UCSF Osher Center For Integrative Medicine Symposium
...Care Center;Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, UCSF assistant clinical professor of medicine; WardGypons, MD, medical director of the UCSF and SFGH Rehabilitation Center. Media Are Invited To Attend The Morning Lecture: Date: Friday, September 25, 1998 Time: 7:30 am-10 am Place: St. Francis Hotel, 335 Powell St. ...Patients are sought for a clinical study to determine
...resbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center have begun a clinical trial todetermine if estrogen also improves the ef...c. manufactures Mirapex and is the sponsor of this clinical trial....Study Pinpoints Effectiveness Of Prostate Cancer Therapies To Patient Populations
...m radiation, or seed implant therapyoffered at two clinical sites. The researchers set out to measure the rate of disease-freesurvival for these patients. In doing so, they used three tests:PSA, biopsy Gleason score, and the American Joint Commission onCancer staging (AJCC) T-stage. As background, PSA blo...The Visible Humans: Coming Of Age
... devise 3-D educational curriculums and innovative clinical procedures, including those with life-saving potential." Lindberg noted, "Next week, the public will see how the world's first 'computerized cadavers'--referred to as the Visible Human Project--are changing how anatomy is taught and medicine is pract...UCSF AIDS Expert Warns Against Early Treatment For HIV Infection
...ncerns about the current strategy advocated by the clinical community forprescribing combination drug therapy,...erapy drugs for alifetime. Current assumptions in clinical strategy that concern Levy include: If virus replication takes place, mutations might develop tha...Some CFS Patients Benefit From Low-Dose Steroid, But Side Effects Too Risky
...r NIAID colleague, Robin McKenzie,M.D., designed a clinical trial to treat CFS patients with hydrocortisone, asynthetic form of cortisol. A Second Steroid Study Under Way Although the new JAMA report does not support the use of hydrocortisone, asecond trial led by Dr. Straus at NIAID together with scienti...University Of California San Francisco Dental School Launches Pilot Program For Pre-Dental Students
...nt kind of provider," said Harvey Brody, DDS, UCSF clinical professor ofdentistry and the program's associate director. "These are wonderful, hardworking young men and women who want to go back and serve their communities."Students, who all must have completed their undergraduate college education andrecentl......excimer laser. UT Southwestern is one of onlyseven clinical research sites in the nation and one of the first to begincorrecting the condition using this investigational outpatient procedure.Although UT Southwestern ophthalmologists have been using PhotorefractiveKeratectomy (PRK) laser to correct farsightedn...Botox Treats Excessive Sweating, According To UCSF Study
...ernative tosurgery," said Richard Glogau, MD, UCSF clinical professor of dermatology. "This treatment can be completed in an office visit, requires no anesthesia, andabsence of sweating is long lasting." Findings of the study were reported in this month's (September) issue ofDermatologic Surgery. Excessive ......industry standards.BNP7787 is currently in Phase I clinical trials in the United States at theUniversity of Chicago Medical Center and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute inBuffalo, New York and in Europe at the Free University Hospital in theNetherlands. Richard L. Schilsky, M.D., Director of the University o...New Short-Acting Anesthetics Cut Recovery Time
..., pain or nausea,"said Apfelbaum, a pioneer in the clinical testing and application of the neweranesthetics. The trend will be to shift this approach from academic medical centers tocommunity hospitals and clinics, and from clinics to private doctors offices,said Apfelbaum. That shift is already underway. At ...UNC-CH Studies Show Medicine Can Reverse Osteoporosis From Transplants, Cystic Fibrosis
...plants because of failing health. "Several clinical trials, conducted in Europe and the United States,have explored ways to stop or reverse post-transplant osteoporosis but withoutmuch success," Aris said. "We think this is the first evidence not only that youcan treat osteoporosis after lung transpla...Human Patient Simulator Assists Training Physicians In New Drug
...after the trainingsession. Eighty-one percent said clinical simulation experience was an excellentway to learn about new drugs like remifentanil, " says Murray. The Penn State researcher, who coordinates a simulation lab at themedical center, presented his findings, "A Novel Application of a Full Hu......que, integrated group of exceptional laboratoryand clinical investigators. Together, they are developing and executing 21st-century approaches to translating basic research into the clinic. "Everyday, scientists are discovering the molecular bases of diseaseand, in the process, revealing many new po...Elderly Patients May Be Undertreated For High Cholesterol, Wake Forest Doctor Says
...derly in otherwise good health. "Given the clinical trial evidence for benefit, those aged 65 to 75years and with prior coronary heart disease appeared undertreated withcholesterol lowering drug therapy," the report concluded. At the 1989 start of the Cardiovascular Health Study, sponsored by ...Clinical Trials Announced Using Non-Invasive Innovative MRI To Diagnose Breast Tumors
...h, and the University of Illinois/Chicago. These clinical trials will use the 3TP magnetic resonance imaging...h the biopsy-proven diagnosis. The funding for the clinical trials in the two Chicago hospitals was provided bythe Washington Square Health Foundation, Inc. "Th...UCSF Recruting Breast Cancer Patients For Herbal Therapy Study
...rug Administration which is necessary to conduct a clinical trial. This novel trial is a crucial first s...uchtreatments by scientifically evaluating them in clinical trials. He designed a study that will provide breast cancer patients access toherbal therapy w...Hormone Therapy Increases Survival Of High Risk Prostate Cancer Patients
...erican studies have administered thedrug to men in clinical trials for two years, and in European studies, for...ated for prostate cancer withradiotherapy alone in clinical trials from 1975-1992. The four groups are based on the largest collection of prostate cancerpatient...Study Finds Less Intensive Treatments May Not Maintain HIV Suppression
...n in early 1997, ACTG 343 is the first large-scale clinical trial toinvestigate whether one- or two-drug therapies can hold virus production at bayafter HIV levels are driven down by intensive therapy. The multicenter studyenrolled more than 500 individuals, each of whom had HIV viral loads greaterthan 1,000...Cure Rate Soars For Some AML Patients Receiving High-Dose Drug
...general. It’s an excellent example of how clinical findings can spur new laboratory research and perhaps improve cancer treatment in the future.” The standard treatment for adults with AML occurs in two phases: induction therapy and post-remission therapy. Induction therapy is in...