Milk Extract May Heal Wounds And Smooth Wrinkles
... Dr Belford is now in the process of negotiating a clinical trial in Adelaidefor the extracted whey powder. As part of the trial, the scientists planto test whether the whey extract will speed the healing of patients withproblem wounds such as diabetic ulcers, pressure sores and leg ulcers....TB Prophylaxis Unnecessary In HIV-Infected People With Anergy, Study Suggests
...h NIAIDstaff to design and conduct community-based clinical trials in patients with HIVdisease and AIDS. NIAID currently funds 15 CPCRA units in 14 cities throughoutthe United States. NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIAID conductsand supports research to prevent, diagnose an...Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine By U-M Researcher Is 93% Effective
...the vaccinetechnology from the U-M. "The clinical trials demonstrate that the vaccine is safe, immun...eU-M School of Public Health. "The results of the clinical trials are thesuccessful culmination of three decades of dedication and innovation by Dr.Maassab and...New Approach To Multidrug Resistance
... the most effectivecombination of drugs, and human clinical trials to determine the effectivenessof this approach in various natural cancers. The Dartmouth team includes Michael Ihnat, Jean Lariviere, Amy Warren, Nicole LaRonde, Johanna Blaxall, Karana Pierre and Bruce Turpie. The work was supportedby grants...Condemnation May Be Driving Circumcised Women From Health Care
...ile issue, there is a relative dearth ofpractical, clinical information available to providers" on how they should treatcircumcised women. More than 30,000 Africans entered the U.S. during the last decade, 93percent of them refugees from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, where more than 80percent of the ...Scientists Track Effectiveness Of Migraine Drugs With Ultrasound
...drugs. Two-thirds of the patients reported clinical improvement, Chung said.The transcranial Doppler s...lood vessels. The ultrasound backed up the clinical findings and gave an objectivemeasure. This can be used as a non-invasive tool for evaluating the su...Ultrasound Detects Pathology In Patients With Whiplash
...ases when it is difficult toobjectively document a clinical problem. Health-care plans are often morewilling to pay for an ultrasound, than for an MRI, which is very costly incomparison. Additionally, Kirsch said that there are also potentially significantdynamic changes that can be seen, measured and...Psychiatric Symptoms May Signal Brain Damage From Diet Pills
...ich, she points out, tend to be under-diagnosed in clinical practice. Studies also document that fenfluramines increase the risk for developing primary pulmonary hypertension, a rare, but incurable and life threatening illness. The researchers advise doctors to be vigilant for both behavioral and cardiopulm...Duke Obtains FDA Designation For Pompe Disease Therapy
...nt.Enrollment will be based on strict FDA-approved clinical criteria. Chen, who will lead the clinical trial, anticipates that recombinantenzyme injected into infants will be taken up by their muscle cel...New Test May Improve Treatment Of Kidney Disease
...g for these patients has been the lack of reliable clinical or laboratorytechniques for estimating afavorable response to treatment. Although our work is preliminary, furtherrefinement of thistechnique might contribute to improved treatment results." The award-winning article describes how researchers s...Cancer Protection Compound Abundant In Broccoli Sprouts
...ently under development, but will require years of clinical trials todetermine safety andefficacy," Talalay notes. "For now, we may get faster and better impact bylooking at dietarymeans of supplying that protection. Eating more fruits and vegetables has longbeen associatedwith reduced cancer risk, so it ma...Many Medical Screening Tests May Be Unnecessary.
...ent of Family Practice and associate director for clinical bioethics in the U-M Program in Society and Medicine . Co-authors are Michael Fetters , M.D., and Mack Ruffin IV , M.D., both from the U-M Department of Family Medicine, and Laurence B. McCullough, Ph.D., of Baylor Medical College.......tern Medical Center atDallas to begin second-stage clinical tests of the drug, aminopterin. Aminopteri...n effective drug." The FDA-funded Phase II clinical trial of the drug is already under way.The first patient enrolled in the trial, which focuses on leu......nityreceived little exposure to the statistics and clinical evaluation side ofhealth care during their training," says David A. Blake, Ph.D., associate director of the Robert W. Woodruff HealthSciences Center of Emory University and vice president for Academic HealthAffairs. "We're pleased to be able to serve...Affordable, Hand-Held Biosensor For Diagnostics
... hand-held device thatperforms all the duties of a clinical laboratory, capable of sampling,analyzing, reporti...studies and tests, including DNAfingerprinting for clinical and forensic applications. Another biosensor provedsensitive to the binding of certain antibodies, m...Some Good News In Treating Infection Common To HIV Patients
...tization regimen is now used as a part of standard clinical treatment for HIV patients with specific infections....Intralase Will Develop Laser Systems For Eye Surgery
...acent tissue---something not possible with current clinical laser technology," said Ron Kurtz , assistant pro...ls, has developed a commercial ultrafast laser for clinical applications and is developing an ophthalmic drug delivery system. Escalon has headquarters in Skil...Targeted Protein Toxin Effective Against Persistent Brain Tumors
...causing severe sideeffects. A report of the first clinical trial of this drug, calledtransferrin-CRM107, will...the December 1997 issue of Nature Medicine. In the clinical trial(1), researchers led by Edward H. Oldfield, M.D., of theNational Institute of Neurological Dis...Penn Researchers Initiate Ground-Breaking New Trials To Treat
...al types of cancer." Penn researchers expectthese clinical trials to open-up new options for treatment ofnumerous advanced thoracic cancers. # # # Editor's notes: Dr. Friedberg can be reached directly by calling(215) 662-4988; Dr. Hahn can be reached directly by calling (215)662-7296. Select patients are...