The hepatitis C link: Diagnose, treat, transplant
...007) -- Hepatitis C not only affects more than 3.9 million Americans, but continues to impact and influence t...scopy and gastrointestinal surgery. "Almost four million Americans have chronic hepatitis C infections and are at risk for of cirrhosis, liver failure, liver...Could statins be a new option for hepatitis C patients?
...of hepatitis C a disease that affects nearly four million Americans. Although there have been no new treatments for hepatitis C since the introduction of pegylated interferon in 2001, the opportunity to develop a new generation of therapies that offer better outcomes may be imminent. DDW is the largest in...UIC awarded $7M NIH grant for infertility research
...s at Chicago College of Medicine has received a $7 million renewal grant from the National Institute of Child...CHD grant in 2002. Infertility affects about 6.1 million women and their partners in the United States -- about 10 percent of the reproductive-age population...Children's Hospital and Pitt lead national trial of hypothermia to treat pediatric brain injury
... Pittsburgh of UPMC neurosurgeon will lead a $11.5 million National Institutes of Health-funded clinical trial examining the effectiveness of induced hypothermia as a therapy for brain swelling in children who have suffered traumatic brain injuries. P. David Adelson, MD, director of the Pediatric Neurotra...Mayor of New York proposes preventing 100 million deaths from tobacco
Around 100 million lives could be saved if every country around the w...New York, USA, states that tobacco will kill 1,000 million people prematurely throughout the whole of the 21st century if current trends continue. The author...Blood transfusions from precancerous blood donors do not increase risk of cancer
...een 1968 and 2002, the researchers identified 1.13 million blood donors and 1.31 million transfusion recipients. Out of the more than 350,000 recipients eligible for the analysis, just over...Researchers begin randomized double-blind trial of airway bypass treatment for emphysema
...s of millions of people worldwide with more than 3 million sufferers in the United States. There is no cure for emphysema. "The EASE Trial is important because airway bypass may help patients with widespread emphysema whose disease has destroyed tissue throughout the lung. For this patient population, the ...Commercializing university research -- Hopping robots, liquid shoes, electricity from heat
..., raises the centers grant total to more than $2.8 million in grants to fund 65 research projects with commer... by Pap test, which is currently used more than 50 million times a year in the United States even though the test is imperfect. While the country has seen a 70...Ruling out pulmonary embolism with a simple bedside protocol
...r 2-3% of all Emergency Department patients or 3.5 million cases per year. According to the author, the fear of medical malpractice has led to a culture of doing tests rather than using the data available through clinical evaluation. The study looked at an 8,138 patient random sample from 13 hospitals. By ...New study: Pycnogenol reduces heart failure
..."wearing out" of the heart, which may aid the five million Americans living with heart failure. Previous stud...ding to the American Heart Association nearly five million Americans are living with heart failure, and 550,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. The mortalit...Decorated professor adds Farfel Award to his long list of honors
...n 250 scientific papers and received more than $10 million in competitive research funding from federal and state organizations. In addition to his impact on research and scholarship, Hussain's dedication to teaching and commitment to service also are important elements that earned him the Farfel honor. Th...World-leading innovation in child-allergy detection
...06, new investors SOFINOVA and APAX contributed 12 million euro to DBV Technologies, providing further impetus to their work on child allergy detection and treatment systems. The company is now working in several related directions, collaborating with laboratories and universities both in Europe and the Unit...Pioneering study maps attention, memory and language links in the human brain
..., head of the SLHS department, he applied for a $1 million career development award from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. The grant was awarded in April. The grant will take his career -- and biomedical science -- in new directions. Christensen will use UA's state-of-t...Vitamin D supplements may offer cheap and effective immune system boost against TB
...t at risk from the disease, which kills around two million people each year. The research, funded by the We...ion nearly two billion people are infected. Nine million people a year develop the active disease worldwide, which kills two million each year. "Most cases...Food and drink, and what it says about us
...liest evidence of human consumption, around half a million years ago, to the era of the TV dinner and the drive-through diner. He says "We have now passed a watershed in analytical potential, in which we can study foods in radically transformed states, and directly connect them to the evidence of human bodie...ACP enthusiastically supports introduction of Bipartisan Health CARE Act
...ording to information from the Census Bureau, 44.8 million Americans lacked health coverage for all of 2005. Without insurance, children and adults do not have access to regular preventive and screening checks, and often delay obtaining treatment until they are seriously ill. This leads to an increase in pre...AGA Institute takes leadership role in exploring obesity and its complications
... overweight (body mass index [BMI]>25) and 400 million are obese (BMI>30), and potentially as many 20 million children are overweight. As obesity becomes an increasingly global problem, it is harder for governm...... says Marcus. According to Marcus, "In 2006, 147 million American adults were internet users. If sedentary ...viduals to use the Internet, this means roughly 80 million under-active adults are online and might be reached via web-based interventions." The researchers ...Grain fiber and magnesium intake associated with lower risk for diabetes
...osed with diabetes worldwide may increase from 171 million in 2000 to 370 million by 2030, according to background information in the article. The associated illness, death and healt...Higher intake of fish and vitamin D levels linked to lower risk of age-related macular disease
...adults in the United States, affecting more than 7 million individuals older than 40 years, according to background information in the articles. The prevalence of AMD is likely to increase as the population ages. There is currently no known way to prevent the condition, but research has begun to identify pot...