http://www.healthnewswire.net/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2012-02-07T18:05:53+00:00 http://www.healthnewswire.net/hospitals_and_medical_centers/1107.html 2009-09-24T15:29:00+00:00 2009-09-24T15:29:00+00:00 admin LA JOLLA, CA and NEW YORK, NY – Today, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and The Scripps Research Institute officially launched a new research center, the IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center at The Scripps Research Institute. Scientists at the Neutralizing Antibody Center will focus on designing AIDS vaccines that elicit antibodies that work against a sufficient number of HIV types to protect from infection with the virus. http://www.healthnewswire.net/hospitals_and_medical_centers/1096.html 2009-09-24T15:05:00+00:00 2009-09-24T15:05:00+00:00 admin NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) researchers advocate a renewed approach to accurately diagnose Clostridium difficile infection (CDI or C. diff) because of what they believe are forgotten principles that may lead to widespread misdiagnoses. Their paper, “Does My Patient Have Clostridium difficile Infection?” appears in the August 4, 2009 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians. http://www.healthnewswire.net/hospitals_and_medical_centers/1095.html 2009-09-24T15:04:00+00:00 2009-09-24T15:04:00+00:00 admin The Jefferson Balance and Hearing Center of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is the first hospital in Philadelphia to offer the FDA-cleared Neuromonics Tinnitus Treatment. This therapy is proven to interact, interrupt and desensitize tinnitus by delivering a customized neural stimulus, embedded in clinically modified music. http://www.healthnewswire.net/hospitals_and_medical_centers/1088.html 2009-09-23T14:55:00+00:00 2009-09-23T14:55:00+00:00 admin UT Southwestern Medical Center’s top physicians will explain the latest developments in the critical fields of cancer, cardiology, ophthalmology, plastic surgery, urology and spine care during KRLD’s fifth annual “Breakthroughs in Medicine” on Saturday, Oct. 3. http://www.healthnewswire.net/hospitals_and_medical_centers/1086.html 2009-09-23T14:53:00+00:00 2009-09-23T14:53:00+00:00 admin By Roxanne Moster -- By restricting elective surgeries, limiting incoming transfers and enhancing the efficiency of the discharge process, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was able to reduce capacity before its relocation without interrupting emergency or trauma services, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://www.healthnewswire.net/hospitals_and_medical_centers/1082.html 2009-09-23T14:42:00+00:00 2009-09-23T14:42:00+00:00 admin ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers report that distress and fatigue among medical residents are independent contributors to self-perceived medical errors. The findings appear today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). http://www.healthnewswire.net/hospitals_and_medical_centers/1081.html 2009-09-23T14:41:00+00:00 2009-09-23T14:41:00+00:00 admin CANCER RESEARCH UK is set to extend its drug discovery effort by investing up to £16 million in two new Drug Discovery Programmes at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research in Manchester and the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow. http://www.healthnewswire.net/hospitals_and_medical_centers/1071.html 2009-09-22T04:50:00+00:00 2009-09-22T04:50:00+00:00 admin Cardiff today (Thursday) joins a unique chain of Cancer Research UK Centres that are being launched across the UK. http://www.healthnewswire.net/hospitals_and_medical_centers/1070.html 2009-09-22T04:50:00+00:00 2009-09-22T04:50:00+00:00 admin The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been awarded $18.4 million by the Orthopaedic Extremity Trauma Research Program (OETRP) of the U.S. Department of Defense to establish an Extremity Trauma Clinical Research Consortium. http://www.healthnewswire.net/hospitals_and_medical_centers/1069.html 2009-09-22T04:49:00+00:00 2009-09-22T04:49:00+00:00 admin Researchers in the Free Radical and Radiation Biology Program in the University of Iowa Department of Radiation Oncology have received more than $3.7 million in federal funding through five different grants to conduct cancer biology research.