New Treatment Targets Most Malignant Brain Tumors
...uch lower levels of radioactivity outside thebody, eliminating the need for patients to be isolated in a lead-lined room forthe week or so required after Iodine treatment. However, the most important therapeutic advantage of Astatine-211 is itsfar greater efficiency as a killer of cancer cells, with only...HIV Patients' Mental Health Affects How Seriously They Take Treatment
...y found. Those findings, Holzemer said, are key to eliminating biases among health careworkers who believe that particular HIV patients are less likely to follow theirtreatment and advice. Too often, he said, particular patients are put intocategories when they shouldn't be. "This shows that while people may mak...Magnetic Hearing Aid Could Open New "Window" For Hearing Impaired
...er advantage of the new magnetic hearing device is eliminating acousticfeedback, or the high-pitched "squeal." "Conventional hearing aids are essentially a microphone, an amplifier and aspeaker, very similar to the sound systems at concerts or a public speech," saidSpindel. And like those systems, he added, aco...Liver Rejection Can Be Managed Long-Term In Children Switched To Tacrolimus
...of the patients could be weaned off steroids, thus eliminating many of the side effectsspecific to children, such as stunted growth and puffy cheeks that give theappearance of a moon face. Fifty-eight percent were also able to be taken offantihypertensive medications. CONTACT: Dean Walters 412-692-6956 ...... 'targeted' T cells normally play acrucial role in eliminating virally infected or cancerous cells from the body. However, clinical development of adoptive immunotherapy has been hampered by theinability to expand targeted CTLs. The REM technology overcomes this hurdleand, as described in the publication, rapid...New Theory May Explain Ritalin Action In Hyperactivity
...ffect on hyperactivity or inattention in the mice, eliminating norepinephrineas the mechanism through which Ritalin was acting. Finally, the researchers administered fluoxetine, or Prozac -- which isknown to inhibit reuptake of serotonin in the synapse -- to the knockout mice. The drug caused a dramatic ...Morning Coffee Boosts Blood Pressure, Stress Hormones All Day
... Lane's next study will measure the effects of eliminating caffeine fromthe diets of people with high blood pressure. The goal is to see if stoppingcaffeine use can be a useful therapy in reducing hypertension, along with diet,exercise and salt reduction.......longer than Ritalin's, raising the possibility of eliminating a mid-daydose of ADHD medication in school, a requirement that is intrusive, potentiallystigmatizing and often results in poor compliance, Pelham said. Ritalin isabsorbed quickly, and its effects begin to diminish after three hours. Thisstudy was d...New Study Finds Blacks Face 38 Percent Higher Stroke Risk
CHAPEL HILL - After eliminating the influence of smoking, high bloodpressure, diabetes, education levels and existing heart disease, black Americansstill face a 38 percent higher risk of stroke than U.S. whites do, a large newstudy indicates. No one knows why. Before accoun...Sex And Survival: In Some Matters Of The Heart Women Have The Edge
...ith "end-stage," or classIV, heart failure. After eliminating patients for whom baseline characteristicswere not available, survival data on 331 men and 99 women were compared. Researchers compared groups that were similar in characteristics such asage, gender, race, weight, diabetes, duration of heart ...Magnet Therapy Eases Severe Depression, Double Blind Study Shows
...enter in Haifa. "The treatment holds the promiseof eliminating the need for ECT therapy in many cases." "It's a landmark work," said Dr. Mark George, professor of psychiatry atMedical University of South Carolina about the Technion research. His view wasseconded by Dr. Robert Berman, assistant professo...Knife-Less Brain 'Surgery' Offers New Treatment Options
...placed one at a time until the aneurysm is filled, eliminating the risk of bleeding. Because the technique has such a fast recovery time (two to three days), it is also gaining favor as an alternative to surgery in cases where either can be used. Research studies to compare the two procedures are just begin...Wistar scientist awarded American Cancer Society grant for research on tumor killing cells
...ty-based voluntary healthorganization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem bypreventing cancer, saving lives and diminishing suffering from cancer throughresearch, education, advocacy and service. Last year, the American CancerSociety contributed $93.3 million to research facilities through...Near-Sightedness In Children Linked To Light Exposure During Sleep Before Age Two
...Additional studies are needed to determine whether eliminating suchlight exposure during sleep in early childhood can affect the development ofthis common form of refractive error." Beyond its immediate clinical implications, the study also offers anovel explanation for the increasing prevalence of myopi......survive. Hormone therapy is a method ofreducing or eliminating a man's supply of testosterone to a prostate tumor. Onemethod of achieving this is by giving a man the female hormone, estrogen, whichcounters the effects of testosterone and shuts down the gland in a man's brainthat stimulates the testicles to produ...The 'Break Even' Cost Of Kidney Transplants Is Shrinking
...naverage of 10 to 7 days after the transplant, and eliminating the use ofexpensive anti-rejection drugs that were given intravenously in the hospitalfollowing the operation. Better oral anti-rejection medications are nowavailable which patients can take at home. In addition, the increased use ofliving donor kidn...New cancer treatment facility opens
...stem that containsall diagnostic images, virtually eliminating the need for traditional x-rayfilms. Patient care services at the new pavilion include: Gastrointestinal (includingsarcomas, cancers of the liver, stomach, and intestine); Genitourinary (including prostate, bladder, and testicular cancers); Gynecolo......digital copy of the entire heart in a single beat, eliminating the current,sometimes lengthy process needed to capture the precise image required fordiagnosis in two-dimensional echocardiography. Even after the patient has leftthe laboratory, physicians can access and analyze the exact part of the patientsheart...12-year-old Oregon girl is first child to receive new bone growth material in her skull
... This surgery will help get her one step closer to eliminating theneed to wear a bright pink bike helmet to school in order to protect the softtissue of her skull where holes in the bone have formed. Physicians at Oregon Health Sciences University's Doernbecher Children'sHospital will apply bone morphogenic pro...... partner who snores loudly. "Our study found that eliminating a patient's snoring and obstructive sleepapnea -- breathing that stops and starts during sleep -- significantly increasedbed partners quality and quantity of sleep," says John Shepard, M.D., medicaldirector of the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorders Center a...