health - "medicine"

Researchers from Boston University School of medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) found that sexual behavior counseling during drug addiction treatment should be considered an important component among Russian substance-dependent individuals, in order to decrease risky sexual behavior in the HIV at-risk population. This study appears in the journal Addiction.read more

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of nanometer-sized molecular motors called myosin-I is regulated by force. The motor puts tension on cellular springs that allow vibrations to be detected within the body. This finely tuned regulation has important implications for understanding a wide variety of basic cellular processes, including hearing and balance and glucose uptake in response to insulin. The findings appear in the most recent issue of Science.read more

Award-winning, orthopaedic surgeon, Russell Warren, MD, will join three other physicians as a 2008 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports medicine (AOSSM) Hall of Fame inductee. The induction takes place July 13, 2008 at the AOSSM Annual Meeting in Orlando. Since 1990, Dr. Warren has directed the soft tissue research laboratory at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.

In a discovery that could lead to more successful and personalized treatment, a post-doctoral fellow and the leader of the University of Miami Miller School of medicine's Cardiovascular Division have published a study that gives physicians a critical tool in predicting the long-term course for heart failure patients. Joshua M. Hare, M.D.

Medical science may be a significant step closer to climbing into the driver's seat of an important class of immune cells, researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis report in Nature Immunology. the researchers showed that a single protein, HS1, enables key functions of natural killer (NK) cells, which kill early cancers and fight off viral infections.

Australia's regenerative medicine company, Mesoblast Limited (ASX:MSB; USOTC: MBLTY), announced highly significant preclinical trial results of the adult stem cell technology platform for the treatment of eye diseases associated with abnormal blood vessels. These diseases include diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading causes of blindness in the western world.

The sound of a noisy Chicago restaurant during the breakfast rush the clang of plates and silverware and the clamor of many voices was the crucial test of new hearing aid technology in a study conducted by researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis. The study showed that the hearing aids worked well in a noisy environment the most challenging test for a hearing aid. But the patients wearing the devices didn't need to fly from St.

(Boston University) Researchers from Boston University School of medicine and Boston Medical Center found that sexual behavior counseling during drug addiction treatment should be considered an important component among Russian substance-dependent individuals, in order to decrease risky sexual behavior in the HIV at-risk population. This study appears in the journal Addiction.

Despite recent questions concerning the efficacy of homeopathic medicine, it continues to be one of the most popular forms of Complementary and Alternative medicine in use today.

The hand-written prescription is 'on its way to becoming a historical curiosity,' as physicians and pharmacies increasingly adopt electronic prescribing systems, according to a New England Journal of medicine article by Richard Steinbrook, a physician and the national correspondent for NEJM, the Newark Star-Ledger reports.