Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, December 2, 2003
...th all patients, regardless of race, and advocates shared decision-making....Caterpillar Inc. bolsters Southern Community study with $1 million gift
...hallenge of ensuring that advances in medicine are shared equally, regardless of race, geography or economic status. This generous gift from Caterpillar goes a long way toward ensuring that the full promise of this landmark study will be realized." The study will provide critical information to help unders...Better brain imaging helps surgeons avoid damage to language functions
...s inconclusive results when language functions are shared across hemispheres. The Wada test is usually among the first given to epilepsy patients considering surgery to remove a section of the brain that appears responsible for triggering seizures. If a Wada test indicates that the seizures are coming from...News tips for Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003
...e current policies of strictly limiting smoking in shared areas." 9:30 a.m. Abstract # 3395 Erectile dysfunction, heart attack and age: a closer look. Is erectile dysfunction (ED) a marker for coronary heart disease (CHD)? Mayo Clinic researchers studied 1,844 men ages 4079 in 1990 who answered qu...Book explores how children use imagination to battle chronic illness
...ws members of a family to interact, and to sustain shared ways of understanding illness," said Clark. "Even if play seems without direction or goal, it can bring about community and relief for a family and a child who are coming to grips with illness." The book also has many other examples. "My breathing m...Diabetes management improves when patients, doctors agree on treatment goals, UMHS study finds
... on at least one treatment goal and more than half shared one treatment strategy. Fifty-five percent of pati...tegy among their top three. Patients who said they shared responsibility with their doctor for making treatment decisions were more likely to agree with their...Chest Foundation 'Stories at the End of Life' released
...ope that through the intimate moments and feelings shared by the contributors, a better dialogue will develop among families, patients, and health-care providers." The stories are written by people who are living the experience of illness, or by people who have witnessed the peaceful death of a family mem...Cosmetic surgery satisfaction declines with time, Stanford research finds
...l is to help the patient and the practitioner have shared realistic expectations regarding the possible outcome," she said....Georgetown University receives $6.5 million grant to enhance emergency preparedness in Washington
...roving the public's health." Patient data will be shared between key organizations in full compliance with ...nsure that only authorized people can access these shared data sets and that all patient privacy will be respected. This National Library of Medicine grant r...Hopkins' Peter Agre receives 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry
...1978, scientists Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans shared the prize with Werner Arber for development and application of restriction enzymes -- molecular scissors that cut DNA in predictable places. On the Web: http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/2003/press.html http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laurea...UT Southwestern faculty members receive American Heart Associations Distinguished Scientist honor
... cardiovascular disease. Drs. Brown and Goldstein shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of the underlying mechanisms of cholesterol metabolism. The groundbreaking research led to the development of statins now used by 13 million Americans to treat high cholesterol. Dr...Joslin and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center sign new joint venture clinical agreement
...ng: a joint inpatient hospital coverage program; a shared electronic clinical information system that will streamline medical consults and improve access to treatment specialists; joint protocol development; comprehensive risk assessment and disease management programs based on Joslin's disease management g...Men at greater risk of developing prostate cancer when a brother has the disease
... "This may suggest that the risk may be related to shared environmental factors such as dietary exposures or age of onset of disease, which might reveal a stronger genetic risk." Bruner said this is another crucial step to better identify who is at risk of developing prostate cancer. "The ultimate goal is ...Asthma at school is disruptive to routine underdiagnosed, often poorly understood, survey suggest
...developed by the child's physician and parents and shared with the school nurse. School nurses are highly capable and professional -- they will be able to assist children with asthma if they have been alerted to the condition and the specific needs of the child," said Adrienne Weiss-Harrison, MD of the Ame...Stanford research shows targeted DNA vaccine may reverse autoimmune disease
...Thanks to a dozen or so labs around the world that shared their protein samples, the group rapidly produced a comprehensive array that covered hundreds of the myelin sheath proteins. When they analyzed serum samples from EAE mice using the array, they found that each mouse had a unique pattern of reactivity...Cedars-Sinai Medical tipsheet for July 2003
...is is significant because, historically, twins who shared a common amniotic sac had only about a 50 percent chance of both twins surviving. Those who did survive were typically delivered prematurely, resulting in a higher risk of severe health challenges and lengthy stays in neonatal intensive care units. ...Couple carries research links to the limit
...Both were in separate doctoral programs at UC, but shared related research and even a lab at one time. Then,...ering, first brought them together in 1998 as they shared the same lab space in UC's Old Chemistry Building. "I don't think we really spoke with each other fo...An anti-nicotine drug reduces the rewarding effects of alcohol
...may have a biological basis, that is, they reflect shared actions on some of the same receptor systems." Only one other published human study, by authors Ola Blomqvist and Henry Kranzler, has previously examined the effects of mecamylamine on subjective responses to alcohol. The present study expanded on t...UT Southwestern researchers, Nobel Prize winners share 2003 Albany Medical Center Prize
...ld outside of the Nobel Prize. Brown and Goldstein shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of the mechanism by which cholesterol accumulates in the bloodstream, leading to a condition known as atherosclerosis, which is responsible for more than half the deaths in the United......ican and white workers reported that men and women shared in meal preparation, Latino workers reported that women carried more of those responsibilities. "We also found that many of these low- and middle-income working adults felt that sacrificing healthful eating was a temporary but necessary price to pay...