions

InformationConnections.org, the informative website for parents of children with developmental disabilities and chronic diseases, was recently launched by the Marianjoy Medical Library. The National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region, provided a grant to create and manage the website.

5 May 2011

Penn State receives USDA grant for childhood obesity prevention training program

Sustainable, comprehensive and problem-based training to prevent child obesity will now be possible thanks to a $4.5 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

5 May 2011

UCSF scientists elected as members of National Academy of Sciences for excellence in biomedical research

Alexander D. Johnson, PhD, and Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, have been elected as members of the National Academy of Sciences for their excellence in original scientific research. It is one of the highest honors bestowed on a scientist or engineer in the United States.

5 May 2011

Drinking from bottle beyond infancy may contribute to obesity

Experts agree that obesity prevention should begin before children enter school. But due to a lack of conclusive data, health care providers often have trouble advising parents about which interventions are the most beneficial. A new study soon to be published in The Journal of Pediatrics suggests that limiting prolonged bottle use in children may be an effective way to help prevent obesity.

5 May 2011

Nation's emergency physicians warn about dangers linked with deep vein thrombosis

As temperatures warm and travel picks up around the country, the nation's emergency physicians issue a warning about the serious dangers associated with deep vein thrombosis.

5 May 2011

Roundup: Vt. universal care bill advances; Duluth, Minn., seeking to change retiree health benefits; Texas steps back from plan to close centers for disabled

Dr. James Mongan, a physician with a specialty in politics who for decades helped shape the health care debate in Washington, D.C., and the Commonwealth, and who formerly served as president of Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners HealthCare, died in MGH yesterday.

5 May 2011

DaVita completes nationwide rollout of wireless Internet access at dialysis treatment clinics

DaVita Inc., a leading provider of kidney care services for those diagnosed with end stage renal disease and chronic kidney disease, today announced that every one of its clinics across the country now makes wireless Internet access available to all patients while they undergo dialysis treatments.

4 May 2011

Yale, Debiopharm partner to develop and commercialize Debio 1036 for inflammatory diseases

Debiopharm Group, a global biopharmaceutical development specialist that focuses on serious medical conditions and particularly oncology, and Yale University, a premier university with a long tradition of both basic and clinically directed biomedical research, announce an exclusive worldwide license agreement concerning the development and commercialization of Debio 1036, a first-in-class inhibitor for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

4 May 2011

UW School of Pharmacy receives Dohmen donation to enhance students' education

Dohmen Company CEO Cynthia LaConte announced today that the Dohmen Company Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the 153-year-old healthcare services company, has donated $100,000 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy.

4 May 2011

Health IT can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and produce environmental savings

An analysis by Kaiser Permanente shows that use of health information technology can dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and produce other important environmental savings.

4 May 2011

New online tool can help evaluate and improve emergency communications

Leveraging Israel's experience in dealing with crises on a daily basis, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researcher, Dr. Zvi Reich, has launched a new online tool to help and evaluate and improve crisis preparedness and emergency communications.

4 May 2011

New nano-vault delivery system can fight cancer

UCLA scientists have discovered a way to wake up the immune system to fight cancer by delivering an immune system-stimulating protein in a nanoscale container called a vault directly into lung cancer tumors, harnessing the body's natural defenses to fight disease growth.

4 May 2011

Opinions: U.S. development aid, commitment to women; R&D partnerships and development

Once again, Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers report has ranked Afghanistan, where one in 11 women die of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, the worst place in the world to be a mother, which "is not surprising," Ret. Army Col. John Agoglia, who served as director of the Counterinsurgency Training Center-Afghanistan in Kabul from 2008-2010, writes in a Politico opinion piece.

4 May 2011

NYU Langone Medical Center to establish new emergency facility

NYU Langone Medical Center broke ground today on the construction of a new emergency facility, the Center for Emergency Services, which will nearly triple the size of the current emergency department.

4 May 2011

The Bonati Spine Institute to participate in the Arthritis Walk on May 7

The Bonati Spine Institute, the leading center for the patented Bonati Spine Procedures for minimally invasive laser spine surgery, announces that a team of employees will participate in the Arthritis Walk on May 7.

4 May 2011

New USDA funded, research-based program to combat child obesity

A five-year $4.5 million USDA grant to University of Illinois researchers will establish the Illinois Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Program, an innovative research-based program that will combine a Ph.D. with a master's in public health degree focused on child obesity prevention.

4 May 2011

Thoratec reports $99.5 million revenue for first quarter 2011

Thoratec Corporation, a world leader in device-based mechanical circulatory support therapies to save, support and restore failing hearts, said today that revenues from continuing operations in the first quarter of fiscal 2011 were $99.5 million versus revenues of $99.3 million in the same period a year ago.

4 May 2011

Education News and Research

NBA Cares, SAHM and Tulsa Shock guard partner for teen vaccine awareness campaign

Desmond Tutu calls on youth to lead next generation in HIV/AIDS fight

New poll: 57% of women believe mammograms should start at age 40

Marianjoy Medical Library launches new website on developmental problems, chronic conditions

Penn State receives USDA grant for childhood obesity prevention training program

UCSF scientists elected as members of National Academy of Sciences for excellence in biomedical research

Drinking from bottle beyond infancy may contribute to obesity

Nation's emergency physicians warn about dangers linked with deep vein thrombosis

Roundup: Vt. universal care bill advances; Duluth, Minn., seeking to change retiree health benefits; Texas steps back from plan to close centers for disabled

DaVita completes nationwide rollout of wireless Internet access at dialysis treatment clinics

Yale, Debiopharm partner to develop and commercialize Debio 1036 for inflammatory diseases

UW School of Pharmacy receives Dohmen donation to enhance students' education

Health IT can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and produce environmental savings

New online tool can help evaluate and improve emergency communications

New nano-vault delivery system can fight cancer

Opinions: U.S. development aid, commitment to women; R&D partnerships and development

NYU Langone Medical Center to establish new emergency facility

The Bonati Spine Institute to participate in the Arthritis Walk on May 7

New USDA funded, research-based program to combat child obesity

Thoratec reports $99.5 million revenue for first quarter 2011

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