Immigrants, beware: Living in the United States is fattening
...ghavi Goel, M.D., a researcher in general internal medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Immigrants also face more barriers to quality health care and are less likely to receive preventive health care than persons born in the United States, Goel said. Goel a...Some herbal medicine products contain potentially toxic amounts of heavy metals
An analysis of a sample of Ayurvedic herbal medicine products found that 20 percent contained metals su...e than 2000 years ago and greatly relies on herbal medicine products (HMPs). Ayurveda's popularity in Western countries has increased. Because Ayurvedic HMPs ar...To help your mind, take steps to help your heart, study says
...stem. He is also an assistant professor of general medicine at the U-M Medical School, a research investigator at the Ann Arbor VA, and a faculty associate at the U-M Institute for Social Research. The new review focuses on findings from randomized controlled drug trials, and observational studies...UGA researchers receive NIH contract to create a stem cell-based drug assay for SMA
... of Medicine and Jianhua Zhou in the department of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. "The development of an in vitro process should speed up the search for compounds and drugs that can alleviate SMA as well as provide a model for developing drug screening assays for other neurologic...USC researchers highlight disparities in cancer rates among racial and ethnic groups in California
...Cockburn, Ph.D., assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. A sampling of trends includes the following: Prostate cancer was the most common cancer among men of all racial or ethnic groups except Koreans, for whom stomach cancer was most common, and Vietnam...Stanford study finds new method improves chemotherapy survival in mice
...der Janice "Wes" Brown, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the divisions of bone marrow transplantation and infectious diseases. The team reported that an infusion of a type of bone marrow cell from a donor mouse yielded significantly more neutrophils in the laboratory mice a week after a dose of a typ...Broad-based vaccination of wild mice could help reduce lyme disease risk in humans
...ofessor of microbiology and molecular genetics and medicine with the University of California, Irvine, and senior author on the paper. "When the vaccine is targeted to humans, only those who experienced a satisfactory immune response to the vaccine are protected; however, when the vaccine is targeted to wildl...Families inform roadmap to improve care for dying in nursing homes
... that staff," said Terrie Wetle, associate dean of medicine for public health and public policy and professor of community health at Brown Medical School. "Workers also need to be better paid," Wetle said. "Even at the best facilities, aides are frequently offered wages that are about what they'd make at McDo...New study links lead exposure with increased risk of cataract
...id Debra Schaumberg, Sc.D., assistant professor of medicine and ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and le...rd Hu, professor of occupational and environmental medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health and co-author of the study. "Since blood lead levels reflect ...New data sets survival benchmark for Pfizer's ELLENCE
...unity, donating hundreds of millions of dollars of medicine to the developing world and to expand drug access in the United States....Scientists turn on the 'gender lens' on cardiovascular disease research
...ard. As well, Dr. Anandis director of the vascular medicine clinic at Hamilton Health Sciences. GRACE investigators will focus specifically on two areas: acute coronarysyndrome and the metabolic syndrome, also known as type-2 diabetes linkedwith abdominal obesity. "We will focus on assessing epidemiologica...NIH panel issues State-of-the-Science statement on end-of-life care
...77 as a mechanism to judge controversial topics in medicine and public health in an unbiased, impartial manner. NIH has conducted 119 consensus development conferences, and 23 state-of-the-science (formerly "technology assessment") conferences, addressing a wide range of issues. The archived webcast of the ...New study in NEJM suggests levodopa may slow progression of Parkinson's disease
...ld be started, in part because of concern that the medicine itself might cause further damage to the brain cells that are impaired in this disease. To resolve the controversy, a Columbia University scientist led a team of experts from the Parkinson Study Group to study levodopa's effect on the rate of progre...NYU Child Study Center raises a record $3.4 million at Seventh Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner
...s mission: to apply the best of modern science and medicine to the problem of mental illness in children. The Dinner is the primary fundraising event for the NYU Child Study Center; all proceeds support the programs and initiatives of the Center. Past honorees include: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rudolph...UCLA/VA research explains Alzheimer's link to diabetes; shows protective effect of low-fat diet
... The lead author was Greg M. Cole, professor of medicine and neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA , associate director of the UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and associate director of the Geriatric Research and Education and Clinical Center at the VA Greater Los Angeles Health...Stem cell research: The new medicine of the future
...ting medical books and helping to usher in the new medicine of the future. We fully acclaim Prop. 71 and view it as leap in the right direction. Whether it will be enough to bring back top stem cell researchers to the United States is a question only time can answer. Roger Pedersen is a stem-cell researcher ...Studies reveal physicians' attitudes on end-of-life care
...ous services. One study, which focused on internal medicine physicians, appeared in the October issue of the J...thics. The second study, which focused on internal medicine residents (doctors in training), was published in the September/October issue of the American Journa...Sleep loss boosts appetite, may encourage weight gain
... change," said Eve Van Cauter, Ph.D., professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. "It provides biochemical evidence connecting the trend toward chronic sleep curtailment to obesity and its consequences, including metabolic syndrome and diabetes." In the last 40 years, American adults have cut their a...Generic drug use varies widely by state, study reveals
...ld pay an average of $100 for a 90-day supply of a medicine available through the program. For some Rx Outreach medicines, the price can be as much as $400 for a 90-day supply....More than half of relapsed CLL patients respond to two biologics with chemotherapy
...illiam Wierda, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine in the Department of Leukemia. "An overall response rate so far of 55 percent is very encouraging in this heavily pretreated population of patients that had limited treatment options," he says. This study follows one reported by Wierda at last year's...