Program Provides Treatment For Prison-Released HIV-Positive Women
...elease, and up to five times depending on need, to discuss and designafter-release plans. This pre-release counseling focuses on medical care,housing, substance abuse treatment and family support. Team members alsoconduct follow-up on all participants three and six months after release fromprison. "The firs...ACTG 315 Preliminary Results: Drug Cocktail Restores Partial Immune Function
... Protocol chair Michael M. Lederman,M.D., plans to discuss these interim results in a late-breakersession at the Fourth Conference on Retroviruses and OpportunisticInfections in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, January 26 at 9:30a.m. Dr. Lederman is director of the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit(ACTU) at University ...ACS Industry Pavilion Features Chemistry's Cutting Edge
... Nobel laureate Julius Axelrod, who will discuss his contributionto the development of the popular ... brewmasters from Molson and Stroh, who will discuss theirnon-traditional careers in chemistry --Tues., March 31, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; ...Asthma-Airways Clinic Improves Lives, Reduces Medical Costs
...ntend to investigate further. Bria is scheduled to discuss the program and the evaluation of its results atthe 1998 conference of the American Lung Association and American ThoracicSociety in Chicago, scheduled from April 24-29. Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory condition in the United States,and......y report will meet in publicsessions June 16-24 to discuss the research that has been done and vote, on thelast day, on what it indicates. The meeting will be at the Northland Inn,Brooklyn Park, Minn., near Minneapolis, and some public comments can be made byprior arrangement. For the full agenda, addition......s Surgery, Inc. in Indianapolis(317-541-1580) will discuss a technique for using ultrasound to remove diseasedprostate tissue (Paper 2pBV6). Larry Crum (206-685-8622) of the University ofWashington (and President of ASA) will describe experiments with high-intensityultrasound which show how one can signifi...Injecting Drugs With Sound Waves
... Blood Clots Yosi Kost of MIT (617-253-5359) will discuss sonophoresis, the use of soundwaves in place of ne...rsity of Maryland at Baltimore (410-706-7133) will discuss sonodynamictherapy--the process of using sound to activate drugs at specific sites in thebody (3pBV2...New Study Indicates Lightning Can Kill Without Leaving a Mark
...nter research groupthat meets monthly in Denver to discuss the medical aspects of lightning andother electrical injuries and deaths. Wachtel, who has spent much of his career researching the impact ofelectromagnetic fields on human health, said the results of the research arestill speculative. "But...UNC-CH Researchers Learning Ways To Help Black Women Cope With HIV
...ren to motivate them." Information packets discuss diet and exercise; understanding, preventingand managing infections; preventing and managing female problems; and copingwith depression, thinking problems, apathy and skin conditions. Registerednurses visit mothers at home six times in three months a...Experts To Discuss Findings From New Lewin Group Study In Conference Call Briefing
...r beforebeen demonstrated until now. Experts will discuss findings from a breakthroughstudy published by The Lewin Group in the August issue of The Journal ofClinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. The study evaluates first-year outcomes from a comprehensive health caremanagement program for people with di......ay conversation, a scientific symposium convenesto discuss the effect of ecological change on human health at...ion at the American Museum of Natural History will discuss theeffect of disrupted food production systems on populations susceptible todisease and malnourishme...Doctors And Patients Should Co-Sign Prescriptions
...d eliminate waste, patients and prescribers should discuss in detail the treatment options before the prescription is written. If the process is equitable, patients should indicate their responsibility by signing their own prescriptions as well as their doctor (dentist or nurse). They say that, "The adopti...6,000 Pharmaceutical Scientists Convene November 15-19 In San Francisco
... will gather in San Francisco on November 15-19 to discuss the latest scientific research and medical advances of 1998. A small sampling of the breakthroughs, presented for the first time at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) ...Why Do We Make It Difficult For Students To Hear In Class?
...ion equipment. Researchers will discuss how to identify, diagnose and solveacoustical prob...cit Disorder), will bepresented. Researchers will discuss recommended acoustic criteria forarchitects to help them design classrooms with intelligible speech ......g whether to participate in thestudy, women should discuss the matter with a physician or a genetic counselor.A genetic counselor at Northwestern Memorial Hospital will be available for afree personal discussion. For information, call (312) 908-7441....World's Premier Pharmaceutical Scientists Share Latest R&D Findings
... will gather in San Francisco on November 15-19 to discuss the latest scientific research and medical advances of 1998. A small sampling of the breakthroughs, presented for the first time at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting, are listed below: Sound-Alike Drugs Cau...Cedars-Sinai Surgeons Present TeleSurgery
..., surgeons attending the conference willbe able to discuss the procedure with two of the three surgeons in the countrywho have accumulated the most experience. Although some of Dr. Fontana's patients are adult-sized adolescents, others arepremature infants weighing only slightly more than a pound. Because o...American Association Of Pharmaceutical Scientists Announces 1998 Award Winners
...7,000 scientists are gathering in San Francisco to discuss and presentthe latest scientific and medical research advances of 1998, November 15-19,1998. AAPS is a professional, scientific society of more than 9,000 members employedin academia, industry, government and other research institutes worldwide.Foun......h the Health Ministers of the affectedcountries to discuss ways in which we can assure that the health advances metlast decade, for which we worked very hard, are not threatened," Dr. Alleynesaid at the first meeting of the Consultative Group for the Reconstruction andTransformation of Central America. "We c......oted breast cancer researcher V. Craig Jordan will discuss thesefindings, which are the latest results from Eli Lilly and Company's ongoingstudies of raloxifene, at the 21st San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in SanAntonio, Tex., on Saturday, Dec. 12. Jordan, a professor of cancer pharmacology at N...