New Procedure Makes A Successful Transplant Possible
...rocedure will encourage other transplantcenters to offer it for their patients, as well," says Dr. Schweitzer....Impulsive Children More Prone To Injuries
...t have these traits. Young children's temperaments offer important clues to their later risk ofbeing injured unintentionally, according to the results of a longitudinalstudy reported in the current issue of Child Development. "Childhood injuries are among the few child health problems where annualmortality...Mother's depression impedes baby's development
...d hiscolleagues suggest that depressed mothers may offer their infants relativelypoor stimulation, leading to delays in acquiring language and othercognitive milestones. The research was supported with funds from the Swan Foundation of Denver andfrom a National Institute of Mental Health grant....Heart Attack Victims More Likely To Survive When Taken To High-Volume Hospitals
...ter allowingfor volume, patients at hospitals that offer bypass surgery to re-route bloodaround blocked arteries and angioplasty to open blockages did not dosignificantly better than those at hospitals without these technologies. Patients treated by cardiologists had slightly better outcomes thanthose tre...ENBREL (Etanercept) Receives FDA Approval For Treatment Of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
...e to protect human health. The company's products offer hope topatients with cancer, inflammatory and infectious diseases. Wyeth-Ayerst, a division of American Home Products Corporation, is amajor research-oriented pharmaceutical company with leading products in theareas of women's health care, ca...Wanted: Holistic approach to cancer treatment
...ventional therapies likeradiation and chemotherapy offer documented levels of effectiveness, but withfairly high toxicity. Complementary and alternative therapies are usuallynontoxic but have poorly documented effectiveness. Modest estimates suggest that over half a million American cancer patients areusin...7,000 Pharmaceutical scientists to share latest drug developments and discoveries
...g 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 techniques, parti...First woman commanding general for health care in Pacific speaks on Capitol Hill about Tele-Health
..."These technological tools and clinical capability offer tremendousopportunities for reuse by other federal agencies as well as transferability toprivate sector agencies," she adds. "It is incumbent that the Department of Defense work collaboratively toafford responsive health care ...New, less invasive repair of major artery defect
...inue to show promise, the newer repair methodcould offer an alternative to the standard major operation that requires opening the entireabdomen, a hospital stay of seven to 10 days and six weeks for recovery. Inearly experience with the newer procedure, patients were able to leave thehospital in about two ...Hope protects bereaved, HIV-positive men
... ofthe infected since medical science does not yet offer a cure for HIV," saidReed. "Therapeutic efforts that focus on the maintenance of hopefulexpectations, therefore, would appear to be well-placed." This study was a follow-up to an earlier investigation published in HealthPsychology in 1994 which found...Keck Foundation funds research to repair the injured spinal cord
...er thetransplantable cells. "We hope our work will offer a new paradigm for how bestto use embryonic stem cells for transplantation," Gottlieb says. "Our aim is toadvance the science of embryonic stem cell genetic engineering to make it muchmore efficient and accessible." The researchers see applications o...Seniors need group housing, not homes
...and personal careassisted-living facilities, which offer private living quarters, meals,housekeeping and co...ional levels. Communitiesthat are least likely to offer group housing tend to be rural with lowper-capita income and older residents forming 12 percent or h...Hospitalists should work with patients' primary care physicians, according to UCSF researchers
...Finally, for end of life care issues, hospitalists offer the potential toimprove this care significantly, said Pantilat. They should discuss these issueswith patients' PCPs and develop skills in talking to patients about end of lifecare. Hospitalists should routinely address patients' preferences for end ...Researchers seek postmenopausal women smokers for hormone, heart disease study
...king estrogen may qualify for the study, whichwill offer $450, up to $150 more in travel expenses, free medical testsincluding mammograms and free hormone treatment. Some study visits will takeplace at UNC-CH, while the rest will be at local health departments. "Hormone replacement therapy is simpl...Duke/Novalon researchers identify potential mechanism behind tamoxifen resistance in breast cancers
... as well as to providea path to new drugs that may offer hope to these cancer patients." Based in Research Triangle Park, researchers at Novalon tested billionsof different peptides -- small proteins that bind to receptors -- to determine howeach one interacted with the estrogen receptor while in th...One in seven adolescents still doesn't have health insurance
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...gram were the first in thewestern United States to offer video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) forinfants and children. The procedure allows surgeons to repair heart and vesseldefects even in premature babies weighing only slightly more than a pound.Surgery is performed through 3- to 4-millimeter incision...Vanderbilt School of Nursing begins graduate program in correctional health
...g this fall, the Vanderbilt School of Nursing will offer a course ofstudy designed to prepare its graduates for work in the area of CorrectionalHealth. It is one of the first graduate programs in the country to train adultnurse practitioners with a focus area in this field. VUSN is partnering with the Fede...Renowned researcher in prenatal diagnostics joins Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
..."Especially for increased nuchal thickness, we can offer invasive testing todiagnose or exclude a chromosome defect, but unfortunately, these tests do notexclude other problems such as genetic syndromes or heart defects," said Dr.Snijders. "We hope that the use of three-dimensional ultrasound will help us ...