health - "medicine"

Back just 100 years ago, the notion of testing treatments and drugs through randomized clinical trials was unheard of. Clinical trials began to proliferate only in 1800, placebos were first used in 1863 and randomization wasn't introduced until 1923.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- New clues about how cancerspreads from one area of the body to another have been discovered by aUniversity of North Carolina School of medicine researcher.

Researchers at Yale School of medicine have found the brain's appetite center uses fat for fuel by involving oxygen free radicals-molecules associated with aging and neurodegeneration. The findings, reported in the journal Nature, suggest that antioxidants could play a role in weight control.

A new study of food reward and addictive behaviors finds that the tendency toward obesity is directly related to a response from the brain. Researchers at Tufts University School of medicine (TUSM) and colleagues have demonstrated a link between a predisposition to obesity and defective dopamine signaling in the mesolimbic system in rats. Their [...]

Ms. Gelgur is in charge of managing the practice and caring for patients.

Thousands of scientists and health professionals are meeting at the 50th meeting of the American Association of Physicists in medicine (AAPM), the largest association of medical physicists in the world. There, from July 27 to July 31, they are presenting the latest technologies for imaging and treating diseases like cancer and discuss the safety, ethical, and regulatory issues facing the field today.

While scientists and physicians know what happens if you don't get six to eight hours of shut-eye a night, investigators have long been puzzled about what controls the actual need for sleep. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of medicine might have an answer, at least in fruit flies. In a recent study of fruit flies, they identified a gene that controls sleep.

Improving patient care by 'personalizing' the practice of medicine often results from studying specific drugs and their impact of genetic biomarkers. New research underway at GW by Travis O'Brien, PhD, looks at the drug warfarin, an oral anticoagulant used to treat individuals with certain cardiovascular diseases warfarin accounts for several million prescriptions each year.

Whether X-rays for CT scans, sound waves for ultrasound, magnetic fields for MRI, or antimatter for PET scans, the 'stuff' of physics has revolutionized the practice of medicine. In the last half century, the field of medical physics has emerged thanks to the efforts of scientists who develop these technologies and bring them to the clinic. Almost all the hospitals in the United States today benefit from the work of medical physicists.

(Indiana University) Indiana University School of medicine neuroscientist and neuropathologist Bernardino Ghetti, M.D., has been honored by the Alzheimer's Association with the Henry M. Wisniewski Award for Lifetime Achievement in Alzheimer's Disease Research.