The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer's research next year, hoping to battle back against what could become the defining disease of the aging baby-boom generation. ... The move is part of the administration's development of the first National Alzheimer's Plan, a congressionally-ordered ...

Research!America 2012 National Health Research Forum-a unique interactive gathering of top policy makers. This discussion brings together heads of federal agencies for health research, as well as nationally recognized leaders from industry, academia and patient advocacy.

According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Blacks represent approximately 14 percent of the U.S. population, but accounted for an estimated 44 percent of new HIV infections in 2009. Over the same period, the rate of new HIV infections among black women was 15 times that of ...

President, Founder and CEO of Black AIDS Institute, Phill Wilson, released a letter in light of the 12th annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, stating that the Institute will be releasing their 8th annual State of AIDS in Black America Report. He comments that "It will highlight a reality that ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. A College of Osteopathic Medicine student has been awarded the prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health for his work on identifying the causes leading to cleft palate. Youssef Kousa, a fifth-year candidate in the college's ...

The American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR) has selected Remedy Informatics, the leading provider of registries for Life Science, to build a registry to collect data on all primary and revision total joint replacement procedures in the United States. Representatives from AJRR and Remedy Informatics will unveil the new registry at ...

(Michigan State University) A College of Osteopathic Medicine student has been awarded the prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health for his work on identifying the causes leading to cleft palate.Youssef Kousa, a fifth-year candidate in the college's D.O.-Ph.D. program, will receive $65,000 ...

(Weber Shandwick Worldwide) Two outcomes-based measures from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program were recently endorsed by the National Quality Forum. The two measures, surgical site infection and urinary tract infection, were developed by ACS in partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as ...

"Details of a genetically altered strain of the deadly avian flu virus are 'a grave concern' to public safety and should be kept under wraps," the 23-member National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity declared Tuesday "in a letter released by the journals Science and Nature," CNN reports.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. Feb. 1, 2012 The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) today published a precedent-setting policy statement warning about the "unusually high magnitude" risk from unrestricted publication of avian flu research. The NSABB is chaired by Dr. Paul Keim, Director of the ...

NBC News' educational arm, NBC Learn, and the NBC Sports Group recently teamed up with the National Hockey League (NHL) and National Science Foundation (NSF) to release "Science of NHL Hockey"--an informative 10-part video series exploring the science behind the fastest game on ice. Made especially for ...

A national study of Medicaid data shows most young people who present to emergency departments with deliberate self-harm are discharged to the community, without receiving an emergency mental health assessment. Even more, a roughly comparable proportion of these patients receive no outpatient mental health care in the following month. These ...