Study shows promise in identifying kidney failure
...i Children's Hospital Medical Center and principal investigator of the study. "We set out to identify genes and biomarkers that could help us make the diagnosis well before it is too late. We identified a candidate protein for the early and rapid diagnosis of acute renal injury that occurs in a common clinical co...UCSF study offers insight into human circadian rhythms
...ouis Ptacek, MD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and UCSF professor of neurology. The finding, published in the March 31 issue of Nature, builds on previous research led by Ptacek and co-author Christopher Jones, PhD, associate professor of neurology at University of Utah. In 1999, in a study of th...Geodon effective in psychiatric emergencies; Sharply reduces time in restraints
...e unsafe," said Andrew Francis, M.D., Ph.D., study investigator and director of inpatient psychiatry at Stony Brook University Hospital. "Using it is a last resort. We want to minimize the exposure to it as much as possible," he said, adding that reducing the time in restraints, and the time patients are agitate...Patients newly diagnosed with HIV are more likely to enter outpatient care with case management
...at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital and principal investigator for the Atlanta study site. "This is the first trial to compare head to head the typical passive referral with a time-limited employment of case management." In addition to Emory, the study included researchers from the Division of HIV/AIDS at the ...Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
... of these drugs sequentially, or alone," says lead investigator Aman Buzdar, M.D., professor in the Department of Breast Medical Oncology at M. D. Anderson. "This is the best treatment result we have seen in this patient population," Buzdar says. "It shows that we can potentially change the natural history of a d...Mouse model reveals potential way to reduce cardiac deaths in kidney patients
... be very helpful for kidney patients," says senior investigator Keith A. Hruska, M.D., the Ira M. Lang Professor of Nephrology and professor of pediatrics and of cell biology and physiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "The drug we used in the mice and other similar agents can treat b...Novel therapy tested in mice could chase away cat allergies
...for its human and feline parts, explains principal investigator Andrew Saxon, M.D., of UCLA. The cat allergen end of GFD binds to antibodies on the surface of the cell. The human end of GFD links to a different cell surface protein (called FcRIIB) that interrupts the allergic response. Dr. Saxon and his colleague...Some brain cells 'change channels' to fine-tune the message
...neuroscience and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator in Johns Hopkins' Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. So far, no one has really looked for the channel changing in other cells in the brain, he says, in part because the swapped channels are most common in these particular cells in the cerebell...Hopkins begins human trials with donor adult stem cells to repair muscle damaged from heart attack
...mise of adult stem cell research," says lead study investigator and cardiologist Joshua Hare, M.D., professor of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart Institute. "Current approaches to cardiovascular disease can prevent heart attack or alleviate its after-effects, but they ha...Stanford patient is first to test new treatment for peripheral arterial disease
...at the University of Virginia and is the principal investigator of the multi-center study. "We're hoping to transl...hD, associate professor of radiology and principal investigator for Stanford's portion of the multi-center trial. "Ideally with the drug-eluting stent, we're hoping...Study shows use of budesonide reduced the risk of asthma related events by 40% in children
...nic, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and an investigator in the safety and tolerability portion of the study. "The findings of these two analyses showed that budesonide had a viable long-term treatment effect." In the first analysis, 1,974 children were randomized to receive either once-daily budesonide ...Use of inhaled corticosteroid led to fewer hospitalizations for young children with asthma
...iversity of Nebraska Medical Center, and principal investigator in the study. The study assessed whether early controller medications, such as the nebulized ICS Pulmicort Respules (budesonide inhalation suspension), were associated with improved outcomes for children with asthma. The trial evaluated a total of ...Mailman School of Public Health receives Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Center grant
...ave lives," says Donna Shelley, MD, MPH, principal investigator and assistant professor of clinical Sociomedical Sciences. According to Daniel Hyman, MD, chief medical officer of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Ambulatory Care Network, "This program is a critical component of our quality improvement initiative...Doctor suggested cannabis for pain relief, says one in six medicinal users in the UKMUHC study
... cannabis" says lead author Dr Mark Ware principal investigator and pain physician at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Pain Centre. People with chronic pain were most likely to use cannabis for medicinal purposes (25 percent) followed by patients with multiple sclerosis (22 per cent), depression (22 per...Cardiologists underestimate racial and ethnic disparities in care
...ospital and in the patients they treat," said lead investigator Nicole Lurie, M.D., M.S.P.H., the Paul O'Neill Alcoa professor of policy analysis at the RAND Corporation in Arlington, Va. "For disparities to be occurring at the magnitude they are, they can't all be somebody else's patients. If we really want t...Community care tops medical care at preventing heart disease in black Americans
...nd diabetes, and a sedentary lifestyle," says lead investigator Diane Becker, M.P.H., Sc.D., a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. "Our results show that direct involvement from a nurse practitioner and a community health worker is far more effectiv...Cornea transplants can be improved
...o new study led by Jonathan H. Lass, MD, principal investigator of the study and chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. This study is reported in the current (March) issue of Ophthalmology , the journal of the Ameri...Drug abuse treatment slashes HIV-related sex behaviors in urban meth addicts
...sexual methamphetamine abusers. AUTHOR: The lead investigator is Steven Shoptaw, a research and clinical psychologist with the Integrated Substance Abuse Programs at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. QUOTE: "The AIDS epidemic in the United States is integrally linked to drug use. Effective drug abuse treat...Drug that hinders blood vessel growth under study in ovarian cancer
...amande, MCG gynecologic oncologist and a principal investigator on the study. In the new study, participants will give themselves daily subcutaneous injections of the drug for four weeks, followed by seven days off. The cycle can be repeated up to 11 times if the disease remains in remission and there are no sig...News tips from the 2005, 54th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology
...obesity's harmful effects on the heart," says lead investigator and cardiologist Lili Barouch, M.D., an assistant professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart Institute. The researchers studied heart muscle enlargement and cell death in more than 20 male and female mice, some normal ...