Chemists Develop Probe To Detect Changes In Imaging Agents Inside Body
... the probes could eventually beused to study other medically important compounds such as brainimaging agents and kidney imaging agents, but he realizes a lotof research remains to be done. "We've just demonstrated that we have the capability to dothis, so it's opened up a frontier. We've opened the door, but w...Johns Hopkins To Announce AIDS Capitated Care Program
...zed services on aspecific group of patients with a medically complex disease." The goal of Moore Options is to provide care for 600 of theapproximately 3,000 Maryland AIDS patients on Medicaid, says Bartlett. Planningfor the program began in 1987, he says. The capitation program was designed by The Johns H...UNC-CH Study Shows State Protects HMO Clients Poorly
... will cover services if they consider the services medically necessary, but they never explain the criteria they use in deciding what's necessary. As a result, an individual with a specific health condition may not know if the services needed to treat that condition will be covered before enrolling.” Ce..."Super Aspirin" Holds Long-Term Benefits For Some Patients Who Undergo Balloon Angioplasty
...ighest risk patients with acute heart attack or medically unstable angina. "The Topol study suggests a remarkable 60 percent reduction in mortality at three years in this select group treated with ReoPro™ compared with the group treated with placebo," said Dr. Fischman. While pretreatm...Unique Interactive Health Kiosks Distributed In Michigan
...blic areas, with a particular emphasis on reaching medically under-served individuals. Strecher gives the example of a 50-year-old woman who expresses interest in getting a mammogram but is concerned about radiation exposure and finding cancer. The program will address her concerns by reviewing specific info...Women Say Overwhelming Yes To Ultrasound In New Study
...ormed if there is a reason to believe something is medically wrong. 42 percent of all patients were willing to pay at least $200 for a routine ultrasound exam---and willingness to pay showed no correlation to income level. 59 percent felt it was very important to see the baby. Factors that were not importa...Montana Anti-Cancer Discovery Sublicensed To Major Drug Manufacturer
...eanwhile, Strobel will continue his hunt for other medically usefulfungi, and under the terms of Tuesday's agreement, Cytoclonal Pharmaceutics andBristol-Myers Squibb will screen those organisms to see what bioactive compoundsthey yield. Funding for the Montana taxol research has came from the Montana ......al abortion to occur, or whenintervention appeared medically needed. What Women Liked and Disliked about the M... Study data also suggest that the option of a less medically supervised regimenmay be desirable: Both women and providers endorsed the feasibility of homeadminis......d that the first contact that a patient had with a medically qualified person was most commonly with a general practitioner, who was able to administer thrombolytic treatment before the patient was transported to hospital. They conclude that for patients in both urban and rural areas, contact with their GP i...Treatment Of Irregular Heartbeat Saves Money And Prevents Stroke In Older People
... people who have anirregular heartbeat is not only medically effective, but also cost-effective,according to a study in this month's Stroke: Journal of the American HeartAssociation. The people who seemed to show the most benefit from taking warfarin, a bloodthinner which helps stop blood from clotting, were o...University Of California San Francisco Dental School Launches Pilot Program For Pre-Dental Students
...olunteers or health workers in communitiesthat are medically underserved. Once accepted into the Dental Post-Bac Program, students spend a year honingtheir academic and learning skills so they are better prepared when they reapplyto dental school. Doing that includes attending upper-division undergraduatesci...Future Workers Will Receive MSAs
...e less of anincentive to economize in their use of medically questionable and unnecessaryphysician services. Battistella and Burchfield also argue that MSAs would reduce the number ofAmericans who lack health coverage. Because such allowances would simplifyfringe-benefit administration and put a cap on heal......known as TPO increases thenumber of people who are medically eligible for autologous stem celltransplantation, a procedure used to replenish the blood cells of cancerpatients following high dose chemotherapy. The trial demonstrated that the recombinant, or genetically engineered, drug,called platelet growth fa...Campaign Targets Oral Complications Of Cancer Treatment
...reaten patient survival. A dental evaluation and medically necessary oral care before cancer therapy, as well as supportive oral care during therapy, enables the patient to proceed through treatment with the threat of such problems minimized, said Gerry Barker, a dental hygienist and coordinator of the oncol......ver. In his new book, Mending Bodies,Saving Souls, medically trained historian Guenter B. Risse traces the evolutionof hospitals from their early mission as humble houses of mercy to today's roleof some as arenas of nearly miraculous technical feats. Throughout the bookRisse suggests that today's emphasis on e...Testosterone Is Mixed Blessing To Men's Health
...between 1965 and1971. The men were interviewed and medically examined. Testosterone was measuredin plasma from blood drawn at 8 a.m. Concentrations ranged from 53 nanograms perdeciliter (ng/dl) to 1,500 with an average of 679. "Comparison of men with slightly average levels of testosterone(400/ng/dl) w...Transmitting infertility from father to son
...dition? Should physicians suggest anythingspecial medically for these boys?" asks Dr. Page. "The bottom line is that there's a strong need for genetic counseling to be aprominent part of assisted reproduction," he stresses. When the boys in this study reach puberty, physicians may evaluate themagain -- this ...New book explores timely social issues of family relationships & raising of children
...he medical treatment they need or forced to endure medically futiletreatment against their will because of their parent's religious commitments. Lastly, "Fear of God: Religious Education of Children and the SocialGood" by Julia J. Bartkowiak deals with a different set of tensions betweenreligious free...Lowering 'bad' cholesterol as good or better than angioplasty for mild coronary artery disease
...oup. This represents a 36 percent reduction inthe medically (drug) treated group versus the revascularization group. Ischemicevents included cardiac arrest, nonfatal heart attack, cerebrovascular accident(stroke), bypass surgery, angioplasty or cardiac death. In addition, onset ofcardiac events was signific...Treatment for ADHD appears to reduce risk of substance abuse
...nd that theopposite is the case - children who are medically treated for ADHD have asmaller risk of drug abuse ... says. "Webelieve that children with ADHD who are medically treated will have fewerproblems resulting from their disorder and more successful lives, probablygiv...