U.S. agrees to limit medical research on chimpanzees

2011-12-15T12:30:10Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) will sharply curtail medical research studies using chimpanzees, humans' closest relative in the animal kingdom, after an expert panel said such studies are rarely warranted.

Chimp research rarely warranted: U.S. expert panel

2011-12-15T08:30:10Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Use of chimpanzees in government-funded medical research should be strictly limited, reserved only for studies where no suitable alternative is available or where testing in people would be unethical, a U.S. expert panel said on Thursday.

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The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (http://cleancookstoves.org), headed by the United Nations<...

Analysis: Gene sequencers face govt budget squeeze

2011-09-12T12:30:29Z

Bangalore (Reuters) - Companies that make the gene-sequencing devices used in scientific research face a tough few years as potential cuts to the U.S. federal budget squeeze funding to its main academic and research customers.

As the high cost of sequencing deters commercial use, the $1.5 billion market for gene-sequencers is dom...

National Institutes of Health revises conflict of interest rules

2011-08-23T13:30:54Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Institutes of Health revised on Tuesday its 16-year-old conflict of interest rules for medical researchers, lowering the amount of money that constitutes a financial conflict and expanding the required disclosures.

The 1995 regulations effectively put responsibility f...

Blacks get less science funding than whites: US study

2011-08-18T16:00:08Z

Black scientists lag behind whites in US government funded research grants with a 10 percentage point gap between the two that cannot be explained by education or experience, a study said Thursday.

The National Institutes of Health, which funnels more than 30 billion dollars into scientific research each year, commissioned ...

Blacks win fewer health research grants in U.S.

2011-08-18T11:30:15Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Black researchers are significantly less likely to win grant funding from the National Institutes of Health than white applicants, according to a study published on Thursday, and the director of the agency says ...

Data 'matchmaker' finds new uses for drugs

2011-08-17T15:30:22Z

US scientists have devised a drug-disease matchmaking program that mines databases for potentially useful new treatment combinations and has turned up two so far, said a study on Wednesday.

For instance, a drug commonly used to alleviate ulcers has shown promise against lung cancer and an epilepsy medicine for halting seizures could also work against inflammatory bowel disease, the study said.

The research, led by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) have seized on the case which pits them against a powerful federal research agency, the <...

Cellphone use yields more 'active' brain scan: study

2011-02-22T19:30:24Z

Cellphone use appeared to measurably increase brain activity in dozens of test subjects in a new study, though it failed to resolve a debate over whether the devices pose health risks.

The study in Wednesday's edition of The Journal of the American Medical Association, was carried out by sc...

Cellphone calls alter brain activity: study

2011-02-22T13:30:16Z

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Spending 50 minutes with a cellphone plastered to your ear is enough to change brain cell activity in the part of the brain closest to the antenna.

But whether that causes any harm is not clear, scientists at the National Institutes of ...

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Viagra may help heart effects of muscular dystrophy

2010-10-18T13:00:35Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Viagra, developed to help ailing hearts long before it got a more high-profile job fighting erectile dysfunction, might help treat heart symptoms of muscular dystrophy, researchers reported on Monday.

Tests in mice genetically engineered to have a condition similar to Duchenne muscular dystrophy showed the drug could improve ...

Mouse Study Sheds Light on Hearing Loss in Aging Humans

2010-11-02T12:40:23Z

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Chimps' future prompts debate over NM primate lab

2010-09-22T09:15:24Z

NM governor feels the love from chimps as he pitches alternative in dispute over their future

A decision to move 186 chimpanzees from a southern New Mexico facility to Texas is pitting government officials and scientists against a coalition of elected officials and animal rights advocates, including New Mexico's governor and famed primate researc...

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2010-10-14T12:36:33Z

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2010-11-02T14:39:35Z

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Stem Cell Ruling Ripples Through U.S. Life Science Industry

2010-09-11T18:37:32Z

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Universities, Scientists Urge NIH to Narrow Conflicts Rule

2010-09-11T16:31:23Z

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Scientists zero in on genetic origins of heart disease

2010-08-04T16:30:29Z

A massive genome sweep of 100,000 people has uncovered dozens of gene variants that can boost two types of blood lipids, or fat, known to contribute to heart disease, scientists reported Wednesday.

Taken together, the 95 variants -- 59 spotted for the first time -- account for up to a third of genetically-determined cholesterol and triglyceride levels.

The findings, published as two studies in Nature, open up multiple paths for the design of drugs that could help tame "bad" c...

NRC report pins down future biosecurity

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2010-09-22T21:52:02Z

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Holder And Sebelius Convene National Summit On Health Care Fraud

2010-03-28T05:13:07Z

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2010-04-04T06:33:57Z

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2010-06-26T04:12:58Z

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U.S. agrees to limit medical research on chimpanzees

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