Sentences with phrase «year study investigators»

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- Young Investigators Award The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention provides support for investigators for one or two years studying the clinical, biological, or psychosocial aspectInvestigators Award The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention provides support for investigators for one or two years studying the clinical, biological, or psychosocial aspectinvestigators for one or two years studying the clinical, biological, or psychosocial aspects of suicide.

After six months on the trial, 95 percent of participants reported no problems taking the drug, and while several discontinued treatment for varying periods of time during the study period, the investigators estimate that 90 percent would have tolerated the treatment if they had continued the full two years.

«This study provided clear evidence that, in people with early Parkinson disease, inosine treatment can safely elevate urate levels in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid for months or years,» says Michael Schwarzschild, MD, PhD, principal investigator of the study and an MGH neurologist.

Study investigators have been following the children since birth, and the current research report evaluates the group through 7 years of age.

For this single - center study, investigators examined 150 records for heart attack patients admitted to Tulane Medical Center in the two years before Katrina, and 2,341 records in the 10 years afterwards.

In this latest study, investigators found that replacing the MTM1 gene, which is mutated in patients, leads to sustained preservation of muscle strength and neurologic function in dogs over 4 years.

«Alice did its job perfectly, taking over 70,000 spectra in two years, providing a gold mine of data for comet scientists to study for years to come,» says Dr. Alan Stern, Alice principal investigator and an associate vice president of SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division.

In this single center, retrospective study at Cleveland Clinic, investigators reviewed the medical records of 439 patients who underwent colectomy over a 15 - year period.

Lead investigator Dr. Nicole Anderson, together with scientists from Canadian and American academic centres, examined 73 studies published over the last 45 years involving adults aged 50 - plus who were in formal volunteering roles.

For the study, investigators tested and followed 412 adults, including 234 women, ranging in age from 23 to 76 years and with a systolic blood pressure of 120 - 159 mm Hg and a diastolic blood pressure between 80 - 95 mm Hg (i.e., prehypertension or stage 1 hypertension).

«With more than 1.7 million people dying globally from TB each year and the rise of strains that are resistant to drug treatment, we need a better way to prevent this disease,» said the study's principal investigator Louis Picker, M.D., who is the associate director of the OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and a professor of pathology, molecular microbiology, and immunology in the OHSU School of Medicine.

Once the investigators reported their landmark data in 2011, all infected study participants were offered the opportunity to begin antiretroviral therapy right away, and the trial continued for another four years, concluding this spring.

In what would be considered good news for many parents a new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston finds the rates of ear infections during a baby's first year have declined; the investigators suggested that higher rates of breastfeeding, use of vaccinations and lower rates of smoking may be the major contributors.

The first large U.S. study aimed at resolving an ongoing debate about the best way to treat an early sign of breast cancer will launch later this year under the direction of a Duke Cancer Institute investigator.

«It is amazing to me that more than 100 years after the discovery of genetic recombination in flies, we are only starting to understand just how these events are distributed,» says R. Scott Hawley, Ph.D., an investigator at the Stowers Institute and senior author of the study.

Of the criteria that involve destroying information that can be linked to a person, Robert Levine, chair of Yale University's institutional review board, believes that destruction of identifiers could have «very serious implications for the possibilities of future research,» because investigators often return to stored samples and data many years after their original studies to accommodate new findings or to use the samples for new research.

To deal with this poverty of riches, Ioannidis proposes that researchers cooperate more to confirm one another's findings Toward that end, he and other genetics researchers two years ago established a network of research consortia now consisting of 26 groups, he says, each with a dozen to hundreds of members, for investigators studying various cancers, HIV, Parkinson's disease and other disorders.

A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that heart failure patients who underwent bariatric surgery to treat morbid obesity had a significant reduction in the incidence of heart failure exacerbation — a dangerous, sudden worsening of symptoms — in the two years following surgery.

«The BDNF gene has previously been linked to obesity, and scientists have been working for several years to understand how changes in this particular gene may predispose people to obesity,» said Jack A. Yanovski, M.D., Ph.D., one of the study authors and an investigator at NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

Principal investigator for the study and a professor at UNICAMP's Medical School (FCM - UNICAMP), José Dirceu Ribeiro recalls that bronchiolitis is the most common disease during the first year of life, and also the leading cause of hospitalization during this period of infancy worldwide.

IMB Senior Principal Investigator Dr Bruno Reversade, one of the study's authors, who also led the discovery of Elabela two years ago, stated, «I am very pleased that we have further uncovered a critical role of Elabela in the establishment of the circulatory system, following its discovery as a hormone essential for heart development in 2013.

Ford, an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and an investigator at the Neuroscience Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia, says that when he came to the historically black MSM four years ago he chose stroke research as the area he wanted to concentrate on for two reasons: The medical school recognized the racial and regional disparities of the disease and placed stroke high on its list of illnesses to study, and the field combines the several prongs of his varied academic training and interests.

«We have to build a large enough study to be able to look at both genes and environment together,» says Newschaffer, who is a principal investigator on a study by the Centers for Disease Control that will look at 2,700 children over the next five years.

Five years later, he became co — principal investigator on a 5 - year, $ 9 million project to study permafrost in the Arctic.

«Each year, in the United States alone, more than a million children under age four undergo surgical procedures that require anesthesia, and the numbers are growing,» says the study's senior investigator Guang Yang, PhD, assistant professor of anesthesiology at NYU Langone.

The brain bank has provided raw material to 110 investigators and several hundred studies over the past five years.

Results of recent studies led by senior investigator Ruth Milanaik, DO, in which testers identifying themselves as 15 - year - old boys and girls called 244 health food stores in 49 states (both independently owned and large - chain retailers) will be the focus of three presentations Sunday at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in San Diego.

«Systemic treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma has long consisted of just one agent — sorafenib - which was shown to provide a significant improvement in life expectancy almost 10 years ago, but no other agent has surpassed its benefits,» said the study's principal investigator Dr Jordi Bruix, Head of the BCLC group at the Hospital Clínic and Scientific Director of the Network for Biomedical Research for Hepatic and Digestive Diseases (CIBEREHD).

Of note, nearly 38 percent of people between ages 65 to 75 years and 43 percent of those older than age 75 years had evidence of preclinical HF stage B. Additionally, 32 percent of people less than 55 years of ages were classified as stage A HF,» explained corresponding author Vanessa Xanthakis, PhD, assistant professor of medicine and biostatistics at BUSM and an Investigator for the Framingham Heart Study.

«With this study the investigators show that their findings about a motor complete patient regaining movement, as published three years ago in The Lancet, were not an anomaly,» said Susan Howley, executive vice president for research at the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

«We've studied xanthohumol for many years,» said Stevens, professor of pharmaceutical sciences in the OSU College of Pharmacy and a principal investigator at Oregon State's Linus Pauling Institute.

In the study, published in the journal «Osteoporosis International», investigators from the University of Tasmania, Anhui Medical University and Nanjing Medical University estimated that in 2010 more than 2.3 million osteoporosis - related hip, clinical vertebral and wrist fractures occurred in the population aged 50 years and over.

«Mobility issues or paralysis are the most visible consequences of a spinal cord injury but as a clinician, I know that many of my patients suffer from other «invisible» consequences,» said Dr. Andrei Krassioukov, principal investigator of the study who worked with Darrel for a number of years as a professor of medicine at UBC and chair in rehabilitation research with ICORD, a Vancouver research centre focused on spinal cord injuries.

«We now have compelling evidence that dengue can persist in China — in some cases up to six to eight years,» said Rubing Chen, an evolutionary virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, and lead investigator of the study.

«This study evaluated the number of minors who visited an emergency department over a two year period for injuries resulting from contact with law enforcement and demonstrates this issue comes with significant financial, if not human, cost,» says Alexandre Rotta, MD, FCCM, Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at UH Rainbow and the study's senior investigator.

«Chronic inflammatory diseases last for months and years, so you have to have a medicine that can be used for treating inflammation for the long term without having side effects,» said Dr. Jian - Dong Li, a lead investigator of the study and director of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State and also a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.

The 4 - to 5 - year - olds in this experiment did significantly better than children tested in earlier studies, who occasionally expressed surprise that bending the wire was allowed when the investigator showed them the trick.

«Conventional wisdom among coaches and managers is that restricting innings for young starting pitchers, and slowly increasing the number of innings pitched over several years, gives pitchers» tissues sufficient time to adapt to the workload of a major league season,» said Thomas Karakolis, lead investigator on the study.

As part of the study, the investigators also found the same brain structure is smaller in kids diagnosed with pathological guilt during their preschool years, providing evidence that excessive guilt is a symptom of depression related to the size of the insula.

«Several years ago, we and others described the correlation between nuclear positioning and gene activation,» said study author Harinder Singh, Louis Block Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and an Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago.

As a result, five - year survival is less than 7 percent across all stages,» says Lauren Byers, MD, lead investigator on the study and associate professor of Thoracic Head & Neck Medical Oncology.

In this regard, as a Primary Investigator for the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, for the last 10 years Dr. Nelson has been studying children in Romania who were abandoned at birth and raised in institutions.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Brian Druker, who led the five - year study, said the findings demonstrate Gleevec's effectiveness against the formerly fatal disease.

The principal investigator for the new five - year study is TSRI Associate Professor Hyeryun Choe, who will lead the effort to understand the virus's mode of infection and how new therapies might interrupt it.

«This is the first study of its kind designed to test the effects of a diet on the decline of cognitive abilities among a large group of individuals 65 to 84 years old who currently do not have cognitive impairment,» says Martha Clare Morris, ScD, a nutritional epidemiologist at Rush and principal investigator of the study.

The investigators found that alcohol brand placement rose an average of 5 percent a year, and 92 percent overall during the study period.

Investigators in one study determined that phosphatidyl serine shaved 12 years off the normal expected decline.

«The HSPH investigators, led by professor of epidemiology Frank Hu and research fellow An Pan, analyzed data from three longitudinal studies of male and female healthcare professionals who were followed for 14 to 28 years.

Epps, along with other investigators of the New Hope Project, has conducted longitudinal studies using New Hope data to examine children's participation patterns over a period spanning eight years.

Earlier this year, the Project's principal investigator Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, and researchers Sarah Birkeland, Susan M. Kardos, David Kauffman, Edward Liu, and Heather G. Peske released a study showing that 43 percent of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire careers.