New data suggests chemotherapy patients benefit from heart failure treatment
...patients with LVEF more than 40 percent. "The data demonstrate that chemotherapy-induced heart failure may be reversible with standard medicated therapy for the condition," says Dr. Durand. "The implications of this research could lead to better chemotherapy regimens for patients without concern for developing a...New data may alter frequency and surgical procedure
...'re optimistic that another 12 months of data will demonstrate that even very small amounts of disease detected only by molecular methods can have clinical significance," Dr. Tafra concluded. Lumpectomy Without Nodal Biopsy Linked to Poorer Survival in Older Women Older women who have breast-conserving surgery...Job satisfaction among senior doctors generally high
...ire to work in a developing country. The results demonstrate the extent to which the medical workforce has changed. In 1974 only a quarter of graduates were female and women were less likely than men to become consultants. The majority of medical school entrants are now female and in the future many more seni...Fred Hutchinson Research Center awarded $7 million grant
... a $500,000 grant from the Society that helped him demonstrate that the drug Gleevec (STI-571) is an effective treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Gleevec, manufactured by Novartis, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last year and is now considered the most effective front...Dartmouth researcher Michael B. Sporn, M.D. honored for pioneering work in cancer prevention
...cterize transforming growth factor-beta (TGFbeta), demonstrate its role in controlling cell growth, and show loss of its function in certain tumor cells. Sporn has recently begun to study certain triterpenoids - structures occurring in hundreds of plants all over the world, which have been found to have interest...Small babies are more likely to be stressed adults
...tress into middle age. Previous studies could only demonstrate such a relation up to the age of 26 years, they conclude....United States to host World Sight Day celebration October 10
...d with our partners here, and around the globe, to demonstrate our determination in making vision a public health priority." World Sight Day was launched by Lions Clubs International in 1998 to recognize and reinforce the importance of eradicating preventable blindness. In the five years since its inception, Wo...New data confirm KEPPRAs place at the forefront of epilepsy management
...ropean Congress on Epileptology in Madrid, further demonstrate the favourable safety and tolerability profiles of KEPPRA (levetiracetam), helping to confirm its place at the forefront of the management of epilepsy. KEPPRA is currently indicated as adjunctive treatment of partial onset seizures, with or without ...Bridge Medical shares expertise at Washington Patient Safety Conference
...edPoint™ patient safety system. [Bridge will demonstrate MedPoint--the first BPOC system to combine medication and blood product administration verification with laboratory specimen identification--in the Symposium Exhibit Hall.] Moderated by John Gosbee, MD, MS--director of patient safety information syst...Antibiotic slows atherosclerosis in people with Chlamydia pneumonia antibodies
...quires clinical trials with long-term follow-up to demonstrate the probable benefits of antibiotic therapy in patients testing positive for Cp antibodies, he says....Trauma surgeon seeks change in law that discourages counseling of problem drinkers
...y Innovators project, I hope to be able to clearly demonstrate that this is essential to reducing the burden of injuries and improving public health," he says. "And The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is giving me the freedom to do this project, which would be unlikely to qualify for other types of funding becaus...Vitamins valuable for baby boomers eye disease
...ent will cost the health-care system. "Our results demonstrate that the use of high-dose vitamin supplementation (Vitamins C and E, plus beta carotene and zinc) by people suffering from age-related macular degeneration will result in both improved quality of life and reduced health-care costs," says Dr. Sharma. ...University of Pittsburgh reports effects of multiple concussions in high school athletes
... Neurosurgery. "The study is the first to actually demonstrate what have been the commonly assumed cumulative effects of multiple concussions in high school athletes," according to lead author Michael W. (Micky) Collins, Ph.D., a neuropsychologist and assistant director of the University of Pittsburgh Center for...Brain differences in sheep linked to sexual partner preference
...rtner preferences. These are the first findings to demonstrate such a correlation in research animals, in this case sheep. The researchers' results confirm and expand upon human studies that compared morphological brain differences between heterosexual men, homosexual men and women. Scientists at Oregon State U...JCI table of contents, November 4, 2002
... to keep up with the changing virus. These results demonstrate that the high number of HIV-specific killer Tcells found in AIDS patients are remnants of what used to be an effectiveresponse early after infection but no longer recognize the mutatedautologous virus. Moreover, these findings reveal that conventiona...How HIV outmaneuvers the immune system
... to keep up with the changing virus. These results demonstrate that the high number of HIV-specific killer Tcells found in AIDS patients are remnants of what used to be an effectiveresponse early after infection but no longer recognize the mutatedautologous virus. Moreover, these findings reveal that conventiona...Asthma severity is variable and unpredictable
...peak expiratory flow and albuterol use. "The data demonstrate that asthma not controlled with maintenance medications can be a variable and unpredictable disease, with severity that changes from week to week," said Paul Dorinsky, MD, the study's lead author. "Physicians should recognize that asthma that may ini...Aging lowers activity in brain's language areas; performance unaffected
...cerned with attentional behaviors. These findings demonstrate that aging changes language-related brain activations both within and outside the traditional language network, Gitelman said. "The predominant decreases in front lobe activity for both tasks could reflect a greater processing efficiency for the ol...Growth hormone, sex steroid combination 'not ready for prime time'
...persons treated with hGH for extended periods will demonstrate an increased risk of cancer is unknown. Although there is no conclusive evidence that hGH administration can prevent aging, some people spend a great deal of money on supplements. These supplements are claimed, by some, to increase muscle, decrease f......e objective of the EliTE-Symphony study will be to demonstrate that a combination of lower toxicity immunosuppressants CellCept® (mycophenolate mofetil, MMF), Zenapax® (daclizumab) and corticosteroids can enable a dose reduction of the higher toxicity immunosuppessants cyclosporine, tacrolimus or sirolim...