NYU Child Study Center receives grant from the American Red Cross September 11 recovery program
NEW YORK, February 23, 2005 The NYU Child Study Center is pleased to announce the creation of the Silver Shield Life Enrichment & Continued Care Program which will be offered to widows and children of firefighters, policemen, emergency medical service and port authority personnel whose lives were lost as a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. This project was supported by a Se...Laser procedure effective in correcting nasal blockages associated with deviated septum
CHICAGO A new laser procedure that requires only local anesthetic is effective in treating nasal passageway obstructions associated with a deviated nasal septum, according to an article in the July-September issue of The Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The procedure uses heat generated by a laser to soften cartilage abnormalities so that they can be flatte...World's largest scientific society holds regional meeting Sept. 29 - Oct. 2 in Fort Worth
... ...Research on allergens, green chemistry and nanotechnology will be presented among nearly 500 papers at the 60th Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the worlds largest scientific society, in Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 29 - Oct. 2. Approximately 750 scientists are expected to attend the meeting at the Fort Worth Plaza Hotel, located at 1701 Commerce St.... .....Other highlights in the September 15 JNCI
...... A new study of atrazine exposure among pesticide applicators has found no clear association with an increased risk of cancer....... In the United States, more than 76 million pounds of the herbicide atrazine are used annually, applied primarily to corn and soybean crops. The pesticide has been detected in surface water surveys in the Midwest and in national surveys of drinking water wells...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, September 7, 2004
...A study of 1,233 adults who did not have signs of colon disease found that optical colonoscopy, the traditional method of viewing the colon and removing precancerous growths (polyps), and virtual colonoscopy, a new procedure using X-rays and computers to form three-dimensional images, missed between 10 percent to 14 percent of the polyps (Article, p. 352). The virtual colonoscopies also ident...Highlights of the September Journal of the American Dietetic Association
......A survey of 10th-grade students finds that 60 percent have made conscious efforts to lose weight. In response to the question "Have you ever tried to lose weight?" 36.5 percent of the boys said yes, compared with 73.6 percent of the girls. ......The study, conducted by researchers at California State University Los Angeles, surveyed 146 students at a multiethnic, urban public high schoo...Studies highlight impact of Sept. 11, Iraq war on adolescents
Three months after the 9-11 terrorist attacks in the United States, 10 percent of black adolescents attending an inner-city Southern high school were reporting clinically significant symptoms of post-traumatic stress, such as hypervigilance and recurring, disturbing memories, according to researchers at the Medical College of Georgia. ......A related MCG study of the psychological and cardiovascu...Sept/Oct Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
The September/October 2003 issue of takes an up-close look at continuity of care the ongoing relationship between a patient and a physician. This central tenet of primary care is being undermined by the current organizational and financial restructuring of the U.S. health-care system. As the authors point out, the systemic changes in American health care have hampered patients' and clinicians...Post-Sept. 11 study results published by U. of Colorado Center
Within three days of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, university researchers joined emergency personnel at Ground Zero and other locations to begin studying the events' aftermath and recovery efforts.... ... The results of their studies were published this week by the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center based at the University of Colorado at Boulder.... ......Tip sheet for the September 23, 2003 Neurology Journal
...According to a study of 803 women aged 40 to 55 years who were tested annually for loss of brain function over the course of six years, transition through menopause is not accompanied by a decline in working memory and perceptual speed. Peter M. Meyer, MD, of the Department of Preventative Medicine, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL, led the study of randomly selected A...Other highlights in the September 17 issue of JNCI
...A prostate-specific antigen doubling time (PSA-DT) of less than 3 months after treatment is associated with an increased risk of death from prostate cancer, according to a new study. Anthony V. D'Amico, M.D., Ph.D., of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and his colleagues examined time to prostate cancer-specific mortality among 8,669 patients with localized or locally advanced prost...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet, September 16, 2003
... Two herbal weight-loss products manufactured in China and sold in Japan and on the Internet caused liver injury to 12 patients taking the product, according to a new study (Brief Communication, p. 488). One patient died and another needed a liver transplant; the remaining patients recovered after stopping the products, Chaso and Onshido. Both were advertised by their manufacturers as contain...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for September 2003 (second issue)
CRITICAL ROLE DISCOVERED FOR INNATE ...IMMUNITY IN LUNG TRANSPLANT REJECTION ... Researcher investigators have identified a critical role that innate immunity plays in lung transplant rejection which they believe has important implications for patients. (Innate immunity is the process that performs a major role in host defense during the early stages of infection because it involves the recogni...Other highlights in the September 3 issue of JNCI
...Overall cancer incidence and death rates have stabilized, a trend that began in the mid- to late 1990s, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, published in the September 3 issue of the ...... The report, produced annually by the American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, and the North American Associa...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, September 2, 2003
Treating Older Adults for Flu Is Cost-Effective,...But Preventing It With a Yearly Flu Shot Is Better ...Click for a news release. This article is the subject of a video news release. Call for coordinates.... ...... ... A study of recorded symptoms of 28 patients with inhalational anthrax and 4,694 patients with viral respiratory illnesses found that fever and cough were common in both infecti...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for September 2003 (first issue)
NEW METHOD OF DETERMINING TREATMENT ...EFFECTS IN YOUNG PATIENTS WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS ...... Researchers revealed that computed tomography (CT) imaging, when combined with pulmonary function testing (PFT) and developed into a composite score, offered a new, more sensitive way of determining treatment effects in young patients with cystic fibrosis. The group consisted of young persons who had su...Other highlights in the September 18 issue of JNCI
...Current and past smoking may increase the risk of cervical cancer among women who have been infected with the human papillomavirus (HPV), according to a study in the September 18 issue of the ....... Philip E. Castle, Ph.D., of the National Cancer Institute, and his colleagues looked at the association between various risk factors and cervical cancer among 1,812 women who had tested positiv...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for September (second issue)
......In a study of 24,690 British children, researchers found that exposure to antibiotics in the mother's womb was associated, in a dose-related manner, with an increased risk of asthma in the...child. British investigators found that exposure to antibiotics and to infection in utero are potentially important risk factors in the development of allergic disease. They examined antibiotic use a...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, September 17, 2002
Annals of Internal Medicine is published by the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM), an organization of more than 115,000 internal medicine physicians and medical students. The following highlights are not intended to substitute for articles as sources of information. For an embargoed fax of an article, call 1-800-523-1546, ext. 2656, or 215-351-2656. ....Other highlights in the September 4 issue of JNCI
...A diet high in sucrose and carbohydrates does not appear to increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, according to a new study in the September 4 issue of the . However, the study did find that impaired glucose metabolism may play a role in the development of pancreatic cancer. ...... Obesity and diabetes have been associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer. To determine whether su...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for September--first issue
CAT OWNERSHIP PROTECTIVE AGAINST ASTHMA ......In three Swedish communities where cat sensitization was strongly associated with asthma, owning a cat provided a significant protective effect for children against the disease. The...researchers studied over 3,000 7- and 8-year-old boys and girls in communities in Northern Sweden over three years. They wanted to determine what effect living with a...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, September 3, 2002
Annals of Internal Medicine is published by the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM), an organization of more than 115,000 internal medicine physicians and medical students. The following highlights are not intended to substitute for articles as sources of information. For an embargoed fax of an article, call 1-800-523-1546, ext. 2656, or 215-351-2656. ....FINAL ALERT: RPB Science Writers Seminar in Eye Research to be held in Washington, DC Sept. 22-25
To: SCIENCE AND MEDICAL WRITERS, EDITORS AND BROADCASTERS ...RPB'S SIXTEENTH NATIONAL SCIENCE WRITERS SEMINAR IN EYE RESEARCH AND VISION ...THE ST. GREGORY HOTEL, WASHINGTON, DC ...SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2002... ......THE PROGRAM IS NOW SETand it's a beauty...a heady brew, a veritable Septemberfest, of scintillating science and first-rate storiescourtesy of the 30 and mor...Substance abuse increases in New York City in aftermath of September 11th
Survey results indicate that smoking and alcohol and marijuana use increased among residents of Manhattan during the five to eight weeks after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC). ...Almost one-third of the nearly 1,000 persons interviewed reported an increased use of alcohol, marijuana, or cigarettes following the September 11th attacks. The largest increase was in alcohol us...NIMH awards new grants in response to terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded new grants for research on mental health needs resulting from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. NIMH funded these studies through its Rapid Assessment Post Impact of Disaster (RAPID) grants program, which solicits and expedites pilot projects. ... ..."It is important to learn what we can from these terrible tragedies, and the...Aftermath of September 11th on creativity: Psychoanalysts host major literary figures
New York, NY - The NYU Psychoanalytic Institute (NYUPI) and its affiliated society the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) with additional funding from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation are launching their new Creative Writers and Psychoanalysts Series with a panel entitled The Apocalyptic Imagination: Daydreaming in an Era of Nightmares. This first panel will take place on Februa...Annals of Internal Medicine, Tip Sheet, September 4, 2001
Annals of Internal Medicine is published by the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM), an organization of more than 115,000 internal medicine physicians and medical students. The following highlights are not intended to substitute for articles as sources of information. For an embargoed fax of an article, call 1-800-523-1546, ext. 2656 or 215-351-2656. ....FDA awards grant to metaphore pharmaceuticals to study septic shock in humans
. . . . MetaPhore and Saint Louis University researchers aim to explain. perplexing blood pressure drop . . . St. Louis, MO, November 2, 2000 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded a six-month $100,000 Small Business and Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals to study the dramatic and perplexing blood pressure drop that occurs during septic shock and leads to...Effective Clinical Practice, Sept/Oct 2000 highlights
. .Following are highlights from Effective Clinical Practice, published by the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM) and the Alliance of Community Health Plans. These highlights do not substitute for the articles as sources of information. For more information or for faxed copies of articles, call 215-351-2655 or e-mail . Articles can also be foun...Society for the Study of Impotence 2000 Fall Research Meeting In Cleveland September 15-17
. Latest research findings on sexual medicine to be presented . at 2000 Society for Study of Impotence Fall Research Meeting . . Approximately 200 leading experts in sexual medicine will be in Cleveland at the Downtown Marriott Hotel September 15-17 to present and discuss the latest research findings related to diagnosing and treating sexual disorders. The presentations and discussion.... The 700,000 Americans diagnosed with sepsis each year might have a better chance of reversing the dramatic and often fatal blood pressure drop that typically accompanies septic shock if new treatments are developed based on an animal study reported in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. . . Sepsis has a 30 to 50 percent mortality rate and is the leading cause of death in....LOS ANGELES (Sept. 29, 1999) -- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was one of 12 U.S..medical centers participating in a study on Transmyocardial Revascularization.(TMR) -- a procedure designed to reduce severe angina in cardiac patients.unsuitable for angioplasty or coronary bypass surgery -- published in the New.England Journal of Medicine's Sept. 30 issue. Study results indicated.significant declin.... .Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has served.as the Los Angeles area's training and quality assurance center since the "The.First Trimester Maternal Serum Biochemistry and Fetal Ultrasound Nuchal.Translucency Screening Study," or BUN study, was started last year. Recently,.Rosalinde Snijders, Ph.D., a pioneer in first-trimester prenatal studies and a.consul...