Study finds radiation therapy for prostate cancer nearly doubles risk for rectal cancer
... Baxter, M.D., Ph.D., colon and rectal surgeon and researcher at the University of Minnesota's Medical School and Cancer Center, led the research team that conducted the study. "While the findings of our study do not suggest that prostate cancer treatment should change, we recommend that the potential for devel...More exhaust inhaled by kids inside school buses than by others in the area, says new UC study
...tem of the bus. Eduardo Behrentz, a post-doctoral researcher at the Environmental Science and Engineering Program and the School of Public Health at UCLA, participated in the experiments and co-authored the new analysis. "We determined that concentrations of key air pollutants were higher inside the bus cabin...If you fill it, they will slurp, and slurp, and slurp ...
...es to count calories and not their stomachs," lead researcher Brian Wansink, professor of marketing and of nutritional science at Illinois, said. "This can be dangerous to our diets." Because we appear to judge our food intake by visual cues, such as an empty bowl, Wansink said that people worried about overeat...It takes a village to improve the health of children
...st address," says pediatrician and health services researcher Nancy L. Swigonski, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, coauthor of the study. "Pediatricians see patients for 15 minutes a few times a year to treat such problems as asthma or lead poisoning...Education program reduces incidents of shaken baby syndrome
...ent, a Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center researcher reports. "Abusive head injuries among infants are serious, with about one quarter of infants dying from their injuries and at least one half of the survivors suffering significant neurological impairments," said Mark S. Dias, M.D., pediatric neuros...Dr. Gutin selected as Fulbright Senior Specialist
Dr. Bernard Gutin, a Medical College of Georgia researcher studying the relationship between fitness, fatness and health in children, has been selected a Fulbright Senior Specialist to help Spain deal with a growing childhood obesity problem. Dr. Gutin, an exercise physiologist at MCG's Georgia Prevention In...IOM report should end nevirapine controversy, HIVMA says
...member of the HIVMA Board of Directors and an AIDS researcher working in the Philippines, Cambodia, and India. "Now we all need to turn our attention to getting the best available anti-AIDS drugs to the millions who need them, including pregnant women." In its review of HIVNET 012, a study on single-dose nevir...OHSU scientist helping explain basis of psychotic behavior
...AND, Ore. -- An Oregon Health & Science University researcher is among an international team closing in on why many people with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders are "supersensitive" to the powerful neurotransmitter dopamine. David Grandy, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology and pharmacology, OHS...Breakthrough in national diseases
..., associate professor at Karolinska Institutet and researcher at the CMM. "There is also a chance that other diseases are also affected by this gene variant. The discovery can now lead to more reliable diagnostics and better treatments for a great number of patients." The gene variant was first identified in an...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
A researcher studying drug design for nerve damage therapies has gotten her answer to questions by following some old advice: she used the library. It's not the kind of library her mother or teacher suggested, but a combinatorial chemistry library of man...Columbia research suggests need to rethink causes of heart failure
...earts, as previously believed. Prior to this study researcher had also compared the cardiac failure patients' hearts to a standardized heart size similar to that of a healthy 25 year old, rather than taking into account that this disease predominantly affects elderly women, who have smaller hearts. "By accurate...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
...ailure or some other serious cardiac problem. Lead researcher Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, M.D., professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic and director of the Mayo Clinic's valvular heart disease clinic, estimates that of the approximately 2.7 million Americans who have notable mitral valve leakage, about 600,000 ar...NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine
...ilds upon an experimental vaccine developed by CDC researcher Jeff Chang, D.V.M., Ph.D., of Fort Collins, CO, that has been tested successfully in a variety of animals, including mice, horses and American crows. Two other human WNV vaccines developed with NIAID support are currently in Phase I clinical trials....Scientist works to reduce side effects of radiation therapy
.... A Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher has received a $1.5 million grant to study whether the same drugs that fight obesity and diabetes may be able to also prevent a common side effect of cancer treatment the cognitive problems that can follow whole-brain radiation. "Radiation is an eff...ANNA awards Nurse Researcher of the Year to Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member
...tant because I was nominated by a nephrology nurse researcher peer. In addition, a majority of the association members are nurses in clinical practice, and I think it is important for them to see researchers awarded for their work and to value the use of research findings in clinical practice," she said. T...Canadian youth 4th highest in international obesity study
... primary way to combat overweight and obesity, the researcher emphasizes. "The adolescent obesity epidemic is a global issue," concludes the paper, which appears in the May issue of Obesity Reviews, a journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity. "Increasing physical activity participation ...New study shows simple actions wipe out huge higher heart risks for Asian diabetics
...diabetes in that community. Warwick Medical School researcher Dr Paul O'Hare will use the launch of the Clinical Sciences Research Institute to outline that diabetes is four times more common in the UK Asian population than it is among Caucasians. Onset of diabetes can also be over a decade earlier among Asian ...UQ develops West Nile virus treatment
A University of Queensland researcher has developed the world's first specific immunotherapy product using monoclonal antibodies for the potentially lethal West Nile virus, which causes seasonal epidemics around the globe. The mosquito-borne virus affects the central nervous systems of ...New insights into HIV immunity suggest alternative approach to vaccines
...y the immune system," Haynes said. Haynes, an AIDS researcher who has also studied autoimmune diseases, began to focus on possible similarities between HIV infection and the biology of autoimmunity after work on an experimental outer coat vaccine failed to produce broadly neutralizing antibodies in animals. "Re...Milk thistle does not reduce deaths from liver diseases, best studies find
...e than with placebo. Dr. Andrea Rambaldi, visiting researcher at the of the Centre for Clinical Intervention Research at Copenhagen University Hospital, led a team that reviewed 13 randomized clinical trials involving 915 patients who were treated with milk thistle or its extracts. Participants had acute or chr...