The issue of human cloning is in the news again with an announcement by a controversial Italian doctor, that he will continue with his plans to clone human beings.
Awareness of the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of HIV-related anemia among people living with HIV remains alarmingly low according to the results of a first-of-its-kind survey of nearly 700 HIV-positive Americans.
In early 2000, 16.1 percent of the U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population (44 million people) had no health insurance coverage, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.
Faulty prescribing and incorrect dosages lead to the majority of medication errors in America's hospitals and health systems between 1976 and 1997. The article, "Potential Risks and Prevention: Reports of Significant Adverse Drug Events," is the fourth in a series that examines risk factors for error and ways that health care providers can help prevent adverse drug events.
The U.S. Pharmacopeia Drug Quality & Information Program (USPDQI) and the Drug Information Association (DIA) are co-sponsoring an International Conference on Pharmaceutical Affairs, to be held October 2-5, 2001, at Hotel De L'Annapurma in Kathmandu, Nepal.
African-American women are 40 percent as likely to breastfeed their infants as non-black women, and this disparity accounts for the race gap in U.S. infant mortality at least as well as low birth weight does, according to a new study.
Individuals whose arteries open spontaneously before angioplasty -- a technique to treat blocked coronary arteries -- are more likely to survive, suggesting that drugs that help speed this along may be useful in combination with angioplasty after all.
The fledgling field of light imaging holds the potential to "see" even the smallest of tumor, raising the possibility of an eventual cell-by-cell attack on cancer.
A Birmingham woman with newborn triplets is the quintessential poster mom for World Breastfeeding Week, Aug. 1-7, designed to generate public awareness and support for breastfeeding.
Researchers have identified the particular antibody that causes the death of harmful cancer cells and those active in autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
The death of Minnesota Vikings' offensive tackle Korey Stringer due to heat stroke - just six days after University of Florida football freshman Eraste Autin died of for similar reasons - has amplified the risks athletes face as they practice in sometimes oppressive heat.
The University of Michigan and the World Health Organization are co-sponsoring a scientific symposium, "State-of-the-Art Telemedicine/ Telehealth: An International Perspective" to set the direction for telemedicine on a local, regional, national and international scale.
The UC Davis Cancer Center and Kaiser Permanente are co-sponsoring "Cancer as a Turning Point: From Thriving to Surviving," a free conference for cancer survivors and their friends. The event takes place Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 8-9.
OxyContin, one of the newest drugs prescribed for pain, has become a destructive drug of abuse among recreational drug users obtaining it illegally. The potential for abuse is high also among patients receiving the drug legitimately if they are not monitored closely by their physicians.
Researchers at University of Illinois at Chicago have designed and synthesized highly potent inhibitor compounds that could lead to effective Alzheimer's disease treatment.
Ongoing experiments at the University of Illinois on female and male rodents are shedding light on the role of estrogen during heart surgery.
Cooling the brain after an ischemic stroke may limit both initial tissue damage caused by a stroke as well as subsequent damage resulting from the restoration of blood flow after using clot-busting drugs.
Strokes among hypertensive men who became flustered by a hectic test was nearly double compared to men who were unruffled by the stressful situation.
Researchers have pinpointed the gene on chromosome 3 that causes myotonic dystrophy Type 2, the most common form of muscular dystrophy in adults. The defect occurs in an intron, strong evidence that RNA by itself can cause disease.
NYU School of Medicine researchers have prevented the development of Alzheimer's disease in mice genetically engineered with the human gene for the disease using a new vaccine. The researchers are optimistic that this new vaccine is safer than one already being tested in early human clinical trials.
Physicians should consider the possibility of cocaine use as a culprit when young adults are brought to emergency rooms for nontraumatic chest pains, according to researchers at the UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Shimon Slavin, MD, Director of Israel's National Bone Marrow Transplant Center, has been named Medical Director of Immunotherapy to initiate new protocols for bone marrow transplant at Cancer Treatment Centers of America and its five cancer centers.
1) Snorers and persons with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) demonstrated upper airway sensory impairment which could trigger airway obstruction; 2) Airway sensory dysfunction could be caused by motor neuron lesions in some snorers and in most patients with OSA; 3) Use of low-tidal ventilation works equally well across all clinical subgroups associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome.
The National Cancer Institute has designated UCSD Cancer Center as a Comprehensive Cancer Center, the highest ranking awarded to cancer centers by the federal government, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced via a live video satellite link from the nation's capitol.
Health System Uses Palm Handheld Devices in Low-Cost System that provides patient medical information to doctors and pharmacists.
The National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health has awarded a six-month $104,000 Small Business and Innovation Research grant to MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to study a potential new co-therapy for advanced skin and kidney cancers.
Women who have diabetes have a substantially greater risk of dying a few years after suffering a heart attack than do non-diabetic women, according to a study led by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researchers.
A ten-year Mayo Clinic study of patients arriving at the emergency room has found that overweight or obese patients had their first heart attacks at a younger age than their normal-weight counterparts.
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute scientists report the development of the first, to their knowledge, HIV-1 Transgenic Rat Model for Studying AIDS. It will save money, time and experiments in drug development.
Researchers have identified a critical link in the pathway leading to skin cancer. It could lead to the first drug therapy for the most common form of cancer afflicting people.
Green tobacco sickness "is a highly prevalent occupational illness among Latino migrant and seasonal farmworkers in North Carolina," report N.C. researchers.
Mexican Americans in the U.S. who speak primarily Spanish and are less "Americanized" are significantly less active during leisure time than Mexican Americans whose main language is English, a study headed by researchers from the University at Buffalo has found.
1) Getting along in space: Crews on a two-year mission to Mars will not only be separated from family, but also they will have to work in harmony; 2) Space radiation exposure during exploration missions: Exposures in space may be hundreds of times greater than on Earth.
Bosnian refugees traumatized by mass violence in the war in the Balkans continue to exhibit high levels of mental illnesses such as depression and posttraumatic stress disorder, according to a unique study.
A behavioral intervention program that teaches strategies for practicing safe sex to HIV-positive men and women reduces both the incidence of risky sex behavior and risk for transmission of the virus, according to a new study.
A brief non-confrontational intervention program administered to high-risk college-age drinkers when they entered college had long-lasting effects that persisted over four years in reducing the number of alcohol-related problems.
The 10th edition of the Hopkins guide to AIDS care, Medical Management of HIV Infection mirrors a decade's history of medical successes and challenges. The internationally renowned publication began in 1991 as a 28-page booklet with 10 pages devoted to anti-HIV therapy as well as treatment of opportunistic infections and complications. It is now a 356-page book.
A biochemistry team from the Department of Veterans Affairs and UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has identified a glucose-sensitive protein that translates excessively high-carbohydrate intake into body fat, especially when combined with a sedentary lifestyle.
Arthur D. Little develops reduced fat fish oil ice cream to boost consumer health-will consumers take the bait?
If you think spit tobacco won't hurt you, chew on this. According to Mayo Clinic experts interviewed for a new feature on MayoClinic.com, one pinch held between your cheek puts the same amount of nicotine in your body as smoking three cigarettes. Your body also absorbs several toxic chemicals including arsenic and formaldehyde.
Boston University, with one of the nation's oldest biomedical engineering departments, and the University of California, Davis, with one of the newest, have both received leadership-level awards from The Whitaker Foundation.
Each year, more and more people are turning to cosmetic procedures to erase the telltale signs of aging. Thanks in part to new minimally invasive treatments pioneered primarily by dermatologists, women -- and men -- have a variety of options to choose from that meets their criteria.
A new generation of lasers and techniques are allowing dermatologists to use lasers on ethnic-skinned patients with improved results.
In 1990, the United States deployed over 500,000 troops to the Persian Gulf region. As with all Veterans of military campaigns and wars abroad, returning stateside often has physical and psychological effects on the men and women returning home. Often these physical effects and battle wounds appear immediately, however, there are some dermatological conditions that can remain dormant for years.
Acne is a common medical condition that affects up to 80 percent of people between 11 and 30 years of age. Even after the unsightly whiteheads, blackheads and pustules have been successfully treated, many people are left with disfiguring acne scars that serve as a cruel reminder of this difficult condition.
A risk index can predict the extent of pregnancy complications in women who have heart conditions, which means those at high risk can be directed to specialized treatment facilities.
A walk down any cosmetics aisle will reveal a confusing array of products with different ingredients. So, how do consumers know which products are the most effective? Dermatologists can help consumers wade through the hype and select the correct products for their skin type.
What was once an innovative way to treat the tell tale signs of aging, botulinum toxin is now being used successfully to help curb medical conditions ranging from excessive sweating to pain.
Had the heart attack Vice President Cheney suffered last November occurred just one month earlier, an accurate diagnosis would not have been made.
The US stores more than 300 million specimens of tissue in facilities known as biorepositories. How will the facilities be kept and used for large-scale studies? Novel automated system robotically processes, analyzes, stores, retrieves 250,000 genomic DNA samples.
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