Study shows light therapy to effectively treat mood disorders, including SAD
CHAPEL HILL -- A study commissioned by the American Psychiatric Association and led by a psychiatrist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine has found that light therapy effectiv...Study: obesity impairs immune response of mice, boosts chances of dying from influenza infection
...School of Medicine study shows. The findings raise the possibility that obesity in humans has a similar e... were 10 times as likely to die when infected with the flu virus. Four percent of lean mice died during the experiments, compared with 40 percent of the ex...Largest NIH grant for NYU will create research network in dental practices
... Dentistry has received a $26.7 million award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to establish a regional "practice-based" research network (PBRN...Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
... psychologists reveals startling insights into how the brains of those individuals operate. Psychology Pr...(fMRI) scans that, contrary to their expectations, the regions of the brain that are activated when normal individuals perceive and recognize faces also ar...Newer imaging techniques may lead to over-treatment
...technologies allow physicians to visualize more of the arteries in the lungs, including detecting small blood clots not previously seen, but seeing more may have little im...Bone SPECT superior to FDG PET for detecting bone metastases in breast cancer
...in Japan. FDG PET is an imaging technique based on the increased metabolism of glucose in tumor cells. SP...tects special radioactive elements administered to the patient by the physician. According to the authors, due to these differences in method, bone SPECT i...BI-RADS lexicon for ultrasound useful for differentiating benign from malignant solid masses
Descriptors from the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS)...School of Medicine in Durham, NC, and supported by the National Institutes of Health. For the study, the researchers analyzed 403 sonograms of solid masse...Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research
...ems Biology at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Division of Signal Transduction at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, both in Boston, is the recipient of the eighth annual Pezcoller Foundation-American Association for Cancer Research Interna...AACR awards scholarships for minority and underrepresented scientists
...HIA -- Three Scholar Awards programs, sponsored by the American Association for Cancer Research, will pro... research with financial support to participate in the premier international meeting in the field. The AACR Annual Meeting draws more than 15,000 clinical...Pediatricians must confront community-based threats to health
Pediatricians must look beyond the walls of the examining room and into their own communities to understand and confront the socioeconomic and envir...Cognitive therapy works as well as antidepressants, but with lasting effect after therapy ends
...ding to an authoritative report appearing today in the Archives of General Psychiatry. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University, challenges the American Psychiatric Associatio...Teens believe oral sex is safer, more acceptable to peers
...y oral sex, according to a UCSF study published in the April 2005 issue of Pediatrics. "These findings su...PhD, associate professor of adolescent medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She conducted a survey of 580 ethnically diverse Nor...Consumers not getting accurate information about smokeless tobacco
Information on the internet about the health risks associated with the consumption of smokeless tobacco usually overstates the risk. This...Brain region recovery possible in former methamphetamine users
...changes in chemical activity in certain regions of the brain of former methamphetamine users who have not used the drug for a year or more suggest some recovery of neuronal structure and function, according to an ar...Different antipsychotic medications may have different effects on brain volume
...tipsychotic medication, according to an article in the April issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Structural brain abnormalities, such as reductions in gray matter volume, ha...In treatment of depression, cognitive therapy and medication both effective
...y be as effective as antidepressant medications in the initial treatment of moderate to severe major depression, according to an article in the April issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "Antidepressant me...Pediatric use of complementary and alternative medicine
... use CAM professionals, according to an article in the April issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Forty-two percent o...Early home environment and television watching influence bullying behavior
...less likely to become bullies in grade school, but the more television four-year-olds watch the more likely they are to bully later, according to an article in the April issue of the Archives of P...Angiogenesis factor may help tumors prepare the way for spread to lymph nodes
Production of the protein VEGF-A, already known to stimulate the growth of blood vessels associated with tumors, also contributes in unexpected ways to the spread of......' total environment. A review article published in the April supplement of the journal Pediatrics outlines strategies for engaging physicians-in-training in this new approach to p...