News About Osteoporosis: Fruits And Vegetables Prevent Bone Decay
...ate Professor of Nutrition at Tufts University and lead investigator of the study says, "This suggests that agood quality diet in adulthood is important to bone health beyond the better known contributions of calcium and vitamin D, and provides yetanother reason to emphasize the intake of fruits and veget...Can We Prevent Hearing Loss In Elderly Women?
... Mary Ann Johnson,PhD, and Robert J. Nozza, Ph.D., lead authors of the study from University of Georgia, A...e goal of one day contributinginformation that may lead to dietary recommendations aimed at influencing the course of age-related hearing loss." This study ...UNC-CH Scientists To Reveal Results Of New Cancer Study
...ill describethe research, which they believe could lead to more successful cancer therapy. Reporters can park in the Health Affairs Parking Deck on Manning Drive acrossfrom UNC Hospitals. Lineberger, a red brick building with a small dome, liesjust across West Drive southwest of the parking deck. Please u...Researchers Uncover Clues About Gateway To The Brain
....Rao, Ph.D., a former instructor of radiology, was lead author of the study,which also involved collaborators at Yale University School of Medicine. Piwnica-Worms hopes to learn how to alter the properties of proteins that keepthis back door shut. "It might be possible to enhance delivery of many drugs by...Antibiotics Reduce Inflammation In Heart Disease But Effect On Heart Attacks Remains Unproven
...ident at six months, but not at threemonths, which lead researchers to hope that the 'ramping down' of these markerswould continue during the 18 remaining months of the study," says Anderson. "Whether we will see over the full two years a moderate but worthwhilefurther reduction in the levels of t...Tiny Tools Give New Meaning To 'Cutting Edge'
...edical tools made from metal. The technology could lead to greater precision for highly sensitive procedures,such as cataract surgery or neurosurgery, Lal said. It could also be used in thedevelopment of a genuine first in medicine: painless needles. "What I'm trying to do is promote a new silicon age," s...Psychologist Detects Brain-Activity Changes In Maltreated Kids
...Learning to spot signs of anger early, before they lead to trouble,becomes a finely honed survival skill for children who have suffered severeabuse. A new study by a University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologist suggests that thissurvival skill may actually trigger biological changes, altering the way the...Tip Sheet: Think About Your Health In April
...plan showsthat being poor throughout your life can lead to poorer physical, psychologicaland cognitive functioning. The study is based on data collected from more than1,000 people who were on average 65 years old. The data is based on theirincomes from 1965, 1974 and 1983. Those who faced economic hard...Inhibiting Growth Of New Blood Vessels Reduces Heart Disease Plaque In Mice
...ntribute to the progression of heartdisease," says lead author Karen S. Moulton, M.D., of Brigham and Women'sHospital and Children's Hospital and cardiology instructor at Harvard MedicalSchool in Boston. "If this finding is supported in future studies, blood vessels in plaquecould provide a potent...Patients May Not Be Receiving The Highest Quality Of Care
...entives are in place," said Steven Pantilat, M.D., lead author andassistant professor of medicine at UCSF....findingssuggest that incentives in managed care do lead physicians to withhold neededservices, financial motives should not be singled out as the only facto...Americans Skip Dialysis; Swedes And Japanese Don't, Wake Forest Study Shows
...ents are shorter, with higher bloodflow, which may lead to cramping and very low blood pressure. U.S. dialysis patients are likely to be sicker than patients in othercountries. Such sicknes leads to weakness and depression, which may increasenoncompliance. Large differences exist between medical syste...Rice, Medical Center Institutions Join Forces On Health Initiative
... are jointly implementing--andwhich we expect will lead to a worldwide epidemiological effort to trace the...itute Director Edward Djerejian said: "Tarlov will lead thisinnovative program, which will be open to faculty involvement across the boardin an interdiscipl...Nonintrusive Imaging Technique Useful For Identifying Language Regions In Kids' Brains
...ate professor ofpediatrics and of radiology. He is lead author of the study published in the February 1999 issue of theJournal of Child Neurology. E. Mark Haacke, Ph.D., professor of radiology, wasprincipal investigator for the study. Lee became determined to evaluate fMRI in children after observing how ......unlit and presumably processed by rods. This might lead to an underestimation ofthe speed of our movement through the environment, which in turn might elicit acompensatory and possibly fatal speeding-up. It is now planned to use theVirtual Reality setup at the Max Planck Institute to test this prediction ...Study: Among Heart Failure Patients, Women Survive Twice As Long As Men
...ation journal Circulation. Authors include lead scientist Dr. Kirkwood F. Adams Jr., associateprofessor of medicine and radiology; Dr. Carla A. Sueta, assistant professor ofmedicine, graduate student Todd A. Schwartz; and Dr. Gary G. Koch, professor ofbiostatistics, all of UNC-CH. "Our ana...Study Finds Combining Exercise With Male Hormone Therapy Benefits Men With HIV-Wasting Disease
... weight loss is to build-up the leantissue," said lead study investigator Marc Hellerstein, MD, PhD, UCSF associateprofessor of medicine who treats patients at San Francisco General HospitalMedical Center. The other key finding is that only a small amount of male hormones--orandrogens--was necessary...Artery Temperatures Identify Hot Spots On Plaque That May Rupture And Trigger Heart Attack
... to the brain, says Christodoulos Stefanadis,M.D., lead author of the study. "This is the first time, howe...ritical -- both wide and narrowblood vessels could lead to acute heart attacks," Stefanadis says. "Therefore,the detection of temperature provides useful in......everely illpatients high on the waiting list could lead to a substantial increase inresources used for liver transplantation in the United States," said Showstack.The researchers also found that although the three transplant centers studiedtreated similar patients and had similar outcomes, the centers had......orwomen. This study was done in collaboration with lead author Lam and his colleagues Dr.Jean leRiche, Dr. Yvonne Zheng, Dr. Andrew Coldman and Dr. Calum MacAulay of theBritish Columbia Cancer Agency and the University of British Columbia. Dr ErnestHawk and Dr. Gary Kelloff of the National Cancer Institut......of fluid build-up in the eye, which wouldotherwise lead to the optic nerve damage and loss of vision that characterizesglaucoma. Derivatives of physostigmine also show therapeutic promise fortreating Alzheimer's disease and combating the effects of chemical weapons. It took Julian and his assistant Josef...