USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...stly men writing for men, Furth introduces figures like Wang Qi (1600-1688),who inherited a family publish...d literate physiciansand paramedical practitioners like midwives, granny healers and apothecaries,and itinerant acupuncturists in China and barber-surgeons ...Teen Line Panel Of Six High School Students To Address The Issue Of Teens And Tolerance
...t specializing in adolescent psychology, tragedies like the one atColumbine High School often involve students who feel isolated or sociallyunsuccessful. "Students who perceive themselves as outsiders will often try tofind someone in a similar social position and form a group. This provides themwith a sen......d a pioneer of 20th Century medicine. "It's almost like having a dictionary when you want to look up a word and knowthe exact meaning of it." A Century of Trust To celebrate the 100-year milestone, the Centennial Edition is packaged with acomplimentary facsimile of the 192-page First Edition. Comparin...New Book Looks At Those Who Examine Our Sex Lives
...dge, particularlyin less easily investigated areas like sexuality. After hearing that thefederal government had pulled funding for a pair of sexual-behavior surveys, shedecided to investigate. "I wanted to find out why it was so difficult to do this kind of research,"Ericksen says. "People who do these ...Nighttime Asthma Squeezes School Attendance
...sthma may be the environment, says Diette.Triggers like dust mites and cockroach antigens tend to be more prevalent athome and may cause attacks when children head for bed. Diette adds that doctors could better target nighttime symptoms by usingtreatments that work overnight, such as long-acting ...'Silent' HIV Infection Lasts A Lifetime
...o-called "drug cocktails") of older anti-HIV drugs like AZT and newer proteaseinhibitors (PIs) or non-nucl...nt cells arereactivated, say by a simple infection like the flu, the HIV genes reemerge,co-opting the cell machinery to make millions of copies of the virus...Postpartum Help Needed To Keep Recent Mothers From Resuming Smoking Habit
...McBride said. Besides cigarettes' link to diseases like lung cancer and emphysema, there areknown risks during pregnancy. Pregnant smokers are more likely to have lowbirth weight babies and complications during birth. Their babies are at higherrisk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and nicotine is passe...Adolescents And Risk-Taking: A 'Very Likely' Danger May Not Mean The Same To A Teen As To An Adult
...ret theseterms as we would expect - not even terms like 'rarely' or 'never.' " "If you give the same risk...umeric scale may bemore effective than vague terms like "probably" or "possibly." To make sure thatboth the physician and the patient are visualizing the sa......ave felt fearing what was ahead of them. My bed is like a covered wagonand we are all on a wagon train helping each other in a time of need.'" This recent demonstration of strong commitment and compassionate caregiving ina modern hospital has served as a model for hospice development and forever-increasi...Essential 'Allergy Feedback Loop' Discovered By Hopkins
... immune cells plummeted alongside the drop in IgE, like two rocks rollingdown the same hill. Together, the decreases stanched the allergic cascade,preventing symptoms in patients in clinical trials of the drug. Continuing this work in the current study, the team discovered that whenpatients stoppe...Knife-Less Brain 'Surgery' Offers New Treatment Options
...onal brain surgery in some cases. In other cases, like Swestyn's, it provides treatment options where none existed. "This is essentially a minimally invasive form of brain surgery," said Morris. Swestyn was able to return to work a few days after leaving the hospital. The recovery time for tradition...International Meeting To Reduce Neonatal Mortaltiy
... (Integrated CommunityInterventions) If you would like further information about neonatal mortality research, or toarrange interviews with speakers, please contact Laura M. Kelley at: 410-614-5439. E-mail: lkelley@jhsph.edu...Wistar scientist awarded American Cancer Society grant for research on tumor killing cells
...enes that contribute to the development ofdiseases like breast, lung and prostate cancer. Wistar is a National CancerInstitute Cancer Center....Students Show Restraint Could Cut School Bus Injuries
...nout of this padded area and into hard-shell areas like the roof or a window." Thompson, one of the student engineers who designed the restraining bar, said heand his partnersaw evidence of this during their research. "We looked at a security camera tapeof a bus justgoing over a wooden bridge," he said. "...Nerve Cells Live Long And Talkative Lives In Sculpted Colonies On Silicon Chips
...ire array in monitoring, Brinton and collaborators like Ted Bergerof the department of biomedical engineering, or neurobiologist Michel Baudry ofthe department of biological sciences, can both observe the spontaneous patternsof synaptic activity that occur with the neurons talking to each other. "We can e...Jefferson Researchers Report Progress In Using Vaccinia-Based Vaccine For Melanoma
...e vaccine, Dr. Mastrangelo and his colleagueswould like to make the melanoma tumor more 'immunogenic,' more likely to benoticed by the immune system. To do this, they are attempting to alter the'cytokine milieu.' For a tumor to evoke an immune response, substances called cytokines,which are invol......" Leong says. "Aselective SLN dissection functions like a staging procedure for melanoma becausethe results tell us what a patient's next treatment steps should be to managetheir disease." He adds that a patient who has negative SLN biopsy can be assured that thelikelihood of their disease recurring or sp...New Anti-Inflammatory Drug Is Easy On The Stomach
...n do standard non-steroidalanti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen, according to data to be presented by aUSC scientist today at the plenary session of the American GastroenterologicalAssociation. In a study of more than 1,500 patients with osteoarthritis who had no signs ofulcers at the beginning of the s...... an intriguing thing about anti-angiogenesis drugs like IM862 is that itworks indirectly by altering the function of other cells. IM862, for instance,seems to interact with a number of different immune system cells once it hasmade its way into the body. The peptide appears to stimulate natural killer (NK......ated. According to Small, PC-SPES may work in part like a hormonal therapy forprostate cancer because it demonstrated an anti-testosterone effect inhormone-naïve prostate cancer patients by mimicking the female hormone,estrogen. The compound may contain other active anti-cancer ingredients becauseit ...