Rape Victims Find Relief From Posttraumatic Stress Using The Antidepressant Zoloft.
...sertraline (Zoloft), four out of thefive women who completed the open clinical study responded positively totreatment. "Sertraline reduced PTSD and related symptoms in these rape victims," theauthors report. "The mean Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) scoresdecreased by 53 percent... "If supported by a ...NIAID Stops AIDS Study Prematurely Because Drug 'Cocktail' Boosts Survival
... 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 attacks and slowly d...Laser Shown Effective In Patients Who Are Not Candidates For Bypass Surgery Or Angioplasty
...f treatment,according to the results of a recently completed multi-center clinical trial. A study of 198 patients, randomized to either the new laser therapyor continued treatment with heart medicines, found that 71 percent of thepatients treated with the laser showed significant decrease in chest pain(a...Psychiatric Symptoms May Signal Brain Damage From Diet Pills
... risks of these drugs until controlled studies are completed in humans." In one study reviewed, monkeys' brains continued to show signs of damage 17 months after taking a course of the drug. Much like the branches of a tree, neurons contain extensions called axons that transport messenger chemicals like se...Survey Finds Increasing Popularity Of Acute Stroke Teams In U.S. Hospitals
...eurovascular experts in the United States; 45 were completed and returned. The results included: Ninety-one percent of respondents had ASTs, with two-thirds of thembeing formed recently -- between 1995 and 1997. Sixty-four percent of AST programs cost less than $10,000 per year tooperate;......rityadministration. (Mexico's projections were not completed by press time.) The experts surveyed stated a wide range of possible ultimate averageannual mortality improvement rates, from 0% to 2%. "This indicated a greatdegree of uncertainty on this topic," said Michael Sze, Fellow of the Society ofAct...Airport Noise Can Seriously Affect The Health And Psychological Well-Being OfChildren
...d quality of life six monthsbefore the airport was completed as well as six and 18 months after it opened. The children in the chronic noise group experienced modest but significantincreases in blood pressure and significant increases in stress hormones(epinephrine, norepinephrine and cortisol) while the chi...New Stroke Treatment Likely To Decrease Health Care Costs And Increase Quality Of Life
...than 600 carefullyselected stroke patients and was completed in December 1995, found that thosetreated with t-PA within the critical 3-hour time window of their initial strokesymptoms were at least 30 percent more likely than untreated patients to recoverfrom their stroke with little or no disability. ...Communication Between Doctors And Asthma Patients Is Key
...0 people die each year,'' she said. Clark recently completed a research project in which 80 physicians underwenttraining on how to communicate and educate patients about asthma. Clark'sresearch team studied 650 asthma patients to determine the effect communicationhad on patient outcomes. "Asthma patients have...ONYX Pharmaceuticals Reports Phase II Clinical Trial Results At ASCO Meeting
...ONYX-015 in head and neck cancer areexpected to be completed before the end of 1998. At that time,the company will evaluate the full complement of data and determine the nextstep in clinical development of ONYX-015. Depending on the outcomeof current and future clinical studies, it could be several years, if ...Metrifonate, A New Alzheimer Drug, Helps Behavior Problems
...ckbook or driving. Of the 334 subjects who completed the study, 215 took metrifonate for 26weeks, and 119 took an inactive substance. The patients didn't know which typeof pill they were taking, and the researchers didn't know who was in whichgroup. Test scores during treatment were compared wi...Filmless System Puts X-Ray Images On The Web
... the filmless radiology system inApril and has now completed the first phase. When fully operational, about ayear from now, it will transmit images to hundreds of computer work stationsthroughout the hospital and link radiology with the emergency department,intensive care units, doctor's offices in the hospita...Voluntary HIV Counseling And Testing Reduce Risk Behavior In Developing Countries
...ults today(June 29) focused on individuals who had completed six months of personalcounseling about high-risk sexual behavior for exposure to HIV. Coates willpresent additional data from the study on July 1 that focuses on couples who hadcompleted six months of counseling. The project is the first randomized s...Extreme Prematurity Brings Two-Fold Increase In Risk Of Repeating A Grade, Needing Special Education
...nd 11 years old when the most recent follow-up was completed in 1995. To assess the educational development of these children, researchers conducted telephone interviews with parents and gathered information on grades repeated, their need for special education and use of the school resource room. Parents...Powerful AIDS Drugs May Promote Heart Disease
...atStrong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., who completed this study while inmedical school at Brown. The researchers hope that two new drugs, which may beavailable this fall, will prove equally effective in controlling the AIDS virusbut without the undesirable side effects on fat metabolism. Media Contacts...Parenting CD-ROM Helps Reduce Children's Behavioral Problems
...oup. Prior to their participation, parents completed several questionnaires,including the Eyeberg Child...monthsafter the parents finished the program, they completed the Eyeberg inventoryagain. "The average number of behavioral problems their kids experienc...Study Captures Images Of Memories Being Formed Within The Human Brain
...nt differences in brain activation as young adults completed variousverbal tasks. The experiments were structured to test whether participants aremore likely to remember tasks that require a deeper, more meaningful level ofconsideration, as opposed to more routine tasks, such as identifying obviousdifferences ...Health Promotion: Can Scare Tactics Work?
...describing the consequences of infection.They also completed questionnaires designed to assess their fear of HPV, if theybelieved condoms could reduce their risk, and the extent to which theydiscounted the HPV threat. Overall, Witte and her colleagues found that only women who feltthreatened by HPV wer...A recently completed study shows that calcitonin-salmon nasal spray reduced by36 percent the incidence of new spinal fractures in postmenopausal women withosteoporosis. Dr. Charles Chesnut, professor of radiology and medicine at theUniversity of Washington in Seattle, ...Some CFS Patients Benefit From Low-Dose Steroid, But Side Effects Too Risky
...carefully monitored for adrenal suppression. They completed multipleself-rating questionnaires describing their energy levels, activities, moods andsymptoms for two weeks before, during and for six weeks after this treatmentperiod. Based on the primary self-rating instrument used, the Wellness scale, 54.3perc...