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.
Researchers in the University of Iowa College of Medicine are concerned that people who take medications to control high blood pressure at bedtime or in excessive amounts may be at increased risk for an eye disorder known as anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) or stroke of the eye.
Osteoarthritis is not inevitable for people middle-aged and older who want to start playing sports or continue exercising regularly, according to a UI researcher.
The January issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine presents new national guidelines for pediatric emergency department equipment and a national task force's report on the pediatric curricula needs of Emergency Medical Service providers. Copies of the articles can be obtained from the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Health care professionals involved in the administration of general anesthesia, sedation of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), and monitored anesthesia care (MAC) can now visit a new World Wide Web site containing frequently updated information and educational programs.
Can stress reduction help our bodies defend against cancer? Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh researchers addressing this question are optimistic but not yet sure. In an editorial in the Jan. 7, 1998 Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Carnegie Mellon psychologist Sheldon Cohen and University of Pittsburgh Medical School immunologist Bruce Rabin say that stress influences on the immune function may have implications for defenses against the development or growth of malignant tissue. However, the evidence for such a relationship is incomplete.
As the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, most Americans will be looking toward a healthier, fitter New Year. According to a recent nationwide survey, 51 percent of Americans will resolve to eat more fruits and vegetables in 1998.
Internet Survey Declares a Winner in the Battle Between the TV and the PC: Snack Food Second Annual Survey Finds Snack Food Consumption Coming to the Web
The University of Maryland Medical Center has signed an agreement with the world renowned Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston to open a comprehensive interdisciplinary center providing medical care and education to the 146,000 adults and children in Maryland and Delaware who have diabetes.
January health news tips from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Gene therapy to restore blood flow, preventing stroke in children with sickle cell anemia, and the emergence of common bacteria as a potential "smoking gun" in heart disease are among the top research advances in cardiovascular disease during 1997, according to Martha Hill, R.N., Ph.D., president of the American Heart Association.
The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) announces a new Smoking Cessation Two-Three Initiative that seeks to enlist the help of all clinicians to get their patients who smoke to quit. The Initiative highlights the AHCPR-sponsored Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guideline released last year recommending Two Questions: "Do You Smoke?" and "Do You Want To Quit?" be part of every medical assessment by clinicians. This should be followed by an intervention as brief as Three Minutes recommending smoking cessation treatments proven to work. Research shows that smokers have the best chance of quitting when their health care providers get involved.
Erik Nilsen, assistant professor of psychology at Lewis & Clark, and Lewis & Clark student researchers have conducted three major studies to evaluate a new technology for prescribing glasses to reduce eyestrain caused by use of computers. Seventy percent of the subjects preferred the experimental glasses.
1) Lyme disease testing guidelines from the ACP are cost-effective, according to analysis. 2) Individual practice guidelines are not effective for entire population. 3) Three studies about anticoagulation therapy, protein S deficiency and factor V Leiden mutation respectively, help in the prevention and diagnosis of deep vein blood clots.
Research shows that adult Americans are eating better. The average adult now eats about four and a half servings of fruits and vegetables a day - a significant step closer to the five or more servings a day recommended by the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) National 5 A Day for Better Health program.
Heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases could cost the nation about $15 billion more in economic costs in 1998 than they did in 1997, according to figures released today by the American Heart Association in its 1998 Heart and Stroke Statistical Update.
People who have Parkinson's disease may someday find themselves undergoing a mental training regimen that helps them respond better to the drugs they take and to avoid surgery. Studies by researchers at the University of Kansas hint that exercising your brain every day might be just as important as 20 minutes of physical exercise.
Malignant brain cancers in young children can be eradicated with high-dose chemotherapy and stem-cell transplants, eliminating the need for conventional radiation therapy, which causes irreparable physical and psychological damage in young children, according to two studies by New York University School of Medicine researchers.
An enzyme present in extremely low quantities in normal brains has been found to be greatly increased in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's disease. Northwestern University researchers found that the enzyme, butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), increases at the stage when beta-amyloid plaques in the brain become compact and insoluble. These insoluble plaques are one of two early pathological markers of Alzheimer's disease.
Side-by-side papers featured in the December issue of Immunity resolve a mystery of basic immunology while suggesting a new way to improve the success of bone marrow transplantation. The research -- conducted by postdoctoral fellows in the lab of a Stanford structural biologist -- focused on enigmatic white blood cells called natural killer cells.
The following are articles appearing in the December issue of the "American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine," published by the American Thoracic Society: 1- Fall Weather Brings Increased Hospitalization For Asthmatics; 2- Dust Mites Appear To Be A Dominant Risk Factor For Asthma; 3- Hospitalization for COPD and Asthma Dramatically Increases With Age; 4- Delirium, Acute Confusion and Malnutrition See As Indicators Of Pneumonia In The Elderly
Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh researchers have received nearly $16 million to collaborate on a first-ever research effort that will use brain imaging to analyze complex human thought processes--how people make plans, make decisions under time pressure or solve problems.
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