Emotional memory study reveals evidence for a self-reinforcing loop
DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers exploring the brain structures involved in recalling an emotional memory a year later have found evidence for a self-reinforcing "memory loop" -- in which the brain's emotional center triggers the memory center, which in turn further enhances activity in the emotional center....... The researchers said their findings suggest why people subject to traumatic events may b...Antioxidant gene mutation gives free radicals free reign
HONOLULU, April 25 A gene mutation for a molecule that helps the body ward off free radicals almost doubles the risk of developing atherosclerotic heart or brain vessel disease, according to a study presented today at the American Heart Associations Asia Pacific Scientific Forum.... Our study shows that even people without conventional cardiovascular risk factors (e.g., cholesterol, hypertensio...New research reinforces importance of aerobic health
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Jan. 26, 2005 Research published in the current issue of Science magazine reinforces the belief that aerobic capacity is an important determinant in the continuum between health and disease. ......"Our data clearly show that the some of the major health problems of today, namely obesity, hypertension, and insulin resistance, are strongly influenced by our genes," said Stev...MRC study reinforces effectiveness of spinal manipulation
Arlington, Va. (Nov. 29, 2004) -- The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) is applauding a new study from the Medical Research Council (MRC) that shows that spinal manipulation the primary form of care performed by doctors of chiropractic combined with an exercise program offers effective treatment for those suffering from back pain. The study, published in the Nov. 19 issue of the British...Preimplant test offers option of having child to serve as stem cell donor to sibling in need
Parents with a child requiring stem cell transplantation can have genetic testing done on embryos prior to implantation to determine if the tissue type matches and the ensuing offspring could potentially serve as a donor to the affected child, according to a study in the May 5 issue of (JAMA)....... Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has become available as an alternative to prenatal diagn......... Citation: Clinical Infectious Disease, May 1, 2004...... Despite a critical need for new antibiotics to treat drug-resistant and other infectious disease, very few antibiotics are being developed, according to a study in the May 1 issues of Clinical Infectious Disease....... REI researchers evaluated FDA databases of approved drugs and found that FDA approvals of new antibiotics declined...CellCept's cardioprotective profile reinforced
Data presented today at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) annual meeting strengthens the body of evidence that CellCept (mycophenolate mofetil, MMF) has unique benefits for heart transplant patients as the only immunosuppressant that offers:...... superior survival benefits ... reduced coronary artery disease ... the least toxic side effect profile .........Studies led by Mount Sinai researchers reinforces potential benefits of new stroke-prevention drug
(New Orleans, Louisiana March 8) Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine announced an analysis of pooled data from two Phase III stroke prevention trials today at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. Pooled data demonstrated that ximelagatran, a new type of anti-clotting medication currently under FDA review, is as effective as current treatm...Dr. Brenda Milner first foreign associate of the NAS to receive Award in the Neurosciences
Montreal,- January 16, 2004 - Dr. Brenda Milner will receive the 2004 Award in the Neurosciences from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) headquartered in Washington, DC. The $25,000 US prize is awarded every three years in recognition of extraordinary contributions to progress in the fields of neuroscience. Dr. Milner is the Dorothy J. Killam Professor, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI)...UCF clinic diagnoses rare Foreign Accent Syndrome
... ...ORLANDO, Nov. 19, 2003 - A University of Central Florida speech expert has diagnosed an extremely rare di...Rice uses buckyballs to reinvent 'antibiotic of last resort'
HOUSTON, April 17, 2003 -- Rice University chemists hope a new variant of vancomycin that contains buckyballs -- tiny cage-shaped molecules of pure carbon -- could become the world's first targeted antibiotic, creating a new line of defense against bioweapons like anthrax.... ...Vancomycin, which entered clinical service 40 years ago, is the antibiotic of last resort, given only when all others f...Transplantation Society reiterates position against selling organs
MIAMI, Aug. 30 The practice of buying and selling human organs is of particular concern to The Transplantation Society, the field's only international society, with more than 3,000 members from 65 countries, including those where black markets for organs from living donors appear to be on the rise. As such, the society today reiterated its position against the selling of organs and commercial or...Study finds Medicare overbilling may be caused by government's faulty reimbursement
Washington, DC--In the midst of an ongoing crackdown on health care providers for allegedly overbilling federal health care programs, a study in the September 2002 Annals of Emergency Medicine finds the government's coding system used to determine physicians' Medicare payments is an unvalidated process prone to errors. (Reliability of Assigning Correct Current Procedural Terminology--4 E/M Codes)...Yale study reinforces theory that babies count
New Haven, Conn. Babies who look longer at certain objects are counting, not just looking at new shapes and textures, according to a study by Yale University researchers....... Karen Wynn and Paul Bloom, professors of psychology, said their study was intended to address the debate about whether infants are counting when they look at objects, or whether they are simply responding to color, size a...Reston, VirginiaOn January 10, 2002, Dr. Peter S. Conti, MD, PhD, Associate Professional of Radiology at the University of Southern California plans to present the following statement before the Diagnostic Imaging Panel Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee of CMS at a hearing being held in Baltimore, Maryland at the Convention Center.... ...On behalf of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, I would l...SNM and ACNP CMS PET reimbursement statement
CMS new reimbursement rate for FDG PET of $1375.00 has both good and disappointing news for those interested in bringing Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to the broadest number of patients, according to the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) and the American College of Nuclear Physicians (ACNP)....... SNM and ACNP believe that this lower rate (down from the previous $2,331.18) may have a negati...Nursing profession must be reinvented to ease personnel shortages, according to UCSF report
...California is experiencing a shortage of registered nurses that differs fundamentally from prior nursing shortages, according to a new report released by the UCSF Center for Health Professions. ..."This is not just another cyclical shortage of nurses that can be rapidly cured by paying nurses higher wages and enrolling more students in nursing schools," said Edward O'Neil, director of the UCS...Study: foreign-trained physicians vital to poor, under-served patients
. CHAPEL HILL -- A significant minority of community.health centers need foreign-trained physicians on staff to provide.care to poor and medically under-served people, according to a new University of.North Carolina at Chapel Hill study.. . A report on the UNC-CH Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services.Research Center study appears in the October issue of the American Journal of....Study Shows Foreign-Trained Doctors Can Ease Rural Physician Shortages
. . Sheps Center for Health Services Research . CHAPEL HILL -- Foreign-trained doctors more often practice in rural,.medically underserved areas than U.S. medical graduates and help ease physician.shortages, according to a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study. . "Many international medical graduates ag...