Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
SEATTLE Since 1980, the incidence of ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, one of the most common kinds of early stage breast cancer, has increased more than sevenfold. This sharp increa...Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...ypass surgery at Stanford Hospital. He also became the third patient at Stanford - and in the United States - to benefit from a new imaging system that lets doctors see the blood pathways they h...University of Kentucky physician publishes fibromyalgia study in Arthritis & Rheumatism journal
... (April 12, 2005) - A study of a drug that reduces the pain of fibromyalgia and improves sleep is being published by a University of Kentucky physician in the peer-reviewed journal, Arthritis & Rheumatism. The lead author of the study was Dr. Leslie Crofford...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
...o 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 many diffe...Tops in technology: UH math professor honored for aneurysm work
... named one of Houston's top women in technology by the Houston chapter of the Association for Women in Computing (AWC). One of 23 honorees, Canic will receive her AWC-Houston L...NIST to host public forum on robot standards
...of locating victims at disaster sites are entering the marketplace. To hasten development and deployment of this life-saving technology, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ...7th Annual AIDS Science Day at Yale April 22
...nterdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) will host the 7th Annual AIDS Science Day on Friday, April 22 at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St. CIRAaffiliated scientists from Yale, the Hispanic Healt...Chemical present in clear plastics can impair learning and cause disease
Low doses of the environmental contaminant bisphenolA (BPA), widely...nd colleagues. "These data heighten concerns about the potential longterm consequences of human BPA exposure," said Neil J. MacLusky of Helen Hayes Hospita...Obesity and insomnia linked by excitability of brain cells
...sity has been traced to hypocretin/orexin cells in the hypothalamus region of the brain that are easily excited and sensitive to stress, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in...ARVO annual meeting features over 6,000 presentations
...0 eye and vision researchers will gather to attend the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2005 Annual Meeting to be held at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., May 1-5, 2005. Th...Probable cause sequences for WTC collapses finalized
At a press briefing in New York City on April 5, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) presented its analysis of how the World Trade Center (WTC) towers collapsed after two aircraft were flown into the buildings by terror...Breakthrough findings by Ume researchers link obesity to diabetes
...event these diseases. Today obesity is epidemic in the industrialized world, causing disturbances in bloo...n turn conspire to cause cardiovascular disorders, the leading cause of premature death in the Western world. Obesity is also associated with an increased...Institute of Medicine advisory: Cord blood stem cells
... blood are used to treat a number of diseases, but the current system for collecting, storing, and alloca...ROGRAM, a new congressionally mandated report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, proposes a structure for a fully coordinated, natio...Evaluating virtual reality therapy for treating acute post traumatic stress disorder
...apists to treat PTSD in military personnel before the disorder disrupts their lives and careers. ONR pro... videogame-like qualities, will resonate well with the current generation of warfighters." The program is funded through ONR's Medical and Biological Scien...Charter activation brings space dimension to European emergency exercise
Full-scale disaster breaking out in France in the form of a simulated accident around which a major ... exercise is planned. Just as in a real emergency, the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters is being activated so rescue teams will receive s...... gay, lesbian and bisexual is being jeopardised by the failure of many services to give the support needed in this area. New research by academics at Bristol University's Norah Fry Research Ce...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...neurons. Such mechanisms are considered central to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. This week, Cao et al. tested the protective ability of the chaperone protein torsinA in dopaminergic neurons of Caenorhabditis elega...Columbia research suggests need to rethink causes of heart failure
... Columbia University Medical Center is challenging the traditional explanation for the causes of the most common type of heart failure, traditionally called diastolic heart failure. The ...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
...atient characteristics than to modest misdosing of the drugs, researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) have determined. Thus, they said, physicians should not be o...Traditional risk factors best predictor of CVD death in kidney patients
...le with chronic kidney disease. These results from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-funded Cardiovascular Health Study will be published in the April 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association . Study participants with chroni...