Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration's Brain Initiative
Release Date:
10/01/2014
... by “aligning” $270 million of their neuroscience research with the goals and plans of the initiative. ...
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Aetna Foundation Launches $4.5 Million Healthier World Innovation Challenge
Release Date:
01/07/2015
... the lives of those who need it most. According to the Pew Research Center, 84% of low-income adults have access to a ...
New Report Offers Framework to Analyze Effects of Potential Changes to the US Food System
Release Date:
01/14/2015
... a new report from the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council offers a framework for assessing the health, ...
Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare is Expanding Partnership with Hearst Foundation
Release Date:
02/24/2015
... aspects of nursing, leadership and application of clinical research . According to the Jonas Center, the impact of DNP ...
Ford Foundation Funded Study Examines Priorities for Latino Millennials
Release Date:
03/27/2015
... ages 18 to 35 released Friday by the Public Religion Research Institute found 54 percent of Latino millennials ...
Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen
Release Date:
04/15/2015
OSF has released a report outlining the civilian harm that occurred as a result of U.S. counterterrorism measures.
United Hospital Fund Explores the Struggles of Family Caregiving
Release Date:
07/31/2015
... care project at the United Hospital Fund, a non-profit research and philanthropy organization in New York. “For ...
Rockefeller Foundation Finds Major Issues for Women in the Workplace
Release Date:
10/13/2015
... same question and the answers will be very different. New research from The Rockefeller Foundation and Thomson Reuters ...
Commonwealth Fund Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S., Other Countries
Release Date:
10/27/2015
Faced with physician shortages, long wait times for patients, and high costs, health systems around the world are increasingly reassigning certain procedures normally performed by physicians to nurses with advanced training.
New York Stem Cell Foundation Expands Offices in New York
Release Date:
12/01/2015
... The 10-year-old nonprofit is one of the top stem-cell research and education outfits in the country. It ...
Ford, Atlantic Philanthropies Bring U.C.L.A. Center on Police-Community Ties to John Jay College
Release Date:
03/22/2016
... on Police-Community Ties to John Jay College A national research center focused on interactions between the police ...
Ford, Visa Fund Incubator Program for Financially Fragile Populations
Release Date:
03/31/2016
... the Ford Foundation and Visa will ensure that the Filene Research Institute’s Incubator continues to develop ...
Peterson Center on Healthcare Supports New Initiative to Forecast Trends in U.S. Healthcare Spending
Release Date:
04/19/2016
... better forecast future spending trends. The project will research significant data sets to explore the various factors ...
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Launched First Program to Accelerate Reforms in Education For Health Professionals
Release Date:
06/30/2016
... and medicine dollars go toward laboratory and clinical research into new treatments and cures, and to expand access ...
Supported by the John A. Hartford Foundation, Study Shows Alzheimer’s Patients Have Lower Perception of Pain
Release Date:
07/13/2016
People with Alzheimer’s disease don’t perceive pain as readily as healthy older adults, and this may lead to delays and underreporting of pain.
Simons-Backed Study Shows Neural Stem Cells in Adult Mice Also Vulnerable to Zika
Release Date:
08/19/2016
Zika infection kills off neural stem cells in adult mice bred to be vulnerable to the virus, researchers at the Rockefeller University and the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology report in Cell Stem Cell.
Commonwealth Fund Exec Comments on Obamacare Marketplace Pressures
Release Date:
08/22/2016
... Commonwealth Fund, a foundation that supports independent research on healthcare policy, said she believes the ...
Supported by Simons Foundation, ‘Video Game’ Study Identifies Kids With Attention Deficits
Release Date:
09/21/2016
A digital assessment platform designed to look and feel like a video game may successfully flag children with attention disorders, according to the results of a study published Sept. 20, 2016, in Translational Psychiatry.
Sloan Supports New Study on What Happens When The Brain Is Artificially Stimulated
Release Date:
09/26/2016
... a step forward in filling these gaps in knowledge. The research describes how the stimulation of a single region of ...
2016 Nobel Prize Winner Yoshinori Ohsumi’s Discoveries Could Change How We Treat Disease
Release Date:
10/05/2016
... Ohsumi, 71, won the 2016 Nobel Prize on Monday for his research on autophagy ― a metabolic recycling process in ...