One-hundred-fifty year old lessons of John Snow still relevant today
... It was 150 years ago this September that a London physician named John Snow urged officials in his city to shut down a well-used water pump in the heart of the Soho district, a move that may have helped to hasten the end of a deadly cholera epidemic that had killed hundreds of people. What Snow correctly susp...Images reveal how rotavirus - leading cause of diarrhea - enters cells
...wel obstruction). Led by Dr. Philip Dormitzer, a physician and structural virologist in CHB's Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, the researchers used crystallography and electron microscopy to determine the geometric structure and working parts of one of the virus's surface proteins, called VP4. Rotavirus it...Scientist who discovered Sly syndrome finds new research path to explore for treating the disease
... delivery system," said Banks, who also is a staff physician at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in St. Louis. "Now we have a new haystack to look in. Instead of learning how to build a truck to deliver the enzyme across the blood-brain barrier, we need to figure out how to get the stop light to switch back to ...New survey reveals insights into unique relationship between mothers and pediatricians
... mothers interview pediatricians before choosing a physician for their child. In selecting a pediatrician, pe...sophy of care as an important factor in choosing a physician for their baby. On average, moms interview between two and three pediatricians before making a selec...New discovery may help transplants survive
...tment. Dr. Dana is clearly one of the outstanding physician scientists in our department," says Joan W. Miller, MD, Chief and Chair of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School....Scientists suggest framework for epigenetics in common disease
...iologic or physiologic changes," says Bjornsson, a physician from Iceland who is pursuing his Ph.D. in human genetics at Hopkins. "We think the latter is going to be very important in explaining the variability of the most common diseases." For example, if a disease-causing mutation is present in a gene turned...NIH renews funding for continued Rb2 tumor suppressing gene research at Temple
...urope and has trained more than 160 scientists and physician investigators from all over the world....Joslin Diabetes Center releases new low impact exercise video
....C.E.P., C.D.E. Richard A. Jackson, M.D., a senior physician at Joslin Diabetes Center and head of its federally funded "On the Road" program, also provides useful information regarding the correct methods for performing exercises. The entire video runs 45 minutes. ...New discovery could provide tool to detect whether a cancer will develop and spread
When a physician discovers cancer in a patient, the first thing the doctor wants to know is whether that cancer has spread, or "metastasized." This metastasis signifies that the patient has entered a new and potentially lethal phase of the disease. A new study open...Most Americans not sure about the sources of high cholesterol
...erol based on heredity alone. When working with a physician to manage your condition, it is important for patients to understand that there are two sources of cholesterol and in many cases both need to be addressed." The survey results also showed: Respondents did have a general sense that the lower their ...COPD is forgotten killer, says University of Toronto professor
...p and talks about it," says Chapman, who is also a physician in the Asthma and Airway Centre at Toronto Western Hospital. "It's astonishing how little research and fundraising energy is devoted to COPD, compared to breast cancer, given that COPD is expected to end the lives of more women this year in Canada." ...Harmless virus helps slow HIV by boosting immune proteins
...GBV-C infection persists," said Stapleton, a staff physician at the Iowa City VA Medical Center and professor of medicine at UI. According to the new findings by Stapleton and Xiang's team, GBV-C raises the blood levels of several chemokines, including one called RANTES (an acronym for "regulated on activatio...Breast cancer patients failed by treatment with taxol and taxotere respond to abraxane
...nounced that data presented this week by a network physician at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting demonstrate that the investigational drug Abraxane TM (albumin nanoparticle paclitaxel), administered weekly without steroid premedication, is active and well tolerated in women with metast...Lab mice rescued from Type 1 diabetes via dendritic cell-assisted therapy
...ogy and Immunology, headed by professor and senior physician Ralph Steinman, M.D. "You have to stop the immune system from attacking those pancreatic islet cells," says Tarbell. Otherwise, even with the possibility of islet cell transplants, the same process that destroyed the first set will destroy the secon...Doctor's neckties: a reservoir for bacteria?
...is colleagues sampled neckties worn by physicians, physician assistants and medical students at a teaching hospital in New York. For comparison purposes, they also sampled neckties worn by security personnel at the hospital. Nearly half (47.6%) of the neckties worn by clinicians were found to harbor potentia...Tigecycline - Candidate antibiotic produces 74 percent cure rate in cSSSI patients
...0 doctors, OU Physicians is the Oklahoma's largest physician group. The practice encompasses almost every adult and child specialty. Many OU Physicians have expertise in the management of complex conditions that's unavailable anywhere else in the state, region or sometimes even the nation. Some have pioneer...Fortification of food supply with folic acid
...y, a professor in the Department of Medicine and a physician in the Inner City Health Research Unit at St. Michael's Hospital. "There has been a heated discussion about the long-term safety of folic acid and, while no harm is evident, we are just beginning to study the effects of long-term exposure. But as a s...Gene discovered for Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a disabling genetic disease
...les first gathered 30 years ago. Named for a Dutch physician who first described it in 1933, the syndrome often includes mental retardation, impaired growth, heart defects, gastroesophageal reflux and feeding problems, impaired vision, hearing loss, and upper limb abnormalities, including missing fingers or ha...Expression of Rb2/p130 and VEGF could serve as potential liver cancer prognosticators
...nately, there are only so many liver donors. "The physician could now better understand and predict how the tumor is going to behave based on the molecular analysis of these two independent prognostic markers," he adds. The study was carried out at Temple's Sbarro Institute in collaboration with Catholic Uni...MCG pursues markers to improve ovarian cancer treatment, diagnosis
...orking," said Dr. Daron G. Ferris, family medicine physician and director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Center at MCG Medical Center. "We also want to identify markers that can be used as an effective screening test for this disease which unfortunately is typically caught in its later stages. When the ...