Dec. 17 JAMA study shows new 'biologic' drug reduces psoriasis symptoms, improves quality of life
MAYWOOD, Ill. A new "biologic" drug, efalizumab, reduces the thick, red, scaly skin lesions of psoriasis, and improves patient quality of life, according to a study in the Dec. 17 Journal of the American Medical Association. ... ..."Biologics are a new approach to treating psoriasis," said lead author Dr. Kenneth Gordon, director of the Loyola Psoriasis Center, Loyola University Health System,...Collecting research data on computer wave of future, UT Southwestern researchers report in JAMA
. DALLAS - Oct. 11, 2000 - Secure Internet sites could become an important tool for medical research, according to an article by two UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas physicians.. . In an article in the Oct. 11 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Wesley Marshall, clinical instructor of internal medicine, and Dr. Robert Haley, chief of epidemiology at UT Southwes...Tiny Jamaican Tree Crab Made Big And Fast Evolutionary Leap, Scientists Discover
.The world's most land-loving crab, a thin and delicate Jamaican species that.spends its entire life in a tree, made a surprisingly rapid evolutionary.transformation from its large and rugged ocean-dwelling ancestors, according to.genetic research to be published in the May 28 issue of the journal Nature by an.international team of biologists. . ."These very unusual crabs, which are the most te....BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The answer to the question of whether smoking increases a women's risk of developing breast cancer may lie in her genes, researchers at the University at Buffalo and the National Cancer Institute have found. . Results of their study, the first to consider genetic variability as a factor in a person's breast-cancer susceptibility to the carcinogens in cigarette smoke, will...