The Cancer Institute of New jersey is a Center of Excellence of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical school.
and lack of employment would be related to a higher level of relighting says Dr. Steinberg who is also an associate professor of medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical school and an associate professor of health education and behavioral science at UMDNJ
Steinberg and colleagues suggest key components of tobacco dependence treatment that could be affected by these findings include the dosage of medicines prescribed
This research was part of the Life After Cancer Epidemiology (LACE) study one of several efforts by investigators with the Kaiser permanente Division of Research to consider the role of lifestyle factors such as nutrition exercise
and Carol Sweeney Phd of the University of Utah Division of Epidemiology. The National Cancer Institute of the National institutes of health funded this study (grant R01ca129059.
and kinship even when considering only the location of nursing calves and their mothers who were separated often widely
because it sheds light on an aspect of medicine that has long been obscure: how vaccines work.
and has been used for centuries against diabetes in the folk medicines of China and India. Following this line of thinking Agarwal
and vegetables in school meals may give a small boost to the amount of these foods in adolescents'diets according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive medicine.
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The research is to be published in The Journal of Pediatrics. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Liverpool.
or as an adult at work or at home--the more likely you are to develop early signs of heart disease according to research being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Session.
and may be even more dangerous than we previously thought said Harvey Hecht MD associate director of cardiac imaging and professor of medicine at Mount sinai Medical center and study author.
and who were enrolled already in the Flight attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI)- International Early Lung cancer Action Program CT screening program from 2005-2012.
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#Pancakes with a side of math: A physiological model for sap exudation in maple treesfor many of us maple syrup is an essential part of breakfast--a staple accompaniment to pancakes
#Stressed proteins can cause blood clots for hoursnew research from Rice university Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)
Moake a senior research scientist in bioengineering at Rice and professor of medicine at BCM said the work is vitally important
Other sponsors of the meeting included the American Legacy Foundation the World health organization the International Development Research Centre the Medical University of South carolina the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project
The occurrence of a queen event had a risk factor of 3. 1. This is the first time anyone has done an epidemiological study to repeatedly evaluate the health of the same commercial honey bee colonies over the course of a season Tarpy says.
of regenerative medicine at Wake Forest Baptist's Institute for Regenerative Medicine and colleagues. The new research complements a 2012 report by Almeida-Porada's team that identified stem cells in cord blood that are involved in blood vessel formation
In a new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics researchers determined that small inexpensive changes to school cafeterias influenced the choice and consumption of healthier foods.
The findings in the study published online Feb 18 and in the March print issue of the journal Pediatrics are based on ETICS--Exploring the Iceberg of Celiacs in Sweden
and the children who had elevated levels were called to the nearest pediatric clinic for a small intestinal biopsy to check for disease suspicion.
and in the United states. The researcher team led Dr. Anneli Ivarsson at the Department of public health and Clinical Medicine speculate that there may be a window of opportunity in which an infanwe now have proven this way of introducing gluten reduces the risk of getting celiac disease says Dr
The findings in the study published online Feb 18 and in the March print issue of the journal Pediatrics are based on ETICS--Exploring the Iceberg of Celiacs in Sweden
and the children who had elevated levels were called to the nearest pediatric clinic for a small intestinal biopsy to check for disease suspicion.
But consumed correctly it appears to kill pre-cancerous cells in the bowel says Janine Higgins Phd CU Cancer Center investigator and associate professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of medicine.
#Growing medicines in plants requires new regulations, experts sayscientists say amending an EU directive on GMOS could help stimulate innovation in making cheaper vaccines pharmaceuticals
This research was supported by the NIA (contracts N01-AG-6-2101n01-AG-6-2103 and N01-AG-6-2106 and grant R01-AG028050) the National Institute on Nursing
and more than 11000 concurrent out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) logged by Houston Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
She said statistics show one life is saved for every 26 to 36 people who receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation from a bystander.
but some epidemiological studies show that substantial health benefits can also result from reducing ozone at other times he said.
of the Molecular Oncology Department at Moffitt. Current treatments for non-small cell lung cancer include surgery radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
However patients eventually develop resistance to treatment. There is a great need to better understand the molecular mechanism of resistance
The work was supported by National Cancer Institute Grants CA137041 and P50 CA119997 and James & Esther King Biomedical Research Program 1kg02 1kd04 and 1kn08.
but make an important contribution to health care cost containment said senior author Stanton A. Glantz Phd a UCSF professor of medicine and director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.
Tobacco companies narrowly defeated Proposition 29 last year which would have increased the tobacco tax to reinvigorate the tobacco control program and to fund medical research.
It appears in ACS'journal Chemical Research in Toxicology. Chiara Dall'Asta and colleagues explain that molds growing naturally on wheat corn
and zinc#published in Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imagingmillions of people worldwide are exposed regularly to arsenic through drinking water
Long-term exposure can lead to the development of different types of cancer as well as serious cardiovascular neurological and other health problems.
The discovery is reported in Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging. Rice is the staple food of over three billion people.
In this latest work published in Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging the De Montfort University team#along with Dr Michael Watts from The british Geological Survey Keyworth Nottingham UK#has identified varieties that are low in arsenic but high in essential trace elements such as
The propagation of antibiotic resistance has been perceived as a medical or microbiology-related problem Alvarez said.
Nimrit Goraya MD Donald Wesson MD (Texas A&m College of Medicine) and their colleagues tested this by randomizing 71 patients with hypertensive stage 4 CKD to receive added fruits and vegetables
We do believe that to some extent these findings are going to be applicable to other important areas of disease beyond sepsis said Daren Knoell senior author of the study and a professor of pharmacy and internal medicine at Ohio State.
Craft a professor of gerontology and geriatric medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical center and research director of its Sticht Center on Aging is the principal investigator in a National institutes of health-funded study into the effectiveness of insulin administered through the nose in treating individuals with mild cognitive impairment
or mild Alzheimer's dementia. But the $7. 9 million nationwide study involving 30 institutions--one of two projects selected by the NIH to be part of its National Alzheimer's Plan
because they're kind of paying it forward by assisting in advancing medical knowledge or because the study offers some type of compensation.
Medical environmental and other factors can exacerbate those differences she said. For a long time cardiovascular research was tilted toward men
One of the most important ways you can contribute directly to science is by volunteering to participate in studies said Christina Hugenschmidt an instructor in gerontology and geriatric medicine at Wake Forest Baptist.
but whenever you read about groundbreaking new science in human medicine it means that hundreds
Dr. Patel is an associate professor in pediatrics at Rush University Medical center. She specializes in neonatal and perinatal medicine.
Of 175 very-low-birth-weight infants 23 (13 percent) developed sepsis from gram-positive bacteria such as staphylococci Streptococcus and Enterococcus species and gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli
Dr. Engstrom is affiliated also with Frontier Nursing University Hyden Ky. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Rush University Medical center.
--and natural rubber allergenicity a global medical concern for those repeatedly exposed to latex-containing products (e g. gloves).
This is the first case-controlled study to show a possible link to the increased risk of stroke from cannabis said P. Alan Barber Ph d. M d. study lead investigator and professor of clinical neurology at the University of Auckland
The latest frontier in basic biomedical research is to better understand the molecular machines called proteins and enzymes.
To make PALM more practical for use in biomedical research the team wrote a computer script that allows any biologist to upload
One in 150 people can get a high fever headache neck stiffness disorientation and neurological problems.
Kochmanski is now a master's student at the U-M School of Public health focusing on toxicology.
I am currently working in a toxicology laboratory at the School of Public health doing research into the human health effects of environmental exposures he said.
The study published by Wiley in Annals of Neurology a journal of the American Neurological Association
and affects more men than women#said senior author Dr. Alberto Ascherio Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard School of Public health in Boston Mass.#
because there's a large potential payoff in terms of reducing costs for pharmaceutical and toxicological testing. Nano3d Biosciences won a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2011 to create a four-layered lung tissue from endothelial cells smooth muscle cells
which is important for toxicological testing because primary cells provide the closest possible match to native cells.
Dr. Robert Moore a pediatric pulmonologist at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM; and former BCM scientist Jacob Gage now with Nano3d Biosciences.
-and ER positive (ER+)tumors and each may have distinct etiologies. Since ER-tumors which have lower survival rates
D. formerly from the Department of Nutrition Harvard School of Public health and currently at the Channing Division of Network Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital and colleagues analyzed data from 20 cohort studies of women
and the numbers are increasing said Atul Butte MD Phd associate professor of systems medicine in pediatrics.
and other indicators of their medical status In 2010 Patel Butte and their colleagues published the results of the first-ever EWAS in
Other co-authors were John Ioannidis MD Phd professor of medicine and of health research and policy;
The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health National Library of Medicine National Institute of General Medical sciences and other National institutes of health agencies funded the study.
About Willow Treestraditionally grown for wicker furniture and baskets and an ancient medicinal plant whose chemical contents were the precursors to Aspirin willows are seen now as important crops for energy and the environment.
The structural sanitation and pest infestation problems documented in these kitchens are interrelated said the study's lead author Sara A. Quandt Ph d. a professor of epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest Baptist.
and education--are published in the current issue of the American Journal of Preventive medicine. There's a natural tendency to see our findings
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends feeding babies breast milk exclusively for the first six months of life with continued breastfeeding until at least 12 months.
Sarah O'brien Professor of Epidemiology and Zoonoses from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health attributes a dramatic fall in the number of Salmonella cases in humans to this mass vaccination programme in poultry.
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Research published last year in the New england Journal of Medicine reported a strong association between a nation's chocolate consumption
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Those factors play a bigger role than even skin colour and exposure to the sun according to Dr. Jonathon Maguire a researcher and pediatrician at St michael's Hospital.
His research was published January 14 in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Vitamin d deficiency is a risk factor for a number of illnesses including asthma and allergies in children.
Research published by Dr. Maguire in the journal Pediatrics in December found that drinking two cups of cow's milk per day was enough to maintain adequate Vitamin d levels in most children.
of which may contribute to obesity are associated with adverse medical conditions and health outcomes for many people but until now the health effects of these types of poor diets have not been characterized for people who live to 75 years of age and older said Pao Ying Hsao postdoctoral fellow
what women eat every week said Eric Rimm D. Sc. senior author and Associate professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public health in Boston Mass.
But new research conducted at UC Davis Health System published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology
and a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and of internal medicine at UC Davis. But our research helps to dispel the myth that gluteal fat is'innocent.'
Future large epidemiological studies should focus on evaluating the role of chemerin as a biomarker for the development of diabetes
Other authors of the study entitled Increased Chemerin and Decreased Omentin-1 in Both Adipose tissue and Plasma in Nascent Metabolic syndrome include Sridevi Devaraj of Baylor College of Medicine Harmeet
We expect this combination of properties will lead to new products with unique capabilities for the aerospace automotive medical and smart-clothing markets.
#Research revisiting the safety of GM weevil-resistant peas in mice contradicts previous risk assessment findingsresearchers at the Medical University of Vienna have conducted feeding trials with mice to investigate the allergenicity of genetically modified (GM) weevil-resistant peas.
This research was conducted at the Medical University of Vienna as part of the European commission Framework 7-funded GMSAFOOD project.
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My job is to build a specialty program that deals with medical weight management providing a long-term care model to treat obesity as the disease it is said Dr. Jamy Ard co-director of the new adult Weight Management Center
Some people view bariatric surgery as a quick fix for obesity but at Wake Forest Baptist more is expected of patients than just showing up for the procedure.
or so before undergoing bariatric surgery which reduces the size of the stomach or limits its capacity to process food.
surgery program. The goal is making those lifestyle changes''said Fernandez who was a classmate of Ard's at Duke Medical school.
Surgery is the most successful treatment but without life modification--portion control healthy choices and exercise--even surgery will not be successful in the long term.
In other words patients who have undergone bariatric surgery can put weight back on if they haven't changed their habits.
We offer a monthly post-op support group--group therapy so to speak --and most of those patients do really well''Fernandez said.
Susan and Allen Fletcher had bariatric surgery at Wake Forest Baptist after years of following diets that only worked for brief periods.
She started by losing 50 pounds before having the surgery. Her husband is down to 180 pounds from a high of 450.
and effectively treat them with smaller radiation fields to spare the rest of their normal brain said lead investigator Michael D. Chan M d. assistant professor of radiation oncology at Wake Forest Baptist.
Recent research findings from Chan and colleagues appeared online last month ahead of print in the American Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Chan said that in the 1990s Wake Forest Baptist's Edward G. Shaw M d. professor of radiation oncology was part of a group that pioneered using smaller margins
The study published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine is a collaboration between scientists at King's college London and Anhui Medical University China along with colleagues in the UK and USA.
Dr Ruoling Chen also a visiting professor at Anhui Medical University said:''Passive smoking should be considered an important risk factor for severe dementia syndromes as this study in China shows.
The native Carolina Willow is also starting to strangle portions of the St johns river. Biologists at the University of Central Florida recently completed a study that shows this slender tree once used by Native americans for medicinal purposes may be thriving because of water-management projects initiated in the 1950s.
#New company applies regenerative medicine to corneal transplantsocular Systems Inc. OSI) Wake Forest Baptist Medical center
whose Institute for Regenerative Medicine is conducting the research and the North carolina Eye Bank is an example of the type of collaboration that is a strategic goal of the Piedmont Triad Research Park (PTRP).
The current surgical technique is to replace a patient's damaged CECS with a very thin layer of tissue containing cells from a cadaveric donor cornea.
The goal of the new partnership is use regenerative medicine technology to meet this increased demand.
and scaffolds can theoretically be applied to almost any tissue in the body said Anthony Atala M d. director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
Shay Soker Ph d. professor of regenerative medicine at Wake Forest Baptist is the lead scientist for the project.
Other team members are Tracy Criswell Ph d. instructor of regenerative medicine; Ocular Systems Inc. scientists Jin San Choi Ph d. and Belinda Wagner Ph d.;
and Wake Forest Baptist Department of Ophthalmology physicians Craig Greven M d. chair Matthew Giegengack M d. assistant professor and Keith Walter M d. associate professor.
and Dr. Walter serves on OSI's Medical Advisory board and provides consulting for OSI. Story Source:
Fruit mixture is not the answercan you ditch the strips and dump the dentist for whiter teeth?
because you're just removing plaque accumulation on your teeth says Kwon sole author on the study published in the journal Operative Dentistry.
Three other groups of 20 extracted teeth were subjected to other teeth-whitening procedures--mimicking teeth whitening at a dentist a prescribed tooth-whitening regimen
These acids are not whitening agents says Kwon currently in the UI College of Dentistry
and 20 minute surgery on June 29 would make history as the smallest liver-kidney transplant on record.
and they spend most of their lives sick said Robin Kim M d Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation at University of Utah Health care.
The first kidney transplant in Utah using an organ from a donor with hepatitis C. The first en bloc kidney where two pediatric kidneys were transplanted into one adult.
The U. gives patients important access to doctors from specific specialties who are able to come together to focus on the specific needs of a patient said Kim and his colleague Jeff Campsen M d. Surgical Director of Pancreas Transplantation.
what might help says co-investigator Andrew Zimmerman M d. now a professor of pediatric neurology at UMASS Memorial Medical center.
and were described first 70 years ago by Leo Kanner M d. the founder of pediatric psychiatry at The Johns hopkins university.
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and head of the Seafarm project which converts algae into eco-friendly food medicine plastic and energy.
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Toxicology Program (NTP. This report provides a valuable resource for health regulatory and research agencies
It is used also in some consumer and medical products. People are exposed mainly through the workplace by skin contact
Often these spiders are presumed to be of medical importance because of their size or similarity to spiders that are known to be toxic to humans.
which they describe in an ad hoc study in the Journal of Medical Entomology. The authors hope that their paper will fill a knowledge gap
Spiders of medical importance were rare. Spiders found in international cargo especially those in banana cartons are typically harmless species they wrote.
In a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics researchers have confirmed that the common strategy of transfusing blood products to VLBW infants that are CMV-seronegative
Medicine Emory University School of medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Previously the risk of CMV infection from blood transfusion of seronegative or leukoreduced transfusions was estimated to be 1 to 3 percent.
The American Academy of Pediatrics currently states that the value of routinely feeding breast milk from CMV seropositive mothers to preterm infants outweighs the risks of clinical disease from CMV.
Alternative approaches to prevent breast milk transmission of CMV say the authors could include routine CMV-serologic testing of pregnant mothers to enable counseling regarding the risk of infection;
and pasteurization of breast milk until a corrected gestational age of 34 weeks (as recommended by the Austrian Society of Pediatrics.
infants and points to the need for large long-term follow-up studies of neurological outcomes in infants with postnatal CMV infection.
and diet exercise not smoking and moderating alcohol intake could prevent four out of five coronary events in men according to a new study publishing today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
While mortality from heart disease has declined in recent decades with much of the reduction attributed to medical therapies the authors said prevention through a healthy lifestyle avoids potential side effects of medication
It is not surprising that healthy lifestyle choices would lead to a reduction in heart attacks said Agneta Akesson Ph d. Associate professor at the Institute of Environmental Medicine Karolinska Institutet Stockholm
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A bioartificial liver also known as a BAL could potentially sustain patients with acute liver failure until their own livers self-repair said Steven D. Colquhoun MD the surgical director of liver transplantation at Cedars
This important investigation we are undertaking at Cedars-Sinai is a critical step in addressing the medical emergency presented by liver failure said Andrew S. Klein MD MBA director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center and the Esther
and Mark Schulman Chair in Surgery and Transplantation Medicine. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Cedars-Sinai Medical center.
and Barry Popkin Phd published today in the American Journal of Preventive medicine. The study unveils a new unprecedented system for tracking trends in consumer-packaged goods
Dr Daniel Greenwood from QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation with support from the Queensland Academy of Sport Centre of Excellence for Applied Sport Science Research has studied the run-ups of elite
A study of nearly 4000 Taiwanese led by Emeritus Professor Mark Wahlqvist from Monash University's Department of Epidemiology
and Preventive medicine and the Monash Asia Institute considered the role increased consumption of dairy foods had played in the country's gains in health and longevity.
The study which was published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition also involved researchers from the National Health Research Institutes and National Defence Medical Centre in Taiwan.
Dr. Iwona Rudkowska a research scientist at the Endocrinology and Nephrology Department at the CHU de Quã bec Research center and assistant professor at Laval University says additional well-designed intervention
Nevertheless several epidemiological studies have indicated that a high intake of dairy products may be protective. Subsequently the importance of dietary fat content and food sources of fat remains to be clarified.
and consumption of calorie-dense snack foods reports a study in the September issue of Psychosomatic Medicine:
Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine the official journal of the American Psychosomatic Society. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
when Manuka honey is prescribed for esophagitis pain during radiation therapy (RT) it is not more effective than standard medical care according to research presented today at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO's) 56th Annual Meeting.
This study assessed the use of Manuka honey a honey from New zealand that is a standardized medical grade honey.
so that patients can continue eating their normal diet said lead study author Lawrence Berk MD chief of radiation oncology Morsani School of medicine at the University of South Florida Tampa.
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