AScribe Medicine News Service articles from September 2003

AScribe Medicine News Service archives from September 2003

Geriatrics Experts Spotlight Mental Health Treatment for Nursing Home Residents: Expert Panel Calls for New Standards of Care.
September 2, 2003... Byline: American Geriatrics Society NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- An expert interdisciplinary panel led by the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP), and including...

Hot Pepper Chemical Links Tongue to Heart; Discovery of 'Hot Pepper' Receptor in Heart May Explain Chest Pain, Lead to New Treatments.
September 2, 2003... Byline: Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center HERSHEY, Pa., Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- The secret to heart attack chest pain may be on the tip of your tongue. Although they may seem unlikely bedfellows, Penn State College of...

Mayo Clinic Study Reveals New Fathers Struggle With Obsessional Thoughts, Too; Video, Expert Available.
September 2, 2003... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Both fathers and mothers have distressing thoughts after the birth of a baby, according to a new Mayo Clinic study published in the Sept. 3 issue of the Journal of...

Security News Tips From Purdue University: Guards, War Coverage; Technology for Safer Airports.
September 2, 2003... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University today released the following advisory: SECURITY STARTS WITH VISUAL PERCEPTION Security guards will do a double take when they learn...

Blood Dilution During Bypass Surgery Associated with Kidney Damage.
September 2, 2003... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 2 (AScribe News) -- When physicians routinely "thin" the blood of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery in order to place them on the heart-lung machine, they may be causing more...

Discovery of Inner Ear Cells May Lead to New Therapies for Deafness, Inner Ear Disorders.
September 3, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary BOSTON, Sept. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hearing loss and vestibular disorders often have debilitating effects on affected individuals, ranging in severity from modest difficulty with speech...

Abdominal Fat, a Contributor to Heart Disease Risk, is Related to Alcohol Drinking Pattern.
September 3, 2003... Byline: University at Buffalo Buffalo Study Shows BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 3 (AScribe News) -- How you drink alcohol -- how often, how much, when and what kind -- can influence the risk of heart disease by affecting the accumulation of...

Children's Oncology Group Develops Late Effects Guidelines for Childhood Cancer Survivors.
September 3, 2003... Byline: National Childhood Cancer Foundation ARCADIA, Calif., Sept. 3 (AScribe News) -- The Children's Oncology Group (COG), the largest pediatric cancer clinical research organization in the world, has taken the lead on developing...

Organ Transplant Recipients Face Serious Kidney-Failure Risk, University of Michigan Study Finds.
September 3, 2003... Byline: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- As if the ordeal of waiting for, receiving and living with an organ transplant weren't enough, a new study finds that people who get a second...

New Memory Training Process Shows Promise for Older Adults.
September 3, 2003... Byline: Wake Forest University WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Sept. 3 (AScribe News) -- Older adults often find themselves repeating a story to the same audience within a short amount of time. They remember the story, but not that they have recently...

Finding Sheds Light on Mechanism of Inflammation in Lupus, Other Disorders.
September 3, 2003... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- New insights into how the body eliminates dead cells could lead to new approaches for treating conditions including lupus and cancer, or for preventing infections...

University of Maryland Scientists to Use Radioactive Isotopes From Russia's Nuclear Stockpiles for Cancer Research; Unique Federally Funded Partnership Promotes 'Atoms for Peace' Initiative.
September 4, 2003... Byline: University of Maryland Medical System BALTIMORE, Sept. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- As part of a unique, federally funded partnership with Russian oncologists and scientists known as the American Russian Cancer Alliance, University of...

Indiana University Researchers Test Vaccine, Attitudes Toward Herpes Prevention.
September 4, 2003... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Indiana University School of Medicine infectious disease physicians are testing a genital herpes vaccine to see if it can prevent the virus from...

University of Georgia Receives $7.6 Million Grant, Will Add Knowledge in Fights Against Cancer, Parkinson's Disease.
September 5, 2003... Byline: University of Georgia ATHENS, Geor., Sept. 5 (AScribe News) -- The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a five-year grant of $6.7 million to a team headed by...

'Biodontics' Promotes Biotechnology to Dentists; University of Connecticut Dental School Faculty Member Creates New Dental Specialty.
September 5, 2003... Byline: U. Conn. Health Center FARMINGTON, Ct., Sept. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- When the federal government wanted to know what could be done to move biotechnology more efficiently from scientists and inventors to dental practitioners,...

Growing Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology Inaugurates Nicholas Covino, PsyD, As Second President.
September 8, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology BOSTON, Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nicholas A. Covino, PsyD, a leader in the field of psychology and psychology education, will be inaugurated president of the Massachusetts School...

Transplantation of Embryonic Pancreatic Tissue Controls Type I Diabetes in Rats.
September 8, 2003... Byline: Washington University, St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- When researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis transplanted early embryonic pancreatic tissue into the abdomens of adult rats with...

Nobel Laureates Lead Call to Eradicate Guinea Worm Disease.
September 8, 2003... Byline: The Carter Center ATLANTA, Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter lend their voices to the campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease in public service announcements...

Researchers at University of Colorado Cancer Center Showcase New Generation of Cancer Therapies.
September 8, 2003... Byline: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center DENVER, Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Cancer Researchers from the University of Colorado Cancer Center will host a media roundtable to talk about how cancer therapy is evolving to offer...

Mayo Clinic Study Shows Melatonin Helps Alleviate Violent Sleep Disorder Symptoms.
September 8, 2003... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A Mayo Clinic study shows that melatonin successfully alleviates many patients' symptoms of REM-sleep behavior disorder (RBD), a violent sleep condition that manifests...

Finding Link Between Fat and High Blood Pressure.
September 9, 2003... Byline: Medical College of Georgia AUGUSTA, Geor., Sept. 9 (AScribe News) -- How fat contributes to high blood pressure is the focus of a new study at the Medical College of Georgia that is part of a National Institutes of Health initiative...

University of Minnesota Study Finds People Are Consuming Less Trans-Fatty Acids; Findings May Help Explain Decrease in Coronary Heart Disease in U.S.(Brief Article)
September 9, 2003... Byline: University of Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- People are eating less trans-fatty acids than they were two decades ago, according to research conducted at the University of Minnesota published in this month's...

Purdue University Biologists Receive Nearly $18 Million to Study Infectious Diseases Thought to Have Weapons Potential.
September 9, 2003... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- As part of a major U.S. presidential initiative to combat bioterrorism, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a pair of grants to Purdue University...

Similar Genetic Origins Possible for Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder; Findings May Lead to Childhood Screening, Early Treatment.
September 9, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Sept. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, University of Cambridge and the Stanley Medical Research Institute appears to offer the first...

Trade Center Debris Pile Was Chemical Factory, Says UC Davis Study.(University of California)
September 10, 2003... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Sept. 10 (AScribe News) -- The fuming World Trade Center debris pile was a chemical factory that exhaled pollutants in particularly dangerous forms that could penetrate deep into the...

Diet Changes Because of Tooth Loss Could Lead to Heart Risk.
September 10, 2003... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, Sept. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Changes in diet because of tooth loss could increase the risk of developing chronic ailments, including cardiovascular disease, according to a study in this...

University of Illinois at Chicago Receives $15.7 Million Grant to Stop Anthrax.
September 10, 2003... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of ten researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $15.7 million grant for a multi-pronged program to develop drugs to treat...

Shortage of Clinical Laboratory Scientists Could Affect U.S. Response to Bioterrorism; Nationwide Problem Could Compromise Health Care, Saint Louis University Expert Says.
September 10, 2003... Byline: St. Louis University ST. LOUIS, Sept. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- A shortage of clinical laboratory scientists, the behind-the-scenes medical professionals who perform and interpret laboratory tests, is so severe that it could...

Major New Center at University of Illinois at Chicago to Study Racial, Ethnic Disparities in Health.
September 12, 2003... Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- A major new center established today at the University of Illinois at Chicago will study why mortality rates for breast and other cancers are so much higher...

John Kerry Releases Mental Health Policy Statement; Campaign for Mental Health Reform Commends Candidate.(Brief Article)
September 12, 2003... Byline: Bazelon Center ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Campaign for Mental Health Reform commends Presidential hopeful John Kerry today for releasing a statement on mental health policy. The Campaign finds it...

Historic Eisenhower Hospital Suite in Denver, Colo., Restored; Grand Opening Oct. 25.(Brief Article)
September 12, 2003... Byline: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center DENVER, Sept. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- When President Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in Denver almost 50 years ago, the world was shocked and worried about the...

University of Georgia Researchers Find Caffeine Reduces Muscle Pain During Exercise.
September 15, 2003... Byline: University of Georgia ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- That cup of coffee in the morning does more than wake you up. It can also help you feel less pain during your morning workout. That's what researchers at the...

Method to Keep Track of Cancer Comorbidities is Successful; May Help Cancer Research.
September 16, 2003... Byline: Washington University, St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Sept. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Many cancer patients have other diseases, and those ailments can influence their chance of survival and response to treatment. Although physicians take a...

Web-Based Program Optimizes Stroke Care in Rural Areas.
September 18, 2003... Byline: Medical College of Georgia AUGUSTA, Ga., Sept. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Stroke patients in rural communities can be assessed and treated essentially as well by a neurologist via a wireless Internet program as they can in person,...

Exemestane Demonstrates Higher Tumor Response Rate than Tamoxifen in First-Line Treatment of Advanced Breast Cancer.
September 19, 2003... Byline: Edelman Public Relations BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept. 19 (AScribe News) -- A study published in the September 2003 issue of Annals of Oncology (vol. 14, issue 9-indicated that exemestane demonstrates a significantly higher response...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Researcher Studies Link Between Bacterium, 'Hardening of the Arteries'.
September 19, 2003... Byline: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee MILWAUKEE, Sept. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- An assistant professor of health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is well on the way to understanding the role a microorganism plays in...

Research Shows Therapeutic Cloning Can Cure Parkinson's-like Disease in Mice.
September 21, 2003... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- New research from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), Cornell University, and The University of Connecticut describes a novel way of...

Walther Oncology Center Looks to Future in Cancer Treatments.
September 22, 2003... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Investigators at the Walther Oncology Center represent many disciplines and specialties, but they share a common goal - to advance research from the...

Imaging Science Advances Research to Improve Hoosier Health, Lives.
September 22, 2003... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the Indiana Center of Excellence in Biomedical Imaging have an eye on the future. They are dedicated to developing better imaging...

Microscopy Center Gives Scientists a Unique Perspective on Cell Activity.
September 22, 2003... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Indiana University -- and across the state and the nation -- can peer inside live cells and analyze their structure and activities with...

Neuroscience Institute is Nerve Center of Collaborative Research.
September 22, 2003... Byline: Indiana University School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Today's scientists grapple with finding ways to prevent and cure neurological disorders such as Alzheimer disease and multiple sclerosis, and how to...

Panel of Leading Neurologists Pronounce Best Treatment for Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
September 22, 2003... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Immunoglobulin infusions are now the treatment of choice for Guillain-Barre Syndrome, an autoimmune disorder that typically affects patients once in a lifetime but may...

$8 Million Grant Establishes Program to Uncover Genetics of Asthma.
September 23, 2003... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University Medical Center researchers have set out to uncover the genetic basis of environmental asthma. By revealing how genes interact with such environmental...

Joslin Diabetes Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Sign Joint Venture Clinical Agreement.
September 23, 2003... Byline: Joslin Diabetes Center BOSTON, Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Joslin Diabetes Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have signed a five-year agreement that expands and improves the longstanding clinical...

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Awarded $1.1 Million; National Institute of Mental Health Continues to Fund Study.
September 23, 2003... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University researchers Daniel Nagin and Jeffrey Dominitz have received a $1.1 million award from the National Institute of Mental Health to...

Harvard Medical School Launches Systems Biology Department to Study Causes, Treatment of Human Disease at Level of Cells, Organ Systems.
September 23, 2003... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Harvard Medical School today makes a significant commitment to the emerging field of systems biology in announcing the creation of the Department of Systems...

Exercise Measures Identify Heart Disease in Seemingly Healthy Women.
September 23, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A woman's fitness level and the time it takes for her heart to return to normal after exercise are more accurate predictors of female heart disease risk...

University of Georgia Scientist to Study Effect of Air Quality on Unborn Babies.
September 23, 2003... Byline: University of Georgia ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- A pregnant woman walks down the street of a large city. She doesn't know it, but the air she's breathing could be hurting her unborn baby. From recent studies in...

$2-Million Murray B. Koffler Chair in Pharmacy Management Named at University of Toronto.
September 23, 2003... Byline: Rotman School of Management TORONTO, Sept. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- An innovator in executive education and leading expert in competitiveness has been named the first chair holder of the Murray B. Koffler Chair in Pharmacy...

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Physician First Woman to Be Named Chief and Chairman of Ophthalmology at the Infirmary and Harvard Medical School.
September 24, 2003... Byline: Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary BOSTON, Sept. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Joan W. Miller, M.D., retina specialist at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor of Ophthalmology, was...

American Dental Association Issues Calls for Early Oral Cancer Detection.
September 25, 2003... Byline: American Dental Association CHICAGO, Sept. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- The American Dental Association (ADA) has launched a new campaign urging dentists to examine patients for signs of early oral cancer. "While those at greatest...

Computer Simulations Point Way to New Finding About Immune System.
September 25, 2003... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Computer simulations, or experiments in silico, paved the way for subsequent genetic and biochemical experiments that yielded new information...

Carter Center Releases Action Plan for Guinea Worm Eradication; Targets Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan.
September 25, 2003... Byline: The Carter Center ATLANTA, Sept. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- A collaborative action plan for making Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) the next disease to be eradicated from the earth was issued today at The Carter Center. With...

UC San Diego Breaks Ground on Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Building.
September 25, 2003... Byline: University of California, San Diego LA JOLLA, Sept. 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Students, staff, dignitaries and guests gathered to celebrate as the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) broke ground today on a state-of-the art,...

Purdue University to Break Ground on Bioscience Center.
September 28, 2003... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University will celebrate the start of construction today on the Bindley Bioscience Center, an interdisciplinary facility that will enable scientists and...

High Blood Pressure Does Not Accelerate Age-Related Cognitive Decline.
September 28, 2003... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duke University Medical Center researchers have found that contrary to the classical model of aging, increased blood pressure does not accelerate the age-related decline...

Scientists Show Disrupting Two Cell Mechanisms in Combination Can Suppress Aggressive Breast Cancer in Mice; Targeting Angiogenesis Alone Not Effective.
September 29, 2003... Byline: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center NEW YORK, Sept. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and colleagues found that by inhibiting both the proteins responsible for breast cancer growth and...

Researchers Identify Novel Treatment for Polycystic Kidney Disease in Animals.
September 29, 2003... Byline: Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The drug OPC31260 stops the development of cysts and prevents kidney function loss in rats and mice, according to a Mayo Clinic and Indiana University School of Medicine...

Project to Make Smallpox Inoculations Safe by 'Leashing' Current Vaccine Virus.
September 29, 2003... Byline: Arizona State University TEMPE, Ariz., Sept. 29 (AScribe News) -- Smallpox is one of humanity's oldest horrors and is still one of our greatest menaces, but, paradoxically, it is fear itself that keeps us from protecting ourselves...

Manual, Low-Tech Method for Second Trimester Abortions Found Safe and Effective.
September 30, 2003... Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions BALTIMORE, Sept. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- A hand-held vacuum aspiration device works as well as a more expensive electrical one for ending second-trimester pregnancies, according to results of a...

University of California Announces Major Aging Initiative.
September 30, 2003... Byline: University of California OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- To help meet the needs of California's aging population, the University of California has pulled together $12 million in state and private funds to fully fund...

Age of Introducing Cereal to At-Risk Infants Impacts Diabetes Risk.
September 30, 2003... Byline: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center DENVER, Sept. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center have found that age matters when introducing cereal to the diet of an infant at...

University of Chicago Receives Funding for $30 Million Infectious Disease Initiative.
September 30, 2003... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a $17 million grant to the University of Chicago...

Tulane University Receives $13.6 Million for Biosafety Lab.
September 30, 2003... Byline: Tulane University NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tulane University has received a $13.6 million grant to construct a new building at the Tulane National Primate Research Center where scientists will develop treatments...