Faculty Bibliography

Eleventh Hour [Television Program] -- A 2004 British mathematical modeling study showed that isolating 90% of symptomatic cases is sufficient to bring a contagion under control; effective tracing of people who've come into contact with those people brings the number closer to 100%

'Til Death [Television Program] -- Three recent studies in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda, published in PLoS Medicine and the Lancet, showed a dramatic decrease in the heterosexual transmission of HIV among circumcised African men, but it is unclear if this benefit applies to heterosexual men in other countries

Revici's 'guided chemotherapy' was based on a urine analysis followed by a secret formula made of some combination of alcohols, caffeine, zinc, lithium, iron, selenium, magnesium, sulfur and fatty acids. Tumors may look the same from outside, but they can arise from variations in many different genes, making them more or less responsive to drug A, drug B or drug C. For example, a study from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, reported a genetic pattern in liver tissue that correlates with survival and lack of recurrence of liver tumors

Harvey Brenner, professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health, projects that an increase of 1 percentage point in the nation's unemployment rate could cause as many as 47,000 more deaths -- including 1,200 more suicides and 26,000 additional heart attacks -- over the ensuing two years. A new study from Utah researchers shows that touch in the form of massage, hugging and kissing decreases stress hormones, increasing the feel-good hormone oxytocin, and lowers blood pressure

Grey's Anatomy [Television Program] -- Does hypothermia help an injured spinal cord recover? -- The reality * Impending cardiac tamponade can be diagnosed with certainty only by ultrasound, though the Beck's triad would suggest it, according to Dr. Mark Adelman, chief of vascular surgery at Langone Medical Center at New York University. * Trauma to the face can create an upper airway obstruction that warrants an opening in the trachea

Approved by the FDA in 2005, Byetta effectively treats diabetes by mimicking the effects of incretin. Still, since its approval, close to a million patients have used it. The risk of life-threatening pancreatitis is only 1 in 10,000 patients, a very low number. But recent deaths from pancreatitis in patients that had been taking the drug lead the FDA to consider adding stern black-box warnings to the drug label. These warnings could severely limit the usefulness of a very effective drug

House [Television Program] -- It occurs in about 1 in 10,000 pregnancies, when an ectopic or extrauterine gestational sac finds its way beyond the fallopian tube into the abdominal cavity, where it attaches to the bowel or omentum (the fatty sheath over the bowel), to the wall of the pelvis, onto an ovary, or to the broad ligament that anchors the uterus in the pelvis

The segment begins in the family's home, where Sears counsels the parents and the child, Joelle, on behavior modification techniques, including 'bedtime tickets' for a limited number of questions, hugs and times she can leave the room before mandatory sleep time.

Alzheimer's disease is on the increase. Millions are already affected and millions more soon will be. In the meantime, great strides have been made in diagnostics -- a target protein known as beta amyloid has been identified -- and new techniques to identify it before the disease is full blown have been developed. This new treatment may significantly decrease the abnormal protein in the brain which would ultimately lead to a decrease in characteristic plaques and the progression of the disease

General Hospital: Night Shift [Television Program] -- 'It is characterized by encephalopathy [brain swelling] with bizarre behavior, memory loss and lesions to the white matter of the brain,' says Dr. Gary Abrams, associate professor of neurology at UC San Francisco and rehabilitation section chief at the San Francisco VA Medical Center