From USC, UCLA, Caltech, UCI & RAND
The postings will stay holiday light as 2009 dwindles to its close. But to catch up on a few developments:
- Trojan researchers say that intervening and treating people older than 50 for diabetes, hypertension and obesity could help those individuals live longer, better and without significantly increasing lifetime medical spending.
- In Westwood, researchers say they have found a molecular switch that could lead to key new treatment for Huntington's, a progressively debilitating disease that afflicts and kills one out of every 10,000 Americans.
In animal studies, molecular switch found to bar Huntington's disease
- In Pasadena, a student project aims to reduce the high cost of medical walkers that would allow bed-ridden children in Third World countries to become ambulatory.
Can a compassionate chemical engineer build a walker cheap enough to aid poor kids?
- In Irvine, a new study says that strict control of blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetics does not necessarily lower the risk of heart attack and stroke, particularly if the patients concurrently have heart disease or hypertension.
- RAND experts say their studies show that specially established state clinics have made strides in securing legal rights for victims of crimes.
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