Peter K. Gregersen, MD, stares at x-rays of hands, searching out the telltale signs of inflamed joints and wrists from his research subjects with rheumatoid arthritis. With these clinical features at his side, he turns to the basic building blocks of life ? the human genome ? to figure out what makes these people susceptible to the disabling inflammatory condition.
More than 40 businesses and non-governmental organisations, responding to a European Commission initiative, agreed today to take action to protect European citizens from the harmful use of alcohol.
PG-13 films have lots of “happy violence,” say UCLA researchers. Borrowing from the late communications theorist George Gerbner, happy violence is that which is “cool, swift and painless.”
Early life sun exposure, from birth to 20 years old, may specifically increase the risk of melanomas with BRAF gene mutations. Skin cancers often contain different gene mutations, butjust how these mutations contribute to the cause of melanomas has been amystery.
The Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP) released new data on the performance of a meningitis vaccine in West African children, suggesting that the new vaccine?expected to sell initially for 40 US cents a dose?will be much more effective in protecting African children and their communities than any vaccine currently on the market in the region.
While the symptoms of bipolar disorder can be disabling on their own, most patients with the condition also are afflicted with a variety of other psychiatric, substance use and physical disorders.
Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System, a national innovator in healthcare, has launched a series of books that give clear, easy to understand explanations to critical health questions and conditions. The books are written by eight veteran clinicians and appear in a question and answer format.
High doses of vitamin D can reduce the risk of developing some common cancers by as much as 50%, US scientists claim. This benefit of vitamin D is seen more in women.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is announcing a revision to the multimedia educational physicians? tool kit to help provide earlier diagnosis, management and appropriate referral for patients with concussions.
Nina F. Schor, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics, has spent the past two decades researching neuroblastoma, a cancer that grows from immature nerve cells. She will discuss the status of research and development of novel treatment options for the cancer, the most common solid tumor of childhood, at 4 p.m. Friday in the Case Methods Room (1-9576).