Red wine can help maintain immune system, UF researcher finds
...s were made atthe food science and human nutrition department by researcher Charlie Sims. Percival said she found the comparison of muscadine and cabernet inconclusive.Tests of enzymes in the liver, which detoxifies alcohol for the body, showedsome differences between how the liver processed the two wines. Perc...UCSF researchers report new risk factors for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...s Elizabeth Holly, PhD, MPH, UCSF professor in the department ofEpidemiology and Biostatistics and lead author of the study. "They also areimportant because much of the data generated in this study is consistent withthe role of activated macrophages in the pathogenesis of lymphoma." Despite the lack of known ri...Cedars-Sinai reports excellent outcomes for its cardiac surgery division
...atric cardiac surgery. "All of the surgeons inthis department have been pioneers in various areas of cardiac surgery," hesaid. "We feel that not only is it our interest but it's our responsibility tofurther pursue better outcomes while continuing to decrease morbidity with thesurgeries we perform." In determini...Women find physician guidelines on estrogen replacement therapy are lacking
...partmentof Ambulatory Care and Prevention, a joint department of Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare and Harvard Medical School, conducted indepth interviews of 26 women whohad received a prescription for hormone replacement therapy. The womenidentified, on average, 15 factors as critical to their decision-making. Thepr...Decline in awareness and treatment of high blood pressure could pose a serious public health threat
...ologist who isleading a study at the Mayo Clinic's department of neurology to examine riskfactors for stroke and heart disease in the community. When Meissner and other researchers interviewed 636 adults from the Olmstead,Minnesota, community and measured their blood pressure they found that 53percent had high ...UCSF conference examines the impact of 'hospitalists' on doctor-patient relationship
...perience" The conference is sponsored by the UCSF department of medicine and supported bya grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Patient-Provider Initiative.Steve Pantilat, MD, UCSF assistant clinical professor of medicine is co-chairof the conference. NOTE TO MEDIA: Media interested in attending t...Renowned researcher in prenatal diagnostics joins Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
...ing a girl in January. According to Dr. Platt, the department is now studying the practicality of using3D ultrasound in nuchal translucency measurement. "We're looking to see if wemight be able to use it to get a more accurate measurement," he said. "We'll be looking at three-dimensional ultrasound in several w...12-year-old Oregon girl is first child to receive new bone growth material in her skull
...erever it is needed," said Alan Seyfer, M.D., OHSU department of surgery(division chairman of plastic and recons...ructure. Jeffery O. Hollinger, D.D.S., Ph.D., OHSU department of surgery (plastic andreconstructive surgery), and Seyfer have collaborated together for more than ...Study reveals how brain controls eating in normal rats
... Harvard Medical School and chair of the neurology department at Beth Israel Deaconess. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIDDK), the American Heart Association, and Eli Lilly....Cholesterol guidelines can reduce recurrent heart problems
... paper include Pamela Coxson, PhD, UCSFspecialist, department of medicine; Maria Hunink, MD, PhD, department of healthsciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Paula Goldman, MPH,department of health...University of Pittsburgh study finds that simple test spots early signs of heart disease in women
...lso a university professor and the chairman of the department of epidemiologyat the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health. "With thistechnology, we can now find arterial problems much earlier in women so that theycan take the necessary steps to avoid life-threatening complications later o...Hard liquor, not beer or wine, may explain trends in cirrhosis mortality
... mystery," said Ron Roizen, UCSF sociologistin the department of social and behavioral science and lead author o...Kerr, PhD, UCSFassistant research economist in the department of social and behavior sciences;and Kaye Fillmore, PhD, UCSF adjunct professor of social and behavio...Hormone linked to body weight may help regulate blood pressure
...Takizawa, M.D., Ph.D., an instructor in the second department of internalmedicine at the Sapporo Medical University in Sapporo, Japan. In an earlier study, Takizawa's group found that blood levels of leptin werehigher in normal weight people with high blood pressure than in individuals ofsimilar size who had n...Fire ants can attack humans in homes or health care facilities
...sion of allergy and immunology and chairman of the department ofmedicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Fire ants sting and kill invertebrates as their primary food source but havebeen known to kill farm animals if other food isn't available. According todeShazo, the medical complications of f...University Of Wisconsin to launch center to study how emotions affect health
... Kalin is chair of the UW Medical Schoolpsychiatry department and director of the HealthEmotions Research Institute. Heis an expert in the biology of stress and emotion and their relation to thedevelopment of anxiety and depressive disorders. The social and economic influences on mental health People who stu...Elderly heart attack patients fare well with managed care
...artment of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, a joint department of HarvardMedical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, reviewed the medical records of2304 elderly patients admitted with AMI at 20 urban community hospitals inMinnesota. The main outcome measures were, use of emergency transportation andtreatmen...Cigarette smoking cost Medicare program $20.5 billion in 1997, according to UCSF researchers
...h risks andmedical care, conducted by state health department in collaboration with theCenters for Disease Control. Co-authors of the study are Leonard Miller, PhD, professor of social welfare atthe University of California, Berkeley and Wendy Max, PhD, UCSF associateprofessor of medical economics in the UCSF I...Researchers join with treatment providers to improve drug abuse treatment
...principal investigator for OR-Nodeand chair of the department of public health and preventive medicine at OHSU."The idea is to involve our clinical partners from the beginning in establishingthe research agenda and formulating the questions." "The exciting thing about this project is that it will bring together...Researchers advocate improved breast cancer screening techniques
...artment of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, a joint department of HarvardPilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, reviewed a total of 110 articlesbetween the years 1966 and 1997 on the effectiveness and test characteristics ofthe CBE. They pooled data from several studies to demonstrate that fivevariables...Extract from traditional Chinese herb enhances recovery in stressed cells
...ce Becker, MD, Paul T. Schumacker, Ph.D., from the department of EmergencyMedicine and Pulmonary/Critical Care and the Emergency Resuscitation ResearchCenter (ERRC) at the University of Chicago; Ji A. Wu and Anoja S. Attele fromthe Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and the Committee on ClinicalPhar...