Retiree drug costs will remain steep under house plan, Emory study shows
...are reform proposals for the White House. He also directed the administration's estimation efforts in dealing with Congressional health care reform proposals during the 103rd and 104th sessions of Congress. He has held faculty appointments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Harvard Universit...Bladder-sparing procedure found effective for treating invasive bladder cancer
... the cancer-killing effects of radiation, which is directed at the bladder itself. One-third of patients enrolled in the study did eventually require bladder removal, because tests conducted several weeks after administering the tri-modality approach showed that some cancer remained. However, the ten-year s...Brain tumor therapy needs longer treatment time
...ain tissue. A beam of low-energy neutrons is then directed at the patient's brain. When a boron atom is hit by a neutron, it "captures" the neutron and undergoes nuclear fission, releasing two smaller particles. These particles travel 5 to 10 microns -- approximately the width of a cell -- before coming to r...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for August (first issue)
... the icu will continue to decline In an editorial directed at whether HIV-related admissions to the ICU will ... opportunistic infection. In most clinical trials directed at evaluating today's drug regimens recommended by HIV guidelines, only 50 to 60 percent of the pati...Suicide attempt rate high among urban gay men, UCSF study finds
...r from both institutional deficiencies in services directed to their needs, as well as issues of access to such services," Paul said. "This increased suicide risk cannot be resolved solely by mental health interventions, but instead requires changes in the environment in which kids come to maturity such that...Study adds to knowledge of what it takes to stand up, walk
...he intensity of the "messages" sent by the CNS and directed to blood vessels. Blood samples also were taken to compare the norepinephrine levels. Subjects were placed on a padded table with the left leg and pelvis placed in a lower body negative pressure (LBNP) chamber specifically designed and built for th...Physical, mental health illnesses hinder low-income families' economic security
...rate to severe disabilities.Co-author Skinner, who directed the disability component, found similarchallenges with 83 percent reporting concurrent physical and mentalhealth problems in both the primary caregiver and at least one child. "We were surprised at the high rate of poor health of mothers and other f...A 'first' for Parkinson's disease sufferers
...arkinson's Disease and medical treatment is solely directed towards alleviating the symptoms. "Patients are likely to be receiving multiple drug therapy and may experience a number of complications. The patient's good knowledge of medication is, therefore, of paramount importance in managing their treatmen...About 15 percent of major college athletes may have symptoms of eating disorders, study suggests
...ptoms of eating disorders were directed to meet with a sports psychologist, Carter said. "We're trying to prevent eating disorders by identifying those at risk early enough to help them," Carter said. "We're also ...Strategies allow for drug-free transplants, report researchers at international congress
...led clonal deletion, whereby the activated T cells directed against the graft are selectively removed. Without this process, the ensuing steps in the development of tolerance cannot occur, he explained. Results presented today by Dr. Kareem Abu-Elmagd, associate professor of surgery at the University of Pitts...Foundation funds UCSF research to test diaphragms as HIV prevention tool
...to UCSF's Women's Global Health Imperative (WGHI), directed by Nancy Padian, PhD. The diaphragm will be the first physical barrier tested in a randomized, controlled trial for effectiveness in preventing the sexual transmission of HIV. "The foundation is demonstrating tremendous leadership and innovation in s...OSU faculty design drug education web program for NCAA
...in OSU's College of Health and Human Sciences, who directed the project. "We never really say, 'don't do drugs' in our classes, or on the website because people don't want to be preached at," Tricker said. "What we try to point out is that there are a lot of other things that student-athletes can do for them...Study: Closeness to mother can delay first instance of sexual intercourse among younger teens
...viors of adolescents in the United States. It was directed by investigators from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Today's findings come from two Add Health studies, one published today in the Journal of Adolescent Health and another published earlier in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescen...Waist circumference as a predictor of cardiovascular risk
... setting. In the future, similar studies should be directed at developing the same type of WC-disease risk correlations for other races and for chronic diseases other than CVD....Remembering stressful events may lead to later heart disease
...istract them. That study showed that even when not directed to think about the emotional task they just performed, the subjects would spontaneously ruminate on them afterward, making it take longer for their blood pressure to drop back to normal. "Delayed recovery may have been due to the fact that those who ...NIAMS scientists find biochemical 'switch' directs muscle building
...apacity to differentiate. Further research will be directed at discovering whether the cells that have been induced to form muscle will restore muscle function when transplanted into a mouse model of muscular dystrophy. In addition, the researchers at the NIAMS Muscle Gene Expression ...U.S.-Russian team announces breakthrough in fight against tuberculosis
...gram. The grant covered the costs of tuberculosis directed pre-clinical and early clinical development through phase 2 of SCV-07 in Russia....Doppler-guided fluid administration during surgery improves outcome
... heart. By measuring the reflection of sound waves directed into the aorta, the EDM is able to measure and calculate the volumes of blood being pumped out of the heart and to the body. Such measures give the anesthesiologist a direct indication of how much fluid needs to be administered. "The traditional reac...Fred Hutchinson oversees two grants of nearly $8 million to develop blood test for breast cancer
...ds for breast-cancer research. Its Congressionally directed medical-research programs also provide funding for prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, chronic myelogenous leukemia, neurofibromatosis and tuberous sclerosis research. Other institutions that received DoD funding this year to establish a Breast Cancer C......voted entirely to imaging the heart. The DCMRC is directed by biomedical engineer Robert Judd, Ph.D., and cardiologist Raymond Kim, M.D. They say that MRI provides crisp 3-D views of cardiac anatomy with no interference from adjacent bone or air. Its image quality surpasses that of echocardiography -- a more...