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New guide offers african american families help to cope with crises
African American parents now have an important new resource to help them support their children in times of stress or crisis. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) have developed An Activity Book for African American Families: Helping Children Cope with Crisis. more
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An Activity Book for African American Families: Helping Children Cope with Crisis
This new activity book, from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI), provides information and resources that can help parents instill a sense of safety in their children during times of crisis. The book was developed with input from parents, from health care providers, and from national leaders. (5MB, PDF) more
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Wound-healing genes influence cancer progression
Genes that help wounds heal are most often the "good guys," but a new study paints them as the enemy in some types of cancer. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that some tumors activate these wound-healing genes and, when they do, the tumors are more likely to spread. This work could help highlight new ways to treat the disease along with helping doctors decide which cancers to approach more aggressively. more
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Predicting progression of common cancers
The idea that cancer cells go through a fateful transition that turns them into fast-growing, invasive, metastasizing tumors first surfaced in the early 1970s. By the mid-1980s histological analysis revealed a similarity between the tumor "microenvironment" and that of a healing wound, prompting Harvard pathologist Harold Dvorak to describe cancer as a wound that does not heal. With no systematic method to measure the "wound-like" features in cancer, however, scientists had no way to evaluate the risk that a wound-healing genetic program may pose in cancer progression.
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Discovery changes ideas about damage from strokes
In experiments in the laboratory and with mice, the Johns Hopkins researchers found that the chemical prostaglandin-E2 protects brain cells from damage. The finding was completely unexpected, the researchers say, because prostaglandin-E2 causes damage in other tissues and is made by an enzyme, COX-2, known to wreak havoc in the brain after injury. more
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Medical students inadequately prepared for clinical rotations, caring for chronically ill
Limitations in the curricula of American medical schools may be preventing students from getting enough basic skills training to succeed in clinical settings, according to two Johns Hopkins studies published in the January issue of the journal Academic Medicine.
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Overweight Hispanic youth face increased risk of diabetes, metabolic syndrome
New research shows that large numbers of overweight Hispanic youth already have complications of obesity, including impaired glucose tolerance, which can lead to diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. The findings, which are published in the January issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), indicate that Hispanic youth may have underlying risk factors that make them more susceptible to diabetes, cardiovascular risks and the metabolic syndrome.
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