Dartmouth study suggests caution against using certain drugs to unclog heart arteries
... Study co-authors are Dr. Rohit Khurana, who was a visiting Fulbright scholar from University College London, Dr. Zhenwu Zhuang, Dr. Masahiro Murakami, and Dr. Ebo De Muinck, all from Dartmouth Medical School, as well as colleagues from London, Finland and Genentech of San Francisco....The cancer patient's journey: An uphill climb
... on-site during the ESMO Congress. He will also be visiting the Wilhelminen Hospital in Vienna before the Patient Seminar, where he will be speaking with patients, and participate in the Press Conference 1, Sat. 30 October, 12:45-13:45, Austria Center, Vienna, Austria ...Improving child survival in Kenya: Strengthening of district hospitals essential
...on-site at all the hospitals, and trainees are now visiting the hospitals regularly to continue to monitor progress and help with care of inpatients. She concludes: "It is too easy for staff and carers to lose pride in their institution. Persistence and determination are required from everyone at all levels t...Study of cancer trials finds significant safety improvement
...structor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and visiting scientist at MIT. Roberts' co-authors are Bernardo Goulart, MD, Bruce Chabner, MD, and Jeffrey Clark, MD of the MGH Cancer Center; Elkan Halpern, PhD, and G. Scott Gazelle, MD, MPH, PhD, of the MGH Institute of Technology Assessment; and Sarah Stalli...White physicians slower to prescribe HIV medications for African-Americans than for whites
...icant for several reasons," said Dr. William King, visiting associate physician in the department of infectious disease, UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education (CARE), and the study's lead investigator. "One, our study advances prior research in this field by demonstrating that patient-provider ...An apple a day could protect against brain-cell damage
...," Lee said. When Lee and co-author Ho Jin Heo, a visiting fellow at Cornell, looked at quercetin they found that it appeared to be the main agent responsible for the beneficial effect. In fact, they found quercetin works even better in protecting nerve cells against hydrogen peroxide than vitamin C, a natur...New sampling method to track HIV-risk behavior
... He is completing a book on RDS while serving as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. A similar problem faced pollsters during the recent presidential election. "Phone-based polls were not able to access voters who had abandoned land-based phones in favor of cell and Internet phones or voters wh...Learning to cover up reduces risk of skin cancer
...rning vacationers away from their prime reason for visiting beaches or ski resorts, says the task force, but that could be offset by an appreciation that the industry was showing concern for the health of its patrons. Promoting sun safety might even encourage visitors by allaying fears of overexposure. The Ta...Diabetes: A link between oral and overall health?
...increasing water intake, chewing sugarless gum and visiting a dentist regularly for personalized treatment options. Also, diabetics have an increased risk for developing periodontal disease, a result from gingivitis. Bacteria in plaque can cause inflamed gums, which can destroy tissues surrounding the teeth,...Scents and emotions linked by learning, Brown study shows
...lieve that it is good or bad," said Rachel Herz, a visiting assistant professor of psychology at Brown and the lead scientist of the study. "When we like or don't like a smell, that is learned." Herz conducted two experiments to test her theory of olfaction. The first included 30 female participants. All were...First new treatment for alcoholism in ten years, now available Campral(R) (acamprosate calcium)
... Campral and obtain the prescribing information by visiting http://www.campral.com/ or by calling 800- 678-1605. About Alcoholism Nearly 8 million Americans are alcohol dependent(5), but only 2.4 million have been diagnosed(6) with the disease and just 139,000 receive medication to treat it.(7) Left unt...Health initiatives can help peace building in the Middle East
...ch meetings, international exchanges and training, visiting scholars, fellowships, continuing education, and electronic distance learning. Professor Skinner comments: "Concern is mounting about our ability to address global health issues in the 21st century in a climate of national, ethnocultural, and religio...Certain gun storage practices can reduce risk of youth firearm injuries, suicide
...lds with at least 1 firearm and children living or visiting in the home. The researchers interviewed 106 respondents in which a shooting incident occurred (case firearms/households) and 480 with control firearms to ascertain gun storage practices. Of the shootings associated with the case firearms, 81 were su...Study finds happiness persists, despite illness
...ad all been in dialysis for at least three months, visiting a hemodialysis center three or more times a week for hours at a time to have their blood cleaned because their kidneys had failed. Lead author Jason Riis, a former U-M graduate student now at Princeton University, programmed the PDAs to beep randoml...US cancer researchers launch first American-Israeli cancer conference
...aborations, and interest among research fellows in visiting institutions abroad." Nobel laureate Avram Hershko, M.D., Ph.D., who won the 2004 chemistry prize, will discuss his research during a dinner address on March 16 at the Israel Museum. Hershko, a member of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in...Community-based care beats standard clinic in lowering heart
...room for drawing blood, but otherwise, it was like visiting someone's apartment." A nurse practitioner and a community health worker familiar with the neighborhood staffed the clinic. Patients received care only for risk factors related to heart disease. An African-American physician who specializes in urba...UCSF study offers insight into human circadian rhythms
...ays the first author of the study, Ying Xu, PhD, a visiting postdoctoral fellow in the Fu lab. "These models provide the opportunity to begin study of the similarities and differences between circadian clocks in model organisms and humans." While the internal clock of most people operates in just over a 24-ho......zu, a pediatric neurologist from Tokyo, Japan, and visiting scholar in the UMaine psychology department, with two Japanese co-researchers have identified several factors in an infant's first few months of life that can affect how they sleep and how often they awaken in distress during the night. The results o...