Second Annual AIDS Vaccine Day Honors Volunteers Nationwide
...learnhow best to evaluate the safety and potential benefit of experimental vaccinesand other prevention strategies. They are also helping scientists to betterunderstand the concerns of prospective HIV vaccine trial volunteers. One Phase III study that is testing AIDSVAX, a bivalent gp120 vaccine developedby...Margin Width The Key To Control Of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Of The Breast
...ues foundthat radiation therapy does not appear to benefit patients where the marginwidth - the distance betw...ation therapy should remain atreatment option. The benefit of radiation therapy increases as the margin widthdecreases - so that patients in whom the margin wi......stionwhether surgery or radiation provide any real benefit for the older patient. The researchers ret... "Radiation therapy provides an overall survival benefit for clinicallylocalized prostate cancer for those with a Gleason score between 8 and 10," Dr.Valicen...Biological Markers Found That Correlate To Esophageal Cancer Treatment Success
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... and patient characteristics. "We found no benefit for metastatic breast cancer patients treated with...se chemotherapy usedin ABMTR provided any survival benefit for metastatic breast cancer patients. As the standard for evaluating new treatments, random...Livers From Children Are Going To Adults, University Of Pittsburgh Review Of National Data Reveals
...al donorsof livers that could have been divided to benefit 854 adults and children. Of the 29,172 liver transplants reviewed from the UNOS registry, 25,534 were inadults and 4,186 were in children. Pediatric livers were transplanted into4,288 adults and 2,707 children. Pediatric patients with adult livers ...Kidney Transplant Recipients Require Less Long-Term Care If They Receive Well-Matched Donor Organs
... says. However, kidney recipients have the benefit of undergoing dialysistreatments, which can give them time to wait for a good local match. This maynot apply to people needing lungs and other organs.......neday help clinicians pinpoint which patients will benefit from therapy, accordingto the investigators, who a...on, we may betterselect patients who are likely to benefit from this therapy and steer thosepatients who are not responding using these parameters to other the......ork City. "In order to realize the full potential benefit of this nonsurgical techniquefor treating people with life-threatening aortic dissection, physicians mustrecognize the necessity of it being performed by a multidisciplinary teamrepresenting various medical specialties, including excellent imaging te......ile screening moreoften would provide little added benefit for its higher cost. The brief procedure involves inserting a swab into the anal canal and removingit. It causes mild discomfort. The study does not conclude that practitioners should immediately begin offeringthe simple screening procedure. "This st...Diet Can Reduce Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease
...alories, saturated fat and cholesterol haspositive benefit in reducing serum lipids and lipoproteins and cardiovascularrisk without use of conventional cholesterol lowering drugs....Less Toxic Bone Marrow Transplant Technique May Have More Powerful Anti-Cancer Effect
...'s muchtoo early to say whether this approach will benefit and be safe for all patientswith advanced blood-cell cancers, we're very encouraged by the results we'veseen." In standard bone marrow transplantation, patients undergo a pre-transplantprocess called ablation in which their diseased bone marrow is d...Family Support A Factor In Cardiovascular Responses To Stress
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...minor transport delays. Heart attack patients may benefit from a fieldtriage system like that used for patients with major injuries, who are takendirectly to specialized trauma centers. "This does not mean," he cautioned, "that people should drive themselvesacross town for treatment rather than call...Findings may provide benefit for nearly 1.5 million Americans each year BOSTON Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have discovered the combination of abciximab, an antiplatelet drug that prevents the formation of blood clots, and a low-dose clot-busting therapy m...Men at highest risk least likely to comply with post-heart-attack exercise program, UB study finds
... the highestrisk of a second attack and thus would benefit most from conscientiousparticipation in an exercise program are the least likely to do so, a Universityat Buffalo study has found. Results of the study, presented here today (June 4, 1999) at the annualmeeting of the American College of Sport...Early stroke treatment with t-PA has long-lasting benefit, according to NEJM report
...he group?s 1995 findings of asustained three-month benefit from early t-PA treatment. The study populationwas...tment of acute ischemicstroke have shown either no benefit or equivocal benefit from intravenous t-PAor streptokinase and high rates of early mortality and int...NPSF workshop builds community to improve pharmaceutical safety
...rts will not reach their fullpotential to maximize benefit and reduce risk and harm to patients," saysEleanor Vogt, RPh, PhD, Senior Fellow of the NPSF. "This workshop provides aneutral forum to leverage the discussion about underlying issues that keep thecommunity from working together to advance safety." E......ive, it appears that CAMPATH may be of significant benefit in thispatient population. Adding CAMPATH to the armamentarium may very well help us alter theoverall natural history of this disease and, with the judicious use of prophylactic agents against infection, minimize the development of serious complicat...