March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...tion clinic were up-to-date on a greater number of targeted screening tests and had 26 percent greater odds of mammography screening compared to patients at control clinics. Although still apparent, intervention effects on screening at 24 months had clearly diminished relative to effects observed at 12 months...Targeting mutant B-Raf protein reduces melanoma development
...tinue to look for important proteins that could be targeted therapeutically. Studies like this one that identify how inhibiting important melanoma regulating proteins reduce melanoma development will lead to a better understanding of the disease, and thus, the development of more effective long-term treatment...Invasive pneumonia and antibiotic resistance decreased after childhood vaccine introduced
...he youngest children, which also was the age group targeted to receive the vaccine. Children younger than two years old experienced an 82 percent decrease in invasive disease, and children two to four years old had a 71 percent decrease. In addition to declining rates of pneumonia in young children, the res...HIV and ID doctors oppose ideologically driven STI prevention policies
... the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief be targeted to abstinence-only programs. Dr. Volberding notes, "The number of new HIV infections in the United States was as high last year as it ever was. We are struggling to control this pandemic. We need to use every tool available to prevent new infectio...Stroke awareness low among women, especially minorities
...r Hispanic women. "These data support the need for targeted educational programs on the warning signs of stroke and underscore the importance of public health programs to improve awareness and prevention of stroke among women, especially among minority women who are at highest risk," Ferris said. Co-authors a...Use of potentially inappropriate medications among elderly common in some European countries
...ularly in Eastern Europe. Future efforts should be targeted to modifiable correlates of inappropriate medication use and research should focus on outcomes and intervention strategies," the authors write. "Despite previous criticism of the expert panels' criteria for their simplicity, these tools increase cli...Epstein-Barr virus protein crucial to its role in blood cancers
... of the cell cycle for control. Now we can develop targeted therapeutics to disrupt the function of this viral protein." The researchers surmise that the first use of future therapies from these studies will be in lymphoproliferative disease in transplant and immunocompromised patients because this is a clear...GlaxoSmithKline receives unanimous favorable recommendation by FDA Advisory Committee for Boostrix
... candidate vaccines from our pipeline specifically targeted at preventing disease in adolescents." Background on Diphtheria and Tetanus Diphtheria is a serious disease that results in the death of approximately five to 10 percent of infected persons, with higher death rates...Malt liquor beers, and the people who drink them, are different
...lower by volume. MLBs have also historically been targeted at lower-income, minority communities. A study in... problems." Jones-Webb added that MLBs are largely targeted to African American and Hispanic youth, and young adults. "Malt liquor brands such as Steel Reserve...Bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy prolongs survival for some patients with advanced lung cancer
... an improvement in survival with the addition of a targeted agent to standard chemotherapy in this patient population," said Study Chair Alan B. Sandler, M.D., of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. "This study demonstrates that mechanistic-based interventions such as angiogenesis inh...Gene for age-related macular degeneration discovered by Yale researchers
...) on a region of chromosome 1, leading the way for targeted treatment for this widespread eye disease that causes blindness in millions of people. The study, led by Josephine Hoh, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) at Yale School of Medicine, will be published onlin...Houston meeting kicks off collaboration to advance cancer research
... and proteomics to create new diagnostic tests and targeted therapies for cancer." Both institutions have invested in technology transfer and collaborative applied research initiatives in order to bring research discoveries to the market for the benefit of cancer patients everywhere, Dr. Mendelsohn said. T...Two years after gene therapy treatments, severe angina patients showed prolonged clinical benefit
...rgeries that have been unsuccessful. Corautus has targeted this critical patient population as the initial candidates for its VEGF-2 gene therapy treatment....Researchers discover link between insulin and Alzheimer's
...ontributors to Alzheimer's, this opens the way for targeted treatment to the brain and changes the way we view Alzheimer's disease," de la Monte says. In an accompanying review article, de la Monte and accompanying author Jack Wands, MD, of Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School, write that "there is ...School-based smoking prevention programs ineffective
...d colleagues shared certain characteristics. Most targeted middle-school students, although some focused on high school students and one addressed both age groups. Most of the programs followed the social influences model of behavior change. None of the smoking reduction programs reviewed included community...Both inherited traits and tumor mutations affect response to treatment of leukemia
...orphisms at GSTM1 and TYMS. None of the originally targeted 16 polymorphisms, including GSTM1 and TYMS were linked to risk of failure in the lower-risk group. The researchers concluded that GSTM1 and TYMS, are likely linked to resistance to specific cancer drugs, and that treatment of ALL might be improved i...US cancer researchers launch first American-Israeli cancer conference
...ing at the DNA/RNA level; immune system therapies; targeted treatments; novel approaches to breast cancer and solid tumors; and stem cell transplantation in the treatment of leukemia. A mini-symposium will address environmental causes of cancer. Israeli scientists made some of the first discoveries implicatin...NYU'S Duster cautions against FDA approval of 'race-based' pharmaceutical
...ients than in non-blacks, would be beneficial to a targeted racial population. NitroMed reported effectiveness of the BiDil in its clinical trial of 400 black women and 600 black men. NitroMed, which intends to market the drug to African Americans after FDA approval, has noted that African Americans bet...LRRK2 gene mutation causes Parkinson's disease in several families
...als of mixed-lineage kinase inhibitors that may be targeted at this form of the disorder. Our objectives are to understand the molecular events that cause Parkinson's disease and to target therapeutics to halt its progression."......entrations may "indicate areas of intervention for targeted preventive and therapeutic purposes."...