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As Minnesota braces for some cuts to public health programs, the state"s network of community health centers is being buoyed by money from the federal stimulus that will expand coverage to the un- and underinsured in that state, The Minnesota Post reports.
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Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School jointly announce the successful implant of the AbioCor® Total Replacement Heart, the world"s first completely self-contained, fully implantable artificial heart, as well as the first internal artificial organ. The surgery was led by Mark Anderson, MD, associate professor of surgery at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and chief of the section of cardiac surgery at both the medical school and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, and assisted by Juan Plate, MD, assistant professor of surgery at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and an attending surgeon at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is one of only three centers nationwide approved to perform the surgery and the only one in the New York and Philadelphia areas. Dr. Anderson is one of a handful of physicians nationwide trained to perform this procedure. This is the first time the AbioCor has been implanted in a patient since the completion of clinical trials and approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
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For Research On Protective Effects Of Fish Oil In Stroke LSUHSC MD/PHD Student Awarded NIH Grant

Tiffany Niemoller, a 5th year MD/PhD student at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies, has been awarded a grant in the amount of $148,480 over four years by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. A training grant for individual predoctoral students, the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award is an individual fellowship (F30) is given to "promising applicants with the potential to become productive, independent, highly trained physician-scientists." It is a very competitive grant. The project is being supported with funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Niemoller is working with Dr. Nicolas Bazan, Boyd Professor and Director, at the LSUHSC Neuroscience Center of Excellence. She is investigating potential therapeutic uses of novel omega-3 fatty acid derivatives in experimental stroke. Injuries like stroke affect the brain"s ability to communicate which it does through signaling by chemicals messengers. Niemoller has identified new mechanisms by which omega-3 fatty acids influence cascades of pro-survival protein signaling. Her goal is to define these interactions and characterize their therapeutic potential specifically for the aging brain after stroke. According to the National Institutes of Health, each year in the United States, there are more than 780,000 strokes. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the country and causes more serious long-term disabilities than any other disease. Nearly three-quarters of all strokes occur in people over the age of 65 and the risk of having a stroke more than doubles each decade after the age of 55. Stroke places a major health burden on our society in terms of mortality, morbidity and economic costs. The National Stroke Association estimates stroke costs the U.S. about $43 billion a year. Direct costs for medical care and therapy average $28 billion a year. The average cost per patient for the first 90 days after a stroke is $15,000 although 10 percent of those cases exceed $35,000. "Tiffany is a very bright and talented medical student also working on a doctorate who came to LSU Health Sciences Center after she distinguished herself at the University of California Berkeley," said Dr. Nicolas Bazan, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans. "It"s remarkable how she has grasped an extremely complex research project and has already advanced knowledge about these signals that are decisive in whether brains cells live or die after stroke. Even at this young stage of her career, she is making a difference." Leslie Capo Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center


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