Study finds continued reduction in breast cancer incidence associated with longer use of raloxifene
...an 4,000 women who had been part of the MORE trial continued taking either 60 mg/day of raloxifene, if they had been assigned to the raloxifene group in the MORE trial, or a placebo, if they had been assigned to the placebo group. Silvana Martino, D.O., of the Cancer Institute Medical Group in Santa Monica, C...Employment reduces chronic drug use, UH professors find
...ork therapy" model as its key component to prevent continued drug use. Future drug prevention research efforts also may benefit from observing how individuals spend their time. These findings, he says, may further indicate that lack of opportunity for meaningful and rewarding work leads to an increased likel...Small study shows SAMe may improve treatment of depression
...ptoms. The study enrolled 30 participants who had continued to have significant depression after more than a month of treatment with drugs like Prozac, Paxil or Effexor. During the six-week study, participants received SAMe along with their antidepressant, starting at 400 mg of SAMe two times a day and incre...Federal funds given for regenerative medicine center
... will significantly contribute to Northeast Ohio's continued emergence as a leading biomedical center," said Paul DiCorleto, Ph.D., chairman of The Lerner Research Institute at the Clinic. The Institute's new Genetics and Stem Cell Research Building, home to both the new Center for Molecular Genetics and the C...FDA grants accelerated approval of TYSABRI, formerly antegren, for the treatment of MS
...In the SENTINEL trial, AVONEX-treated patients who continued to experience disease activity were randomized to add TYSABRI (n=589) or placebo (n=582) to their standard regimen. SENTINEL achieved its one-year primary endpoint. The addition of TYSABRI to AVONEX resulted in a 54 percent reduction in the rate of...Proposed addiction treatment successful, safe in second small trial
...ree for more than four consecutive weeks while two continued using but in reduced amounts. Twelve of the 16 remained free of methamphetamine and cocaine through the end of the study. No subject, whether they completed the trial or not, developed defects in visual fields or acuity. "Due to the open-l...Mutations in a multifunctional protein cause parkinsonism
...egenerative diseases," he says. "We also hope that continued study of this gene will lead to curative treatment...euroscientist Matthew Farrer, Ph.D., and his team, continued to perform sophisticated genetic analyses on DNA collected from family members. Their work revealed ...Tide of new nurses rises but shortages still loom large
...reases, relatively high national unemployment, and continued initiatives aimed at increasing interest in the nursing profession. Corporations and other groups have also aided the effort to attract more nurses to the profession and provided scholarships to nursing students. Johnson & Johnson launched the multi-...Gastric bypass works for GERD and obesity in patients with prior surgery, says Pitt study
...ts who have had previous antireflux procedures and continued to have problems with GERD. This small study involved seven patients who underwent laparoscopic gastric bypass after having antireflux surgery to control GERD. Patients' co-morbid medical conditions included sleep apnea, diabetes mellitus, hypertensi...Proposed addiction treatment successful, safe in second small trial
...ree for more than four consecutive weeks while two continued using but in reduced amounts. 12 of the 16 remained free of methamphetamine and cocaine through the end of the study. No subject, whether they completed the trial or not, developed defects in visual fields or acuity. "Due to the open-label nature of ...New study shows patients experience asthma variability, despite strict adherence to guidelines
...stitute.(1) Variability in asthmacontrol leads to continued disease symptoms and increased resourceutilization, even when the disease is closely managed. Although patients enrolled in the study experienced reductions inhospitalizations, emergency visits and clinic visits, researchers foundimportant differ...Researchers develop new ways to predict number of drug users
...ber of current opiate and injecting drug users has continued to rise since the early 1970s, doubling between 1977 and 1982, and possibly rising four-fold from 1987 to 1996 though slowing from 1997. Dr Daniela de Angelis, from the Health Protection Agency and the MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, and one of t...American ethnic groups less likely to have cholesterol controlled
...mmended goals. Treatment began in August 2002 and continued till July 2002. Men were 28 percent more likely than women to qualify for drug therapy, but 22 percent less likely to receive treatment. Among those who met the recommendation for drug therapy, men were 30 percent less likely than women to have th...'Outgrown' a peanut allergy? Eat more peanuts!
...ited amounts but passed the oral peanut challenge, continued to tolerate peanut. Three children - all of whom reported eating peanut products infrequently and in limited amounts - experienced an allergy recurrence, yielding an 8 percent recurrence rate. The status of the remaining 18 children was unclear beca...Pioglitazone shown to reverse thickening of carotid artery wall
...ontrol in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2," continued Forst. "This substantial regression of carotid intima media thickness over just 12 or 24 weeks may have important prognostic implications for patients with type 2 diabetes." Study Design and Results In the study, B-mode ultrasound was used to m...No increase in deaths for heart failure patients with pulmonary artery catheter
...nical trial on the use of the PAC. In response to continued concerns, the NHLBI and FDA convened a workshop on the PAC in 1997 and the resulting report recommended a randomized clinical trial to test its safety and effectiveness. ESCAPE provided important information about the effect of the PAC on pat...Smoking cessation can improve survival among patients with severe COPD
...ed that patients with severe, early-onset COPD who continued to smoke had a risk of mortality that was almost t...men's Hospital, Boston, MA. "However, patients who continued smoking significantly reduced their survival rate, which confirms the importance of smoking cessatio...ZETIA(R) co-administered with fenofibrate provided complementary lipid lowering efficacy
... baseline after discontinuation of therapy or with continued treatment. Caution should be exercised when initiating ZETIA in patients treated with cyclosporine, particularly in patients with severe renal insufficiency, due to increased blood levels of ZETIA. For monotherapy, the most frequent adverse events r...Heart arrhythmias easily treated, yet few know risks
...eart was not racing. Meanwhile, the episodes continued to get stronger. Finally, her primary care physician recommended she wear a Holter monitor, a small, portable ECG device that recorded her heart's activity continuously for 30 days, while she went about her normal activities. After two tries with t...Rehabilitation professionals in nationwide survey cite barriers to assistive technology transfer
... many of the latest assistive technology products: continued funding challenges; lack of public awareness about technology's potential and availability; a shortage of trained experts; and poor collaboration among researchers, clinicians and users. Sally Gammon, President and Chief Executive Officer of Allentow...