"Powerful New Tool" For AIDS Is Reported In Science
...chnique may finally allow physicians to establish, based upon objective evidence, the proper time for an individual AIDS patient to begin taking medication and which medication is best suited for this particular individual. (A description of this new technique was published in the 20 January 1998 issue of ......ypercent attributable to inheritance, a conclusion based in large part on studiesof twins reared either together or apart," Reus explains. "Inherited aspects of personality by definition must have some biologicalunderpinning, but this is the first controlled study of the effects of a drug ona component of ...Added Benefit Found For Aspirin Use In Patients With Vessel Disease
...art disease, according to the researchers, who are based at the NationalHeart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, MD. They add that these findingscan partly explain why aspirin has beneficial effects on the rate of heartattacks as proven in other studies. Contact: Dr. Arshed Quyyumi can be reach...Could Cardiovascular Drugs Be Linked To Suicide?
...icide: ecological findings confirmed in population based cohort study) In a study including 152 Swedish municipalities (total population of 7.3 million), Lindberg et al investigated possible associations between the use of cardiovascular drugs and suicide and the results of this study are published in th...Setting Prescribing Budgets In General Practice
(Capitation based prescribing budgets will not work) (Effective pres... week's BMJ, Majeed and Head argue that capitation based formulas for prescribing are very crude tools and that health authority pharmaceutical and medical a...Hospitals Discourage Consumer Questioning Of Bills, Study Suggests
...cholars call anticipatoryimpression management, is based on data collected at three non-profit hospitalsin ... not be disclosed.The researchers' conclusions are based on bills, letters, observations, andinterviews with hospital staff and patients. The researchers beg......s a leader in a powerful new areacalled "mechanism based drug discovery" which integrates medicine, quantumphysics, synthetic chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences and Cray supercomputing. BioNumerik views its approach as a fourth generation technology relative to drugscreening, automated screening and combin...National Health Study Launched On The Internet
...educe chronic diseases. Williams says the study is based on the premise that everyone is engaged in apersonal experiment in which their choice of foods, vitamins, medical treatment,and lifestyle affects their health. The accumulation of all these individualexperiments into one nationwide study could lead t...Warfarin Continues To Be Underused As Stroke Preventive
...l fibrillationreceived prescriptions for warfarin, based on data from the National AmbulatoryMedical Care Survey from 1989 to 1996. Although warfarin use increased from 13percent of patient visits in 1989 to 40 percent of 1993 visits -- a level theauthors believe is still too low -- there was no significan...New Stroke Treatment Likely To Decrease Health Care Costs And Increase Quality Of Life
...vings to the health care system. Thesesavings are based on the fact that t-PA-treated stroke patients leave thehospital sooner and require less rehabilitation and nursing after discharge thando patients who do not receive t-PA. The study also showed that t-PA-treatedstroke patients, because of their decr...Researchers Identify Candidate Immunosuppressant With Fewer Side Effects
...fiting people whoreceive organ transplants, a drug based on this agent potentially could be usedto treat chronic conditions caused by excessive or inappropriate immuneresponses, such as asthma, inflammation, allergies, and rheumatoid arthritis.Their findings are published in the April 24 Molecular Cell. ...UB Plants "Seeds" By Investing In Research Projects; Researchers Leverage Investment 14 Times Over
...the state and other states are developing programs based on it. Original UB investment: $20,000. o A $530,000 grant to Satpal Singh, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemical pharmacology, from the National Institute of Medical Sciences to study how chemicals in plants affect heart function in fruit flies ...Earliest Warning Sign Indicates Need To Test For Condition Associated With Fetal Deaths
...rm the diagnosis and begin treatment if necessary, based on one indicator," Gugino said. "The likelihood is great that chorioamnionitis is present." Additional investigators on the study were Paul T. Buerger, M.D.; Jean Wactawski-Wende, Ph.D., and John Fisher, M.D., all of the UB Department of Gynecol...ONYX Pharmaceuticals Reports Phase II Clinical Trial Results At ASCO Meeting
...se of discovering anddeveloping novel therapeutics based upon the genetics of human disease, with an emphasis on cancer. The company focuses on defining the function of certainmutated genes which are known to cause cancer, and on developing innovativetherapies to reverse the effects of the mutation or to ...UCSF Hospitalists May Be Key To Shorter, Less Costly Hospital Stays
...e care they received, Wachtersaid. That finding is based on a wide range of observations, including patientoutcomes and hospital readmissions, as well as a patient survey. The study also may ease concerns of residents that the increasing involvement ofhospitalists could cost them their autonomy and compro...Dermatologists Recommend Raising Age for Insurance Coverage for Acne Drugs to Age 40 -- or Beyond
...ng to identify the most cost-effective cut-off age based onthe cost of the drug, the cost of requiring pre-authorization for tretinoinprescriptions, and the age distribution of tretinoin prescriptions for acne andnon-acne conditions. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, acne is the mos...New Radiation Procedure Targets Liver Malignancies
...ion-induced liver disease for individual patients, based on the volume of normal liver tissue that is irradiated along with cancer cells. The strategy works, McGinn says, by carefully targeting the tumor with external beam irradiation and excluding as much healthy liver tissue as possible. For each patien......tigators measured Quality of Life throughendpoints based on questions at the start of treatment and at 12 weeks. Overall, a segment of men tested with better mental and physical health as compared to three months previously. They felt they had improved well-being, less depression,and better self-control. ......ublic. The scientists' appraisal will be based on a comprehensive review of thescientific literature as well as discussion reports from recent EMF sciencereview symposiums organized under the Congressionally mandated EMF/RAPID Program(the Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Informati......an, Lloyd D. Johnston, and Patrick M. O'Malley, is based on data from theannual Monitoring the Future study...Bachman, a social psychologist, and colleagues, is based onsurveys of 61,000 high school seniors from the classes of 1976 through 1996, andof 88,000 eighth-g...