Thursday, July 21, 2005 • Vol 11, Issue 14

Long-time yoga student Dr. Alan Kristal practices with his teacher and studio owner Denise Benitez. They co-authored a study that found that men and women of normal weight at age 45 who practice yoga regularly gained fewer pounds in a 10-year period than those who did not practice yoga. Photo by Todd McNaught

• Yoga may help you fight fat
  Study suggests overweight, middle-aged people may benefit most from the fat-fighting potential of regular yoga practice
  
  
• Muscles may hold clues to fatal brain disease
  Gene-expression differences in skeletal muscle may lead to better tracking of Huntington's disease
  
  
• ExCellent potential for cancer prevention
  PHS leads study of low-risk drug that blocks estrogen production and may prevent breast cancer
  
  
• Post-transplant survival: A study of the gap between ethnic groups
  Mielcarek, colleagues cite transplant-diagnosis delays among possible reasons for poor survival rates for African-American patients
  
  
• HIV-prevention team transitions into global action
  HPTN begins enrollment for two multinational trials to test non-vaccine methods for preventing HIV infection
  
  

• There's joy in this 'job and a half'
  Paul O'Donnell finds satisfaction in patient care, leadership, research on the use of alternative donors for bone-marrow transplantation
  
  

• SEP holds open house, poster session July 27 in Weintraub
  
  
• Lifesaving locations to learn
  
  
• Center hosts Bioconductor conference Aug. 16-17 in Arnold
  
  
• Pilot funds for Consortium faculty
  
  
• Team Bada Bing wins 2005 'May Madness' basketball tournament
  
  
• Occupational Health Program offers free cholesterol screening
  
  
• Reaching new heights in the fight against breast cancer
  
  
• Catch a Cure for Cancer Radiothon seeks volunteers
  
  
• Volunteers, donations needed for patient reunion
  
  

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