New data shows rapid and sustained weight loss with Xenical
...nt programme." A second presentation at NAASO also confirms that Xenical is successful in maintaining weight loss over a 2 year period 2 . The data presented by Professor Aila Rissanen, Helsinki University Hospital, Finland, demonstrate that in a group of patients who responded to treatment with Xenical: Wei...Brain trauma may increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease
...between traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer's and confirms similar findings gained from clinical studies. Kurt Jellinger and colleagues from the Institute of Clinical Neurobiology in Vienna examined brain tissue from two collections. The first collection contained tissue from 58 individuals who had suffered ...Lung cancer surgery patients have better outcomes at high volume hospitals
...many surgeries (67 to 100 per year). "The study confirms growing evidence that the quality of cancer surgery is related to the experience of the hospital, said Colin Begg, Ph.D., chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and the paper's senior author. Major c......ding among different insurance plan types. It also confirms other, earlier findings on the impact of the general increase in utilization, as compared with the increase in product prices. "As our nation continues the debate over federal prescription drug benefits, price controls and the impact of drug costs on...Study: quality of neighborhood tied to coronary heart disease
...blic Health. This is an important study because it confirms what some people have suspected -- that the neighborhood you live in does relate to your getting heart disease eventually, Chambless said. It doesnt necessarily tell us why, but it suggests that another way of preventing heart disease might be on a n...Mayo Clinic discovers cause of a frequently fatal myasthenic syndrome affecting children
...t a routine screening test, but rather a test that confirms what is suggested by a careful clinical history, neurologic evaluation, and clinical electrophysiologic studies. It will be another tool to assist physicians and families in caring for young CMS children....Other highlights in the October 15 issue of JNCI
...s Risk Factors for Malignant Melanoma A new study confirms previous findings that hair color, number of moles on the legs, and history of sunburn are risk factors for malignant melanoma. The study also found that the use of sunbeds and other tanning devices is associated with an increased risk of the disease...Researchers image language recovery after stroke
... is a good behavioral control," says Corbetta. "It confirms that this region is necessary for normal language performance, specifically on the more demanding verbal task." The patients appeared to have a recovery plateau roughly 6 months after their stroke. At this point, the researchers studied the relation...New antipsychotic drugs combined with nicotine patch help schizophrenics quit smoking
...e associated with less motor side effects. "This confirms that the newer medications used to treat schizophrenia also might be helpful for these patients in treating smoking and other types of drug dependencies," said Tony George, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and lead a...Genetics likely to be a major factor in osteoarthritis of the hip
...f the hand and knee but this large-scale study now confirms earlier research suggesting a link in osteoarthritis of the hip. The Nottingham research shows that the risk to siblings is even greater than previously thought, at around three to eightfold the rate of prevalence in unrelated people.......measured. E1694 is a two-fold larger study, and it confirms the overall survival benefit of high-dose interferon alfa 2b in a decisive and unequivocal manner." Unfortunately, according to Dr. Kirkwood, the controversial outcome of E1690 may have contributed to the hesitation of some members of the medical c......hought to elevate ovarian cancer risk. This study confirms that they are. Results of the study, which involved more than 2,000 women, showed that the risk of ovarian cancer was reduced by an average of 40 percent for oral contraceptive users, regardless of age at initiation. Amounts of estrogens and progest...Making kidney transplants last longer: Large UM study finds newer drug is better
...ys survived the first six months after transplant, confirms an effect suggested by much smaller studies at other centers. For the new report, Kaplan and his colleagues examined the four-year survival of both the kidneys and the patients, as recorded by the U.S. Scientific Renal Transplant Registry. About 8...NIH grant keeps University of Maryland on the cutting edge of complementary and alternative medicine
... this prestigious NIH designation. "This grant confirms our position as a national leader in the effort to find complementary treatments for painful and debilitating conditions that affect millions of Americans," says Brian Berman, M.D., the principal investigator and director of the School of Medicine's ......ighly respectable New England Journal of Medecine, confirms just how dangerousOSA-induced states of drowsiness can be. The survey concludes that persons who stop breathing more than ten times an hourduring their sleep are six times more likely to cause a traffic accident thanthose unaffected by sleep disorde......ws/ ROCHESTER, MINN. -- A new Mayo Clinic study confirms what many have claimed foryears: they're losing ZZZ's sleeping with a partner who snores loudly. "Our study found that eliminating a patient's snoring and obstructive sleepapnea -- breathing that stops and starts during sleep -- significantly increa......rnUniversity Medical School. "This important study confirms the efficacy of transmyocardial laserrevascularization in patients who are not candidates for bypass surgery orangioplasty," explained Dr. Fontana. "In many patients, the results have beendramatic." In addition, TMR is being integrated into treatment...New study confirms importance of systolic blood pressure
...fall, based on this and other recent research that confirms theimportance of identifying, treating and controlling systolic hypertension....Research finds U.S. adolescents inactive; blacks, Hispanics, Asians at biggest risk
... 11.1 percent. "As we expected, this work confirms that physical activity is very lowfor American kids," Gordon-Larsen said. "It shows that we really need to provideopportunities for adolescents to be more active through community centers orespecially physical education classes in school. "Pr...Hard liquor, not beer or wine, may explain trends in cirrhosis mortality
...ith cirrhosis mortality trends. Thenew UCSF paper confirms Terris' 30-year-old implied prediction. The researchers caution that correlations between population data are notequivalent to data about individual drinking behavior and cirrhosis risk. "Ourfindings do not show that drinking hard liquor leads to ci...