Scientists Produce New Anti-Malarial Compound
...compounds has been tested on malaria-infectedmice, curing the animals. The researchers are working now todev...m the plant Artemisiaannua, has been successful in curing malaria patients in China.But plants contain only small amounts of the substance, makingthe drug exp...Acceptability Of Alternative Health Care Growing In U.S.
... "People have found that often it isineffective in curing chronic diseases and it emphasizes cure rather than prevention. Manymedicines can have serious side effects, biomedicine can be very austere and uncaring, costs have soared and the benefits of biomedicine are often poorly distributed." Aging ......o parts, subsystems uponwhich to work, rather than curing a person." Part of the blame for this is placed on DRGs -- diagnosis related groups-- a set of procedures and practices that represent a predictable amount ofcosts. According to the researchers, DRGs were originally created at therequest of...Study Shows Dermatologists Are Best At Removing Skin Cancers
... aware that notall doctors have equal expertise in curing skin cancer." Nationwide, more than 1.3 million people had basil cell carcinomasremoved in 1994. The center undertook the study to determine the impact of regulatorychanges that would prohibit doctors from performing outpatient surger......to be performed on a nine-year-old girl inhopes of curing an autoimmune disease that has made her life unbearable. Mollie Hauck of Canby, Oregon, doesn't know what it's like to play like otherkids, because sometimes playing can make her joints ache so badly she can't moveor stop crying in pain. When Mollie ...Racial disparity in lung cancer treatment must be overcome, UCSF specialists assert
Preventing lung cancer is easier than curing it, and any barriers that inhibitblacks from full access to care must be removed, emphasize two doctors at theUniversity of California , San Francisco. In an editorial in the current issue (October 14) of The New England Journal ofMedicine, UCSF co-a...Annals Of Internal Medicine - tip sheet for November 2, 1999
...ciated gastritis, a common association, found that curing the H.pylori reversed the anemia (Brief, p. 668). Elderly Heart Attack Patients Are Not Getting Early Beta-Blockers Studying medical records of 58,165 elderly patients hospitalized with acutemyocardial infarction, researchers found that 51 percen...Treatment helps dyslexics significantly improve reading, shows brain changes as children learn
...ls. There are no quick fixes or magic bullets for curing dyslexia." Richards and Berninger said the new study is the first in a line of research that will explore the degree to which the brain affects ease of learning and, in turn, is affected by specific educational interventions. They expect this kind o...Pacific Northwest National Laboratory wins three R&D 100 awards
...quipment sterilization and radiation processing or curing of environmentally friendly inks and paints that require no solvents. A coating that makes possible plastic display panels for electronics - If television screens and laptop computer or cell phone displays were made out of plastic, they would we......egivers and parents are appropriately committed to curing children with cancer, says Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH, Instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Childrens Hospital, and lead author of the study. Unfortunately, not all children will survive, so its important t...Transplanted human neural stem cells improve memory in rats
.... The research is a first step in Sugaya's hope of curing neurodegenerative diseases in humans by replacing overworked brain cells with fresh cultured stem cells. The transplantation of stem cells, followed by incorporation of the cells into the host brain and subsequent cognitive improvement, is the first ...Stanford researcher's uncommon approach to common cold fights cancer
...ading colds to cancer patients, all in the hope of curing a deadly disease. In the unusual technique, doctors inject a modified cold virus into the liver as a way to kill cancerous cells. The major benefit of treatment with a modified cold virus is its ability to target cancer while leaving normal ce...New gene therapy protocol: First successful treatment for 'bubble babies'
...D and has the potential to be equally effective in curing similar genetic diseases, such as Gaucher's and other diseases caused by enzyme deficiency. "The concept can be applied to all genetic diseases where there is a need to engineer stem cells to produce normal products, especially when patients have no...Rutgers researcher finds brain connections may reorganize in Parkinson's disease
...s of changes in connections would essentially make curing Parkinson's disease difficult or impossible," he explained. West hopes his findings, which show apparently permanent changes caused by the loss of dopamine to the brain, will encourage more research focused not only on treating, but also preventing,...Clinical Trials Litigation: Legal & Ethical Issues in Human Subjects Research
...er new drugs and therapies will prove effective in curing an array of diseases and saving millions of lives. The growing number of reported deaths and research violations that have resulted from these clinical research trials however, have caused the closing of several major research institutions this year......d. "The substitution of raisins for a high nitrite curing mix may make beef jerky accessible to these people again."Why do raisins work so well as a preservative in jerky? Raisins are high in sugar, which inhibits microbial growth associated with spoiled food and food borne illness, explained Daeschel....European study highlights frequency of medical end-of-life decisions in terminally ill pts
...oal, in addition to more traditional goals such as curing disease and avoiding premature death." A public-health article in this week's issue (p 395) by Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen and Dutch colleagues presents new data on the rate of euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and other end-of-life decisions i...New studies demonstrate importance of offering range of treatment options to elderly cancer patients
...chemotherapy regimens in terms of symptom relief, curing the cancer or prolonging survival was high, in many cases unrealistically so, despite a wide range of responses. Given the patients' willingness to consider chemotherapy, the authors underscored the importance of presenting the full range of treatme...Health of independent clinical trials in danger, scientist warns
...r. Surgery and radiotherapy are also important in curing cancer, he said, and both techniques can benefit from the further improvement that is only possible through publicly funded clinical trials....Pfizer's ZYVOX(TM) more effective than vancomycin in treating complicated SSTIs caused by MRSA
...n in patients infected with MRSA, in terms of both curing them and getting them out of the hospital sooner." Better Efficacy and Shorter IV Treatment and Hospital Stays In two data presentations from the same study presented at IDSA (abstracts 314 and 315), the study authors concluded that: In the cl...