Substance from Grapefruit Juice May Make Medications Safer
...roduce a drug for which a standard dosage would be equally effective in everyone. What should people who regularly take drugs that are metabolized by CYP3A4 do? "Consistency is the key," Dr. Lown says. "If you regularly drink grapefruit juice, don't change. If you are on these drugs and don't normally ta...Survey Finds Increasing Popularity Of Acute Stroke Teams In U.S. Hospitals
...of similar teams tohelp patients suffering from an equally deadly problem -- stroke -- is only anemerging phenomenon. It is also a trend that should have started years earlier, according toa Duke University Medical Center neurologist. "It only makes sense for a team to respond just as quickly......ne-act indifferent ways in the human body and were equally effective in loweringpatients' blood glucose levels," explains Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D.,professor of medicine (endocrinology) and of cellular and molecular physiologyat Yale and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "Thecom...Widely Used Therapy May Not Be Effective In Treatment Of Acute Stroke
...the anticoagulant group and both groups were doing equally well. About 75 percent of patients in each group experienced a positive outcome at 3 months, a higher rate than that reported in other similar stroke trials. Patients reached a good outcome if they received a good score on two scales: a score of I o...Powerful AIDS Drugs May Promote Heart Disease
...drugs, which may beavailable this fall, will prove equally effective in controlling the AIDS virusbut without the undesirable side effects on fat metabolism. Media Contacts: News Bureau: Carol Cruzan Morton, 401-863-2476, carol_morton@brown.edu Krista Dong, 716-453-9991, woodil@aol.com Charles Carpenter...Drug Reduces Heart Attack, Death Rates In Patients With Unstable Angina
... United States between the genders.Both benefitted equally from the drug. In addition, a laboratory sub-study ofplatelet response to the drug showed a similar biological response in men andwomen. The researchers hypothesize the geographic differences are due to thewidely divergent clinical practices ...Human Patient Simulator Assists Training Physicians In New Drug
...five to 10 minutes. The drug's side effects appear equally quickly. "This is an excellent drug, but because it is so potent, this trainingwas very valuable for the physicians," says Murray, also an anesthesiologist atHershey Medical Center of the Penn State Geisinger Health System. "If you...So Near And Yet So Far. . . FDA Approves Laser Vision Correction For Farsightedness
... patients in the Cedars-Sinai trial, together with equally positive results in6 other regional trial centers, led to the FDA approval for the VISX systems. "It is exciting to me that farsighted people will now be able to see clearly,"Dr. Salz said. "The clinical results that I've experienced with the VISX S...Soy May Decrease Cancer Risks, Wake Forest Researcher Says
...n." Cline said not all women would benefit equally from consuming estrogensin the soy, because of individual differences both in how the soy estrogen ismetabolized and in the woman's ability to respond to the estrogen. "The benefit of soy phytoestrogens is clearer for dietary exposuresearly i...Forecasting Killer Heat: UD Systems Predict Deadly Weather Worldwide
..., and Washington, D.C. Ifthe Italian system proves equally effective, Kalkstein says, warning systems maybe launched in Shanghai, China, and elsewhere. "In my opinion, heat is a leading cause of weather-related mortality, which maydirectly cause more deaths each year than lightning, tornadoes or hurricanes,"......or 12 percent of the children. Sixteenpercent did equally well on either medication. Both medications had minimal side effects at low doses. The trial was funded by Shire Laboratories, makers of Adderall....Study Shows Dermatologists Are Best At Removing Skin Cancers
...ng into this that surgeons and dermatologists were equally effectivein their cure rates." Given the findings, the investigators have initiated efforts to conducta broader study to confirm the results. The study took into account the relative skill of individual physicians.It also looked to se......e case, however - men and women consistently score equally onintelligence tests. For neuroscientists, this paradox has long presented apuzzle. If head size correlates with intelligence, and women have smaller heads,why don't they have lower intelligence? Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania ...National Survey: Leg Crossing Is Taboo But Women Indulge Anyway
...hoose to cross at the knee (51percent) but men are equally likely to cross at the knee or at the ankles (both31 percent), the survey showed. In terms of body language, leg crossing speaks volumes. Most women (59 percent)and men (65 percent) say they believe leg crossing is a method of flirting forwom...NIH study to evaluate role of MRI in emergency diagnosis of heart attack & stroke
...ardiac patients. The timing of stroke diagnosis is equally critical. "The new MRI technologywill allow us to immediately see the stroke as it is occurring in the brain,while the damage is potentially reversible," said Dr. Gerald Fischbach, Directorof the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stro......ng the endothelial cells. Both ACE inhibitors were equally effective in blocking the activation ofangiotensin in the bloodstream. However, it may be that quinaprilat has a muchgreater attraction for cells that bind angiotensin than does captopril. If so,quinaprilat would be more effective in raising nitric......macy benefit to encouragethe use of lower cost but equally effective and safe drugs," said Barrett Toan,chief executive officer of Express Scripts. For consumers, the cost increases mean they will pay a bigger share of theexpense in the form of higher copayments ranging from $5 for generic drugs to$25 or ...Mitral valve prolapse less common, less harmful than previously thought
...women, theresearchers found that men and women are equally likely to have the condition. "This is very compelling information," said Dr. Claude Lenfant, Directorof the NHLBI, "It may mean people who have been diagnosed with mitral valveprolapse should consult their physician to discuss their health s...Correlation between brain shrinkage and education found
...loss or other problems with thinking.Education was equally effective for men and women in buffering their brainsagainst memory loss. "While we know education helps to preserve memory and thinking in the face ofbrain aging, additional research is needed to determine the mechanism by whicheducation may be rel...Dartmouth researchers urge caution in communicating results to public
... exposediscriminatory practice in medicine. It is equally important not to exaggeratethe prevalence of such practice," they add. The confusion surrounding the results points to underlying problems in howmedical research results are communicated to the public. Misleadinginterpretations could have been avoid...