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Reduced estrogen levels during women's pre-menopausal years may set the stage for heart disease later in life.

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Better management of persistent nerve-injury pain through a better understanding of how pain medicines operate is the goal of a new $6.1M research center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

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African Americans are more likely to develop and die from cancer than people of any other racial and ethnic group. A new study suggests that socioeconomic status and other social circumstances are likely to be responsible for decreased physical health at the time of diagnosis among African American patients with non-small-cell lung cancer.

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Wake Forest University School of Medicine has established the Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health to develop methods to close the health gap between minorities and the rest of the United States population.

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A Wake Forest University cancer researcher has proposed that a compound found in certain foods may be a cause of testicular cancer in young men.

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Researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Advanced Cell Technology of Worcester, Mass. report in that they have developed a large variety of specialized cell types -- including heart and brain cells -- from embryonic monkey stem cells through a process called parthenogenesis.

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Social rank, whether an individual is dominant or subordinate, has a significant influence on susceptibility to cocaine abuse in monkeys, according to research conducted at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

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A blood pressure medicine's success at lowering pressure shouldn't be the only measure of its effectiveness, say researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues in an editorial in this week's Annals of Internal Medicine.

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A study conducted in monkeys has found new evidence that tibolone, a steroid commonly prescribed in Europe as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy, is a promising treatment for osteoporosis and has no adverse artery effects, report scientists from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

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The very group of patients that doctors are often reluctant to treat for high blood pressure - older adults with multiple risk factors for cardiovascular disease - have the most to gain from aggressive treatment, reported researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues.

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Exercise may be an effective strategy for preventing disability that affects activities of daily living (ADL) in older adults and the person's ability to remain independent.

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A pediatrician at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center received a $2.25M grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development recently, to study how pediatricians nationwide can help prevent violence.

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Green tobacco sickness "is a highly prevalent occupational illness among Latino migrant and seasonal farmworkers in North Carolina," report N.C. researchers.

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Buoyed by continued successes of a novel method for targeting drugs inside the body, Louis S. Kucera, Ph.D. has formed Kucera Pharmaceutical Co. as a spinoff from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Diabetes has become an epidemic in the United States, largely because of the dramatic increase in Americans who are overweight or obese. Wake Forest will be the national coordinating center of a major study looking at the effects of weight loss in people with type 2 diabetes.

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A new type of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center for the first time will open the way to use PET imaging in basic cancer research, as well as expanding research on drug and alcohol addiction.

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Results of a prospective health-related quality of life study on prostate cancer patients was presented at the American Urological Association meeting by the associate professor of urology and director of urologic oncology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

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A missing enzyme may be one possible explanation for sudden infant death syndrome, according to a report by a Wake Forest University School of Medicine gastroenterologist.

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Men with high blood pressure who smoke are 26 times more likely to have erectile dysfunction --impotence -- than nonsmokers, an M.D., M.P.H., of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center told the American Society of Hypertension (Saturday, May 19, 2001) in San Francisco.

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Physicians at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are the first in the world to treat a brain tumor patient with the newly FDA-approved GliaSite(tm) Radiation Therapy System (RTS). The GliaSite RTS delivers site-specific, internal radiation to malignant brain tumors, treating the target area while minimizing exposure to healthy tissue.

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People with the most common types of multiple sclerosis who don't respond to traditional therapy may benefit from a combination drug therapy, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) researcher reported today at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Philadelphia, Penn.

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A new curriculum appears to be effective in determining whether middle schools students will avoid using violence as a means to resolve their problems.

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Sexual dysfunction in men with high blood pressure may be aided by the newest type of hypertension drug.

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The frequency of viewing wrestling on TV was positively associated with date fighting and other health risk behaviors, according to a new study presented by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine at the American Academy of Pediatrics meeting in Baltimore today (Saturday, April 28).

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A new drug being studied at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has been shown to improve heart function following a heart attack, according to researchers speaking at the American Academy of Pediatrics in Baltimore.

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The General Clinical Research Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, where thousands of area residents have participated in clinical trials or population studies since 1993, has been awarded $14.7 million to continue for another five years.

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Depression increases the risk of dying from heart disease, sometimes dramatically, according to research conducted in Holland and being published by a Wake Forest University faculty member. (Archives of General Psychiatry, 3-01)

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Reduced estrogen levels due to stress could put some young women on a high-risk course for heart disease, reported Jay Kaplan, Ph.D, from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center today at the American Psychosomatic Society Annual Meeting.

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A study of almost 5,000 older adults living in four U.S. communities showed that more than half of those with heart failure had a little-understood form of the disorder that doctors know little about treating. (American Journal of Cardiology 2-01)

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a $583,964 grant to Wake Forest University School of Medicine to support an evaluation of managed care patient protection laws.

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a $749,968 grant to Wake Forest University School of Medicine for continued national direction of the Foundation's Substance Abuse Policy Research Program.

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A drug already being used to lower cholesterol and prevent heart attacks sharply reduced strokes in patients who already had heart disease. (Circulation, 1-23-01)

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A study of patients with life-threatening symptoms of heart failure showed that one-half had a little-understood form of the diorder, report researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in this week's NEJM.

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded Wake Forest University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry a $400,000 grant to assess the scope and adequacy of adult day services in the United States.

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Three standard drug treatments for high blood pressure - ACE inhibitors, beta blockers and diuretics - are significantly more effective than the newer, widely prescribed calcium channel blockers at preventing heart attacks and heart failure. (Lancet, 11-00)

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How effectively the body uses the insulin it produces is directly related to risk of developing high blood pressure, reported researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center today at the American Heart Association's annual conference.

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Smoking and having low levels of "good" cholesterol can be extra risky in people who've already had a heart attack, said researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) today at the American Heart Association's annual fall conference.

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Sexual dysfunction in men with high blood pressure may be aided by the newest type of hypertension drug, reported a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher at the American Heart Association's annual conference.

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Reducing the number of medications taken by heart transplant patients can eliminate unpleasant and unhealthy side effects without increasing the risk of organ rejection, reported a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher at the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association meeting.

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The strong association between exposure to violence and the use of violence by young adolescents illustrates that violence is a learned behavior, according to a new study, published by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. (Journal of Pediatrics, 11-00)

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New research findings suggest a possible marker - and preventive treatment - for preeclampsia, the second leading cause of pre-term birth in the United States.

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The offspring of adults who have had premature heart attacks show signs of blood vessel disease at young ages, even when they don't have other traditional risk factors for heart disease, report researchers in NEJM (9-21-00).

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Reduced estrogen levels due to stress may put some young women on a high-risk course for heart disease, report researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center at a meeting of the North American Menopause Society.

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Unnecessary heart attacks and heart failures occur worldwide every year among the estimated 28 million users of longer-acting calcium channel blockers, a class of drugs used to treat high blood pressure, according to a study reported at the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Amsterdam.

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In the report of a major study of hormone replacement therapy and heart disease, researchers write in the NEJM that the treatment didn't slow the progression of heart disease in older women, despite improvements in cholesterol.

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In the past 10 years, physicians have been seeing an increase in the number of infants diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency rickets, a disease once considered to be virtually nonexistent, according to the August Journal of Pediatrics.

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Wake Forest University School of Medicine has announced the inaugural workshop of the Addiction Studies Institute for Journalists, designed to give reporters and editors the latest scientific information about the causes and nature of drug addiction.

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MRI can accurately detect re-narrowed heart arteries in people who've had balloon angioplasty or other artery-clearing procedures, report researchers from Wake Forest University and the University of Texas in Circulation (5-22-00).

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More powerful shocks of electroconvulsive therapy speed relief of depression, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and two other centers report in the May 15 Archives of General Psychiatry.

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Preliminary results suggest that using smokeless tobacco may dramatically increase the risk of breast cancer, Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers reported today.