U-M health leaders offer an innovative framework for keeping academic medicine viable
...e hospital executive board. "Institutions that can respond to change while remaining focused on service, productivity and market leadership will shape a positive future for academic medicine," explains Omenn. "We are confident that we will be among those leaders." The editorial recounts how the U-M's health ...MCG researchers find clues in process that enables working memory
... to communicate and so function; a single cell may respond to several neurotransmitters. Researchers found ... this, we had a less interactive view of how cells respond to multiple stimuli," Dr. Bergson said. "Now we have learned something very specific about how dopam...Study to assess heart effects of depression drugs during stress
... that could make the heart not as well equipped to respond to natural stress. Still, the researchers point out that the findings can only be suggestive of such implications and that a long-term study is needed. "That study will come later," Straneva noted. "Now we're looking at functional differences based ...Parenting, stress and your child's risk for alcoholism
...h, for the purposes of this study, means that they respond to stress like humans do. In addition, primates have very complex societies; they create social groups, they have rules about social behavior, and they are (under normal circumstances) trained from youth to learn and use appropriate social skills. ......ld occur during a hurricane -- for example, how to respond if high winds or storm surge cause chemical-plant leaks or water contamination. His Web sites are at http://hurricane.lsu.edu , http://info.envs.lsu.edu and http://risk.lsu.edu . LSU School of Landscape Architecture ( http://www.cadgis.lsu...UCSD researcher wins grant to study colon cancer in African-Americans
... has shown that cells with this abnormality do not respond to the widely used chemotherapeutic agent 5-fluoruracil (5-FU). The researchers will now further test this observation by studying the medical records of patients who received 5-FU treatment and whose tissue tested positive for microsatellite instab......ld occur during a hurricane -- for example, how to respond if high winds or storm surge cause chemical-plant leaks or water contamination. His Web sites are at http://hurricane.lsu.edu and http://risk.lsu.edu . -- John Pine, associate professor, LSU Institute for Environmental Studies, 225-388-1075,......ns. "These children do wonderfully. They usually respond very quickly, especially in the absence of any bra...l patterns and the development of the brain. Some respond well to music, but of course, the treatment is very individualized." Chiropractic neurology is als...25-minute test distinguishes between different types of schizophrenia
...that people with early onset schizophrenia may not respond to current treatments with typical or atypical antipsychotics and indicate that this group may need a different treatment approach. In line with other brain diseases, researchers are hopeful that this step could allow further developments in schizop...New drug works well as sole epilepsy therapy for difficult-to-treat patients
...alone in patients with partial epilepsy who do not respond to other anti-epileptic drugs. The study, publish...lepsy's symptoms, but as many as 20 percent do not respond to treatment. Trial Design and Results The multicenter, double-blind, randomized, dose-controlled, p...... traumatic procedures document that they do indeed respond to pain. Today, pain from traumatic surgeries in newborns is carefully managed with anesthesia and analgesics. Scientists have learned that by 24 weeks gestation, very immature pain transmission pathways are already in place. The development ...Ritalin helps children with ADHD maintain normal reaction time
...accurate decisions. In this case, children had to respond on a computer to questions of "how many" and/or "w...HD children took almost 700 milliseconds longer to respond correctly during a switch between the two questions than they had when they answered the same questi...Chemist uses DNA to trigger an alternative chemotherapy method
...provides another direction, one that could rapidly respond to viral diseases or cancer as fast as they mutate. He says the catalyst/prodrug/DNA trigger system could expand beyond the horizons of anti-viral and anti-cancer therapy to other diseases. "The beauty of the system is that you could use it for an...NIH awards grant to MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals to study novel pain treatments
...of the American population have pain that does not respond well to current therapies. These patients include those with acute, inflammatory and especially neuropathic pain which is generated by causes such as diabetes, AIDS, trauma and cancer chemotherapy. Dr. Salvemini received her Ph.D. under the mentorsh...Mayo Clinic researchers develop new antibody
...lso may help physicians identify patients who will respond to immunological treatment, but further study in that area is needed," says Vernino. The new test developed at Mayo Clinic detects antibodies that bind to an important protein on autonomic nerve cells. The majority of patients with a particularly sev...Why does an anti-depressant work for some people, but not others?
...clue in the brain that may explain why some people respond better to an anti-depressant than others. The disc... But in this study of veterans who did and did not respond to Prozac, the researchers identified a more widespread chain of events kicking in across a system o...Transgenic mice aid research into deadly cancer
...to find ways to treat Burkitt's patients who don't respond to the standard treatment," says Dr. Morse. "It will also help us understand why the cells 'go bad' to cause this malignancy." Scientists still don't know all the factors that contribute to Burkitt's lymphoma in people, despite having created Burki...Duke eye researchers describe cascade of events that may lead to retinal degeneration
...nt types of nerve cells in the retina interact and respond to each other has applications throughout the body, Wong said. "The retina is a part of the central nervous system, in many ways the most approachable part of the brain," Wong said. "In any network, it is important to know how the different type...Interactive game could reduce heart attack deaths by teaching rapid response to symptoms
...ame that teaches potential heart attack victims to respond quickly to early warning signs of a heart attack by acknowledging the possibility of a heart attack and immediately calling 911. Studies suggest that computer-based patient education improves many dimensions of health and health care, including prev...Brain imaging technology can reveal what a person is thinking about
...processing them. In addition, if these brain areas respond differentially to the 'spoken' names of people and places, we may be able to infer that they understand."...