Researchers Identify Candidate Immunosuppressant With Fewer Side Effects
...nosuppressants currently available. In addition to benefiting 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 finding...NIAID Renews Funding For Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study
... AIDS. "But I know that other friends of mine are benefiting from thisresearch," he adds. The MACS has played a crucial role in HIV/AIDS research over the past 15 years. One of the first major MACS breakthroughs came in 1988, when John P. Phair,M.D., and colleagues at Northwestern University reported that HIV-...Global prevention, funding and accountability debated in fight against HIV/AIDS
... first year, more than700 people with HIV/AIDS are benefiting from access to antiretroviral drugsthrough the initiative. Richard Marlink, MD, Harvard School of Public Health,described the work of the Enhancing Care Initiative in Brazil, Senegal, Thailandand South Africa using multidisciplinary AIDS care teams ...American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists tapped to manage PQRI
...ommendations will help fast-track pharmaceuticals, benefiting all Americans, especially those whocurrently have no disease treatment options available." How PQRI Works Under the purview of AAPS, PQRI will consist of a board of directors, a steering committee and technical committees. The five-member b...U-M, World Health Organization host telemedicine symposium
...ope and emerging nations are already benefiting from this enabling technology. Telehealth, which uses technology to bridge distances, is especially beneficial as a teaching and learning device. Welcoming the delegates is Allen Li...Heart experts call for urgent action to implement new findings on cholesterol-lowering treatment
...fully would more than triple the numbers of people benefiting from statins. In the UK, the numbers treated with statins would increase from a current figure of less than 1 in 20 of the population aged over 40 (or about 1 million people) to about one in 8 (about 3 million people). This would save an extra 10,000...Men, women and the green eyed monster
...yed emotionally to be more of a threat toresources benefiting themselves and their children. Before DeSteno'sresearch, most jealousy studies on this issue involved "forced choice,"scenarios that prompted participants to choose one more distressing eventover another. DeSteno and his colleagues believed that this...OHSU chemoprotectant technology licensed for biotechnology development
...a promising technology one step closer to possibly benefiting thousands of cancer patients across the country."...Patients with chronic illness not benefiting from advances in care
Many patients with chronic diseases are not benefiting from advances in care because of a lack of financial and staff resources, inadequate information systems, and doctors' heavy workload, argue US researchers in this week's BMJ. They assessed the extent to which evidence-based chronic care management p...Distortion and lack of openness - Information provision from the pharmaceutical industry
...ical journals and the pharmaceutical industry-both benefiting from each other-but cautions that 'Editors of medical journals should make decisions on content based on public-health needs, their journal's readership, and the medical community's needs, not on likely reprint revenues or advertising potential.'...Combined therapies benefit heart failure patients
...ients could fit the medical profile of potentially benefiting from the combination device. Heart failure is the most common cause of hospitalization for older people. Because a failing heart can't pump efficiently, blood circulation is impaired, cau...From diagnostic tool to cancer therapy
Cancer patients could be benefiting more than they realise from diagnostic scans. Research published today in Breast Cancer Research suggests that a radioactive molecule widely used to evaluate advanced tumours can kill cancer cells. Dr. Ekaterina Dadachova and her team from the Albe...Program evaluation critical to Pakistani doctoral retainment
... the amount of research being done in Pakistan and benefiting its citizens. The study found that highly-trained researchers who return to Pakistan face many problems including underutilization of their expertise and lack of funding and laboratory space. The study, "Capacity development for health research in P...British scientists receive Lasker Prize for discovering new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis
...atment for resistant rheumatoid arthritis patients benefiting almost 500,000 worldwide. Although these drugs have been found to be cost effective by NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence), a recent report from the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance, the umbrella body that represents arthritis cha...Pioneering treatments for irritable bowel syndrome, post traumatic stress disorder
...le, widely available, and inexpensive, while still benefiting from the support of a qualified counselor." ...Buprenorphine may help those addicted to heroin and cocaine
...to select patients who have the greatest chance of benefiting from this therapy. WHAT IT MEANS: Previous research has pointed to buprenorphine's usefulness as an office-based treatment for the more than 1 million Americans addicted to opiates. According to the study's lead author, up to 75 percent of patients...4 out of 5 eligible patients missing opportunity to benefit from latest HIV breakthrough
...hat currently only 1 out of 5 eligible patients is benefiting from the latest HIV breakthrough, FUZEON, primarily due to the need to inject the drug. At the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok today, new guidance will be presented on how healthcare professionals and patients can work together to effective...The protective effects of heparin in preventing miscarriages in lupus patients
...sights into the general mechanisms of miscarriages benefiting non-lupus patients as well, Salmon added....Rehabilitation professionals in nationwide survey cite barriers to assistive technology transfer
...ointed to four key barriers preventing people from benefiting from many of the latest assistive technology products: continued funding challenges; lack of public awareness about technology's potential and availability; a shortage of trained experts; and poor collaboration among researchers, clinicians and users...Cholesterol under-treated in high-risk women in managed care study
...o have dangerously high cholesterol levels are not benefiting from life-saving cholesterol-lowering medications, according to a report in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. "Cholesterol management in high-risk women has been proven to save lives and reduce risk of heart attacks. We...