'Good guy' blood cells are now suspects in heart disease, diabetes
...r disease and a UR professor of Medicine; graduate student Denise Ray, blood bank specialist Kelly F. Gettings, and Filize Akbiyik, M.D., a visiting scientist. "Our findings totally shift the way we view platelets," Phipps says. "Normally non-nucleated cells have limited capabilities, but we now believe tha...Tackling medical schools' informal curriculum
...ncy-based curriculum assuring that each graduating student has a sound foundation of knowledge and skills for their future careers in practice. Now the school's faculty is tackling the more difficult challenge improving the informal curriculum, the 'lessons' they teach by their actions daily. In doing this ...Plain film X-rays may not be necessary in some children with non-traumatic stomach pain
..., said David A. Boyajian. Dr. Boyajian, a medical student at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, will present the study on May 4 at the American Roentgen Ray Society Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, FL. Plain films were most useful in confirming diagnoses of constipation and bowel obstruction, which...New computer technique differentiates malignant and benign calcifications on digital mammograms
...of which showed cancer," said Rich Rana, a medical student at the University of Chicago. Four mammography specialists read the images and electronically put a box around the suspicious calcifications. The computer then automatically detected the calcifications within the box, analyzed them and calculated t...Ads with 'supersized' actors leave men depressed, unhappy with their muscles, UCF study shows
...hology professor Stacey Tantleff-Dunn and graduate student Daniel Agliata are among the first to examine how "a culture of muscularity" affects the well-being of men. Boys are exposed to the culture at an early age, when they play with muscular action figures, Tantleff-Dunn said. Male heroes in movies and vi...Eating habits as important as meds for diabetic blood sugar control
...e Dr. Margaret R. Savoca, Miller's former graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Miller and Dr. David A. Ludwig, co-investigator, Georgia Prevention Institute, Medical College of Georgia. In the study, the researchers conducted one-on-one interviews with each participant that ...Sleep apnea treatment could save lives & money by reducing auto accidents, according to researchers
...primary author, Alex Sassani, M.D., a UCSD medical student when the study was conducted and a current resident in UCSD's Department of Radiology. "The consequences of untreated obstructive sleep apnea are great, both in terms of monetary costs and lives disrupted. This is an enormous burden that demands at...Iressa news backgrounder: Testing of smart drug expands at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
...imental therapy was brought to Houston by a former student of M. D. Anderson's president, John Mendelsohn, M.D. The student, Jose Baselga, M.D, by then a full-fledged professor and researcher, had worked in Mendelsohn's laboratory while both were at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Mendelsohn...Univeristy of Utah anesthesiologists on front lines in battle against post-operative pain
...tudy included Jeffrey D. Dillon, M.D., and medical student Robert H. Hall. U anesthesiologists also are using a new method to control post-op pain in 40-60 people who undergo knee surgery every month at University Hospital. A fascia iliaca catheter, also called a femoral block, often is used to control pain...Unraveling the secrets of the brain's smallest cells
...plex parts of the brain." Paul Chadderton is a PhD student on a UCL Graduate Research Scholarship at UCL's Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research....Temperature and humidity can affect LASIK surgery results
...'s co-researcher was Aaron W. Stevenson, a medical student at Wake Forest....Images of thin models boost dieters' self-image: Study
...tudy, by lead author Ramona Joshi, a former U of T student supervised by Herman and psychology professor Janet Polivy, appears inthe April International Journal of Eating Disorders. Female universitystudents reported on their self-image while viewing different types ofimages on a computer screen. Their most ...Short course of Tibetan yoga improved sleep in cancer patients
...ed by co-author Alejandro Chaoul-Reich, a doctoral student in religious studies at Rice University and a long-time practitioner of the yoga style. "Everything we did with the patients was in direct consultation with the Tibetan community and the Tibetan masters who teach these ancient practices," Cohen says....Storage limits on our visual hard drive
...y, Vanderbilt psychologist Ren Marois and graduate student J. Jay Todd have found. Their results were published in the April 15 edition of Nature. "Visual short-term memory is a key component of many perceptual and cognitive functions and is supported by a broad neural network, but it has a very limited stor...Top honors for patient counseling awarded to UH student
...,000 members that include pharmacists, scientists, student pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and others inter...g the profession. The APhA-ASP consists of 18,000 student members in chapters in every school and college of pharmacy throughout the United States and Puerto ...Gaining health while giving back to the community
...ram was found to lead to selective improvements in student reading, academic achievement and classroom behavior while not burdening the school staff, say researchers who studied 1,194 children from six urban elementary schools who participated in this phase of the pilot trial. At follow-up, third-grade ch...Carnegie Mellon interactive-video DVD helps teens avoid sexually transmitted diseases
...Decision Sciences; and Claire Palmgren, a graduate student in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy. Other collaborators were Pamela Murray, director of adolescent medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and Joyce Penrose, professor of nursing at Slippery Rock University....Animal model, new grant, propel UB researchers forward in search for tinnitus treatment
...odel was developed by Edward Lobarinas, a doctoral student in the UB Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences and a member of the center. The rats were trained to drink from their water dispenser during periods of quiet, but to refrain from drinking during actual noise, defined as "licks in sound....Hopkins' young researchers honored for their contributions
...e too ambitious for the typical five-year graduate student stint or two- to four-year postdoc position. For example, immunology graduate student Hao Jiang had to develop a cell-free experimental system before he could tackle the real question at...Researchers testing compounds that may stop replication of T-cell leukemia virus
...arch team member Bryan Herger, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Shuker's lab, studies how the protease function...d to cut. This information helps fourth-year Ph.D. student Kelly Dennison and other team members find compounds that mimic the HTLV-I protease's process of cut...