Mayo Clinic discovery on nature of rheumatoid arthritis lung disease may offer patients therapy
...inst T cells and T cell function may succeed where earlier therapeutic approaches did not. Explains Dr. Turesson: "This is a rationale for trying newer approaches to treating RA lung disease that involve drugs that block T cell action. That might help us make progress against this disease." Studies are ongo...Secondhand smoke linked to cervical cancer
...ased risk for developing cervical neoplasia in the earlier cohort study--a 2.1-fold increased risk of cervical neoplasia in 1963 and a 1.4-fold increased risk in 1975. "Public health researchers already knew that passive smoking increased heart disease and lung cancer. What we found in addition is that both ...Substance in urine predicts development of preeclampsia
...the 36th week of pregnancy. This study builds upon earlier findings by the last author, S. Ananth Karumanchi, M.D., of the Renal Division at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Karumanchi and his coworkers had previously discovered that a substance called solub...Study reveals high infection rate in teens for virus linked to cervical cancer
...Brown and colleagues hypothesized that relative to earlier research, the high cumulative prevalence of HPV infection in their study was primarily a result of the high number of swab specimens obtained from each study participant. Many infections were detectable for only a few weeks and might have been missed...Study suggests obesity has lesser financial impact on African-Americans
...5," says Wee. The finding differs from that of an earlier study suggesting that the impact of obesity on healthcare cost may lessen in older adults and may predict a precipitous rise in healthcare cost as the population ages. The study examined data collected by the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey funded b...UT Southwestern researchers find calcium intake contributing factor in formation of kidney stones
... important as oxalate in kidney stone formation in earlier studies because a different "stability constant," or mathematical formula, was used to calculate urinary saturation of calcium oxalate, with results showing that less attention should be focused on calcium. Researchers at UT Southwestern, however, us...UCLA-VA study names India dietary staple as potential Alzheimer's weapon
... barrier effectively and bind to beta amyloid. In earlier studies (Journal of Neuroscience, 2001; 21:8370-8377; Neurobiology of Aging, 2001; 22:993-1005), the same research team found curcumin has powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, which scientists believe help ease Alzheimer's symptoms ...Holidays, birthdays and postponement of cancer deaths
... The study refutes conclusions drawn from earlier studies showing striking changes in death patterns among particular populations. For example, in separate studies over a decade ago of Jewish men and elderly Chinese women in California, death rates appeared to drop significantly right before importa...Genetically targeted therapies create opportunities to do business in new ways
...e health care industry's business norms date to an earlier era when prescribing was more an art than a science. "For example, the usual practice today is that patients and insurers must pay, even if a treatment fails to work. As well-targeted therapies become more commonplace, people may start to question th...Country's first 'simplified maze' using new ultrasound technology is done at Northwestern Memorial
...eart-lung bypass. I think we'll also begin seeing earlier referrals rather than this being the treatment of last resort." In the Maze procedure, maze-like patterns are strategically made in the left upper chamber of the heart to interrupt the electrical signals causing the irregular heartbeat. Scar tissue...Timing appears essential to combining antiangiogenesis and radiation therapy
... to fight cancer, which is somewhat different from earlier theories. "The blood vessels that develop to supply nutrients to a tumor are not normal," says Rakesh Jain, PhD, director of the Steele Laboratory in the MGH Department of Radiation Therapy, the study's senior author. "The vessels are leaky, dilated,...Few Americans are aware they have chronic kidney disease
...he study also found that the number of people with earlier stages of kidney disease remained stable. About 7....nal Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP). "The earlier we identify kidney disease the sooner we can treat it," said Hostetter. NKDEP is asking labs to stre...Few Americans aware they have chronic kidney disease
...es, the study found that the number of people with earlier stages of kidney disease remained stable, with 7.4 million people having less than half the kidney function of a healthy young adult and another 11.3 million consistently having protein in their urine. The researchers can't explain this paradox, but ...Very high prevalence of virus linked to cervical cancer found in adolescent women
...Brown and colleagues hypothesized that relative to earlier research, the high cumulative prevalence of HPV infection in their study was primarily a result of the high number of swab specimens obtained from each study participant. Many infections were detectable for only a few weeks, and might have been misse...Stanford study finds new method improves chemotherapy survival in mice
...ut it did. The study follows on the heels of earlier work by Brown and her team on the effectiveness of... this strategy following radiation treatment. That earlier research also showed that the use of myeloid progenitors improved the ability of the mice to survive...Shire receives US FDA approval of EQUETRO (TM) for bipolar disorder
...n individual's life, although proper diagnosis and earlier treatment can usually alter the course of the illness. EQUETRO significantly reduces the manic symptoms in Bipolar patients. Additionally, in clinical trials, patients treated with the product demonstrated no clinically significant weight gain or in...Stanford study questions accuracy of ads for body scans
...ot enhanced." The research follows up on earlier work by Illes and colleagues, published in the July 2003 issue of Radiology. That article called attention to the lack of medical profession guidelines for appropriate scanning, while documenting the rapid growth of the direct-to-consumer scanning bu...Molecular test predicts risk of breast cancer recurrence and who will benefit from chemotherapy
...ze. "These results were generated perhaps a decade earlier than would have been possible if the researchers had not had access to biopsy tissue from the NSABP trials," notes Sheila E. Taube, Ph.D., associate director of NCI's Cancer Diagnosis Program. The same 21-gene test has also been used to predict how b...Another step towards understanding the causes of narcolepsy
...arcolepsy. A clinically useful assay could lead to earlier diagnosis and improve the likelihood for effective use of immunomodulators, hypocretin agonists, or perhaps a preventive strategy before loss of hypocretin neurons below a critical threshold....NIAID-sponsored clinical trial aims to boost flu vaccine supply
... augment the U.S. influenza vaccine supply because earlier this year one of the two manufacturers of U.S.-licensed injectable flu vaccine was unable to deliver its product. "Expanding the number of influenza vaccine sources is critical as we ready ourselves for next year's flu season," says NIAID Director ...