Studies Look At Threshold Effect Of Cholesterol-Lowering "Statin" Drugs
... According to Grundy, "These three trials are all landmark trials in thecholesterol field. All show that effective cholesterol lowering with statinsproduce striking reductions in coronary heart disease," he says. "The resultsof the new 4S analysis generally support the goal of reducing LDL cholesterol to10......s predicated on theNational Institutes of Health's landmark Diabetes Control and ComplicationsTrial (DCCT). The DCCT proved more than four years ago that frequentinteractions between people with diabetes and a diabetes care team to providesupport, education, proactive intervention and continuous clinical mon......cisco researcher who announcednew results from the landmark Fracture Intervention Trial (FIT) today (Monday,September 14) at an annual scientific meeting. "These results are dramatic," said Dennis Black, PhD, UCSF professor ofmedicine and epidemiology, lead author of the study, who will present hisfin...UCSF Study Shows Drug Reduces Risk Of Spine And Hip Fractures By Half In Women With Osteoporosis
...lendronate. New results from the study, partof the landmark Fracture Intervention Trial (FIT), are published in the December23 issue of the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA). "Our study demonstrates that women who are concerned about osteoporosis or areover 60 or 65 years of age should have a bo...UPMC Study Shows What May Be The Most Effective Treatment For Depressed Elderly
...ychiatry and professorof neuroscience, published a landmark paper regarding the treatment of recurrentdepression among adults. That study found that medication alone worked as wellas a combination of medication and psychotherapy in preventing the recurrence ofdepression in middle-aged adults. Other ...Reassuring Findings About Infants Exposed To Zidovudine
...rn to mothers who participated in PACTG 076. This landmark NIH study showedthat AZT can reduce HIV transmission from an infected woman to her infant byapproximately two-thirds. The children in PACTG 076 were exposed to AZT or aplacebo in utero and during labor and delivery, and also as newborns for sixweeks...Forecasting Killer Heat: UD Systems Predict Deadly Weather Worldwide
... Kalkstein, lead author of a health chapter in the landmark final report ofthe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1996). "Health authorities canthen reach out to children, senior citizens, anyone in poor health and those inhigh-risk neighborhoods, where heat-trapping homes make people more vulnerablet...Women Who Have Invasive Cervical Cancer Benefit From Addition Of Chemotherapy To Radiation Treatment
St. Louis, February 22, 1999 -- In a landmark study involvingresearchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, womenwith locally advanced cervical cancer were shown to benefit from takingchemotherapeutic drugs while receiving radiation therapy. The study was led byscientist...Magnet Therapy Eases Severe Depression, Double Blind Study Shows
... for ECT therapy in many cases." "It's a landmark work," said Dr. Mark George, professor of psychiatry atMedical University of South Carolina about the Technion research. His view wasseconded by Dr. Robert Berman, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale Schoolof Medicine who noted that "Dr. Klein'...... recurrence of melanoma. These findings, part of a landmark multi-center study based at the University ofPittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), begin to account for the impact ofIFNa2b on relapse-free survival among study patients. The results shedlight on how this biological therapy works and provide signposts...... Much of the clinicalresearch has evolved from the landmark observation by Thomas E. Starzl, M.D.,Ph.D., that donor and recipient cells continue to coexist many years aftertransplantation. Dr. Starzl is professor of surgery and founder of theUniversity of Pittsburgh's Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institu...ReQuip cuts risk of dyskinesias by 15-fold in early Parkinson's disease
... Disease (ICPD),Vancouver, 24-28 July, 1999. "This landmark study should affect the future management of Parkinson's Disease.The data demonstrate that ropinirole is a first-line option for the initialtreatment of early Parkinson's Disease," commented lead author of the study,Professor Olivier Rascol, Professo...CODE-2*: Landmark study on the costs of type 2 diabetes in Europe
...2* Advisory Boards, will launchthe results of this landmark study and discuss the implications of CODE-2* forthe future treatment of type 2 diabetes. The following CODE-2* experts will speak at the briefing: Professor Massimo Massi-Benedetti Chair of the International Diabetes Foundation (Europe Region), Ita...'Revolutionary' treatment for birth defect improves survival of newborns
...babies born at Shands. Kays' co-researchers in the landmark study included Dr. Max R. Langham Jr., UFchief of pediatric surgery, who was the second author of the journal report. Kays said making the medical community and the general public aware of the newtreatment's advantages over standard therapy would sav...Research shows low lead in body can cause spontaneous abortion
...unded the study. Scientists consider theresearch a landmark study since investigators measured blood lead levels beforeany pregnancies failed and avoided limitations of earlier work. Lead at both high and low doses already has been shown to damage thenervous system and at high doses to injure the kidn...New links found between an 'iron' gene mutation and increased risk for heart attack and stroke
... in Gainesville, writes thatthese authors "present landmark studies" on the link between iron and coronaryheart disease. Still, he emphasizes that "many important unresolved questions" remain. Sullivan, who proposed a link between iron and coronary disease nearly 20 yearsago, says that the evidence accumulate...New treatment for type 2 diabetes puts insulin back to work
... glucose control in the previous 23 months. In the landmark United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS), HbA1c reductions of 1% were shown to significantly reduce the risk of the complications that place such a heavy burden on the health of people with type 2 diabetes. (7) Dr Matthews concludes: "Thes...U.S., Mexican scientific societies honor former Penn State professor
...esearch on steroid hormones cited as international landmark Chemistry societies in the U.S. and Mexico join...onth to honor aformer Penn State professor for his landmark work to develop a cheaper way tomass produce the hormone progesterone. The work later led to the wi...Estrogen-driven gene activates human pituitary tumors, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center researchers find
...d and adrenal function. This finding builds on the landmark 1997 discovery in Dr. Melmed's laboratory of the oncogene PTTG1 (pituitary tumor-transforming gene). Dr. Lin Pei, now a research endocrinologist at Cedars-Sinai, was primary author on a paper that described how overexpression of the gene leads to unb...U.S., British scientific societies honor penicillin as International Chemical Landmark
...l be reunited in London for the designation of the landmark by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Washington, D.C.-based American Chemical Society. The last surviving member of the original research team, biochemist Norman Heatley of Oxford University, will be a special guest at the ceremony, to be held ...