Researchers discover potential new approach to treating cystic fibrosis
...research director forthe obstetrics and gynecology department at Beth Israel Deaconess and anassociate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive endocrinologyat Harvard Medical School. Dr. Freedman is director of The Pancreas Center atBeth Israel Deaconess and an assistant professor of medicine a...Doppler ultrasound can reduce hospital stays
...dicalInc., Irving, Texas, who, along with the Duke department of anesthesiology,funded the current study. Joining Gan in the study were Dr. Andrew Soppitt; Dr. Mohammad Maroof,Habib El-Moalem, and Dr. Peter Glass, all from Duke....UNC-CH wins $42.1 million federal contract to study drugs for schizophrenia and Alzheimer's
...ccessful bid. "The university and the psychiatry department have a long tradition of researchin the pathological basis of mental illness and the development of therapeuticstrategies," he said. UNC-CH also has experience conducting large, multi-center trials, includingserving as the lead institution for ongoi...Duke team seeks novel vaccine strategy for HIV
...s. Project leader Dr. Bart Haynes, chairman of the department of medicine at Duke,believes that the team will develop a vaccine that can be delivered nasally andwould stimulate immune responses in the user at both the mucosal and systemiclevels. "I think we will be able to start testing our next generation of c......r and chair of the division of behavioralsciences, department of dental public health and hygiene in the UCSF School ofDentistry. "And it's frustrating for physicians if the goal is to get a yesanswer. So what we found from these successful physicians is that theyrealized that it's their job to ask in a valid...Annals of Internal Medicine Tip Sheet - October 19, 1999
...qualitative study of six focus groups of emergency department physicians,obstetrician/gynecologists and primary care physicians identified fivecomponents of successful work with victims of domestic violence (Article, p.578). The groups also suggested that incorporating abuse questions in routinemedical historie...Physicians consistent in prescribing hormone therapy
...ure," says study co-author Dr. Marsha Cohen of the department of health administration and the Centre for Resear...he basis for the paper, and Dr. Tom Elmslie of the department of family medicine at the University of Ottawa. The study, published in the Sept. 21 issue of the Ca...UF study shows contemporary method accurately predicts cancer risk
...drawing blood, said Masood, associate chair of the department of pathology at the UF Health Science Center/Jacksonville. Doctors use a tiny needle to remove a sampling of breast tissue cells, which then are screened for malignancy. The method, Masood says, also can be used to look for the early cellular change......gators in Colorado State University's microbiology department have received $6.25 million to continue groundbrea...ry, a group of researchers within the microbiology department that investigates tuberculosis. Research lab work related to the drug discovery program includes a s...HDL -- 'good' cholesterol -- helps bypass surgery
... cardiology fellow, preventive cardiology section, department of cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. The researchers found that men undergoing bypass surgery who had low levels of HDL cholesterol were nearly twice as likely to die in the next two decades than men whose HDL levels were hig......nd Lewis H. Kuller, M.D., Dr.P.H., chairman, GSPH department of epidemiology, pointed to variations in smoking and education levels, as indicated by records of deaths from cancers of the lung and bronchus and corresponding degree of cigarette smoking, and percentage of high-school graduates. "The relati......uli during this time. JoAnn Buchanan, M.D., of the department of molecular and cell physiology at Stanford University, used electron microscopy to verify that the recordings were on mitochondria....Trauma patients need monitoring for infection risk
... says study co-author Dr. Andrew Simor of U of T's department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology and Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre. "We know that infection is a leading cause of death in trauma victims who survive the first few days and this study points to why this is the case and ...Sharon and Tracey make way for Kelly and Louise in the easy virtue stakes
...at most of the top 10 names for women attendingthe department were seen with the frequency expected by the incidence of the name in the population. Nevertheless, some names were more popular among the study group at the clinic than they were in thegeneral population, including Kelly, Louise and Clare (with no "...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
...ever," said Dr. Ranga Krishnan, chairman of Duke's department of psychiatry. "All we can say is the patient has a fever. We are diagnosing based on a symptom. With the genetic approach, we may be able to classify psychiatric disorders based on an underlying genetic and biochemical cause, just as fever is now cl...New mathematical model explains changing patterns in epidemics
...gues Pejman Rohani and Bryan Grenfell, both of the department of zoology at Cambridge, studied historical data on the outbreaks of measles in London and Liverpool in England, and New York and Baltimore. Patterns of measles epidemics in those cities range from similar outbreaks every year, to large or small ou...NHLBI funds asthma coalitions to improve care among high risk populations
...onate share of asthma deaths, as well as emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Asthma also continue...oject seeks to reduce overutilization of emergency department services by asthma patients by creating a long-term culturally appropriate asthma management system ...Health phone lines hampered by public's poor understanding of the term 'unconscious'
...d patients in an inner city accident and emergency department were asked seven questions relating to loss of consciousness. These included whether people who are unconscious can stand up, breathe, talk, and hear. Most (83%) of those questioned said that English was their first language. More than 80 per cent o...Scientists: herb known as comfrey can ruin liver, other herbs appear helpful
... Pierre LeBars of New York University's psychiatry department described how researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of a Ginko biloba extract in treating dementia in at least two large randomized clinical trials. Compared with patients who received inactive compounds, those who took the extract tended t...Estrogen shows potential as stroke treatment, UF animal studies show
...the cells, said James W. Simpkins, chairman of the department of pharmaceutics in UF's College of Pharmacy and director of the university's Center for the Neurobiology of Aging. The study builds on statistical observations that postmenopausal women who take estrogen replacement therapy are more likely to survi...