Lung cancer takes a heavy toll, contributing to more cancer deaths in the United States each year than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined. Contributing to this poor prognosis is the fact that lung cancer often goes undetected until the disease has reached an advanced and more difficult-to-treat stage.

Pacific Meso Center (PMC) at the Pacific Heart, Lung & Blood Institute (PHLBI) announces a generous donation of $100,000 from Roger and Ann Worthington.

(Medical Xpress) -- More than 100,000 cancers – equivalent to one third of all those diagnosed in the UK each year – are being caused by smoking, unhealthy diets, alcohol and excess weight, according to new research from Queen Mary, University of London.

In the U.S. each year almost 100,000 people above the age of 65 years are admitted to hospital because of emergencies caused by adverse drug events. According to the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine by the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, of the thousands of ...

The General Chapter of Royal Arch Masons International presented Autism Speaks, the world's largest autism research and advocacy organization, with a $100,000 Royal Arch Research Assistance (RARA) grant in support of the Autism Speaks early diagnosis and early intervention initiative to investigate auditory processing disorders in children with autism.

NEW YORK, N.Y. (November 16, 2011) -- The General Chapter of Royal Arch Masons International presented Autism Speaks, the world's largest autism research and advocacy organization, with a $100,000 Royal Arch Research Assistance (RARA) grant in support of the Autism Speaks early diagnosis and early intervention initiative to investigate auditory ...

(Autism Speaks) The General Chapter of Royal Arch Masons International presented Autism Speaks with a $100,000 in support of Autism Speaks' early diagnosis and early intervention initiative to investigate auditory processing disorders in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Precursor symptoms of auditory processing disorders often seen in children with ...

An estimated 100,000 HIV infections have been prevented over five years, according to the initial phase of an Indian campaign for the prevention of HIV (called Avahan). Although in the more heavily populated southern states, the campaign was considerably more effective compared to the remote northern states. The discoveries are ...

For more than 100,000 area women, chronic vulvar pain (pain at the opening to the vagina) is so severe it makes intercourse, and sometimes sitting for long periods of time, painful, if not impossible. A new study from the University of Michigan, which surveyed 2,269 women in the metro Detroit ...

For more than 100,000 area women, chronic vulvar pain (pain at the opening to the vagina) is so severe it makes intercourse, and sometimes sitting for long periods of time, painful, if not impossible.

A $100,000 Challenge was announced today by The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the global leader for investigations to cure, treat, and prevent type 1 diabetes, and InnoCentive, Inc., the pioneer in open innovation and crowdsourcing. The challenge calls for new ways to tackle the discovery and development of a ...

(University of Michigan Health System) A new study from the University of Michigan, which surveyed 2,269 women in the metro Detroit area, found that more than 25 percent of women have experienced ongoing vulvar pain at some point in their lives. However, only two percent of women sought treatment for ...