A Johns Hopkins undergrad is refining a computer model of diseased heart tissue that may give doctors a better tool for detecting coronary artery disease before a heart attack occurs (Journal of Biological Systems, 12-99).
Story ideas include a nurse who had pediatric surgery, pace of pacemakers, making sick hearts beat more effectively, the skinny on low-carb diets, eating healthy, barriers that inhibit exercise, and heredity and heart disease.
A mutant gene, referred to as the apolipoprotein A-1 Milano gene, may lead to major changes in the prevention and treatment of clogged arteries that lead to heart attacks and strokes.
1- Mortality rates from asthma among U.S. Hispanics; 2- Consensus statement directed at patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; 3- ATS statement on health effects from air pollution (American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2-00).
While the number of women at all levels of academic medicine is increasing, they continue to lag behind their male counterparts in entering the senior ranks of the profession, according to an Association of American Medical Colleges study in the Feb.10 NEJM.
Association of American Medical Colleges President Jordan J. Cohen, M.D., reaffirms in a Feb. 10 NEJM editorial his concerns about the effect unions will have on medical education and the practice of medicine.
Diabetes mellitus occurs when insulin production decreases significantly, when the body produces defective insulin, or when the cells simply cannot use insulin.
Individually tailored vision screenings for diabetic patients could produce significant savings without substantially reducing health benefits, report Veterans Affairs researchers in the Feb. 16 JAMA.
The first laboratory and training center in Botswana devoted exclusively to the advanced study of HIV is a joint project of the Ministry of Health of Botswana and the Harvard AIDS Institute.
An entire issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association is devoted this week to contributions from the University of Michigan, marking the 150th anniversary of the U-M Medical School.
Health leaders from the University of Michigan Health System describe why their institution has a favorable balance sheet, a positive operating margin, and plans for new initiatives (JAMA, 2-15-00).
By studying age-related muscle loss and ways to prevent it, a University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston research center intends to help aging Americans avoid nursing homes or prolonged hospital stays and live at home as long as possible.
A small percentage of patients who receive lung transplantation develop a deadly increase in blood ammonia levels, according to a study by University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia researchers (The Annals of Internal Medicine, 2-15-00).
A significant 41 percent, five-year overall survival rate among 2,263 patients who had surgery for non-small cell lung cancer was reported by Dutch researchers in the Feb. 2000 CHEST.
The outlook for individuals who suffer heart attacks despite having normal coronary arteries is excellent, according to a Swiss study in the Feb. 2000 CHEST.
A study of genetically obese rats has revealed that an overabundance of fat can collect in heart cells and cause them to die, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2-14-00).
Despite evidence that cholesterol-lowering medications can reduce the risk of heart attacks and death in people with coronary artery disease, many physicians at major teaching hospitals in the U.S. and Canada still do not prescribe them (Archives of Internal Medicine, 2-14-00).
1- Indoor waste storage increases airborne contaminants (Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2-00); 2- Microbes survive on hospital fabrics (Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2-00); 3- Chlamydia bacteria not associated with Alzheimer's (Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2-00).
The higher a man's prostate specific antigen level is, the more likely his prostate will continue to grow abnormally, report UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers (Journal of Urology, 1-00).
Where once only a transplant might have saved children, a series of procedures performed by cardiothoracic surgeons at Cedars-Sinai are giving new hope to infants and their families.
Instead of open-heart surgery for patent ductus arteriosus, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is utilizing a minimally invasive pediatric procedure that results in incisions of only 2mm - 3mm in length and often only a 24-hour hospital stay.
Researchers at UAB are on the road to a vaccine for myasthenia gravis, a disabling muscular disease, which hinders muscle movement by blocking muscle cell receptors from receiving signals from the nervous system.
The first naturally occurring animal model for the study of age-related macular degeneration has been identified by Jackson Laboratory researchers (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).
A teen-ager at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center recently became the first in California to have his "bad" cholesterol level dramatically reduced through LDL apheresis, a procedure developed for patients who have dangerously high levels of LDL cholesterol.
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers are beginning a study into an innovative therapy for advanced heart failure that is intended to make a sick heart beat more effectively.
Johns Hopkins scientists report a new way of monitoring brain damage that could significantly increase the number of stroke patients eligible for -- and helped by -- clot-breaking treatments.
A snapshot of the current use of aspirin, warfarin and other stroke prevention therapies at academic medical centers has developed into a less than perfect picture, according to a new study reported at the American Stroke Association's 25th International Stroke Conference in New Orleans.
You may want to stop the next time you see a stroke screening at a health fair or your local mall -- especially if you smoke, are over 65 years old, or have heart disease or elevated levels of cholesterol, according a new study presented at the American Stroke Association's 25th International Stroke Conference in New Orleans.
In many instances, researchers say, it's the complications from the stroke -- such as pneumonia or infections -- that poses the biggest threat to the recovery of patients.
Researchers examining data on stroke patients in rural East Texas find that almost none of them are receiving clot-busting drugs that could reverse the effects of stroke, they reported at the American Stroke Association's 25th International Stroke Conference in New Orleans.
The demise of the brilliant and prolific composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the focus of this year's historical diagnosis conference sponsored by the University of Maryland and the VA Maryland Health Care System.
The future of stroke care is in the emergency room, according to researchers who say that emergency room physicians are just as capable as their neurologist counterparts of administering clot-busting treatments to stroke patients.
For his pioneering research in brain cancer and his blood-brain barrier discoveries, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center neurosurgeon Keith L. Black, M.D., will be recognized by The National Academies in Washington D.C.
Experts on OCD will present the latest research showing a link between "OCD spectrum disorders" and OCD, as part of the 4th International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Conference, Feb. 10-12.
As Americans' lives have been helped by technology, their cardiovascular health has been harmed, reveals University of Missouri-Columbia researchers who give comprehensive, alarming statistics to support this correlation (Journal of Applied Physiology, 2-00).
The FDA today approved the medicine Lotronex for use in treating those females with irritable bowel syndrome who suffer from IBS-associated abdominal pain and discomfort, and for whom diarrhea is a primary symptom.
A Midwestern University researcher looks at how the environmental pollutant cadmium causes major organ damage, beginning at the molecular level.
A new gene therapy tested in mice all but eliminated the fatty plaque deposits that can build up in arteries and cause heart attacks and strokes, according to a study in the Feb. issue of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology.
A special margarine significantly reduced blood cholesterol levels in children with a genetic risk for early heart disease, according to a study in the Feb. issue of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology.
The first use of lasers as a treatment to remove stroke-causing blood clots was reported in a study at the American Stroke Association's 25th International Stroke Conference in New Orleans.
After steady decline in the 1960s and 1970s, the incidence of stroke may be slowly rising, according to a study presented at the American Stroke Association's 25th International Stroke Conference in New Orleans.
In the 2-10-00 Science, Johns Hopkins researchers identify a protein that accumulates toward the front end of a cell and helps cells "sense" their way to a target.
The ability of the brain to function following sleep deprivation appears to vary with the task at hand, and in some cases the brain attempts to compensate for the adverse effects caused by lack of sleep, according to a team of researchers (Nature, 2-10-00).
A natural chemical substance the eye calls for when it lacks oxygen is responsible for the blinding blood vessel growth that plagues patients with diabetic retinopathy, report Johns Hopkins and CIBA Vision Corp. researchers (American Journal of Pathology, 2-00).
Mayo Clinic doctors are experimenting with a colonoscope with a magnifiying zoom lens to look for changes in the cellular pattern of the colon lining that may be the very earliest sign of colon polyps.
Eating cherry pie on Washington's Birthday is a great way to get a strong dose of cancer-fighting phytochemicals, vitamins, and minerals during the winter season, say American Institute for Cancer nutrition experts.
Paramedics are urged to stop using intubation to resuscitate children after finding that a simple artificial respiration method saves the lives of children who have stopped breathing as well as the more risky intubation procedure (JAMA, 2-9-00).
"Encouraging" results with a new treatment for women with metastatic breast cancer, report Mayo Clinic researchers (recent issue of Cancer).
Rheumatoid arthritis patients have not shared in the general improvement in life expectancy over the last four decades, a Mayo Clinic study reports (recent issue of The Journal of Rheumatology).
Older people who receive general anesthesia during hip fracture surgery have better long-term outcomes than those who have spinal anesthesia, according to doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center (American Journal of Orthopedics, 1-00).
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