Saturday, September 10th, 2011
Specialists in Stony Brook University School of Medicine's Departments of Neurology and Neurological Surgery took part in a nationwide National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored clinical trial, the results of which showed that patients at high risk for a second stroke had a lower risk of stroke and death when treated ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
In what the National Institutes of Health (NIH) deem "unacceptable," it has been discovered that black researchers are 10 percentage points less likely than their white counterparts to receive research grants from the same organization. Blacks were less likely to receive the grants, regardless of education, training, citizenship, country ...
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Sunday, July 24th, 2011
Though it generally is known that obesity dramatically increases the risk for type 2 diabetes, the biological mechanisms for that connection still are unclear. Backed by several grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), James Granneman, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences and pathology in Wayne State University's ...
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
A University of Pittsburgh institute aimed at accelerating the pace of translating science into real-life treatments for patients has received $67.3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand its work over the next five years. Pitt's Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is among 10 institutes nationwide ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
P2D Bioscience (P2D, Inc.), a pharmaceutical development company, today announced that its lead Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) stimulant drug, PD2005, demonstrated efficacy in treating the core symptoms of ADHD in preclinical ADHD models. The independently conducted studies were funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). ...
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