Largest NIH grant for NYU will create research network in dental practices
...is directed by a senior NYU dental faculty member, who is also a co-investigator: The Recruitment, Retention, and Operations Core (Frederick A. Curro, DMD, PhD) ensures sufficient investigators for studies and data integrity. The Training and Certification Core (Ananda P. Dasanayake, BDS, MPH, PhD) ...Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
...advantages. But this ability is impaired in people who have suffered brain damage or in those with a rare congenital condition, and research by Carnegie Mellon University psychologists reveals startling insights into how the brains of those individuals operate. Psychology Professor Marlene Behrmann and p...Newer imaging techniques may lead to over-treatment
...e discovery of many more patients with small clots who probably would not have been treated in the past and may have done fine. Improved technology is forcing us to face new clinical questions such as whether or not every small clot diagnosed with CT warrants the risks of treatment," he said....Bone SPECT superior to FDG PET for detecting bone metastases in breast cancer
...tal of 900 bones in 15 patients with breast cancer who underwent both SPECT and PET. They found that SPECT had a sensitivity of 85% and an accuracy of 96% for detecting bone metastases, whereas PET had a sensitivity of only 17% and an accuracy of 85%. They also found that PET was limited in its ability t...BI-RADS lexicon for ultrasound useful for differentiating benign from malignant solid masses
...he data from this study to either reassure a woman who has a mass with benign features that the biopsy is...nfidently advocate a biopsy in a reluctant patient who has a mass with more worrisome features," said Dr. Baker....Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research
...ard, established in 1997, recognizes an individual who has made a major scientific discovery in basic or translational cancer research. Cantley will give an award lecture at the 96th AACR Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif., April 16-20, 2005. His talk, entitled "The Role of PI3K in Cancer," will be at...AACR awards scholarships for minority and underrepresented scientists
...Pacific Islanders. The 75 early-career scientists who won the awards this year were selected on the basi...rds honor members of AACR-Women in Cancer Research who are scientists-in-training and first authors of meritorious scientific papers selected for presentat...Pediatricians must confront community-based threats to health
...id Topa, M.D., a former pediatric resident at URMC who practices at Pittsford Pediatrics, called for such...e a prescription for 1 of the 9.2 million children who are uninsured. Although a pediatrician can refer a patient to a nutritionist, the health foods that...Teens believe oral sex is safer, more acceptable to peers
... they had tried oral sex, compared to 13.5 percent who said they had vaginal sex. Almost one-third (31.5 ...thin the next six months, compared to 26.2 percent who intended to have vaginal sex. "The fact that young adolescents around age 14 are having or consideri...Brain region recovery possible in former methamphetamine users
...gions of the brain of former methamphetamine users who have not used the drug for a year or more suggest ...nd colleagues compared eight methamphetamine users who had not used methamphetamine for one to five years and 16 recently abstinent methamphetamine users w...Different antipsychotic medications may have different effects on brain volume
CHICAGO After a first psychotic episode, patients who were treated with an atypical antipsychotic medica... of the study, and colleagues studied 161 patients who were randomly assigned treatment with either haloperidol or olanzapine at the time of a first psycho...In treatment of depression, cognitive therapy and medication both effective
...5 percent in the placebo group. Of the 47 patients who received an augmented medication treatment, 32 (64 percent) were given lithium, 28 (56 percent) were prescribed desipramine, and one (two percent) was treated with venlafaxine. At sixteen weeks of treatment, response rates were 58 percent for patient...Pediatric use of complementary and alternative medicine
... back pain, and children with adult family members who use CAM," the authors write. "Not surprisingly, the most significant factor that determined whether a pediatric patient would use CAM is whether an adult in the family used CAM. The effect of this covariate on the likelihood of a child's use dwarfed ...Early home environment and television watching influence bullying behavior
CHICAGO Four-year-old children who receive emotional support and cognitive stimulation from their parents are significantly 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 t...ACP guidelines to treat obesity cover diet, exercise, drugs and surgery
...yone and drugs and surgery only for obese patients who are not able to achieve weight-loss goals with die...as failed. Surgery is for those with a BMI over 40 who also have obesity-related health problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or sleep apnea, ACP...Endangered species: Who will teach anatomy in 2010?
...he answer to that question should matter to anyone who ever has an x-ray, goes to a physical therapist, takes a new medication, or sees a doctor--in other words, nearly all of usincluding medical school department chairs and medical school deans. An article just published in the journal of the Associatio...Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, April 5, 2005
...yone and drugs and surgery only for obese patients who are not able to achieve weight-loss goals with die...y. Surgery is reserved for those with BMIs over 40 who also have obesity-related health problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or sleep apnea. ACP...Genetic link to cervical cancer
.... Carrington and colleagues found that individuals who have more inhibitory than activating KIRs had a decreased risk for cervical cancer, suggesting that activation of NK cells contributes to cancer progression. NK cell activation may increase local inflammation, suggests Carrington, which has been ass...Education program reduces incidents of shaken baby syndrome
...to specifically seek out fathers or father-figures who are more often involved in shaken baby syndrome cases. The parents were then asked to sign commitment statements, which also gathered demographic and other information about the responders. The regional incidence of abusive head injuries among infa......d recipients as well as other minority researchers who have made significant contributions to cancer rese...rch. Prior recipients of Minority Scholar Awards who will receive special recognition during the ceremony include: Charles Richard Thomas, Jr., M.D., Ass...