New research shows mounting evidence that some people are "destined" to become smokers because they are inherently more sensitive to the effects of nicotine than people who are not tempted to smoke again. These findings suggest how one in three kids who sample a cigarette will become lifetime tobacco customers.
A study published today in the March issue of the journal Neurology provides more evidence that the medication Copaxone, the only non-interferon treatment for multiple sclerosis, reduces the number of relapses and slows the progression of disability. The study is a one-year extension of research at 11 medical centers in the United States.
A unique molecular defect in an unusual blood disorder first identified and described at Johns Hopkins by the late Sir William Osler almost a century ago has now been discovered by a team of his professional descendants.
Molecular biologists from Texas A&M's Institute of Biosciences and Technology and from Duke University may have found a genetic switch in prostate cancer cells that can change a quiet tumor into an invasive, deadly cancer that spreads throughout the body.
The American College of Physicians (ACP) today published the fourth edition of its Ethics Manual. The ACP Ethics Manual appears in the April 1, 1998, issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, published by ACP.
1) Ticlopidine linked with rare blood disease, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). 2) Internal medicine experts explore the physician-assisted suicide debate. 3) Annals editor concludes two-part series on medicine and commerce. 4) ACP issues fourth edition of ethics manual. (see separate release)
Ultrasound waves may be as effective as magnetic resonance imaging at detecting small blood vessel blockage after a heart attack, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins.
Patients with mutant p53 become resistant to treatment. In fact, the proliferating cells can develop other mutations and become more and more resistant. Sayed Daoud's approach is to focus on the p53 gene itself by using a combination of drugs, one to attack the tumor itself and one to inhibit the effect of the mutated p53. When the effect of the mutated p53 is inhibited, the cell usually will, as Daoud puts it, "crash and die."
Laboratory mice which have been genetically altered to produce human growth hormone grow to be 25-30 percent larger than normal mice---with much of that size difference coming from bigger bones, according to researchers.
5,000 doctors of internal medicine (internists) will attend the American College of Physicians' (ACP) 1998 Annual Session, the nation's largest gathering of adult health specialists. Faculty are internal medicine's best and brightest. Full complement of experts in end of life care.
Findings of a multi-year heart transplantation study indicate that the heart donor pool can be expanded through the use of undersized hearts. The donor pool for heart transplants could be increased by at least 25%. The use of undersized donor hearts can help to alleviate a shortage of donor organs and save lives.
Ticlopidine, a drug that acts like aspirin and is widely used to prevent stroke as well as blood clot formation following placement of cardiac stents, can cause thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, a rare but potentially deadly circulatory disease.
People who have suffered paralyzing injuries sometimes can regain limited control of their muscles, thanks to electrical stimulation techniques now under development, but pulse patterns should be varied to help patients stay strong longer, University of Delaware researchers report in the new Journal of Neurophysiology.
At the annual American Association of Cancer Research meeting in New Orleans, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute researchers are presenting exciting evidence from animal models that blocking two cellular growth pathways causes tumor cells to die.
Certain mothers who smoke while pregnant are at high risk of passing along genetic damage to their babies, according to study results presented by University of Pittsburgh scientists on Tuesday, March 31, at the annual American Association for Cancer Research meeting in New Orleans.
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute researchers are reporting at the annual American Association for Cancer Research meeting in New Orleans that they have found the first specific marker that distinguishes tissues from individuals with bladder cancer from those without disease and that can be easily isolated from urine.
The first fundamental breakthrough in diagnostic ultrasound in more than a decade was introduced today at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta. The Model 1, real-time volumetric ultrasound imaging system, developed by Volumetrics Medical Imaging, Inc. of Durham, N.C., provides instantaneous, quantifiable ultrasound scans of a whole organ, rather than a single slice.
For the five million Americans who suffer from congestive heart failure, a new study shows that patients taking high doses of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor Zwstril (lisinopril) may live longer and be hospitalized less often than those on low dose therapy. The results were announced today at the 47th Annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Session.
Do antioxidant vitamins protect healthy people from free-radical damage? Can some diseases be slowed or reversed with antioxidants? Perhaps surprisingly, no measurement technique has existed to easily and directly assess the corrosive effects in individuals of these highly reactive types of oxygen. Now, scientists have developed such a test.
What if a common, naturally occurring substance could shrink tumors, stop their growth, even make cancer cells normal again? A University of Maryland researcher is finding that it can.
DALLAS, March 31 -- A gene therapy approach to circumvent leg blood vessels obstructed by atherosclerosis that was reported last fall at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions has been successfully extended to a larger group of patients.
Two separate pathways are now associated with the growth of human tumors. The Src-STAT-3 pathway plays a critical role in the proliferation of human breast, prostate, ovarian and lung cancer cells. This discovery will offer researchers a target for the development of new diagnostic tests and anti-cancer agents.
Scientists from around the world will gather at the University of Wisconsin, April 17-18, to discuss their latest findings demonstrating the biological underpinnings of emotion, and the profound effects positive and negative feelings can have on human health. The latest technological advances used to identify brain systems associated with different emotions will also be described.
"The Arkansas schoolyard shooting and other recent acts of school violence are a wake-up call to the nation about our children," said Michael Faenza, President and CEO of the National Mental Health Association.
"Full parity is cheap and good public policy precisely because behavioral health treatments work. Treatment restores functioning at home, work and school, reducing other social costs by improving lives," said Michael Faenza, President and CEO of the National Mental Health Association.
African Americans are not necessarily genetically predisposed to hypertension, according to a study by a team of researchers from Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University that has discovered that hypertension, obesity and high cholesterol in African Americans can be prevented with a radical change in lifestyle.
Calcium supplements reduce bone loss in elderly women, although only modestly, and can help prevent osteoporosis in women who don't already have the condition, reports a Mayo Clinic study.
First care providers can now have the latest knowledge from top medical experts in the field of emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology at their fingertips. The book will help family physicians, as well as emergency medicine doctors, quickly and effectively diagnose and treat emergency gynecologic and obstetric problems.
The co-founders of Volumetric Medical Imaging, Inc. will conduct a media briefing to demonstrate Volumetric Sonography (tm) "” the first fundamental breakthrough in diagnostic ultrasound in more than decade.
A temporary heart device used by cardiac doctors at UCLA Medical Center saved a 24-year-old patient dying from heart failure. The cardiac-assist device avoided the need for an emergency heart transplant.
Benign, non-cancerous brain tumors, called meningiomas, can impair brain function and even kill. So UCLA medical researchers have begun testing a new form of chemotherapy to treat them.
Although researchers know that half of all folks who take up exercise quit during the first six months, they have failed to ask how peopleÃs thoughts and feelings during workouts affect their decision to drop out.
Two out of every three female veterinarians have reported accidental needlestick wounds while they were on the job, according to a recent study.
Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a new intervention program that shows early signs of helping children and teenagers with mood disorders.
A University of Colorado study of marijuana dependence among adolescents in a university treatment program found that such youth reported serious problems in their lives related to dependence on the drug.
Based on a new study, researchers are suggesting physicians use two simple tests to screen patients for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS).
A prostate cancer treatment that kills cancer cells while largely sparing healthy organs has been successfully tested in mice and will be ready for clinical trials this fall if approved by the Food and Drug Administration, according to University of Minnesota researchers who devised the treatment.
Until every primary care physician in the United States recognizes and responds to the signs of life-depleting and sometimes fatal sleep disorders, Dr. William C. Dement believes his work is unfinished.
For the first time, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center have confirmed that bone--similar to that found in the human skeleton--is present in a substantial portion of diseased heart valves.This finding could lead to the development of therapies to prevent or treat heart-valve disease.
Bill J. Gurley, Ph.D., associate professor and chairman of the Department of Pharmaceutics in the UAMS College of Pharmacy's recent study of herbal medicines containing ephedrine has attracted media attention. Supplements containing ephedrine are widely used, especially by students to help them stay awake to study. The danger is that too much ephedrine can cause adverse side effects and even death.
STANFORD -- Daughters serving as the primary caregivers for an ailing parent show more cardiovascular stress than do wives caring for their ailing husbands, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Ever since vitamin C was found to prevent scurvy -- a disease that has killed millions of people throughout history -- scientists have known that the vitamin plays an essential role in the body's defense against disease. Immune cells, for example, are known to accumulate and retain high levels of vitamin C, but just how this process occurs, has largely remained a mystery.
Fewer than half of the patients under treatment for schizophrenia are receiving proper doses of antipsychotic medications or appropriate psychosocial interventions, according to a national study funded by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study identified gaps in effective care for people with schizophrenia and opportunities for improvement in all aspects of treatment.
Research Triangle Park, N.C., March 24, 1998 -- Amerge(TM) (naratriptan hydrochloride) Tablets, a therapy for the acute treatment of migraine, is now available to consumers in the United States by prescription.
STANFORD -- Infants' immune systems are not fully developed at birth, so infections contracted before or during birth are extremely dangerous. But these infections are also hard to diagnose.
Despite living in a society that is increasingly weight and appearance conscious, many American children may be headed toward sedentary, overweight adulthood. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center have found that as the hours of television watched by American children increases, so does their weight.
Tips from American Psychiatric Association: 1) Do Hyperactive Boys Become Hyperactive Men?, 2) Residential Care: an Alternative to High-Cost Hospitalization, 3) Faith Heals, 4) Fetal Alcohol Exposure Increases Risk of Mental Illness
When patients with type 2 diabetes took two new medications together, rather than separately, they experienced further improvement in controlling their blood glucose levels, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Yale University School of Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Yale.
New Orleans, LA--Re-living in your mind a brief, though stressful event--like being cut off on the freeway or insulted by a stranger--not only is unpleasant, it can result in a temporary increase in you blood pressure, even days after the original experience.
With new drugs, ongoing research and prevention programs, an AIDS diagnosis is no longer considered a swift death sentence. This was not the case 17 years ago, when Yale School of Medicine's Peter Selwyn, M.D., M.P.H., found himself in the midst of the AIDS epidemic at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York
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