Sentences with phrase «university medical»

«Our study shows the validity of two scales for assessing how cognitive impairments are associated with many substance disorders including alcohol, cannabis, cocaine and one's ability to function well in important interpersonal or occupational areas,» said Efrat Aharonovich, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, and first author.

During two football seasons, athletes with suspected concussions were evaluated in person by Northern Arizona University medical personnel and certified athletic trainers.

«We don't know why only a fraction of individuals with genetic risk factors for celiac disease actually become gluten intolerant,» said Peter Green, MD, the Phyllis and Ivan Seidenberg Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), Director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University and co-author on the study.

Thomas Perls, associate professor of medicine and geriatrics at Boston University Medical Center, is the founder and director of the New England Centenarian Study, which began in 1994 and has included more than 1,500 people who lived to be at least 100.

The study included 260 of 311 participants from the Alzheimer Center of the VU University Medical Center dementia cohort who underwent ASL MRI between October 2010 and November 2012.

«This is a huge leap for modern neuroscience,» says Martijn van den Heuvel at the University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Researchers from Columbia Engineering and Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have developed a new method that can target delivery of very small volumes of drugs into the lung.

Toward that end, potentially game - changing research comes from Dritan Agalliu, a vascular biologist and blood - brain barrier expert at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.

But while his followers adore him, many in the medical profession are unnerved that one of their own, with excellent credentials — including a Harvard University medical degree, 15 years as an ethnopharmacology researcher at the Harvard Botanical Museum, and a stint at the National Institute of Mental Health — is going this unconventional route.

«The main advantages of noninvasive treatments are good cosmetic outcome, preservation of surrounding tissue, and potential for home application of either creams,» explained lead investigator Marieke Roozeboom of the Department of Dermatology, Maastricht University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

In another study, Andrew J. Muir, M.D., of the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., and colleagues evaluated the effectiveness of treatment with daclatasvir, asunaprevir, and beclabuvir in patients who were treatment - naive and treatment - experienced with chronic HCV genotype 1 infection and cirrhosis.

Taco Kooij from Radboud university medical center discovered a protein in the mitochondrion of the malaria parasite that could be used as a target for such a new drug.

In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Roland Schüle and his team at the Center of Clinical Research of the Freiburg University Medical Center, the scientists were able to test several epigenetic inhibitors that had been newly developed by Schüle and his team on the cancer stem cell model.

Loyola University Medical Center is the first hospital in Illinois to offer a new high - tech catheter device that can improve outcomes of patients treated for atrial fibrillation, the most common irregular heartbeat.

In the July issue of Neuron, a team at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, describes a powerful new imaging tool that helps read the brain's «smell code.»

This means that only patients with metastatic SNs would require extensive surgical treatment,» says Professor Remco de Bree, a head and neck surgeon from the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

He is chairman of the department of anesthesiology at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, and he points out that an anesthesiologist creates brain - dead patients every day: «We give drugs to make them die.

Stephen Duntley, a sleep specialist at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, has videotaped similar slumber in cuttlefish, with a twist: Sleeping cuttlefish lie still, their skin a dull brown, for 10 - to 15 - minute stretches, then flash bold colored patterns and twitch their tentacles for briefer intervals.

«This may be an adaptation in order to avoid intake of bitter - tasting, toxic compounds,» says Marijke Faas of the University Medical Centre in Groningen, the Netherlands, and lead author of the Chemosensory Perception paper.

«There is a big problem with loneliness in this population,» says Katherine Gotham, a clinical psychologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Radboud University Medical Center.

The study was conducted by a team headed by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Driever and Prof. Dr. Thomas Brabletz and including researchers from the Department of Developmental Biology, the Department of Visceral Surgery at the University Medical Center, and the Cluster of Excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies.

That's because there are multiple strains of flu viruses circulating at any one time, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious - disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

«The lifetime risk of high blood pressure in the US is about 80 percent,» says the study's senior author Richard Cooper, professor and chairman of Public Health Sciences at Loyola University Medical School, who collaborated with Bress.

But the actual incidence is almost certainly higher, according to a Loyola University Medical Center neurologist and headache specialist.

Such infections «are the really nasty things for patients,» says immunologist Peter Nibbering at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

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Medical devices that can fit through tiny holes in the body and expand into designed shapes on demand would be invaluable, says laparoscopic surgeon Frederick Finelli at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C..

Harvard University Medical School / Northeast Deaconess Hospital / State Tumor Diagnosis Service

Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) researchers say their animal study, published online in Endocrinology, provides the strongest evidence to date on the mechanism of this ancient Chinese therapy in chronic stress.

In the mid-1990s, Duke University Medical Center installed a whimsical courtyard sculptural arrangement called The Bird Garden, inspired by Florence Nightingale's belief that good art in hospitals can be an «actual means of recovery.»

Together with a research group led by Dr. Ari Waisman, the head of the Institute for Molecular Medicine at the University Medical Center in Mainz, Korn and his team have found an explanation for this phenomenon.

To test this theory, Peter Devilee of the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands and his colleagues examined the genes of 220 Dutch women.

Cornell University Medical College / Home Incurables / New York Post-Graduate, Booth, Lawrence, and Monmouth Memorial Hospitals / Woman's Hospital

Montefiore Hospital / New York University Dental College / New York University Medical College / Sea View Hospital

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«We feel it's critical that the scientific community consider the potential hazards of all off - target mutations caused by CRISPR, including single nucleotide mutations and mutations in non-coding regions of the genome,» says co-author Stephen Tsang, MD, PhD, the Laszlo T. Bito Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and associate professor of pathology and cell biology at Columbia University Medical Center, and in Columbia's Institute of Genomic Medicine and the Institute of Human Nutrition.

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Rush University Medical Center.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Cell Biology and Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

In 2010 Laferrère embarked on another avenue of inquiry after she met Christopher Newgard, a biochemist and director of the Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center at Duke University Medical Center.

Shifting predictions could undermine people's faith in the value of personal genetic information, warns Cecile Janssens, an epidemiologist at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, who led the analysis.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Boston Dispensary / Harvard University Medical School / Massachusetts Department of Public Health

At Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, researchers have surgically implanted electrodes in the brains of monkeys and trained them to move robotic arms at MIT, hundreds of miles away, just by thinking.

He is currently a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.

The virus was found when Bas Dutilh of Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleagues were trawling through data from faecal samples collected for a 2010 study looking at the microbial gut communities of twins.

«There are currently no therapies which successfully reverse the damage seen in the more than 12,000 individuals who suffer a spinal cord injury each year in the United States alone,» says Dr. Richard G. Fessler, professor of neurological surgery at Rush University Medical Center and principal investigator for the Phase 1 clinical trial involving AST - OPC1 (oligodendrocyte progenitor cells).

Falk Eippert of the University Medical Centre Hamburg - Eppendorf in Germany and colleagues scanned the upper spinal cords of 13 volunteers while applying intense heat to the left arm.

Because dogs appeared to inherit the disorder through a single mutation, Emmanuel Mignot and his colleagues at Stanford University Medical Center decided to sniff around in canine DNA for the flawed gene.