A newly identified biomarker panel could pave the way to earlier detection and better treatment for pancreatic cancer, according to new research from the Perelman
School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania.
Making matters worse, the number of people with peanut allergies doubled over a recent five - year period, from four in 1,000 people in 1997 to eight in 1,000 in 2002, according to Robert Wood, MD, director of the division of pediatric allergy and immunology at Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine in Baltimore.
A research group consisting of Andrew M. Stern of
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Arturo Casadevall of Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, R. Grant Steen of MediCC Medical Communications Consultants, and Fang analyzed several open databases to answer these questions:
A $ 1.6 million effort to study the complex mechanisms of the disease and identify existing drugs that might be able to be used for Alzheimer's treatment or prevention, led by Eric Schadt of
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
Researchers were finally able to tease out the results that applied to «the young women — and I love saying this — young women 50 to 59 who are most apt to present with symptoms of menopause,» says Cynthia Stuenkel, an internist and endocrinologist at the University of California, San
Diego School of Medicine in La Jolla.
«We knew that paternal depression existed and it affects about 5 to 10 percent of dads - and there are seven million fathers in the U.S,» said Garfield, a pediatrician and researcher at Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
«Our findings demonstrate that people naturally assign different weights to the pluses and minuses of interventions to improve cardiovascular health,» said Erica Spatz, M.D., M.H.S., the study lead author and an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine in the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at
Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. «I believe we need to tap into this framework when we are talking with patients about options to manage their blood pressure.
As Dr. Philip Landrigan of the Mount
Sinai School of Medicine New York said recently, «It makes sense that if a substance destroys brain cells in early life, the brain may cope by drawing on its reserve capacity until it loses still more cells with aging.»
Before recently shifting his focus to international medicine, Stuart Siegel, MD, was Chief of the Division of Hematology / Oncology for 35 years and the founding director of the the Children's Center for Cancer & Blood Diseases at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and Professor and Head of the Division of Hematology - Oncology Department of Pediatrics,
Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California.
An experimental drug has shown promise in treating influenza, preventing lung injury and death from the virus in preclinical studies, according to University of
Maryland School of Medicine researchers publishing in the journal Nature on May 1.
Bruce was the study's primary author, but a professor at the David
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA named Keith Norris helped too, along with nine other co-authors.
Louis Lemberg Professor of Medicine, Molecular and Pharmacology, and Biomedical Engineering Director, Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute University of Miami
Miller School of Medicine Miami, FL
In a study published in PLOS ONE,
UNC School of Medicine researchers found that skills developed during science PhD programs translate to success in a wide range of fields.
Dr. Michael Weitzman, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at
NYU School of Medicine who will head up the study concurs.
A faculty member of the Geffen
UCLA School of Medicine for 30 years and The Team Physician at five Olympic Games, Dr. Ullis is the author of Age Right, Super T, and Hormone Revolution Weight - Loss Plan.
While investigating a potential therapeutic target for the ERK1 and 2 pathway, a widely expressed signaling molecule known to drive cancer growth in one third of patients with colorectal cancer, University of California San Diego
School of Medicine researchers found that an alternative pathway immediately emerges when ERK1 / 2 is halted, thus allowing tumor cell proliferation to continue.
See resources written by Christopher Dant, PhD, at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and the Department of Immunology / Microbiology at
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth for tips on NIH Grant Writing and creating Peer - Reviewed Biomedical Manuscripts.
The viruses «are poised to cause future outbreaks,» says virologist Ralph Baric of the University of North
Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, who was not involved in the study.
In Madara's four years as Dean of the Biological Sciences and
Pritzker School of Medicine at Chicago, research funding from the National Institutes of Health has increased almost 75 percent.
Since then, he has overseen the expansion of Wake Forest Baptist Health and Wake
Forest School of Medicine with new programs and facilities, the advancement of Wake Forest Baptist's Comprehensive Cancer Center to the highest ranked cancer center in the Southeast as determined by US News & World Report, and the development of regional partnerships that have made the Medical Center a leader in population health management.
Researchers funded by the American Heart Association and the University of
Colorado School of Medicine say they've uncovered an association between increased coffee consumption and better heart health.
Sheila K. West, PhD Professor, Vice Chair for Research Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
A new study by researchers at the Osaka University
Graduate School of Medicine reports which epigenetic factors in certain chromosomes that make one twin more at risk for autoimmune thyroid diseases.
Under new guidelines from the Institute of Medicine, the estimated number of children who are at risk of having insufficient or deficient levels of vitamin D is drastically reduced from previous estimates, according to a Loyola University Chicago
Stritch School of Medicine study.
Now, a team from the Northwestern University Feinberg
School of Medicine finds that it may be possible to sleep your fears away.
He left Northwestern in 1995 to serve as chair of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, followed by a similar role at the University of
Wisconsin School of Medicine in Madison.
«Human milk is made for human infants, and it meets all their specific nutrient needs,» says Ruth Lawrence, M.D., spokeswoman for the American Academy of Pediatrics and professor of pediatrics and obstetrics at the University of
Rochester School of Medicine in New York.
A
Utah School of Medicine study cited in an ESPN TrueHoop report by Tom Haberstroh found that back - to - back games on the road yield 3.5 times more in - game injuries than those played at home.
Doctors» efforts to battle the dangerous atherosclerotic plaques that build up in our arteries and cause heart attacks and strokes are built on several false beliefs about the fundamental composition and formation of the plaques, new research from the University of
Virginia School of Medicine shows.
«In principle, the findings are tremendously exciting and present a novel view of some of the characteristic features associated with trisomy 21,» said Christopher Glass, MD, PhD, University of San Diego
California School of Medicine, an eLife editor who reviewed Dr. Espinosa's research.
Governor Andrew Cuomo at the University at Buffalo's
Jacobs School of Medicine on April 19, 2018 (WBEN Photo / Mike Baggerman)
Dr. Boustani is the founder of the IU Center for Innovation and Implementation Science, deputy director of the IU Center for Aging Research, an
IU School of Medicine professor and a Regenstrief Institute investigator.
Over the last 12 years, the organization has donated over $ 5 million to Gladstone Institutes and $ 1 million to the Stanford University
School of Medicine for related research.
We're discovering new genetic alterations driving lung cancer, new drugs to target these alterations, and are refining our use of tests to find these alterations in individual patients,» says Dara Aisner, MD, PhD, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, molecular pathologist at
CU School of Medicine Department of Pathology, and one of the panel experts.
In a new Yale
School of Medicine study, researchers examined MRI brain scans to identify children at high risk of developing MS before symptoms appear, which may lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment.
The danger of pseudoscience and quackery is very real, says Jeffrey I. Mechanick, an endocrinologist at the Mount Sinai
School of Medicine who has written extensively about the use of dietary supplements in the treatment of diabetes and other metabolic diseases.
John Krumme, a fourth - year
MU School of Medicine student completing a rotation in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, is considering a rural practice after his involvement with the Summer Community Program.
Mackey heads the Pain Management Center at Stanford
School of Medicine where, as part of his research on ways to relieve pain, he routinely inflicts it.
Cumming School of Medicine researcher Mark Gillrie, now doing postdoc work at MIT, developed the study's high - resolution organs - on - chips.
Much research on the field of malpractice has come out of Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine with hopes to curb the nearly $ 3.6 billion dollars a year spent on these suits, with misdiagnoses being the most easily preventable type of malpractice.
«Our results pave the way for the design of multispan membrane proteins that could mimic proteins found in nature or have entirely novel structure, function and uses,» said David Baker, a University of Washington
School of Medicine professor biochemistry and director of the UW Institute of Protein Design who led the project.
According to Robert Hall, professor of pediatrics at the University of
Missouri School of Medicine in Kansas City, there was no statistical difference in growth, language development, vision or cognitive development among the children studied, although in most categories the breast - fed infants did show slightly better performance.