A research study presented at the annual Experimental Biology scientific meetings cautioned that consumption of the popular dietary supplement glucosamine sulfate may actually increase the risk of developing insulin resistance and may worsen control of diabetes in patients with this disease.
Small hospitals that perform procedures designed to unclog heart arteries may be catching up to their larger counterparts, according to a 14-year study that appears in today's Circulation.
A study testing 20 herbal dietary supplements containing ephedra found significant differences between the actual amount of active ingredient and the amount claimed on the label; dangerous combinations of ingredients were also found (American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 5-15-00).
New studies by nutrition researchers from Georgetown and Michigan State Universities presented today to the Annual Meeting of the Experimental Biology Society demonstrate that soft drink consumption by children is not responsible for increases in pediatric obesity.
Urinary problems should not be accepted as a normal part of aging, yet fewer than 50 percent of those with bladder control problems and other pelvic floor disorders report them to their health care provider; a UAB gynecologist says there are many new treatment options available.
Take a look in your medicine cabinet and do some cleaning; only use antibiotics when prescribed by your physician and always take the entire course of antibiotics because it often takes 10 to 14 days to effectively kill bacteria.
Osteoporosis is a women's disease, right? Wrong, say University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers, who are part of a national trial to study the condition in men.
Lungs are the "youngest" of the major organ transplants, but surgical and organ preservation advances have led to their rapid growth in numbers of procedures; UAB is now the second biggest lung transplant center in the South.
The American Psychiatric Association today condemned the Kaiser Permanente San Diego psychiatric division procedure under which psychiatrists prescribe medications for patients they have not examined, when requested to do so by Kaiser psychologists, social workers, or family therapists, none of whom have medical training.
In light of today's agreeement by the Clinton administration and key senators on legislation overhauling the nation's organ transplant system, an internationally recognized organ transplant expert, Christopher Shackleton, is available for interviews.
The American Academy of Dermatology invites reporters to attend the Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month Press Conference to learn about the latest research and most important news in skin cancer.
A Cedars-Sinai Medical Center internist who has also studied herbal and other "alternative" approaches to health care says the Internet and other sources of information and health products are giving patients greater control of their own care, but caution should be exercised.
The first evidence that specific genes control how the cortex forms functional units during development is described in a study by Salk professor Dennis O'Leary and colleagues (Science, 4-14-00).
Columbia researchers have participated in a study that points toward a potential treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease (Science, 4-14-00).
HIV-infected patients who respond well to antiretroviral drugs can safely forgo antibiotics to prevent certain opportunistic infections, demonstates a study led by a Columbia researcher (NEJM, 4-13-00).
In research carrying implications for human disease development, University of North Carolina scientists and others have linked gene defects to the inability of cells to repair damaged DNA (Cell, 4-13-00).
Adolescents infected with the virus that causes AIDS have a surprisingly robust immune response and may benefit from aggressive early treatment with anti-HIV medications, say researchers led by an immunologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 4-00).
"Unhealthy Places: The Ecology of Risk in the Urban Landscape" is a book written by University of Alabama at Birmingham sociologists Kevin M. Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory; it examines the relationship between place and health, demonstrating inequalities in America's cities.
Data files for 1997 from 13 states participating in AHRQ's HCUP State Inpatient Databases partnership are now centrally available; each SID file contains information for every hospitalization in the 13 states, translated into a uniform format to facilitate multi-state comparisons and analyses.
Ophthalmologists and researchers at UCSD Shiley Eye Center have uncovered a relationship between an eye disease characterized by an inability to focus on a target and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
African-American Medicare beneficiaries, regardless of gender, are significantly less likely than whites to receive reperfusion therapies, which open blocked arteries to prevent or treat a heart attack, according to a new study funded by AHRQ (NEJM, 4-13-00).
In medical tests analyzing brain function, Gulf War veterans who complain of dizziness showed results similar to those of victims of the Toyko subway nerve gas attack, according to a University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center study (Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 3-00).
In a letter to Assistant Majority Leader Senator Don Nickles, the American Medical Group Association commented on provisions in two managed care proposals and what physicians would like to see in legislation relating to the Patients' Bill of Rights.
In developing countries, long-standing health and population-related concerns such as unwanted pregnancy, maternal and child mortality, and infectious diseases have been difficult to track. This is no longer true, thanks to a new computer program called the Household Registration System (HRS).
A new Mayo Clinic study shows that people who have surgery and anesthesia are at increased risk for ischemic stroke (stroke caused by an obstruction to the blood supply). This study is the first to evaluate the risk factor of surgery/anesthesia while accounting for known risk factors such as diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking and others.
Janean Holden, assistant professor in the UIC College of Nursing, will be given a presidential early career award at a White House ceremony on Wednesday, April 12. She is the first nurse to receive this award. Holden researches how the brain communicates pain.
Cytomegalovirus infection is common in transplant recipients, affecting an estimated 30 to 60 percent of these patients. A recent Mayo Clinic study shows that this infection can have a striking economic impact and that preventive treatment of the infection in high risk patients significantly reduces charges.
Michael Yaszemski, M.D., Ph.D. of Mayo Clinic has combined his two areas of expertise -- orthopedic surgery and chemical engineering -- into two new molecular approaches to fixing bone injuries. Both involve polyesters, the same chemical substances used in fabrics and plastics, only these are biodegradable.
A hands-off approach is the best way for a woman to maximize her stepping-machine workout, a study at Ohio State suggests; women who touched the handrails had maximum heart rates up to 5 percent lower than women who did not use the rail (Research in Nursing & Health).
Gardening does a body good: a study by Arkansas researchers shows that of all forms of exercise, yard work is the most significant for preventing osteoporosis in women aged 50 and older.
A new study by Stanford University researchers indicates that a torn vertebral disc can be found in lots of people, even those who have no trouble twisting, turning and bending, which suggests that the duration and severity of the pain may have as much to do with the patient's state of mind as with the presence of a damaged disc.
Samuel Epstein, professor of environmental and occupational medicine at University of Illinois at Chicago, will receive the "Alternative Pulitzer Prize" from Project Censored for his article "American Cancer Society: The World's Wealthiest Nonprofit Institution."
A just-released NLHEP consensus statement calls for more widespread use of office spirometry as a critical step in the detection of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in its most treatable stage, particularly in smokers over 45 years old (CHEST, 4-00).
By using a simple, noninvasive procedure for ventilatory support, German clinical investigators successfully restored systemic oxygen levels and significantly reduced the chance of death in postsurgical patients who had gone into acute respiratory failure following removal from mechanical ventilation (CHEST, 4-00).
A new rating scale may help doctors make better medical decisions about whether a person should receive a drug or a device to fix a potentially deadly heart irregularity, according to researchers reporting in Circulation.
A human genome study by UIC researchers suggests that a single gene may contribute to many of the devastating illnesses associated with old age.
Cocaine users are found to be more likely to experience a hemorrhagic stroke, at a significantly earlier age, and experience poorer outcome after treatment, than non-users.
Brain metastases will occur in 15 to 30 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer; however, there may be hope for these women, according to a recent study on the successful treatment of metastatic breast tumors.
Neurosurgeons can now determine patient rates of future recovery the three months following a traumatic brain injury, with an independent predictor scale.
Preliminary studies suggest that the transplantation of neural stem cells into the brains of mice with cancer may offer new hope for the treatment of patients with brain tumors.
A recent study examining the effects of embryonic stem cell therapy may offer hope to people paralyzed by spinal cord injuries.
Neurosurgeons recently discovered that Robotic-Assisted Microsurgery has the capability of both improving the manual dexterity of neurosurgeons and microsurgical outcomes for patients.
Gamma knife radiosurgery is a novel approach to the treatment of pituitary tumors and key to preventing future tumor growth, according to a study examining the safety and efficacy of radiosurgery as a treatment for pituitary tumors.
Allergy shots could help millions of adults and children with allergic asthma control or reduce their asthma symptoms, improve their lung function and decrease their reliance on medication, according to a study in the current issue of Clinical Therapeutics.
Recruitment of lay people as community health advisors has been a successful practice in the health promotion field since the early 1990s; UAB plans to turn these indigenous volunteers into research partners.
Researchers from the School of Dental Medicine at the University at Buffalo have found that obesity is significantly related to periodontal disease through the pathway of insulin resistance.
Four years after starting to use a new, less invasive approach to remove a kidney from living kidney donors, surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center say the procedure has opened the door to many more donors for patients in need of a transplant.
An Ohio State researcher has been selected to lead the first-ever national research effort aimed at reducing cancer among Asian Americans in the U.S.; he has accepted a $7.6 million cooperative agreement from the National Cancer Institute.
Using a blood-thinning drug in elderly people with an irregular heartbeat may provide stroke-preventing benefits that had previously been found only in younger people, according to a report in today's Stroke.
A new metabolic pathway in a parasite that could lead to drugs for treating so-called African sleeping sickness has been discovered by Johns Hopkins researchers (Science, 4-7-00).
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