Abraham Rudolph To Receive Howland Medal For Contributions To The Advancement Of Pediatrics
...University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.He completed a research fellowship in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in1951-53 and served on the faculty at Harvard and the Albert Einstein College ofMedicine before coming to UCSF in 1966 as professor of pediatrics, chief of thedivision of pediatric cardio......ine, the mother-to-daughter transplant was finally completed on Dec. 2. "We were both in the surgery prep room around 7 or 7:30 that morning," saidScarlett. "And I knew that it would be fine. We prayed together and she told methat she hoped that I would be OK. I told her that I would if she would be OK." Afte...Students Show Restraint Could Cut School Bus Injuries
...safety system was one of 12 Johns Hopkins projects completed thisyear byundergraduate teams in the university's Whiting School of Engineering's DesignProject coursetaught by Andrew F. Conn, a Johns Hopkins graduate with more than 25 years ofexperience inpublic and private research and development. Each team of...Second Annual AIDS Vaccine Day Honors Volunteers Nationwide
...opened in the summer of 1998 and is expected to be completed in 2001. For information about events in specific areas, contact: Abt Associates, Inc. Bethesda, Md. (HIVNET contractor) Joy Workman:301-718-3103 Bronx Lebanon Hospital Bronx, N.Y. (HIVNET) Elizabeth Doramajian:718-901-6346 Denver Department o...Immunex Advances CD40 Ligand To Phase II Clinical Trial In People With Metastatic Kidney Cancer
...with recurrent solid tumors and lymphoma, has been completed and the objectivesof the study were met. The results of this multi-dose study will be presentedat a future medical meeting. Several pre-clinical studies on the anti-tumoreffect of CD40L will be presented next week at the 35th Annual Meeting of theA...Anti-Depressant Drug Shows Promise As Weight-Loss Treatment
...rated. At the end of eight weeks, the 18 women who completed the study and took thedrug lost 6.21 percent of th...nth mark,said Gadde, although researchers have not completed analysis of these data yet."Here we have a well-tolerated drug that has shown significant clinical b...Abgenix Reports Positive Survival Data From A Phase II Trial Of ABX-CBL In Graft Versus Host Disease
...ng T cells, B cells and natural killer cells. The completed trialinvolved patients in four dose cohorts with severe GVHD, an often fatal sideeffect of bone marrow transplants ("BMT"). Among patients in the three higherdose cohorts, 56% (10 of 18) survived at least 100 days from the start oftreatment with ABX...Impulsive Children More Prone To Injuries
...old, 46 months old and six years old. The children completed astandard battery of tests designed to measure their "inhibitory control" --whether they were impulsive or deliberate in responding to new situations - andtheir level of "extraversion" - whether they sought out and responded to novelsituations enthu...Family Support A Factor In Cardiovascular Responses To Stress
...th a childstill in the home. Each of the partners completed two standardized tests , the Dyadic AdjustmentScale and the Brief Social Support Questionnaire, in which they rated how happythey were with their spouse and how much support they received from the spouseand from the family in general. Broadwell and L......erapy wascontinued throughout the study. The women completed a questionnaire to assesstheir sexual function at ...y and at the end of thetreatment period. They also completed a questionnaire that assessed theirpsychological well-being. The safety of the treatment was monito...Pediatrician will work to cut sexually transmitted diseases
...dicine for five yearsin eastern North Carolina and completed a fellowship in adolescent medicine atthe University of California at San Francisco. Receiving the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation support was exciting and anhonor because the process is so competitive, Ford said. Only 15 such GeneralistPhy...Brain region used in face recognition is active in new object recognition
...t least four days. When test subjects completed their training as greeble experts, theactivity in their right middle fusiform gyrus was similar to activity generated during human facerecognition. That brain activity did not occur when greeble novices were tested. The findings co...Alcohol researchers prove brief intervention successful in older problem drinkers
...king. Of 496 patients willing to participate, 396 completed face-to-face interviews ina physician's office. The interviews gathered additional information on alcoholuse, medications, injuries, depressive symptoms, and other medical and socialcharacteristics. The 158 patients who remained eligible after exclus...Losing hostility makes heart patients healthier
... Theresearchers reassessed participants after they completed their hostilityreduction programs. A final follow-up occurred two months later. Patients who attended the full, eight-session course reported at bothreassessments, and were observed at final follow-up, to be less hostile than theother patients. Th......ly, active RA is based on the results of arecently completed Phase III clinical trial, the summary results of which wereannounced in May 1999. The primary endpoints of this study showed that ENBRELmay slow the progression of the disease and reduce the signs and symptoms. ENBREL was found to be generally well...NOVANTRONE application for multiple sclerosis granted priority review by FDA
FDA review of NOVANTRONE data to be completed within six months SEATTLE-Immunex Corporation (NASDAQ:IMNX) announced today that the U.S. Food andDrug Administration (FDA) has assigned priority review status to the new drugapplication (NDA) for NOVANTRONER (mitoxantrone for injection concentrate...UK researcher develops nicotinic drugs with R.J. Reynolds
...1980s. During this time, he and his coworkershave completed extensive studies on the metabolism and pharmacokinetics ofnicotine in and around the brain. Collaborating with colleague Linda Dwoskin, Ph.D., UK professor of pharmaceutical sciences, Crooks has investigated the pharmacological actions ofs...More than half of homeless children have symptoms of depression
... Checklist (CBCL), while each child completed theChildren's Depression Inventory (CDI). The CDI is a 27-item questionnaire regarding symptoms of depression in children. Possible scores range from 0 to54; a ...ReQuip cuts risk of dyskinesias by 15-fold in early Parkinson's disease
... additional L-dopa(incidence 20%). In patients who completed the trial on ReQuip® alone, thebenefit was fou...hose in the group randomized to receiveReQuip® completed the 5-year study without the need for L-dopa, achievingsatisfactory control with ReQuip alone. Pat...