AIDS is spreading among young, monogamous, married women in India who get infected by apparently promiscuous husbands, according to a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins and the National AIDS Research Institute in Pune, India.
Diabetes has long been known to be one major cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), but the magnitude of risk has been uncertain. Now, a study led by Johns Hopkins researchers finds that diabetic men are nearly 13 times more likely to develop ESRD than non-diabetic men.
"We are closer to the day when mental illnesses -- and people with them -- are treated fairly and compassionately in our health insurance system," said Michael M. Faenza, President and CEO of the National Mental Health Association.
A major public service campaign for television is being launched January 8, 1998, to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of stroke, or "brain attack." For Immediate Release.
Annals of Internal Medicine TipSheet: 1) Isoniazid is recommended for tuberculosis patients with positive skin tests. 2) Women physicians use hormone replacement therapy in greater numbers than average female U.S. population. 3) Care of chronic illness can be improved through management by patients, families, physicians and health care systems. 4) ACP issues new lyme disease guidelines.
An exaggerated response to mental stress could be a marker for future heart disease among people under age 60 with a strong family history of premature heart disease, according to a study by Johns Hopkins researchers.
Cholesterol-lowering drugs reduced heart attack risk in women and senior citizens by 34 percent -- about the same amount as in younger men, according to a report in today's American Heart Association journal Circulation.
One out of three women in a study were able to normalize their blood cholesterol levels by replacing regular canola margarine with one that contains a cholesterol-blocker called sitostanol ester, according to today's American Heart Association journal Circulation.
A study by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center researchers of some 1,300 sixth through twelfth graders in NH and VT reveals that one-third of those students own items of the promotional gear that has been heavily hyped by several tobacco companies. This study supports FDA regulations to restrict the distribution of these items by tobacco companies.
Leaders of fraternities, and to a lesser extent leaders of sororities, tend to be among the heaviest drinkers and the most out-of-control partiers, according to researchers at Cornell University and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Their national survey of 25,411 students at 61 institutions reveals that Greek leaders are helping to set norms of binge drinking and uncontrolled behavior.
Robert G. Webster, Ph.D., who played a key role in helping to identify the new Hong Kong influenza virus (H5N1), will be available to the media Monday morning, December 15, via telephone conference call following recent news of additional infections and a second death. Call 800-289-0730 and give the confirmation number 410960, or ask for the St. Jude conference.
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) researchers are using computer models and psychological testing to help reduce the number of medication errors caused by look-alike and sound-alike medication names.
Sometimes cells are supposed to die. When cells don't die when they are supposed to, the result is cancer. Pathologists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine report research that brings them closer to their goal of understanding the process of programmed cell death, which could lead to development of drugs to cause or prevent it as appropriate.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins and India find that a simple set of symptoms including fever, joint pain, and night sweats can quickly identify people who recently have been infected with the AIDS virus, even before there is evidence from a blood test. Unprotected sex with a prostitute and a fresh genital ulcer also are tip-offs to recent HIV infection.
During the holidays, people often eat foods they know will trigger their heartburn. How can people prevent heartburn and what are the signs that they could have a more serious condition such as gastroesophageal reflux disease?
While football players toss the pigskin on the field, physicians are using another part of the pig to tackle a knee injury often associated with sports. Clinical trials begin this month to test a new material derived from pigs' intestins that, when inserted in the human body, may help regenerate damaged tissues.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved Meridia (sibutramine), a new diet drug that has chemical properties similar, but not identical, to Redux and fen/phen (Pondimin).
Innovative new treatments are reducing the cost of treating specific illnesses while saving more lives and improving the quality of life for patients, according to new research by economists and physicians.
John Grisham's The Rainmaker is a story about an insurance company that routinely denies coverage for medically necessary procedures. Unfortunately, this scenario doesn't just occur in books and movies. In a recent survey conducted by the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS), more than half of plastic surgeons polled reported insurance denial or trouble obtaining coverage of procedures for deformities, disfigurements and congenital defects in children.
Eliminating smoking in bars would increase business for these establishments, according to a study released Tuesday, December 2 at a New York City press briefing jointly sponsored by the American Medical Association and American Public Health Association. An overwhelming majority of Massachusetts adults - 89 percent - said that they would go out to bars just as often or more often than they do now if all bars were made smoke-free.
The American Medical Association (AMA) passed a resolution today introduced by the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS) and other concerned organizations aimed at ensuring insurance coverage of procedures associated with childhood deformities, disfigurements and congenital defects.
Treatment using conventional antipsychotics show high rates of recidivism which, in turn, is costly for the system. However, new research from the University of Maryland shows that patients treated with the novel antipsychotic risperidone experienced a lower readmission rate than patients who received conventional antipsychotic treatment.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation announced that it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market MigranalÆ (dihydroergotamine mesylate, USP) Nasal Spray for the acute treatment of migraine headache with or without aura.
After noticing a suspicious lump, a persistent sore or a chronic cough, low-income Dallas residents tend to treat themselves, then wait about a month before seeing a physician.
Researchers at The New York Botanical Garden are continuing their evaluation of the traditional healing methods of Latino, Chinese, and African cultures for certain women's ailments, in a collaborative study with the Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research in Women's Health at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. The current phase of the project focuses on uterine fibroids, a benign tumor composed of fibrous and muscular tissue in the uterine wall.
Glaring lights, harsh noises and disruptive procedures in many neonatal intensive care units can deter the neurological development of tiny newborns and should be subdued, said a University of South Florida researcher who heads a national study examining the effects of the NICU environment on high-risk infants.
Parkinson's and Alzheimer's-like diseases are as much a part of the island of Guam as its sandy beaches, emerald sea ... and palm-like trees called cycads. Only recently did scientists discover that the seeds of the cycads, a favorite food of the locals, contain BMAA, a nonprotein amino acid which triggers neurological damages in mammals.
Research published in the Dec. 11 Nature by Texas and New York scientists hints at ways to uncouple profound emotional associations resulting from things like child abuse, rape or war and offers some of the best support yet for a long-held theory of how we learn.
After a decade of increases, AIDS-related TB appears to be stabilizing.
Smoking crack cocaine and marijuana can damage the lung's immune system more than smoking cigarettes
27 percent of women in a contraceptive use study had increased risk of pregnancy because they didn't take the pill for two or more consecutive days and used no backup in the following week. Also, half of those women missed two or more pills at least twice during the three-month study.
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore is redefining emergency care with the opening of its new Emergency Center, ER-7, in the new Herman & Walter Samuelson Pavilion for Emergency Medicine.
"President Clinton's Bill of Rights for health care consumers is good for people with mental illnesses," said Michael Faenza, president and chief executive of the National Mental Health Association. "It will help provide essential safeguards for mental health consumers in an increasingly cost-based health care system."
A children's mental health report released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) estimates that 20%, or one in five, of all children from birth through 17 years of age suffer from a diagnosable mental, emotional or behavioral disorder, and that 9% - 13% of all youths ages 9 - 17 have a serious emotional disturbance (SED).
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is one of several hospitals offering a new, more sensitive cochlear implant.
After only seven days of physical activity -- walking or stationary biking -- women with high blood pressure began to reap dramatic health benefits, according to a report in this month's Hypertension, a journal of the American Heart Association.
Although the drug warfarin prevents up to 80 percent of strokes suffered by those who have atrial fibrillation, which is irregular heart beat, it is woefully underused in the patients who have this common heart condition, according to a study in this month's Stroke, a journal of the American Heart Association.
A novel form of blood pressure reading can be a strong predictor of coronary heart disease death, according to a study reported by a Paris team of researchers in this month's Hypertension, an American Heart Association journal.
Boston, Mass -- It's been 22 years since the last study was conducted on the cost of epilepsy. In 1975 the total cost of the disorder was estimated at $3.6 billion. Since then, various studies have produced buckshot results with estimates scattered across the board, some varying as much as $3,000 to more than $9,000 per patient. Today, with advances in treatment and rising health-care costs, there is a real need to pin down the cost burden of epilepsy on individuals and society as a whole.
An estrogen derived from plants was shown in clinical trials to prevent osteoporosis at half the dose of the animal-based estrogen normally prescribed by physicians--and with fewer side effects-- according to a new study.
A great majority of pregnant women want ultrasounds---so much so, that many are willing to pay out of pocket for it if their insurance company won't cover the procedure, study shows.
PET, or positron emission tomography, is a technology previously considered experimental in the United States. However, new studies show it is significantly more accurate than other imaging methods used to detect cancer and can also find areas of infection in the body far quicker than conventional means.
Faced with medical tests, patients and their families generally have questions. Why is test being given? What does it involve? How does it help? These questions and many others are answered in a new book, The Yale University School of Medicine Patient's Guide to Medical Tests, just published by Houghton Mifflin Co.
Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine have launched a study to determine how commonly used chemicals in autobody paint shops may cause or aggravate asthma. The study, Survey of Painters and Repairers in Autobodies by Yale (SPRAY), is also aimed at finding better ways to protect workers' health
Johns Hopkins researchers have confirmed that a gene related to bipolar disorder in families is located in the "long arm" of human chromosome 18.
Celebrating 25 years of emergency medicine research, the December issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine publishes articles from prominent emergency physicians and medical commentators on topics that describe the history of emergency medicine, examine the specialty's challenges and role in the health care system, and chart its course for the future.
Research briefs from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research: 1) More prevalent severe obesity may explain black/white difference in stage at diagnosis of breast cancer, 2) People over 45 with pneumonia report fewer symptoms than younger people but may be at higher risk of death or complications, 3) Carotid endarterectomy outcomes may not be as favorable outside of ideal clinical trial conditions, 4) HMO primary care physicians refer as many women as men to specialists 5) Routine use of antibiotics for acute middle ear infections not recommended
People who have total knee replacements and later undergo extensive dental work may be susceptible to knee infections years after their initial surgery, according to a study by Johns Hopkins physicians.
A team of scientists at Iowa State University and Brookhaven National Lab has made progress in determining how hypericin, a chemical found naturally in the herbal remedy plant St. John's wort, becomes super- toxic to viruses and cancer cells when exposed to light.
Simple and inexpensive home blood pressure monitoring helps predict which borderline hypertensive patients will develop persistent high blood pressure and those whose blood pressure will revert to normal ranges.
RSS
Medicine keyboard_arrow_right
Sciencekeyboard_arrow_right
Life keyboard_arrow_right
Business keyboard_arrow_right
Journal News keyboard_arrow_right
By Location keyboard_arrow_right
Meetings, Grants, and Events keyboard_arrow_right