St. John's wort amplifies effect of blood thinner Plavix
ORLANDO -- The widely used herbal remedy St. John's wort appears to amplify the action of the popular blood-thinning drug clopidogrel, sold as Plavix, a small new clinical study finds. ... ...The effect could increase the risk of bleeding among those who take both substances, say the physicians from the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center who made the finding. But the new finding could a...Johns Hopkins scientists receive presidential medals
Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., and astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi, Ph.D., have been named recipients of the 2003 National Medal of Science, the United States' top scientific recognition, the White House announced today. ...... The two will be the seventh and eighth Johns Hopkins faculty members to receive this honor. Giacconi and Snyder will receive the medals in a White...Society of Hospital Medicine selects John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to publish The Hospitalist Newsletter
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) has announced a new publishing agreement whereby global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., will assume publication of the Society's newsletter, The Hospitalist, effective immediately. The Hospitalist is the Society's official member publication, providing the latest in clinical and industry news for hospitalists throughout the United States....... In additi...Robert Wood Johnson Medical School researcher receives fellowship for work in Canavan Disease
Scott McPhee, PhD, of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Camden, has been selected to receive the first Canavan Disease Clinical Research Training Fellowship which is co-sponsored by the Canavan Foundation and the American Academy of Neurology Foundation.... ...The Canavan Disease Clinical Research Training Fellowship supports research...Drs. Gerald DiBona and John Hall receive American Heart Association/Novartis award
ORLANDO, Sept. 18 Gerald DiBona, M.D., and John Hall, Ph.D., the winners of this year's Novartis Award for Hypertension Research, discovered two important mechanisms that link hypertension and subtle abnormalities of kidney function. Their work demonstrated that malfunctioning kidneys are important in causing hypertension, rather than occurring as a result of hypertension-induced damage....The...Bridge Medical CEO John Grotting to help launch new alliance to improve healthcare delivery
Bridge Medical President and CEO John B. Grottingan expert on the use of barcoding technology to promote patient safetywill join American Hospital Association President Dick Davidson, and other healthcare leaders as they announce the formation of a National Alliance for Health Information Technology at a day-long summit next Tuesday in Washington, D.C. ... ...AHA is serving as the catalyst for th...Rutgers' announces Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
Rutgers' Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research has announced the recipients of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) annual Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research. Nine grants totaling $2.4 million will be awarded to 13 scholars from universities across the country.... ...The national RWJF Investigator Awards program, administered by Rutgers' Institute for Heal...St. John's wort ineffective for depression
DURHAM, N.C. The largest clinical trial performed to date on the popular herbal supplement St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) has found it to be no more effective than placebo for the treatment of a moderately severe form of major depression, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center. Major depression, also called major depressive disorder, is one of the most common forms o.... Here's a botanical twist: The more stress that is placed on wild populations of St. John's wort, the more effective the plant might be in warding off human depression. . . Plant pathologists from Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have found that hypericin (pronounced hi-PARIS-in), an active ingredient in St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) a popular herbal r...Federal institutes and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation create Tobacco Use Research Centers
. Seven academic institutions have been awarded grants totaling $14.5.million by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute on.Drug Abuse (NIDA) to create the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers.for studying tobacco use and new ways to combat it and its consequences. The.Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has committed an additional $14 million.over five...The effects of St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)
.Hypericum (St.John's Wort) is a plant that has been used for centuries as a.medicinal herb. Experimental studies show that hypericum has antidepressant.properties in animal models of depression. Furthermore the mechanism by which.this antidepressant effect is exerted has been shown to be similar to many.standard antidepressants. Supporting the pre-clinical studies, a number of.clinical studies...UT Southwestern Study To Test Efficacy Of St. John's Wort For Treatment Of Depression
.Dallas - May 5, 1999 - Twenty-eight-year-old artist Leslie Kenegar has a group.of her paintings that she hides in her back closet and describes as "just for me.- I don't want anybody else to know I've felt that way." On her other walls,.however, hang the bright paintings she's done in her sunny moods. . .What makes the difference? Kenegar thinks the answer lies with St. John's wort,.said Dr. Ma....CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--Flowers from a plant called St. John's wort,.which is used to treat mild to moderate depression in Europe, also reduce.alcohol intake in laboratory animals, University of North Carolina at Chapel.Hill researchers have discovered. The plant's active ingredient, hypericin,.might prove effective in the fight against alcoholism, the scientists say.. "This is exciting - an...Johns Hopkins has established the region's first AIDS care capitation program.for patients covered by Medicaid, the state-supported health insurance plan..Also one of the first in the nation, the program will use Hopkins specialists.and its network of sub-specialists to provide all health care to subscribers. . The program is a prototype for HIV care that could be adopted nationally.in the next...