Cornell University researchers and colleagues report that nurse home visits to low-income, unmarried women during pregnancy and the first two years of their babies' lives helped reduce child abuse by up to 80 percent. The study appears in this week's issue of JAMA (Sept. 20, 2000).
Research at Ohio State University is paving the way for doctors to conduct blood tests and other diagnostics using a compact disc (CD) and a CD player.
NIH has awarded a six-month $290,000 SBIR grant to MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals to study potential new treatments for managing both acute and chronic pain.
Director of the National Center for Natural Products Research, will testify Sept. 20 before a Senate subcommittee to urge congressional support for increased research into growing antimicrobial resistance and new drugs to combat it.
The Milbank Memorial Fund and the Association of American Medical Colleges' Academic Medicine will host a special event entitled, "A Century of Reform-Medical Education's Quiet Revolution to Meet America's Health Care Needs."
People who never smoked or quit smoking after undergoing balloon angioplasty and other procedures to open obstructed heart arteries had greater improvements in health-related quality of life compared to people who continued to smoke, say researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Journal of the American Heart Association, 9-19-00).
Texas Tech Health Sciences Center researcher Barbara Pence, Ph.D., is part of an international team in a NATO-funded project to investigate incidence of esophageal cancer in the former Soviet Union.
Ninety-five percent of men and women surveyed say they wash their hands after using a public restroom, while only 67 percent of people actually do, according to a survey and observational study conducted for the American Society of Microbiology.
Many parents regard occasional minor illnesses as the most likely health risks posed by day care centers. However, according to data, a more insidious danger lurks in these facilities: they serve as incubators for antibiotic-resistance respiratory tract bacteria.
AHRQ has funded three new Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs). The CERTs will study the safety and effectiveness of drugs, biologics and medical devices to improve their use and effectiveness, and reduce costs.
New dietary approach shown effective for management of peripheral vascular disease and as a non-invasive alternative therapy.
A textbook that has taught physiology to medical students around the world for 45 years is being released in its 10th edition.
Pfizer Inc says a new clinical study shows one dose of Zithromax (R)is as effective as Augmentin(R), when administered twice a day for 10 days, in treating acute otitis media in children.
Mouth and throat cancers will hit more than 30,000 Americans this year, making the disease the sixth most common cancer for males. Males also are twice as likely to get oral cancer than females, according to reports.
The American College of Radiology urged women to register for National Mammography Day, October 20.
A strong link between brain cell loss on the left side of the brain has been found in sick Gulf War veterans and abnormal over-production of dopamine, a neurotransmitter chemical important in such conditions as degenerative brain diseases (Journal of Radiology, 6-00).
The U-M School of Public Health will host a symposium on Sept. 18 that will feature---among other notables---Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, as its keynote speaker.
A new study in the Fall 2000 issue of Policy Studies Journal says fear may keep many employees with HIV/AIDS from asking for the "reasonable accommodations" they are entitled to receive under the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Current approaches to anesthesia management provide adequate pain control for successful cataract surgery. But more data are needed on patient preferences and cost to determine the optimal strategies for anesthesia management during cataract surgery.
Today's boomers want to stay healthy and look good. Exercise, eating right and having regular checkups help. But boomers also can enhance their overall well being by taking care of their teeth and gums.
Three out of four adults experience periodontal (gum) disease at some time in their life, but the good news is that it can often be prevented or treated in its early stages, according to ADA.
The American Psychiatric Association renewed its urgent call to Congress to end abusive managed care by enacting meaningful patient protection legislation, before the 106th Congress adjourns.
To help stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic in communities where the virus is spreading fastest, Glaxo Wellcome today announced the nationalization of a peer-to-peer approach modeled after the focused intervention concept utilized at the OASIS clinic in the Watts neighborhood.
An Alabama physician has helped pinpoint an outbreak of an uncommon disease among a group of elite athletes participating in this year's EcoChallenge Sabah 2000 Expedition race recently held in Malaysian Borneo.
More than 400 experts from more than 40 countries around the world will participate in the fourth International Conference on Dietary Assessment Methods, Sept. 17-20 in Tucson.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today announced that Howard Bauchner was selected as AHRQ's second Child and Adolescent Health Scholar-in-Residence.
Textiles professor at URI works with a vascular surgery research team to develop materials to fight clots, infection, and poor cellular attachment for small-diameter arteries.
In an effort to shed light on a largely unexplored disease and provide more effective treatments, officials from UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center today launched a state-of-the-art liver cancer center.
Three HIV-positive chimpanzees that are progressing to AIDS could provide insight into how the disease develops and might be averted, according to research conducted at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center of Emory University and published in the October issue (Vol. 182, No. 4) of The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
New guidelines for the medical management of osteoarthritis will be published in the September issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism. Due to major advancements in the understanding of this disease, the ACR has updated its guidelines after only five years.
A program for non-alcoholics who want to reduce their drinking and lower their health risk has helped more than 260 participants cut their alcohol intake by an average of 66 percent, new statistics show. A new program will help drunk drivers cut risky drinking.
Elderly patients treated for heart attack at teaching hospitals are more likely to survive and receive better quality care than those treated at hospitals that do not train physicians, concludes a study supported by AHRQ (JAMA, 9-13-00).
A newer medication used to treat arthritis appears to have fewer side effects than traditional therapies, according to a study in the Sept. 13 issue of JAMA.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that the protein SMAC may lead to the development of drugs that eliminate cancerous cells. The protein, second mitochondria-derived activator of caspases, promotes apoptosis, or cell death (Nature, 8-24-00).
A $1.8 million grant from Amgen, a pharmaceutical company, to Albany Medical College will help researchers conduct in-depth analysis of clinical drug trials to determine the best way to use various medications.
The University of Michigan Medical School has appointed noted breast cancer specialist Marc E. Lippman, M.D., to chair its Department of Internal Medicine, pending the approval of the U-M Board of Regents.
A researcher's success in recruiting and retaining older African Americans in a dietary intervention trial will be among the projects highlighted in a meeting of the Black Congressional Caucus on Sept. 15 in Washington, D.C.
After screening some 150,000 compounds, a University of Michigan College of Pharmacy team has found an especially promising prospect -- a compound that is 10,000 times more effective than other known inhibitors of a key enzyme in Gram negative bacteria (Journal of the American Chemical Society, 9-27-00).
A new study showing that a simple pulmonary function test can predict overall long-term survival rates in both men and women appears in the Sept. 2000 CHEST.
The use of stents to open up obstructed veins that were used in previous coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG) does not result in long-term clinical benefit, according to a new study reported in the Sept. 2000 CHEST.
Cigarette smoking contributes to heart disease by choking off the heart's blood supply, according to a study in Circulation.
Children who experience a first seizure in the absence of fever or obvious precipitating cause should receive an EEG evaluation, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society. They are published in the September 12 issue of Neurology.
The first research to examine migraine's impact on the general population shows that even "typical" migraine sufferers consistently report lower mental, physical and social well-being than people without migraines, reported in the September 12 issue of Neurology.
An unusually high incidence of Alzheimer's disease in an Arab community provides the first evidence that a recessive gene is involved in the disease, according to a study published in the September 12 issue of Neurology.
Jobs involving the use of common solvents can put people at risk for developing symptoms of Parkinson's disease earlier in life and more severe disease symptoms throughout its course, according to a study in the September 12 issue of Neurology.
A series of simple tests can help care providers predict whether older women will develop physical disabilities in the near future, Johns Hopkins researchers have found (Archives of Internal Medicine, 9-11-00).
The University of Virginia School of Medicine has received $20 million for prostate cancer research from the estate of the late Paul Mellon.
How a few rare organ transplant recipients manage to prevent their bodies from rejecting their new organs without the help of drugs may have been discovered by Ohio State University scientists (Journal of Clinical Investigation).
Meeting the health care needs of the burgeoning elderly population will be discussed by a panel of business, government and academic experts convened by the UIC College of Nursing and chaired by former labor secretary Lynn Martin.
A dental anesthetic formula that's considerably more effective than any currently available has been patented by an Ohio State University researcher.
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