Lawrence A. Lavery, DPM, MPH, and David G. Armstrong, DPM, PhD, Professors of Surgery at Scott and White?s University Medical Center and Texas A&M College of Medicine, and Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, respectively, have received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Collaborators from Mayo Clinic and IBM have exploited parallel computer architecture and memory bandwidth to dramatically speed the processing of 3-D medical images.
Asthma symptoms vary greatly among individuals and vary at times with each individual. In this comprehensive study in the April issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers address the prevalence and process of step-down therapy as symptoms subside.
Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have identified a protein that they say is key to helping a quarter of all breast cancers spread. The finding, reported online the week of April 9, 2007 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could be a potential target for new drugs aimed at stopping or slowing the growth and progression of breast cancer.
Patients who undergo a minimally invasive lung cancer surgery called thoracoscopic lobectomy may derive more benefit from the chemotherapy that follows, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers.
Nearly five years after California Governor Gray Davis signed a landmark bill to extend Medicaid (Medi-Cal) coverage to HIV-positive, non-disabled individuals statewide, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the US? largest HIV/AIDS healthcare, prevention and education provider, which operates AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia?including 12 clinics in California?today filed a legal complaint against California?s Department of Health Services (DHS) to compel the state to comply with this groundbreaking legislation.
UCSD Medical Center cardiology and neurology specialists are using a novel method to save the lives of patients in cardiac arrest.
A mouse model for synovial sarcoma has enabled scientists to make tremendous progress toward understanding the origin and pathogenesis of this highly aggressive soft-tissue malignancy.
Virologists in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine (VMRCVM) at Virginia Tech are looking at how a genetically modified variant of Avian Newcastle disease virus (NDV) can treat human prostate cancer.
Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center are using a new cryotherapy technique to treat cancerous and precancerous conditions of the esophagus.