UF study shows contemporary method accurately predicts cancer risk
...er, said patients identified as being at high risk benefit from closer monitoring. Some may even opt to participate in chemoprevention studies to see whether cancer can be prevented. Breast cancer rates second only to skin cancers as the most common malignancy in women. In 1999, about 175,000 new cases of in......tunity to build on that record in ways that should benefit people around the world." "The new Mind-Body Center is built on the strengths of two outstanding research universities," said Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. Cohon. "Like other research collaborations between Carnegie Mellon and the University of...Medical scientists to begin clinical trials of promising cancer therapy
...agents in our armamentarium, and we hope this will benefit patients," he said. For more information, patients with non-solid malignancies can call Stephanie Stahl at 919-966-4432 or Orlowski at 919-966-9762. Those accepted into the study will be treated initially twice a week at UNC-CH's General Clinic...HDL -- 'good' cholesterol -- helps bypass surgery
... blood. "These results point toward the potential benefit of raising HDL cholesterol in patients who undergo coronary bypass surgery, as well as others with heart disease," she says. Foody says this is the largest study to examine the role of HDL cholesterol in survival rates following heart surgery. The f...New treadmill 'scores' may help physicians better diagnose heart disease
...ase, treadmill tests, with the new scoring system, benefit both physicians and patients. "It's like getting a second opinion," he says. "The scores help physicians decide who needs to see a cardiologist and who does not. The system may prevent the unnecessary use of angiogram and provides extra assurance ...Robotics go where no surgeon has gone before
...in the chest wall. That alone would offer a major benefit in terms of reduced pain and faster recovery time, which would allow patients to return to their jobs more quickly." Because their research was a Phase I clinical trial -- a preliminary study aimed at showing the operation is safe -- the U.S. Food ...Illness severity, not age, predicts death in older sick people
...nd not make generalizations about their ability to benefit from treatment based on their age." In earlier reports from the same data, Hamel had shown that older patients receive less aggressive care. This study explored the link between less aggressive care and death rates. The findings suggest that less agg...American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists tapped to manage PQRI
...maceuticaldevelopment. Ultimately, the public will benefit because of lower costs and faster availability of new drugs for life-threatening diseases. "We are not testing actual drugs," said Larry Augsburger, AAPS President. "We are testing processes and procedures that will be used to help verify pharmac......ts treated after three hours, researchers noted no benefit interms of improved recovery when the patients were tested at three months; however, the drug didincrease the chance of serious cranial bleeding. These results demonstrate that t-PA should not beused after three hours. The second study, also to be p...Study: Productivity can be increased even as baby boomers retire
...elderly women, family support of the aged, defined benefit vs. defined contribution plans, public vs. private plans, and Mexican retirement questions. Some economic observers predict financial disasters, both national and personal, when the baby boomers retire. They say that as nations of workers and inves...Eastman gives Clemson University $38 million fiber technology
...iversity President James F. Barker. "Clemson will benefit not only because of the revenue potential, but als...or their own research. Ultimately, consumers will benefit as the technology moves from Eastman1s lab through our labs to the marketplace." "Once we decided t...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
...es," Cuccaro said. "For example, some children may benefit more from medicines, some with behavioral interventions, although many will need both." In fact, scientists at Duke's Center for Human Genetics are teaming with psychiatrists who treat patients with a variety of psychiatric disorders to investigate t...... "These data demonstrate NOVANTRONE is clearly of benefit for a significant group of MS patients who currently have limited treatment options," said Hans-Peter Hartung, MD, Chairman, Department of Neurology Graz University, Austria and principal investigator of the pivotal NOVANTRONE Phase III study. There ...People with high blood pressure may benefit from different management techniques based on their health lifestyle beliefs and behaviors, according to an article appearing in the February 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, a member of the Journal of the American Medical Association (...Computerized analysis of heart arteries shows no benefits of hormone therapy
... these changes didn't translate into a measurable benefit in the arteries of the heart." The mean age of... "Based on this study, we can't rule out a small benefit of estrogen, but a dramatic effect as seen with lipid-lowering therapy in patients with high cholest......allenge" of his field, as well as its potential to benefit humanity.The skills it requires he learned as a boy, he said: "It was as I studied Talmud that I gainedappreciation for abstract logic and rigor, for patience and perseverance." The Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods is...UNC-CH study finds N.C. outpatient heart rehabilitation programs mostly under-used
...ems, Evenson said. Many patients who survive might benefit from outpatient cardiac rehabilitation, which help...ong as patients are hospitalized. People who could benefit from longer-term rehabilitation include those who have suffered heart attacks, have undergone bypass...Wake Forest study shows women suffer from 'gender gap' in treatment of severe psoriasis
...uality between the sexes. Men have enjoyed the benefit of powerful drugs that address the disease, but women of childbearing age have gone without, according to dermatologists at the Westwood Squibb Center for Dermatology Research at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. In an article in the Apri...Study shows women more likely to have severe arthritis, less likely to undergo surgery
...kely than men to have severe arthritis which would benefit from joint replacement, they are less likely to have ever discussed the surgical procedure with their doctors, according to a study published in the April 6 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. The study also found women experience wor......eady, mecamylamine has proven to be of significant benefit in helping people quit smoking. In earlier Duke studies, Rose demonstrated that using a patch with nicotine and mecamylamine together helped 40 percent of smokers quit for at least one year, while only 15 percent of smokers were able to do so using ...