Lack Of Data For New Heart Drugs Is Causing Concern
...tacks, strokes and deaths.Brian Pentecost, medical director of the British Heart Foundation and a memberof Britain's Committee on the Safety of Medicines, agrees that the lack ofcontrolled data for newer heart drugs is "a cause for concern". But Lawrence Ramsay, a specialist in heart drugs at Sheffie......inguishedProfessor at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., and director of MIT's Clinical ResearchCenter. Because of omissions on drug labels, similarly dangerous side effectsmay result from pairing antidepressants such as Prozac with phentermine, as wellas with over-the-counter cold remedies that contain ingredi...UCSF AIDS Research Center Receives Major New Grant From NIH
...ctors of the UCSF CFAR are Paul A. Volberding, MD, director of the UCSFAIDS Program at SFGH, and Warner C. Greene, MD, PhD, director of theUCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology. "UCSF continues to be a leader...UCSF Osher Center For Integrative Medicine Symposium
...cine. David Eisenberg, MD, Harvard Medical School, director of the Center forAlternative Medicine Research at ...cal professor of medicine; WardGypons, MD, medical director of the UCSF and SFGH Rehabilitation Center. Media Are Invited To Attend The Morning Lecture: Date:...The Visible Humans: Coming Of Age
...e click of the mouse," said Carol Jacobson, senior director of EAI Interactive. Creation of customized hip replacements and other devices. Scientists at Engineering Animation, Inc. of Ames, Iowa, are designing software that will transform the Visible Human male into anybody, of any age, gender, height, we...University Of Kentucky One Of First To Use New Technique To Treat Atrial Flutter
...e back. Until last year, he was a high school band director in West Virginia. But he had to quit after atrial flutter struck. "I know now that I've had the problem for years, but it didn't get really bad until last year," he said shortly before the surgery. "I was so short of breath I almost didn't get thro......r.Daniel Jones, assistant professor of surgery and director of theSouthwestern Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery. "But some of theresidents are very good at this as they grew up playing video games." UT Southwestern surgery educators have designed a study to assess theeffectiveness of the new training sys...Prescription Counseling Necessary For Hospital Patients
... Ohio and Rodney Wirsching, director of pharmacy at Grant/Riverside Hospital in Columbus. The research was partially funded through a grant from the Central Ohio Society of Health-System Pharmacists.......s of combinatorial approaches tocatalysis. Symyx's director of catalyst research, Howard W. Turner, willhighlight the synthesis and screening of catalysts intended for use inmanufacturing a variety of valuable polymers. These catalysts could solve whathe calls "some of the greatest challenges in material scie......ug manufacturing," said Ronald B. Herberman, M.D., director ofthe University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and associate vicechancellor for research, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. "UPCI isbenefiting enormously from a unique, integrated group of exceptional laboratoryand clinical investig...UCSF Recruting Breast Cancer Patients For Herbal Therapy Study
...ripathy, MD, UCSF associate professor of medicine, director of clinicalresearch at the UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center and principalinvestigator of the study. In the U.S., most women are diagnosed with breast cancer at an earlystage. Chemotherapy is being recommended more often as studies now ...Study Shows Three-Drug "Cocktail" Needed To Keep AIDS Virus Curbed
...Eron,associate professor of medicine and associate director of UNC-CH’s AIDS ClinicalTrials Unit. "The idea was that because patients have to take a complicated therapy that isexpensive and sometimes has side effects, perhaps we could give the more complex therapyfor six months and then reduce it to som......e," said principalinvestigator Andrew Bindman, MD, director of the UCSF Primary Care ResearchCenter at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center." "Our study findings show two important outcomes. Anonymous testing is associatedwith earlier diagnosis of HIV infection, which means persons who know they areH...Cure Rate Soars For Some AML Patients Receiving High-Dose Drug
...hildhood leukemia,” said Clara Bloomfield, director of Ohio State University's Comprehensive Cancer Center and William G. Pace III Professor of Cancer Research. “Because high-dose cytarabine is quite toxic, especially for older people, we want to use it only with those patients ......bstetrics and gynecology at the Medical School and director of reproductivegenetics at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Birth defects such as Down syndrome occur more commonly in pregnanciesin women aged 35 and older. For women at advanced maternal age, two procedures,chorionic villus sampling (CVS) ...Liver Rejection Can Be Managed Long-Term In Children Switched To Tacrolimus
... the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Instituteand director of pediatric transplantation at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh,will report Sunday, Nov. 8. Patient and graft survival six years after beingconverted to tacrolimus was 91 and 87 percent, respectively, for those withacute rejection. But for childr...Scientists Discover How Aspirin Reduces Inflammation
...mmatory drugs. Dr. Richard Gaynor, interim director of the Harold C. SimmonsComprehensive Cancer Center and professor of internal medicine, and colleaguesdescribe the molecular action of aspirin and salicylate (from which aspirin isderived) in the Nov. 5 issue of the journal Nature. Inflammati...Duke Physicians: Clinicians Have Ethical Obligation To Consider Alternative Medicine
...thods of care, Sugarman andBurk, a radiologist and director of Duke's office of integrative medicineeducation, said it is important to examine the principles of care common to bothconventional and alternative treatment. Clinicians following conventionalmedicine rely on scientific method in making decisions ab......ings from this year. Jim Jones, an agronomist and director of Virginia Tech's Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Blackstone, said the summer's field tests produced encouraging data as well as experience in managing tobacco grown for medical uses. "We're not looking at growing t...Mechanism By Which Estradiol Protects Women From Heart Disease Suggested By Emory Team
...th Parthasarathy, Ph.D., McCord-CrossProfessor and director of research in Gynecology and Obstetrics, and professorof Medicine (Cardiology) at Emory. "We propose a novel hypothesis, thatestradiol, by elevating plasma MPO protein levels, may act as a prooxidant andpromote the oxidation of LDL. As oxidized L...