Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
...options ever done of contingency management, which involved five addiction clinics in New York City. "The Heal...soon. This [intervention] got me connected, got me involved in groups and back into things. Now I'm clean and sober." "We did have some opposition at first from...Implanted medical device aims to lower blood pressure
....D., associate professor of Medicine, who has been involved in development of this technology, and nephrologist James A. Sloand, M.D., associate professor of Medicine, serve as primary co-investigators. "The Rheos System works by electrically activating the baroreflex system based in the carotid arteries in t...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (first issue)
...he seven French transplantation centers which were involved in the study ran 84.2 percent at day 30, 63.3 percent at 1 year, 45.9 percent at 3 years, and 38.1 percent at 5 years. The research study appears in the first issue for April 2005 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of...Asthma patients' immune systems respond differently with allergies
...ere and were not experiencing allergies. The study involved 10 patients with clinical diagnosis for allergic rhinitis, who also have or had had asthma. Peripheral blood leucocytes were obtained both during rhinitis symptoms and during a period when the patients were not experiencing rhinitis symptoms, then cu...AACR establishes new lectureship in honor of Dr. Jane C. Wright
...is now or has been affiliated with any institution involved in cancer research, cancer medicine, or cancer-related biomedical science. Candidates may not nominate themselves....Cognitive therapy works as well as antidepressants, but with lasting effect after therapy ends
... the largest trial yet undertaken on the topic; it involved 240 depressed patients. The patients were randomly placed into groups that received cognitive therapy, antidepressant medication or a placebo. Patients in the antidepressant group, which was twice as large as the other two, were treated with paroxet...Education program reduces incidents of shaken baby syndrome
...k out fathers or father-figures who are more often involved in shaken baby syndrome cases. The parents were then asked to sign commitment statements, which also gathered demographic and other information about the responders. The regional incidence of abusive head injuries among infants and children less th...Metabolic side effects of antipsychotics are known, but rarely monitored
...o analyze the drugs' impact on different circuitry involved in memory function. The early findings he's presenting in Savannah show a modest reduction in this circuitry with long-term use of risperidone or Risperdal. "What we are finding in this study is that risperidone actually decreases alpha 7 nicotinic r...Maternal iron deficiency disrupts mother/child interaction
...iron-deficient women were less responsive and less involved with their mothers. When moving away from a mildly iron-deficient mother, the baby would depend less on mom for reassurance. Murray-Kolb says, "New mothers should be aware of their iron status which, we know now, affects the child as well as the ...US service academies to collaborate with UNC, Andrews Air Force Base, Duke in knee injury study
...rt study will focus on human movement risk factors involved in injuries to the knee's anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL. The ACL is one of two ligaments that cross within the knee joint to prevent the leg bone (tibia) and thighbone (femur) from slipping forward or backward out of the joint. Most ACL injuries...A possible new phase for rheumatoid arthritis treatment
... present in very early rheumatoid arthritis may be involved in the development of the microenvironment required for chronic disease. The authors propose that there is now a strong biological rationale for testing the effects of potent anti-inflammatory therapies during the first few months of clinically appar...Women with heart attacks benefit from stenting
... the recurrence rate of new blockages." The study involved 2,082 heart attack patients who arrived at the hospital within 12 hours after symptoms began. Patients were randomized into four treatment groups: 518 received balloon angioplasty, 528 received balloon angioplasty plus abciximab, 512 received stent...OHSU researchers demonstrate how Alzheimer's disease impacts important brain cell function
...their collaborators have demonstrated how proteins involved in brain cell communications, called synaptic proteins, decrease in the brains of Alzheimer's patients when compared to healthy brains from people in the same age range. "More importantly, we found that the decrease of synaptic protein levels in the...Belgium doctors treating critically ill infants favour legalising euthanasia
...t anonymous questionnaires. 121 of the 175 doctors involved completed the attitude questions. An end-of-life decision was made in 143 cases (57%). End-of-life decisions include withdrawing or withholding treatment, using drugs to alleviate pain that could potentially shorten life, or using drugs with the exp...Mediterranean diet leads to longer life
...such a diet may be beneficial to health. The study involved over 74,000 healthy men and women, aged 60 or more, living in nine European countries. Information on diet, lifestyle, medical history, smoking, physical activity levels, and other relevant factors was recorded. Adherence to a modified Mediterranean ...Institute of Medicine news: Review of HIVNET 012 study
...rimary source documents for a subset of 49 infants involved in the trial. In addition, the committee reviewed...e free and informed consent; and that fathers were involved in the consent process when they were reasonably available. Blood tests that detected the presence o...Liver may be source of 'good' cholesterol
...h Tangier disease have mutations in a gene (ABCA1) involved in the production of HDL. Like all genes, ABCA1 ex...ntists have been unsure which specific tissues are involved in HDL production. They suspected the liver played an important role because of high levels of ABCA1...OHSU scientist helping explain basis of psychotic behavior
...ys an important role in the regulation of behavior involved in movement control, motivation and reward, and the dopamine system is thought to be essential to the brain's response to drugs of abuse, especially opiates and psychostimulants. Supersensitivity to dopamine, which affects some 70 percent of individu...Certain weight control behaviors may precipitate obesity among adolescent girls
...er weight-control behaviors, especially those that involved vomiting or laxative abuse, promoted weight gain more than weight loss, said Dr. Stice. These behaviors can lead to increased metabolic efficiency or alter the homeostatic processes. Erratic eating also promotes weight gain because a person does not ...Blood test can accurately diagnose heart failure in emergency patients
...ne the diagnoses for this study, cardiologists not involved in the patients' care reviewed all the participants' relevant hospital records from the initial emergency visit through the 60-day follow up. In assigning the final diagnosis either acute heart failure or some other cause for shortness of breath t...