UAB has received a three-year, $805,000 grant from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality to establish one of seven national Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics of musculoskeletal disorders such as arthritis and osteoporosis.
Amino acid supplements may provide a cost-effective and safe method for improving the nutritional intake of some dialysis patients who are unable to meet their daily protein requirements, a Johns Hopkins study shows (Kidney International, 6-00).
Boosting production of growth hormone can reduce body fat and help maintain levels of functioning in elderly men and women; however, these potential benefits may be undercut by estrogen replacement therapy.
Honey may be an ideal complement to protein supplements in promoting muscle recuperation and glycogen restoration after training.
A group of more than 75 hospitals across the nation has made substantial progress in improving stoke treatment, already acting on many of the recommendations of the Brain Attack Coalition published in JAMA.
Withdrawal from cocaine is no picnic, but a study by a researcher at the University at Buffalo has shown that it may not involve the wrenching ups and downs and intense cravings that specialists in the field have considered the norm (Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 6-00).
Observational studies published in reputable medical journals often give similar results to randomized controlled trials, according to University of Iowa researchers (NEJM, 6-22-00).
A from-the-heart song, "It's a Good Thing You're Here," is a musical reminder for women to lower their risks for breast cancer with a mammogram; the compact disc features voices of breast cancer survivors, their children and husbands.
A combination of plant chemicals collectively known as phytochemicals in the flesh of apples, and particularly in the skin, provide the fruit's anti-oxidant and anti-cancer benefits, say Cornell food scientists (Nature, 6-22-00).
Healing a human brain from the inside out was supposed to be impossible. Now comes the discovery from a Children's Hospital research group, published in Nature (6-22-00), that our brain's nerve cells or neurons could one day be induced into healing themselves.
The acute insulin response diagnostic test, performed in newborns, allows physicians to identify a rare, severe imbalance of insulin levels that can be cured with organ-sparing surgery.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently awarded the UIC School of Public Health $347,000 to increase the number of African-Americans and Latinos enrolling and graduating with advanced degrees in the public health sciences.
People who believe they suffer from migraine headaches must be their own advocates in seeking pain relief. Those who have regular headaches should follow 10 steps to the best care, suggest migraine guidelines being announced at the 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society.
Separating the wheat from the chaff, a headache specialist has ranked the top 10 migraine consumer Web sites and will announce his list at the 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society.
Adolescents prone to migraine are most likely to get the excruciating headaches on Mondays and least likely on Saturdays, according to a large multi-center study being presented at the 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society.
Daily narcotic pain medications may not help most people with persistent difficult-to-treat headaches, suggests a prospective 5-year study being presented at the 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society.
Use of blood from the umbilical cord reduces the incidence of a potentially life-threatening transplant complication in the first study to directly compare such transplants with bone marrow transplants in children with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases (NEJM, 6-22-00).
Radiologists should clearly state in their mission statements that "productivity is a far less important factor in the determination of income (of radiologists) than...optimal care," says a well-known expert in radiology malpractice issues (American Journal of Roentgenology, 7-00).
Researchers supported by the National Science Foundation have developed a means to detect nitric oxide that could help improve scientists' understanding of this molecule's role in neurological signaling and other biological functions.
One hundred and three medicines are in the pipeline to help the more than 50 million Americans who suffer from some form of mental illness, according to a newly released survey by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
Melanoma researchers at UCSD have developed a new drug-combination therapy that has proven in Phase II clinical trials to be significantly better at extending patients' lives than any other drug therapy.
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, may be adapted for use in gene therapy to treat genetic diseases and disorders of the immune system, even including AIDS, according to a scientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Women with advanced breast cancer who have abnormal daytime levels of cortisol, a hormone released in response to stress, are significantly more likely to die sooner than patients with normal levels of the hormone, Stanford researchers report in a newly published study.
Mere memory of drug use can alter an area of the brain -- the prefrontal cortex -- not traditionally implicated in addiction, say University of Wisconsin psychiatry researchers (Synapse, 8-00).
"Making Weight: Men's Conflicts with Food, Weight, Shape and Appearance" aims to help men understand that fat is no longer only a feminist issue. The book's co-writers are a leading expert on male eating disorders, an author of many eating disorder books, and a psychiatrist who is recovered from both compulsive exercise and an eating disorder.
AEGON has committed $2 million to Johns Hopkins for prostate and breast cancer research. The Oncology Center will split the funds with the Free University Oncology Research Institute in Amsterdam for a collaborative research project.
More than 7,500 pharmaceutical scientists will gather in Indianapolis, October 29-November 2, at the 2000 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition to explore Unmet Medical Needs: Therapies for the New Millennium.
In the first study of its kind in families, researchers have shown that elevated triglycerides -- a blood fat -- sharply increase a person's risk of dying from a heart attack, even if a person's blood cholesterol is normal (Circulation, 6-19-00).
Stanford and Packard hospitals are dismayed that while the nurses' union was still at the bargaining table Friday, union spokespeople were informing the media that talks had collapsed.
An abnormality in a protein that helps clear fat from the blood may explain the greatly increased risk of heart disease that people with diabetes face, according to research published by Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons colleagues in the Journal of Clinical Investigation (6-00).
Only 71 to 90 percent of 2-year-olds in the U.S. are fully immunized, and according to a study just released by the Institute of Medicine Committee, that number is too low; only 73 percent of children in Texas are fully immunized, making Texas one of the four lowest ranking states in coverage.
Press briefing to discuss June 21 JAMA article that presents first-ever recommendations for establishment of stroke centers in hospitals is slated for June 20 at National Institutes of Health.
The American Psychiatric Association urged the House Banking and Financial Service Committee to add strong medical record privacy protections to the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999.
Older persons with HIV/AIDS are more likely to experience depression and have thoughts of suicide than younger persons living with the disease, reports a study in the July Psychiatric Services.
Merck used IGEN's new biological detection technology in research that identified a long-sought enzyme believed to play a critical role in Alzheimer's disease (Nature, 6-8-00).
Many people don't act on suicidal thoughts during depressive episodes because of inner strengths, or protective mechanisms that often kick-in during times of crisis, according to a study in the July American Journal of Psychiatry.
A study in the July American Journal of Psychiatry shows that like ADHD in boys, ADHD in girls runs in families. This finding provides evidence suggesting that ADHD is a valid diagnosis in girls.
In a study involving nearly 3,700 Gulf War-era veterans, University of Iowa researchers did not find evidence of a unique "Gulf War syndrome" attributed to military service in the Persian Gulf from 1990-1991 (American Journal of Medicine, 6-15-00).
Many people decline to have a tracheotomy for severe, obstructive sleep apnea because they loathe the idea of having a quarter-sized opening in their neck. A study in the June American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine proves that a tiny 2-mm opening can work as well when combined with a new technology to monitor the flow of air.
UCSD researchers studying, in mice, the molecular machinery of an important signaling pathway inadvertently discovered the gene responsible for a mysterious human congenital disease (Molecular Cell).
Biological, self-regenerated teeth may one day replace dentures and dental implants as scientists investigate and cultivate ways to grow teeth, according to a leading dental researcher.
Although genetically designed smiles are predicted for the future, today's dentists are working with the latest technology to engineer smiles for a lifetime, according to a practicing dentist, author, and clinical professor of Oral Rehabilitation, Medical College of Georgia.
The use of gene-transfer technology to repair salivary-gland tissue, allowing a pathway for saliva to flow in patients undergoing radiation therapy for head and neck cancer, is possible in principle, disclosed Bruce J. Baum, D.M.D., Ph.D.
"Smart" fillings that prevent further tooth decay, toothpaste that strengthens and restores tooth minerals, and chewing gums and mouthwashes that reverse and "heal" early decay are under development at the American Dental Association Health Foundation's Paffenbarger Research Center.
Periodontal diseases may be a risk factor and have a role in many other ailments, ranging from diabetes to heart disease to stroke to preterm births and osteoporosis, according to the chairperson, Department of Periodontics, at UAB.
The American College of Radiology said a study in the June 12 NEJM grossly underestimates the value of double-contrast barium enema as a tool for preventing colon cancer.
First-line clinical strategies, excluding invasive or emerging therapies, to guide doctors in managing atrial fibrillation -- a common cause of stroke -- in patients at outpatient settings is assessed in a report from AHRQ.
An article in the AAPS' online journal AAPS PharmSci describes how novel human genes can be found on the Internet, and what type of information can be gleaned from public data before the first laboratory experiment is done.
Cancer researchers at Cornell University have learned how some proteins receive the marching orders that dispatch them to initiate signaling pathways and produce malignant cell transformation. The discovery offers new potential targets for anti-cancer drugs to block tumor growth (Nature, 6-15-00).
Without leaving their own neighborhoods, prostate cancer patients in five Southern California counties can get experimental treatments they otherwise could not receive. Urologists in this area now offer leading-edge clinical trials, many of which are only available through UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center.
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