Vaccine Against Melanoma Proves Successful For Patients With Disease Spread To Two Lymph Node Areas
...Cancer Society, more than 40,000 new cases will be diagnosed in 1999; more than7,000 Americans will die from the disease....New Three Year Follow-up Data Of Novantrone In Multiple Sclerosis
...condary progressive. These patients are initially diagnosed withrelapsing-remitting disease, in which their symptoms flare up and then ease oreven disappear for months or years. Eventually, the neurological function ofpatients who develop secondary progressive MS begins to steadily worsen asflares become mor...Misdiagnosis Looms As Demand Increases For New Breast Cancer Biopsy
... demand for sentinel lymph node biopsy among women diagnosed withinvasive breast cancer. These patients are candidates for either breast-preserving therapy ormastectomy. They see in sentinel node biopsy an alternative to complete axillary(armpit) lymph node resection, or lymphadenectomy. This major ope...Heart Experts Call For Action Against Missed Opportunities To Prevent Heart Disease In Women
...rapy (HRT) did not significantlybenefit women with diagnosed heart disease, and from studies that suggest womenwith high blood levels of cholesterol may benefit as much or even more than menby taking one of the statin drugs. Previous recommendations of the National Cholesterol Education Programsuggest ...Newest Depression Medications Widely Prescribed For Children
...unger than 18 years of age. These includedchildren diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), aggression/conduct disorder, and enuresis(bed-wetting). As Rushton and his colleagues point out, these are problems for which theevidence is at best scant to s......red in this study. All patients in the trial were diagnosed withlate-stage AIDS (patients entering the study had CD4+ T cell counts of less than50, or less than 100 with a prior AIDS-defining opportunistic infection). Patients were stratified into two groups based on baseline viral loads of belowor above 30,0...Clogged Neck Artery May Warn Of Heart Attack As Well As Stroke
...tudyparticipants, none of whom had been previously diagnosed with coronary heartdisease, ranged in age from 35 to 77 years, with an average age of 58. Patients underwent angiography, an imaging procedure in which a dye isinjected into the artery to the heart to provide an X-ray of the blood vesselsof t......ter. Fifty-one children between ages 3 and 12 and diagnosed with autism will be tested at each site. Secretin is a naturally occurring human hormone produced in the small intestine that helps control digestion and is used in diagnosing gastrointestinal problems. Over the past six months secretin has been t...Irritable Bowel Syndrome The Focus Of Three UNC-CH Reports At Digestive Diseases Conference
...t that measures the quality of life (QOL)of people diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, IBS. The new instrument quantifies a person's QOL and should offer a clearer view ofhow well the treatment of IBS is progressing, according to Dr. Douglas A.Drossman, professor of medicine and co-director of the UNC C...Margin Width The Key To Control Of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Of The Breast
...ase, representing only about 1 percent of allnewly diagnosed cases of breast cancer. During the past two decade...that approximately 40,000 new cases ofDCIS will be diagnosed this year in the U.S. Seventy to 80 percent of thesepatients are eligible for breast preserving lum...Immunex Advances CD40 Ligand To Phase II Clinical Trial In People With Metastatic Kidney Cancer
...ximately 30,000 new cases of kidney cancer will be diagnosed thisyear in the United States and about 11,900 peo...counts for about 85%of all kidney tumors. Men are diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma almost twiceas often as women are and it usually occurs between the ages o...Biological Markers Found That Correlate To Esophageal Cancer Treatment Success
...less than 10 percent, and about13,000 patients are diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the United States eachyear. Right now, doctors have no way of knowing who will or won=t be helped bymore aggressive therapies. "We want to find and treat only those patients who need extra therapy, and onlythose patients who...DDW Studies Present Evidence That Thalomid (Thalidomide) Is Active In Treating Crohn's Disease
...sease, andapproximately 5,000-10,000 new cases are diagnosed annually. Researchers haveobserved that Crohn's disease tends to run in families, and that the disease ismost common in North America, Europe and Scandanavia, with a greater incidenceof the disease in urban and northern environments. Celgene Corporat...Ordinary Touches Multiply Into Severe Pain For Fibromyalgia Patients
...ple in the United States -- primarily women whoare diagnosed during their 30s and 40s -- have fibromyalgia, acc...a person's working life. "These are people who are diagnosed in their productive years. Many havepersonal or professional problems adjusting to the pain experien...American Heart Association Media Advisory: Cholesterol Lowering Margarines
...htenstein. Children and adults who have not been diagnosed as having elevated levels of LDLcholesterol should not consume the product as a "preventive" measure. Whilecholesterol lowering margarines may be used as part of a treatment plan, they donot prevent the underlying cause of elevated LDL cholesterol l......account for three at the most of the 22 leukaemias diagnosed in almost 40,000 children born to male workers....Noninvasive test aims to prevent sudden cardiac death
...est is a step in the right direction. For patients diagnosed by this test and subsequently saved by implantable defibrillators, this will be a huge advance."...... United States, with an estimated 1.4 millioncases diagnosed annually. According to Wiest, the number of skin cancerpatients has risen steadily over the past 20 years. The computer model provides atomic details of the binding interactionsof damaged DNA and DNA photolyase, the repair enzyme of the ba......Tourette syndrome is a neurologic disorder usually diagnosed in childrenunder age 21. Average age of patients in the current study was 24. Thecharacteristic motor and vocal tics associated with the disorder are mild in themajority of patients and often diminish or stabilize with age. Although thepublic ofte...