Rheumatoid arthritis patients at higher risk for unrecognized heart disease and cardiac sudden death
...ar death," says Sherine Gabriel, M.D., the study's senior author and Mayo Clinic rheumatologist, epidemiologist and chair of the Department of Health Sciences Research. "And the goal of our research is to disentangle the complex relationships between these two diseases." For this study, Mayo Clinic research...Guidelines restricting endoscopy referrals put patients at risk
...ed with antisecretory drugs or other measures. But senior gastrointestinal specialists say that if patients are only referred once alarm symptoms are present, cancer may already be at an advanced stage - and too late for surgery. Professor Michael Griffin, head of the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal S...Older people get the big picture faster, and they are less inhibited
...e see the world," says Allison Sekuler, one of the senior authors and a Canada Research Chair at McMaster. ...ssed in the brain" says Patrick Bennett, the other senior author, also a Canada Research Chair at McMaster. The results suggest that as we age, the ability of...Canadian neurologist wins highest award as American Stroke Association honors five
... Thomas Willis (1621-1675), the award recognizes a senior investigator who has made major contributions to the understanding of stroke over a sustained period. Willis is credited with providing the first detailed descriptions of the brain stem, cerebellum and ventricles along with extensive hypotheses as t...NHS Trusts meeting government target on stroke units 'in name only'
...siotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, or senior doctors. Staffing levels and available skills also varied widely within the units, and the quality of care provided in some specialist stroke units often failed to meet basic standards. A "significant number" had no dietician or social worker, and n...More homeless mentally ill than expected according to UCSD study: Interventions urged
...s most at risk for homelessness," said the study's senior author, Dilip Jeste, M.D., UCSD Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, professor of psychiatry and neurosciences, director of the UCSD Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, and a geriatric psychiatrist at the VA San Diego Healthcare Sys...Dartmouth awarded $21.8 million NSF grant
...rtment of Psychological and Brain Science, will be senior scientists involved in the CCEN. The heart of CCEN will support basic research projects at Dartmouth such as investigations into language acquisition and bilingualism, reading and literacy, the neurocognitive paths of number development and skill ret...COX-2 inhibitor increases the risk of heart attack in elderly adults with no history of heart attack
...Ds) and the risk of heart attack in 113,927 Quebec senior citizens. Only one of these agents, a COX-2 inhibitor called Vioxx--a new class of NSAIDs--carried a greater risk of heart attack. "Many believe that COX-2 inhibitors increase the chance of a heart attack in high risk groups, for example people who h...New way to diagnose sciatica may point to a different cause
...eated as such," said Dr. J. Patrick Johnson, M.D., senior author of the study and the director of the Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders. "But our study shows that it is time for a major reassessment of how patients will be evaluated and treated for sciatica in the future particularly in those pa...Screening for osteoporosis prevents hip fractures in older adults
...cause Medicare now reimburses for screening," says senior investigator Linda Fried, M.D., M.P.H., director of Hopkins' Center on Aging and Health. "Use of medication to enhance bone density has increased over the last 11 years, too, further making a randomized evaluation difficult. Our study has several s...UCSD-Salk team show protein's gene-silencing role in development of nervous system
...gies for neurological disorders," said the study's senior author, Gordon Gill, M.D., UCSD professor of medicine. The ability of SCPs to silence genes was first shown by Gill and his post-doctoral fellow Michele Yeo, Ph.D., in an April 28, 2003 study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Yeo i...Animal study shows link between nicotine and atrial flutter
...diac arrhythmias," said Hrayr Karagueuzian, Ph.D., senior research scientist in the Division of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai and senior author on the study. "We knew a significant portion of patients with heart disease had an increased...Study reports women don't experience undue pain, anxiety during mammography screening
...d/Body Center for Women's Health at Boston IVF and senior psychologist in the Department of Obstetrics and G...p, Harvard Medical School. Study coauthors include senior author Janet Baum, MD, and Aimee Eyvazzadeh, MD, of BIDMC; Sarah Allen, Kara Roman, and Rebecca Wolf...National Academies News: William H. Foege to receive Public Welfare Medal, Academy's highest honor
... the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Foege was a senior adviser when the foundation was setting up programs to immunize children worldwide against hepatitis B and hemophilus influenza B and in initiating programs to develop vaccines against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Now retired, Foege still w...Activity not out of the question for people with chronic pain
...function than almost any other group," says Clauw, senior author of the study, which appears in the current issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism. "The surprising thing that we found was that their average level of activity was about the same as someone who didn't have fibromyalgia." But researchers found that pa...Communication between primary-care physicians and patients can reduce medication-related problems
...c, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, is the study's senior author. The investigators were based at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Harvard School of Public Health. The study involved 661 patients at four adult primary-care practices in Boston. Researchers interview...Generation gap found in chronic pain
...our ability to work or function," says the study's senior author, U-M pain specialist Carmen R. Green, M.D., who is co-guest editor of the special issue. "Our study suggests that age is a significant factor across races and ethnicities, and that the impact of pain may differ even within racial and ethnic gr...Sildenafil effectively treats enlarged hearts, mouse study shows
...re of heart failure that can be fatal," says study senior author and cardiologist David Kass, M.D., a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart Institute. Kass is also the Abraham and Virginia Weiss Professor of Cardiology at Hopkins. Sildenafil, Kass says, was the focus of...Cord blood transplantation now a viable option for adult leukemia patients
...actory dose could not be found for these patients, senior study author John Wagner, M.D., Scientific Director of Clinical Research of the University of Minnesota's Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program and Stem Cell Institute, theorized that they could still have successful transplants if two partially-m...Simpler 'alphabet' guidelines for treating acute coronary syndrome reduce risk
...Preventive Cardiology Center at Johns Hopkins, and senior investigator of the study, published in the Jan. 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The new guidelines are based on those developed by the American College of Cardiology (ACG),the American Heart Association (AHA) and the res...