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...w avoid having to give multiple medications, which avoids toxicity of drug interactions and it's much less costly." The most common alternate method of preventing pneumocystis carinii is called aerosolized pentamidine. Kazanjian says this regimen is much more expensive than treatment with Bactrim and requi...New Elementary School Program Lowers Cardiovascular Risks In Children
...reason this approach is more successful is that it avoids stigmatization of children with risk factors, capitalizes on positive peer pressure, and includes children who are currently at low risk. The CHIC study consisted of an eight-week randomized controlled trial of a subset of 422 children with CVD risk ......n until they reachthe damaged area. This approach avoids the need to open the skull. Having clear X-ray images of the vessels and instruments is critical toreaching the repair site without damaging vessels along the way. "Even with the most advanced imaging equipment available at present, w...Duke Doctors Can Now Cure Most Babies Born With Fatal Immune Disease
...une systems to reject the transplants.Our approach avoids chemotherapeutic toxic agents and all their complications,"said Buckley. Buckley aids the recovery of her patients by bolstering them withapproximately 20 times the amount of bone marrow stem cells than other centersdeliver, a technique that ...Management Academy To Boost Training For Local, State Public Health Departments
...ved office procedures. The mothermisses less work, avoids transportation costs for a second visit and keeps upwith her child's preventative health needs. The academy's work will begin this summer when teams of professionals from stateand local public health departments come to Chapel Hill for a one-week pr...Improved Ritalin™ Offers Smaller Doses And Fewer Side Effects
... it generally means smaller doses areneeded and it avoids any potential side effects that might be contributed fromtheother hand. Such is the case for Ritalin, says Winkler. "It means less sideeffectsand also less drug would have to be taken," by only including the biologicallyactive right hand of Ritalin...Penn Researchers Find Chemoembolization Effective For Liver Tumors
...e cancerous cells thathave spread to the liver and avoids exposing the rest of the bodyto chemotherapy's toxic effects," explains Dr. Soulen. "Thistechnique is not a cure, but it can extend patients' lives andpreserve their quality of life." In this study, 51 patients whose colon cancer had metastasized tot...Progress In Cancer-Vaccine Studies: Simpler, Safer Approach Producing Encouraging Results
...ults indicate that it can be just as effective yet avoids the risks,delays and complexity associated with growing dendritic cells in culture." The key finding, presented May 17th at the annual meeting of the AmericanSociety of Clinical Oncology in Atlanta, was the surprise discovery thatmoderate doses of IL...UNC-CH study shows compressed air sleeve prevents blood clots during hip replacement
...ds just a few minutes to preoperativepreparations, avoids the need for blood-thinning drugs such as heparin andwarfarin. Those drugs also prevent clot formation and have been widely used formany years, the surgeons say, but they significantly boost the risk of dangerousbleeding in the hip or elsewhere. ......pulsed near-infrared light used to excite the C625 avoids injury to thecell, thus allowing repeated examination of living cells," explained E.J.Bergey, Ph.D., research assistant professor in the UB Department of Chemistry,and a member of Prasad's team. Generation of the image is done by optical sect...Home blood pressure measurements are usually acceptable
...g patients to measure their blood pressure at home avoids the problem of "white coat hypertension" where blood pressure rises in the presence of a doctor, and in most patients is sufficiently accurate, says a paper by Battegay et al in this week's BMJ. In a sample of 54 patients asked to take twice daily bl...Map makers can avoid confusing the color blind
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...The extended-release formulation of methyphenidate avoids the need for children to take medication during school or after-school activities. The trial of Concerta was headed by William E. Pelham, Ph.D., professor of psychology, pediatrics, and psychiatry at UB and one of the world's leading authorities on ...Seeing movie stars smoke makes teens more vulnerable to tobacco use
...w England teens participated in the study, Sargent avoids making any general recommendations concerning movie content or teen movie selection. Before that can be done, he cautions, his groups findings need to be confirmed in samples that include more urban and minority teens....Doctors investigating one stop shop radiotherapy at time of surgery
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