Analysis of study looks at why quitters return to smoking
... have or have had a seizure disorder or who have a history of or are currently diagnosed with bulimia or anorexia nervosa. It should also not be used in people who are taking or have recently taken a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAO-I). It is important that patients tell their healthcare professionals abou...Living in the pharmaceutical century
...ciety, has published The Pharmaceutical Century, a history of 20th century medical advances and the technology that made them possible. The history is a product of the joint efforts of four ACS publications: Chemical & Engineering News, the Society...Supplements that target fat loss … metals that protect themselves …
... made 'em mad as hatters - A chemist with clues to history will discuss how mercury literally drove hat makers mad and the implications of finding it in the hair of such scientists as Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday. (11 a.m.) Decoy cells act as molecular flypaper' for viruses - Fake cells dubbed "nanodec...Baltimore researchers receive $40 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
...Maryland Center for Vaccine Development has a long history of coordinating complex vaccine development projects. We are excited about our opportunity to collaborate with the researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health," says David J. Ramsay, D.M., D.Phil., president of the Baltimore campus of th...Fine-tuning naltrexone treatment for alcoholics
...e brain, particularly for people who have a family history of alcoholism and may have a genetic susceptibility for becoming addicted to alcohol. Having a taste of these endogenous opioids is enough to make some people want more of them." Preclinical research has shown that animals treated with an opioid ant......face a greater risk for the illness through family history of major depression produce significantly less gro... high risk for developing depression due to family history of mood disorders. The remaining 55 subjects were normal and they did not have family history of de...... of Ziagen® in patients who have no identified history or unrecognized symptoms of hypersensitivity to abacavir therapy. Patients should be instructed not to reintroduce abacavir without medical consultation and that reintroduction of abacavir should be undertaken only if medical care can be readily acc...BU receives Knight Foundation grant
...sity. Starr is the author of Blood, a book on the history of blood in medicine and commerce that won the top nonfiction science award in last year's Los Angles Times national book competition. Starr and Ruppel Shell said the existing program has trained many of the nation's top science journalists, and that...Spain's top science award to UMBI's Gallo, Montagnier
...he Baltimore-based IHV, said, "Dr. Gallo's storied history and more recent research has shined a very positive light not just on the Institute and theUniversity of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, but on the city of Baltimore and the State of Maryland as well. We are honored to have someone of his caliber c...Gum disease higher in heart attack patients
...k of a recurrent heart attack in people who have a history of heart attack," says Sidney C. Smith, M.D., co-author of the study and a professor of medicine and director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The research may help provide possible new app...Results of Yale study confirm aspirin helpful in preventing a first heart attack
...ction of heart attacks in persons with no previous history of cardiovascular disease shows aspirin remains a good preventive measure. The studies included more than 51,000 people and 2,284 "vascular events": vascular disease-related death, cardiac or cerebral; nonfatal heart attack, or nonfatal stroke. T...Study finds serious bone loss in 90 percent of women with anorexia
... menstrual history, estrogen use history, fracture history and frame size - before conducting bone density me...ast showing the most serious bone loss. Menstrual history also correlated with spinal bone density, suggesting that estrogen deficiency plays a greater relati...Other highlights in the October 15 issue of JNCI
... that hair color, number of moles on the legs, and history of sunburn are risk factors for malignant melanoma. The study also found that the use of sunbeds and other tanning devices is associated with an increased risk of the disease. Marit Veierd, Ph.D., of the University of Oslo in Norway, and colleagues s...In a new observational analysis, Risedronate significantly reduced nonvertebral fracture risk
...osis in postmenopausal women include age, personal history or family history of fracture, low bone mineral density, cigarette use, and race. Studies show that among postmenopaus...Raising concerns about family history of breast cancer in primary care consultations: pr...practice nurses, women raise the issue of a family history of breast cancer relatively infrequently, report the Women's Concerns Study Group in this week's BMJ...Medical hospitalization may be especially distressing for those with psychiatric disorders
... half of the veterans had either a current or past history of a psychiatric disorder such as a mood, anxiety ...h practitioners. Also, to prevent patients with a history of mood and anxiety disorders from relapsing due to the stress of their medical illnesses, primary c......enopausal women, average age of 66.5 years, with a history of osteoporosis. About 12 percent reported a family history of breast cancer. Participants were randomly assigned to receive 60 mg or 120 mg of raloxifene per d...Specifying alcohol-related brain damage in young women
...ion is not as intense as it might be without their history of alcohol dependence." "The main finding," said Tapert, "was that the alcohol-dependent women showed less activation in brain areas that are needed for spatial tasks like puzzles, maps and mechanics, and for working with information that is held...Georgetown researchers to present evidence of biological cause of dyslexia
...their colleagues studied 20 adults with a lifelong history of dyslexia. They divided the adults into two groups of 10 and conducted baseline brain scans on both groups. One group then participated in an intensive eight-week interventional program designed to improve reading skills, while the other group rec......otid artery to determine the arterial narrowing or history of stroke. The frequency of prior stroke or transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) was 14 percent among those who reported routinely sleeping eight hours or more a night, while the frequency was 5.4 percent among those who slept for 6-8 hours and 5.4...