DDW Studies Present Evidence That Thalomid (Thalidomide) Is Active In Treating Crohn's Disease
... pilot study at the annual Digestive Disease WeekR meeting in Orlando, FL. Lead investigator, Eric A. Vasiliauskas, M.D., associate clinical director ofthe Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Cedar's Sinai, Los Angeles reportedfindings from a pilot study of 12 patients at the Center. All patients hadchroni...The 'Break Even' Cost Of Kidney Transplants Is Shrinking
...ings at the American Society of TransplantSurgeons meeting in Chicago on May 20 which show that a kidney transplant ismuch more cost effective than dialysis even for the highest risk patients-thosewith heart disease, diabetes or older age. That analysis was done on 227patients who received kidneys from livin...Ordinary Touches Multiply Into Severe Pain For Fibromyalgia Patients
... who presented his research findings at the annual meeting of theAmerican College of Rheumatology last November, recently was awarded aNational Institutes of Health grant worth nearly $800,000 to continue hisstudies for the next four years. Donald Price, a UF professor of oral andmaxillofacial surgery, and C......ings at theAmerican Society of Hypertension annual meeting indicating that noncompliancewith prescribed antihypertensive drugs is responsible for approximately half thefailures of drug treatment to bring high blood pressure down to normal levels. Hypertension affects one out of four American adults and i...Kidney Transplants From Living Donors Reduce Long-Term Costs Of Care
... findings will be presented May 20 at the national meeting of theAmerican Society of Transplant Surgeons in Chicago. Craig, R. Smith, M.D., asurgical resident at the medical school, will make the presentation. Doctors already knew that regular visits to dialysis centers are morecostly than kidney tra...UI Study Yields Encouraging Results For New Breast Cancer Treatment
...At an American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting last week in Atlanta,researchers presented four st...ugs and doses. In the two studies presented at the meeting that involved patients withchemotherapy-responsive stage IV breast cancer, the projected survival ra...Showing pictures of admired blacks or elderly can lower levels of unconscious prejudice
...osium on the psychology of prejudice at the annual meeting of theAmerican Psychological Society in Denver. The session will start at 8:30 a.m.Friday in Adam's Mark Hotel Denver. The research also focuses on how mediaportrayals of minorities and other stigmatized groups can perpetuate prejudiceand stereotypes...New outpatient surgery is helping women with stress incontinence
...xperience with TVT onApril 30, 1999, at the annual meeting of the Society for Urodynamics & FemaleUrology in Dallas. He reported that the majority of his patients who haveundergone the procedure are either cured of stress incontinence or have improveda great deal. "So I am very optimistic that this will be a...Women, men view and judge childhood sexual abuses cases differently
...eek at the American Psychological Society's annual meeting inDenver, indicates that men and women view sexual abuse cases differently andcould be poles apart in rendering an actual verdict. In addition, a woman'sfamiliarity with sexual and physical abuse and repressed memories of such abuseinfluences how sh...Noninvasive test aims to prevent sudden cardiac death
...omplete answer," Smith said. At the November 1998 meeting of the American Heart Association, German investigators helping to evaluate Smith's test presented results from 107 patients with congestive heart failure. While fewer than half of these patients had a positive alternans test, all of the deaths and s...Aging alone does not affect brain system related to memory loss
...theirresults June 6 in Denver, Colo. at the annual meeting of the AmericanPsychological Society. The study was also published in the May 1999 issue of thejournal Neuroscience. In the study, the researchers trained rats to associate darkness with theappearance of food they liked. They did this because darknes...Soy foods reduce risk of coronary heart disease
...ts of both studies will be presented at the annual meeting of the CanadianFederation of Biological Societies in Winnipeg on Saturday, June 5. Funding wasprovided by the University-Industry Research Partnership Program of the NaturalSciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Loblaw Brands Ltd....Study suggests a drug treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms
...i, M.D., present their findingstoday at the annual meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery in Washington,D.C. Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) develop in 6 percent to 9 percent of peopleover age 65. Smoking is a major risk factor, and men are three to five timesmore likely to develop the condition than ...CHR, UNICEF and World Bank to co-sponsor meeting on low-birth weight
...early 700,000 children each year. An international meeting funded by USAID's Child Health Research Project, U...,B will also present their work. Highlights of the meeting include discussions of: Levels, patterns and determinants of low birth weight; Mortality and mor......igious Medical Student ResearchAward at the annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Research in May. Lee and Auchus were looking for a way to explain MPA's dual mechanism of action.Normally, puberty starts in the pre-teen years, when certain cells in the brainbegin pulsing out small timed doses of a chem......dy are presented June 12 in San Diego at theannual meeting of the Endocrine Society. Principal investigator Dr. Michael Vitiello of the UW Department ofPsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, along with Drs. George Merriam and RobertSchwartz of the UW Department of Medicine and the VA, are studying the u...Hopkins study shows combined hormone therapy increases muscle, decreases fat in postmenopausal women
...d at 1 p.m., June 12, at ENDO 99, the 81st annual meeting of The Endocrine Societyin San Diego. Adrian S. Dobs, M.D., senior author of the study and an associate professor ofendocrinology and metabolism at Hopkins, led researchers comparing the effectsof estrogen supplements versus combined testosterone/est...7,000 Pharmaceutical scientists to share latest drug developments and discoveries
...Annual Meeting ProgramChair Jay Sisco, Ph.D. The meeting will offer nine short courses, 17 roundtables and 43 symposiumsessions, which focus on topics such as the future of genetic immunization,recent developments in drug delivery and targeting, advances in vaccines,emerging analytical/bioanalytical techni...Female hormones don't cause overeating and weight gain
...issertation adviser.Pelkman will be honored at the meeting with a Young Investigator Award. The study was conducted with 20 healthy women between the ages 20 and 35who ate all of their meals and snacks for three days at the Penn State Food Labduring two different phases, near the beginning and end, o...... Society for SexuallyTransmitted Diseases Research meeting in Denver. This is the second Phase 2 HIV vaccine trial, and the largest to date, sponsoredby the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Thetrial, known as AVEG 202/HIVNET 014, is being carried out at 14 sites nationwideby tw...