A gene that appears to provide protection against coronary artery disease (CAD), the cause of heart attacks, has been identified by Japanese researchers, according to a report in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Sudden cardiac arrest risk goes up 50 percent for individuals whose parent, brother or sister has had heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest, according to a report in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Preliminary data from clinical studies of medications which treat congestive heart failure (CHF) demonstrate substantial international differences in usage of ACE inhibitors as well as the safety and potential utility of calcium channel blockers (CCBs) in the treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease.
The Cleveland Clinic, in conjunction with the Cleveland Clinic-Florida, has begun an FDA-approved study testing a drug that may reduce inflammation and enhance healing among patients undergoing reconstructive surgery immediately following a mastectomy.
Breast cancer survivors who regularly work up a light to moderate sweat with exercise get into better physical condition and feel significantly less depressed and anxious according to this study. Furthermore, the sooner survivors start exercising after they have recovered from surgery, the greater the impact on their mental health.
The precise location in the brain that produces the sounds of tinnitus, a ringing in the ears that affects millions of people, has been identified. This marks a major step toward hope for an effective treatment. Tinnitus patients also had abnormal links between their hearing systems and their brains' emotion control centers, as well as other brain transformations, according to a study published in the January issue of Neurology, the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal. EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL JANUARY 22, 1998.
Ethnic and cultural origin appear to play a key role in who will develop Parkinson's disease (PD) and why, according to a study published in the January issue of Neurology, the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal. EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL JANUARY 22, 1998.
Alzheimer's disease(AD)patients suffering with memory and other cognitive impairments may find help with donepezil. The currently-available drug improves patients' cognition and ability to function, according to a study published in the January issue of Neurology, the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal. EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL JANUARY 22, 1998.
News tips from the January issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine: 1) Women suffer from asthma more than men, 2) No evidence of bone density reduction in asthmatic children on long term therapy with corticosteroids, 3) New type of catheter prevents systemic infections associated with prolonged pulmonary artery catherization.
Major national public health groups today petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to develop strategies to regulate tobacco products as drugs. "Under existing law, the Food and Drug Administration has the authority and jurisdiction to regulate the manufacture, sale, distribution, labeling, advertising and marketing of tobacco products. Today we are filing a petition with the FDA to urge the agency to continue to exercise that jurisdiction. Tobacco products should meet the same level of standards applied to other legal drugs and drug delivery devices," said John R. Garrison, CEO of the American Lung Association.
New research by Carson Chow and James J. Collins at Boston University's Center for BioDynamics may be the basis for a better way to help doctors identify people who are susceptible to falls. An article in the current issue of Physical Review Letters describes their finding that the physical mechanism that keeps a person standing upright works essentially the same way whether the person is standing at ease or pertubed by a slight external push.
Potassium, either in the form of fruits and vegetables, or in supplements can lower high blood pressure, a risk factor for heart attack or stroke, Harvard researchers report in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
A new, highly sensitive test based on blood pressure monitoring can detect late-pregnancy complications such as high blood pressure and preeclampsia a full 23 weeks before symptoms occur, Spanish researchers report in this month's Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The American College of Physicians released "The Physician Workforce and Financing of Graduate Medical Education, " aimed at changing graduate medical education, adjusting the current physician workforce, achieving predictable and stable funding, and researching new sources of funding such as vouchers.
A review of clinical trials published this week found that women who consumed high levels of calcium in conjunction with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) had much greater increases in bone mass than those who used either estrogen or calcitonin alone.
Pharmaceutical companies added 39 new drugs and 10 biologics to the nation's medicine chest in 1997, including important new treatments for heart disease, cancer arthritis, diabetes , Parkinson's disease, and AIDS, according to a report released today by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).
A new animal model that develops Alzheimer's-like pathology at an accelerated rate will allow researchers to more rapidly test drugs with the potential to slow or prevent the disease. The joint study by the University of South Florida, Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville and the University of Minnesota is on the January cover of the journal Nature Medicine.
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a previously unknown genetic mechanism by which a gene, known as INGI, suppresses tumors in collaboration with the well-known tumor suppressor p53.
1) Simple computer generated reminders help physicians to remember to discuss end of life directives with their patients, 2) Using both difficulty and degree of independence testing provide a more complete picture of elderly disability, 3) One month intensive course improves residents' interviewing skills, 4) ACP position paper on changes in physician workforce and graduate medical education, 5) Hypertension risk increases with adult weight gain or general obesity.
When asked to identify the `comb' within a group of imposter items, two-year-olds typically will select a comb-shaped object--whether or not it has teeth for combing a doll's hair--because very young children learn new words based on shapes, not functions, a University of Delaware researcher reports in the Journal of Memory and Language, mailed today.
Understanding the genetic causes of spina bifida is a research objective of James F. Martin, an assistant professor of medical biochemistry and genetics at Texas A&M University's Institute of Biosciences and Technology. Spina bifida is a severe birth defect in which the spinal canal fails to fuse. There is no treatment for the resulting spinal cord damage.
Research has shown that children exposed to common environmental toxins like dioxin and PCBs prenatally or during infancy can suffer behavioral and learning problems. A University of Maryland researcher suggests that the underlying mechanism may be thyroid hormone disruption.
The federal Health Care Financing Administration has designated the University of Maryland Medical Center as a Medicare-approved lung transplant center, which means that elderly patients who need the surgery no longer have to travel outside the mid-Atlantic region.
According to research by a Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center physician, potato chips made with olestra don't cause any more digestive problems than regular-fat potato chips and, despite containing only half the calories, are just as filling. Olestra, a nonabsorbable fat substitute, has been making news headlines since its approval by the FDA two years ago for use in snack products.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The younger the age of drinking onset, the greater the chance that an individual at some point in life will develop a clinically defined alcohol disorder, according to a new report released today by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and their colleagues at Geron Corp., Menlo Park, Calif., say they have figured out how to overcome the mechanisms that control cellular aging and extend the life span of human cells. The article appears in the Jan. 16 issue of Science.
If tobacco is the chief preventable cause of illness and death in America, then the nationπs health can be significantly improved by strengthening tobacco cessation strategies within managed care organizations, the health care delivery systems which serve 75 percent of insured U.S. workers. Thatπs the concept behind a new $6.7 million program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and based at the University of Wisconsin Medical School. The program, ≥Addressing Tobacco In Managed Care,≤ supports studies of policies and practices which reduce tobacco use by members of managed care organizations: HMOs (health maintenance organizations), PPOs (preferred provider organizations), and point-of-service plans.
People diagnosed with an exercise-induced left bundle branch block are more than twice as likely to die or experience a major cardiac event, compared to a similar group of patients who showed no signs of a bundle branch block. The study by the Cleveland Clinic, published in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), concludes this little-heeded condition might, in fact, be a significant predictor of patient outcome.
Following the media uproar over a scientist in Illinois who says he will try to begin human cloning soon, Cornell professor Robert H. Foote spoke out Wednesday, Jan. 7, to debunk and denounce the effort.
Ralph G. Yount, President of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), today criticized proposals to clone human beings. At the same time, Yount emphasized that certain cloning techniques are important tools for biomedical research.
Findings regarding vaccine therapy for ovarian cancer, platinum-based chemotherapy, the effect of route of delivery in the post-partum period and pelvic radiation therapy for cervical cancer take center stage at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists.
Overweight and obese mothers have significantly less success breast-feeding their newborns, and babies who aren't breast-fed for more than two months maybe more likely to become obese adolescents, according to two new Cornell University/Bassett Hospital studies that examine the effects of maternal obesity, breast-feeding and adolescent obesity.
New research from one of the most comprehensive studies ever of middle-age Americans indicates that people who once smoked may continue to suffer from the effects of smoking even if they had quit years before.
A new study raises the surprising possibility that physicians may not be treating the aftermath of their patients' heart attacks aggressively enough. The findings appear in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The health of a person's heart may be found by looking in the blood, according to a report in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
We invite you to make plans to attend the upcoming Epidemiology and Prevention Conference in Santa Fe. A fully equipped and staffed newsroom will be provided for working members of the media.
The younger the age of drinking onset, the greater the chance that an individual at some point in life will develop a clinically defined alcohol disorder, according to a new report to be released January 14 by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Researchers have discovered two chemical messengers in the brain that may lead to new insights into weight control.
Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology: 1) Hepatitis G May be Sexually Transmitted, 2) Gene Gun Delivers DNA Vaccine to Reproductive Tract, 3) Borna Virus Requires Low pH to Infect Cells
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded The University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health a $874,195 grant to determine whether exposure to an ingredient found in Agent Orange during the Vietnam War can be associated with neural tube defects in the veterans' children.
In the first successful attempt to make engineered tissue without synthetic scaffolding, a team of researchers created a blood vessel made entirely from human cells.
Researchers studying the causes of cancer at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine received grants from the American Cancer Society (ACS): Robert E. Oswald, pharmacology, $166,000 for a two-year study, "Structure and Regulation of Cdc42Hs;" James W. Casey, microbiology and immunology, $90,000 for a two-year continuation of "Development and Regression of a Retroviral Induced Sarcoma."
A Louisiana State University researcher is using a unique technique to study the genes that cause Down Syndrome.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Cerebral malaria should be considered as seriously as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or Agent Orange exposure as an underlying cause of long-term medical and psychological problems faced by some Vietnam War veterans, according to a study by a University of Iowa and Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) psychologist.
Sleep disorders associated with heavy snoring pose the greater stroke risk, researchers reported today in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. The study by U.S. and German researchers is the first to indicate a possible mechanism for stroke risk that could explain why some sleep disorders are more dangerous than others.
People who are Hispanic are more likely than whites and Native Americans to develop hemorrhagic strokes, caused by rupture of a brain artery, rather than ischemic strokes, caused by blockage of a brain artery, according to a new study appearing in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
About 30 percent of stroke survivors have dementia, a disorder that robs a person of memory and other intellectual abilities, according to a new study in this month's Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Peer-reviewed study published in the journal "Nutrition and Clinical Care" finds Cheerios(R) breakfast cereal significantly reduces total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and apoB levels in adults
News Tips from Sinai Health System: 1. Remote pediataric anesthesia puts patients and families at ease 2. Cataract Surgery Can Now Be Performed Without Needles 3. Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Older Adults Require Special Care 4. Weight Loss without Medication is Safer 5. Back Surgery Can Now Be Performed on an Outpatient Basis
Natural estrogens may offer some protection to premenopausal women threatened with severe brain damage during stroke, according to a study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health.
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