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Cornell lab confirms deadly fish virus spreading to new species

...o Paul Bowser, Cornell professor of aquatic animal medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine. The viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV), which causes anemia and hemorrhaging in fish, has now been identified in 19 species and poses a potential threat to New York’s $1.2 billion sport-fishing industry. ...

UCLA study uncovers clues for why Graves' disease attacks the eyes

...incipal investigator Dr. Terry Smith, professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine and chief of molecular medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. "The antibody provokes the receptor to signal the T-cell to grow...

Investigating the measles virus as a tool to kill multiple myeloma

...o cure. This is the third of a series of molecular medicine studies in patients testing the potential of measles to kill cancer. “This is the beginning of a long but exciting process,?says Angela Dispenzieri, M.D., hematologist and lead researcher on the multiple myeloma clinical trial in the measles virus ...

Heart failure: Intervention possibilities from imaging programmed cell loss

Using a nuclear medicine technique and molecular imaging to "see" programmed cell loss—the body's normal way of getting rid of unneeded or abnormal cells—may help in early identification of those individuals who are at risk of developing heart failure, say researchers in the...

UC Davis researchers use heated nanoprobes to destroy breast cancer cells in mice

...ents," said Sally DeNardo, a professor of internal medicine and radiology at UC Davis and lead author of the study. Many researchers have studied heat as a potential treatment for cancer, but the difficulty of confining heat within the tumor and predicting an effective heat dose has limited its use. The UC...

The sturdier sex? -- Study by Pittsburgh scientists finds female stem cells work better

...results, future studies investigating regenerative medicine should consider the sex of the stem cells to be an important factor. Furthermore, investigations such as ours could lead to a better understanding of sex-related differences in aging and disease and could explain, at least partially, the high variabi...

Researchers identify ovarian cancer biomarkers

...vich, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of internal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical School. Buckanovich was at the University of Pennsylvania when he conducted this research. The study analyzed the largest number of samples to date in tumor vasculature, or blood ...

Study finds surfing safer than soccer

...ays lead author Andrew Nathanson, MD, an emergency medicine physician with Rhode Island Hospital's Injury Prevention Center. "However, the risk of injury more than doubled when surfing in large waves or over an area with a hard bottom." The sport of surfing has rapidly grown in popularity since the 1960's,...

Misusing vitamin to foil drug test may be toxic; plus, it doesn't work

...said. "We hope that our study will alert emergency medicine physicians and other health care providers to this hazardous practice." ...

Are one-third of costly implanted heart devices unnecessary? New study suggests yes

....Sc., senior author and a fellow in cardiovascular medicine at the U-M Medical School. "Use of the MTWA test, which has been covered by Medicare since spring of 2006, could truly help us tell which ICD candidates will benefit most." In all, the authors calculate, one life could be saved every two years for...

Cocoa 'vitamin' health benefits could outshine penicillin

...gazine of the SCI. Norman Hollenberg, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, told C&I that epicatechin is so important that it should be considered a vitamin. Hollenberg has spent years studying the benefits of cocoa drinking on the Kuna people in Panama. He found that the risk of 4 of the 5 m...

Anxiety disorders surprisingly common yet often untreated

... Dr. Kroenke, I.U. School of Medicine professor of medicine and Regenstrief Institute, Inc. research scientist. Dr. Kroenke, an internist, is an internationally recognized researcher who studies physical symptoms, especially pain, and their links to mental disorders including anxiety and depression. Dr. ...

Rapid, Low-Cost DNA Testing

...be very important for applications in personalized medicine where a particular DNA sequence will be linked to a prescribed therapy. In fact, we see this happening already." ...

UW launches study testing adult stem cells for heart damage repair

...tervention. This type of therapy - regenerative medicine - treats diseases by using growth factors, genes o...s Amish Raval, head of cardiovascular regenerative medicine at UW Health. The goal with this approach, he says, is to promote either angiogenesis, which is th...

Scientists find new genes for Crohn's disease

...ber Richard H. Duerr, M.D., associate professor of medicine and human genetics at the University of Pittsburgh...uthor John D. Rioux, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine at the Montreal Heart Institute and at the Université de Montréal, the identification of the PHOX2B ...

Putting an old drug to a new use

... clinicians can yield results that are relevant to medicine and could ultimately benefit patients," says Matth...ersity we integrate molecular biology and clinical medicine to gain an understanding of the basis of human diseases. It is very gratifying to see how the collab...

Researcher to study astronaut bone loss for space biology agency

...physician Daniel D. Bikle, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine and dermatology at UCSF. As an NSBRI Fellow, Long will receive $40,000 per year for two years for his research at SFVAMC. In addition, as a member of an NSBRI science and technology team, he will collaborate in person and via teleconference with N...

Researchers urge monitoring of bone health during chemotherapy

...atherine Weilbaecher, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and of cell biology and physiology. "But there are things that can be done to counteract this. Physicians should carefully monitor their cancer patient's bone health with regular bone density scans (DEXA) and prescribe medications to prevent bone los...

White blood cells in lung produce histamine seen in allergies

...orge Caughey, MD, chief of pulmonary/critical care medicine at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. "Previou...llergy," notes Caughey, who is also a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Caughey says the result could mean that histamine ...

New antibacterials being developed to tackle MRSA superbug

A novel antibacterial medicine that kills the superbug MRSA is being developed un....48 million, 33 month award, could result in a new medicine being fast-tracked into clinical evaluation by 2009. ...

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