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Renowned Doctor Passes Away

...ical degree from the University of Illinois and as assistant professor of neurology at Minnesota in 1971. From 1987 to 1988, he was president of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics. He was a former president of the Minnesota Society of Neurological Sciences. Dr. Cranford is survived by his wif...

Breast Cancer Mortality Rate is Higher Among Black Women

... of Medicine study co-author Dr. Charles M. Perou, assistant professor of genetics, pathology & laboratory medicine, and a Lineberger member, is a pioneer in microarray technology. 'Gene expression analysis using DNA microarrays has identified several breast cancer subtypes, including luminal A, luminal B, bas...

Quality Of Dietary Carbohydrates May Determine Quality Of Eye Sight

... Nutrition and Vision Research at the HNRCA and an assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. High total carbohydrate intake, however, did not significantly increase the risk factor for AMD. "In other words, the types of carbohydrates being consumed were more important than the absolute amou...

Earlier Introduction of Solid Foods in Infants Could Prevent Wheat Allergy

...o overcome the food allergies. Jill Poole, M.D., assistant professor in the pulmonary, critical care, sleep and allergy section of the department of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, is lead author of the Pediatrics study, 'Timing of Initial Exposure to Cereal Grains and the Ris...

Diabetes - New Treatment Approach At John Hopkins

...report's senior author, Pere Puigserver, Ph.D., an assistant professor of cell biology at Hopkins. The inability to properly regulate blood sugar levels leads to conditions like obesity and diabetes. Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes cause blood sugar levels to stay too high, which can lead to complications l...

What Ticks the Mosquito immune system?

... Dimopoulos, Ph.D., senior author of the study and assistant professor with the Bloomberg School's Malaria Research Institute. "The degree of mosquito susceptibility to Plasmodium, and thereby its capacity to transmit malaria, may therefore partly depend on the mosquito's microbial exposure, which can differ g...

New Breed Cats Marketed

...rds their genes remain unaltered. Leslie Lyons, assistant professor in the school of veterinary medicine at the University of California, specializes in research on domestic cat genetics but is not involved in Allerca's work. She supports the company’s work and suggests that Allerca should concentrate on b...

Migraine, Sexual Desire Interlinked

...imothy Houle, PhD, lead author of the research and assistant professor of anesthesiology. They appeared to be aware of this, rating their sex drive as being higher than others their age and gender. He said the results suggest that a serotonin link may be implicated in both migraine headaches and sexual desir...

Medical Role In Interrogations Curtailed By Pentagon

... interrogators. William Winkenwerder Jr., the assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs approved of the new policy, saying it was drawn to ensure that healthcare professionals play an appropriate role.He said that the medicos did not take part in interrogations but are not allowed to shape it wi...

Defibrillators Can Only Put off Heart Failure but Cannot Prevent One

...art failure,’ said Ilan Goldenberg, M.D., research assistant professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center and lead author of the latest report from the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial-II (MADIT-II). ‘The ICD kept them alive by preventing sudden cardiac death as their heart ...

Brain’s response distinct upon exposure to erotic image

...ys first author Andrey P. Anokhin, Ph.D., research assistant professor of psychiatry. "We believed both pleasant and disturbing images would evoke a rapid response, but erotic scenes always elicited the strongest response." As subjects looked at the slides, electrodes on their scalps measured changes in the ...

Growth Factors Help Neurons to Reach Their Correct Destination

...oral fellow Joseph W. Lewcock, Ph.D.; and research assistant Karen Lettieri, both at Salk. <brSource: Eurekalert...

Basketball Top For Injurious Sports

...d by football with 418,000 injuries,’ said Tonino, assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, department of orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Ill. ‘Soccer came in fourth at 174,000 injuries. ‘Athletes, youngsters and weekend warriors alike...

Protected Environment v/s Unprotected Affect Hygiene Health Immunity

...ieties experience," said William Parker, Ph.D., an assistant professor of experimental surgery and senior member of the study team. "On the other hand, rodents living in the wild are exposed to a wide variety of microbes and parasites, much like humans living in societies without modern health care and where h...

A brief Intervention Might Help To Deal With Depression

...treatment is available." Clayton Neighbors, a UW assistant professor of psychiatry and behavior sciences, was a co-author of the study funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the Stanley Foundation. (Source: Newswise)...

Police Summoned Apollo Doctors in Rahul Mahajan’s Cas

...tors and the questioning is on," said Suman Nalwa, assistant commissioner of police, heading the probe against the hospital. According to senior officials, Rahul Mahajan, son of late Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pramod Mahajan, was treated by these doctors. They suspect the doctors had hidden some of ...

Precautious Measure Help Tolerate Nausea In Patients

...made more unpleasant by the drug,’ said Levine, an assistant professor of gastroenterology. The authors hypothesize that once the drum began to rotate, the group that was told they should anticipate a sickening experience may have experienced something far more innocuous than they had expected. ‘Those who ...

Doctors Attitude and Costs Plays a Vital Role in Boosting Medical Tourism in India

...h at Northwestern University in Chicago and was an assistant director at the Cook County Hospital Burns unit in the late 1960s. Despite a successful career in the US, Pandya and his wife (a gynaecologist) decided to go back to India in 1971 where he began his career treating burns and leprosy-affected patie...

Abnormal Abeta - Protein Level in Human Brain Trigger Alzheimer's Risk

...d so far,' says lead author Randall Bateman, M.D., assistant professor of neurology. 'In a time span of about six or seven hours, you make half the amyloid beta found in your central nervous system.' Ideally, the production and clearance rates stay balanced, causing the overall amount of Abeta in the centra...

Lack of STAT1 -an Immune Protein, Pack Liver Infection Cure

...aid Abhay Satoskar, the study’s lead author and an assistant professor of microbiology at Ohio State University. The gene makes a protein called STAT1, and its production is triggered whenever the immune system senses a foreign bacterium, virus or other pathogen. STAT1 activation is a critical step in the im...

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