Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
...ma -- and their physicians -- about the safety and effectiveness ofinhaled beta-agonists, according to NHLBI director Claude Lenfant, M.D.Patients with only occasional asthma symptoms need not take medication regularly,he said. "Since more than half of the asthma patients in this country have mildasthma, this stu...ACTG Protocol 185 Enrollment Halted
...HIV transmission, the results not only confirm the effectiveness of AZT in preventing such transmission, but extend this effectiveness to women with more advanced disease and previous AZT use. In Pediatric ACTG Protocol 076, all women...TB Prophylaxis Unnecessary In HIV-Infected People With Anergy, Study Suggests
...infection is at least 10 percent. To determine the effectiveness of INH prophylaxis in this population,investigators in NIAID's Terry Beirn Community Programs for Clinical Research onAIDS (CPCRA) divided more than 500 high-risk HIV-infected people with anergyinto groups that received either daily INH or placebo. ...Ultrasound Helps Pediatric Heart Surgeons After Open Heart Surgery
...ir that is ejected to circulation is related tothe effectiveness of the de-airing procedure," Rodriguez said. The investigators looked for the correlation between how well thesurgeon thought that the heart was de-aired versus the readings from thetranscranial Doppler. This system is a good indicator of how...Many Medical Screening Tests May Be Unnecessary.
...ing: Reliance on screening tests before their effectiveness has been corroborated by adequate research. Crea...for which there is a potential screening test, the effectiveness of screening is controversial," the article says. "Physicians can use a 'preventive ethics' approac...'Bathtub' Equation Aids Diabetes Research
...the death of cells. Research will also look at the effectiveness of two new pharmaceuticalagents, one that may improve the function of the insulin-producing betacells and another that may help to prevent the disease by smoothing outfluc-tuations in the blood sugar level. Finegood is optimistic about the progress o...Intralase Will Develop Laser Systems For Eye Surgery
...." Animal testing to determine the safety and effectiveness of IntraLase lasers will be conducted at the U-M's Kellogg Eye Center under a sponsored research agreement also approved by the Board of Regents. Future human clinical trials also are planned pending review and approvals by the Food and Drug Adminis...Researchers Finding May Boost Effectiveness Of Anti-HIV Drugs
...ve found. The finding raises hope that the effectiveness of protease inhibitorscould be boosted by combinin...tumors. Pgp inhibitors have been used to boost the effectiveness ofchemotherapy in these tumors. Kim said he would like to study the effectiveness of combini...Organ Rejection Drug Also Shows Promise For The Treatment Of Kidney Disease
...with cyclosporine or cytotoxic drugs. Despite the effectiveness of thesemedications, Briggssays, some patients cannot tolerate steroids for long periods, suffer serioustoxicities of cytotoxicdrugs or even relapse when effective medications are withdrawn. The report's other authors were Michael J. Choi, M.D....Heart Attack Survivors Can Lower Stroke Risk By Taking Cholesterol-Lowering Drug, Study Says
... who designed 4S did not plan to testsimvastatin's effectiveness in stroke, but in 1994 they reported a retrospectiveanalysis that showed fewer strokes in patients getting simvastatin. CARE, however, did include stroke reduction as a secondary part of itsinvestigation. Plehn says that this part of the inve...... five months after the first was used to assessthe effectiveness of the campaign. An additional 1,216 people were randomlysampled. The results of the second survey revealed a significant increase inpublic knowledge of stroke warning signs. For example, only 22 percent sampledin the second survey could not name o...Radio Frequencies Used To Kill Inoperable Liver Tumors At Penn's Cancer Center
...otocol, Penn's cancer specialists are studying the effectiveness of radio frequency ablation in destroying tumors. "We hope that the study results will indicate that the technique completely destroys tumors so that patients who, at this time, aren't able to undergo surgical removal of their tumors will have the op......pread use ofviral load testing to better gauge the effectiveness of these therapies.However, precise information as to the extent to which antiviral medication ingeneral, and type of antiviral combination regimens specifically, may havecontributed to the observed decrease has been unclear. An article publi......ubtle measurements, or endpoints, to determine the effectiveness of aparticular treatment. "It is very important for us involved in clinical trial design tounderstand why such significant differences between the physicians and thecommittees exist, and to make changes," said Duke cardiologist Dr. KennethM...Increased Public Access To Defibrillation Could Prove Potentially Cost-Effective And Life-Saving
...ey call for a thoroughclinical trial to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of PAD. In addition, they say that AEDs should be distributed at specific siteswhere people often go into cardiac arrest, such as public places where there arelarge numbers of people -- airports, casinos, amusement park...International Study Raises Hopes For Heart Transplant Patients
... blind International Study compares the safety and effectiveness of conventional Cyclosporine A (Sandimmune) with Neoral in 380 heart transplant recipients. All patients received either Sandimmune or Neoral as part of a triple immunosuppressive regimen including steroids and azathioprine. "Since fewer Neoral-trea...Widely Used Therapy May Not Be Effective In Treatment Of Acute Stroke
...roke. The purpose of the trial was to discover the effectiveness of LMW heparinoid(danaparoid/Org 10172) combined with conventional care in improving outcomes ofstroke patients at 7 days and at 3 months after stroke in comparison toconventional therapy alone. Conventional or usual management includesindividualize...Research Offers New Tool In Fight Against Prostate Cancer
...gly suggests that PSA tests can reliably gauge the effectiveness ofchemotherapy for advanced prostate cancer. A reliable method of assessing a cancer patient's response to treatment isimportant. It shows doctors whether the prescribed therapy is working andallows them to quickly and confidently change the treatme...Study Shows Child Health Plus Eases Access, But Some Barriers Remain
...d alone, are notnecessarily a valid measure of the effectiveness of state-fundedinsurance. "As more states begin to use federal block grants to implementtheir own insurance products for the poor we need to build inmethods to address these barriers," Pollard Shone said. Other researchers in the study included Peter...Emerging Pathogens And Safety Of Fresh Produce Key Issues Facing Food IndustryAnd Scientists
...nd Vegetables" (Session 65, June 23,1:30 PM). The effectiveness of antimicrobial agents (e.g., chlorine andperoxyacetic acid), surfactants (neutral, acid, alkaline, and foaming cleaners),and commercial washing systems will be evaluated. The surfactant used dependson the type of fruit or vegetable, the harvesting...