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Using drugs to block the action of an enzyme called protein kinase C can reduce or even eliminate heart problems in mice with myotonic dystrophy, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears Nov.

Last week on the Consults blog, Dr. Neena S. Abraham, a gastroenterologist at the Michael E. DeBakey V.A. Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, took readers' questions about ulcers, a potentially life-threatening condition increasingly tied to Nsaid pain relievers.

The loss of a gene through deletion of genetic material on chromosome 15 is associated with significant abnormalities in learning and behavior, said a consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online today in the journal Nature Genetics .

Main Category: Primary Care / General Practice Also Included In: Medical Students / Training Article Date: 06 Nov 2009 "Work hard and persevere, and you can achieve most anything." That was the message of approximately 50 minority physicians and medical students to more than 450 minority and disadvantaged students Thursday in Houston.

A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York.

Baylor College of Medicine has been selected as one of 12 sites nationwide to conduct a study to determine if elderly men with low testosterone will benefit from testosterone treatment.

Extended Therapy for Blood Clot Prevention Yields Greater Benefits in Hip/Knee Surgery Patients undergoing total knee replacement or total hip replacement surgeries may experience better outcomes if they receive extended therapy for the prevention of thrombosis .

What: Now in its 32nd year, the CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium remains the top venue for research and discovery in breast cancer.

Main Category: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia Article Date: 03 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST There is a high prevalence of nocturnal teeth grinding, or bruxism, in patients with obstructive sleep apnea , particularly in Caucasians.

Gone are the days when teens passed love notes in class. Today's adolescents have taken their notes electronic, in a form of flirting known as "sexting" that can have unwanted and even dangerous outcomes, according to an expert on teen sexual health at Baylor College of Medicine.

The best time to have your picture taken is usually not while you are sleeping, that is unless you suffer from sleep apnea.

A moonlighting deputy constable was hailed for cool competence Friday for his apprehension of an armed career criminal, who minutes earlier, authorities said, seriously wounded a young doctor during a robbery in a supermarket parking lot.

ANI Why inflammation ravages ex-smokers lungs Scientists from Baylor College of Medicine claim to have unravelled the mystery behind why inflammation still ravages lungs of some smokers who have kicked the habit years ago.

Flamboyant Houston lawyer John O'Quinn, who won billions in verdicts against makers of breast implants, pharmaceuticals and tobacco products, died Thursday in a traffic wreck.

More than 16 percent of children and adolescents in the United States are overweighta doubling of the estimated incidence of overweight among children and a tripling of the rate among adolescents in the past two decades.

What sparks that smoldering destruction remained a mystery until a consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine found that certain dendritic cells in the lung -- the cells that "present" a foreign antigen or protein to the immune system -- provoke production of destructive T-cells that attack a key protein called elastin, leading to ...

Women undergoing a second round of in-vitro fertilization should get one embryo instead of two, suggests new Swedish research that found the first approach is almost as successful as the second and greatly reduces the risk of multiple births.

WASHINGTON: The American College of Chest Physicians has elected Dr Kalpalatha K Guntupalli, the only woman president of the American Association of Physicians of Indian origin, as its first Asian American woman president.

Jan-Ake Gustafsson was the first big-name scientist recruited by the University of Houston for its health initiative, but if things go according to plan, the Swedish researcher soon will be joined by other research rock stars.

THE MAN dangles on a cable hanging from an eight-storey-high tower. Suspended in a harness with his back to the ground, he sees only the face of the man above, who controls the winch that is lifting him to the top of the tower like a bundle of cargo.