Study shows PET/CT imaging can help diagnose and define occult recurrent cancer
...dded Israel, who is with the department of nuclear medicine at Rambam Medical Center and the B. Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, both in Haifa, Israel. "If these results are confirmed by larger studies in patients with different types of malignant tumors, PET/CT may pot...Research points to new theory driving evolutionary changes
...ip" Garner, professor of biochemistry and internal medicine at UT Southwestern and one of the authors of the study, which involved only small, non-invasive blood draws from dogs by licensed veterinarians. The chemical units that make up an organism's DNA, or genetic code, are abbreviated with the letters A, C...MIT team engineers new approaches to understanding malaria, more
...icine. With colleagues in engineering, science and medicine at MIT, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the universities of Heidelberg and Ulm in Germany, he has adapted state-of-the-art tools for the study of the mechanical properties of materials to the study of living cells. Now, in the January ...New pathway identified in angiogenesis
...the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine in the department of internal medicine at Ohio State and senior author of the study. But he says that soluble VEGF receptors produced b...USF spin-out company Saneron CCEL wins federal award for cell therapy
...rapy is on the cutting edge of the new frontier of medicine for many patients with diseases that are untreatable today," said Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA, Vice President for Health Sciences and Dean of the College of Medicine at USF. "Saneron represents an entrepreneurial approach in an academic setting that will...Body's biological clock found to affect cardiac rhythm patterns in healthy adults
...l chronobiology program and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, who conducted the experimental part of the research. Cardiac disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for 29 percent of the deaths from the nation's 10 leading causes (including homicides and ...Hospital epidemiologists trace outbreak of organism to commonly used wound care equipment
...logist Trish Perl, M.D., an associate professor of medicine and pathology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The Hopkins case study is believed to be the first investigation to relate an outbreak of this bacterium to the pulsatile lavage device, and its results are to be published in the la...Essential oils could help to stamp out MRSA
...gated the research and said: "The use of plants in medicine is nothing new but some people regard the use of essential oils as unconventional. Our research shows a very practical application which could be of enormous benefit to the NHS and its patients. "The reason essential oils are so effective is becaus...Chromosome 16 publication fulfills DOE's human genome commitment
...ience now is making possible in the fields of both medicine and energy," said Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham. "DOE launched the human genome program and developed the DNA sequencing and computational technologies that made possible the unraveling of the human genetic code. Now we are using these skills...Inexpensive, mass-produced genes at core of synthetic biology advances at UH
... the road, these efforts will improve health care, medicine and the environment at a fundamental level. Using current methods, programmed synthesis of a typical gene costs thousands of dollars. Thus, the prospect of creating the most primitive of living organisms, which requires synthesis of several thousa...Healthy mix of GI tract microbes are key to preventing allergies and asthma
...ffnagle, Ph.D., an associate professor of internal medicine and of microbiology and immunology in the U-M Medical School. "Change the microflora in the gut and you upset the immune system's balance between tolerance and sensitization." To test their hypothesis, Huffnagle and Mairi C. Noverr, Ph.D., a U-M pos...Study pinpoints protein's role in heart failure prevention
...rson is Henry A. Foscue distinguished professor of medicine and cardiology, and professor of pharmacology and cell and developmental biology at UNC. He also directs the Carolina Cardiovascular Biology Center. In a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...Bone specialists' hi-tech answer to patient care
...riers to its adoption; the general uptake of IT in medicine is a problem." Dr Michael Wright, of the Institute of Human Genetics at The University Newcastle-upon-Tyne, added: "This is a system that works the way we work. What is interesting is that because of the system, conversations about cases are taking p...Backcountry water quality tests are good news for campers
...whatsoever," said Derlet, a professor of emergency medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine and an avid backpacker with 30 years of experience hiking in California's high Sierra. "People still should use water filters or purification techniques like boiling drinking water in the backcountry. But our findin...The Louis-Jeantet-Prize for Medicine 2005
...ion for Medicine The Louis-Jeantet Foundation for medicine was established according to the will of Louis Jea... Based in Geneva, the Louis-Jeantet Foundation for medicine started its activities in 1983. The Foundation awards a major scientific prize, the purpose of which...K-State professors develop vaccine to prevent abscess in liver of cattle
...rofessor. T.G. Nagaraja, a professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology in K-State's College of Veterinar... of microbiology and department head of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology, have developed a vaccine that prevents liver abscesses in cattle. The vaccine was ...EB and IUPS - Where cures of tomorrow can be seen in the science of today
...ogy; clinical nutrition; transplantation; tropical medicine and hygiene; behavioral pharmacology; biomedical engineering; interferon and cytokine research; neuroimmunology, mucosal, and natural immunity, to name a few. Throughout the week, scientists - and reporters covering the meeting - will be able to cho...Individualized medicine emerging from gene-environment studies
...me Project, helps support the individualization of medicine and makes focusing on racial or ethnic group diffe... that thanks to progress in genetics, the focus in medicine may return to treating each person as a unique individual. He says, "When doctors knew you and your...Hebrew University professor wins Wolf Prize in Medicine for work in cancer research
...ael's parliament. The other two prize winners in medicine are Prof. Anthony R. Hunter of the Salk Institute of La Jolla, CA, in the U.S. and Prof. Anthony J. Pawson of the Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada. Prof. Levitzki, of the Department of Biological Chemistry at t......pal investigator Karen Reue, Ph.D., a professor of medicine and human genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a researcher at the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. In 2001, Reue's laboratory was the first to isolate the lipin gene and link it to lipodystrophy, a was...