ACP guidelines to treat obesity cover diet, exercise, drugs and surgery
... the American College of Physicians recommend diet and exercise for everyone and drugs and surgery only for obese patients who are not able to achieve weight-loss goals with diet an...Endangered species: Who will teach anatomy in 2010?
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...lines to Treat Obesity Cover Diet, Exercise, Drugs and Surgery New American College of Physicians' guidelines for obesity management recommend diet and exercise for everyone and drugs and surgery only for obese patients who are not able to achieve weig...Genetic link to cervical cancer
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...t one quarter of infants dying from their injuries and at least one half of the survivors suffering signi...," said Mark S. Dias, M.D., pediatric neurosurgeon and associate professor of neurosurgery, Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Me...AACR celebrates 20th anniversary of minority scholar awards
...ew award program designed to enhance the education and training of early career minority investigators by...rther meet the varied needs of minority scientists and is known today as the AACR Minority Scholar Awards in Cancer Research program. Since 1985 the AACR...Study shows that a kidney transplant can reverse heart failure
...lure, in which the heart's left ventricle was weak and not pumping blood efficiently, had a dramatic reco...ogist at the University of Maryland Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "We were surprised...Six organizations vie for INFORMS 'science of better' innovation prize
...elman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences show a marked contrast in ...at a major sports enterprise, an Asian university, and four major corporations approach innovation in the 21st century. The finalists, announced last month...Differential heart-attack risks among blacks, whites remain mystery
...e able to use the information to develop therapies and drugs that reduce heart-attack risks for everyone....udy, statisticians from Rice University in Houston and medical researchers from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas conducted a s...ALLHAT findings are 'color blind' in showing diuretics work better for high blood pressure
...diuretics remain the drug of choice for both black and non-black patients in treating high blood pressure and reducing risk of heart disease. The analysis by race of the "Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Tre......atures promise to make the technology a scientific and clinical tool of great power: *Robust algorit...nant lesions from benign growths in a non-invasive and highly reliable manner. *In addition to improved resolution, the system can locate tissue features w...Metabolic side effects of antipsychotics are known, but rarely monitored
...odest" job of monitoring for weight gain, diabetes and other metabolic problems that may result from use ... American Psychiatric Association in Georgia, Ohio and Iowa responding to a survey said they considered metabolic side effects serious or very serious, say...Golf-related head injuries in children increasing along with sport's popularity
...Medical College of Georgia in Augusta between 1996 and 2002 revealed 64 sports-related injuries, 15 of wh...d, says Dr. Scott Y. Rahimi, neurosurgery resident and lead author on the study published in the March issue of Journal of Neurosurgery. Seventeen bicycle...Physicians, researchers to talk about new treatments for oral, head and neck cancers
...il 11-18 is national awareness week for oral, head and neck cancer. But unlike many other cancers, these ...o voice--literally. Patients, their family members and physicians often see this disease as "the cruelest cancer" because its effects are sometimes disfigu...Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, Miss America 2005 Deidre Downs and Dan Haney receive public service awards
...ningham (R-Calif); Miss America 2005 Deidre Downs; and Daniel Q. Haney, former medical editor with the As...es of successful careers -- educator, businessman, and highly decorated U.S. Navy fighter pilot in Vietnam. Congressman Cunningham, a prostate cancer survi...Young scientists awarded for achievements in cancer research
...raduate Students, the Undergraduate Student Caucus and the AACR Special Program for High School Students....osure to the professional world of cancer research and biomedicine. Nineteen undergraduate students will come to Anaheim as recipients of AACR-Thomas J. ...West Africa: meningitis epidemics driven by the wind
...s long been known that the timing of this epidemic and its spatial distribution within the "Meningitis Belt", situated between 10 and 15 North, are closely linked to climatic conditions. Involved in the AMMA programme ( 1 ), IRD and U...Onion compound may help fight osteoporosis
...ts that eating onions might help prevent bone loss and osteoporosis, a disease which predominately affect...erican Chemical Societys Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry , was published March 30 on the journals Web site. In the current study, the researc...Injectable drug, combined with counseling, shows promise in treating alcohol dependence
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