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Eurekalert Medical and Health News: 11-30-2004
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have found that adding the nutritional supplement SAMe to a standard antidepressant may be helpful to patients who have not responded to single-drug treatment for clinical depression.
A potential vaccine for the deadly toxin ricin, a "Category B" biological agent, will enter the first phase of clinical testing in coming weeks at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.The Food and Drug Administration and the UT Southwestern Institutional Review Board have agreed that the trial can go forward in humans.
The map is not the territory, runs the famous quote, but maps do represent an unparalleled tool for emergency management. Nobody knows this better than humanitarian organisations like M.decins Sans Fronti.res, whose work often occurs within territories without any usable maps whatsoever.
People who eat the Israeli-developed fruit known in Hebrew as pomelit (a cross between a grapefruit and a pomelo) or drink its juice regularly will be able to lower their blood cholesterol and increase their blood antioxidant activity, thus improving their chances of preventing blocked heart arteries and heart attacks, says a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
With the help University of Chicago pediatricians and LaRabida Children's Hospital, the Erikson Institute's Fussy Baby Network meets a real need in the Chicago community, responding to parents' concerns about their infants' inconsolable crying.
Much as surfers have their own peculiar lingo, they also incur an array of injuries from the sport that can be just as peculiar to physicians, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Radiologists are one step closer to solving a mysterious condition affecting World Trade Center (WTC) rescue and recovery workers. Air trapping, a manifestation of obstructed lung airways often seen in smokers and the elderly, was identified in 25 of 29 rescue and recovery workers suffering from "WTC cough," according to early research results presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy may prove to be the definitive diagnostic test for bipolar disorder, a serious brain illness characterized by an alternating pattern of extreme emotional highs and lows, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Cryotherapy combined with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is giving doctors unprecedented control during liver cancer treatment by allowing them to observe the tumors freezing in real time, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Although liposuction is mistakenly viewed by some as a "quick fix" for weight loss, liposuction patients are 3 times more likely to gain weight without adhering to a proper diet and 4 times more likely to gain weight without regular exercise says a study published in the December issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery., the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
New Saint Louis University research shows African-Americans and the poor fare worse when it comes to getting treated and compensated for work-related back pain.
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access, a national coalition of organizations that support enhanced public access to published NIH-funded research, today expressed appreciation to Congress for signaling support through the year-end omnibus appropriations bill for the proposed NIH policy. The conference report for this legislation recognized specifically that the policy will make research results more readily accessible to scientists, physicians, and the public.
On this World AIDS Day, December 1, one in five women with HIV in the United States has no health insurance. Half of the estimated 460,000 women and men who need lifesaving antiretroviral drugs are not getting them, according to a recent report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences.
The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) is applauding a new study from the Medical Research Council (MRC) that shows that spinal manipulation - the primary form of care performed by doctors of chiropractic - combined with an exercise program offers effective treatment for those suffering from back pain.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will hold a State-of-the-Science Conference on Improving End-of-Life Care, December 6-8, 2004 at the Natcher Conference Center on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. A press briefing will be held at the close of the conference, at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 8. During the first day and part of the second day of the conference, experts will present the latest findings in end-of-life research to an independent panel.
Breathing a helium/oxygen mixture allowed COPD patients to more than double their exercise time. Heliox reduced airflow limitations, hyperinflation and the sensation of "shortness of breath" by changing a multitude of lung mechanics. The high-intensity exercise allowed clear detection of the beneficial effect of small changes in lung mechanics induced by heliox breathing on exercise capacity.Further studies are needed to verify the potential role of heliox supplementation during exercise rehabilitation programs in COPD patients.
Using a newly developed technology, a team of Columbia University researchers has uncovered that indoprofen, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, may increase the production of a protein lacking in patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a fatal pediatric genetic disease.
The American Chemical Society, the world.s largest scientific society, will hold its fourth annual ACS ProSpectives Conference on process chemistry Feb. 6-9 in Miami, Fla., at the Hyatt Regency Coral Cables.
New research is helping select which therapies improve the chances of remission in the largest category of people affected by acute myeloid leukemia (AML) - those whose cancer cells have normal-looking chromosomes. The findings suggest that people receiving more intense therapies are more likely to enter remission and to remain there longer than those receiving lower-dose therapies.
.A lipid that helps destroy potentially harmful cells during brain development shows promise for improving the safety and efficacy of stem cell transplants, say researchers at the Medical College of Georgia and University of Georgia.
Through the humble Planaria worm, Temple University researchers hope to discover what happens when drug abusers who take more than one drug --a common practice-- go into withdrawal. Their work, which is funded by a new $450,000, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health, is expected to lead to a better understanding of how withdrawal is influenced by poly-drug abuse and someday to the development of better treatment.
"News and Terrorism: Communicating in a Crisis" is a series of workshops being held around the nation that involve local participants -- including journalists, government officials, emergency managers, and scientists and engineering experts -- in a simulation of a response to a terrorist attack in their hometown.
In contrast to people who do not have autism, people with autism remember letters of the alphabet in a part of the brain that ordinarily processes shapes, according to a study from a collaborative program of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. The finding supports a theory by CPEA scientists that autism results from a failure of the various parts of the brain to work together.
Low testosterone production appears to be a common complication of type 2 diabetes in men, affecting 1 out of 3 diabetic patients, a new study has shown.
Some individuals exhale many more pathogen-laden droplets than others in the course of ordinary breathing, scientists have found, but oral administration of a safe saline spray every six hours might slash exhalation of germs in this group by an average 72 percent. The work, by researchers at Harvard University and biotechnology firms Pulmatrix and Inamed, may help decrease the spread of bacteria and viruses responsible for airborne infectious diseases such as influenza, tuberculosis, and SARS.
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