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Orlando, Florida - The Diabetes Emergency Relief Coalition (Coalition), composed of leading diabetes care and research organizations, will receive the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) 2018 Summit Power of A Award for helping to provide critical diabetes supplies to regions impacted by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, the Coalition announced today.
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The American Cancer Society is seeking individuals with a strong personal interest in cancer to participate in its research and training grants peer review process. “Stakeholders” have been an important part of the Society’s grant review process since 1999. They provide a unique perspective from the cancer experience to help ensure sound research funding decisions.
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Washington, DC - NIH-funded researchers delayed signs of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in rodents by injecting them with a second-generation drug designed to silence the gene, superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1). The results, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggest the newer version of the drug may be effective at treating an inherited form of the disease caused by mutations in SOD1. Currently, the drug is being tested in an ALS clinical trial (NCT02623699).
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Washington, DC - The National Institutes of Health’s Health Care Systems (HCS) Research Collaboratory, which involves health care systems in conducting large-scale clinical studies, has announced five new research awards — totaling $4.15 million for a one-year planning phase, with an estimated $30.85 million expected for four subsequent years of study implementation. The HCS Research Collaboratory was developed by the NIH Common Fund in 2012 and is administered by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and the National Institute on Aging (NIA).
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Tempe, Arizona - We learn the basics of hearing sound waves, ear parts, and the effects of pitch and volume sometime around third grade, but there are still mysteries to unravel, including how we process where sounds are located, especially if there are a lot of different sounds at one time, or how we handle sounds that are moving.
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Tucson, Arizona -The best-known treatment for Parkinson’s disease isn’t perfect. Named levodopa, the drug can treat the stiffness and slowness of movement associated with the debilitating disease.
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