Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
... polymer in animals are reported in the July 1996, issue of Pain, and human trials should begin within a year, he said. Grossman and his team began developing the pain polymer five years ago as an inexpensive, abuse-resistant way of offering pain management to people in developing nations, where cancer rat...Maternal Exposure To Crack Cocaine Produces Stressed Newborns
...uthor of the Brown study, whichappears in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics. "Cocaine-exposedinfants were more jittery, had more muscle tension, and were harder to movebecause they were stiff." Some cocaine-exposed infants were also drowsier andhad a weaker crawl than non-exposed babies. Napiorkow...Discovery Hints At Multitude Of New Targets For Drugs
... scientists published their findings in the Aug. 6 issue of the Proceedingsof the National Academy of Sciences. They are Brandee Wagner, GiuseppePollio and Donald McDonnell of the Duke University Medical Center departmentsof pharmacology and molecular cancer biology; Mansukh Wani, David Lee andC. Edgar Co...What Makes Tics Tick? Clues Found In Tourette Twins' Caudates
...rchers report on their findings in the August 30th issue of Science. In a brain imaging study of identical twins differently affected by the disorder, Daniel Weinberger, M.D., Steven Wolf, M.D., and colleagues in the NIMH Clinical Brain Disorders Branch found that binding to D2 dopamine receptors in t...Tacrolimus Stops Rejection Of Kidney Transplants
... May, 1994, is reported in the September 15, 1996, issue of Transplantation. Tacrolimus rescue therapy, concluded the authors, provides prompt, effective reversal of refractory kidney rejection, good long-term kidney function, a low incidence of repeat rejection, and an acceptable safety profile. "Our cons...Partial Liquid Breathing Improves Lung Function, Chances of Survival in Sick Preemies
...al are reported in the lead article in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Respiratory distress syndrome, the leading cause of death in premature infants, develops because the lungs of these tiny babies have yet to secrete surfactant, the substance that prevents the air sacs from col...Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
...r study of mild asthma reported in the September19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine ends a five...e of Albuterol in Mild Asthma,"in the September 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, authoredby Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D., and Elliot Israel, M.D.,...Study Shows Major Savings In Supervising TB Care
...ts of the current study appear in the October 1996 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. The Hopkins team compared standard costs and fees for laboratory and hospital care and health care worker salaries for DOT with two other strategies, conventional individual drug ther...Fertilization Protein Structure To AID in Leukemia Treatment
...lood cells. The work is published in the November issue of Nature Structural Biology. The egg protein is from the California sea snail, Aplysia californica , an animal used by biologists to study the process of fertilization. The details of the events that occur at the molecular level when ...A Surgical Semiconductor Laser With More Precision And Power
...ich employs Marciante, waspublished in the July 29 issue of Applied Physics Letters . Agrawal and Marciante are now considering corporatepartners to help build the new laser....Rape Victims Find Relief From Posttraumatic Stress Using The Antidepressant Zoloft.
...Emory University School ofMedicine, in the October issue of the Journal of Traumatic Stress. After 12 weeks on the antidepressant sertraline (Zoloft), four out of thefive women who completed the open clinical study responded positively totreatment. "Sertraline reduced PTSD and related symptoms in these rap...Stents Work Well, But Are Costly: Will Hospitals Continue To Use Them?
...But the primary reason is that moneywasn't such an issue in the past. "Now, with the onset of managed careand diminishing reimbursement from all payers, hospitals need to be verycost conscious." In looking at medical records, Peterson found out that the extra costof stenting is not due to medication or l...Postmature Infants Not As Easily Calmed As Other Newborns
...about the findings will be published in theJanuary issue of the Journal of Physiology and Behavior. Thepaper was written by Smith, Marie J. Hayes, a psychologyprofessor at the University of Maine, and former graduatestudents Shawn M. Roberts of the University of Maine andElizabeth Swanson of Hopkins. In a ...Premature Birth Sometimes Can Adversely Affect Infant's Ties To Mother
...riod. The findings were detailed in the September issue of Developmental Psychologyby Sarah Mangelsdorf, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois;Jean L. McHale, a former U. of I. graduate student in psychology; and Universityof Michigan researchers James Plunkett, Cynthia Dedrick, Meryl Be...Benefits Of New Diet Drug Don't Outweigh Risks
... His analysis is published in the January/February issue of Healthy Weight Journal, a publication intended ...us condition. In an article published in the same issue of the journal, it is reported that Redux also is associated with sleep problems, drowsiness, heada...Hospital Noise Disrupts Sleep For Patients, In The Critical Care Setting
...s, Millman said. The study appears in the current issue of the journal Sleep. Althoughnoise pollution in hospitals has been recognized for years, there has been noconcerted effort to correct it, Millman said. In fact, the study's findings are part of a larger problem. Some ofMillman's previous research...Routine Dental X-ray May Be A Valuable Tool In Stroke Prevention
... of Dental Research. They will appear in the June issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association. "It was a fortuitous finding," said Laurie Carter, D.D.S., Ph.D., a radiologist and associate professor of oral diagnostic sciences in the UB School of Dental Medicine. "If we can see this on...Common Carbohydrates May Prove To Be Substitute For Dietary Fiber
...two comprehensive studies published in the January issue of the Journalof Nutrition, U. of I. researchers documented how fructooligosaccharidesand xylooligosaccharides enhance digestion. Fahey found that in rats the pool of desirable short-chain fatty acidsincreased significantly in the large bowel and in......n Medical Center in Ann Arbor report in the May 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation that grapefruit juice works by decreasing the amount of an enzyme called CYP3A4 that is present in the small intestine. This finding is important because it narrows the search for the substance in grapefrui......ans can't seem to look at AIDS as a public health issue because it has a sexual component, she believes. "We should compare AIDS with tuberculosis. People recognize that controlling TB is in everybody's best interest. In the same way, greater use of condoms is in everybody's best interest. It is one way ...