New breast cancer test could save lives
... an early stage. If successful, this test will be effective for women of all ages; given that breast cancer is...s such as business development, mentoring and cost effective office space....Services for children: Training needed to tackle complexity of new labour's joined-up approach
...agency teamwork approach to modernising government effective is a complex challenge, and training to make it wo...agency work. And it identifies lack of training in effective management of multi-agency teams and managing change as two key issues which must be addressed. Rese...Listening to fear: Helping kids cope, from nightmares to the nightly news
...s-to open up, and to support and help kids develop effective coping skills they'll have for life....Varicella vaccine effective on chicken pox; Impact on herpes zoster unclear
The varicella vaccine is almost 90 percent effective against chickenpox, but its impact on herpes zoster (shingles) is unknown and needs wider surveillance, Yale School of Medicine researchers write in today's New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) perspective section. The varicella virus causes both c...Pathogen-mimicking vaccine as strategy for cancer therapy
...le variables in parallel we believe we can develop effective cancer vaccines in a much shorter time than the conventional approach of trying variables sequentially." The CVC has clinical research sites in Australia, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, the UK and the USA....Children's Hospital Oakland opens new $5.6 million infectious disease lab
... identification of a new infectious disease and an effective treatment." The research that will be conducted at the CIVD focuses on some of the most serious infectious diseases, particularly in children, for which no vaccines are available. Even where vaccines are available, scientists still have an incomplete...Rehabilitation can restore some vision after stroke
...abel said. As long as some vision remains, VRT is effective in most patients. The larger the areas of residual vision, the better the outcome with VRT, he said. "We had some patients train for many years and continue to improve," he said. "In rare cases, the entire [area of vision loss] disappeared." Even ...Optimal treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome
...), suggest that local steroid injection is just as effective as surgery for the long-term symptomatic relief of CTS for a year, at least and actually more effective over the short term. The research effort ...Anti-depressants used during pregnancy linked to neonatal withdrawal syndrome
...ancy, or if used, it should be given at the lowest effective dose. With the other SSRIs, especially citalopram and venlafaxine, their use should be carefully monitored and new cases promptly communicated to drug vigilance systems." In an accompanying commentary Vladislav Ruchkin and Andrs Martin (Yale Universi...Alcohol: Global burden on health similar to tobacco and high blood pressure
...thors highlight the fact that research findings on effective alcohol control measures fail to impact on policy decisions. Professor Room comments: "A stark discrepancy exists between research findings about the effectiveness of alcohol control measures and the policy options considered by most governments. In...Early supported discharge services can reduce long term dependency for stroke patients
...urced and coordinated ESD team can offer a further effective service option for a selected group of stroke patients and should be considered, in addition to organised inpatient (stroke unit) care, as part of a comprehensive stroke service." In an accompanying commentary Ronald Meijer and Jacques van Limbeek (R...Least protection offered to those most at risk of sudden cardiac death
... with those most at risk given the least amount of effective treatment. The West Midlands, North West and South West were worst off, with the highest proportion of heart disease sufferers but the lowest ICD implantation rates across England. The study looked at ICD use over five years from 1998 to 2002. Thoug......rty in Northern Ireland and what policies might be effective in reducing it. Professors Paddy Hillyard and Eithne McLaughlin of The Queen's University of Belfast will deliver opening papers at the seminar and draw on their ground-breaking report, Bare necessities - poverty and social exclusion in Northern Ire...HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research
... during the study. The vaccine was found not to be effective in preventing HIV infection; infection rates among those who were given the vaccine and those who were given placebo were 6.7 percent and 7.0 percent, respectively. Of those who became infected during the study, pre-treatment viral loads were similar...Canadian neurologist wins highest award as American Stroke Association honors five
...or leading major clinical trials resulting in more effective drug treatment of stroke. Marler was project leader for the NINDS tPA Stroke Trial and the NINDS Master Agreement for Cerebrovascular Research efforts that led to approval of the drug tPA as the first treatment for acute stroke. As leader of the ...Stroke patients receive better care when hospitals 'get with the guidelines'
..."When people operate in isolation, they are not as effective as when they interact in groups," said Schwamm, an...ure strokes and cardiovascular events and are most effective when started in the hospital." The second study, led by Schwamm, examined clot-buster and early asp...Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
...ote greater efficiency of care as well as the more effective application of acute treatment and secondary prevention -- such as getting people on cholesterol-lowering drugs; controlling high blood pressure, diabetes and weight; and telling them of the importance of quitting smoking and increasing exercise. Th...Inflammatory cells highly promising target in NF 1
... The disease frustrates doctors because there's no effective treatment even though the responsible gene was identified more than a decade ago. Currently little can be done to treat a disease that affects more people than cystic fibrosis, hereditary muscular dystrophy, Huntington's disease and Tay Sachs combine...More homeless mentally ill than expected according to UCSD study: Interventions urged
...ss persons with serious mental illness may be cost effective or at least result in improved patient outcomes with only moderate increases in total costs. The research was conducted among an ethnically diverse population of 10,340 San Diegans with serious mental illness (both homeless and those with housing) w...New bedside tool gauges mortality risk in heart failure patients
...ry. In addition, the new model may provide a more effective way to design clinical trials for evaluating heart failure therapies since researchers now have the ability to easily categorize patients by high and low mortality risk. The study was funded by Scios, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company and member of ...