Mount Sinai stroke prevention trial published in JAMA
...nt options. The medical community will continue to work to safely bring to market new therapies that protect those at risk of stroke, without the drawbacks of existing therapies." SPORTIF V was one of two Phase III clinical trials involving 7,329 patients. SPORTIF III, an open-label trial previously cond...New math model of heart cell has novel calcium pathway
... a journal of the American Heart Association. The work was funded by grants from the National Institutes ...ter understand the heart's electrical function. In work supported by a Merit Award from the NIH, Rudy has pioneered a novel, noninvasive imaging modality fo...Contrary to previous findings, smoking is detrimental to patients with Alzheimer's
...ead to the formation of tangles. One of these, our work shows, is nicotine. It increases tangles independent of plaques, and, therefore, should not be used as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease." To determine whether nicotine has a preventative effect on both lesions of Alzheimer's disease, the researche...NIH awards USC $8.7 million to study tobacco use in China
...- and community-based smoking prevention curricula work in some situations and not in others. It will do so by studying the effects that a student's cultural/environmental context and dispositional characteristics-particularly hostility and depression-have on substance use uptake and progression, and how ...Abnormal brain activity during the observation of others' actions
...markedly enhanced in non-autistic individuals. The work suggests that a faulty mirror-neuron system could represent the neural underpinnings of the social deficits characteristic of autism, alterations that ultimately lead to reduced reciprocal social abilities and perhaps prevent the normal development o...HIV-infected parents report limiting physical contact with their children
...nsmitting HIV to their children suggests that more work needs to be done to reassure parents about the lim... at www.archpediatrics.com ) Editor's Note: This work was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, Rockville,...New evidence of retroviral involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
...search confirms and extends the results of earlier work by Drs Garson and Al-Chalabi in which they had fou...y of retrovirus involvement in ALS. However, much work remains to be done and we are very much aware that in virology, as in other branches of medical scie...Mailman School of Public Health researchers develop infectious disease diagnostic tool
... and blood product screening. Key partners in the work presented in the current publication include the Centro Nacional de Microbiologia of Spain, the Wadsworth Laboratory of the New York State Department of Health, Qiagen Inc, and Operon Inc. Application of the technology is already being evaluated thr...UCI study uncovers how plaque in neck artery leads to stroke-inducing blood clots
...t evidence yet showing their link to stroke." The work of Fisher and his colleagues shows the importance of several pathologic features of the plaques that produce stroke symptoms. Extensive analyses were performed on surgical specimens from two of the most important clinical trials in the history of str...A Family's Guide to Living with HIV
...ic visits, psychological concerns, how medications work and their side effects, a glossary of terms and a listing of helpful resources. The publication also focuses on lifestyle issues for HIV patients and their families, including nutrition, school activities, sports, travel and sexuality. "We wrote the ...Services for children: Training needed to tackle complexity of new labour's joined-up approach
...ve is a complex challenge, and training to make it work must be planned and funded, warns important new ES...eate anxiety and conflict and affect the way teams work together - setting for instance, medical versus social work; education versus care. Researchers foun...Effects of autism reach beyond language, new research suggests
... a new group of medical students this fall. Future work may lead to efforts to help quell pre-exam anxiety....New surgical procedure could save millions
...ng else." Koufman said that the same approach will work for 50 to 70 percent of all laryngeal surgeries, including removal of vocal nodules, polyps, cysts, granulomas, and even vascular lesions. For her alone, Koufman said, that represents hundreds of patients a year. It may eventually be used to treat ...Methamphtetamine's ruinous effects on children documented in Midwest study
...ell-being," said Wendy Haight, the Illinois social work professor who is leading the research. Despite the...g at straws," according to Linda Kingery, a social work graduate student and one of the project researchers, as well as a child-welfare worker in the counti...Yale opens Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) in India
...f and development organization. The team will also work with other partners receiving support as part of the BMGF's Avahan India AIDS Initiative to conduct structural analyses of HIV risk and assess structural interventions for HIV prevention. The second project housed at the new office is an antiretrovir...States find alternate routes to health coverage
...utes to expand coverage and make existing programs work most effectively in this changing environment," says Burton. Most states endured another bad budget year without making deep cuts to their Medicaid programs. This reflects Medicaid's essential role as a source of health coverage for vulnerable po...Early supported discharge services can reduce long term dependency for stroke patients
...e therapy, staff with medical, nursing, and social work support) to a selected group (41%) of stroke patients admitted to hospital. Patients in the analysis had similar characteristics. The investigators found that those who received the ESD service had statistically fewer deaths and reduced dependency. ...World-first living donor islet cell transplant a success
...ital Health surgeon, well known for his pioneering work in developing the Edmonton Protocol treatment for ...is that these islets from near-perfect organs will work better, although it's too early to tell," he says. The recipients use the same drugs to prevent org...Binghamton University launches microelectronics research center
...ng whereby academic research groups can test their work for manufacturing applicability without the high costs and risks typically associated with such activities. "This award acknowledges Binghamton University's stature as a leader in small scale systems integration and packaging research," said Binghamt...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
..."inadequate." It recommends stroke care providers work at a state or regional level as part of a system t...roke care, but until the many tools in the toolbox work together, we aren't optimizing our collective skills. That's what stroke systems will do." Among su...