Wake Forest to coordinate huge national study to prevent cardiovascular disease in diabetes
...nternal medicine (general internal medicine), will direct the Winston-Salemclinics. Joining Byington as co-investigators are Michael E. Miller, Ph.D., andDavid M. Reboussin, Ph.D., both associate professors of public health sciences(biostatistics), John R. Crouse III, M.D., professor of internal med......d at the ERS meeting. Many suggest that there is a direct link withcardiovascular diseases, although the exact causal relationship is still notknown. For instance, at the Hot Topic symposium on "Prevalence and clinical outcome ofOSA" held in Madrid on Wednesday, Dr Robert Davies, lung specialist at OxfordRa...National study focuses on families of people with diabetes and obesity
...ne (endocrinology/metabolism) at Wake Forest, will direct the study'sgenetics laboratory. The total...ohydrates. The obesity analysis will be by direct measurement -- CT scans that candetermine the amount of abdominal fat and quantify excess abdominal ...New tests for blood clots, lung cancer use NIDCR patented technology
... test to pinpoint the mostdangerous clots can help direct clinicians to a proper treatment course. NeoTectä The NeoTectä kit is the latest to receive FDA approval, given the go-ahead forclinical use on August 4, 1999. The test is intended to help physiciansdistinguish between benign and maligna...... Neisseria meningitidis - is easily passed through direct contact activities such as coughing, sneezing or kissing , many people carry it for days or weeks in the secretions of the nose and throat without getting sick. Even so, meningococcal meningitis appears to be an opportunistic disease, infecting peopl...Improving burn diagnosis and insights into perfect pitch at acoustics press conference
...e location. Conventional ultrasound--requiring direct contact with the skin--is difficult and time-consuming to use, as well as extremely painful for the patient. Joie Jones of UC-Irvine will present an ultrasound method--which does not require contact with the skin--for evaluating the depth...Poorer people worse off after heart attack
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...tizes them. The computer uses this information to direct two robotic arms, which are attached to the operating room table. These arms hold the instrument tips that replicate the precise maneuvers of the surgeon. "The computer takes your motion and makes it very, very smooth," Damiano explains. "Then it ......rapyhas shown promise. This treatment involves the direct application of a clot-busting drug calledProUrokinase to the blocked artery using a catheter. The procedure is called an angiogram. Once again,health centers across North America were involved in the trial, including OHSU and Portland VeteransAffairs...90 high schools will participate in UNC-CH head injury study
...eceiving medical help. Guskiewicz and McCrea also direct a continuing study of head injuries among football players at 34randomly selected colleges and universities across the United States. That work is being sponsored bythe National Collegiate Athletic Association. "We are confident that this research i...Male unemployment levels affect birthweight
...ested specifically in the indirect rather than the direct effects of unemployment on low birthweight rates. "The health effects of being socially or economically connected with persons who become unemployed are, with few exceptions, largely ignored," said Catalano. "Ignoring these effects may lead to er...Coupling of brain proteins may prompt new treatments for schizophrenia, addiction
...nt neurotransmitter receptor systems, that is, the direct physical coupling of these proteins," says senior author Dr. Hyman Niznik, associate professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at U of T and section head, laboratory and molecular neurobiology at CAMH. "This may provide us with a new therapeutic windo...Teasing out the early steps of neurodegeneration
...entists' basic discoveries will not likely lead to direct clinical applications. "Nevertheless, if we could understand the early perturbations in calcium homeostasis in these Purkinje cells, and if these could be pharmacologically altered, these basic findings might ultimately aid treatment of this disea......why and how gallstones form so that physicians can direct their efforts towards inhibiting the process at the onset through medication and dietary changes," said Dr. Yeshayahu Talmon of the Department of Chemical Engineering. Working with Dr. Fred Konikoff of the Tel Aviv University Medical School, capture...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
...but we still can't finger the culprit until we get direct evidence," Pericak-Vance said. "In this case, that...gh the data is suggestive, the researchers have no direct evidence yet that this is the case. Currently, the Duke research team is making progress narrowing ......l clerkship in which students were responsible for direct patient care under faculty supervision. The U-M began routinely accepting women, Asians, Jews and African Americans into its student body long before most other medical schools. Still, women were taught such courses as anatomy and gynecology separa...Brain imaging reveals less medication just as effective in treating schizophrenia
...en prescribing antipsychotic medications, but also direct researchers toward designing new drugs that can operate within the threshold window and not exceed it, thus eliminating negative side effects. "It seems nature is on our side," adds Kapur, the study's lead author. "Fortunately, the therapeutic effect...New evidence suggests reconsidering causes and treatments for schizophrenia
...ty. The authors say their findings show there is a direct relationship between the cholinergic and dopaminergic systems as it pertains to the pathology of schizophrenia. "The main importance of this study is that it very strongly indicates the role of the cholinergic system in schizophrenia in that it pr......sts only accounting for less than 5 percent of the direct medical costs. We already know that atypical antipsychotics are clinically superior to conventional antipsychotics and this in itself has cost saving implications. Indeed, treatment with the atypical antipsychotic Risperdal has been shown to reduce ...First large-scale clinical study establishes the efficacy of the new oral anticoagulant H 376/95
... thromboembolism in orthopaedic surgery The oral direct thrombin inhibitor H 376/95, the first new oral an... relationship with regard to efficacy for the oral direct thrombin inhibitor, H 376/95, preceded by subcutaneous administration of melagatran. The METHROII s...