Understanding DNA drug delivery for lung diseases
...ases. Assem Ziady, Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, presented the results. He is conducting studies of a promising non-viral DNA nanoparticle technology that may prove to be effective in treating numerous human diseases. For this study, he co...Experts hope policy breathes life into asthma treatment method
...id Leslie Hendeles, a UF professor of pharmacy and pediatrics and the lead author of the report. "There's no difference in any outcome measure except in young children." Young children, Hendeles said, actually fare better with an inhaler and holding chamber, also called a spacer, than they do with the nebulizer...Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication
...y of Christopher Contag, an associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford, O'Connell-Rodwell has been investigating the possibility that newborns with severe hearing loss could have their hearing improved by exposure to vibrational stimulation shortly after birth. A companion article appears in the May issue of...Society of Nuclear Medicine professionals explore molecular imaging, present research highlights
...aging. New applications in oncology, neurology and pediatrics will be discussed. Also at this press conference, Henry N. Wagner Jr., M.D., will announce his 2005 Image of the Year....Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine gets $4 million to make 'smart nanoparticles'
...TNIP is Pamela B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and senior associate dean for research at the School of Medicine. Davis said the plan is to create smart nanoparticles that can accomplish several things: Light up on imaging only at sites of disease, Deliver photoactivated molecules to cance...Newly discovered genetic disease sheds light on body's water balance
...ipal author of the study and professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. "It sheds new light on the mechanisms that the body uses to maintain fluid homeostasis -- the correct balance of fluids needed for health and life." Gitelman and a team of fellow pediatrician scientists...Prenatal cocaine exposure exerts subtle effects on schoolchildren
...if they saw the baby," said Behnke, a professor of pediatrics at UF's College of Medicine. "As the children have...olteachers. Deborah A. Frank, M.D., a professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, said the UF team's work will "do much to dispel the inaccur...Protein tags regulate key ion channel
... Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chairman of pediatrics and director of the Institute for Molecular Pediatric Sciences at the University of Chicago. "This adds a new chapter to the book of how cells control ion channel function: reversible peptide linkage." Ion channels are in every cell in the human body...Researchers pioneer new gene therapy technique using natural repair process
...problem," said Dr. Porteus, assistant professor of pediatrics and biochemistry at UT Southwestern. "This is called selective advantage; the healthy cells grow and divide preferentially over the mutant ones." Previous gene therapy attempts for SCID have been only moderately successful because of technical diffic...New findings about protection against pneumococcal disease
...says Malley, who is also an assistant professor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. "We were surprised to find that protection was independent of not only antibody to the capsule, but also antibody of any specificity." Overall, their findings suggest that while antibodies are sufficient for protection ag...New imaging method gives early indication if brain cancer therapy is effective, U-M study shows
...son, M.D., associate professor of neurology and of pediatrics and communicable diseases; Larry Junck, M.D., professor of neurology; and Alnawaz Rehemtulla, Ph.D., associate professor of environmental health sciences, radiation oncology and radiology....UCSD researchers maintain stem cells without contaminated animal feeder layers
...ior author, Alberto Hayek, M.D., UCSD professor of pediatrics and director of the Islet Research Laboratory at the Whittier Institute. Currently, stem cell lines derived from human embryos are grown and nourished in petri dish material called feeder layers that are made with animal connective tissue, primarily ...Wine, music and schizophrenia genes
... the Rutgers genetics department, and professor of pediatrics and psychiatry, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. "The meticulous quality of her research sets a standard that is not often equaled by others working on the genetics of mental illness." Brzustowicz hopes to use the Staglin NARSAD grant to sup...Determining the fate of cells in the human body
... by Anthony Firulli, Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics and of medical and molecular genetics at the India...n B Wells Center for Pediatric Research. "From a pediatrics perspective -- there are many congenital defects - holes in the heart, cleft pallet, webbed hands --...Heart Center cardiologist performs rare liver catheter intervention on teen
...ldren's Heart Center and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. "Since we successf...Children's Liver Center and associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. "Sammy's ultrasound of the liver looks spectacular, and his now-norma...Compound inhibits one critical pathway in breast cancer growth
... study's lead author and an associate professor of pediatrics at Ohio State University. All cells contain Stat3 protein, but in normal cells, Stat3 activities are only turned on temporarily. Researchers do know, however, that Stat3 is constantly turned on in certain tumor cells. "The cancer cells we studied see...Discovery offers cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment hopes
... Human Development; Chia-Cheng Chang, professor of pediatrics and human development; and Karl Olson, associate professor of physiology....Diabetes' link to obesity broken in mice
...r Daniel P. Kelly, M.D., professor of medicine, of pediatrics and of molecular biology and pharmacology. The study appears in the February 2005 issue of Cell Metabolism. It reveals new details of the activities of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs), a family of receptors that affects the w...Physicians recommend screening for toxoplasmosis for all pregnant women, newborns
...gic damage," said Kenneth Boyer, M.D., chairman of pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center and a co-author of the study. T. gondii infects humans through three principal routes: eating undercooked, infected meat; ingesting T. gondii oocysts that cats pass in their feces, with exposure occurring through ca...New study in JAMA details trends in diagnosis, treatment of brain tumors
...sor of neurological surgery, internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Virginia Health System. "Physicians and other caregivers do fairly well treating these tumors, but this important study helps us see where we might do better." The average life expectancy for patients with malignant brain tumors...