Rheumatoid arthritis linked to excess risk of congestive heart failure
... As researcher Paulo Nicola, M.D., notes, this study not only provides evidence for RA as a significant independent risk factor for heart failure but also lends support to the role of systemic inflammation in the development and prognosis of CHF.. "Physicians who ...Canadian neurologist wins highest award as American Stroke Association honors five
...roke. Feinberg (1952-1997) was a prominent stroke researcher and American Heart Association volunteer who made notable contributions to a fuller understanding of the mechanisms of stroke. The Feinberg award is supported by an educational grant from the pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Ingelheim. Marler is as...Mayo Clinic researchers create 'obedient virus'; First step to use measles virus against cancer
...hat time," says Stephen Russell, M.D., Ph.D., lead researcher and director of Mayo Clinic's Molecular Medicine Program. "It's very clean, very clear targeting. Our results show that we've efficiently ablated (destroyed) the ability of the measles virus to interact with its two natural receptors. And they also ...Dartmouth awarded $21.8 million NSF grant
An interdisciplinary group led by Dartmouth researcher Michael Gazzaniga has received a $21.8 million National Science Foundation grant to establish the Center for Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience (CCEN), as part of NSF's new Science and Learning Center (SLC) initiative. Researchers and students in...Yale researcher studying acupuncture to reduce back pain in pregnancy
New Haven, Conn.--A Yale researcher and expert in the practice of acupuncture is conducting a three-year study on the effectiveness of this ancient Chinese practice in reducing low back pain during pregnancy. The study is funded with a $400,000 grant from the National Institutes of Hea...$10-million study explores men's role in transmitting HPV
...gest grant ever to a Cancer Control and Prevention researcher at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, the National Institutes of Health awarded $10 million to Anna Giuliano, Ph.D., to help determine men's roles in spreading the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes deadly cervical cancer in...Problems in the bedroom can indicate heart problems
...h preventive cardiovascular medicine," states lead researcher and author of the article, Kevin Billups, MD. "The earlier a man is evaluated for ED, the better the outcome for maintaining good erectile function and good cardiovascular health." Research suggests that medical evaluation for ED in patients needs t...Cooling lessens brain damage in sick newborn babies
...id Edwards from Imperial College. However, Bristol researcher Professor Andrew Whitelaw points out that: 'We need to get further information on the timing and methods of cooling, as well as which babies are most suitable for treatment, before cooling becomes the standard of care for oxygen deprived babies"....Rice scientist recognized as pioneer in tissue engineering
...ris Therapeutics, Inc. It is given annually to one researcher who has established a reputation as a cutting-edge researcher in tissue regeneration. The award includes a $5,000 prize. Mikos will receive the award at the soci...Beliefs may hinder HIV prevention among African-Americans
...orburn conducted the study with Laura M. Bogart, a researcher with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif. They said their results suggest that conspiracy beliefs may have a negative impact on HIV preventive practices. Researchers believe that HIV/AIDS conspiracy beliefs stem from well-documented racial d...Increased physical activity not linked to ALS risk
..." said study co-author L.H. van den Berg, MD, PhD, researcher at the Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Utrecht, The Netherlands. "However, we did find evidence to suggest that in those at risk of developing ALS for reasons other than physical activity, a higher level of activity could accelerate the onse...Get ready for next generation surround sound
...working to commercialise the idea. Tony Tew, lead researcher at York explains, "We envisage booths in the high street, like those used for passport photos, where customers can have the shape of their head and ears measured easily. The shape information will be used to quickly compute an individual's spatial fi...Editorial urges 'black-box' warning for Bextra and Celebrex
...r, or use it only as a drug of last resort, says a researcher from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues in an editorial published on-line Jan. 17 in Circulation, a publication of the American Heart Association. Curt D. Furberg, M.D., Ph.D., professor of public health sciences, and collea...Penn researchers add more evidence to demonstrate role of COX inhibitors in heart-disease risk
...e of Circulation. Karine Egan, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the FitzGerald lab, and colleagues at Penn and the Wistar Institute studied mice genetically prone to hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis) and showed that another fat thromboxane or TxA2, this time produced by COX-1 accelerates atheroscle...New theory chalenges current view of how brain stores long-term memory
...einberg College of Arts and Sciences and a leading researcher in the Institute for Neuroscience, Northwestern University. To achieve this high degree of flexibility, Routtenberg's new theory goes on to propose that the brain stores long-term memory by rapidly changing the shape of proteins alrea...Exposed: Tobacco industrys' efforts to cast doubt
...disclosed history of working as a tobacco industry researcher and consultant. Professor Glantz comments: "The tobacco companies claim that they are now working with the public health community to 'support a single, consistent public health message on the role played by cigarette smoking in the development of th...Mayo Clinic researchers report success in new molecular breast imaging technique
...rah Rhodes, M.D., a Mayo Clinic physician and lead researcher in the study, says, "We have long recognized that ... in the Mayo Clinic Breast Diagnostic Clinic was a researcher in the study. In an editorial in the same issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Rachel Brem, M.D., direc...Environmental tobacco smoke linked to reading, math, logic and reasoning declines in children
...ental tobacco smoke," says Kimberly Yolton, PhD, a researcher at the Children's Environmental Health Center at Cincinnati Children's and the study's main author. "We estimate that more than 33 million children in the United States are exposed to levels consistent with the adverse effects seen in this study." Th...USC researchers find evidence that progesterone signaling influences ovarian cancer risk
..., says Celeste Leigh Pearce, a preventive medicine researcher from the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and the paper's first author, had previously been linked to a higher ovarian cancer risk as well as a lower breast cancer risk in women who carry it. To see if the PROGINS allele did indeed confer a hig...Women need less morphine after hysterectomies with new treatment
...r of the drugs is administered alone, reports lead researcher Dr. Ian Gilron, Director of Clinical Pain Research for Queen's Departments of Anesthesiology, and Pharmacology & Toxicology. "This is exciting because there aren't many non-opioid treatments available to complement morphine in relieving movement-rela...