What if we could use a novel approach for delivering currently injectable drugs to the body without syringes? What if we could destroy malignant cancer cells in difficult areas of the body that cannot yet be targeted? Zakareya Hussein and Atif Syed, Students at York University are doing research...
School partners with anti-malware developer for funding
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The Motueka Rudolf Steiner School has set up an innovative win-win-win fundraiser with an international software company. The independent school has outgrown its rented...
Despite dire predictions in the wake of the economic crisis, donations to health projects in developing countries appear to be holding steady, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. After reaching a historic high of...
When i was younger about 14 i went to the doctors due to having one breast ALOT bigger than the other, they said wait till i start my period it might sort its self out. However at the age of 16 i went back after starting my period and there was no change. The doctors reffered me to the hospital...
GE's first local Challenge is an open innovation competition which calls on businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators and students to submit real ideas for low carbon solutions and technologies.
Public scrutiny and the threat of government regulation are leading to a decline in industry-sponsored funding of accredited continuing medical education (CME) for physicians, and this decline represents an opportunity to make CME more relevant, cost-effective and less open to bias, wrote a...
The nude calendar photo above isn't particularly explicit or offensive—in fact, it's kind of nice to see a group of non-models, with various body types, all looking so comfortable in their own skin. But the fact that they're a group of Bristol University netball players trying to raise money for...
Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced that it is providing more than $4 million in additional funding to the Infectious Disease Research Institute. The funding will allow IDRI to continue its early phase drug discovery efforts focused on identifying new and better therapies in the fight...
The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) has been awarded more than $4 million in additional funding over the next four and a half years by Eli Lilly and Company. The funding will support IDRI's continued early phase drug discovery research, which focuses on the identification of...
It seems that every day another area of the economy is depressed because of the global financial crisis in the banks and governments around the world. This time it's The Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria, which has announced it will make no new grants until 2014; and there is a...
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia announced today that it will receive funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development...
Published in the latest issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, a new study reveals that after 1999, increased funding by the NHS marked improved health outcomes when measured using the concept of "amenable mortality," an indicator intended for routine use by the current...
The Community Projects Funding Round is aimed at encouraging projects or initiatives that advance InternetNZ's objects, demonstrate a clear element of public or community benefit, and have tangible benefits for New Zealand.
Alternative funding for health care in Canada will not result in lower costs nor contribute to financial sustainability, states a commentary in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Recent reports from prominent think tanks have urged such solutions as severe cuts to health care...
Using a crystal ball to protect homeland security might seem far-fetched, but researchers at Wake Forest University and Fisk University have partnered to develop crystals that can be used to detect nuclear threats, radioactive material or chemical bombs more accurately and affordably. The...
The separation of church and state is dead in Kentucky Governor Beshear says he would welcome a "Mecca Theme Park" as well. He also says the Ark Park will be required to not discriminate in hiring. We'll see.
From the Courier-Journal:
A state contractor concluded that the proposed Ark...
The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) has announced $2.5 million in career development awards to 83 advanced fellows and junior faculty at 27 Centers of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine and Training across the country. This effort, funded with support from the John A. Hartford...
Today legislation sponsored by Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (TX-26) passed the United States House of Representatives. The legislation, H.R. 1214, repeals reckless mandatory funding for school based health center construction that was included in the Patient Protection Affordable Care...
Stem cell research began with a goal of being able to cure persons based on their own unique genetic make-up and healing inefficiencies by using harvested cells. This week, a federal appeals court said the Obama led federal government can continue to fund research involving human embryonic stem...