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Surgeons at Johns Hopkins University have removed a kidney from a donor for transplant. The vaginal removal of the kidney was performed using a minimally invasive procedure that surgeons say may increase the willingness of others to donate their kidney.Robert Montgomery, M.D., Ph.D., chief of the transplant division at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine led the kidney transplant team in performing one of the first surgeries ever to remove a kidney by way of the vagina.read more

A new study reports that an Internet program helps to reduce depressive symptoms and prevent episodes of clinical depression in adolescent patients at risk.Called “Project CATCH-IT,” the program is an engaging and effective new alternative for managing depression in teens, according to researchers led by Dr. Benjamin W. Van Voorhees of University of Chicago.“[A]n Internet-based [...]

Brief but personal intervention reduces drinking among risky college drinkers, according to a research study at The University of Texas School of Public Health.In the study, called The Southern Methodist Alcohol Research Trial (SMART), researchers found motivational interviewing with feedback (MIF) significantly reduced drinking among a group of heavy-drinking college students.The MIF intervention includes a [...]

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Surgeons removed a woman's kidney through her vagina so she could give it to her ailing niece, an unusual operation they hope will encourage others to donate because it reduces pain, scarring and recovery time. Doctors at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine said donor Kimberly Johnson, 48, and her niece, Jennifer Gilbert, 23, were both doing well following operations Thursday....

The high-profile deaths last week of Kay Yow, longtime women's basketball coach at N.C. State University, and Jeanne Peck, a North Carolina activist and Race for the Cure fund-raiser, serve as reminders that ...

Some babies stay calm when something changes in their life or environment, whereas others get fussy and fidget at even the slightest deviation from the norm. Researchers do not fully understand why some children are able to cope better with stress or whether kids’ response to such situations is influenced by parenting or genes. according to a new study, it is shaped by both.Cathi Propper, a developmental psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her colleagues studied infants at several periods over their first year of life, inducing stress by separating them from their mothers. Using an electrocardiogram, the researchers determined the babies’ vagal tone, an indicator of how strongly the vagus nerve, which runs from the brain stem to most organs in the body, is suppressing heart rate. During stress, vagal tone decreases, allowing the heart to speed up and the body to handle the stressor. But some of the babies did not show this normal decrease in

JOHNSTOWN, PA--(Marketwire - February 2, 2009) - EP Global Communications, Inc. (the Company)(OTCBB: EPGL), the parent company of Exceptional Parent (EP) magazine, ispleased to announce today that The Colleen Giblin Foundation has namedJoseph M. Valenzano, Jr., EP Global Communications, Inc. President and CEO,as the recipient of the organization's 2009 Humanitarian Award. Mr.Valenzano will be presented with the award on March 21st, 2009 at theWoodcliff Lake Hilton in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. Mr. Valenzano will beintroduced at the event by Darryl DeVivo, MD, Sydney Carter Chair of theDepartment of Neurology at Columbia University. Mr. Valenzano is a longtime supporter of the Colleen Giblin Foundation, a nonprofit foundationwhose mission is to search for new treatments and cures for some of thegravest childhood neurological diseases.

Weinheim, Germany - Although the jobless often suffer seriously they seldom seek professional help, according to a survey by Dresden University Hospital published in the February issue of the German magazine Psychologie Heute. The magazine, published...

A connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson's disease has been discovered by a research team led by Aaron D. Gitler, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Hollow gold nanospheres equipped with a targeting peptide find melanoma cells, penetrate them deeply, and then cook the tumor when bathed with near-infrared light, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported in the Feb. 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research. 'Active targeting of nanoparticles to tumors is the holy grail of therapeutic nanotechnology for cancer.