Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...accine was injected into the rabbits' muscles, and appeared in urine samples after just four hours. "This means that the particles are dissolving almost immediately because of the citrate in the interstitial fluid," Hem says, "and indicates that the aluminum is not going to stay in muscle for a long period of...New Approach To Multidrug Resistance
...cond chemotherapy agent. Thelow-dose pre-treatment appeared to temporarily turn off the gene that producesP-glycoprotein, producing a "window" of time during which there was an increasein the sensitivity of the cells to the killing effect of the second drug. Theresearchers achieved similar results by priming ...Study Demonstrates The Benefits Of Mammography In Women Under 50
...throughmammography were generally smaller and less appeared aggressive under themicroscope than those tumors that were detected through physical exams," Dr.Bradley said. Mammography can detect tumors in the breast which are too small to feel,Dr. Bradley said, which makes it an effective method for det...Effects Of Physical Activity On Preterm Birth
.... However,leisure time activity, such as exercise appeared to reduce the chances of awoman delivering prematurely. Women who exercised moderately to strenuouslymore than sixty days throughout their first two trimesters had a fifty percentlower risk of preterm delivery. Physical activity solely related to t...PITT Researchers Demonstrate Human Brain's Natural Mechanism For Guarding Against Errors
...utton on the left was pressed each time the target appeared andone on the right for every other combination. Dr. Carter and his colleaguesnoted a transient increase in ACC activity during incorrect responses, areaction that had been seen previously in studies of brain electrical activityand attributed to the......ing hospitalsshowed that the use of pulse oximetry appeared to correlate with feweranesthesia-related complications during surgery. Pulse oximetry is anon-invasive monitoring technology that assesses oxygen levels in the blood. With the increasing prevalence of the newer intravenous (IV) conscious sedationtec......the medical abortion to occur, or whenintervention appeared medically needed. What Women Liked and Disliked about the Method At enrollment, the most frequently cited reasons for opting for medical oversurgical abortion was that it allowed women to avoid an operation and wasnoninvasive, and that it seemed na...Epilepsy Drugs Useful To Treat Alzheimer's, Studies Find
...1patients, was halted prematurely because the drug appeared soeffective that physicians concluded that further enrollment wasnot necessary and that all patients should have access to it. Agitation is one of many symptoms that patients withAlzheimer's and other dementias develop as their brain cells getsi...Controlling Collagen Levels May Be Key To Fighting Organ Failure Caused By High Blood Pressure
...ipants who came into the study withenlarged hearts appeared to have smaller hearts on a follow-up echocardiogram. Diez says the ability to easily measure collagen levels could lead todrugs that help prevent organ damage in people with high blood pressure. "It isa development which can be anticipated...Drug Reduces Heart Attack, Death Rates In Patients With Unstable Angina
...ck in patients who are at risk." While men appeared to benefit more from the drug than women in certaincountries, there was no difference in the United States between the genders.Both benefitted equally from the drug. In addition, a laboratory sub-study ofplatelet response to the drug showed a similar...Guidelines Not Necessarily Guiding Physician Behavior, Study Says
...g their training." The study found that physicians appeared to use blood levels of totalcholesterol to decide whether to prescribe cholesterol-lowering drugs topatients. Frolkis says that those measurements alone are not enough and thatNCEP guidelines rely on risk factor status as well in order to decide how...Electronic Nose Inspects Cheese, Hints At Human Sense Of Smell
... Harper. The results appeared in a recent issue of the journalMilk Science International. Harper discussed the work lastmonth at the 216th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston. ...Prescription Counseling Necessary For Hospital Patients
... medications. The research appeared in a recent issue of the American Journal of Health System Pharmacy. Schommer said hospital pharmacists are often pressed for time, making it difficult to see a patient before he o...Elderly Patients May Be Undertreated For High Cholesterol, Wake Forest Doctor Says
...5 to 75years and with prior coronary heart disease appeared undertreated withcholesterol lowering drug therapy," the report concluded. At the 1989 start of the Cardiovascular Health Study, sponsored by theNational Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 4.5 percent of the men and 5.9 percentof the women were...Cure Rate Soars For Some AML Patients Receiving High-Dose Drug
...ates. The study, which was led by Bloomfield, appeared in the September issue of the journal Cancer Research . It involved 285 newly diagnosed AML patients aged 16 and older who were in remission. During the second phase of their treatment, a phase known as “intensification therapy,......own reported that the skin of affected individuals appeared to be too largefor their bodies. It is now known that the excess skin of fetuses with Downsyndrome can be visualized by ultrasonography in the first three months ofintrauterine life. Research suggests that screening by maternal age and thic...Hypertension: Getting Pharmacists Involved Can Help
...ange or decrease in theirblood pressure medication appeared to benefit from the pharmacist'sintervention, the researchers say. "In these patients, compliance, changes in diet, reduction in alcoholconsumption, and weight reduction may have been important," the researchers say,noting that changes in th...How Ritalin Enhances Memory: Clues Provided By Brain Scans of ADHD Patients Using The Drug
... it was in the normal control subjects, but rather appeared inthe PET images to be most concentrated in the brain's cerebellum and basalganglia, areas associated with more basic motor functioning and attention. But when researchers repeated the test on the same group of adults withADHD while they were treated...Study Reveals Possible Link Between Osteoarthritis, Diet
... in orange and greenvegetables and tomatoes -- all appeared to reduce the odds of kneeosteoarthritis by 30 percent to 40 percent, Jordan said. On the other hand,delta and gamma tocopherols - found in soybean, palm and other oils -- as muchas doubled the risk of knee problems, particularly in blacks. S...Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women
...or among French andAmerican Women," which recently appeared in the journal, Preventive Medicine.Co-authors are Danielle Grizeau, Comite Francais d'Education pour la Sante,Vanves, France; Dr. Robert Bendel, Center for Environmental Health, Universityof Connecticut-Storrs; Christiane Dressen, Comite Francais d'...