National Cancer Institute awards UNC-CH $5 million for unique prostate cancer studies
...ven without androgens." UNC-CH researchers want to determine how the cancer can grow withoutmale hormones. Such information might enable them to effectively cure prostatecancer just by preventing its re-growth, the surgeon said. The new grant, a highly competitive award known as a program ...University of Michigan study finds patients and physicians encourage e-mail use
...igan Health System hasfound. But patients say they want e-mail access to their doctors: 70 percent ofpatients (both e-mail users and non-users) surveyed said they would like tocommunicate with their health care provider via e-mail. At the same time, 83 percent of the patients' physicians said they thought...Fully endoscopic micro-surgery puts a former Jr. Olympic athlete back on the marathon trail
...he hasanother reason that is equally important: "I want to give back," he says. "I'vebeen given my life back, and now I'm determined to help others by raising moneyfor the Skull Base Institute at Cedars-Sinai. I'm hoping that the funds I raisewill help other patients who need this type of surgery, but may...Discarded thymus tissue provides life for infants with DiGeorge Syndrome
...abies born with nothymus tissue. "We don't want to transplant tissue that will generate its own T cellsinto infants who have enough of their own thymus to put up a battle that wouldlead to rejection," she said. While as many as one in 2,000 children in the United States arediagnosed each ...Photodynamic therapy reduces risk of vision loss in some macular degeneration patients
...t, two-thirds will lose vision. Put thatway, most want it." --Neil M. Bressler, M.D. A combined ...t,two-thirds will lose vision. Put that way, most want it." Wet AMD represents an estimated 15 percent of all AMD cases, yet accountsforapproximately 90...'HARP MRI' provides faster, clear heart pictures
...s of the heart. "That's our goal,"says Prince, "We want to give cardiologists more detailed information about whatis going on in the heart." The HARP MRI research, in the Johns HopkinsImage Analysis and Communications Lab , is supported by a grant from theNational Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, a divis......re and if they were experiencing any stresses they want to talkabout. Others probed over a series of visits or talked about domestic violencein general terms, educating the patient on how large of a problem it is insociety. The study found that: the more time physicians had, the more indirectly they ap......, with the option of receiving the vaccine if they want to reduce their risk." The vaccine is not, however, a guarantee of immunity. There are five serogroups or strains of the bacterium: A, B, C, Y, and W. The vaccine protects against four of the five. "The college campus outbreaks have mostly been cause...Home exercise equipment increased weight-loss success in study
...of skipping a walk because they do not want to go outside. Or, Jakicicsaid, someone who must exercise at night may be more inclined to use the treadmill insteadof walking on dark streets. The treadmills also acted as a visual reminder of exercise forthose in the study ...UI study shows classification system for evaluating childhood hip disease may be unreliable
...t it should not be entirely discounted. "You don't want to just throw it out," he said. "Intuitively, it has some validity, but I think the whole classification scheme needs to be looked at. Perthes disease is a three-dimensional deformity, and these classifications are based on two-dimensional radiograph...New book asks ethical questions about human subjects research
...n Curacao. "The community leaders said to him, 'We want a big say in what you do.' He faced the question of whether and how to change from the familiar model of relationship between powerful researchers and passive subjects and their communities," Henderson says. Questions about relationships between rese...Medical scientists to begin clinical trials of promising cancer therapy
... "When talking about cancer treatments, you never want to make predictions that are too positive and lead people to be disappointed later on," Orlowski said. "However, the good thing about compounds like this is that they act in a completely different manner from all of the other available drugs. For tha...New treadmill 'scores' may help physicians better diagnose heart disease
...y disease," Froelicher says. "Many cardiologists want the latest in high-tech diagnostic devices. But our study shows that treadmill test scores provide a more accurate diagnosis of heart disease than physicians and are at least as accurate as the most expensive new diagnostic equipment," he says. "T...Robotics go where no surgeon has gone before
...ive, there is very little reason why you would not want to use it whenever possible. It enhances a physician's dexterity," he says. "We had no robotic-related complications in any of the patients," says Damiano. "The procedures were done in a reasonable amount of time and all of the vessels were stil...Spouses of heart disease patients face high risks themselves
...ly patients, but spouses too," she says. "If we want to lower risk factors for patients, the change will have to begin at home and we have to be aware that both spouses may be in need of treatment," she says. "In our own program, we invite the spouses to participate. Although some spouses do particip......uct is being released for public use,"he said. "We want members of the public who try it to tell us how the product works for them." Scientific literature shows that highly active antimicrobial honey from the nectar of particularLeptospermum trees has been used to successfully heal a wide variety of woun......dded unobtrusively to beverages by individuals who want to intoxicate or sedate others. Two of the drugs, GHB and Rohypnol, have been associated with date rape and sexual assault cases around the country. "We are particularly concerned about the negative impact of club drugs on college students. That...Researchers find one in five children not getting care they think they need
...Another 12 percent said it was because they didn't want their parents to know. "As health care professionals, parents, teachers, community leaders and government officials, we should all be concerned about these kids who are not getting health care and do everything we can to make sure they can and do ge...UCSF Psychiatry Department receives grant to study innovative drug and substance abuse treatments
... help change their behaviors," she said. "What we want to see is a decrease in smoking rates." Another area of study will look at the effectiveness of linking heroin addicts who come into SanFrancisco General Hospital Medical Center's emergency room to methadone maintenance treatments byeither assigning...New web site provides access to information on sleep and sleep disorders
...es. "Sleep research is advancing rapidly, and we want the medical community, as well as the public, to h...said NHLBI Director Claude Lenfant, M.D. "We also want to encourage more research in this field," he added. The NCSDR is located within the NHLBI, which i...