Johns Hopkins scientists use gene therapy to prevent heart arrhythmias from stem cell transplants
...e, a majority of cultures, 13 of 14, which did not receive connexin gene therapy, went on to develop irregular heart-cell signals. "We think we can now explain some of the underlying problems associated with adult stem cell therapies for heart failure and show how combining them with ex vivo therapy can poss...New food allergy research consortium focuses on peanut allergy
...nt Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, will receive approximately $17 million over five years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. In addition, a five-year NIAID grant totaling approximately $5 million to the Emmes Corporati...Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics, Canadian experts say
...nd the historically low priority these populations receive in funding decisions. The funding priorities of governments have traditionally been acute, life-saving care, while long-term care, rehabilitation care, and mental health have been "grossly under-funded," the study says. Socially or economically dis...Once in the doctor's office, racial and ethnic disparities in care nearly disappear: Stanford study
...ie from HIV/AIDS, and they are also less likely to receive routine childhood immunizations. While their study... regard to race. First, blacks were more likely to receive angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors to treat congestive heart failure, and whites were less lik...Hospital outcomes for women improve, but some hospitals fall far behind: Healthgrades study
...s' Web site, www.healthgrades.com, where hospitals receive quality ratings in 28 different procedures and diagnoses. The full methodology can also be found on the Web site....The promise of a tetracycline antibiotic for treating osteoarthritis
...n one knee. The subjects were randomly assigned to receive either 100 milligrams of doxycycline or a placebo twice a day for 30 months. At baseline, the 2 treatment groups were roughly equal with respect to all demographic variables, body mass index, and types of drugs taken for pain, as well as for the x-ra...ARVO announces 2006 Friedenwald Award winner
... that David R. Williams, PhD, has been selected to receive the Friedenwald Award, which is presented annually...dale, Fla., in May, 2006. Williams was selected to receive the Friedenwald Award in recognition for his incomparable studies on human optics, human cone recept...New drug abuse treatment shows promise
Patients who receive buprenorphine treatment for opioid addiction in an officebased setting are more likely than those receiving methadone treatment to be young men, new to drug use, and with no history of methadone treatment, Yale School of Medicine researchers report i...Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies
...me another case where only a few privileged people receive therapy. What international authorities can do is help these countries plan for rationing, so that the medical and ethical mistakes of the past are not repeated."...Three reasons not to believe in an autism epidemic
...e American Psychological Society. Media wishing to receive a PDF of this article please contact journalnews@bos.blackwellpublishing.net Current Directions in Psychological Science publishes concise reviews on the latest advances in theory and research spanning all of scientific psychology and its applicat...ACTOS (pioglitazone HCl) significantly improved components of diabetic dyslipidemia
...nd received a placebo, patients were randomized to receive either 30 mg of ACTOS (pioglitazone HCl) once daily for 12 weeks followed by 45 mg of ACTOS once daily for the remainder of the study, or 4 mg of Avandia (rosiglitazone maleate) once a day for 12 weeks followed by 4 mg of Avandia twice daily for the ...... mean BMI of the control group (people who did not receive the e-mails) slightly increased during the study period....New drug is effective in reducing rejection in heart transplantation
...d. Every patient has different reactions when they receive a new heart, so it's valuable to have several opti...were randomly assigned in a double-blind manner to receive five doses of daclizumab or a placebo during a seven-week period. Thirty-one transplantation centers...NIMH study finds antipsychotic Risperidone safe, effective as intermediate term treatment for autism
...01 subjects 82 boys and 19 girls ages 5 to 17 to receive either placebo or risperidone. Subjects who improved substantially after eight weeks continued treatment for up to six months. Researchers observed a small sample of subjects at the end of the study during the withdrawal of the medication. Previousl...Catchers mitts don't provide enough protection
... used additional protective padding." Catchers may receive 150 pitches per game at speeds, many at speeds over 90 m.p.h. The repetitive impact of the ball hitting the gloved hand has been shown to lead to damage to blood vessels. Over time, blood flow can be significantly reduced and nerves may be bruised, c...UQ researcher to help improve global health
...on Health Metrics Research Consortium Project will receive $24.7 million to develop technologies that will gi...e the greatest burden in developing countries, but receive relatively little attention and resources, such as dengue fever, HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, vaccine...Antidepressants may lower risk of recurrent heart attack in depressed heart attack patients
...percent (361 of 1,388) of the patients who did not receive antidepressants died or had a recurrent MI, compared to 21.5 percent (96 of 446) of the patients who did take antidepressants. After adjusting for baseline depression and cardiac risk, SSRI use was associated with 43 percent lower risk of death or re...Screen everyone at risk for HIV and all pregnant women
...ort one or more individual risk factors or live or receive health care in an area with a high prevalence of the disease. Individual risk factors include: Men who have had sex with men after 1975 Men and women having unprotected sex with multiple partners Past or present injection drug users Men and women w...Study: Vasodilators first choice for some heart patients
...l. Another 49,950 patients in the registry did not receive any of the four drugs, presumably because their heart failure was less severely worsened. After adjusting for differences in patient characteristics, mortality was similar for patients given nitroglycerin or nesiritide, while patients given milrinone......f life of all citizens," he adds. Flores will receive $143,400 in financial support from the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services. Within the context of CFI programs, the financial contribution of the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services can reach 40 percent of admissible expenditur...