Teen athletes continue tobacco use, despite severe consequences
Baltimore, MarylandTobacco use among junior and senior high school student athletes, especially boys, continues to be a serious health risk, despite vigorous efforts to educate them--and their coaches--about the oral lesions that can result. Reporting today during the 83rd General Session of the Internat...Will your kids grow up to be fat?
...en greater than we thought," said Matthew Gillman, senior author on the paper and associate professor of ambulatory care and prevention at HMS. "We must focus not only on the most obese kids but also on those who are just a bit overweight."...Student identifies electrical changes preceding heart failure
...n as arrhythmias. The study by Samuel Hahn, 21, a senior biomedical engineering major from Lutherville, Md.... On March 10, Steven Knapp, university provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, will host the 12th annual Provost's Undergraduate Research Awar...Researchers discover link between insulin and Alzheimer's
...ontribute to the progression of Alzheimer's," says senior author Suzanne M. de la Monte, a neuropathologist at Rhode Island Hospital and a professor of pathology at Brown Medical School. "This raises the possibility of a Type 3 diabetes." It has previously been known that insulin resistance, a characteristi...Tobacco industry pays scientists to challenge secondhand smoke's link to infant death risk
...Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF and senior author of the new study analyzing the tobacco company documents. Analysis of the Philip Morris documents shows that the company sought and paid an author to write an article for publication in a scientific journal, guided his writing and suggested ch...Study: Two brain systems regulate how we call for help
...onal expression in times of need," says Ned Kalin, senior author on the study and chair of psychiatry at UW Medical School. "The findings suggest that how open an individual is willing to be in asking for help may depend more than we thought on how secure that individual feels at any given time in a support...Beta-blockers may help broader group of patients with heart problems
...scular medicine at the Keck School and the study's senior author, explained that catecholamines-the hormones released in the body in stress situations such as heart failure and mitral regurgitation-are toxic to the heart muscle. Beta-blockers keep catecholamines from acting. "For the first time, our large o...St. John's wort amplifies effect of blood thinner Plavix
....D., a professor of cardiovascular medicine who is senior author on the study, "The interesting thing is that by taking this herb, drugs that need to be activated by the CYP3A4 enzyme, such as clopidogrel, perform better. Unfortunately, more drugs are metabolized by this enzyme, so those drugs' activity lev...Study: Eye contact triggers threat signals in autistic children's brains
...las make autistic children want to look away, says senior author Richard Davidson, a UW-Madison psychiatry and psychology professor who has earned international recognition for his work on the neural underpinnings of emotion. "Imagine walking through the world and interpreting every face that looks at you ...Depression predicts heart rhythm abnormalities in heart attack patients
...g the 'healthiest' of heart attack patients," said senior researcher Lana Watkins, Ph.D. "We excluded patients whose left ventricle the main pumping chamber -- was pumping at less than 30 percent of its capacity. "Given that we saw such a strong association in a relatively healthy population of heart attac...HIV testing should no longer be accorded any special status
...o longer be accorded any special status, argue two senior doctors in this week's BMJ. Voluntary HIV counselling and testing has been accepted practice for more than 10 years, but uptake has been poor, even among those at high risk, resulting in late diagnosis and ongoing spread of infection. Unless further ...Inflammation elevates risk of cardiac death in rheumatoid arthritis patients
... disease," says Sherine Gabriel, M.D., the study's senior author and Mayo Clinic rheumatologist, epidemiologist and chair of the Department of Health Sciences Research. "We suspect that systemic inflammation promotes this risk. Our findings support this hypothesis." The exact means by which the inflammation...Brain tumor with dismal prognosis in infants can be cured in older children
...ast for children older than 3 years," said Gajjar, senior author of the JCO report. "The fact that we found that upfront radiation is so effective, especially in older children, suggests that this should become a standard approach to ATRT therapy." Gajjar's team studied the medical records of 31 patients, 2...Both inherited traits and tumor mutations affect response to treatment of leukemia
....D., chair of St. Jude Pharmaceutical Sciences and senior author of the Blood report. "Therapy for ALL usually lasts two to three years," Relling said. "So over such a long period, even small changes that affect the potency of cancer drugs could have a major influence on the outcome of treatment." The goal ...Molecule important in cell construction also critical in learning and memory
...d neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine, and the senior author of the study, studied mice missing one of these proteins---adducin--and found the cytoskeleton developed normally. However, the mice were impaired during fear conditioning and memory exercises. "We were hoping to find a mechanism that cells us...Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
...d their child's odds of becoming a smoker by their senior year of high school. "Taken together, these two studies suggest that parents who quit smoking by the time their children are 8 or 9 years old may help prevent their children from becoming adolescent smokers and, if they do start, may help them quit s...Plant derivative attacks the roots of leukemia
...sor of Medicine and Biomedical Genetics. Guzman is senior instructor of hematology/oncology. Other co-investigators include: Randall Rossi, associate scientist; Lilliana Karnischky, laboratory technician; Xiaojie Li, technical associate; Derick Peterson, Ph.D., assistant professor of biostatistics, and Dia...CK2 protein sustains colon cancer cells by sabotaging ability to commit suicide
...K2 in tumors is now bearing fruit," said Houghton, senior author of the Oncogene report. "We've shown in some detail how CK2 helps cancer cells survive the natural tendency for abnormal cells to self-destruct, as well as how to block CK2 and permit the cell to undergo apoptosis. In doing so, we've begun to ...OHSU scientists develop MRI approach to improve breast cancer detection
...edicine. AIRC Director Charles Springer, Ph.D., is senior author, and AIRC Manager, Xin Li, Ph.D., is first author of the new paper, along with William Rooney, Ph.D., AIRC faculty. Professor Springer also holds appointments in OHSU's Cancer Institute and Department of Biomedical Engineering. "This technique...Diagnosis of prions in patients should utilize novel strategy, team says
...r Neurodegenerative Diseases, which is directed by senior author Stanley B. Prusiner, MD, UCSF professor of neurology and biochemistry. "These findings indicate that histology and immunohistochemistry should no longer be used to rule out prion disease in single-site biopsy samples," says Safar. "The superio...