Medication helps alcoholics control drinking
...is most effective, says Volpicelli, in a treatment program "designed to support the notion that while one drink is not great, what you really want to stop is excessive drinking." While few professionals advise people with alcoholism to abandon the ultimate goal of total abstinence, Volpicelli argues that abo...Mayo Clinic study finds obese kidney donors face few increased risks
...ing." As the largest living donor organ transplant program in the United States, Mayo Clinic encourages live organ donations. Because a typical wait for a kidney from a deceased donor can range from three to five years, many people will not survive long enough on dialysis to reach transplantation. More than...Impact of scientific advances on drug studies and membrane research to be explored
...ogress in biomedical science. The remainder of the program is primarily focused on biomembranes, with topics ranging from channels that allow proteins to cross membranes and receptors that signal changing conditions of a cell's environment, to the molecular biology and genetics of the membrane processes lead...Radiologists offer non-surgical treatment for early-stage liver cancer
...gy and director of the image-guided tumor ablation program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. In this study, UCLA researchers used RF ablation to treat 47 liver cancer nodules in 24 patients who were waiting for liver transplantation. After transplantation, pathologic examinations of the disea...Johns Hopkins scientists receive presidential medals
...e and Engineering (AS&E) to launch a space science program for the small corporation. He remained with AS&E u...essor in 1998 and maintained his personal research program here when he became president of Associated Universities Inc., the consortium that co-administers th...Using the internet's power and anonymity to reduce problem drinking
...rams: The Drinker's Check-up (DCU) is a computer program model based on the original face-to-face DCU. Out...tudies of the DCU delivered face-to-face. "The DCU program is the internet equivalent of two to three face-to-face sessions with a counselor," said Reid Hester...Test could improve detection of prion disease in humans
...ection of prions," said Michael Nunn, Ph.D., NINDS program director for prion research. "It has been very difficult to generate diagnostic tests in this area and these results are a significant improvement for the diagnosis of CJD in living people." In the study, Prusiner and his colleagues extracted brain t...Feb. 15, 2005, Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet
...those who were randomly assigned to a quit-smoking program had a lower death rate than those assigned to usua...tes were 8.8 per 1000 patients in the quit-smoking program and 10.4 per 1000 in the usual care group. The annual death rates for those who quit smoking were 6....NHLBI study shows smoking cessation programs improve survival
...ed to either a 10-week intensive smoking cessation program or to usual care (no intervention). The intervention program included behavior modification and use of nicotine gum, with a continuing five-year maintenance prog...14-year study finds that quitting smoking adds years to life
...those who were randomly assigned to a quit-smoking program had a lower death rate than those assigned to usua...were 8.8 per 1000 participants in the quit-smoking program and 10.4 per 1000 in the usual care group. The annual death rates for those who actually quit was ev...Northwestern Memorial Hospital receives $10 million commitment to support preeminent heart program
...s philanthropy, we can continue to build our heart program as a destination for people requiring highly speci...mitment of $10 million is the largest for a single program in Northwestern Memorial's history. It is also among the largest gifts given to the hospital in the...Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member is funded to develop an interactive computer system
...held throughout Newark and Jersey City. CIMIC will program and develop the prototype," said Jones. "We will e...ee Rutgers campuses. The college offers a master's program with unique practitioner specialties and the only doctoral (Ph.D) nursing degree in New Jersey....Gladstone Institutes rank high in the scientist survey of best places for postdocs
...ent -- resulted from a top-to-bottom review of the program in 1998. In 2003, a program was implemented to develop the unique mentoring and management needs and leadership skills needed wi...Penn joins major NCI research initiative to advance breast cancer therapies
...ed. Chodosh will oversee a $2.5 million, five-year program based at Penn that encompasses multidisciplinary r... mouse models for breast cancer to be used in this program are unique in that the researchers can follow the entire natural history of the disease in each anim...Leadership gift from Sulpizio Family for new state-of-the-art cardiovascular center at UCSD
...number of years," said Gaby Sulpizio. "Also UCSD's program focuses on cardiovascular issues for women, the number one cause of death among females. We are confident that the health and future of many generations to come will benefit from the health care work at UCSD." In recognition of their leadership, UCS...Routine HIV screening should be expanded, study finds
...ncies. When the researchers considered a screening program in which the prevalence of unidentified HIV infection was one percent, the model found an increase in life expectancy of about 1.5 years for patients infected with HIV, costing $41,736 per quality-adjusted life-year gained compared to current practic...Parents comfortable with vaccination for sexually transmitted infections for adolescent children
... in the article. Because an ideal STI immunization program would target young adolescents and preadolescents before they become sexually active, much of the decision-making burden would be placed on parents. It has been suggested that pediatricians may be reluctant to recommend STI vaccination in anticipatio...Yale opens Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) in India
...tes Foundation (BMGF); a monitoring and evaluation program funded by the Children's Investment Fund Foundation; and a research and training program supported by the NIH Fogarty International Center. Project Parivartan is supported by BMGF to conduc...States find alternate routes to health coverage
...od Johnson Foundation's State Coverage Initiatives program (SCI), tells the story of state health coverage ac...to expand health insurance" says Alice Burton, SCI program director. "States are finding alternate routes to expand coverage and make existing programs work mo......e idea of starting a living donor islet transplant program in Kyoto while lecturing there three years ago. Cadaveric organ donors are scarce in Japan, and living donation has very established roots in liver and kidney transplantation there. "Living donor islet transplants could allow many more desperate pat...