AIDS Treatments Seek To Eradicate Virus, Restore Immunity
... While clinical trials are underway at other centers to test the effectsof such a combination of drugs, the Duke trial goes several steps farther,in trying two different experimental protocols aimed at restoring the patients'damaged immune systems. Protocol 1 Protocol 1 features three differen...New Colorectal Cancer Treatment Available
...been disease-free for at least one year. About 50 centers throughout the U.S., Canada and Australia are participating in the Phase III trial. Earlier recently published studies conducted at Memorial Sloan-Kettering showed a 32 percent response rate in 41 patients with colorectal cancer who had received no p...Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
...chers hope to make the polymer available to cancer centers in developing nations for further study. If the pain treatment trials prove effective, Grossman also expects the implant could be used as an alternative to oral methadone treatment for heroin and morphine addicts in the United States. Current addi...Alzheimer's disease center seeks patients for new drug studies
...r's disease. UT Southwestern is one of 30 medical centers across the nation -- and the only one in North Texas -- testing propentofylline, an oral drug for Alzheimer's that also may be effective for patients who experience dementia as a result of strokes. If the medication proves effective, it could improve...Tacrolimus Stops Rejection Of Kidney Transplants
...ve also demonstrated a similar results. Transplant centers participating in the study include the University of Chicago, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Johns Hopkins, Univ. of Calif. at San Francisco, Mount Sinai Hospital (NY), Univ. of Calif. at Los Angeles, New England Deaconess, New England Medi...Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
...ts with mild asthma from fiveparticipating medical centers is sufficient for the conclusions drawn fromthe data. He said the data are of the highest quality, due to extremelyrigorous research methods employed in all aspects of the 26-week randomized,double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Clinical coordinat...It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
...d that patients were treated both at major medical centers and community hospitals. Eisenstein and Mark said the bottom-line messages of the study are: It is possible to reduce cost of care for acute heart attack patients without increasing complications or bad outcomes. Minimizing costs in the sh...NIAID Stops AIDS Study Prematurely Because Drug 'Cocktail' Boosts Survival
...e most in the United States. UNC-CH was among four centers that completed a study last year showing that indinavir, when combined with zidovudine (ZDV) and lamivudine (3TC), both significantly reduced AIDS virus levels in patients and boosted levels of CD4 cells, the infection- fighting cells the virus attac......for diagnosis. Now doctors in a handful of medical centers around the country are experimenting with the imaging technology as a tool in the operating room. The Case Western group, funded in part by a $736,000 Whitaker Foundation grant, is apparently the first to use an MRI-guided radio-frequency pr...Laser Offers Hope For Heart Patients With No Alternatives
...for them." Duke and 12 other U.S. medical centers are conducting clinical trials ofThe Heart Laser, which was developed by PLC Medical Systems Inc., Milford,Mass. The company recently was granted expedited review of its premarketapproval application for the Heart Laser by the U.S. Food and Drug Adm...Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
... the one of thenation's first comprehensive cancer centers in 1972 under the National Cancer Act. It is recognized internationally for the treatment of all types of cancer and for its groundbreaking research into the genetic and molecular basis of cancer and for developing innovative cancer vaccines and drug...Survey Finds Acute Stroke Teams Gaining Prevalence
...earchers examined acute stroke teams at 47 medical centers andacademic centers. Slightly over half (55 perce...s at larger medical centers, leaving smaller,rural centers without the necessary knowledge or expertise to aid strokepatients with the new treatments. ......linical trial, involving nearly 400 patients in 33 centers nationwide,showed no statistically significant difference in five areas--including fullrecovery and mortality rates, neurological and cognitive function--betweenpatients with stroke who were given citicoline, and those who were given aplacebo. "Howe...Four-Year Study Shows Long-Term Effectiveness Of Proscar In Treating Enlarged Prostates
...ore than half. Researchers from 95 medical centers reported their results intoday's New England Journal of Medicine. UT Southwestern MedicalCenter at Dallas' chairman of urology, Dr. John McConnell, headed theProscar Long-Term Efficacy and Safety Study (PLESS), the longest trialof drug therapy for me...Study Finds Aspirin Does Not Prevent High-Risk Cases Of Preeclampsia
...l Medicine Units, a network of 13clinical research centers studying various aspects of maternal-fetal medicine. "Women at high risk of preeclampsia should not be given aspirin therapyto prevent the condition, as our study shows it doesn't work." said Dr. DonaldMcNellis, the NICHD project officer for ...First Trimester Screening For Down Syndrome Possible, NICHD-Funded Study Finds
...l of 4,412 pregnant women at 16 prenataldiagnostic centers in the United States. The researchers then analyzed thesamples for various substances often found in abnormal levels in the blood ofwomen pregnant with a fetus with Down syndrome. Among the substances for whichthe researchers tested were: human chor...Acceptability Of Alternative Health Care Growing In U.S.
...and their patients are attracted tosecondary urban centers either as equity refugees or as lifestyle refugees who leave the citycrowds and pollution for places with more amenities." Alternative healers are here to stay, Gordon says, and will probably increase in importance. "How alternatives ...... infants whoweighed between 1 and 3 pounds from 12 centers of the NICHD Neonatal ResearchNetwork. The infants were 13 to 15 days old and were on mechanical ventilatorsbecause they were unable to breathe on their own. Because ventilator therapycan cause serious long-term problems such as chronic lung diseas...International Study Raises Hopes For Heart Transplant Patients
...ients. Clinical results obtained from 24 research centers in five countries were reported today at the International Society For Heart and Lung Transplantation Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. According to Howard J. Eisen, M.D., Medical Director of the HeartTransplantation Unit at Temple University Hospital,..."TRAMAH" Model Seeks To Improve Emergency Response Paper Uses Maryland As Test Region
...nse to emergencies by better situating trauma care centers andaeromedical depots. The results are presented i...mulate differentpositioning combinations of trauma centers and helicopters. Trauma systems are designed to offer much-needed medical treatment to severelyinjur...