New MRI techniques may help patients avoid knee surgery
...wever, he is hopeful it could eventually supersede current knee imaging techniques. Meniscal tears and other knee injuries are commonly seen in all types of patients, Dr. Magee said. Dr. Magee will present his studies on May 19 at the American Roentgen Ray Society Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA....Obesity is risk factor for aggressive prostate cancer
...reasoning remains controversial, however since the current study and others suggest that obese men actually may be at increased risk for prostate cancer. However, researchers are more convinced of the link between obesity and aggressive prostate cancers that do not rely on testosterone to grow. "Hormone bal...Within six months, one in three patients fail to take medications as prescribed
...ding to background information in the article. The current study was designed to study how well patients with both conditions adhere to a drug regimen including both anti-hypertensive (AH, blood pressure lowering) and lipid-lowering (LL) medications. Richard H. Chapman, Ph.D., of ValueMedics Research, L.L.C...Children need better cancer drugs, says expert panel
...ured, the short-term and long-term side effects of current treatments are often too high." Dr. Adamson is a member of the IOM's Committee on Shortening the Time Line for New Cancer Treatments, which issued the report on April 18. As Chair of the Developmental Therapeutics program of the Children's Oncology G...Students who get drunk weekly have higher risk of injuries
..., can change drinking patterns." O'Brien said that current screening tools define problem drinking as having four or five drinks in a row. "In my experience, patients lie about how much they drink, and screening tests based on quantity don't account for differences in weight, gender, alcohol tolerance, body...Magnetic stimulation may improve stroke recovery
...oil is placed on the scalp, and a brief electrical current is passed through the coil, creating a magnetic pulse that stimulates the outer part of the brain, called the cortex. The study involved eight people, ages 35 to 63, who had a stroke within the last year and were relearning to use their affected hand...Experimental therapies and vaccines for Ebola and Marburg viruses focus of Academy meeting
...o features have underscored the need to expand our current understanding of these fatal hemorrhagic diseases and to accelerate progress towards protective vaccines and novel therapeutic strategies. To present news on the latest developments in our understanding of the molecular biology, epidemiology and ap...New national effort seeks a more rational organ allocation system for kidney transplants
...th the donor and the recipient not included in the current system. "With so many people waiting for kidneys from deceased donors, UNOS wisely recognizes that it's time to review guidelines to assure we are making the best possible use of scarce and life-giving resources," says Mayo Clinic transplant surgeon ......upport group according to a study published in the current issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine . "Patients with serious medical conditions frequently suffer psychological, relational, and spiritual distress that is being inadequately addressed by modern health care," writes first author Douglas Mi...Computed tomography has potential to offer accurate, safer method for detecting artery disease
...ctive CAD when assessed at a patient level. At its current stage of development, it may therefore be used to substantially reduce likelihood of clinically important CAD in patients with suspected disease. The appeal of MSCT compared with conventional coronary angiography is that it is noninvasive, avoiding m...Harvard Medical School and Project A.L.S. join forces to target ALS research
...id HCNR director, Dr. Adrian J. Ivinson. "Too many current treatments for neurodegenerative disease tackle only the symptoms. Our translational research seeks cures that strike at the cause of the disease. "Our alliance with Project A.L.S. reinforces our commitment to open collaboration and will help us reac...Bones don't pay a price when fat is lost through exercise
...ious studies, but this increase was lacking in the current study because the fitness program was probably of ...s. The Hopkins study's exercise program followed current guidelines from the American College of Sports Medicine. The study was part of a larger, ongoing tr...Protein essential for hearing also vital for pain perception
... for mechanosensory channel of hair cells. In the current study, the Northwestern researchers also demonstrated that TRPA1 channels display a unique combination of properties displayed by the hair cell transducer and by no other known channel. These similarities strongly suggest that TRPA1 is the pore that ...Northwestern Memorial participates in trial to test effectiveness of drug to treat endometriosis
... to carry out normal daily activities. "While some current treatments for endometriosis may be effective for a short period of time, they also often have significant side effects," explains Lee Shulman, MD, medical director, Reproductive Genetics, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Professor of Obstetrics and G...ARVO Foundation and Alcon announce significant gift
...-Scientist Mentor Program is to build a network of current and potential mentors to assist individuals pursuing careers as clinician-scientists and to foster interactions with the basic science community. Recognizing that mentors play an important role in the retention of clinical scientists in ophthalmic r...Studies suggest that donation criteria can be expanded
...dies suggest that it may be possible to expand the current acceptance criteria for deceased donors, which cou...d by using expanded criteria donors (ECDs). In the current studies, Stratta and colleagues went a step further and looked at success rates using organs at the ...Penn study points to how COX-2 inhibitors can eventually lead to heart disease
...ion and early development of atherosclerosis. The current research expands on this notion. R. Daniel Rudic, PhD, and Derek Brinster, MD, and others in FitzGerald's laboratory, report that COX-2-derived prostacyclin also controls the changes that occur in the muscular lining of blood vessels in response to p...International committee of medical journal editors updates requirements for clinical trials registry
... appear in print in the June 15 issue of JAMA. The current joint editorial is an update and clarification of ...o Clinical Trials (FACT) Act that would expand the current mandate for registration of clinical trials. The journal editors are working with the World Health...Medical privacy vs. health care quality?
... with others to help them improve too. But HIPAA's current language requires that even quality-improvement re...en several pages long and complicated. And HIPAA's current language leaves large amounts of room for interpretation, meaning that some hospitals might take a c...Post-marketing analysis examines cholesterol-lowering drugs' side effects
...erns. Karas considers the voluntary nature of the current post-marketing surveillance system to be the great...st limitation. "One of the limitations is that the current surveillance system does not require the reporting of all the drugs that patients are taking," he sa...