Most advanced CT scanner improves imaging of heart, avoids need for surgical inspection
...ardiologist Joo Lima, M.D., associate professor of medicine and radiology at The Johns Hopkins University Scho...ely $700. Fellow cardiologist and Hopkins chief of medicine Myron L. Weisfeldt, M.D., a professor and past president of the American Heart Association, notes th...Society of Hospital Medicine to launch new medical journal
...06 to promote the science and practice of hospital medicine and the enhancement of inpatient care. In additio...r-reviewed articles on a diverse range of hospital medicine topics," according to Laurence Wellikson, M.D., chief executive officer of SHM. In addition, the Jo...US cancer researchers launch first American-Israeli cancer conference
...aid Hyam I. Levitsky, M.D., professor of oncology, medicine and urology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. "This conference hopefully will provide new fuel to this fire, sparking ideas, collaborations, and interest among research fellows in visiting institutions abroad." Nobel laureate Avram Hershko, ...African-Americans receive less aggressive heart attack treatment
...n G. Bertoni, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of medicine at Wake Forest Baptist, and his colleagues found that nearly 60 percent of every 100 white patients received cardiac catheterization for treatment of heart attack compared to 50 percent of every 100 African-Americans. The study, "Racial and Ethnic Di...Genetic amplification (NAAT) test detects HIV more effectively than standard tests in urban study
...2005 by Frances Priddy, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Physician/researchers at Emory, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Georgia Department of Human Resources used NAAT to screen clients receiving routing HIV testing and counseling at the urba...New book on anti-aging hype consolidates latest research
...reviewed article series on the truth of anti-aging medicine is now available in a single volume. "Anti-Aging Medicine: The Hype and the Reality" combines two special sections originally published in The Journals of Gerontology: Biological Sciences in June and July of 2004. Supervised by editors S. Jay Olshan...Archival virus still necessitates life-long antiretroviral therapy
...s on potent medication. Siliciano, a professor of medicine at Hopkins and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has recently found a second reservoir for HIV in the body, where it "rests" and is not affected by current therapies that prevent the virus from replicating. While the Hopkins findings ...More training needed to care for growing geriatric population
...o-author Gregg Warshaw, MD, professor of geriatric medicine and family medicine at UC's Academic Health Center. "It only makes sense that we improve geriatric education within medi...Adverse drug events in nursing homes are far more common than previously identified
...rofessor of Primary Care Medicine and professor of medicine and family medicine & community health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the executive director of ...Schepens scientists regenerate optic nerve for the first time
...th optic nerve trauma are the most grave. Today's medicine has little effective treatment to offer and blindness is often the end result," says Retired Lieutenant Colonel Robert C. Read of the Clinical Applications Division at the Department of Defense's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center. ...UCLA study shows that people drink less alcohol as they age
...r proven, Dr. Alison Moore, associate professor of medicine in the geriatrics division of the David Geffen Sch... to Moore, were Drs. David B. Reuben, professor of medicine and chief of the geriatrics division; Gail Greendale, professor of medicine (geriatrics); and Arun K...Treatment guidelines for kids with bipolar disorder published
...ent a major step towards practicing evidence-based medicine in this difficult to treat group of patients. Many of these patients require several types of medications to stabilize their moods, and these guidelines offer several treatment options that are useful for clinicians and families." It is often necessa...Physician roles at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo
...by such guidelines? What should the profession of medicine do to ensure that physicians remain true to the highest moral standards of the profession and to international treaties protecting human rights?...Jefferson scientists uncover potential trigger of diabetic kidney disease
...ferson University in Philadelphia and professor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson U...rma, along with Erwin Bttinger, M.D., professor of medicine and pharmacology and biological chemistry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and their c...Psychiatric disorders greatly underdiagnosed in hospital emergency departments
...at may contribute to underdiagnosis. As emergency medicine moves from its historical origin as a trauma specialty to its developing role as a primary care provider for millions of people each year, the researchers say it's imperative that emergency departments expand their staffs to include mental health pro...Hard choices: Pitt researcher presents findings on when to accept organ transplants
...lleagues-- Mark S. Roberts, associate professor of medicine in Pitt's Division of General Internal Medicine, and Oguzhan Alagoz and Lisa M. Maillart of Case Western Reserve University--have been able to show that mathematical models can provide insight. "We're actually able to model decisions that real patien...Study finds new designer drug is potent treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
... far," remarks Griffin, who is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. "This is an elegant example of how rational drug design developing drugs based on a molecular understanding of cell structures and processes can be used to attack human diseases." The findings contribute to a larger Dana...Advances in Uterine Leiomyoma Research: 2nd NIH International Congress
...y, basic research, therapeutics, and translational medicine to foster an exchange of scientific information among members of the uterine leiomyoma (fibroids) research and health care communities. Fibroids are the most common gynecologic neoplasm in women of reproductive age and the leading cause of hysterecto...Impact of scientific advances on drug studies and membrane research to be explored
...d discussions centered around the changing role of medicine in society, the future of drug discovery, and research on the membrane proteins and lipids that form the drug-targeted boundary between cells and their environment. Among the speakers are Alan Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancem......ner received the 1997 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of prions. Unlike viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites, prions contain no DNA or RNA. Instead, prions are an altered type of protein normally found within cells in humans and other organisms. These abnormal prion proteins appear ...