Longer cardiac rehab programs necessary, says U of T study
... supervised and unsupervised exercise sessions was effective in improving both physical and mental health, with...as made it one of the largest, best-known and most effective cardiac rehabilitation programs in North America," says Kavanagh....Study reports women don't experience undue pain, anxiety during mammography screening
...ason. Knowing that relaxation techniques have been effective in reducing pain and anxiety during radiological procedures such as endoscopy, arteriography and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, the authors hypothesized that listening to a relaxation tape prior to and during mammography would decrease women's f...First US kidney cancer vaccine trial underway at Columbia
...f the few cancers for which chemotherapies are not effective treatments. A small protein (cytokine) naturally produced by the cells of the immune system, IL-2 stimulates T-cells, which are activated in an immune response system and create tumor killing cells. The response rate (i.e., rate of tumor shrinkage...Clinical trial of Etanercept for Wegener's disease shows no benefit
... demonstrate unequivocally that etanercept was not effective for this purpose. Because of the disease's propen... for Wegener's, we must continue to look for safe, effective ways of achieving and maintaining disease remissions," said Stone. Wegener's granulomatosis is an un...Study sheds light on cross-species infection for BSE
...screening procedures combined with CNS removal are effective measures to protect the human food chain." In an accompanying commentary James Ironside and Mark Head (National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit, University of Edinburgh, UK) write that the precise implications of this study for vCJD are ...Reviparin effective in reducing risk of death after heart attack
...n administered to patients with a heart attack, is effective in reducing the risk of death and the risk of a subsequent heart attack, according to a study in the January 26 issue of JAMA . Approximately 15.5 million cardiovascular deaths occur every year, according to background information in the article. Of...Exercise helps reduce symptoms of depression, UT Southwestern researchers find
...ast group averaged a 29 percent decline. "Numerous effective treatments for depression are available, yet many people don't seek treatment because of the negative social stigma still associated with the disease," Dr. Trivedi said. "Exercise may offer a viable treatment alternative, particularly as it can be re...Climate change and the future of air travel
...e ability of simple altitude restrictions to be an effective policy. Current work is aiming to examine more complex aircraft routing strategies aimed at avoiding air masses that lead to persistent contrail formation. At present the production of contrails and their effect on the environment is not taken into a...January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...DS A primary care depression intervention is more effective for patients with predominantly psychological versus physical symptoms, according to this group-randomized trial involving 200 patients. A two-year ongoing intervention for patients who complained of psychological symptoms improved clinical outcomes ...The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and Blackwell Publishing announce partnership
...nce health policy for access to high quality, cost effective healthcare for all; serve as a resource for NPs, the healthcare community and consumers; be a leader in the national and global community. The Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (JAANP) is the organization's monthly peer-reviewed...Vaccinating school children and high risk groups is best strategy for slowing flu transmission
...risk groups, and such a strategy has not been very effective in reducing influenza deaths and illness, the rese...ilize production. This strategy not only would be effective for normal yearly flu outbreaks, but also for years of pandemic influenza when supplies of vaccine a...New leukemia drug shows promise in overriding all Gleevec resistance
... Recently, two experimental drugs were found to be effective in circumventing some but not all forms of Gleevec resistance. Both, for instance, failed to block the activity of a mutant BCR-ABL, called T315I, which is one of the more predominant mutations seen in Gleevec-resistant patients. Reddy and his re...More studies on risks and benefits of COX-2 inhibitors published in Archives of Internal Medicine
...nts taking coxibs can be switched to other equally effective and evidence-based analgesic (pain relieving) regimens." "The market withdrawal of rofecoxib has brought to the forefront concerns about the drug safety system that have been raised before. These issues must be addressed now if we are to restore the ...Generation gap found in chronic pain
...nd pulse rate, mean that more patients are getting effective relief for their chronic pain than ever before. So, younger people may just expect more from pain treatment than their elders do. Green and Baker note that assessing depression symptoms in people being treated for chronic pain is complicated by a so...Sildenafil effectively treats enlarged hearts, mouse study shows
...n. 23, are the first to show that sildenafil is an effective treatment for a chronic heart condition. It is al...added benefit of already being studied as safe and effective for another medical condition." "It also suggests that less but, perhaps, the right kind of hypertr...Annual mammogram, doctor visits are enough for breast cancer follow-up
...studies indicating that routine physical exams are effective follow-up care, the National Cancer Institute's treatment recommendations to health professionals notes that "the appropriateness of screening tests after the completion of primary treatment [for breast cancer] remains controversial." Although eviden...New method to fix cleft palate shows promise in Mayo Clinic lab study
...ngthen soft tissue and bone, may be a feasible and effective method to repair cleft palate in the future. Cleft palate is a common birth defect in which a child is born with a gap in the roof of the mouth. This condition occurs in one out of 700 to 1,000 births in the United States. "Right now, nobody tries t...Vioxx went mostly to patients who didn't need it, Stanford researcher says
...ow clinical situations in which the drugs are most effective and cost-effective." The medical profession has a ...f COX-2s so troubling is that they aren't any more effective at controlling pain than NSAIDs. While they were seen as a welcome alternative for those at greatest...Study shows drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex were widely over-used long before recent problems
...uch as arthritis. The COX-2 inhibitors are no more effective in relieving pain than aspirin, ibuprofen, or any of the traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), but they cause fewer of the gastrointestinal side effects that often trouble long-term high-dose NSAID users. In exchange for reduce......ne response must walk a fine line between mounting effective responses against foreign invaders without generating harmful immune responses to self. Just how T cells maintain this tolerance to self is not fully recognized. During T cell maturation, those cells that have a high affinity for self antigen and tis...