Exercise-induced shortness of breath not always caused by asthma
...want," he said. In addition to Weinberger, who was senior author on the study, the research team included Mutasim Abu-Hasan, M.D., UI assistant professor (clinical) of pediatrics, and Beatrice Tannous, M.D., who was a pediatric resident at UI Children's Hospital of Iowa at the time of the study and who now ...New study in 'Nature' demonstrates protection against cell death during heart attack
...esearcher at Cincinnati Children's and the study's senior author. Cyclophilin D resides within the mitochondria of a cell. The mitochondria are the power plants of a cell and are responsible for the majority of energy production. When mitochondria do not function properly, such as when tissue is deprived ...UCSF study offers insight into human circadian rhythms
...at University of California, San Francisco and the senior author of the paper. "As the enzyme produced by the gene modulates many proteins, we may test for its impact on novelty seeking and learning and memory, too." "The discovery of the gene opens the window just a crack, but it could let in a lot of ligh...Physicians may not be accurate in their confidence levels of their diagnoses, says Pitt study
.... Friedman, who is on leave from Pitt to work as a senior scholar and program officer in the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and his colleagues developed detailed written synopses from 36 detailed diagnostically challenging cases from patient records at th...Mouse model reveals potential way to reduce cardiac deaths in kidney patients
... should be very helpful for kidney patients," says senior investigator Keith A. Hruska, M.D., the Ira M. Lang Professor of Nephrology and professor of pediatrics and of cell biology and physiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "The drug we used in the mice and other similar agent...Fat may promote inflammation, new study suggests
...sk of heart disease," said Barbara Nicklas, Ph.D., senior researcher and an associate professor of internal medicine. "The findings point to a possible treatment target for new drugs. Our goal is to learn more about how these proteins are produced and how levels can be changed." Nicklas and colleagues have ...Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
...t Harvard Medical School. Along with the study's senior author Bouma and Tearney, additional co-authors are Briain MacNeill, MD, Masamichi Takano, MD, and Fabian Moselewski, of the MGH Cardiology Division; Nicusor Iftima, PhD, and Milen Shishkov, PhD, of the Wellman Center; Stuart Houser, MD, and Thomas A...NHS target driven culture is failing patients
...is neglecting the quality of patient care, warns a senior doctor in this week's BMJ. Craig Gannon, a consultant in palliative medicine, describes the fragmented care of an elderly woman at his hospital whose death from kidney failure (super-imposed on a malignancy) could have been avoided. "The hospital ca...Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
...eserts" for illegal behavior, said William Martin, senior fellow in religion and public policy at the Baker Institute. In a research paper posted this month on the Baker Institute Web site, Martin paraphrases the message these opponents are really conveying to injecting drug users (IDUs): "We know a way to...ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
... recommendations on treatment methods, collated by senior European experts and opinion leaders in the field. For maximal relevance, Guidelines must be well presented, practical and relevant to the clinician on both a national and local level. The formulation and continual update of such Guidelines is one ...New studies show mixed results on epilepsy drugs and birth defects
..., PhD, of Boston University School of Medicine and senior epidemiologist with the Antiepileptic Drug Pregnancy Registry. "Pregnancy registries are really the only way at present to collect data on what medications women are taking and what effects they may be having on their babies." Women can sign up for t...Hospitals may now be more willing to partner up with former adversaries
... and influential relationships with physicians and senior management at the hospital," the authors state. ... to find ways to integrate physicians and hospital senior management more fully into QIO quality improvement initiatives," the authors conclude....Protecting human subjects focus of national FDA conference at UH
...rprise." Following, will be David A. Lepay, M.D., senior adviser for clinical science at the FDA, who will provide insight to FDA regulations involving the protection of human subjects in clinical trials and the organization's oversight role. Offering a number of panel discussions that provide a wide ran...Brain imaging study may hold clues to onset of schizophrenia in people at high risk
...ins unclear," said Dr. Aysenil Belger, the study's senior author. "In looking at the brain activity of high-risk people while they performed some of these tasks, we hoped to identify a neurobiological marker of vulnerability to disease onset, a tool we might use to help assess their risk of developing psy...Aspirin's potential ability to prevent colon polyps may not apply equally to all
...hors of the JNCI study are Charles Fuchs, MD, MPH, senior author, of DFCI and BWH; Edward Giovannucci, MD, ScD, and David Hunter, MD, ScD, of BWH and the Channing Laboratory at Harvard Medical School; and Gregory Tranah, PhD, of the Harvard School of Public Health. The research was supported by grants from ...GlaxoSmithKline receives unanimous favorable recommendation by FDA Advisory Committee for Boostrix
...he FDA Advisory Committee," said David M. Pernock, senior vice president Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia & Vaccines, GlaxoSmithKline. "As a leader in combination vaccines, GlaxoSmithKline will be proud to introduce Boostrix as the first of a number of new and important candidate vaccines from our pipeline sp...Rhesus monkeys reason about perspectives of others in obtaining food
...l and mental judgments about others," he said. The senior author was Laurie Santos, an assistant professor at Yale. The research was supported by a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship and the Yale University Moore Fund grant....Finances, not having a dentist are primary barriers to seniors receiving needed dental care
...fight tooth-and-nail to provide dental services to senior citizens is not much of a stretch. A survey of 415 senior citizens in Western New York, conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo's School of Dent...Routine dental panoramic X-rays not necessary, study shows
...e on a panoramic X-ray," said Lida Radfar, D.D.S., senior author on the study and an assistant professor of oral diagnostic sciences in the UB School of Dental Medicine. "If a small X-ray isn't good enough for a condition you see in a patient, then a panoramic X-ray can be done. But our results show it is...Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
...e in health and death of his grandparents. While a senior at Princeton in 1951, he met Dr. Thomas Gardner, a research scientist at pharmaceutical company, Hoffman-LaRoche, who explained that aging is a complex set of biochemical processes which can be understood only at the molecular level, and that the too...