A revolutionary new treatment for patients suffering from abdominal cancer will soon be available to doctors nationwide thanks to a partnership between Wake Forest University School of Medicine and IDT, Inc..
Laws passed in recent years to help small employers and individuals purchase health insurance have had mixed success, according to a three-year study at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
It can be hard for educators, family members and even friends to know when a child begins to make choices that could end his life. Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are making that distinction easier. A recent study shows that the age a child begins to smoke cigarettes is the key.
Investigators at Wake Forest University School of Medicine will provide scientific leadership for a national pilot study to test whether soy will reduce the risk of prostate cancer.
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center will establish a Center of Excellence for Prostate Cancer this year, making it one of a handful of dedicated centers in the nation committed to the treatment of this disease.
With a new $1.9 million federal grant, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center will expand research on how hospitals can reduce the number of patients who experience confusion, memory loss and personality changes after heart bypass surgery.
Dietary soy may reduce the risk of cancer by counteracting the cell-proliferating effect of estrogen-replacement therapy, a Wake Forest University researcher reported Jan. 25, 1999 at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Three percent of North Carolina middle school students had carried a gun onto school property and 14.1 percent had carried a knife or club to school, a research team from Brenner Children's Hospital and the Brenner Center for Child and Adolescent Health report in the January issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
Now the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a grant to the Wake Forest University School of Medicine to assess the National Spit Tobacco Education Program.
An ultrasound test of the arteries in the neck may help doctors pick out which patients need aggressive treatment to prevent heart attacks or strokes, according to new findings published in the Jan. 7 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse of the National Institutes of Health has awarded a $7 million grant to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center to study alcohol addiction.
A Medicare policy designed to reduce the cost of treating precancerous skin lesions contradicts standard medical practice in the vast majority of cases, according to a study by researchers at the Westwood Squibb Center for Dermatology Research at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Radiologists can detect breast cancer with the same accuracy whether they're looking at a mammogram film or reading the image off a computer screen, according to a study conducted at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
While most people are aware that chest pain is a heart attack symptom, other heart attack symptoms are often ignored, according to results from a multi-center study published in the Nov. Archives of Internal Medicine.
Leading edge cancer and HIV treatment and prevention strategies may soon be available to patients as the result of the efforts of a new company, IntraVec, Inc., formed by Wake Forest University, where the basic research was done.
Researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine are pursuing additional studies on why polyunsaturated fat in vegetable oil leads to less hardening of the arteries than the monounsaturated fat in olive oil.
A large clinical trial on whether a major calcium channel blocker could slow hardening of the arteries and thus reduce heart disease and stroke produced mixed results, a research team from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Michigan reported today at the American Heart Association meeting.
Physicians at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center reported today the first demonstration of a gene-diet interaction that affects the absorption of cholesterol in humans.
The thalamus, the brain's central switching center for relaying sensory information to the brain's somatosensory cortex, "remodels" after sensory nerves are severed, scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of California at Davis report in today's issue of Science.
In an effort to improve quality of services, increase the use of adult day centers, and assist in the development of start-up ventures, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded Wake Forest University School of Medicine a $1.9 million grant to launch a national technical assistance program to help move the field of adult day services forward.
In an era when many physicians believe that elderly patients are overmedicated, a new study in Winston-Salem and elsewhere finds that many elderly patients with high cholesterol levels are undertreated -- even those who had a history of coronary heart disease.
The medical community is becoming more concerned about issues of survivorship and quality of life and a new study will examine these issues. Breast cancer survivors face issues related to spiritual, physical, economic and psychosocial issues, said a Wake Forest University School of Medicine epidemiologist.
A new international study shows a class of drugs known as statins raises levels of the good cholesterol, John R. Crouse III, M.D., reported in a presentation today to the European Society of Cardiology in Vienna.
Though many managed care systems steer patients with skin problems to primary care doctors on the supposition that they will get comprehensive care as well, a new Wake Forest study indicates patients with skin problems get no more comprehensive care than they would from dermatologists, but they would miss the dermatologist's special expertise in treating skin conditions.
Westwood-Squibb Pharmaceuticals announced today [August 2] that it is underwriting the establishment of a center for dermatology research at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine with a five-year, $1 million research grant. The center will focus on health services research in dermatology. Embargoed until August 2, 1998.
Sexually active adolescent boys who have had multiple male partners are more likely than other teens to be threatened or beaten up at school and to abuse drugs and alcohol, according to a study by a team of pediatricians from Brenner Children's Hospital at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
Should you see a specialist for athlete's foot? You should if you want the infection cleared up faster and at less cost, according to researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Insurance companies that limit payment for the acne drug tretinoin to teen-agers and young adults are leaving thousands of Americans who suffer adult acne to pay for treatment themselves or do without, according to two dermatologists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
While coronary artery bypass surgery routinely saves lives by bypassing clogged arteries, many patients have a 20 percent decline in motor function and other evidence of brain damage following surgery, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center neuropsychologist said today.
A small-scale study suggests that hyperbaric oxygen therapy may hasten recovery from stroke and save millions or even billions of dollars annually in health care costs, a medical researcher says. The study also indicates that the new approach could give doctors a vital fourth hour to intervene after the onset of stroke. Current approaches are limited to about three hours
Controlling unnecessary manipulation of the heart and the aorta during coronary artery bypass surgery dramatically reduces the number of patients with major neuropsychological deficits after surgery, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher told a Washington conference today.
Treating people with epilepsy or seizures who are in remote locations such as space, underwater or extended airline flights may be possible through what is known as telemedicine, according to Dr. Cormac A. O'Donovan.
The experiences of the team of scientists who lived in the Biosphere 2 closed system from 1991 to 1993 can be applied to space travel, according to Sally Silverstone, co-captain of the crew.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy offers enough promise for treating victims of stroke and other debilitating traumas and diseases of the central nervous system to warrant in-depth scientific studies, a medical researcher said today.
High-pressure chambers used to treat deep sea divers for decompression sickness could play a key role in preventing permanent spinal cord damage and paralysis to many of the thousands of Americans who suffer spinal cord injuries every year, a doctor from Scotland reported today.
Dr. Russell B. Rayman, the executive vice president of the Aerospace Medical Association, today presented medical guidelines for airline travel prepared by a task force of his association.
A technique developed to help astronauts stave off problems with their blood vessels in zero gravity may become an important tool in helping prevent strokes among the estimated 50 million Americans who have high blood pressure.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy - a treatment that has been around for several decades - is making a comeback. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is just one focus of a meeting next week of the Space and Underwater Research Group of the World Federation of Neurology.
A surprise may be lurking in the brains of many people -- evidence of silent cerebral infarcts, or dead spots within their brains. Cigarette smoking and uncontrolled high blood pressure may be to blame.
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.
The links between underwater and space research and possible solutions to a host of neurological problems -- such brain injury, stroke and epilepsy -- will be explored at a Washington, D.C., meeting by the Space and Underwater Neurology Research Group of the World Federation of Neurology. Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) will be the featured speaker.
Postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy markedly reduces the occurrence of atherosclerosis in the internal carotid artery in monkeys, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center research team reported today. Hormone replacement therapy from soy protein with phytoestrogens provided equivalent stroke-prevention benefits to the standard Premarin therapy prepared from mammalian estrogens.
The cholesterol-lowering effect of soy is the result of natural compounds in the soy known as isoflavones, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researchers reported today at an American Heart Association meeting in Santa Fe, NM. John R. Crouse III, M.D., said the project was the first to dissect the effects of isoflavones in soy from the overall soybean.
Older adults with high blood pressure can be quite successful at changing their eating and exercise habits -- and can often stop taking blood pressure medicine as a result, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and three other medical centers reported in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
Winston-Salem, NC -- New findings from a large-scale study of estrogen replacement therapy help show why the treatment may help reduce a woman's risk of a heart attack. Results from the Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Intervention (PEPI) study show estrogen replacement therapy, with or without progestin, "produces consistent and sustained reductions in plasma lipoprotein (a) concentrations," said Mark A. Espeland, Ph.D., professor and head of the Section on Biostatistics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
A virtual "flight" through a colon, new math and high-resolution telescopes, a promising new cancer-fighting technique, and new information about plant growth hormones. What do these technological innovations have in common?
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.
Calcium channel blockers and certain kinds of diuretics are associated with brain damage and memory loss, according to a report in today's Journal of the American Geriatrics Society -- another in a string of adverse findings about calcium channel blockers. The latest results come from an analysis of participants with high blood pressure in the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), the largest study ever of the natural progression of heart disease and stroke in the elderly.
WINSTON-SALEM -- Omega 3 fatty acids, the kind found in fish oil, may offer better protection against atherosclerosis than monounsaturated fats, the kind found in olive oil, according to research at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
WINSTON-SALEM -- The brains of some people who read poorly -- especially people with dyslexia -- differ physiologically from normal readers, according to pioneering work at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
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