US service academies to collaborate with UNC, Andrews Air Force Base, Duke in knee injury study
...prevent the leg bone (tibia) and thighbone (femur) from slipping forward or backward out of the joint. Mos... how to lower that risk," Marshall said. Findings from earlier biomechanical studies at UNC and elsewhere indicate that the increased risk for ACL injury i...Risk of HIV transmission highest in early stage of infection
...her factors associated with increased transmission from the HIV-infected partner were younger age, increased viral load, and genital ulcer disease. The study in Uganda was a collaboration between the Uganda Virus Research Institute and researchers at Makerere University, Kampala, and Columbia University a...Nutritional supplement reduces need for traditional ulcerative colitis treatment
...ption to alleviate symptoms for patients suffering from this debilitating disease." Researchers at The Cleveland Clinic conducted a randomized controlled clinical trial of patients 18 and older with mild to moderate active ulcerative colitis to assess the benefits of adding this oral supplement to standar...2005 Potamkin Prize goes to neurologists for research in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
...tervene at an earlier stage and prevent the damage from being done." Growdon said, "Dr. Petersen's Potamkin recognition stems from his seminal contributions in establishing the concept of mild cognitive impairment as a bona fide di...50 years after Salk polio vaccine: Status of global eradication efforts
...alk and Sabin polio vaccines, polio was eliminated from the Americas in 1994, but it still circulates in Asia and Africa. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, spearheaded by WHO, Rotary International, UNICEF and the CDC, was established in 1988 and seeks to make all countries polio-free. According to ...Vaccine against cervical cancer and genital warts shows promise
...ave not been implemented, around 35, 000 women die from the disease every year in Europe and the USA. HPV...uited 1158 healthy women aged 16-23 onto the study from Brazil, Europe and the USA. The participants were not pregnant, had no previous abnormal cervical sm...Fink receives National Pharmacy Leadership Award
...sociate vice chancellor for academic affairs at UK from 1988 to 1996. He was assistant dean of the UK College of Pharmacy from 1981 to 1988 The Kentucky Pharmacists Association recognized him as "Pharmacist-of-the-Year" for 198...Salk's legacy, current and future challenges to vaccine development topic of briefing
...chool of Medicine; only remaining senior scientist from Salk's core research team Paul A. Offit, M.D., chief, Section of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; author, The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to Today's Growing Crisis in Vaccines Gary J. Nabel, M.D., P...Scientists discover way to control allergic reactions
...ublic Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine, the team from Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospita... numbers of CD4+ regulatory T-cells. Dr Mark Larch from Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital, and senior author comments: "This discovery is ...Asthmatics naturally deficient in antiviral immunity, report scientists
... immune cell protein needed to fight off infection from colds and other viruses, scientists have discovere...acks in both adults and children. The researchers, from Imperial College London and University of Southampton, found that asthmatics produce lower levels of...Insomnia, falls in elderly linked
...an those who take sleep medications and get relief from their insomnia. Even though medications are only o...nursing home residents. The data in the study came from the Minimum Data Set, a federally mandated effort to record information about nursing home residents...Study finds that women with PCOS are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease
Women who suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), one of the most ...ve to 10 percent of reproductive aged women suffer from PCOS. While there is no actual cure for PCOS, researchers are working to identify effective treatme...A possible new phase for rheumatoid arthritis treatment
...e first few months after symptom onset is distinct from that of the early phases of other inflammatory joi... the onset of symptoms. Karim Raza and colleagues, from the University of Birmingham, U.K., investigated the processes occurring in the joints of patients w...People can learn motor skills by watching
...traction did not change the motor learning benefit from watching the video. And, when interviewed, the subjects did not show any conscious awareness of how the forces that they actually used compared to those that they saw on the video. However, the beneficial effects of observing were significantly reduc...New health information resource from Tufts for Asian-language speakers
... reading. "By providing these resources, selected from respected health sites, the Health Sciences Library at Tufts is contributing to helping these populations become better informed and, hopefully, healthier," said Director of the Health Sciences Library, Eric Albright. "To complete the circle, the inf...Money doesn't buy happiness - - except when disability strikes
...logical Society. It's based on an analysis of data from 478 older Americans who were interviewed regularly...alth problem that left them disabled. The data are from the Health and Retirement Study, conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research with funding fro...Bacterial infection associated with heart attack in young men
...sn't well understood how to eradicate the bacteria from the body, and once C. pneumoniae has set in, it may be too late to ward off heart attacks related to the infection. Further studies are being conducted to gather more information about the organism. Eventually, researchers may discover how to preven...Women with heart attacks benefit from stenting
...angioplasty. The need to re-intervene was reduced from 20.4 percent with balloon angioplasty to 10.8 perc...ion to speed evaluations and the time to treatment from the emergency room to the catheterization lab. This will help optimize treatment for women, she sai...Vigorously active adolescents are leaner, fitter
... whose waistlines and fitness levels would benefit from as little as a daily half-hour walk at a moderate pace........ He's excited about helping another country learn from the mistakes and experience of his own and keep it from following in the tracks toward obesity and inactivity. Dr. Gutin came to MCG in 1991 from Columbia U...