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PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Breastfeeding has the potential to reduce health disparities associated with infant mortality and morbidity Breastfeeding rates by ethnicity in the United States show a marked disparity in African American AA women as compared to other groups Barriers to breastfeeding are complex with literature citing a lack of knowledge poor family and social support inhibiting soc ...

Summary In recent years opioid use disorder OUD and deaths due to opiate overdose e g with heroin fentanyl oxycodone in suburban and rural non minority groups has created an urgency for approaches to stem this epidemic but the rise in OUD and opiate overdose deaths has occurred in inner cities at similar rates Heroin misuse and addiction are persistent problems in African American commu ...

ABSTRACT Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the United States and other developed countriesAboutpeople in the United States have a stroke each yearThe incidence of stroke is expected to increasedue to diabetesan aging population and a rise in obesitywhich is a major public health concern and great economic burden to societyEarly identification of people at risk of strok ...

As their first application for veterinary health the two PI s have already remarkably employed their novel patented superagonist and neoglycosylation technology to develop the first recombinant much more potent and long acting bovine FSH antagonists for improved cattle reproduction and a potential $ Million annual market This work was supported by a previous phase SBIR from FDA CVM whic ...

Project Summary Myologica is a small business focused on developing therapeutics for neuromuscular diseases Started in collaboration with the University of Maryland Myologica maintains a vigorous in house pre clinical discovery program in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy DMD while providing consultation and specialized neuromuscular function testing for non profit and corporate clients The object ...

Project Summary The goal of this project is to significantly enhance our understanding and treatment of inadequate balance responses in the elderly and in patients with neurological impairments following external perturbations such as a slip or trip Our laboratory studies have shown that balance responses can be improved with practice in the elderly and in patients with Parkinsonandapos s disease ...

Project SummaryAging increases the risk of GI disorders such as CRCinflammatory bowel diseaseand appendicitisNIH statistic shows that an estimatedtomillion Americans are affected by gastrointestinal diseases annually and nearlyof older adults have one or more age related digestive symptom each yearUnfortunatelythe increasing global geriatric population base is expected to further worsen this situa ...

Abstract Diabetic Macular Edema DME is a vision threatening stage in Diabetic Retinopathy DR that can result in legal blindness The biochemical mechanisms that drive DME progression are not well understood and treatments address only portions of the disease pathology The available treatment options vary widely from injectable anti VEGF to injectable steroids to laser treatments and carry a ...

The work described in this proposal addresses the clinical deficiency of the currently available oral treatments for hypothyroidism Approximately of persons suffering from hypothyroidism report insufficient symptomatic improvement from levothyroxine T Synthroid alone This is thought to be related to a genetic variation in the enzyme that converts T to T the active form of thyroid hor ...

Abstract Immune checkpoint inhibitors have recently emerged as a revolution in cancer care providing the potential for durable response and improved survival for numerous cancer patients across multiple cancer types However only of patients who are treated with checkpoint inhibitors have responded in most cancer types necessitating biomarker assays that can reliably and accurately ident ...