UMaine study looks at infants and chronic nighttime crying
...gy and Psychiatry in Japan, and Jun Kohyama, M.D., associate director of Tokyo Kita Shakai Hoken Hospital. The study involved interviews with the parents of 500 infants, toddlers and children at a well-infant clinic in Tokyo. It is customary in Japan for parents to bring infants and toddlers into their sleepi...UNC study: Most N.C. family practitioners engage in unrecognized community service
...ll is public service," said Dr. Adam O. Goldstein, associate professor of family medicine at the UNC School of Medicine. "We undertook a study of what our colleagues in North Carolina did because despite a tradition of community service and a common but often unspoken belief in its value in medical education, ...UCSF study offers insight into human circadian rhythms
...ole in numerous behaviors," says Ying-hui Fu, PhD, associate professor of neurology at University of California...ed by Ptacek and co-author Christopher Jones, PhD, associate professor of neurology at University of Utah. In 1999, in a study of three families with the unusual...U of M researcher says Viagra may cause permanent vision loss in some men
...ngs as blue or green," said Howard Pomeranz, M.D., associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. "NAION is a much more serious condition because it can lead to permanent vision loss." All of the patients had at least one arteriosclerotic risk factor, including hypertension...Hausman to give keynote address at 'Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Feminism' symposium
Blacksburg, Va. Bernice Hausman, associate professor of English and director of the Women's Studies Program Virginia Tech, will be the keynote speaker at the symposium "Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Feminism," that will bring together a panel of women who are mothers, feminist scholars, pract...Advertising by academic medical centers may risk eroding public trust, says study
...rate revenue," said co-author Dr. Steven Woloshin, associate professor of medicine and of community and family medicine and a member of Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at DMS. The researchers noted that while the generally apparent financial interest of pharmaceutical companies may invoke a healthy...Fat may promote inflammation, new study suggests
...d Barbara Nicklas, Ph.D., senior researcher and an associate professor of internal medicine. "The findings point to a possible treatment target for new drugs. Our goal is to learn more about how these proteins are produced and how levels can be changed." Nicklas and colleagues have already begun a study to tes...Indiana University researchers closer to helping hearing-impaired using stem cells
... deaf patients in the future, said Dr. Hashino, an associate professor and Ruth C. Holton Scholar in the Department of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery. The cells used in the research are called marrow stromal cells -- a type of stem cell from which fat, bone and cartilage normally develop. "We were int...Bullying among sixth graders a daily occurrence, UCLA study finds
... December 2003, Juvonen, Graham and Mark Schuster, associate professor of pediatrics in UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, reported that bullies are often popular and viewed by classmates as the "coolest" in their classes; they don't show signs of depression or social anxiety, and do not suffer from low s...Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
...ture and its disastrous consequences." Jang is an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Along with the study's senior author Bouma and Tearney, additional co-authors are Briain MacNeill, MD, Masamichi Takano, MD, and Fabian Moselewski, of the MGH Cardiology Division; Nicusor Iftima, PhD...Researchers search for first sign of congestive heart failure
... a hypertension model developed by the institute's associate director, Dr. Gregory Harshfield, Dr. Kapuku is first looking at those who might be most at risk: people with a genetic tendency to retain sodium and an elevated blood pressure following stress, such as a competitive video game. The body naturally re...NYU College of Dentistry study equates poor oral health with preterm birth risk
... principal investigator, Dr. Ananda P. Dasanayake, associate professor of epidemiology & health promotion at th...-investigators on the study were Dr. Yihong Li, an associate professor of basic science and craniofacial biology at NYU College of Dentistry; Dr. Howard Wiener, ...RIT takes eye-tracking research to next level
...ry can we extend to the real world?" asks Pelz, an associate professor at RIT's Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. The wearable eye tracker-new technology developed in the Visual Perception Laboratory-is helping to answer those questions. The eye tracker has transformed the field of visual percept...Stanford patient is first to test new treatment for peripheral arterial disease
...ked again within a year, said Daniel Sze, MD, PhD, 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 for that rate to drop to zero, but realistically we simply hope to see a significant improvement fo...Employment prospects good for most cancer survivors -- but not all
...ort's co-authors are Dr. Joseph J. Vasey, research associate in Penn State's Center for Health Care and Policy Research, and Dr. Kaan Tunceli, Short's former doctoral student who is now at the Center for Health Services Research, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan. In the study, 1433 men and women, ...Mailman School of Public Health receives Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Center grant
...clinical professor of Psychiatry and David Albert, associate clinical professor of Dental and Oral Surgery. Additional collaborators with the Mailman School, NewYork-Presbyterian, and CUMC include Bellevue, Harlem, Metropolitan, Lenox Hill, and St. Luke's Hospitals; Clinical Directors Network; Community Premi...Storage time and temperature effects nutrients in spinach
...loses much of its nutrient content. Luke LaBorde, associate professor of food science, and Srilatha Pandrangi, graduate student, both at Penn State, found that spinach stored at 39 degrees Fahrenheit loses its folate and carotenoid content at a slower rate than spinach stored at 50 and 68 degrees. However, th...Physicists find patterns within seemingly random events of physiological systems
...ter for Polymer Studies, Plamen Ivanov, a research associate in the Center, and Kun Hu, a research assistant in physics, will discuss their findings March 22 at the American Physical Society meeting in Los Angeles. The team sought to investigate the role the body's internal clock, the circadian pacemaker, mi...PillCam enables study of esophagus by swallowing a pill
...or more than five years," said Dr. Charles Ulrich, associate professor of internal medicine. "It also can be used to find varices or dilated veins, and there are a number of other applications under investigation." According to the American College of Gastroenterology, approximately 19 million people have gast......r physical activity levels, says Dr. David Ludwig, associate professor and director of the Obesity Program at Children's Hospital Boston and a co-author of the study. For children in particular, fast food, sugar-sweetened beverages and other high-calorie/low-quality junk foods are major contributors to obesity...