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The funds include $ 1 million awarded through the Foundation's New Investigator Establishment and New Investigator Equipment grant programs.
The article, which is featured in the July 2009 online issue of Nature Reviews/Drug Discovery, was written by Antonio Giordano, M.D., Ph. D., the Director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, the Director of t
Using a novel computational strategy and subsequent experimental validation, the researchers discovered that two commercially available drugs, currently prescribed for the treatment of Parkinson's disease- entacapone and tolcapone- have the
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Lyme disease in children is often overlooked in its earliest stages, leading to these complications later on, according to Emma Jane MacDermott, M.D., pediatric rheumatologist at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
UMDNJ is the nation's largest free-standing public health sciences university with more than 5,700 students attending the state's three medical schools, its only dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, a school of health re
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" Our data have indicated that improvements in treatment are continuing and that these will continue to have an effect on prostate brachytherapy data for years to come", Richard Stock, M.D., lead author of the study and chairman of radiatio
Newswise - Prostate cancer patients who receive brachytherapy and remain free of disease for five ye
In the study, researchers at The Mount Sinai Medical Center Departments of Radiation Oncology and Urology in New York followed 742 prostate cancer patients who were treated with brachytherapy alone, brachytherapy and hormonal therapy, or co
" Normally, El Niñ o results in diminished hurricanes in the Atlantic, but this new type is resulting in a greater number of hurricanes with greater frequency and more potential to make landfall", said Peter Webster, professor at Georgia T
" These results underscore the importance of determining whether, as in the C. elegans nervous system, a diversity of biogenic amine-gated chloride channels function in the human brain", said H. Robert Horvitz of the McGovern Institute for
Baseball isn't a contact sport; while being hit by a pitch, sliding to home base or occasionally colliding can cause injury, more often players are plagued by overuse issues.