Alzheimer's disease center seeks patients for new drug studies
...on Americans. The UT Southwestern clinic currently sees about 300 patients. For more information about the new drug studies and other clinic research, call (214) 648-8696....Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
...dical community of nicotine's dangers,Slotkin also sees such problems in government regulatory efforts. ...hereas cocaine abuse is not." Slotkin also sees the explosion of cigarette smoking in developingcountries as threatening to become a major global pu...Modafinil Improves The Quality Of Life Of Narcolepsy Patients
... U-M Medical Center's Sleep Disorder Center,Rogers sees patients with more than 80 distinct sleep disorders. However,during the past 12 years her research has exclusively focused on excessivedaytime sleepiness in patients with narcolepsy. For more information on herwork, visit her Web site at http://ww...A New Era In Newborn Screening
...nying Editorial in Clinical Chemistry, Harvey Levy sees a'sea-change' in newborn screening. Moreover, the Editorial's author points outthat during his 30 years with the New England Newborn Screening Program, "75% ormore" of his time was devoted to the handling of false positive results. Dr.Levy emphasizes...UF Researchers Cite Possible Link Between Autism, Schizophrenia And Diet
... "This could explain several of the things one sees in autism andschizophrenia, such as hallucinations...a-casomorphin-7 that are basically the same as one sees in the humanwith autism or schizophrenia," he added. "If we ring a bell beside a rat'scage, it norma...MIT Touch Lab Research Explores The Hand
... of the gall bladder. In the simulation, the user sees an on-screen image of the organs and tissues inquestion. By manipulating a stencil that's analogous to a computer mouse, theuser can "place a 'tool' over, say, a lung, press down on it, see thedeformation of the lung and 'feel' how soft and pliable i...'Motion Blindness,' Not Just Poor Memory, Causes Alzheimer's Patients To Lose Their Way
...e rushing past. Like most neurologists, Duffy sees Alzheimer's patients whoregularly complain about g...flow field," the scientific term for themotion one sees as a result of one's own movement. Researchsubjects sit in front of computer-generated patterns of d...Experts Meet In Canada To Discuss Vaccine Progress
...od mortality, PAHO Director Dr. George A.O.Alleyne sees wider applications for vaccine technology to improve health andreduce poverty. He has called for "a major effort for research, development,production and utilization of vaccines," through international and intersectoralcooperation. PAHO has encourag...Stress Speeds Progression To AIDS
... a take-home message from these findings, Leserman sees it both interms of treatment and research. "We need to shore up social support systems for these men. And for men withstressful events in their lives, perhaps some cognitive-behavioral treatment,psychological support groups, or counseling might be a......layed in two dimensions on a monitor, the computer sees andprocesses the image of the heart in three dimensions, allowing cardiologists toperform a complete examination of the structure and function of the entire heartfrom an infinite number of views. Because the image is more anatomically correct and det...New nationwide study in six cities will look at the method & message for changing risky HIV behavior
...est of the three-year study period. A participant sees the samecounselor each time. In both intervention groups, participants will take part in individualcounseling sessions with trained counselors and will be tested every six monthsfor the presence of HIV antibody in the blood, an indication of HIV inf...Obesity drugs not a quick fix for achieving weight loss
... stopped at an undesirable level." But while Klein sees a role for obesity drugs, he says there is little researchto show they will be effective over many years. Because most are relatively new,studies have looked at time periods of one to two years. "But obesity is achronic condition that requires long-t...Mini-motor models nature, advances miniaturization technology
...ntific understanding of molecular motors, Dr.Kelly sees the work as a continuation of historical efforts at miniaturization. He explains this in a manuscript: "The development of motors of ever diminishing size has riveted the attention ofinventors since the achievement of steam engines by Newcomen and Wa...New series tackles complementary medicine
What is complementary medicine? This week's BMJ sees the beginning of a new 12 part series of the ABC of Complementary Medicine. This first issue looks at what is actually meant by the term complementary medicine'; how this area of medicine developed; how practitioners are trained and regulated and ho...Jefferson scientist sees drug profiles and tailor-made therapies as ways to beat HIV resistance
... Yand not to these others." Dr. Pomerantz sees the day when each anti-HIV drug would actually have aprofile of standard viral resistance. "Eventually, you could say to a patient,'This is your virus, this is what drugs it's resistant to, and this is whatwe'll use against it.'" He suggests ...Study finds problems with buying drugs on the Internet
...a prescription drug forthe first time. The patient sees a licensed health care practitioner, who issuesa prescription for an appropriate, FDA-approved drug that the patient gets froma registered pharmacist working in a licensed pharmacy. "Current laws providesafeguards against injuries from unsafe drugs a...Greater awareness of carbon monoxide poisoning needed among patients and doctors
...view file. Click here for PDF document As the UK sees the onset of Autumn and the cooler weather that it brings, the numbers of unintentional deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning begin to rise, write Dr Ed Walker from Dewsbury District Hospital and Dr Alastair Hay from the University of Leeds in this w...The silent time bomb: divorce, health care and the baby boom generation
...s for the demise of the traditional family, Pezzin sees social programs as more of the cure than the disease. It may require changing those programs, however. "We can at least design policies that will not have an adverse effect," she says. "Maybe the way to go about this is to not provide home health car...U-M health leaders offer an innovative framework for keeping academic medicine viable
...s own health care future. Today, the Health System sees more patients than ever before, maintains a positive financial margin, has reduced its average cost per patient by 20 percent. It also has attracted research support in amounts that make it the ninth largest recipient of NIH funding and help the U-M'......owever, if a map has adjacent patches that someone sees as the same color, the information stored in the map will be inaccessible." Brewer began working on mapping for the color blind as an assistant to Dr. Judy Olson at Michigan State University. More recently, Brewer had an opportunity to design red/g...