Sports medicine experts at Temple University School of Medicine have launched a national Asthma Watch Program that aims to maximize safety and performance in athletes with asthma. Preliminary data suggests that asthma mortality is higher than once thought and poorly controlled asthma during exercise is frequent.
In back-to-back reports in Science and Cell, researchers at the University of Wisconsin Medical School describe important new data on proteins that detect and repair gene damage. The findings provide direct evidence for the cause of a genetic disorder that greatly increases the risk of cancer, as well as broader insights into a fundamental system that can lead to malignancy when it fails to function properly.
A common side effect of open-heart surgery may be predicted with a simple test, according to research being presented here today at the 19th Annual Scientific Sessions of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE).
Taking medication regularly may be the key to survival, even if that medication turns out to be a placebo. Those are the findings of a study in which people who consistently took either a heart medication or placebo fared better than those who took them inconsistently, providing further evidence there is a strong mental component to health. The study was presented today at the 19th Annual Scientific Sessions NASPE.
New research suggests many young people at risk for sudden cardiac death have early warning symptoms that, if recognized, can lead to life-saving treatment. The study is being presented at the 19th Annual Scientific Sessions of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE).
DALLAS, May 8 -- How do you prevent something that you don't know is happening? It's not a Zen question, but instead is the problem facing those who study "silent" strokes -- small "brain attacks," which affect as many as 11 percent of people 55 to 70 years old.
DALLAS, May 8 -- Studies have shown moderate amounts of alcohol can be beneficial in reducing the risk of heart attack or stroke, but too much of a good thing can turn bad according to a report in this month's Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
DALLAS, May 8 -- Treating a condition that causes bleeding in the brain, called cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM), may pose a greater danger than the condition itself, according to researchers, whose study is in this month's Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
A Temple University Hospital surgeon has created an innovative approach to reconstructing hands and fingers after accidents. He uses a distraction device, an object generally used by oral or orthopedic surgeons, to literally grow new bone that can function as a thumb.
Older people report a dramatic improvement in their quality of life after being given pacemakers to help their hearts beat regularly, according to a study presented today at the 19th Annual Scientific Sessions of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE).
Two new studies appearing in the May 6 issue of JAMA, and funded by AHCPR, have implications for improving the quality of health care. They're entitled, The Generalist Role of Specialty Physicians: Is There a Hidden System of Primary Care?, and Effect of Local Medical Opinion Leaders on Quality of Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction.
At the APA Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, sessions will deal with family issues and life concerns, including: 1) Group Therapy Benefits to Breast Cancer Patients, 2) Infanticide in the United States, 3) Effects of Childhood Abuse on Mind, 4) Psychiatry, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, 5) Sexual Abuse Case: Psychotherapy and Neurobiology
Psychiatric experts will share the latest research into what happens when people with mental causes and treatments of mental illnesses at the American Psychiatric Association's 151st Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 30 - June 4, 1998, at the Toronto Convention Centre.
The March/April issue of "Food Insight" addresses issues related to guidelines for communicating emerging science, international dietary guidelines and food irradiation.
Prescribing Information for Cosopt (dorzolamide hydrochloride-timolol maleate ophthalmic solution). [See EYEDROP.MRK]
Merck & Co., Inc., today announced that it received marketing clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Cosopt (dorzolamide hydrochloride-timolol maleate ophthalmic solution). Cosopt is the first eye drop that combines a topical carbonic anhydrase inhibitor and a topical beta-blocking agent, commonly used, effective ophthalmic products with excellent safety profiles. Cosopt is indicated for the reduction of elevated intraocular pressure in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension who do not respond adequately to beta-blockers alone.
Should a post-menopausal woman, over the age of 50, who has been diagnosed with cystic ovarian tumors, be alarmed? According to conclusions reached in a new study, "The Malignant Potential of Small Cystic Ovarian Tumors in Women Over 50 Years of Age," published in the April issue of Gynecologic Oncology, alarm is unwarranted, but concern is appropriate.
More than one-third of all gay, lesbian or bisexual teenagers reported in an anonymous in-school survey that they had attempted suicide within the previous 12 months, according to a report in the May 5 issue of Pediatrics. Among straight teenagers, 9.9 percent said they had attempted suicide.
As more parents log onto the Internet, it is becoming an important resource for health information on common childhood ailments, including asthma. However, since there are no traffic cops, road signs or regulations for the information supperhighway, the accuracy and quality of information varies widely.
For the past two years, pediatricians at a medical center lacking on-site pediatric cardiology specialists have had access to pediatric cardiologists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, at the touch of a button.
A survey of low-income families in an urban pediatric teaching hospital's primary care setting concluded that 63 percent of these families had access to computers, with 37 percent having a computer at home. The survey, conducted at Children's Hospital in Boston, was designed to determine the feasibility of using the World Wide Web as a vehicle for delivering pediatric health care information.
A disturbing 79 percent of kids visiting pediatric clinics in the inner cities have witnessed violence first hand, and 49 percent have been direct victims of violence, according to a recent study by pediatricians at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
Despite a continuing controversy over the most appropriate scheule for immunization against polio, a majorty of pediatricians surveyed recently have adopted the Centers for Disease Control Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' (ACIP) most recent recommendation to administer doses of both the oral and inactive polio vaccines.
The first major national study of the emergency medicine workforce shows that 32,026 physicians are clinically employed in this new specialty that emerged over the past 30 years in the United States, according to the May issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine. Another study in the issue reports that male spectators in the 20- to 35-year old age group consume the most alcohol at sporting events; 10.8 percent of those in the study were found to be legally intoxicated, and almost 5 percent of spectators with blood alcohol levels of .08 percent or higher claimed to be driving home.
Children as young as one year of age are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a Michigan State University pediatrician has found. In addition, children as young as two are being treated for the disorder with psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin, Prozac and Zoloft.
DALLAS, May 5 -- Infection by a particularly strong strain of bacteria normally associated with stomach ulcers could be a contributing factor to heart disease, according to a report in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
A breakthrough study on in vivo gene therapy may someda provide the medical know-how to eliminate inherited metabolic disorders.
For the first time, a school-based intervention called Planet Health, developed by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, has been shown to reduce obesity in children.
In one of the first large, comprehensive studies to refute the longheld belief that cocaine-exposed babies often suffer major birth defects, University of Florida researchers found no consistent pattern of abnormalities in these children.
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York have successfully disrupted the blood-brain barrier in lab rats and generated compacted protein/DNA complexes small enough to pass through the disrupted barrier, thereby achieving global delivery of genes to the brain for the first time.
The support of a doula, a female companion experienced in labor and delivery, adds a risk-free, human element to labor and delivery that lowers cesarean rates, shortens labor, and decreases the need for analgesia.
More than 3,500 incidences of children ingesting coins were reported to poison centers in 1996, with as many as 17 percent of the coins becoming lodged in the esophagus. Allowing for spontaneous passage, rather than performing more invasive procedures, may reduce related complications as well as institutional costs, a study at Boston Children's Hospital found.
Researchers at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto have determined that pregnancy is common among Toronto's female street youth and that risk of pregnancy is significantly associated with length of time on the street and age at which the youth enter street life. The researchers also discovered that fewer than one-third of street youth who deliver babies care for their children.
The increased risk of asthma in black children is due more to where they live than to their race, and air cleaners that remove tobacco smoke decrease the risk of asthma complications, according to two studies presented by Rochester pediatrician Andrew Aligne, MD, at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in New Orleans.
Clinicians in rural areas refer a higher percentage of their patients to public immunization clinics than their urban counterparts, reports a study to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting in New Orleans May 1-5.
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch have found that a growing number of young women may be taking Rohypnol, commonly known as the date-rape drug, to minimize depression and increase self-esteem.
Organon Inc. has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market MircetteË™ (desogestrel/ethinyl estradiol and ethinyl estradiol) Tablets, the first oral contraceptive to use a shortened hormone-free interval.
Treatments developed at the University of Minnesota have shown promise in halting or even reversing progress of a rare and deadly brain disease.
Providing women in labor with the continuous support of an experienced female labor-companion, known as a doula, results in significantly more positive levels of interaction between mothers and infants after delivery.
While safe, garlic treatment for children with high cholesterol does not lower their cholesterol levels, according to a study by researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario.
The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association recently met with representatives of Pfizer Inc., which is launching Viagra, a new medication for treating patients with erectile dysfunction. At this meeting, GLMA and Pfizer Inc. discussed concerns about the impact of Viagra on the health of some gay and bisexual men.
Dr. Robert Gallo, of the University of Maryland at Baltimore, and Dr. Luc Montagnier, of Queens College, Flushing, N.Y., and Pasteur Institute, Paris, who discovered and isolated HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are the winners of the Tenth Annual Warren Alpert Foundation Prize.
1) A study finds no link between aspirin use and colorectal cancer, but a separate study finds women on hormone replacement therapy have a 35 percent decrease in colon and rectal cancers. 2) Breast cancer is found at the same stage in black and white women who have regular mammograms. 3) Voluntary, rather than mandatory, testing for HIV in pregnant women is more effective. 4) Treating AIDS as an "exceptional" disease has drawbacks.
Migraine and depression, two commonly linked conditions, may now be treated together, according to results of a new study presented today at the 50th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. The new oral medication for the treatment of acute migraine from Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Zomig (zolmitriptan), is safe when taken with the antidepression treatment fluoxetine, commonly known by its trade name Prozac.
A new discovery by researchers at the University of Georgia may help explain why -- when it comes to people -- all veins are not created equal. The scientists demonstrated for the first time dramatic differences in the density of receptors for a powerful blood-borne substance called endothelin. And once again, it's bad news for white males.
Research strongly suggests that PSA tests can reliably gauge the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatment for advanced prostate cancer. It shows doctors whether the prescribed therapy is working and allows them to quickly and confidently change the treatment plan when it's ineffective---possibly improving the patient's quality of life as a result.
When clinic patients were taught to take control of their health needs, the results were dramatic---fewer days in the hospital, fewer trips to the emergency room, fewer lost work days. In addition, the cost of health care for each patient declined nearly $3,400 a year.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.-- Researchers at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center have found that a deficiency of S-nitrosothiol (SNO), a chemical that dilates the bronchial tubes, is associated with severe asthma in children. The finding, published in the May 2 issue of Lancet, may help doctors develop new asthma therapies aimed at correcting this deficiency.
1) Panic Reoccurs More Often in Women, 2) Practice Guideline for Treatment of Panic Disorder, 3) ADHD More Treatable in African American Kids, 4) IQ Drop During Childhood Predicts Future Psychosis, 5) May Special Issue of Psychiatric Services: Focus on Women, 6) New Books
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a new imaging agent for Parkinson's disease that could allow clinicians to diagnose the disease more accurately and earlier in its progression than is currently possible, as well as to utilize imaging technologies that are cheaper, faster, and widely available.
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