Sentences with phrase «university school of medicine»

Neurosurgeon Dr. Ammar H. Hawasli and colleagues of Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, give their perspective on recent guidelines suggesting limited use of CT scans and other neuroimaging tests for patients with headache.

«In the last few months, we've diagnosed several people with the disease years before the diagnosis is typically made, which has changed how we do medicine in our nerve clinic,» says Michael Polydefkis, M.D., professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author on the study.

In the new work, Martin H. Steinberg of the Boston University School of Medicine conducted a follow - up survey of 299 of these patients, who were given the option to continue, stop or start taking the drug.

«We believe that early treatment and self - recognition of depression are essential for reducing suffering in young people, and our results validate the overall effectiveness of the program,» says Karen Swartz, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and founder of ADAP at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«Compared to other proteins that have been measured in traumatic brain injury, BDNF does a much better job of predicting outcomes,» says Frederick Korley, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and first author of the new paper.

Department of Cell Biology and Section of Immunobiology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Post Office Box 208002, New Haven, CT 06520 — 8002, USA.

Edward Stapleton, Associate Professor and Director of Pre-hospital Education, Department of Emergency Medicine, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, is urging everyone to learn CPR and talks about the importance of mastering this life - saving technique.

«Considering that PDPN is associated with poor prognosis in GBM, CAR T - cell therapy that targets this protein is promising for treatment of patients with relapsed or resistant tumors following first - line chemotherapy,» says Toshihiko Wakabayashi, a coauthor and the chair of Department of Neurosurgery Nagoya University School of Medicine.

Understanding the networks of connections between brain regions — as depicted in this image — and how they are changed by a stroke is crucial to understanding how stroke patients heal, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

«The potential advantage of stem cells,» says Eugene Redmond, a professor of neurosurgery at the Yale University School of Medicine and the lead author of that study, «is that they still have the potential to migrate and position themselves in appropriate places depending on what signals are there [in the brain].»

Mark Castanares, Graduate Student Department of Pharmacology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

A new test detects virtually any virus that infects people and animals, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where the technology was developed.

According to researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) while the merits of screening tests and screening intervals warrant further discussion, they firmly believe that increasing the number of women who participate in cancer screenings and ensuring that women are not lost to follow - up with lengthened screening intervals is more important than the choice of test to decrease rates of cervical cancer.

Although a connection between fever and these birth defects has been known for decades, says coauthor Eric Benner, a neonatologist at Duke University School of Medicine, there has been some debate as to whether the fever itself or an infectious agent behind the fever is the culprit.

However, when that barrier is broken, the increased exposure to certain bacteria really causes problems,» says Lloyd Miller, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that mature cells have the ability to revert back to behaving more like rapidly dividing stem cells.

«What [the study authors] are arguing is that a change of 5 on a 0 — 100 pain scale... is noticeable by patients,» David Gorski, a surgical oncologist at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, observed in a blog post.

Engineered human immune cells can vanquish a deadly pediatric brain tumor in a mouse model, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has demonstrated.

Eventually they become overwhelmed with the task and reach a point where «all they do is send out alarm signals,» says Tony Wyss - Coray, a neuroscientist at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Human sperm may hold the potential to serve as biomarkers of the future health of newborn infants, according to a new study by a Wayne State University School of Medicine research team.

The research, led by Moriah Thomason, a developmental neuroscientist at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, and published this week in Scientific Reports, provides the first direct evidence of altered brain function in fetuses that go on to be born prematurely.

The Physician Scientist Training Program in Internal Medicine, a research - oriented residency training program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has reported that more than 80 % of the residents who completed the program remained in academic medicine, and about 70 % of those had faculty positions at Washington University (4).

The results are impressive, if a little hard to decipher, according to Ifat Levy, a neuroscientist at the Yale University School of Medicine who did not work on the new study.

More than a decade of data indicates teens have become far less likely to abuse alcohol, nicotine and illicit drugs, and they also are less likely to engage in delinquent behaviors, such as fighting and stealing, according to results of a national survey analyzed by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

«If they're hyperalgesic, they can just go back to the drug again to feel okay,» says Jose Moron - Concepcion, a neuroscientist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis in Missouri.

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have identified several new biological markers to measure the progression of the inherited neurodegenerative disorder Huntington's disease (HD).

«Even with the new immunological studies, we can't tell what's special about the whole - cell vaccine that makes it better,» says Kathryn Edwards, the director of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Vaccine Research Center.

Physician - scientists at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine presented their findings and strategies to increase rates on March 13 at the Society of Surgical Oncology Cancer Symposium in Phoenix.

«It's far too early to single out Candida infection as a cause of mental illness or vice versa,» says Emily Severance, Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics and member of the Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

If norovirus also targets tuft cells in humans, «maybe that's the cell type we need to be treating,» says study coauthor Craig Wilen, a physician scientist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

A 2 - year fellowship from the Human Science Frontier Program financed a postdoc at Yale University School of Medicine on the role of so - called «toll - like receptors» in immune responses.

Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that cervical tumors that don't respond to radiation may be vulnerable to therapies that also attack the cancer's fuel supply.

Children from low - income families are likely to hear 30 million fewer words than their peers from higher - income families, a deficit that can have far - reaching implications on educational achievement, health and economic status, said Alan Mendelsohn, associate professor of pediatrics and population health at the New York University School of Medicine.

«The best explanation for what we are seeing is that frequently, after exposure to HIV, a few cells in the genital tract are infected, without establishment of a systemic infection,» says senior investigator Eric Hunter, PhD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Vaccine Center, and Yerkes National Primate Research Center.

11 Teens who begin drinking before the age of 15 are more likely to develop a dependence on alcohol later in life than those who start when they are older, according to a 2009 study by researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Xin Qi, PhD, assistant professor of physiology and biophysics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has been looking for proteins that interact with mutant huntingtin to better understand the initial steps of Huntington's disease progression.

Many studies have linked more sleep to better memory, but new research in fruit flies demonstrates that extra sleep helps the brain overcome catastrophic neurological defects that otherwise would block memory formation, report scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

«Now that we have more evidence that serotonin is a chemical that appears affected early in cognitive decline, we suspect that increasing serotonin function in the brain could prevent memory loss from getting worse and slow disease progression,» says Gwenn Smith, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of geriatric psychiatry and neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

The work identifies «a new and much more efficient method to generate broadly active antibodies against HIV,» says immunologist Justin Bailey of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study.

In the new study, published 9 January in Scientific Reports, developmental neuroscientist Moriah Thomason of Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, and colleagues report a difference in how certain brain regions communicate with each other in fetuses that were later born prematurely compared with fetuses that were carried to term.

«Unexpectedly, in elementary school - age participants we found that overall eating frequency and snacks positively contributed to diet quality,» wrote Evans and colleagues from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, where Evans did the research under the guidance of senior author Aviva Must, professor and chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine..

«These results suggest that biology is not as deterministic as many scientists think,» says Andrew Feinberg, M.D., M.P.H., the King Fahd Professor of Medicine, Oncology, and Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Center for Epigenetics in the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences.

Researchers need the right incentives to produce dependable results and to correct mistakes in the scientific literature, says John Ioannidis of Stanford University School of Medicine.

«We believe we are developing a tool that can help with personalized decision - making to help refine patient selection and thus reduce the failure rate by saving candidates with low potential benefit from futile procedures and complications,» says senior author Hiroshi Ashikaga, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

David Holtzman of Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, and colleagues found that beta - amyloid levels were higher in mouse brains when the mice were awake than when they were sleeping.

Setton's team worked in collaboration with Farshid Guilak, professor of orthopaedic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and director of research at Shriners Hospitals for Children - St.

In an effort to find out, Stephen P. Juraschek, M.D., Ph.D., research and clinical fellow in general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues used data from the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) clinical trial, a widely popular and often - cited study whose results were first published in 1997.

Veterans Administration Hospital and Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70146

A new study by Robert Stahelin, an adjunct associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame and an associate professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine - South Bend, as well as a member of Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health, investigates how the most abundant protein that composes the Ebola virus, VP 40, mediates replication of a new viral particle.