Northwestern Memorial chosen to be featured in first-ever mini-med school TV airing on PBS
...ing a television version of Mini-Med School, we're able to offer millions of viewers the opportunity to learn from the country's most renowned physicians," explains Marci Rubin, executive producer for Mini-Med School TV. "Hi-Tech Brain Repair" is hosted by Hunt Batjer, M.D., chair of the Department of N...Baby talk: Infants have much to say if adults will only listen
...bies respond to different stimuli, researchers are able to evaluate how they differentiate and respond to sounds and learn language. Much of the response is based on when or how long the child looks at a particular object. The testing appears simple; a parent and child sit in a small, darkened room facin...Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego funds commercialization of lung, shock, other devices
... demonstrated great promise, and while we are only able to make eight cash awards at this time, the Center will continue to work with all of the applicants to develop commercialization strategies for their technologies, and if possible, help them secure other types of funding for their projects." This is ...Gene vaccine protects mice against development of Her2/neu breast cancer
...e-engineered to be propagation defective but still able to function as a delivery system for proteins from the cancer cells that are to be targeted by the animal's immune system. The basis for this new vaccine is an RNA virus called VEE, for Venezuelan equine encephalitis, which in its natural form can ca...Potential cure for lymphoma in HIV patients
...immunodeficiency, however, only nine Patients were able to tolerate this treatment for the entire study due to side effects such as nausea and inflammation of the mouth lining. The majority of Patients, though, did resume the HAART therapy soon after discharge from the hospital. Although two Patients died...More precise radiation therapy lets prostate cancer patients avoid erectile dysfunction
...By taking the additional imaging, the U-M team was able to plan treatment to include the entire prostate but avoid the critical blood vessels below. Preliminary results suggest that avoiding the vessels prevents erectile dysfunction. "Because we can't see any detail of this area on CT scans, we just assum...New therapeutic vaccine for HIV/AIDS eliminates needles and excessive toxicity
... minimal (skin irritation); thus patients might be able to avoid the excessive toxicities of anti-HIV cocktails. According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, there are currently about 39.4 million people worldwide who are living with HIV/AIDS. Of that number, 4.9 million were newly infect...Antibiotics protect nerves in mice by turning on genes
.... "So if you can find the right drug, you might be able to specifically affect other transporters, too." Because ceftriaxone only protects against glutamate damage, just one problem in ALS, it's not surprising that the mice eventually succumbed to weakness and paralysis despite treatment, he says. "If we ...Shepherds whistle while they work and brains process sounds as language
...the second tasks. While both subjects groups were able to detect the target whistle sound, only the silbadores showed bilateral brain activity in language center. Data from both tasks showed a common focus of brain activity near the temporal-parietal junction among the silbadores. "Our results provide ...New programme will train the next generation of health leaders
...ionals need to be armed with key competences to be able to manage this effectively." Senior figures in medical organisations are often doctors who, though highly qualified in their field, do not have training in health management strategies. The course will address this by focusing on developing the teach...New CAD system detects colon polyps in colons previously obscured by contrast-enhanced fluid
...luid, for a total of 22 polyps. The CAD system was able to find 19 of the polyps. "The CAD algorithm can actually be used for the air-filled areas of the colon in addition to the fluid-filled portions, so that polyps surrounded by air, fluid or both can also be detected," said Dr. Summers. The study autho...Scientists uncover new mechanism for the amygdala in fear recognition
...ze pattern, did not fixate on the eyes and was not able to discern fear. The findings suggest that the amygdala damage disrupts the patient's ability to direct her own gaze toward the eyes in other people's faces, which deprives her of the critical visual cues to detect fearful expressions. If th...Study finds that adherence to diet, not type of diet, more important factor for losing weight
...ts would have been better if participants had been able to freely select from the 4 diet options. Our findings challenge the concept that 1 type of diet is best for everybody and that alternative diets can be disregarded. Likewise, our findings do not support the notion that very low carbohydrate diets ar...Society of Hospital Medicine selects John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to publish The Hospitalist Newsletter
...of Pharmaceutical Media Inc. "We're thrilled to be able to offer advertisers an important avenue for reaching physicians who are leading the way in improving quality of care and outcomes for hospitalized patients. Through The Hospitalist, advertisers and recruiters will have the potential to reach a large...Women need less morphine after hysterectomies with new treatment
...omies require less morphine to combat pain and are able to recover their lung function more quickly when they receive a combination of two non-morphine-like or "non-opioid" drugs as part of their treatment, a new Queen's study shows. In combination the two drugs also reduce pain more consistently than whe...Residual tumor cells are a barrier to targeted cancer therapeutics
...ercent of c-MYC-induced mammary cancers were still able to grow. They also found that residual cancer cells persisted in all animals even those that were seemingly cancer-free. These residual cells quickly recovered their malignant properties either spontaneously or after the researchers reactivated MYC....Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt ranked 8th in nation by 'Child' magazine
...k. We have to recognize the rootsfrom which we are able to attract all these bright and talented people.Our greatest strength comes from being part of the Vanderbilt campus." Medical Director Arnold Strauss, M.D., said the Child magazine surveyitself impressed him. "Because Child magazine rates America's...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for January 2005 (first issue)
... blood cell counts or C-reactive protein, were not able to discriminate between patients whose outcome would be unfavorable, as compared with favorable outcomes. The investigators commented that early identification of patients at high risk of death or VAP recurrence could provide an opportunity to chang...Birth simulator helps physicians I.D. least forceful way to manage problem deliveries
...s birthing simulator as a research tool, we may be able to glean new insights into complicated births and develop new ways to resolve them." The device won top prize in a student design competition held in September during the international meeting of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers'......ght alcohol consumption among adults who have been able to appropriately regulate the quality and timing of their alcohol use." Study coauthors include senior author Eric Rimm, ScD, Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, Alberto Ascherio, MD, DrPH, Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, and Meir Stampfer, MD, DrPH, of the Harvard S...