Researchers seek postmenopausal women smokers for hormone, heart disease study
...e study visits will takeplace at UNC-CH, while the rest will be at local health departments. "Hormone replacement therapy is simply giving back to postmenopausalwomen estrogen and progesterone, which are naturally occurring," said Dr. SusanS. Girdler, assistant professor of psychiatry and study di......s within 15 minutes and the patient remains on bed rest anywhere from twoto several hours. Vertebral fractures are most often the result of osteoporosis. "As thepopulation ages, this condition will become more common," says Dr. Maus. "Vertebroplasty, when used as part of a comprehensive treatment plan th......of the heart," he says. "It is integrated with the rest ofthe heart, and must work in concert with other components."...... inwhich the heart cannot pump enough blood to the rest of the body, is the mostsevere complication of heart attacks and is the number one cause of death amongheart attack patients who reach the hospital. Before the findings of a newtrial, known as SHOCK, were presented at the March 1999 ACC Annual Scient...Double transplant frees patient from need for immunosuppressive drugs
...erful drugs to suppress their immunesystem for the rest of their lives. Now for the first time, physicians at theMassachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have deliberately induced a state of immunetolerance in a transplant recipient, enabling the patient to discontinue drugtreatment without rejecting a trans...Mitral valve repair at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center gets Los Angeles dentist on the road to recovery
...y, and patients have to rely on blood thinners the rest of their lives, plus the valves tend to last only a few years. Through the years, we have developed techniques to successfully repair most of these mitral valves, which is a real advancement in cardiac medicine." Dr. Trento likens the mitral valve to...Education may help the fight against high blood pressure
...bloodpressure -- the pressure when the heart is at rest between beats -- increased anaverage 13 mm/Hg for adolescents whose parents had less education, nearly twicethe 7 mm/Hg rise in the teenagers whose parents had more education, she says. African-American teenagers are about twice as likely to develo...Analysis suggests women treated for breast cancer do better with axillary node dissection
...al site to theregional lymph nodes and then to the rest of the body. By removing the lymphnodes, a surgeon might prevent the cancer from spreading. However, about 15years ago, physicians started to believe that cancer spread systemically fromthe very beginning. The doctors thought that removing the lymph ...Cedars-Sinai Medical tip sheet for Sept. 21
...st device surgery) that allow a defective heart to rest whileawaiting a transplant. Ventricular assist dev...planting mechanisms that allow a defectiveheart to rest while awaiting a transplant. CEDARS-SINAI COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER ADDS NEW DIMENSION IN RADIATI...OHSU researchers test medication that targets fever without side effects
...some patients. "What sets this drug apart from the rest is its ability to focus on theinflammation caused by a virus or bacteria," said Jerris Hedges, M.D., M.S.,chairman of emergency medicine, OHSU School of Medicine. "Researchers have beenstudying the reasons behind high temperatures caused by illness f...National Cancer Institute awards UNC-CH $5 million for unique prostate cancer studies
...tate, the prostate shrinks and stays small for the rest of hislife," Mohler said. "With prostate cancer, however, if you take androgens away,the tumor goes into remission but will come back after several years havingacquired the ability to grow again even without androgens." UNC-CH researchers wan...Wake Forest to coordinate huge national study to prevent cardiovascular disease in diabetes
...aldosta, Ga. Six other similar networkscanvass the rest of the country. The study will compare the effectiveness of several drug strategies tocontrol blood sugar. In a randomized clinical trial, two different intensivestrategies, using different drugs, will be compared with conventional control o....... The first effect is that many OSA sufferers, who rest badly at night, experiencemoments of drowsiness during the day. In the study carried out in the Basque Country, 14% of the men and 22% of thewomen said they felt sleepy frequently at least three days a week, both at workand off work. Clearly the cons...Sleep debt affects metabolic functions
...t sleep is beneficial for the brain but not forthe rest of the body. There have been reports that the number of hours asleepeach night can be voluntarily decreased without affecting daytime sleepiness,mood, or cognitive function. The scientists at the Department of Medicine, University of Chicago,invest...Lack of sleep alters hormones, metabolism
...ts may function best after morethan eight hours of rest each night. "While the primary function of sleep may very well be cerebral restoration,"note the authors, "our findings indicate that sleep loss also has consequencesfor peripheral function that, if maintained chronically, could have long termadverse...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
...inverted or turned upside-down with respect to the rest of the chromosome in some cases of autism." The re.... "This will hopefully be the science that puts to rest the idea that parenting style contributes to the development of the disorder. We can say now that au...U-M health leaders offer an innovative framework for keeping academic medicine viable
...s. But instead of separating the hospital from the rest of the University, or merging with other providers, as other academic medical centers have done in the face of similar challenges, the U-M began to shape its own health care future. Today, the Health System sees more patients than ever before, mainta......subjects in each cohort received a placebo and the rest received active vaccine. The studys participants had to meet the criteria for cocaine dependence, including a three- to 10-year cocaine habit, and willingness to get treatment and participate in the study. The people in the study, Kosten said, had a...Protease inhibitor could help prevent alzheimer's
...effects, it should permit these people to live the rest of their lives normally," Tang said....Researchers have laid to rest the myth that another mental disorder stemsfrom "bad parenting." A new study from Johns Hopkins has shown thatobsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), like schizophrenia and bipolardisorder, tends to run in families and has a strong genetic basis. Peop...