Portable system offers dialysis patients 'liberating' changes
...resident was able to cruise the Caribbean with his wife and visit relatives in Virginia. At the end of each day during the trip, Skiles would set up the portable system and conduct his own dialysis. "There's no comparison to what I was doing before," Skiles notes of his previous dialysis regimen. "This ap...Harlem Hospital Center, Columbia affiliate, recognized for efforts to fight glaucoma
...be officially presented today by Mrs. Alma Rangel, wife of the Honorable Charles B. Rangel, a founder of the Congressional Glaucoma Caucus. Founded in late 1999, the Friends of the Congressional Glaucoma Caucus Foundation, Inc. is dedicated to supporting the activities of the Congressional Glaucoma Cau...U. Va. researchers unravel a central mystery of how hearing happens
...ineering and nanotechnology." The husband and wife team of Holt and Gloc, an assistant professor of research in neuroscience and otolaryngology at U.Va., worked in collaboration with scientists at Northwestern University, Duke University, Harvard Medical School and the National Institutes of Health. ...AIUM announced education and research grant recipients at the 2004 AIUM Annual Convention
...ibility and Risk of Stroke, $10,000. Barbra Baum, wife of late ultrasound pioneer and AIUM past president Dr Gilbert Baum, provided the gift to fund this special award. The EER, under the auspices of the AIUM, plans to continue awarding several ultrasound research grants each year to its me...Human rights abuses common in southern Iraq between 1991 and 2003
...nd women agreed that a man had a right to beat his wife if she did not obey him. Respondents support an Iraqi society that protects and promotes human rights, but neither men nor women support a full range of human rights for women. (JAMA. 2004;291:1471-1479. Available post-embargo at JAMA.com ) Editor'...Cedars-Sinai March medical tipsheet
...CARDIOLOGIST What are the odds that a husband and wife would both need heart transplants, and that the same cardiologist and transplant surgeon would perform each of their procedures six years apart? An Orange County (CA) couple, believed to be one of the only such couples in the nation, have both succe...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2004 class of inventors
... first practical sewing machine after watching his wife sew. His machine pulled thread from a bottom spindle below the cloth while thread came down via a needle above the cloth. The needle pushed the top thread through the cloth, creating a loop on the other side, and a shuttle would push the bottom thr...Changes needed to reduce migrant farm worker exposure to pesticides
...ral pesticides. Urine samples from the worker, his wife and two of their four children found evidence of exposure to six pesticide metabolites (breakdown products that are evidence of a variety of pesticides). "This worker and his family are typical of the farm worker families in our study," said Arcury a...New life-saving heart attack medication identified
...H under the leadership of Dr. Pfeffer and his late wife Janice Pfeffer, who first discovered the hormone's role in preserving heart function in animals. Building off of his wife's laboratory discovery, in 1992 Dr. Pfeffer and Eugene Braunwald, MD published the first human study to show that ACE inhibitors...American Academy of Ophthalmology announces outstanding humanitarian service award recipients
...the Middle East. In 1993, Dr. Della Rocca, and his wife Darlene, founded the Volunteer Health Program (VHP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing ophthalmic care to the indigent in Latin America. The VHP has collected medical supplies and equipment through donations and fundraising activities, ...Over half of Zimbabwean women believe wife beating is justified
...he study, "Understanding women's attitudes towards wife beating in Zimbabwe," appears in the July 2003, is...ly make the link between women's attitudes towards wife beating and their experiences of abuse, women's attitudes serve as a marker for social acceptability......what his housing options were. "Another man, whose wife found it very difficult to live in their home after a stroke, used his skills as an architect to think through how things could be adapted and tailored to make the place suitable for her to stay in." Dr Peace continued: "We have called these concern...Domestic violence levels high in rural Uganda
...en, and 90 percent of women, viewed beating of the wife or female partner as justifiable in one or more circumstances. In their view, "little progress in reducing levels of domestic violence in settings such as Uganda is likely to be achieved without significant changes in prevailing individual and commun...OHSU researchers study healthy aging population
...as a unique connection with the study - his former wife has Alzheimer's disease. "Through the study, I receive a brain MRI every year," said Potter. "That gives me a tangible standpoint on my mental health."...Finding the right way to tell the family about cancer
...sband would be the one to convey the news that his wife has cervical cancer. "We need a lot more information from ethnic and religious groups to work out the best communication methods for them," said Dr Marm. To this end, he also plans to set up focus groups to establish major differences in approach b...Memory training may help some Alzheimer's patients in the early stages of the disease
...lems, and the strain on the caregiver (usually the wife or husband) before and after the intervention. The researchers then trained participants to remember the names of people whom they had difficulty naming from a set of 12 photos that included people in their social network and famous people. They u...Stanford researcher to find cure for widespread Celiac disease
...my son's early childhood, and later discovering my wife was also a Celiac, I decided to apply my knowledge of chemistry, biology and drug development to Celiac Sprue," explained Dr. Khosla, Founder and President of the Celiac Sprue Research Foundation. Dr. Khosla's collaborator Gary M. Gray, M.D., profe...Wayne State and Virginia chemist wins national award for work with drugs
... at Wayne State in January 2002 and moved with his wife Mary to Hartfield in June. He is a member of the ACS divisions of organic and medicinal chemistry. The ACS Board of Directors established the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in 1984 to recognize and encourage excellence among organic chemists including...Do celebrities help sell new medicines?
...ing. In the US, Frasier star Kelsey Gramer and his wife appeared publicly to raise awareness of irritable bowel syndrome, while film and television star Cybill Shepherd recently talked about the menopause. Both campaigns were a huge success in the American healthcare market. Unlike the television stars, C......g Foundation. Charles Nearburg '72, TH '74 and his wife Dana established the foundation, in part, to fund pediatric cancer research. Their son Rett, 18, has been fighting Ewing's sarcoma for over eight years. My family has a personal connection to this horrible disease, said Charles Nearburg, and we're d...