Protecting children from industrial chemicals in the environment
...e the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has entered into an agreement with the American Chemistry Council, the chemical manufacturer's trade association, to provide basic toxicity screening tests for the high-production chemicals, this agreement is voluntary. The European Commission recently propo...Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
...e accepted the duty of caring for patients when we entered medicine, and we must continue to practice with professional attitudes and behaviors no matter what the pressures we face. I believe strongly that we can address our share of the crisis in health care today by returning and holding fast to these lon...US attempting to flout ethical practice for patient trials abroad
...at: "At the conclusion of the study, every patient entered into the study should be assured of access to the best proven prophylactic, diagnostic and therapeutic methods identified in the study" and places some limits on the use of placebos in developing country studies. Current FDA regulations require studi...Implanted devices detect high-risk heart failure patients
...at data that can be downloaded from the device and entered into a computer. One use of the data in this trial was to create a "footprint," or visual representation, of a patient's heart rate variability over time. Patients with a footprint of 30 percent or less in heart rate variability were almost two-and-h...Older women can benefit from chemotherapy to treat breast cancer
...is the observation that only 8 percent of patients entered in the trials analyzed in this study were aged 65 years or older; about 50 percent of new breast cancer diagnoses occur in women in the older age group." In conclusion the authors write, "the data from this study should help to encourage clinicians ...Study finds new designer drug is potent treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
...s were minimal. Synthesized in August 2002, AMN107 entered early Phase I clinical studies in May 2004 21 months later. Data presented last December at the American Society of Hematology showed that AMN107 had demonstrated significant clinical activity in the most challenging setting: Gleevec resistant accel...Johns Hopkins scientists receive presidential medals
...ton, D.C., where he was also educated. In 1955, he entered Georgetown in a premedical program. After being admitted to Georgetown Medical School in 1958 without a bachelor's degree, Snyder earned an M.D. in 1962 at age 23. From 1963 to 1965, Snyder was a research associate at the National Institute of Mental...Routine HIV screening should be expanded, study finds
...nts who were unaware of their HIV status when they entered the health care system, whether at a hospital, clinic, routine medical or emergency room visit. The model then calculated the incremental costs and benefits across the lifetime of typical patients. As a part of their analysis, the researchers assesse...Scents and emotions linked by learning, Brown study shows
...domly assigned into groups. The experimental group entered a room where the new scent was dispersed in the ai...ts as both unfamiliar and pleasant. Then one group entered a scented room and played a computer card game designed to be frustrating. The sound effects were an...Tobacco-company-sponsored parties with free cigarettes may encourage students to start smoking
...smoking behavior was strongest on students who had entered college as nonsmokers. Of the 8,482 students (78 percent) who did not smoke regularly before age 19, the current smoking prevalence rate was 23.7 percent among those who had attended a promotional event compared with 11.8 percent among those who had...Cumulative trauma in adulthood can worsen health in later years
...s. Those born before 1919 (the oldest old) who entered adulthood during the Great Depression a time of great insecurity may be similar to the youngest group as far as being more vulnerable to traumatic events. This group was likely to be more afraid of taking risks because of growing up in an economic ...Chemical cousin of anti-anxiety drugs holds promise for psoriasis treatment
...eutics, Inc. (a subsidiary of GMP Companies, Inc.) entered into an exclusive patent license and a sponsored research agreement with the University of Michigan to develop Bz-423 and other compounds for treatment of lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and some forms of cancer. Glick and collaborators at U-M...Humble Planaria worm offers ideal model for drug withdrawal research
...ch over the next couple of years. Before Raffa entered academia, he was a scientist at Johnson & Johnson, where he conducted important work on the analgesic drug Tramadol. Today, he continues to study analgesics, with a current project looking at how acetaminophen produces its effects. Through pharmacolo...Rutgers-developed biomaterial drives a technology transfer story toward success
...nt company, announced on Nov. 16, 2004 that it had entered into a strategic alliance with REVA Medical. This alliance included a significant investment in REVA Medical. "We regard REVA's relationship with Boston Scientific as a pivotal chapter in our technology transfer initiative," said Kohn, Board of G...Drug-eluting stents adopted quickly, with early disparities
...the results of 162,969 angioplasty procedures were entered into the registry, with 83 percent of them involving the placement of a stent. "During that period, 35 percent of all angioplasties involved the placement of drug-eluting stent," Rao said. "The growth from quarter to quarter was dramatic, rising from...Heart surgery patients receive less aggressive discharge care
...d bypass surgery. Of the more than 64,000 patients entered into the registry from those hospitals since 2002, 33,316 received one of the procedures. One-quarter of those 33,316 patients received bypass surgery. The gaps between the usage of aspirin, a commonly prescribed blood thinner, and beta-bl...$2.8 million public-private partnership to examine how surroundings can encourage active lifestyles
...ysical activity. For these reasons, the NIEHS has entered into a collaborative relationship with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to evaluate how environmental interventions impact individual weight management. One practical intervention is to modify the environmental contributors responsible for the maj...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for November 2004 (first issue)
...ge, about 3 percent of the patients who repeatedly entered intensive care accounted for 23 percent of the hospitalizations, totaling over $3 billion in costs. The investigator analyzed the records of 1,108,060 Medicare beneficiaries. These persons were at least 60 years of age, and newly diagnosed with ser...Combination therapy, not medication alone, most effective for treating children with OCD
...aline alone, and more patients receiving CBT alone entered remission than did those receiving sertraline alone (39.3 percent vs. 21.4 percent, respectively), though these differences did not reach statistical significance. Thus, we conclude that children and adolescents with OCD should begin treatment with C...Advances in understanding brain circuits responsible for tics in Tourette's shed light on disorder
... of 14 predicted their outcome years later as they entered adulthood. Based on the earlier studies, they predicted that caudate volumes would influence the course of the disorder. "We found that the volume of the caudate nucleus and adjacent structures in the subgenual region, which includes areas of the ve...