Flu Vaccines Aimed at Younger Populations Could Reduce Transmission
Posted On Thursday, June 13, 2013 By USA Education News. Under OREGON Tags: Flu vaccines, Jan Medlock, National Institutes of Health, reduce transmission, serious complications
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The huge value of vaccinating more children and young adults for influenza is being seriously underestimated, experts say in a new report, while conventional wisdom and historic vaccine programs have concentrated on the elderly and those at higher risk of death and serious complications.
A computer modeling analysis ...
Emory, Georgia Tech receive first human exposome center grant in U.S.
Posted On Sunday, May 26, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GEORGIA Tags: Emory University, HERCULES Center at Emory University, National Institutes of Health, NIEHS, Rollins School of Public Health
Investigators at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, along with partners at the Georgia Institute of Technology, have received a $4 million grant over four years to establish the HERCULES Center at Emory University (Health and Exposome Research Center: Understanding Lifetime Exposures). The grant is the first exposome-based ...
Legal Levels of Atrazine Alter Neuroendocrine, Reproductive Genes in Zebrafish
Posted On Thursday, April 4, 2013 By USA Education News. Under INDIANA Tags: Jennifer Freeman, National Institutes of Health, Purdue University, toxicology
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University study found an agricultural herbicide alters reproductive and neuroendocrine genes during embryonic development in fish, a finding that will help establish a genetic profile to determine atrazine's specific effects.
"The exact connection to health outcomes is not defined, but we found gene alterations in ...
National Institutes of Health Conference Coming to South Dakota
Posted On Saturday, March 23, 2013 By USA Education News. Under SOUTH DAKOTA Tags: National Institutes of Health, Small Business Technology Transfer, South Dakota universities, STTR, University of South Dakota
VERMILLION, S.D. -- The University of South Dakota Research Park will host the National Institutes of Health’s 15th annual Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Conference in Sioux Falls, S.D., Oct. 28-30.
Close to 500 attendees are expected at this national conference that focuses on the ...
Top Number Lower, Aging Process Slower?
Posted On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT Tags: Calhoun Cardiology Center, Dr. Leslie Wolfson, Dr. William White, National Institutes of Health
Can an aggressive lowering of the average daily blood pressure in a hypertensive patient slow the brain’s aging process?
University of Connecticut Health Center physicians are conducting a federally funded clinical trial to compare treatment approaches and their effect on changes in the brain related to mobility, memory and urinary function ...
U Prof. Gets $3.7 Million For HIV Research
Posted On Thursday, January 31, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: $3.7 million grant, HIV research, HIV treatments and vaccines, National Institutes of Health, University of Colorado
A University researcher is a few years away from potentially improving treatments and vaccines for HIV.
The National Institutes of Health awarded associate professor Pam Skinner and her collaborator a five-year, $3.7 million grant for HIV research.
Skinner, along with University of Colorado Denver professor Elizabeth Connick, will spend the next five ...
NSBDC Offers Workshop To Help Nevada Businesses Win Federal Funds
Posted On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: Federal funds, National Institutes of Health, NSBDC, Small Business Technology Transfer Programs, University of Nevada
Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs (SBIR/STTR) are federally funded programs that support companies pursuing innovative technologies, and together, they comprise the largest start-up fund in the country. In an effort to bring more of these grants to Nevada, the Nevada Small Business Development Center (NSBDC) ...
High School Jobs: Impact Differs For Whites And Minorities
Posted On Monday, January 28, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MICHIGAN Tags: African American, Hispanic students, National Institutes of Health, University of Michigan
ANN ARBOR—African-American and Hispanic students are less likely than whites to work part-time in high school, according to a University of Michigan study. But those who do hold jobs tend to work longer hours, and are less likely to suffer negative consequences.
Those are among the findings of a new analysis ...
Colorado State University Researcher Aims to Optimize Aging Experience for Graying Population
Posted On Friday, January 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under COLORADO Tags: Colorado State University, Graying Population, Manfred Diehl, National Institutes of Health, self-perceived age
FORT COLLINS - How does a person know when he or she is old? The answer is more complicated than one might think. A Colorado State University researcher is working to unravel the complicated interaction between how young or old a person feels – self-perceived age – and his or ...
Researcher Wins New Innovator Award to Study Oral Vaccine Delivery
Posted On Thursday, January 3, 2013 By USA Education News. Under TEXAS Tags: Chemical Engineering, Harvinder Gill, Innovator Award, mitigated, National Institutes of Health, Vaccine Delivery
A Texas Tech University chemical engineering researcher received a five-year, $2.2 million grant in direct cost from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study an innovative oral vaccine delivery platform.
Harvinder Gill, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, is one of 51 recipients of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, ...
Research Will Focus on Developing Rehab Approach For Older Adults With Chronic Low Back Pain
Posted On Monday, December 10, 2012 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE Tags: chronic low back pain, Department of Physical Therapy, National Institutes of Health, University of Delaware
All low back pain is not created equal, and Gregory Hicks would like to find a way to better individualize care and improve clinical outcomes for older adults suffering from this debilitating condition.
Hicks, associate professor in the University of Delaware’s Department of Physical Therapy, has been awarded a five-year, $2.35-million ...
