Researchers have discovered a new eating disorder in which some patients with right anterior brain lesions suddenly become compulsively addicted to thinking about and eating fine foods. Called Gourmand syndrome, the new disorder is presented in the May issue of the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal, Neurology.
Medical professionals and patients are not being informed or warned about the serious dangers associated with a migraine drug, according to an article published in the May issue of the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal, Neurology.
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)House of Delegates will hear testimony and vote the last week of May on over 50 resolutions addressing the physician assistant (PA)profession and the delivery of health care in the United States,including a policy paper on assisted suicide.
Women may be more vulnerable than previously assumed to contracting the AIDS virus from their male sexual partners, according to findings by Dartmouth Medical School and VA Medical Center researchers.
Fact sheet on cancer statistics in the United States, including information on cancer incidence, mortality, and survival rates as well as background information on cancer genetics. Prepared by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Annual Meeting, May 17-20, 1997, Denver, CO.
Five new studies released at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting (Denver, CO, May 17-20, 1997) reveal novel approaches to cancer treatment show promise for next generation of cancer drugs.
Four new studies presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting (Denver, CO, May 17-20, 1997) examine the benefit of using chemotherapy and tamoxifen combined; provide new insight into managing uterine cancer risk; and the psychological benefits of lumpectomy.
Four new research studies presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting (Denver, CO, May 17-20, 1997) challenge standard prostate cancer therapies and explore innovative biological strategies.
Four new research studies presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting (Denver, CO, May 17-20, 1997) reveal new findings for the prognosis and treatment of those with hereditary cancer.
Fact Sheet on End-of-Life Care in the United States including information on physician assisted suicide, planning for end-of-life care, and financial and legal issues. Prepared by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Annual Meeting, May 17-20, 1997, Denver, CO.
The worldÃs leading cancer specialists today confronted some of the most controversial issues surrounding end-of-life care of cancer patients at a major session of the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Denver, CO (May 17-20, 1997).
Psychiatric Annual Meeting Highlights: May 17-18, 1997 -- Insanity defense historical background; future of quality psychiatric care, threats to patient access to care.
Geriatric Patients and Psychiatric Issues: Neuroimaging; New medications and treatment of depression, mania, psychosis, Alzheimer's Disease, and dementia; Alzheimer's genetic risk; caregivers; elderly suicide.
Psychiatry and International Research: APA Annual Meeting (San Diego, 5/17/22/97): Korean teen criminals, Chinese medical students, suicide in the Arctic, Korean disaster, ego defense and Korean smokers, Anger attacks in France, Schizophrenia on Reunion Island, Murder in Finland, French emergency room, PTSD in Rwanda, Children with ADHD in Quebec, Bosnian Students, Eating disorders in Japan.
Women's issues at psychiatric annual meeting: psychosocial care for women with breast cancer, depression and women across the reproductive cycle, women prisoners: psychiatric disorders and HIV infection.
California Psychiatric Presenters Highlighted at APA Annual Meeting (5/17-22/97): Estrogen for depressed perimenopausal women; sleep disturbances in the elderly, controversies in child custody.
1) Cholesterol Levels Related to Death From Coronary Heart Disease in Elderly; 2) Antihypertensive Drug Treatment on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Men and Women; 3) Medical Applications of Marijuana; 4) ACP Outlines Steps for Fecal Occult Blood Testing and Interpretation in Colon Cancer Screening
For the first time a link has been established between the pain system, the immune system and the reproductive system. These findings go far beyond the known pain relief role of pain receptors.
Children with severe asthma who receive medical care at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center Pediatric Day Program have asthma-related medical costsósuch as hospital stays, emergency room and doctor visitsóreduced from an average of $21,370 a year to an average of $7,740 a year, researchers found.
Some complicated, high-risk liver operations are safer, easier on the patient -- and less costly -- when performed at medical centers that do a lot of them, according to a Johns Hopkins study.
Psychiatrists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are using a "testimony" method of psychotherapy to help survivors of the "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia-Herzegovina. These survivors of genocide have suffered extreme psychological traumas that require special attention from mental health professionals.
A new, laparoscopic technique allows people to donate a kidney with much less pain, a shorter hospital stay, and a much faster recovery. Also, kidneys removed in this less-traumatic way function as well as those taken out with a large incision, according to surgeons from the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
"Great Issues for Medicine in the Twenty-first Century: Ethical and Social Issues Arising out of Advances in the Biomedical Sciences." Friday, Sept. 5 - Sunday, Sept. 7, 1997, Hanover, NH.
A team of researchers led by Johns Hopkins finds most men between 50 and 70 don't need an annual prostate specific antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer because their risk of having a noncurable cancer that can be detected is so small.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins and other institutions have refined a chart that helps physicians determine how advanced a prostate cancer may be and guides treatment decisions.
An experimental drug delays organ rejection in rhesus monkeys with transplanted hearts, researchers from Stanford University Medical Center and Genentech Inc. have announced.
Nicotine patches should be stored in a safe place or discarded immediately after use because they can be toxic to children, according to a recent study published on Pediatrics electronic pages, the electronic journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The nations foremost authority on child health has teamed up with the largest producer of healthcare television programming to announce the release of a new parenting multimedia program entitled HealthAnswers for Parents: A Guide to Babys First Three Months.
The number of uninsured children grew by nearly 1 million between 1987 and 1993, according to a study published on Pediatrics electronic pages, the electronic journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and Allstate Insurance Company are making the 1997 Family Shopping Guide to Car Seats brochure available available during Buckle Up America! Week, May 19-26, 1997.
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center has announced the opening of the Center for Menopause, Hormonal Disorders, and Women's Health, the first of its kind in the New York metropolitan area.
HMS researchers report the discovery of a novel protein that begins to bring an understanding of how the oocyte moves its RNAs to the right places prior to fertilization; this work for the first time implicates a component of the cell's infrastructure, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), in this process, describing a new subtype of ER and suggesting a new role for this well-studied organelle.
A wand-like instrument that emits radio-frequency energy can selectively shrink excess soft tissue, potentially offering a way to cure sleep apnea, a Stanford sleep specialist reports.
Automated home blood pressure monitoring is as accurate and efficient as the *gold standard* stethoscope and sphygmomanometer in measuring blood pressure, a study in the current American Journal of Hypertension shows.
Still looking for that perfect Mother's Day gift? What could be more perfect than the gift of better health? Two new studies published recently in medical journals demonstrate that vitamin E can improve the immune system and delay the deterioration caused by Alzheimer's in the elderly.
Borrowing from the field of dentistry, otolaryngologists are using titanium bone implants to create permanent anchors for prosthetic ears. This is a major advance for people who are missing an ear because of cancer, trauma, or birth defects.
A regimen of three anti-HIV drugs reduces amounts of virus stored in lymph tissue by 99.9 percent after six months, according to a study led by University of Minnesota researchers. The triple therapy was already known to drive virus in the blood to near-undetectable levels, but the new study shows similar results against virus stored in tonsils, a lymphoid tissue that acts as a reservoir for HIV.
Like the ancient Trojan horse hiding a silent enemy, some immune system cells in HIV-positive persons carry the genetic information for making HIV and can potentially restart a full-blown infection in patients in whom treatment has reduced AIDS virus to undetectable levels in the blood, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins and other institutions report that a test that counts AIDS viruses in blood should be routinely used on newborns whose mothers are HIV-positive so that treatment with anti-HIV drugs can be started as early as possible.
One day soon, scientists will be able to ship a threatening virus or potential miracle drug found in a remote jungle to an automated laboratory, then use global computer networks to design and run experiments that will yield analytical results within days.
Radiologists who use high resolution x-ray systems, rather than standard systems, are more likely to detect fractures due to child abuse, according to a University of Massachusetts study.
Combination drug treatment could eliminate HIV from the body's major sites of infection in a few years, researchers conclude after subjecting new clinical data to rigorous mathematical analysis.
The nation's apology to the surviving patients of the Tuskegee syphilis study does not close the door on syphilis in the South, which has the highest rates of this sexually transmitted diseases. Thus far in 1997, over three-fourths of reported syphilis cases in the U.S. occurred in Southern states.
The roots of many adult ailments can be found in childhood abuse according to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center researchers.
Many Wisconsin deer and some California and Oregon bears carry a tick-borne disease that can be serious or fatal in humans, according to a Johns Hopkins study.
Contrary to what doctors and patients have long believed, coronary bypass surgery per se is not the usual cause of depression found in some patients after surgery, according to a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the Krieger Mind-Brain Institute.
A new flu vaccine given to children via nasal spray or nose drops produced good antibody response. Embargo: Tues. May 6, 9:30 am EDT.
A vaccine for cytomegalovirus was found to be well tolerated and highly immunogenic in toddlers. CMV can cause mononucleosis-type illness, organ rejection, and birth defects. Embargo: Tues. May 6, 9:30 am EDT.
Twins die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome at more than double the rate of single births. If one twin died of SIDS, the other twin had a six- to twelvefold risk of SIDS. Embargo: Tues. May 6, 9 am EDT.
Children who live in poor areas of Missouri are six times more likely to die in a fire; those who live in rural areas are three times more likely. Embargo: Tues. May 6, 10:15 am EDT.
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