|
| MED | Brain Steroid: Key Player in Alcohol Effects
A brain steroid called allopregnanolone is likely an important mediator of alcohol's well-known effects on anxiety and sedation, report University of North Carolina School of Medicine scientists (Journal of Neuroscience, 3-00). (Embargo expired on 01-Mar-2000 at 00:00 ET.) | 01-Mar-2000
00:00 ET |
|
|
| | —University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine | View Article |
| MED | Inheriting Gene Variants, Risk for Alzheimer's
An international team of researchers has discovered that inheriting certain genetic variants from both parents significantly increases the risk for developing Alzheimer's Disease (Annals of Neurology, 3-00). (Embargo expired on 01-Mar-2000 at 00:00 ET.) | 01-Mar-2000
00:00 ET |
|
|
| | —Veterans Affairs (VA) R&D | View Article |
| MED | Children Born with Chest Wall Deformities
For children born with chest wall deformities, a new UCLA study shows that surgical intervention can improve their long-term health, with excellent physical and cosmetic results and a low complication rate. (Embargo expired on 01-Mar-2000 at 00:00 ET.) | 01-Mar-2000
00:00 ET |
|
|
| | —University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences | View Article |
| MED | Credit Card Debt May Be Bad for Your Health
High levels of credit card debt and debt stress may be bad for a person's health, a new Ohio State study suggests (Social Science & Medicine, 2-00). | 01-Mar-2000
00:00 ET |
|
|
| | —Ohio State University | View Article |
| MED | Older Medication, Treatment for Post-Stroke Depression
University of Iowa Health Care researchers found that for treating depression in individuals who had a stroke and did not have heart conditions, the tricyclic antidepressant nortriptyline is more effective than fluoxetine (American Journal of Psychiatry, 3-00). | 01-Mar-2000
00:00 ET |
|
|
| | —University of Iowa Health Sciences | View Article |
| MED | Black-White Health Gap
The gap in death rates between blacks and whites was as large five years ago as it was 50 years ago, according to a University of Michigan study (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences). | 01-Mar-2000
00:00 ET |
|
|
| | —University of Michigan | View Article |
| MED | Cutting-Edge Research at Pharmacologists Conference
The American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics is marking its centennial with cutting edge research that reveals the array of human responses to pharmacologic agents. | 01-Mar-2000
00:00 ET |
|
|
| | —KM Communications (KMC) | View Article |
| MED | AIDS Prevention for Latino Women in Chicago
Because AIDS is the leading cause of death among Latino women between the ages of 25 and 44 in Chicago, a University of Illinois at Chicago associate professor has launched an AIDS prevention program based on a social learning model. | 01-Mar-2000
00:00 ET |
|
|
| | —University of Illinois at Chicago | View Article |
| MED | Cancer Patients, Fertility Through Egg Freezing
Female cancer patients and other women at risk of losing their fertility because of medical treatments can now help preserve their childbearing options through a new egg-freezing program at Stanford University Medical Center. | 01-Mar-2000
00:00 ET |
|
|
| | —Stanford University School of Medicine | View Article |
| MED | Adoptive Children and Predictive Genetic Tests
The American Society of Human Genetics and The American College of Medical Genetics Social Issues Committees urge great caution prior to subjecting adoptive children to predictive genetic tests (American Journal of Human Genetics, 3-00). | 01-Mar-2000
00:00 ET |
|
|
| | —Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) | View Article |
The query took 0.109 seconds.
