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Charting HIV's Rapidly Changing Journey in the Body
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Popular Class of Diabetes Drugs Doubles Risk of Fractures in Women
Author: Sonal Singh, M.D., M.P.H.,
Curt D. Furberg, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Yoon K. Loke, M.D., MBBS, of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
New findings out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of East Anglia show that long-term use of a popular class of oral diabetic drugs doubles the risk of fractures in women with type 2 diabetes.
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Women are more likely than men to die in hospital from severe heart attack
Author: Jneid, Fonarow and Wexler are: Christopher P. Cannon, M.D.; Adrian F. Hernandez, M.D.; Igor F. Palacios, M.D.; Andrew O. Maree, M.D.; Quinn Wells, M.D.; Biykem Bozkurt, M.D.; Kenneth LaBresh, M.D.; Li Liang, Ph.D.; L. Yuling Hong, M.D., Ph.D.; L. Kristin Newby, M.D., M.H.S.; Gerald Fletcher, M.D.; and Eric Peterson, M.D.
• Women and men have about the same overall in-hospital death rate after heart attack.
• However, women are twice as likely as men to die if hospitalized for a type of heart attack known as ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
• Women are also less likely to receive appropriate and timely treatment for heart attack.
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Unlocking the mysteries of memory
Researchers led by Prof. Itzhak Fried, a neurosurgeon at Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, are proving scientifically what scientists have always suspected –– that the neurons excited during an experience are the same as those excited when we remember that experience. .. Read more..
Researcher develops screening tool to identify patients with prediabetes
Early detection in younger patients can minimize progression to diabetes, morbidity and mortality
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UC Davis researchers exploring gene therapy to fight AIDS
Case of American cured of AIDS in Germany generates enthusiasm in stem cell approaches
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Study Finds Treatment Fails to Improve Common Form of Heart Failure
Author: Barry M. Massie, M.D., University of California, San Francisco; Peter E. Carson, M.D., Georgetown University and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; John J. McMurray, M.D., British Heart Foundation Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre; Michel Komojda, M.D., Université Paris 6 and Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière; Robert McKelvie, M.D., Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University, Canada; Michael R. Zile, M.D., Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston; Susan Anderson, M.S., and Erik Iverson, M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mark Donovan, Ph.D., and Agata Ptaszynska, M.D., Bristol-Myers Squibb; and Christoph Staiger, M.D., Sanofi-Aventis.
A medication used for high blood pressure does not improve a common form of heart failure, according to new results from a large, international study.
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U-M scientists probe limits of 'cancer stem-cell model'; Melanoma, the deadliest skin cancer, does not fit the model
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Two-drug blood pressure therapy lowers heart attack risk
Author: Jamerson, ACCOMPLISH investigators included Michael A. Weber, M.D., George L. Bakris, M.D., Björn Dahlör, M.D., Bertram Pitt, M.D., Victor Shi, M.D., Allen Hester, Ph.D., Jitendra Gupte, M.S., Marjorie Gatlin, M.D. and Eric J. Velazquez, M.D.
ACE-CCB combination lowers risk for heart attack and stroke more than ACE-diuretic combination, suggesting need to change treatment guidelines
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DEPRESSION AND DIABETES: FELLOW TRAVELERS, RESEARCHERS SAY
Author: diabetes expert Sherita Hill Golden, M.D., M.H.S., and her colleagues took advantage of data generated by the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA.
Other Johns Hopkins researchers who participated in this study include Mariana Lazo, M.D.. M.Sc.; Hochang Benjamin Lee, M.D.; and Constantine Lyketsos, M.D., M.H.S.
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Patients with depression have an increased risk of developing type-2 diabetes, and patients with type-2 diabetes have an increased
risk of developing depression.
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