USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...ar ever to read these works. Furth, a professor of history in the University of Southern California Collegeof...r studies, as well as being deeply involved in the history of thoughtand of science. "When I found an original edition of an 18th-century manual onchildbirth,"...Study Reveals Gender Affects Lung-Cancer Development
...lained bydifferences in baseline exposure, smoking history or body size; it is likely dueto women's higher susceptibility to tobacco carcinogens. "Cancer is the result of a complex multistep process," said Gazdar, associatedirector of the Nancy B. and Jake L. Hamon Center for Therapeutic OncologyResearch. "W......ing with shortness of breath,especially those with history of heart disease," Dr. Au said. Beta-agonists are bronchodilators, drugs that open up the airpassages. They relax the smooth muscles that line the walls of the breathingtubes and make the airway wider and easier for air to move through. B...1930s Fascism Spawned Public Health Initiatives
...ents" says Dr. Robert N. Proctor, professor of the history of science. "Thestory of science under German fasc...is more complex than is usuallyrecognized; it is a history of "forcible sterilization and herbal medicine, ofgenocidal 'selection' and bans on public smoking."......egiving. Risse, MD, PhD, is professor and chair of history of health sciences at theUniversity of California ...Peronist Argentina and later earned a doctorate in history at the University ofChicago. He brings both spheres of knowledge to his ambitious project. Thechapte......ysicians should exercise caution in patientswith a history of recurring infections or with underlying conditions, which maypredispose them to infections, such as advanced or poorly controlled diabetes. Immunex and Wyeth-Ayerst market ENBREL in North America. OtherWyeth-Ayerst affiliates will marke...Wistar scientist awarded American Cancer Society grant for research on tumor killing cells
... than 100 years, Wistar scientistshave been making history and improving world health through their development ofvaccines for diseases that include rabies, German measles, infantilegastroenteritis (rotavirus), and cytomegalovirus; discovery of molecules likeinterleukin-12, which are helping the immune syste...Irritable Bowel Syndrome The Focus Of Three UNC-CH Reports At Digestive Diseases Conference
...ntensiveinterviews in GI clinics have identified a history of early sexual abuse inabout 45 percent of IBS patients. IBS is characterized by a combination of persistent and recurrent abdominal painand abnormal bowel habit (diarrhea, constipation, or both). Pain often beginsafter eating and goes away after a ...Jefferson Scientists Show Tumor Characteristics May Help Explain Tumor Biology And Prognosis
...but the key is how to pickthem up. You need family history and other factors to be able to test for MSI." Interestingly, he notes, "It's generally thought that those with MSIhave a more favorable prognosis." Only two mismatch repair genes -- MSH2 and MLH1 -- are altered frequentlyin HNPCC, wh......ium may very well help us alter theoverall natural history of this disease and, with the judicious use of prophylactic agents against infection, minimize the development of serious complications." CAMPATH, which received "fast track" designation from the FDA, is expected toundergo a six-month priority review......ver a three-year period. He adds that women with a history of venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolusshould not take raloxifene, tamoxifen or estrogen. Further, more women in the raloxifene group (1.2 percent) reported a new orworsening condition of diabetes compared to those in the placebo group. However,the...WHO issues wake up call against microbial threats
...multaneously, drug resistance is sending usback in history to a time when we lacked medicines to cure some di...mics that affect us," said Dr Brundtland. "Howwill history refer to us if we fail to control infectious diseases at thebeginning of the new millennium?"...Study examines faith healing in a cell phone age
... by the Navajo reach deep into the Native American history and culture. Thetraditional religious healing is characterized by a medicine man, or hataathli, who performs chants and sandpaintings, anda diagnostician who works by methods such as hand-trembling or crystal-gazing. Blessingway and Lightningway area...Follow-up care can reduce hospital readmission rate, cost
...equatesupport systems; were age 80 or older; had a history of depression; moderate-to-severe functional impai...dy; fair or poor self-rating of their health; or a history of non-adherence to their medical therapy. Within 48 hours of their hospital admission, the patients...Mitral valve prolapse less common, less harmful than previously thought
...e this issuedefinitively and to define the natural history of this condition," he said. Diagnoses of mitral-valve prolapse increased significantly in the late1970s and early 1980s with the advent of ultrasound technology which, for thefirst time, enabled doctors to view the mitral valve noninvasively...Clues to heart disease seen in cholesterol reactions to stress
...the first to examine relationshipsbetween parental history of cardiovascular disease and atherogenic lipidrea...ions to stressors than do women and because family history of heartattack is particularly predictive of mortality among men," Stoney said. In the study, 22 c...Hope protects bereaved, HIV-positive men
...nts included 72 gay men with at least a three-year history of HIVinfection but who had not yet developed classic HIV-related symptoms. Theresearchers measured their health and psychosocial status at the beginning ofthe study, and then for three years at six-month intervals. The researchersreport the result......ng a primary care physician who knew their medical history and 89 percentvalued the role of primary care physicians in coordinating referrals. Some managed care groups use financial incentives and other "gatekeeper"policies to limit specialty referrals, said Grumbach, who is also director ofthe UCSF Center f...Bacterial vaginosis seems to affect miscarriage in early pregnancy
...ternal age, smoking, polycystic ovaries and a past history of three or more miscarriages. The authors conclude that their study is the first to describe a definite association between bacterial vaginosis and miscarriage in the first trimester, however, they concede that they are still not clear how this con...Chronic, heavy cocaine use associated with long-lasting impaired function
...pared to a control group of 21 individuals with no history ofdrug use except perhaps nicotine, who said they had not had more than 4 drinks ofalcohol in the past 30 days. Cocaine users and controls were similar withrespect to age, education, and intelligence. None had any current or pasthistory of psychiatri...