Cholesterol-lowering drugs provide double protection against heart disease
...alone. The high cholesterol group saw their levels drop toan average of 197 mg/dl during the course of therapy. The researchers measured myocardial (heart) blood flow using a technique calledpositron emission tomography (PET). Readings were made when the patients wereat rest and when they were given dip...Hard liquor, not beer or wine, may explain trends in cirrhosis mortality
...per capita consumption fell 22 percent. A similar drop occurredin 1946-47 when post-war consumption level... generated mixed results, said Roizen. The 1942-43 drop in spirits consumption was soon followed by a marked dip incirrhosis mortality but the 1946-47 drop ...... 10mg of active drug(bid), there was a 28 per cent drop in the incidence of complications requiringthe use of antibiotics. Relenza is the first in a new generation of specific treatments against theinfluenza virus, called neuraminidase inhibitors, which work by interfering withthe life cycle of the influ...New model suggests that AIDS drugs may not abolish HIV infection
...he virus from infecting healthy CD4+ T cells. The drop in HIV levelsfollowing the initiation of treatment reflects the life spans of cells that wereinfected before treatment was started. The initial rapid decline in HIV levelsis due to the death of short-lived populations of HIV-infected cells. This is...AEDs user-friendly -- even for children
...y in delivering that shock, the chances ofsurvival drop about 10 percent. "There is a persistent idea that many hours of special training arerequired to operate an AED," says Bardy. "But the fact is, these machines areincredibly easy to use. After one minute of instruction, it took sixth grader...Recipients of well-matched kidneys received locally require less long-term care
...at the long-term cost of caring for patients could drop dramatically if more people received locally allocated kidneys that closely resembled their own organs. Doctors are debating the importance of transplanting organs whose surface tissues are identical to a patient's other organs. Previous studies sugg...New sterol spread can reduce bad cholesterol
...ring rates as those eating the 1-gram amount. The drop in LDL cholesterol was 7.6 percent in the 1-gram g...rug therapies for high cholesterol, a five percent drop in the bad LDL looks pretty small. But in terms of public health significance, five percent translat...Cigarette smoking among American teens
...t in 1999. This represents only about a 5 percent drop in their smoking rate from their recent peak. Because these declines are gradual, in 1999 only the one-year decline among eighth-graders reached statistical significance. The one-year decline was just short of significance among 10th-graders, but t...Drug trends among American teens
...right spot in this year's results is a significant drop in the use of crack cocaine among both eighth- and 10th-graders in 1999, following several years of gradually increasing use. While the rates of crack use in the 90s never attained the peak level of the original crack epidemic in the mid 80s, accord...Chemist Percy Julian captures spirit of black history celebration scientist
...aking drugs that once cost hundreds of dollars per drop available for a few cents per gram. He figured out ways to use soybeans for everything from food to fire extinguishers. His face graces a postal stamp and his work on physostigmine in treating glaucoma has been declared a national historic chemical l...Gene therapy reverses heart disease in mice
...jected with a lower dose of the gene had a similar drop in cholesterol levels, however their levels starte...cholesterol, which clears fat from the body, and a drop in their levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol, compared to the untreated mice. The treated mice also exp...New evidence suggests reconsidering causes and treatments for schizophrenia
...ine, but only schizophrenic patients experienced a drop in amount of REM as the dose increased. Tandon says these results appear to be contradictory -- the first part relating to amount of time from sleep onset to REM sleep suggest an increase in cholinergic activity, while the results of the measure o...Northwestern chemist develops nanoplotter with parallel writing capabilities
... entire device. The reason for this lies in a tiny drop of water. In dip-pen nanolithography (DPN), "inks" of organic molecules are applied to an atomic force microscope (AFM), which serves as the writing tool. The molecular ink then is deposited onto an underlying substrate, or "paper," via a tiny capi...Antidepressants impair cognitive function in the elderly
...r started taking medication showed the most severe drop in cognitive function." The Penn State researcher adds that about three-quarters of the entire group were on some kind of psychoactive medication. She reports that results clearly show that those on such medications do not function as well with the...New study finds 18 football players died in 1999 season, eight paralyzed
...lar cooling-off breaks. Mueller attributed the drop in deaths directly caused by football to rule changes adopted in 1976 that prohibited using the head as the first point of contact during blocking and tackling. In 1968, 36 young men died after injuries in practices or games. In 1970, eight playe......ersing the dramatic and often fatal blood pressure drop that typically accompanies septic shock if new treatments are developed based on an animal study reported in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Sepsis has a 30 to 50 percent mortality rate and is the leading cause of death i...Baltimore researchers receive $40 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
...them from their mothers, but those antibody levels drop steadily over time, increasing the infants' susceptibility to measles. At the same time, low levels of the mother's antibodies neutralize the effectiveness ofthe measles vaccine. For that reason, the WHO recommends that the current measles vaccine be...NIH awards grant to MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals to study novel pain treatments
...nter the perplexing and often fatal blood pressure drop that accompanies septic shock. The company's first drug candidate is targeted at cancer, where it is proceeding toward an Investigational New Drug (IND) submission to the FDA by year-end. The second drug candidate, for acute and chronic pain, is e...Gender differences in private substance abuse treatment retention
... said, " it conveys the fact that many individuals drop out of substance abuse treatment. Multiple treatment episodes may be needed for the recovery of some individuals. Second, it indicates that the likelihood of remaining in treatment varies for different individuals (for example, those with less seve...... very well tolerated by almost all patients with a drop out rate of only 3/585 patients. Dr Baas commented, "The new data indicate that the vast majority of patients in this study treated with cabergoline reported an improvement in their symptoms which was achieved with a once-a-day administration." The...