Chemist Percy Julian captures spirit of black history celebration scientist
... then returned to his alma mater, DePauw, where he completed his landmark work on the drug physostigmine in 1935. Physostigmine was used to preserve sight by lessening the build-up of pressure caused by glaucoma, and it had only been available from its natural source, the Calabar bean. Though the achievement...Copper-lowering drug stabilizes advanced cancer in anti-angiogenesis trial
...phase II trial of TM in patients who have recently completed conventional therapy for breast, prostate and kidney cancer, sarcoma and multiple myeloma is being planned for this year. A full-scale toxicity test of TM will also begin shortly, though the compound has shown no toxic effects in dozens of Wilson's...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
... 1999 issue of the journal Genomics that they have completed a detailed genetic map of the area of chromosome 15 that contains the suspected autism genes. The map is a milestone that will help researchers mark off which genes are definitely not involved and narrow down the list of candidate genes until an affe...Cranfield pushes for greater child flight safety
...t year, as part of a consortium, the Impact Centre completed a programme of research for the European Commission that formulated a draft regulation for approving child restraint devices used in aircraft. An incentive programme to encourage restraint manufacturers to have their devices approved for both car and...Care of mentally ill prisoners well below NHS standards
.... None of the doctors in charge of inpatients had completed specialist psychiatric training. Most prisons kept patients unlocked for around 3.5 hours a day rather than the 12 hours required by current prison service standards. Therapeutic activity was limited, and periods of exclusion were lengthy, averagin...New evidence suggests reconsidering causes and treatments for schizophrenia
...e way schizophrenia is treated. They have just completed a multi-facetted study that re-examines the role of the cholinergic system in schizophrenia. The cholinergic system comprises the nerve cells or fibers that employ acetylcholine as their neurotransmitter. Cholinergic nerve connections, or synapses, a...Patients with social phobia benefit from long-term treatment with sertraline HCl
...d 40 percent (6) of the placebo-responder patients completed the study. The incidence and severity of side effects experienced by the sertraline-continuation patients generally did not differ from those reported by placebo-switch patients, except for significantly more headache and flu-like symptoms in the ser...Bexxar highly effective as first-line treatment for patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...ble today. These promising results, from the first completed study of a first-line, stand-alone radioimmunotherapy for cancer, were presented today at the meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology by Mark S. Kaminski, M.D., U-M professor of hematology/oncology and co-director of the U-M's leukemia/l......tients in both the treatment and placebo arms that completed the Phase III trial have been offered Aptosyn™ therapy as part of a 12 month, open-label extension study. These patients receive 600 mg of Aptosyn™, total daily dose, and investigators count and remove all rectal polyps at six-month intervals...Vulnerable groups less likely to receive early HIV drug therapy
...T, compared to homosexual men, individuals who had completed college or had graduate education, and non-Hispanic whites, respectively. Moreover, the research showed that patients who had higher incomes, those who were tested for HIV at anonymous test sites, or individuals who said they were able to get medic..."Radical" Discovery Advances Medicine and Plastics
...e of will and brainpower, Gomberg learned English, completed his secondary education, and in 1886 entered the U...o find that what Gomberg claimed was true. Gomberg completed his studies, received his Ph.D., and embarked on the research that was to lead to his groundbreaking...Risk map will help predict encephalitis outbreaks
... Midwest. The current West Nile risk map should be completed by late June. In coming years, Day hopes to have maps posted by January and updated monthly through April, after which updates would become weekly through the end of mosquito season. Day and his colleagues begin tracking St. Louis encephalitis in Fl......rgeries a year. He received his medical degree and completed his residency program at Baylor College of Medicine, where he served under famed heart surgeon Michael Debakey. During the past two years, Cohn has licensed three additional patents for medical devices he has invented. IPO is a trade association with...HMO physicians generally experience less job satisfaction
...ctices, and nine percent were in HMOs. Physicians completed questionnaires assessing their satisfaction in 10 specific domains, including autonomy; personal time; income; patient care issues; community; administration; resources; and relationships with patients, colleagues, and other staff. There were also m...... in AD patients are conflicting. In this recently completed study, a secondary analysis showed that the treatm...#174- and 67.4 percent of placebo-treated patients completed the study with 7 percent of ARICEPT®-treated and 6.3 percent of placebo-treated patients discont...Gender bias in salaries among Pennsylvania M.D.'s, find University of Pittsburgh researchers
...ears beyond medical school. Questionnaires were completed by 232 male and 213 female internists, who provided information on demographics, training, board certification, practice type and setting, status within the practice, type and level of promotion, faculty appointment, marital status, number and ages o...Acupuncture is promising treatment for cocaine addiction, Yale researchers find
...d 9.1 percent in the two control groups. Those who completed acupuncture treatment also had longer periods of sustained abstinence compared to participants in the control groups. "Additional benefits of acupuncture include its low cost, and that it seems to have few, if any, adverse side effects," Margolin ......go graduate, attended two years of medical school, completed his Ph.D., in Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology ...said Hack. Nagle, 31, came to Chicago in 1994. He completed two years of medical school, then spent four years working full-time on his Ph.D. in medical physics......r because they are less likely than whites to have completed high school or college and much less likely than whites to report using a computer in their work places, she said. Among employed Californians, Latinos are 11 times more likely than whites to live in poverty. They are also more likely than whites to...Testosterone skin patch improves sexual functioning in surgically menopausal women
...s the women were receiving at any time. The women completed an evaluation of sexual functioning - including desire, arousal, activity and pleasure - as well as an evaluation of overall psychological well being, at the beginning of the study and at the end of each treatment period. Testosterone levels were...