Heart, immune experts to get top U.S. medical awards
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Pioneering heart surgeons Alain Carpentier and Albert Starr and immunologist Ralph Steinman were named on Saturday as recipients of Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards, sometimes dubbed "America's Nobels."
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Americans Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for discovering a way to turn off the effect of specific genes.
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The nation's highest honor for science will be awarded to eight individuals next month, while technology awards will go to six people, a company and a foundation.
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Eddie Knipp's two heart transplants have given him the wisdom to savor the small wonders of life and the strength to endure one of its largest losses &#151; the death of a child. On Tuesday, Knipp and nine other heart transplant recipients celebrated more than 20 years of survival after surgery at the place that made it possible: the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.
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Some experts are recommending that virtually all Americans be tested routinely for the AIDS virus, much as they are for cancer and other diseases.
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For the first time, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the top killer of Americans under 85, health officials said Wednesday. The good news is that deaths from both are falling, but improvement has been more dramatic for heart disease.
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Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering a way to silence specific genes, a revolutionary finding that scientists are scrambling to harness for fighting illnesses as diverse as cancer, heart disease and AIDS.
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Pioneers in psychotherapy and cell biology and three scientists who discovered a crucial enzyme linked to cancer and aging are being awarded prestigious medical prizes.
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Scientists in the United States said on Wednesday they had identified a protein produced by the heart during development which they believe could help the organ repair itself after a heart attack.
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One of the nation's leading   cardiologists is calling for a sweeping study that evaluates   the risks of potentially fatal blood clots related to widely   used heart devices that treat blocked heart arteries.
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The nationâs two leading heart groups issued new guidelines Thursday about what should be done for patients with heart disease before they undergo surgery on other parts of the body.
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A group of vascular surgeons, doctors who operate on blood vessels, want to be officially recognized as board-certified specialists.
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Systems biologists are pushing the envelope of preventive medicine through research centered on the interactions of the thousands of pieces of DNA, RNA and proteins that network together in each cell of our body. By Rowan Hooper.
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Columbia University researcher Richard Axel, 58, and Seattle scientist Linda Buck, 57, were named Monday as the winners of this yearâs Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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Reports show cells can help correcting faulty heart rhythms and fighting vision-destroying diseases.
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Meet five people whose breakthroughs make the progress of science real. Chosen from hundreds of applicants to Apple&#146;s Bioinformatics Award Program, they are shaping our health and our world through their research in biotechnology &#151; and the help of Apple&#146;s Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics. [Sep 2]
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The guessing game over who will take home the world's most coveted awards ends this week with the announcement of the 2004 Nobel Prize winners.    The first announcement comes Monday with the physiology or medicine prize, followed by a week of announcements of winners for physics, chemistry, economics, peace and possibly literature...