University of Maryland researchers have confirmed the link between a calcium-handling enzyme and the strength of the heart's beat. They also have been able to enhance the heart's beating strength using a genetically altered adenovirus to give heart muscle cells extra copies of the gene that produces the crucial enzyme, ATPase.
Tips from the American Psychiatric Association -- September, Part 2: 1) Two Decades of Psychiatric Leadership: An Interview with Melvin Sabshin, M.D., 2) Meeting on Psychiatric Services Held in October, 3) Mark Your Calendars: American Psychiatric Association Calendar Listings, 4) Free APA Resources for Media
Tips from the American Psychiatric Association, -- September, Part 1: 1) Schizophrenia Tied to Complications at Birth, 2) Antidepressants in Breast Milk: No Negative Impact, 3) Homeless People with Mental Illness Find Support in the Community, 4) Mental Illness Seen in Young Adults Abusing Drugs and Alcohol, 5) Violence May Be Predictable
African Americans with higher income and education levels are less likely to suffer the consequences of hypertension because of their awareness of the benefits of a heart healthy diet.
Nick Irons swam the length of the Missisippi River, from Minneapolis to Baton Rouge, to raise awareness of the neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS) and to raise money for MS research. His father, Dr. John Irons, has lived with MS for over a decade, and currently uses one of the latest treatments available, called AVONEX, to delay the progression of disability which normally occurs with the disease.
Tips from the American Psychiatric Association Journals - Part 3: 1) 49th Institute on Psychiatric Services Provides Dozens of Story Ideas, 2) Mark Your Calendars - APA Event Listing, 3) Free Resources for Media from the APA
Tips from the American Psychiatric Association - Part 2: 1) 10 Percent of Patients Report Insomnia, 2) Confining Sex Offenders: the Supreme Court Decision, 3) New Technique Bridges the Communication Gap for Patients with Schizophrenia, 4) Persons with Mental Illnesses Benefit from Community Care
Tips from the American Psychiatric Association Journals: 1) New Insights into Late Life Depression; 2) Screening Leads to Treatment for Depression; 3) Life Expectancy Shortened by Mental Disorders
Cornell gerontologist, Karl Pillemer, has developed a program and published a manual called "Partners in Caregiving" to improve communication between nursing home staff and families of residents.
Winston-Salem -- In what could be the most exciting advance in the treatment of AIDS to date, Bowman Gray School of Medicine scientists today reported a novel way to block the deadly HIV virus from ever invading white blood cells.
Experimental psychologists have discovered that babies as young as 8 months are quite good at learning and remembering words.
A genetically engineered thyroid-stimulating compound may be used safely and effectively to screen for recurrence of thyroid cancer after surgery and cause fewer side effects than the traditional test, according to a national study led by two Baltimore physicians.
First lady Rosalynn Carter was awarded the National Mental Health Association's "Into the Light" award for her decades of dedication to mental health advocacy. The award was presented at NMHA's annual tribute dinner in Washington, DC, September 25.
Notes in Brief: 1. A BU School of Medicine research team has deemed a transplant involving pig cells to be safe. The transplant is designed to treat symptoms of Parkinson's disease, and will shortly begin controlled trials. 2. Teenagers in Massachusetts are unlikely to seek HIV testing, although a majority believe that they are at least "a little likely" to become infected with the virus, a BU School of Public Health researcher finds.
To meet the special needs of both adoptive parents and their children, Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital has developed a new program called the Rainbow Center for International ChildHealth. Children who are adopted from overseas sometimes carry rare diseases, or have psychological or behavioral problems associated with neglect or deprivation common to institutionalization.
The American Dental Association invites you to participate in a telephone news conference highlighting some of the most dynamic areas of dentistry: trends in cosmetic dental services such as tooth whitening; new technology that improves patient's understanding of their treatment options; and recent advancements in oral care for seniors and women.
Topics: 1) Take a systematic approach to solving bedwetting; 2) LSD can produce symptoms years later, says drug rehab expert; 3) Get out and walk says a cardiologists who has answers for common excuses not to.
Once dismissed as mere padding, cells known as glia may be essential for the correct wiring of the brain. This is the conclusion of a study reported in the Sept. 12 issue of Science by researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Women suffering from a severe form of premenstrual syndrome that adversely affects relationships and work may have fewer emotional problems when treated with the antidepressant sertraline, a researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas reported Sept. 23 in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Johns Hopkins AIDS researchers have launched a multi-center study to find out if early, aggressive treatment of HIV infection can reduce virus levels or even eliminate the virus. The study also will examine the effect of this treatment approach on the immune system during the first few months of infection. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the research could lead to improved treatments and more effective vaccines.
Five times tougher and 16 times more extensible than a human tendon, the leathery, yet amazingly stretchy collagen threads produced by marine mussels might someday suggest strategies for developing better artificial skin and other biomimetic materials, say University of Delaware researchers. In the Sept. 19, 1997 issue of Science, they describe byssal threads as containing "the first known protein [with] both collagenous and elastin-like domains."
The University of Illinois at Chicago will host the Second International Symposium on Oxidative Stress and Brain Damage Sept. 26-28 at the Hotel Inter-Continental, 505 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois. The focus is neuropsychiatric disorders.
Ophthalmologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have developed an oral vaccine that may prevent rejection of corneal transplants, the most common type of tissue transplant.
Headaches that begin during exercise and go away with rest may be a sign of heart disease, according to a report in the September issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Embargoed For Release Until Monday, September 22, 1997.
Estrogen replacement therapy used to help relieve menopausal symptoms quickly reduces the amount of lipoprotein (a), one of the "bad cholesterols" in the blood, say researchers reporting in this month's American Heart Association's journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.
Through the utilization of ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty (UAL), plastic surgery procedures for body contouring are being refined and augmented, according to two studies to be presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS), September 20-24 in San Francisco, Calf. The evolving role of UAL in body contouring and its relation to traditional suction-assisted lipoplasty (SAL) was examined in one study; another study showed the benefit of using UAL for removing contour irregularities or tightening skin in patients who previously had conventional lipoplasty.
Supplemental vitamin A may provide therapeutic benefits in the treatment of malignant melanoma, according to a study to be presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS), September 20-24 in San Francisco, Calf. Vitamin A, which possesses both wound healing and anti-tumor actions, causes the body to encapsulate tumors which can then be removed surgically. This study of three groups of mice was designed to determine the effect of vitamin A on the presence and size of tumors.
New research confirms that breast reduction surgery may provide benefits other than a smaller size, according to two studies to be presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS), September 20-24 in San Francisco, Calf. One study examined whether women who have breast reduction surgery are at greater or lesser risk for developing breast cancer than other women; another prospective study demonstrated that breast reduction surgery may offer significant social and psychological benefits for adolescent girls.
New custom software and computer technology allows plastic surgeons to transform CT and MRI data of actual patients into three-dimensional and stereoscopic images of bones and soft tissues, according to a study to be presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS). With the patient's individual CT or MRI data in virtual reality, plastic surgeons now can practice surgical techniques and plan procedures before they perform surgery on the actual patient.
The evolution of laser resurfacing techniques is producing dramatic improvement in full face resurfacing, according to two studies to be presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS). One study was made to establish a consistent method of laser skin resurfacing that would result in predictable improvement of facial skin quality; the other study examined the combination of full face laser resurfacing with a facelift for rejuvenation of the aging face.
Women who choose breast reconstruction with autogenous tissue (tissue from the patient's own body) rather than implant may experience greater psychosocial outcomes, according to a study to be presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS), September 20-24 in San Francisco, Calf. The study, designed to measure the psychosocial outcomes of postmastectomy breast reconstruction, includes evaluations of patients before and after reconstruction. Past research has been only retrospective, and did not include pre-operative evaluation.
When young children are interviewed suggestively over a long period of time, they begin to believe the fictitious events questioned about. Experts can't distinguish between children telling false or true accounts.
More than 5,000 pharmaceutical scientists will gather in Boston, Massachusetts, November 2 - 6, 1997, for the Annual Meeting and Exposition of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS).
Bystanders who witness a cardiac arrest should dial 9-1-1 and then perform mouth-to-mouth ventilations and chest compressions -- the two major components of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) -- according to the American Heart Association in a statement on CPR published in its journal Circulation (Sept. 16).
The American Lung Association thanks President Clinton for taking a big step forward to protect children by not endorsing the "global" tobacco settlement that proved woefully inadequate in addressing this nation's tobacco-related health problems. The President is right in signaling that Minnesota Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III should be allowed to put the tobacco industry on trial in January and that Congress should not allow the tobacco industry to dictate the timing of any legislative action.
The University of Texas-Houston has been awarded $2.5 million by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to establish a Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) in scleroderma, a chronic, often fatal connective tissue disease. Headquartered in the UT-Houston Medical School division of rheumatology and clinical immuno-genetics, the center will conduct a wide range of investigations into the disease for which there is no known effective treatment or means of prevention.
Why some patients with kidney diseases respond well to certain medications and others do not has continued to stump physicians. With no means to test the medications besides trial and error, finding the right treatment is often a frustrating experience for physicians and their patients.
Cystic fibrosis, the most common hereditary disease in the United States, is caused by the malfunction of an ion channel that is critical for maintaining the secretions of salt and water that protect the lungs. New research suggests a novel way in which this ion channel may function, thus challenging a commonly held "corked/uncorked" theory. The finding, published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, paves the way for a more refined research effort to find a cure or improve treatment for cystic fibrosis.
The following stories appear in the American Thoracic Society (ATS) September journals: 1) Hospitalization claims more than half of the health care dollar spent on asthmatics; 2) Deaths from lung diseases growing faster in females; 3) Researchers find marker to identify patients with acute lung injury in early stages of disease progression
Ongoing preclinical studies of an antirejection antibody have established its ability to prevent and reverse organ rejection while leaving the immune system intact.
More than 290 public health, labor and other grassroots groups from around the nation today urged President Clinton to require "full document disclosure" from the tobacco industry before endorsing any deal with the cigarette companies.
Physicians frequently prescribe antibiotics for common viral respiratory illnesses that typically do not benefit from antibiotic therapy, according to an article in tomorrow's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. The study, co-authored by Ralph Gonzales, MD, MSPH, assistant professor of medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, could offer insight into the rapidly rising prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Albany Medical College researchers have for the first time provided data that shows that the major predictor of resistance to AIDS drugs is whether the amount of virus in a patient's body has been reduced to nondetectable limits. The analysis showed that among the patients who received just Indinavir, those who were able to reduce the amount of virus in them to less than detectable levels had "significantly lower risks of emergence of resistance" to the drug. When combination therapy was used, such as a combined treatment of Indinavir, AZT, and 3TC, patients had significantly longer times to resistance compared to monotherapy patients even after adjusting statistically for the increased antiviral effect of the additional drugs.
A research team at Boston University School of Medicine has discovered that a synthetic compound significantly limits brain damage when administered after a stroke. Their finding, published September 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could lead to the development of drugs to treat stroke and traumatic brain or spinal cord injury. These new drugs could also slow the progression of ParkinsonÃs disease and ALS, more commonly known as ìLou GehrigÃs disease.î
Drawing on artificial intelligence technology, researchers have for the first time found that machines show promise of improving on human's ability to diagnose heart attacks, according to a study in today's American Heart Association journal Circulation.
Two diseases -- atherosclerosis and osteoporosis -- may be linked by a common problem in how the body uses calcium, according to two reports in American Heart Associations journals. One report is published in Stroke, the other is in today's Circulation.
Researchers have found a mutation in a fat-dissolving gene that raises the risk of heart attack by five-fold compared to individuals with a normal gene. Reporting in today's American Heart Association journal Circulation, they say the gene mutation may place 1 in 1,500 individuals at increased risk for heart attack.
Dr. David Furnas, Chief of the Department of Plastic Surgery at the University of California-Irvine Medical Center, will report tomorrow how the Digital Holographyô System from Voxelô (NASDAQ:VOXL) is helping plastic surgeons reshape congenitally malformed skulls. The holograms produced by the system have helped clinicians diagnose craniofacial problems, create pre-surgical plans, and intraoperatively measure and reconstruct these misshapened skulls.
Results from a Temple University Hospital study indicate that hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy does not speed healing time for soft-tissue sports injuries. Although HBO therapy is becoming increasingly popular with professional sports teams, this study marks the first time it has been put to the scientific test.
1) Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are often prescribed unnecessarily for the elderly, and complications from such drugs are misdiagnosed or mismanaged by doctors; 2) Screening tests reliably detect deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism after total hip or knee arthroplasty; 3) The Federated Council of Internal Medicine releases guidelines for internal medicine residency education; 4) Treating asthma with antilukotrienes, a new class of drugs.
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