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IADR/AADR meeting to highlight dental practice-based research
03-23-2007 · EurekAlert!The 2007 meeting of the International and American Associations for Dental Research will feature a symposium on research that is conducted in the everyday practice of dentistry.
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- St. Jude program reduces weight gain in young African-American girls
11-07-2007 · EurekAlert!
A community-based weight control program designed by investigators now at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is the first such intervention to succeed for up to two years in reducing the prevalence of overweight children, according to a report presented at the American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, Fla.
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- China embraces agricultural innovations through partnership with India-based international center
12-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
Chinese agricultural scientists and rural communities have embraced diverse agricultural innovations through a partnership with the India-based International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, resulting in higher incomes and better living conditions for rural people. These are among many benefits being highlighted at the 2007 Annual General Meeting of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research in Beijing on Dec. 3-7.
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- New diagnostic technologies offer non-invasive means
04-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
Molecular messages and signals circulating in blood or contained in cells lining the airway can identify early stage cancer, according to research reported today at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. Scientists looking to apply basic science knowledge to medical practice are developing tests that diagnose, predict or monitor cancer risks, without invasive tissue sampling. Such tests could benefit all, particularly underserved populations, such as the poor, who often wait until symptoms appear before seeing a doctor.
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- ISHLT membership explores expansion of computer modeling system for organ allocation
04-25-2007 · EurekAlert!
The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation announces evaluation of a new mathematical modeling system for lung allocation in the United States and the ethical issues surrounding organ allocation facing patients awaiting transplants. Both will be discussed at its 27th annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, today in Satellite Symposium 9, "Continued Evaluation of Heart and Lung Allocation Using Evidence Based Research."
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- Youth justice -- Stereotype or evidence based?
05-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
New research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council calls into question previous assumptions that youth justice practice is evidence based and that young people's views are taken into account. The research, which looks at how practitioners in the field of youth justice make their judgements, finds that magistrates often believe that they know best, disregarding the advice of Youth Offending Teams and other professionals.
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- Dr. Caroline Wagner presents on dynamic self-organizing networks in higher education
02-15-2008 · EurekAlert!
SRI senior policy analyst Caroline Wagner, PhD, will deliver a talk titled Science, Ethics, and Institutional Traditions Around the World at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston from Feb. 14-18. Wagner's talk is based on research for her new book, The New Invisible College: Science for Development, which is being published in Spring 2008 by The Brookings Institution Press.
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- Cancer tip -- Of asthma and aspirin, 2 studies highlight role of inflammation in cancer
04-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
Can reducing inflammation keep cancer at bay? Two novel studies presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research that examine use of common anti-inflammatory agents suggest this might be the case.
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- Pancreatic cancer vaccine halts progression of disease in some patients
04-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
A dendritic cell-based therapeutic vaccine for pancreatic cancer developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has successfully stalled the disease from progressing in a handful of patients three years post-vaccination. The results, part of a press briefing on cancer vaccines held at the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research, provide promising evidence that the vaccine can trigger a patient's own immune system to rally against pancreatic cancer.
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- Gene therapy, cancer-killing viruses and new drugs highlight novel approaches to cancer treatment
04-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
Studies presented at the 2007 meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research show how researchers are using the new, as well as the natural, to help design and test new drugs to treat cancer.
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- New clinical guideline for low-back pain
10-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
A summary of evidence on the diagnosis, treatment of low-back prompts the American Pain Society and the American College of Physicians to issue a new treatment guideline. The guideline is based on research conducted at the Oregon Evidence-Based Practice Center, Oregon Health & Science University. Among the recommendations: clinicians should rely less on X-rays and expensive diagnostic imaging and reports and more on therapies supported by the evidence, including some medications and some alternative therapies.
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