While the number of women at all levels of academic medicine is increasing, they continue to lag behind their male counterparts in entering the senior ranks of the profession, according to an Association of American Medical Colleges study in the Feb.10 NEJM.
Racial prejudice, not conservatism, is the major factor underlying white opposition to affirmative action, according to a study from the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research in the current issue of Social Problems.
A University of Illinois at Chicago nurse will lead an AIDS prevention and home-based health care program in Swaziland, under an $860,000 grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb and Cabrini Missionary foundations.
Association of American Medical Colleges President Jordan J. Cohen, M.D., reaffirms in a Feb. 10 NEJM editorial his concerns about the effect unions will have on medical education and the practice of medicine.
Feb. science tips from Iowa State University include 1.- Earth's fiery finale; 2.- Molecular dynamics simulations tell the story; 3.- Big gains for nanoscale structures.
Diabetes mellitus occurs when insulin production decreases significantly, when the body produces defective insulin, or when the cells simply cannot use insulin.
Individually tailored vision screenings for diabetic patients could produce significant savings without substantially reducing health benefits, report Veterans Affairs researchers in the Feb. 16 JAMA.
The first laboratory and training center in Botswana devoted exclusively to the advanced study of HIV is a joint project of the Ministry of Health of Botswana and the Harvard AIDS Institute.
An entire issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association is devoted this week to contributions from the University of Michigan, marking the 150th anniversary of the U-M Medical School.
Health leaders from the University of Michigan Health System describe why their institution has a favorable balance sheet, a positive operating margin, and plans for new initiatives (JAMA, 2-15-00).
Scientists have a new X-ray crystal microscope to study interconnects and other materials made up of small disoriented crystal blocks called grains because of the work of researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
1- Romancing a man -- think golf balls; 2. Bush could topple McCain in S.C.; 3- Forum on Russia after Yeltsin, Feb. 18.
By studying age-related muscle loss and ways to prevent it, a University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston research center intends to help aging Americans avoid nursing homes or prolonged hospital stays and live at home as long as possible.
Electronic transistors may one day be replaced by all-optical transistors, which are in early stages of development at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft, approaching Eros, has snapped a picture of what appears to be a heart-shaped crater or depression in the asteroid's surface.
Purdue's Ackerman Center Summer Institute offers a seminar on developing and implementing character education that is available at no cost to teachers and educators across the nation.
A small percentage of patients who receive lung transplantation develop a deadly increase in blood ammonia levels, according to a study by University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia researchers (The Annals of Internal Medicine, 2-15-00).
NEAR's first close-up pictures from Eros orbit have arrived at Earth.
The NEAR spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around asteroid 433 Eros at 10:33 EST on Monday morning.
NEAR spacecraft has entered orbit around asteroid 433 Eros.
A significant 41 percent, five-year overall survival rate among 2,263 patients who had surgery for non-small cell lung cancer was reported by Dutch researchers in the Feb. 2000 CHEST.
The outlook for individuals who suffer heart attacks despite having normal coronary arteries is excellent, according to a Swiss study in the Feb. 2000 CHEST.
A study of genetically obese rats has revealed that an overabundance of fat can collect in heart cells and cause them to die, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2-14-00).
Despite evidence that cholesterol-lowering medications can reduce the risk of heart attacks and death in people with coronary artery disease, many physicians at major teaching hospitals in the U.S. and Canada still do not prescribe them (Archives of Internal Medicine, 2-14-00).
A software program that can trace the source of Denial of Service attacks -- such as those that shut down Web sites earlier this week -- has been developed by a North Carolina State University computer scientist.
American society's negative attitudes toward mental illness help perpetuate violent behavior, says a Gustavus Adolphus College professor.
1- Indoor waste storage increases airborne contaminants (Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2-00); 2- Microbes survive on hospital fabrics (Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2-00); 3- Chlamydia bacteria not associated with Alzheimer's (Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2-00).
The higher a man's prostate specific antigen level is, the more likely his prostate will continue to grow abnormally, report UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers (Journal of Urology, 1-00).
In Jan. 2001, Hamilton College will introduce a program of study and internship experience in New York City centering on the idea of globalization.
Monday could be a special Valentine's Day for University of Arizona planetary scientists, who are planning not just a brief fling, but a year-long rendezvous with Eros, an asteroid 240 million miles from Earth.
Where once only a transplant might have saved children, a series of procedures performed by cardiothoracic surgeons at Cedars-Sinai are giving new hope to infants and their families.
Instead of open-heart surgery for patent ductus arteriosus, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is utilizing a minimally invasive pediatric procedure that results in incisions of only 2mm - 3mm in length and often only a 24-hour hospital stay.
Researchers at UAB are on the road to a vaccine for myasthenia gravis, a disabling muscular disease, which hinders muscle movement by blocking muscle cell receptors from receiving signals from the nervous system.
A thermoelectric material that may someday double the speed at which a computer operates has been discovered by a team of scientists, including several from Michigan State University (Science, 2-11-00).
The first naturally occurring animal model for the study of age-related macular degeneration has been identified by Jackson Laboratory researchers (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).
A teen-ager at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center recently became the first in California to have his "bad" cholesterol level dramatically reduced through LDL apheresis, a procedure developed for patients who have dangerously high levels of LDL cholesterol.
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers are beginning a study into an innovative therapy for advanced heart failure that is intended to make a sick heart beat more effectively.
Best-selling novelist John Grisham, a devout Baptist and baseball fan, will combine those passions when he visits Baylor University on Friday, Feb. 25.
1- Television's impact on elections, politics; 2- Homework should be abolished; 3- Are chance and luck the same? 4- Rhythm and blues, race relations.
Autoclaved aerated concrete is a lightweight, porous concrete material that's been used successfully in Europe for years and is now being studied at UAB for use in the U.S.
Sitting with an Arab conversation partner, it is important to avoid exposing the sole of one's shoe, as that is perceived as an insult.
1- From Crystal Pepsi to Osborne Computers, studying the collective marketing disasters; 2- Virtual office will become dominant workplace for professional employees.
Johns Hopkins scientists report a new way of monitoring brain damage that could significantly increase the number of stroke patients eligible for -- and helped by -- clot-breaking treatments.
A snapshot of the current use of aspirin, warfarin and other stroke prevention therapies at academic medical centers has developed into a less than perfect picture, according to a new study reported at the American Stroke Association's 25th International Stroke Conference in New Orleans.
You may want to stop the next time you see a stroke screening at a health fair or your local mall -- especially if you smoke, are over 65 years old, or have heart disease or elevated levels of cholesterol, according a new study presented at the American Stroke Association's 25th International Stroke Conference in New Orleans.
In many instances, researchers say, it's the complications from the stroke -- such as pneumonia or infections -- that poses the biggest threat to the recovery of patients.
Researchers examining data on stroke patients in rural East Texas find that almost none of them are receiving clot-busting drugs that could reverse the effects of stroke, they reported at the American Stroke Association's 25th International Stroke Conference in New Orleans.
The demise of the brilliant and prolific composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the focus of this year's historical diagnosis conference sponsored by the University of Maryland and the VA Maryland Health Care System.
The future of stroke care is in the emergency room, according to researchers who say that emergency room physicians are just as capable as their neurologist counterparts of administering clot-busting treatments to stroke patients.
For his pioneering research in brain cancer and his blood-brain barrier discoveries, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center neurosurgeon Keith L. Black, M.D., will be recognized by The National Academies in Washington D.C.
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