The News Review:

- Sedentary High School Girls Are At Significant Risk For Future…
- NIH awards $25M clinical research grant to Indiana U for statewide…
- Novocastrian’s generosity to improve health care
- Birth Control Stuck in the Dark Ages

Sedentary High School Girls Are At Significant Risk For Future…
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – May 29, 2008
"We not only need to educate athletes about the consequences of the triad now we must educate all students about the harmful effects of a restrictive diet in the adolescent period" says Dr. The study was funded in part by a grant from the General Clinical Research Center which has evolved into the Clinical and Translational Science Institute; the Medical College’s Cardiovascular Center; and the Steve Cullen Run and Walk. ther Medical College researchers included Guillermo Carrere M. professor of radiology; Charles Wilson Ph.

NIH awards $25M clinical research grant to Indiana U for statewide…
EurekAlert – EurekAlert (press release) – May 29, 2008
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) of $25 million to the IU School of Medicine which will fund CTSI activities at IU and Purdue. A total of $56 million will be invested in the Indiana CTSI by IU and Purdue the state of Indiana and Eli Lilly and Co. which is underwriting the cost of a senior faculty position for three years. The NIH created the clinical and translational science awards as a high priority effort to improve the process by which basic science laboratory discoveries are transformed into new medical treatments and products a process called translational research.

Novocastrian’s generosity to improve health care
EurekAlert – EurekAlert (press release) – May 29, 2008
Ms McDonald a clinical nurse consultant at Hunter New England Health is studying bstructive Airways Diseases such as Asthma and Chronic bstructive Pulmonary Disorder in older people. “This funding will enable me to pursue my clinical research which aims to improve the management and quality of life of older people with chronic airways diseases and to present my research at an international meeting of the European Respiratory Society. We will conduct a trial of two different management approaches. This type of research bridges the gap between laboratory based research and patient care” said Ms McDonald. Ms Hubbard an occupational therapist with Hunter New England Health and a lecturer in Stroke at the University of Newcastle is investigating changes in the brain after Stroke using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology. Her PhD project will compare two rehabilitation approaches measuring the effectiveness of each in relation to the recovery of the damaged brain tissue after a Stroke.

Birth Control Stuck in the Dark Ages
LiveScience.com – May 29, 2008
That'ssomething Dr. Jill Schwartz wanted to make clear. Schwartz is a clinicalresearch manager with CNRAD a non-profit contraception and HIV preventioninstitute based at the EasternVirginia MedicalSchool. She said thatwhile there is a greater risk of embolism with the Patch than with the Pill pregnancyitself is still more of an embolism risk than either form of birth control. Simplybeing safe however doesn't mean that a product is going to be well-liked. Andthere aren't a lot of options for women who dislike hormonal birth control butwant the same high level of effectiveness. In fact out of all the non-hormonalcontraceptives currently available the FDA reports that only twosterilization and intrauterine devices or IUDs have failure rates comparableto hormonal methods.