Doernbecher Children's Hospital scientist earns coveted Javits award
... adults as well," said Back,associate professor of pediatrics and neurology, Doernbecher Children'sHospital, OHSU School of Medicine. Back's research looks at the mechanisms responsible for causing whitematter brain injury in developing infants. White matter brain injury isthe underlying basis for cerebral pa...High blood pressure, low energy -- a recipe for heart failure
...diovascular Research and professor of medicine, of pediatrics and of molecular biology and pharmacology. ERR alpha sits in the nucleus of cells and senses how much energy is needed. When a heart cell finds itself short on energy, say because it's being called on to contract harder or faster, its ERR is activat...New survey documents the headaches of computerized medicine
...paper asserted. Those fears gained credence when a pediatrics hospital in Pittsburgh attributed a higher mortality rate to its CPOE systemmistakenly, it later turned outand when Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, hospital of the stars, shelved its $34 million system after a staff revolt. An important g...A decisive step toward a cure for insulin dependent diabetes
..., explained Dr. Polychronakos, also a professor of pediatrics and human genetics at McGill University. The causes of type I diabetes are still a relative mystery. It is estimated that approximately 50% are genetic and 50% environmental, which is why the validation of a new, extremely powerful analysis method ...Genetic defect links respiratory disease and congenital heart disease
...Blair V. Robinson, clinical associate professor of pediatrics at UNC-Chapel Hill and an author of the study. "In addition, the associations between ciliary function, the heart defects and the organization of organs in the chest and abdomen will hopefully lead to better understanding of howthese defects develop....An 'elegant' idea proves its worth 25 years later
...recalls Saul Brusilow, M.D., professor emeritus of pediatrics at Hopkins who first had the notion to use the drugs. "In all my years I never came across another disease where patients come in near-comatose and you stick a needle in them and lo and behold, they wake upjust like that. It was just astonishing," he...U of MN will lead national research study on causes of bone cancer in children
...he disease. Spector is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School and Cancer Center. The University of Minnesota is a national research and treatment site for children with bone cancer. This four-year research study will include 500 children in the United States and Ca...Latest strategies for moving research toward a cure for diabetes explored at global scientific forum
... Schatz, M.D., professor and associate chairman of pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine, who will speak about the JDRF clinical trial on umbilical cord blood, and Quan Dong Nguyen, M.D., M.S., with the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital, who will discuss the collaboration of J...Study finds regions of DNA that appear linked to autistic spectrum disorders
...ntino, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine and a co-principal investigator on this latest study. If one child in a family is autistic, there's a 10 percent chance a sibling also will have autism. Past research has isolated a few regions of DNA linke...Premature births may be linked to seasonal levels of pesticides and nitrates in surface water
...ed by Paul Winchester, M.D., professor of clinical pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He reports his findings May 7 at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting, a combined gathering of the American Pediatric Society, the Society for Pediatric Research, the Ambulatory Pediatric Asso...Cancer cells 'reprogram' energy needs to grow and spread, study suggests
...y," says Gregg Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and director of the vascular biology program in the Institute for Cell Engineering at Johns Hopkins. But turning down the "thermostat" in a sense, may give the cancer cell a survival edge. Reporting in the May 8 issue of Cancer Cell, Semenza and h...Researchers learn more about genetic mutation linked to autism
...ssink; Val Sheffield, M.D., Ph.D., UI professor of pediatrics and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator; Kacie Meyer, a graduate student in Wassink's laboratory; and former UI investigator Joseph Piven, M.D., now professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and director of the UNC Neurodevel...Need oxygen? Cells know how to spend and save
...," says Gregg Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of pediatrics and director of the vascular biology program in the Institute for Cell Engineering at Hopkins. "This is one way that cells maintain energy production under less than ideal conditions." A report on the work is in the April 6 issue of Cell. "Cells ...'Guardian of the genome' protein found to underlie skin tanning
...Melanoma Program at Dana-Farber and a professor in pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston. "This study suggests that p53, one of the best-known tumor-suppressor proteins in our body, has a powerful role in protecting us against sun damage in the skin." In a study published last year, Fisher and his colleagu...Research strengthens link between smoking, pancreatic cancer
...tated to proliferate," said Trosko, a professor of pediatrics and human development. "This finding has major implications, including the possibility that dietary intervention might interrupt or even reverse the promotion of pancreatic cancers." Until now, most scientists thought that specific PAHs produced by...New genetic mutations found that may cause cleft lip/palate
.... Carver Chair of Prenatal Health and professor of pediatrics in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine with joint appointments in pediatric dentistry in the College of Dentistry, biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and epidemiology in the College of Public Health. Riley init...UCLA scientists garner 7 grants to fund leading-edge embryonic stem cell research
...stem cell researcher and an associate professor of pediatrics and pathology and laboratory medicine. This support will help us determine how stem cells manage their energy resources during self-renewal and differentiation, and may also provide important insight for selecting the highest quality stem cells for f...Newborns with respiratory distress potentially have rare genetic disease
...rts, Ferkol and Margaret Leigh, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...n performed. Ferkol, also associate professor of pediatrics and of cell biology and physiology and director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center at Washington Universi...Missouri's African-American mothers more likely to deliver prematurely
...uglia, M.D., Ph.D., senior author and professor of pediatrics and of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine. "We found that African-American women experience preterm birth not only at increased rates as compared with Caucasian women but also at earlier gestations and with increas......na-Farber's Melanoma Program and is a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, conducts basic research on gene mutations involved in the deadly skin cancer. He said the work that led to the current paper began when his lab was studying the protein, MITF, made by one of these genes, which influences th...