Health Research Articles & Analysis

Last week (23-25th September) took place the workshop Atrial Signals 2021 http://www.atrial-signals.kit.edu/ at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), thanks to the joint collaboration of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBT) and the Städtisches Klinikum Karlsruhe. Andreu Climent, CEO of Corify Care presented Acorys, our Non-invasive Electrocardiographic Imaging device of the ...

By Corify Care SL

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is seeking input from the public as well as researchers for its new strategic plan. To get involved, submit an idea for research or nominate a workshop participant. "We are looking for visionary ideas to help define the institute's future directions, research goals, and resource priorities," said NIEHS Deputy Director Richard ...

By National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

EPA's Human Health Research Program launched a new Web site on the latest information on its research to protect public health. The program's science looks at such questions as why some people are more sensitive to pollution and how exposure to chemicals affects people's health. The site is designed for the general public as well as for the scientific community. 'The best decisions are informed ...

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

KT Connects, a series of beginner-level training webinars for researchers and trainees, returns to the airwaves in 2020. Kicking off the new year will be Karine Souffez, associate director of knowledge exchange at UBC. Karine will present the exciting work of UBC’s new Knowledge Exchange (Kx) Unit and how they are working to engage the academic community. She will discuss some of the ...

By K-Tec Earthmovers Inc.

The Australian Government will establish stronger alliances with a range of domestic, regional and international partners to improve the quality and effectiveness of health sector development assistance in the Asia-Pacific region. We will provide up to $24 million over four years to establish Health Knowledge Hubs with the Nossal Institute; the University of New South Wales; the University of ...

By Australian Government

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is seeking input from the public as well as researchers for its new strategic plan. To get involved, submit an idea for research or nominate a workshop participant. "We are looking for visionary ideas to help define the institute's future directions, research goals, and resource priorities," said NIEHS Deputy Director Richard ...

By National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

House Republicans continued their attack on science-based protections for public health and the environment today, passing on a largely party-line vote a bill that would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from using certain peer-reviewed health research when developing standards to protect public health. Scott Slesinger, legislative director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, made ...

By Natural Resources Defense Council

Protecting children's health is one of the highest priorities at EPA. To ensure healthy U.S. children, three EPA-funded researchers will assume key roles in the National Children's Study, the largest study ever on the effects of environmental and genetic factors on child and human health in the United States. The study will follow a representative sample of 100,000 children from before birth to ...

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

The Meridian Fetal Research Device Accurately Extracts Fetal ECG to Enable Analytics on Fetal ECG Morphology, Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability and Uterine Activity Using Surface Electrodes (North Andover, Massachusetts), MindChild Medical, Inc. today announced it has shipped 24 Meridian M110R Fetal Research Devices and 8,000 electrode patch sets to the UNC LABOR Study’s sites in ...

By Mindchild Medical, Inc.

Tuesday, October 29th, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Administrator Gina McCarthy and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Director Linda Birnbaum will kick off a conference celebrating 15 years of children's health research. The conference will highlight the progress made over more than a decade of children's research and the benefits of a more sustainable and ...

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Redbiotec is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Antonio Marchini, head of Laboratory of Oncolytic-Virus-Immuno-Therapeutics (LOVIT) at the Luxembourg Institute of Health and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), as a member of our Scientific Advisory Board. Antonio is an expert in the field of oncolytic viruses aiming at developing innovative anticancer agents. Redbiotec looks forward to ...

By Redbiotec AG

The health gap between richer and poorer residents is halved in areas with access to green space such as parks, river corridors and playing fields, according to new research. Mortality rates were clearly linked to levels of exposure to green space in this large scale study. The researchers investigated records on more than 360,000 deaths from all causes in England, in the period 2001-2005. Deaths ...

By European Commission, Environment DG

On July 26, 2011, the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in coordination with the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) to request comment on how current regulations for protecting human subjects who participate in research might be modernized and revised to be more effective. The ANPR ...

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

(Washington, D.C. - Oct. 8, 2007) Learn about the latest research related to children's exposure to plasticizers, environmental management for asthma prevention and care, and more! In recognition of 10 years of federal efforts to protect children's environmental health, researchers and physicians from the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units of North America and the EPA/NIEHS ...

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

An important public health webinar focused on the Bartonella species, the bacterium that causes Bartonellosis, is now available on demand at https://education.quidel.com/educational-categories. Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, is also discussed as a coinfection on this PACE-accredited webinar, the third in a series hosted by Quidel Corporation (Nasdaq: QDEL) in ...

By Quidel Corporation

On July 26, 2011, the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in coordination with the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) to request comment on how current regulations for protecting human subjects who participate in research might be modernized and revised to be more effective. The ANPR ...

By Acta Group

A chemical used to make non-stick coating for pots and pans, food wrappers and stain-resistant fabrics may harm the immune system, liver and thyroid and cause higher cholesterol in children, according to the initial findings of a study of 69,000 people who live near a DuPont manufacturing plant. The health effects observed in the study population in West Virginia and Ohio are believed to have ...

By Environment News Service (ENS)

EPA is awarding $700,000 for a research project being conducted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst on indoor air quality affecting tribal people. The research grant is one of six awarded today for projects to identify and reduce tribal health risks associated with climate change, indoor wood smoke exposure, environmental asthma and other unique tribal concerns. The UMass Amherst project ...

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

The award will enable Dr Yogesan Kanagasingam, Research Director for the Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC), to spend four months at Stanford University School of Medicine developing and validating a new ‘non-invasive’ system to screen newborn babies. CSIRO Chief Executive, Dr Megan Clark, said Dr Kanagasingam’s work has application across a wide range of areas, ranging from remote, ...

By CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

In recognition of his contributions to the field of health services research and lifelong achievements, Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph.D., has been named the 2010 recipient of the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research. The Prize, funded by The Baxter International Foundation and managed by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA), will be awarded on June 5, ...

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire