Studies find that 'broken heart syndrome' can result from opioid withdrawal, cocaine use
...ncommon disorder first described in Japan 15 years ago that mimics a heart attack. Patients may experience shortness of breath and chest pain and, upon hospital admission, go through extensive tests to determine a diagnosis and rule out heart attack. In a case report outlined in Mayo Clinic Proceedings t...Mechanism identified for promising neurological drug
...econd observation, Swanson says, was made a decade ago by study co-author Tiina M. Kauppinen, PhD, currently a neurology research fellow at SFVAMC and UCSF, when she was a graduate student in Finland. Kauppinen found that minocycline, an antibiotic derived from tetracycline, prevents inflammation and apo...Older women have far fewer mammograms than they report
...screening mammogram from, for example, three years ago as having occurred more recently than it actually did," he said. "Alternatively, some women may know that they 'should' be screened, and may therefore unconsciously tend to over-report their own screening." The study has practical clinical implic...H5N1 vaccine could be basis for life-saving stockpile
...nnounced that a vaccine they developed a few years ago against one antigenic variant of the avian influenza virus H5N1 may protect humans against future variants of the virus. Vaccines based on this model might therefore be suitable for stockpiling for use during a pandemic (worldwide epidemic) until a n...New analytical techniques developed to quantify composition of fake anti-malarials
...egan studying counterfeit anti-malarials two years ago using conventional analytical chemistry techniques based on liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. But these methods required more than two hours to analyze just one sample. So he and his graduate students developed new, high-throughput ionizat...Non-Hispanic blacks have best hearing in US, new study shows
...g the new hearing data to a similar study 35 years ago with adults aged 25-74, the researchers found the median hearing levels in U.S. adults have not changed much; the hearing of U.S. residents is on average not any worse, nor any better than in the early 1970s. This is somewhat surprising because of th...There's no modern substitute for some old-fashioned one-on-one
... study is that what students wanted 20 or 30 years ago and still want today is for instructors to interact with them. Even with all the modern day technology in teaching tools, nothing can replace face-to-face contact," says Ehrlich. Students were more likely to recommend a rotation to other students and...Transporter is possible target for safer pain medicine
...ioid peptide transporter he identified three years ago and identify the responsible gene and protein. Interestingly he also has found mice expressing one of the HIV proteins have increased activity of this transporter, a finding that might help explain why HIV patients have increased pain perception. "Th...How cow warts, clergy sex surveys moved along cancer vaccine
...al Center, the initial research more than 20 years ago included visits to veterinarians and meat-packaging plants in Upstate New York to collect scrapings from "prized" cow warts, and surveys of people unlikely to be infected with a sexually transmitted disease priests and nuns who had taken a vow of ce...Mayo Clinic Cancer Center on the forefront of the fight against multiple myeloma
...tion (FDA) granting accelerated approval two weeks ago for thalidomide use in treating newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. In this most recent study, Dr. Rajkumar's team found that the average time to disease progression (increase in cancerous cells) was approximately eight months for patients taking dexam...Call for countries tackling HIV epidemics to learn from one another on 25th anniversary
...most from the time it was first described 25 years ago in the US, AIDS has outstripped our worst fears and predictions. This disease has become one of the make-or-break issues of our times, on a par with global climate change and the persistence of mass, extreme poverty'. He adds: 'In the final analysis,...Flick of whiskers helps tease out brain's 'shadow' signaling system
...rely support cells for neurons. More than a decade ago Nedergaard discovered that astrocytes send signals to the neurons, and the neurons respond. Since then she has made a series of findings that neurons and astrocytes talk back and forth, indicating that astrocytes are full partners in the basic workin...New compound unusually potent at blocking brain cancer growth
.... Food and Drug Administration approval five years ago of the cancer drug Gleevec marked a promising new strategy against cancer. Gleevec was the first drug on the market designed to block ubiquitous signaling molecules called protein kinases enzymes known to trigger normal cell proliferation, and in th...JCI table of contents, May 11, 2006
...ain. As lithium was introduced over a half-century ago for the treatment of the alternating occurrence of mania and depression that is characteristic of bipolar disorder, the authors tested the effect of lithium on the interaction between NCS-1 and InsP3R1. Therapeutic levels of lithium were found to blo...New engineering center to transform sensor technology
...you'll find is in your CD player, just as 30 years ago you would have found very few transistors in the average home," said Tim Day, chief executive officer of Daylight Solutions, a manufacturer of advanced detection and imaging instruments and one of MIRTHE's industrial partners. "But now transistors ar...For one Stanford doctor, the beat goes on during open-heart surgery
... used the procedure when it was developed a decade ago and now uses it only occasionally. "I don't have the time to devote to it. You need to do it often to be good at it." Which is exactly what Ihnken plans to do. He's completed more than 130 of the surgeries and does all his bypass work off-pump. "I re...New guidelines help clinicians assess risk of post-surgical pulmonary complications
...t formation, and pulmonary risks." Nearly 30 years ago risk indices and guidelines were developed to assess post-surgical cardiac risks, he adds, but until now, the issue of pulmonary risk factors had not been formally addressed. "Many physicians will be surprised to learn that we found pulmonary complic...NYAS Conference highlights latest advances in primary immunodeficiencies (SCID)
...ss state of diagnosis and treatment of PI 20 years ago versus the startling advances of today. Jennifer Puck, M.D., Division of Immunology & Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco. Topic: "Translating Research Advances--Detecting Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID) Early Through N...Novel device shows potential in better detecting oral cancer
...m." This lack of communication changed a few years ago when Rosin broached the subject to Dr. Calum MacAulay, the head of the British Columbia Cancer Research Center's cancer imaging program and who has extensive training in physics, pathology, and engineering imaging devices. Based on these discussion...... do," she adds After research more than a decade ago showed that soy could play a role in decreasing LDL (known as the "bad" cholesterol) levels in humans, U.S. sales of soy-based food, drinks and supplements increased. But although U.S. sales of soy-based food and drinks were $3.9 billion in 2003, sal...