Talk with the experts: The American Psychiatric Association's 1999 Fall Components Meeting
...ne of the issues listedbelow, or to find out about additional issues, please call or email Erin Murphyat 202-682-6324/ emurphy@psych.org . Major issues include: Psychiatric Aspects on Violence Psychiatric Dimensions of Disasters AIDS Managed Care End-of-Life Juvenile Justice Family Violence...'Plug and patch' method of hernia repair an effective replacement for old surgical methods
...ough a small puncture in theabdominal wall and two additional narrow tubes are inserted through theabdominal wall to allow placement of surgical instruments. The hernia is identified and repaired by stapling a patchover the defect in the abdominal wall. This method often requires generalanesthesia and involve...... may still be present. Rest, sleep, protectionfrom additional impact and abstinence from alcohol can allow the brain to heal." Meanwhile, symptoms that are delayed, more severe or worsen over time can signalserious problems, including blood clots in the brain. With the advent ofsophisticated medical imaging, th...HIV's deep pocket may reveal vulnerability
... he explained. The scientists also plan to create additional libraries based on theinformation gained from this study in an attempt to identify compounds lackingthe protein fragment entirely. Such compounds would, in theory, be still easierto turn into drugs. Though this research involved HIV, it could have a......insulin resistance, offering glycaemic control and additional beneficial effects on other important risk factors of the disease. Results suggest that rosiglitazone may have the potential to reduce late-stage complications. "The new studies show that by directly targeting insulin resistance, one of the fundament...UNC studying new drug against ovarian and endometrial cancers
...owth. At the same time, the drug may offer additional benefits.Anti-estrogenic effects in the uterus and ovaries have been shownexperimentally, and LY353381 also acts like estrogen to help protect againstbone loss and to lower cholesterol, which is of particular value to older women. "This 3rd g...UI findings indicate DNA methylation process may lead to oral cancer
...thylated." Domann and his research team plan to do additional methylation studies to screenother oral cancer cell lines. "We think that this might be a general mechanism in oral cancers, as well as inother cancers, for inactivating this gene locus," Domann said. P16INK4A is a broad-acting tumor suppressor gene...Cedars-Sinai pediatrician to receive award for his contributions to international child health
... later completed a neonatal fellowship. Heacquired additional training in neonatology, outcomes research and clinicalepidemiology, and clinical research at the University of California SanFrancisco. He has held a number of teaching and professional positions at the University ofBuenos Aires, Esquiu College in B...The Niemann Pick C Lesion and the role of intracellular lipid sorting in humandisease
... the field and act aschairperson/moderator for the additional speakers of the session. A veryconcerted effort at cross-disciplinary communication will be stressed. (5) Alate-breaking news session will be included for most sessions to provide juniorscientific members the opportunity to present recent important f......tenth of a square meter in size, you caneasily add additional membranes to create an array offering, say, 100 squaremeters worth of separation power." In addition, he says, if the results obtained with model systems provesuccessful, "We could potentially reduce the total number of steps required forpurificatio...UI-led study indicates surgery is the best treatment for severe Bell's palsy paralysis
...0 to 15 percent of patients will not recoverunless additional measures are taken. The study had three related goals, all attempting to answer the primaryquestions troubling many clinicians treating patients with Bell's palsy. Theresearchers wanted to determine how to best identify which patients will be leftwit......herapy alone - nearly a three-fold improvement. An additional finding of the study was that the improved survival rates camewithout a significant increase in toxic side effects or extra days in thehospital. "We recommend that these therapies should be incorporated into futuretreatment regimens," Matthay said. T...Photodynamic therapy reduces risk of vision loss in some macular degeneration patients
...ery three monthsfor up to two years; they received additional treatments during the follow-upexams if theabnormal lesions suggested further growth or vision loss. The study was sponsored by QLT PhotoTherapeutics Inc., Vancouver, BritishColumbia; and CIBA Vision Corp., Duluth, Ga., co-developers of photody...Federal institutes and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation create Tobacco Use Research Centers
...rt Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has committed an additional $14 millionover five years to complement NCI's and NIDA's efforts to improve the policyunderstanding and communications practices of the tobacco research teams. The funds announced today will be used for the first year of a five-yearproject t...NIAID funds three Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) Research Centers
...six months, often inassociation with a spectrum of additional complaints such as sleep disorders,problems with mental concentration and memory, muscle and joint aches, andtender lymph nodes. The condition was first recognized in the early 1980s, butit remains unclear whether it is a new illness or only newly a...New approach to imaging separates thought from perception
...e ofthe Journal of Neuroscience. They will discuss additional experiments Oct. 24and 26 during the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Miami Beach,Fla. "You could use this method anytime you wanted to separate the processesthat prepare you to do a task from those involved in executing that task,"S......tious Diseases, Dr. Arditi is available to provide additional information on this subject....Nausea from anesthesia plummets with extra oxygen
...ance of working, he added. In contrast, the use of additional oxygen costs almost nothing, causes no knownproblems, and can be given to all patients from the outset of surgery. "The take-home message from the new studies is that extra oxygen is cheap,risk-free and reduces the incidence of nausea as well as any ...'Biochemical storm' following brain trauma, an important factor in treatment
...according to the National Institutes of Health. An additional 70,000 people -- with men outnumbering women 2 to 1 -- suffer a blow that results in substantial ongoing difficulties with communication tasks, coordination, memory and thinking. An estimated 5.3 million people are permanently disabled. Because of th...UI study shows classification system for evaluating childhood hip disease may be unreliable
...-evaluated the radiographs, as well as those of 22 additional patients. Researchers then compared reliability before and after the team discussion. Regardless of the raters' experience levels, the UI study showed that each rater's individual reliability coefficient ranged between 71 and 92 before the team meeti...