Noni plant may yield new drugs to fight tuberculosis
...UST. He is currently an assistant professor in the department of chemistry at the University of San Agustin, Iloilo City, Philippines, and is pursuing his Ph.D. Saludes declined to speculate how much of the extract is needed to achieve a therapeutic effect in humans, as the extract has not yet been tested ..."Dutch Nobel Prize" for three researchers
... Professor D. (Daan) Frenkel (1948), head of the department of Soft Condensed Material and director of the Computational Physics research group at the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam (part of the NWOs Netherlands Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter, FOM); also Profess...Common heart failure drugs can be safely used at higher, more effective doses, study says
... and Surgeons; Paul Armstrong, MD, chairman of the department of medicine at University of Alberta; John Cleland, MD, professor of medicine at University of Hull in the United Kingdom; John Horowitz, MD, professor of cardiology at University of Adelaide in Australia; Philip Poole-Wilson, MD, professor of cardia......ngland and Wales 1995-8: an accident and emergency department perspective 2001; 18: 105-9 Violence is seasonal, peaking in late summer and at its lowest ebb in spring, shows an audit published in the Emergency Medicine Journal. Violence towards women has also been increasing. Data on community violence were c...Enzyme could provide continual fat burning
...ids and to fat burning. Wakil, chairman of Baylors department of biochemistry and molecular biology, and his colleagues found that there are two pools of malonyl-CoA in the cell. The one in which ACC1 is important is critical to the formation of the long carbon chain component of fatty acids. The other pool ass...Stony Brook chemist wins national award for drug discoveries
...g in San Diego. Ojima, chairman of the chemistry department at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, said his research originally focused on developing peptides, or small proteins, to treat conditions such as high blood pressure and blood clots. "Then in the 1980s, taxol became a very hot topic," h......ear infections," says Professor Peter Coyte of the department of health administration in the Faculty of Medicine and lead author of the study that appears in the April 19 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. Of the 37,316 children in Ontario who received tube surgery as their first surgical interven...Ultrasonic microprobe may rapidly detect, identify cancer
... said James F. Zachary, a UI professor and interim department head of veterinary pathobiology. By examining the size and shape of the cells, and how they interact with surrounding tissue, a determination can be made whether the tumor is malignant or benign. The ultrasonic microprobe would allow a pathologist t......cs, said Lee R. Weiss, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., chairman, department of emergency medicine, Knox Community Hospital, Mount Vernon, Ohio, and lead investigator of the study. Specifically, clarithromycin offers an important alternative in the treatment arsenal for patients with an acute exacerbation of chronic bronchit...Feeling of hopelessness increases risk of dying
...s lead study author Stephen L. Stern, M.D., of the department of psychiatry at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Approximately half of the study participants were Mexican American, the fastest growing group of elderly Americans. Other studies also have found hopelessness to predict...... directs the Clinical Research Center for the EVMS department of obstetrics and gynecology. Archer is the lead author of an article on the bleeding aspect of the research, scheduled for publication this month in the journal Fertility and Sterility. Articles by other researchers involved in the trials wil......divisions of endocrinology and geriatric medicine, department of medicine, University of Pittsburgh; and director, Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Center, UPMC. GnRH-a works by depriving the body of testosterone, an androgen hormone thatincreases the growth of prostate tumors. However, testosterone also...UF researchers: rural residents less apt to seek Alzheimer's care from family doctors
...ssociate professor in the UF College of Medicine's department of health policy and epidemiology, and a researcher in geriatrics at the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System. The research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, was part of a larger study conducted at the University of Arkans...One in four patients has been drinking before arrival at accident and emergency
...ers aged 10 and older at an accident and emergency department in a hospital in Inverness, Scotland. Two 24 hour periods for each day of the week were covered for two months from mid February to mid April. Alcohol levels were assessed by saliva sample. Out of 638 eligible patients, 544 took a saliva test. Eviden...Explosion in numbers of advice calls to hospital since introduction of NHS Direct
...calls to one accident and emergency medicine (A&E) department have fallen by over 70 per cent, reports a study i...roduced in April 1999. In October 1998, the A&E department took 84 calls from the public, but a year later this had fallen to 23, a drop of almost 73 per cent....More senior doctors needed to improve UK emergency care
...ellent service is not achievable when an emergency department is staffed mainly by senior house officers, they add....New pilot study suggests flaxseed and low-fat diet can be protective against prostate cancer
...rk-Wahnefried, associate research professor in the department of surgery at Duke. Itsfull of omega-3 fatty acids, fiber and lignan. Testosterone may be important in the progression ofprostate cancer, and lignan in the flaxseed binds testosterone, so we thought the flaxseed mightsuppress the growth of prostate c...This summer, Camp Calcium is where the boys are
...reated to mini-sports camps led by Purdue athletic department staff and athletes, field trips, movies, nutrition and health classes and educational opportunities set up by the chemistry and physics departments and the School of Veterinary Medicine. Researchers also determining the fitness level of each particip...Psychotherapy can help suicidal patients
... Over 100 adults who attended a hospital emergency department after deliberately poisoning themselves were included in the study. Patients were randomly allocated to two groups. The intervention group received four sessions of psychological therapy at their home. The control group received routine care, which i......stant professor of materials science; Alan Benesi, department of chemistry, all at Penn State's University Park campus; Alan J. Snyder, associate professor of surgery and bioengineering; Gerson Rosenberg, professor of surgery and bioengineering; and Christopher Siedlecki, assistant professor of bioengineering a...