Archive for the Internal Medicine Category
By GINA KOLATA
One of the great unanswered questions in physiology is why muscles get tired. The experience is universal, common to creatures that have muscles, but the answer has been elusive until now.
Scientists at Columbia say they have not only come up with an answer, but have also devised, for mice, an experimental drug that can revive the animals and let them keep running long after they would normally flop down in exhaustion.
For decades,.. Read More
Internal Medicine | 02.12.08
Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:42 PM ET
By Ben Hirschler
LONDON (Reuters) - A sticky molecule previously linked to inflammation also helps seal vital insulation around peripheral nerves, making it a potential target for new drugs against nerve disorders, scientists said on Thursday.
The latest research suggests the molecule, known as JAM-C, could be a key player in regulating the way nerves work.
In genetically modified mice without the adhesion molecule, th.. Read More
Internal Medicine | 11.30.07
Doctors are reinventing how they treat sudden cardiac arrest, which is fatal 95 percent of the time. A report from the border between life and death.
By Jerry Adler
Newsweek
July 23, 2007 issue - Bill Bondar knows exactly where he died: on the sidewalk outside his house in a retirement community in southern New Jersey. It was 10:30 on the night of May 23, a Wednesday, and Bondar was 61—a retired computer programmer with a cherry red Gibson b.. Read More
Internal Medicine | 07.16.07
Chiropractor's move can trigger strokes in healthy patients
By Jennifer Wolff
Self
Updated: 1:51 p.m. ET June 17, 2007
Christa Heck lay crumpled on her right side in the front seat of her SUV, staring helplessly at the dashboard. She tried to right herself, but her body wouldn’t obey her brain: One arm was limp, the other floundering uncontrollably. Ten minutes earlier, she’d been at her chiropractor’s office for a routine follo.. Read More
Internal Medicine | 06.22.07
Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:52 PM ET
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An in-depth examination of the human DNA map has turned basic biology concepts upside-down and may even rewrite the book on evolution and some causes of disease, researchers said on Wednesday.
They found there was far more to genetics than the genes themselves and determined there was no such thing as "junk DNA" but that some of the most useless-looking st.. Read More
Internal Medicine | 06.13.07
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Our eyes are moving constantly, and it now appears this motion helps to refine and sharpen the images we see, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
"It's impossible to keep your eyes perfectly still," said Michele Rucci, director of the Active Perception Laboratory in Boston University's Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems.
Rucci said researchers have long believed these rapid movements help refresh images we see, but his.. Read More
Internal Medicine | 06.13.07
Pharmaceutical giants hire ghostwriters to produce articles - then put doctors' names on them
Antony Barnett, public affairs editor
Sunday December 7, 2003
Observer
Hundreds of articles in medical journals claiming to be written by academics or doctors have been penned by ghostwriters in the pay of drug companies, an Observer inquiry reveals.
The journals, bibles of the profession, have huge influence on which drugs doctors prescribe and the trea.. Read More
Internal Medicine | 06.9.07
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