Testosterone May Affect Learning Skills; May Be Put In Tablet Form
...and perceptual abilities. The findings may provide additional insight into testosterone's role in the brain. "This is an interesting, early finding and it highlights the importance of studying the effects of sex hormones on brain function," says Adrian Dobs, M.D., senior author and an associate professor of med...Tacrolimus Stops Rejection Of Kidney Transplants
...epeated bouts of rejection. These patients require additional therapy; however, the side effects of repeated courses of standard antirejection therapies-increased risk for infections or for a form of lymphoma associated with these drugs-are excessive. Tacrolimus, however, reversed rejection in 75 percent of pat...Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
...eks. Patients in both groups were permitted totake additional albuterol, when needed, for relief of asthma symptoms. Duringa final four-week withdrawal period, all patients received only as-neededalbuterol. The study showed that even though the average use of albuterol was fivetimes higher in the regular use g...Study Shows Major Savings In Supervising TB Care
...llion compared with conventional therapy, save 240 additional lives, and prevent 2,400 relaspes, including 100 with drug-resistant TB. "Many doctors and health departments have felt that DOT is too expensive because of the cost of hiring nurses to monitor each patient's treatment. We have shown that not using D...ACTG Protocol 185 Enrollment Halted
...ACTG Protocol 185 results provide important strong additional support to the existing Public Health Service recommendations that all pregnant women enter prenatal care early and be offered HIV testing. All HIV-infected pregnant women should be offered the Pediatric ACTG Protocol 076 regimen of antenatal, intra...Ultrasound Helps Pediatric Heart Surgeons After Open Heart Surgery
...am during surgery. The echocardiogram has additional risks not present with a non-invasivemethod like the transcranial Doppler. "We have been able to integrate transcranial Doppler with other types ofmeasurements," Rodriguez said. "Our philosophy is that (transcranial Doppler)is just a sing...Duke Obtains FDA Designation For Pompe Disease Therapy
...ives. He said he hopes to expand the treatment to additional Pompe diseasepatients as safety and efficacy are demonstrated and supplies of the enzymeare available. Chen's team at Duke has spent more than five years developing the cellline that produces the recombinant drug. The work was funded by a combinatio...New Test May Improve Treatment Of Kidney Disease
... Further work in this area by the Hopkins team on additional patients hasshown that somepatients -- who previously had not been helped much by medication -- haveresponded quickly tomedications found effective in the assays. Others have been helped by a lowerdose of medication thanpreviously thought necessary....Common Drug-Capsule Coating Not As Inert As Previously Thought
...," Leckband said. "Thissuggests there may be some additional structure in the polymer backbonethat is important in maintaining the inert or protein-evasive property." Leckband and Sheth's research indicates that PEG may work well for shortperiods -- to extend drug delivery times in the bloodstream, for exampl...Unique Interactive Health Kiosks Distributed In Michigan
...eployed in Michigan communities. It is hoped that additional kiosks can be deployed on a yearly basis. Complet...xpandable and there are plans to add five to seven additional channels in the next year. "This type of program with its television format," he says, "allows us t...Many Medical Screening Tests May Be Unnecessary.
...sults which can cause profound anxiety and require additional testing that can be increasingly invasive and costly. Depleting society's limited medical resources. The article asserts that physicians have a responsibility to inform patients of the limitations and risks of screening tests---and to refuse to ...Intralase Will Develop Laser Systems For Eye Surgery
...OS scientists will continue to conduct research on additional ultrafast laser medical applications in collaborat...atent on the ultrafast laser technology, which has additional non-medical applications in many areas of materials processing and manufacturing.......lly, the general growth of managed care is putting additional pressures on the managers of Native American health services. Effective response to these powerful forces will require greatermanagement sophistication in Native American health systems. In a surveyconducted in 1997 of 85 leaders of Native A...Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
... exclusive review of new technologies will lead to additional interactions between Duke and Targon and to rapid development of commercially viable products for the oncology community. "This remarkable agreement promises to significantly accelerate theprogress of new cancer treatments from laboratory to ...Bi-Monthly Boosts Of Aspirin Benefit Heart
...s-promoting property of red blood cellscan lead to additional thrombotic complications." Eventually individuals will be able to have their blood tested inlaboratories to determine whether their platelets are affected by thestimulatory substance produced by red blood cells. That way aspirin trea......ed 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 one warning sign compared to 43 p...Enhancing Night Visibility Using UV Technology To Be Tested On Virginia Tech's Smart Road
...st site for the research. Then, up to 100miles of additional Virginia roads will also be used in the testing. The headlights are being provided by Ford Motor Company, and fluorescent-reactive paints and pavement markings are being provided by 3M Company, Day-GloColor Corporation, and Carsonite Interna...Anti-Clotting Drug May Cause Potentially Fatal Platelet Disorder
...ceutical company are likely to be needed toprevent additional deaths from ticlopidine. His co-researchers were Peter D. Weinberg, Karine Rozenberg-Ben-Dror,Paul R. Yarnold, Hau C. Kwaan, M.D., professor of medicine, and David Green,M.D., professor of medicine, of the Institute for Health Services Resea...Increased Public Access To Defibrillation Could Prove Potentially Cost-Effective And Life-Saving
...d the use of defibrillationby police could save an additional 20,000 lives annually. Recent activity in state legislatures shows that there is movement toexpand access to AEDs. In Florida, legislation was recently signed into lawthat allows an AED to be used by any person for the purpose of saving the ......he disease is becoming increasingly resistant. An additional advantage of aminosidine is that it lowers the overall burden to the health system, owing to the fact that the drug is cheaper than regular treatments and the shorter period of hospitalisation required. Contact: Dr P Olliaro, Manager, Steering Commit...