CRESTOR leads in 1st international prospective study of statins in the metabolic syndrome
... Recent large-scale study results have shown that aggressive lipid-lowering with statins can lead to a significant reduction in heart disease deaths in patients with type 2 diabetes. 12 These new data presented at EASD demonstrate that CRESTOR 10mg is more effective than atorvastatin 10mg at improving the ov...Study supports aggressive treatment of heart patients with cholesterol-lowering medication
...Treating heart-attack patients earlier with a more aggressive regimen of cholesterol-lowering medicines may help diminish their chances of sustaining more complications later or dying after their heart attack, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have found. The findings, published online tod...Antipsychotic drug prescriptions nearly double for kids with ADHD
...hildren, and that the drugs can help children with aggressive behaviors. "But those studies still need to be done. We don't know if the drugs are really safe and beneficial when used this way," Cooper said. "We would like for physicians to think very carefully before prescribing these drugs to children," Cooper...How brain gives special resonance to emotional memories
...motional pictures depicted such negative events as aggressive acts or injured people and such positive events as romantic scenes or sporting triumphs. Neutral pictures included such subjects as buildings or scenes of routine shopping. While viewing the emotional and neutral pictures, participants brains were s...New way to tally death risk for heart patients could ease worry
...od candidate. And, doctors may want to pursue more aggressive drug treatment, post-hospital monitoring and rehabilitation programs for patients who score high on the model. Alternately, they may be able to reassure a patient who scores low that he or she has a low risk of dying in the next few months -- and hel...New data demonstrates that Benicar(R) and Benicar HCT (TM) achieve JNC 7 blood pressure goals
...d that patients with hypertension can achieve more aggressive blood pressure goal rates using antihypertensive t...needed with BENICAR HCT, were able to reach a more aggressive blood pressure goal of less than or equal to 130/85 mm Hg. The second, presented at the annual meet...OHSU vaccine and gene therapy institute receives $3.5 million for AIDS vaccine research
...f the correct characteristics to contain a chronic aggressive virus like HIV. "Unlike other infectious diseases successfully countered by vaccines, HIV is very robust and able to evade most immune responses," explained Picker. "One theory about why the AIDS vaccines developed so far have not been entirely effec...Left brain damage may make people more vulnerable to infection
...raise the possibility that doctors need to be more aggressive in protecting patients from infection following strokes or surgery on the left side of the brain," said study director Kimford J. Meador, MD, of Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. Are you a right-brain person--creative, emotional, big...New research on reduced bone mass and risk of fracture in postmenopausal women
...learly meeting the tenets for a condition meriting aggressive screening and treatment, osteoporosis remains underrecognized and undertreated," he concludes. (Arch Intern Med. 2004;164;1047-1048. Available post-embargo at archinternmed.com )...Older patients less likely to receive care in the ICU
...family members assume that older people don't want aggressive care in general, and that may not be true. It als...suggests that younger patients may be getting more aggressive care than they might really want." Treatment in an ICU appears to be just as effective for an 85-ye...New technology blocks gene to increase immune response against deadly brain tumor cells
...d and studied a vaccine in the treatment of highly aggressive brain tumors called gliomas. They combine in the laboratory tumor cells that have been surgically removed and dendritic cells derived from a patient's blood. The new cells are injected back into the patient to seek out other cancer cells for destruct...UCI Tobacco research center reports why teens are most vulnerable to smoking addiction
... efforts. People with negative moods or naturally aggressive personalities are more likely to become addicted to nicotine. These "born to smoke" patterns appear in teens and adults. Tobacco use is one of the nation's leading health problems, killing more than 430,000 Americans and costing more than $38 billi...Dartmouth researchers advance fight against pancreatic cancer
...inst pancreatic cancer, one of the most deadly and aggressive forms of cancer, and may lead to the development o...ue to grow. This chemo-resistance is a hallmark of aggressive cancers such as pancreatic cancer. "Now that we know this pathway exists, it will allow us and othe...Graphic images of violence alter children's attitudes toward aggression
... their attitudes, beliefs and intentions regarding aggressive behavior," Chang stated in a second presentation of this data to the American Trauma Society. Adds Erica R.H. Sutton, M.D., a coauthor of the study, postdoctoral fellow at Hopkins and surgery resident at the University of Maryland, "It is importa...Dad's death helps national expert evaluate end-of-life care
...ng them to enroll in hospice while still receiving aggressive medical care.) Later on, his father was accepted i... palliative care while at the same time supporting aggressive medical care?" It was partly the uncertainty of his father's prognosis that caused Quill chose to d...Obese men may have increased risk for prostate cancer recurrence after surgery
...r more -- were found to have several indicators of aggressive prostate cancer, including higher Gleason scores and rising PSA levels after surgery. Men with a BMI of greater than 35 kg/m2 had a 60 percent risk of cancer recurrence within three years. Thirty-one percent of African-American men in the study wer...For many, depression persists after routine treatment
...ent depression were also the most likely to pursue aggressive therapy that combined medication and counseling sessions suggesting that the persistent depression was not because of less intensive treatment and may represent true treatment resistance, Sherbourne says. Researchers and physicians need to learn more...Ongoing study evaluates pediatricians' effectivenes at violence prevention
...xposure to violence in the media is a predictor of aggressive behavior in young adults, both men and women," Barkin said. "This has been backed up in studies including one that followed children for more than 16 years." The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends limiting exposure to media including c...Researchers define mechanism that enables stem cells to track migrating brain tumor cells
...poor. Those with glioblastoma multiforme, the most aggressive of the gliomas, usually have a life expectancy of ...urvival for two years is extremely rare, even with aggressive treatment. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy have only minimal impact, and because gliomas have poo...Development of rare esophageal cancer in African-Americans may differ from whites
The development of an aggressive but rare type of esophageal cancer in African-Americans may follow a different path than the same disease in whites, and is more likely to be fatal, according to results of a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins. Whites who develop the cancer, calle...