AIDS Treatments Seek To Eradicate Virus, Restore Immunity
... around the country. Fundingfor the CIL, under the direction of Bolognesi, has just been renewed bythe NIH for seven years....KUMC Researchers Announce Breakthrough Method For Predicting Epileptic Seizures
...as someone with epilepsy, to see a whole different direction in the type of treatment for epilepsy," she said.......ucted at Case Western Reserve University under the direction of Jonathan Lewin, M.D. It is a safety and feasibility study focusing on patients with isolated kidney tumors smaller than a tennis ball and no other hope. In the procedure, Lewin inserts a probe resembling a hypodermic needle into the patie......os Angeles. The finding, said Small, offers a new direction for substantialpain relief for patients with advanced prostate cancer. The phase III clinical trial, designed to test the drug's efficacy, involved 458patients, with an average age of 68, at 76 medical centers in the United Statesand Canada. In the...First Patients Enrolled In NIH Clinical Trial On Effects Of Marijuana In HIV Patients
... in patients with HIV infectionhas begun under the direction of a group of physician-scientists in SanFrancisco. Supported by a $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, thetwo-year study is a combined project of UC San Francisco and the CommunityConsortium, a Bay Area association of 200 health ...New Elementary School Program Lowers Cardiovascular Risks In Children
... pointed to a more generalized intervention as the direction to take. The positive results of the more easily implemented classroom-wide approach were stronger and reached more children. Dr. Harrell speculates that the reason this approach is more successful is that it avoids stigmatization of children with ...UCSF Study Finds DHEA Benefits Cardiovascular Function
...tian Zellner, MD, whoconducted the study under the direction of UCSF Stanford Health Carecardiologists Tony Chou, MD, UCSF assistant professor of medicine, and KanuChatterjee, MD, UCSF professor of medicine, at UCSF's Vascular Lab. Researchers at medical centers across the country are investigating an...Discarded Treatment For Heart Attacks May Yet Prove To Be A Life-Saver
...e magnitude of the benefit, we should look for the direction of thebenefit. And the direction of the benefit is consistently positive." Diaz is co-director of the cardiovascular medicine...Radically New Type Of Surgery Tested On First Patient
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... neutrons and making precise measurements of their direction and speedin the university's Edwards Accelerator Lab -- one of only a handful of physicslabs in the country capable of this kind of research. The neutron measurements done in the lab will be used by Harvard MedicalSchool physicians and Massac......is the quality of the ultrasound imaging.Under the direction of Dr. Platt, one of the most respected authorities onultrasonography and president-elect of the American Institute of Ultrasound inMedicine, Cedars-Sinai's center offers the latest in both standard and 3-Dultrasound equipment. In fact, Dr. Platt and...Low-Tech Treatment Proves A Life-Saver In Research Breakthrough
...General Hospital Medical Center (SFGHMC), underthe direction of John Luce, M.D., a co-investigator of the study and UCSFprofessor of medicine and anesthesiology. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome often results from pneumonia or otherlife-threatening infections. ARDS patients are often, but not always, alrea...'Motion Blindness,' Not Just Poor Memory, Causes Alzheimer's Patients To Lose Their Way
...atterns of dots andpress buttons to indicate which direction the dots seem to bemoving. Together with researchers Sheldon Tetewsky and HopeO'Brien and physician Lisa Lebedovych, Duffy tested six healthyyoung adults, 12 healthy elderly adults, and 11 elderlyAlzheimer's patients. Scientists found that while the ...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...tury manual onchildbirth," Furth later wrote, "the direction [of my research] was set." As a feminist scholar, Furth was challenged by the project of exploring ideasabout the body and bodily gender in such an unfamiliar culture as China's. "Iwanted to see how far I could push the arguments that the human body ...First woman commanding general for health care in Pacific speaks on Capitol Hill about Tele-Health
...ry and medical leader in theresearch, development, direction and coordination of the military's initiativeto explore and innovate technological solutions for public/private health caredelivery. "Being responsible for delivery of healthcare to a region as big as thePacific requires me to use and support...Controversial performance enhancer "andro" affects brains as well as brawn, say UMass researchers
...tsConstanza Villalba and Catherine Auger under the direction of professor Geert deVries. Auger is now a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University.Although the study was conducted on rats, the implications for humans areimportant, according to the scientists. "Andro," or androstenedione, is a ...NYU researchers uncover the neurobiology of decision-making
...brains of humans and animals make decisions - what direction to move,what food to eat, where to sleep? Decision theory, a branch of the socialsciences developed by economists and psychologists to explain behavior, has longproposed that humans and animals decide what to do in a given situation by firstassessin...Combination immune therapy kills melanoma in mice
...ion of altered self, and when that fails in either direction you getautoimmunity or cancer," he said. He and his colleagues reasoned that blocking CTLA-4's actions on immune cellsknown as T lymphocytes might allow the killer cells to destroy the cancerouscells rather than fade away after the tumor repels thei...The latest flight jacket gives pilots a real feel for flying
... jacket that gives the pilot sensory cues aboutthe direction of the plane instantly, without having to check the instrumentpanel. Lined with pressure actuators, the jacket alerts the pilot when the planeceases to be level by prodding part of his or her torso, depending on thedirection of the plane. If the plan...Inflammatory pain may help deter inflammatory diseases like arthritis
...e, said Strausbaugh. "We're very excited about the direction of our research," said Strausbaugh. "Our finding provides quantifiable evidence that the pain circuits are involvedin controlling inflammation." Other co-authors of the study included Paul G. Green, PhD, an adjunct assistantprofessor of oral and ma...