The number of emergency department (ED) visits in the United States reached 119.2 million visits in 2007. 1 The largest percentage of these visits was for people with injury-related diagnoses (42.4 million visits), with falls accounting for 76% of these among adults age 65 and older. 2 Hospital discharge data for injury-related admissions reflects those patients visiting the ED whose injuries w...

ProThera Biologics is a development stage bio-therapeutics company in East Providence, Rhode Island. The company was founded in 2002 to focus on the critical role and commercial potential of Inter-alpha Inhibitor Proteins (IAIP) for treating acute life-threatening inflammatory diseases. The discovery research originated in the basic research laboratories of the co-founders, Yow-Pin Lim, MD, PhD...

PI: Molly E. Cummings Integrative Biology Department University of Texas Austin, TX 78712 phone: (512) 232-6243 fax: (512) 471-3878 email: [email protected] Co-PI: Samir Ahmed (City College of New York) Co-PI: Heidi Dierssen (University of Connecticut) Co-PI: Alexander Gilerson (City College of New York) Co-PI: William F. Gilly (Stanford University) Co-PI: George Kattawar (Texas A & M...

Obesity is a chronic condition linked with diabetes, stroke, coronary artery disease, and hypertension. 1 The estimated prevalence of obesity in the United States (26.7%) and Rhode Island (24.9%) has increased over the past decades. Obese women are at increased risk for pregnancy complications and poor birth outcomes. Specifically, prepregnancy obesity has been associated with birth defects, es...

Yingxi Zhu, Hiroko Ohtani , Michael L. Greenfield, Marina Ruths, and Steve Granick Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA Physical and Environmental Sciences Department, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering, Dearborn, Michigan, 48121 USA Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881 Dep...

Ting C. Zhao, Andy Tseng, Naohiro Yano, YiTang Tseng, Pamela A. Davol, Randall J. Lee, Lawrence G. Lum, and James F. Padbury Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Department of Research, Roger Williams Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island; University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, Ca...