Joslin's new textbook is leading source for advances in diabetes care
...uide. "Dramatic advances in the laboratory and the clinic are revolutionizing our understanding and the care of diabetes," said C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., President and Director of Joslin Diabetes Center, the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and one of the book's six senior e...David M. Goldenberg receives Society of Nuclear Medicine's 2005 Paul C. Aebersold Award
...and multiple myeloma. He has overseen the in-house clinic as well as clinical outreach at affiliated institutions in the United States and Europe for treatment of cancer patients with radiolabeled antibodies. He also helped develop two diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals marketed by Immunomedics Inc., which he ...Women feel more pain than men, research shows
... In a study of 150 patients referred to a hospital clinic with chest pain, researchers discovered that the factors that predicted pain in men and women were different. Researchers believe that it is the fear of anxiety-related sensations and an increased tendency to negatively interpret such sensations, bot...'Harmless' bacterium found to cause 10 percent of COPD flare-ups
...4 adults with COPD who were seen at the outpatient clinic at the Buffalo Veterans Affairs Medical Center ove...81 months. During this period, patients made 3,009 clinic visits, 560 of which were during exacerbations. Sputum samples were collected at each clinical visit...Research may lead to optimization of radiation treatment
... the way in which HIF-1 inhibitors are used in the clinic with regards to identification of the types of tumors that are most likely to respond well to treatment and the optimal timing of combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy....Scientists discover gene that controls speed of tuberculosis development
...e MUHC combine scientific research, technology and clinic expertise, enabling scientific breakthroughs to be developed into treatments and cures that directly benefit patients."...USC researchers find drug is tough tumor fighter
...us anti-cancer drugs that are commonly used in the clinic for the treatment of cancer patients." The fact that DMC is as potent-or, says Schnthal, even more potent, even at lower doses-than celecoxib despite having no ability to inhibit COX-2 is important, the researchers say, especially in light of the rec...A picture of progress: PET imaging and biomarkers explored at ACS meeting
...velopment could usher promising therapies into the clinic sooner. A University of Washington researcher shares pilot data that illustrates how PET imaging was used to design a more effective clinical trial of a cancer therapy by characterizing and tracking a tumor in vivo. A similar technique, if taken into...Embryonic stem cells accrue genetic changes
...mbryonic stem cells is still in the lab -- not the clinic -- focusing on what the cells can do and how they are controlled, the hope is that in the future these cells might help replace or repair tissues lost to disease or injury. Because embryonic stem cells can become any type of cell found in the body, i...Symptoms of depression may worsen heart failure
... They recruited 32 patients from the heart failure clinic at Ohio State . The participants answered the 21-question Beck Depression Inventory, a tool that physicians and scientists use to measure symptoms of depression. Answers to each question are given a value of zero (no symptoms at all) to 3 (severe sym...Gaining ground in the race against antibiotic resistance
...We were mimicking what is going on in the doctor's clinic -- putting selection pressure on the enzyme by giving higher doses of antibiotic," said Vila. "The only ones to survive will be those that have an enzyme that can work more efficiently." The researchers conducted their experiments using a drug calle......ate a real marriage between basic research and the clinic to help us understand medically-relevant processes," Hentze says. "The current study is a perfect example, because it takes us all the way from the details of single molecules to an important disease mechanism."...A novel mechanism of action for anti-tumor agent, CA4P
Anti-angiogenic agents have been successful in the clinic for blocking the growth of solid tumors. However, these agents used in combination with chemotherapy have improved the survival of patients with cancers by only several months. Therefore, identification of unrecognized angiogenic pathways that select...JCI table of contents November, 2005
...Anti-angiogenic agents have been successful in the clinic for blocking the growth of solid tumors. However, these agents used in combination with chemotherapy have improved the survival of patients with cancers by only several months. Therefore, identification of unrecognized angiogenic pathways that select...Viagra's hidden help for wildlife
...aged 50 to 76, who sought treatment at a large TCM clinic in Hong Kong. The men were questioned about their previous and current use of TCM and Western treatments for arthritis, indigestion, gout and impotence. The study's lead authors are Dr Bill von Hippel, a psychologist from the University of New South ...Biomarker test may give early warning of brain woes
...juries. The discovery could lead to tests for the clinic or battlefield to diagnose ailments with just a few drops of blood, bypassing cumbersome and expensive CT or MRI brain scanning equipment. The researchers report their findings in the current online edition of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Com...Genetic testing for breast cancer could benefit minorities but is underused
... ten years of counseling and testing data from the clinic supplemented by data from three other U.S. clinics all of which attract diverse groups of patients. The researchers studied the woman at greatest risk from 155 families (117 from the University of Chicago Hospitals plus 38 from Mayo Clinic, Rush U...Nanoparticles, nanoshells, nanotubes: How tiny specks may provide powerful tools against cancer
...53 targets tumors and metastases is going into the clinic as a prototype of gene delivery strategy for this technology," she notes. "It's a platform technology." A phase I study of the strategy has already begun at Georgetown University Medical Center and will enroll 20 patients with advanced solid tumors, ...Slight increased risk of major birth defects associated with IVF
... from which patients treated in the UI infertility clinic delivered their babies. Thus, it is possible that a small number of the "naturally conceived" controls were actually conceived using infertility treatment at another clinic. "It's possible that focusing on our referral area underestimated the risk a ...New study shows Emezine demonstrates more efficient absorption
...miting however physicians outside the hospital and clinic have been limited to prescribing a suppository or standard oral swallow tablet. In our market research, physicians responded very favorably to Emezine and indicated that it would be an important part of their treatment options for patients experienc...