One-drug therapy works for bipolar disorder
...or of psychiatry at Case and a nationally renowned researcher in bipolar disease. The Center, which he co-directs with pediatric psychiatrist Dr. Robert Findling, is the first NIMH-funded center exclusively dedicated to the development of new treatments for bipolar disorder. "There was a dramatic response wit...Snoring now, hyperactive later?
...-up survey. In fact says lead author and U-M sleep researcher Ronald D. Chervin, M.D., M.S., inattention and hyperactivity at follow-up were usually predicted better by snoring and other sleep apnea symptoms four years earlier than by those same symptoms at follow-up. One group, the boys who were under the age ...UQ researcher to help improve global health
...ead of UQ's School of Population Health, is a lead researcher in the project, in partnership with teams from Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Broad Institute in the United States. The research grant is a share of a $525 million worldwide scheme, which seeks to identify critical scientific ...The building blocks of schizophrenia and drug addiction
...ave long-lasting effects on behaviour according to researcher Cecilia Flores PhD, of the Douglas Hospital Research Centre. She is using a variety of techniques to better understand how these changes occur in the brain and is particularly interested in how exposure to environmental stressors can have an impac...Bone marrow researcher recieves Pew Award
A researcher from the University of Rochester Medical Center is one of 15 nationwide selected as 2005 Pew Scholars in Biomedical Science. As a Pew Scholar, Laura M. Calvi, M.D., assistant professor in the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, ...Children's Hospital Oakland new sickle cell research
July 6, 2005-Oakland, CA-- A new study led by a researcher at Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oaklan...orris, M.D., an Emergency Department physician and researcher at Children's Hospital Oakland. "This incurable condition is the leading cause of death in adults w...Melanoma research receives a massive funding boost
...he successful Sydney Melanoma Unit NHMRC grant and researcher at Westmead Millennium Institute. "These funds will allow us to progress our research into the molecular factors that determine an individual's risk of melanoma, so that we can identify the type of melanoma they have and how that disease will respond...MCG faculty contribute to textbooks on geriatric, pediatric hypertension
...r the world," Dr. Gregory Harshfield, hypertension researcher and associate director of the MCG Georgia Prevention Institute, says of the condition in which genetics and lifestyle play a role in children as well as adults. "If you look at the whole population, the prevalence was about 1 percent 15 years ago. To...Older footballers more likely to 'do a hamstring'
... to suffer hamstring injuries, a Monash University researcher has found. Dr Belinda Gabbe from Monash's Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, and Associate Professor Kim Bennell from the University of Melbourne, studied 222 senior players from six Melbourne-based AFL clubs during the 2002 preseaso...Genomics researchers discover protein deficit that causes drug toxicity
...ars ago," says Liewei Wang, M.D., Ph.D., lead Mayo researcher in the study. "People are still debating what its ..." says Richard Weinshilboum, M.D., the Mayo Clinic researcher who first described the genetically variable response to thiopurine drugs over 20 years ago. "From a...UIC researchers show how cancer-preventing foods work
...e ingested, according to Mesecar and post-doctoral researcher Aimee Eggler. Keap1, the sensor protein, detects the presence of dietary compounds like sulforaphane when they link with its cysteine residues, one of the amino acids that make up proteins. Keap1 binds to Nrf2, the messenger that turns on the genes f...Giving oxygen may do more harm than good, new report shows
...be doing more harm than good, a Queen's University researcher contends. And although there's a simple solution ... use the patient's own expired carbon dioxide, the researcher adds. "The reduction in oxygen delivery to the fetus, the brain, the heart, and other body tissues t...Fear of lawsuits affects emergency physicians' heart care decisions
...oom," said Katz, who also is a staff physician and researcher with the Department of Veterans Affairs Iowa City Health Care System. Katz said the UI-led study was unique in focusing on a single clinical scenario and in examining documented physicians' decisions, instead of just asking physicians to report how c...Massachusetts second state to consider nurse staffing ratios; experts to appear at public hearing
...g medical errors." Michael Doonan, a social policy researcher at Brandeis University's Heller School and Executive Director of MHPF, will share the latest findings on nurse staffing research before the Committee on Public Health on Wednesday, July 13, Massachusetts State House, Room A1. The hearing begins at 10...Breast-conserving surgery underused in Asian American and Pacific Island women
...e breast cancer," said Mita Sanghavi Goel, M.D., a researcher in general internal medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who led the study. Breast cancer incidence and death appear to be rising among Asian American and Pacific Island women, the fastest growing minority group in the U...Bid to improve diabetes services for South Asians in Britain
...th Asians with Type II diabetes, where a bilingual researcher will interview and observe patients and doctors before, during and after consultations. Results of the study will provide guidance on the use of interpreters in future consultations. Both projects are funded by the Chief Scientist Office. o 5% of the...Mouse studies of oseltamivir show promise against H5N1 influenza virus
...t the tenacity of this new variant," says St. Jude researcher Elena A. Govorkova, Ph.D. "Our results provide baseline information that will be needed for further studies on preventing and treating avian flu with antiviral drugs." Co-authors include Hui-Ling Yen, M.S., and renowned flu researchers Robert G. Webs...Not enough is known about treating malaria in pregnancy, researchers say
...ia, where malaria transmission rates are low, says researcher Lois Orton of the University of York in England. "Reliable research about the benefits and harms of treatments for malaria in pregnant women is scarce," Orton says. The review appears in the July issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Co...Antidepressants should be first-line approach for nerve tissue pain
...s then try an anticonvulsant," says Phil Wiffen, a researcher at Churchill Hospital in Oxford, England. "The results of these meta-analyses suggest this is probably still the best approach to take." Wiffen led several systematic evidence reviews on the effect of various antidepressants and anticonvulsives on pa......uality of existing medical trials on a topic. Lead researcher Venkatesh Shanmugam of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary of Aberdeen University in Scotland says that the study was done because none of the usual treatments -- diet change, rubber bands or surgery -- had previously been identified as better. This review ...