Sex, gender and heart diseaseMUHC researcher leads Canada-wide team
...e than thirty investigators from across Canada has just been launched. The project, known as GENESIS, is Canada's largest multidisciplinary initiative to study the causes of cardiovascular disease--the leading cause of death in Canada. GENESIS will investigate key unknowns in the way cardiovascular diseas...OHSU study says national injury prevention program working
... too high of a gear as he barreled toward Mt. Hood just east of Estacada, Ore. By night's end, he would be...d living. "When something happens to you, it's not just you who it affects," Burns said he tells elementary, middle and high school students from his wheelc...Barriers prevent many Hispanics from participating in research studies
...3 percent of the U.S. population, they account for just 1 percent of clinical trial participation national...tudies had participated. "We found that they often just don't know about research studies that need participants," Escobedo says. "When they actually know a...Novel stem cell trial in heart failure patients to begin
...mystery as well as resolve scientific debate about just how it is that stem cells work to improve heart function. Despite advances that have given rise to more effective medical and surgical therapies, including the use of heart assist devices, heart disease continues to exact an economic burden and be a ...Professor criticises medicine's 'blind spot'
...o pay more attention to patients' symptoms and not just to their diseases, a University of Edinburgh Profe...'blind spot' in dealing with symptoms that are not just expressions of disease. These include the many cancer patients who also suffer from depression, the ...PENN researchers use robotic surgery
...the optics and fluidity of instrument movement are just amazing," adds Hockstein. "It has the potential to add great precision to our surgical treatment of a variety of diseases of the head and neck....Molecular testing in patients with rare cancer predicts response to Gleevec
...need to find ways to use the therapy so it doesn't just shrink tumors, but totally eliminates the cancer cells, so the tumors don't come back." The OHSU Cancer Institute is one of only about 60 National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers in the nation and remains the only such center between Sa...Still have to swab those tonsils, Mayo Clinic study finds
...das agrees. "With lots of children it's a struggle just to look in their throats, not to mention stick a swab back there," she says. "There are certain children for whom this is hugely traumatic. We're motivated to try to save them from 'the gag.'" Dr. Orvidas explains that she's experienced the challeng...Blocking the Odc gene is effective in preventing cancers
...enes; but the investigators showed that disrupting just this one target delays the onset of cancer in a laboratory model that mimics human Burkitt lymphoma (BL). BL is a cancer of B lymphocytes, immune system cells that produce antibodies. The researchers showed that either treatment with Odc-suppressing...60 per cent of first-time mums say prolonged labour will affect them for life
...gative about the overall experience, compared with just four per cent of women with a normal delivery. Sixty per cent of the women with prolonged labour said the delivery would affect them for life, compared with 12 per cent of the women experiencing normal delivery. Despite this, 84 per cent of the prolo...Heart scan surprises: CT reveals many non-heart problems, too
...cular Center. The researchers say their data show just how important it is for trained radiologists to vi...ice CT scanners that can image the entire chest in just a few seconds, allowing even the fast-moving heart muscle and arteries to be seen clearly. The simul...Researchers prevent post-traumatic brain damage
...nd with limited side effects, if the drug was used just once. So, in this study, they delivered flavopiridol to the animals 30 minutes after brain injury and found that it reduced expression of proteins that activated the cell cycle, thus limiting growth of the glial scar and formation of an inflammatory...Nutrition gene key in regulating immune system
...attainable only through food. "If the T cells are just starving, then you don't need a receiver. They just die. But the T cells didn't seem to be dying. They seemed to be rendered selectively non-responsive,...Jefferson researcher's results show promise for metastatic eye melanoma
...therapy directly into the liver), our patients did just as well and some did better. The treatment is doing something to prolong survival. "If we're right," Dr. Sato says, "we could delay metastases." Dr. Sato also found a response in other tumors in the body besides the liver a potentially important fi...Mayo researchers seek methods to make new cancer therapies available more quickly
... many study results garnered after three years are just as reliable as those produced after five years. But, data provided after two years of study are less precise, and those provided after only one year are not sufficiently reliable. Dr. Sargent will present these results on May 17, during the 2005 Amer...Whole-body MRI takes less than 20 min to scan a patient's entire body for cancer spread to bone
...nefits, say the researchers, whole-body MRI is not just limited to finding metastasis in the bone. "Besides its accuracy, quickness and the fact that it's an MRI scan--which means it's noninvasive and there is no radiation risk to the patient--whole-body MRI can also detect metastases in other parts of th...Genes may influence nutritional composition of breast milk
...mposition of a mother's breast milk may depend not just on her diet but on her genes according to new re...n were more successful at getting the DHA they had just eaten into their bloodstreams and then into their breast milk," said Weinberg. The researchers also ...Nature as important as nurture in developing ability for flexible self-control
...aid. "An even more exciting prospect, which we are just beginning to explore, is the possibility that the model will help us understand the neural basis of developmental disorders involving flexible cognitive control, such as ADHD and autism spectrum disorders." Researchers have known for some time that c...'Sister Mary' the robo-doc to start making ward rounds at St Mary's Hospital
...s Unit. This is the only site in the UK and one of just a handful worldwide, including one in Europe, and three in the USA. The RP6 robots are the latest strand in the pioneering integration of robots into healthcare by Professor Sir Ara Darzi, Head of Imperial's Division of Surgery, Anaesthetics and Inte...Testicular cancer gene in mice may offer clues to origins of cancer in men
...e germ cells were so altered that tumors developed just a week after the mice were born. Matin, working as a post-doctoral researcher at Case Western Reserve University with Joseph Nadeau, Ph.D., a co-author of this paper, decided to study tumor development in mouse embryos. In 2001, she mapped the locati...