New database on HIV/AIDS to focus on real-world treatment outcomes
...ormation like this is valuable for tracking trends related to HIV diseaseand improving treatment strategies. There has long been a need for a definitiveclinical database like HIVWatch . As a resource, it is expected to providecommunity-based physicians with improved insight into the advantages anddisadvant...Seasons may change heart attack risk
...early morning waking hours, but fewer studies have related coronarydeaths to the months and the seasons. When University of Southern California researchers looked at deaths fromcoronary artery disease for a 12-year period in Los Angeles, they found therewere 33 percent more deaths in the holiday season of De...Results of NUVANCE phase I/II asthma trial presented
...nerally well tolerated. No serious adverse events related to study drug were reported. The most frequently ..., and there are more than 500,000 hospitalizations related to asthma each year. About IL-4 Interleukin-4 (IL-4) is a naturally occurring cytokine, or i...Institute publishes "Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment"
...minal justice costs and theft alone. When savings related to healthcare are included, total savings can exceed costs by a ratio of 12 to 1. Majorsavings to the individual and to society also come from significant drops ininterpersonal conflicts, improvements in workplace productivity, and reductionsin drug...... in the U.S.who may have some sign of brain damage related to alcohol," he said. In Australia, the two disorders are often referred to jointly asWernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS), according to Clive Harper, Professor ofNeuropathology at the University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitaland lead autho...UI-led study indicates surgery is the best treatment for severe Bell's palsy paralysis
...additional measures are taken. The study had three related goals, all attempting to answer the primaryquestions troubling many clinicians treating patients with Bell's palsy. Theresearchers wanted to determine how to best identify which patients will be leftwith poor outcomes, establish whether surgical deco...New NIAMS grant targets osteoporosis in men
... the extent to which the risk of fracture in menis related to bone mass and structure, biochemistry, lifestyle, tendency to fall, and other factors.The study will also try to determine if bone mass is associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer. Such arelationship already exists between ...Issues surrounding genetic medicine and the Jewish population to be explored at conference
...ve strategies and, at the same time, raised issues related tohow this knowledge may be used by health care co...individual and had never considered genetic issues related to my health," saidLenny, who is also an attorney. "One of my primary goals as a patient advocateis ......nd a new and unexpected role for theNotch gene and related molecules. The Notch receptors are present in neuronsand their specialized processes called neurites. Neurons of the cerebralcortex--a thin sheet of gray matter on the surface of the brain--grow by extendingtheir neurites and forming connections, b......ively, of the surveys that reported these barriers related to guidelinesthat involved preventive health education and counseling. "It's advice-giving, not prescriptions or procedures, that seems to trip up themost doctors," Cabana explains. He notes that even telling people to stopsmoking appears to seem poi...Depression costs UK economy 2 billion a year, conference will be told
...now spent on compensating those suffering fromwork related stress. Often these payments are made out of court to preventshareholders, other employees and customers knowing the truth. A Unique Collaboration Those supporting the Depression A Social and Economic Timebomb Conferenceinclude: The World Heath...Emotional and physical toll of being poor
...who has published more than 150 papers on this and related issues, will head the new research center called the Michigan Interdisciplinary Center on Social Inequalities, Mind and Body. Kaplan is also director of the Michigan Initiative on Inequalities in Health, a universitywide network of researchers who s...UI researchers find way to possibly improve effectiveness of gene transfers
... possible way to eliminate a gene transfer hang-up related to cystic fibrosis. The researchers, led by Michael Welsh, M.D., UI professor of internal medicine, and physiology and biophysics, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator; David Wiemer, Ph.D., UI professor of chemistry; and John Lee, M.D.,...Harvard Med. School report warns of world health threat
...treet New York, NY 10019, 4th floor.The report and related photographs can be downloaded from the internet at www.soros.org/tb ....Estrogen-driven gene activates human pituitary tumors, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center researchers find
...d its expression in human cells. A novel family of related PTTG oncogenes has since been identified at the in...en receptors. Awaiting publication is an important related discovery that PTTG is expressed in other forms of cancer, and that estrogen is linked to its insidi...Depression linked to death among heart failure patients
Depressed mood is significantly related to increased mortality risk among people with cong...cipant for depressive symptoms; emotional problems related to congestive heart failure; the patient's perceptions of his or her physical limitation and dyspnea...Hostility, coercion, sexism among causes of harassment in military
...lerant attitudes by leaders in an organization are related to increased rates of harassment, and that sexual harassment has real negative effects." The effects included job dissatisfaction and reduced psychological and physical well being. "Given a certain amount of harassment, men and women suffer the sa...Stereotypes of aging may have significant effect on gaits of older persons
...age-related changes in functional performance. In related work, Hausdorff has been studying stride-to-strike fluctuations in gait rhythm and the effects of aging and disease. He has found that healthy gaits fluctuate with a "fractal-like" pattern, documented a break down in the fractal nature of elderly gai...New book asks ethical questions about human subjects research
...ho speaks for them?'" Those questions and others related to a new way of ethical reasoning regarding human subjects were the focus of a 1995 conference at UNC-CH, "From 'Regs' to Relationships: Re-examining Research Ethics," organized by King, Dr. Gail Henderson, also professor of social medicine, and Dr. ...... that investigates tuberculosis. Research lab work related to the drug discovery program includes a study of how simple sugars are synthesized in TB cell walls, conducted by professor Michael McNeil, and the application of compounds based on effective fungicides and herbicides in the battle against TB, carri...