National Office Of Drug Safety Is Needed, Experts Say In JAMA
... Some adverse reactions are disguised because an event might naturally beexpected with the disease being treated. For example, it was hard to detect thatflecainide -- a drug given for life-threatening ventricular tachycardia orfibrillation -- itself caused cardiac arrest. Monitor the effective...Products For Weight Loss Or Increased Energy Can Be Deadly, Warn Poison Control Experts
...eral Hospital. The statewide number to call in the event of a poison emergency is1-800-876-4766 (1-800-8-POISON).......ng theInternational Index of Erectile Function, an event log of erectile activity, andend of treatment questions. The investigators measured Quality of Life throughendpoints based on questions at the start of treatment and at 12 weeks. Overall, a segment of men tested with better mental and physical healt...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
...inthe field, this is potentially the most damaging event to our society caused bytobacco abuse." Slotkin hopes the media will give tobacco its proper attention as asubstance hazardous to children, both unborn and born. "I certainly don't want to downplay the risk of cocaine, but tremendousp...Three INEEL Inventions Win International Recognition
...is importantrecognition. This is a major good news event for the researchers at the INEEL.We hope you will be able to attend this press conference....Study Captures Images Of Memories Being Formed Within The Human Brain
...y, the splitsecond when the human brain encodes an event for future reference, has beencaptured through sophisticated neuroimaging and used to predict accuratelywhether a specific experience will later be remembered or forgotten, accordingto research published in the Aug. 21 issue of the journal Science. ...Serious Crime Victims Risk PTSD, Multiple Disorders
...oused and leads them to reexperience the traumatic event repeatedly. Crimevictims were also more likely to develop depression, agoraphobia, obsessivecompulsive disorder, and social phobia, the researchers found. The relationship between being a crime victim and development of theseother mental dis...Substance Discovered That Induces Hair Follicle Formation In The Mature Skin Cells Of Mice
...f mice. Follicle formation is a once-in-a-lifetime event that ordinarily happens only during early embryogenesis. Their findings, reported in the November 25 issue of Cell, indicate that a molecule called beta-catenin may be the long sought message that instructs embryonic cells to become hair follicles, ...AAPS Sponsors Second Frontier Symposium
...titutes of Health (NIDDK, NIH). The goals of this event are to foster interaction among scientists withinterests in structure, physiology, genetics/genomics, and pharmaceuticalaspects of membrane transporters, and determine the role of transporters in drugdiscovery, development and therapy. For more infor...Growing Younger By Keeping Up Regular Physical Activity
...ease can reduce their risk of death from a cardiac event by 20 to 25 percentif they exercise, and even lower the severity of some risk factors for heartattacks, such as hypertension, obesity, high cholesterol and diabetes. A sedentary lifestyle also increases the risk for hip fractures, theysay. I...WHO Director-General To Speak On Tobacco, WHO Reform
...American States. The second is a Morning Newsmaker event on Friday, March 19 at the NationalPress Club on the World Health Organization's reform process and the impact ofU.S. payment policy. Below are details of the events: Thursday, March 18, 1999, 9:15 a.m., Hall of the Americas, Organization ofAmerican...Breast-Feeding Hormone Lowers Nursing Moms' Blood Pressure
...task, but less evidence of stress anticipating the event orrecovering after it. Through their questionnaires, high oxytocin-respondingmothers also seemed to have less hostile feelings and more positive mood andinterpersonal interactions." The lower blood pressure seen in the laboratory part of the study co......public on Saturday afternoon. The speakers for the event include: Ivor Benjamin, M.D., co-Editor-in-Chief of OncoLink, one of the country's mostrespected Web sites for cancer information; Robert A. Weinberg, Ph.D., Member of the Whitehead Institute and winner of the1997 National Medal of Science; Br...Hardening Of The Aorta Increases The Risk Of Stroke
...p period. In all, the risk of a neurologic event or death increased one and a halftimes as the severity of the atherosclerosis increased from normal or mild tomoderate. And there was more than a 300 percent increase in the incidence ofboth as the severity of disease progressed from normal or mild t...NASA Uses EAI Software In Groundbreaking Medical Application
...aborative Clinic,' will beshowcased during a press event on May 4th at the NASA Ames ResearchCenterat Moffett Field, in Sunnyvale, California. The event will begin at9:30a.m. Pacific Standard Time. "Within two days, we had integrated the World2World sys......ned that LEUKINE increased themedian time to first event by 41 days in both cohorts. Further, the incidenceof these events was lower in the LEUKINE group (67 percent) as compared to theplacebo group (78 percent). The Phase III study also found that patients in both cohorts treatedwith LEU...Adolescents And Risk-Taking: A 'Very Likely' Danger May Not Mean The Same To A Teen As To An Adult
...appen" as meaning there was a 97 percentchance the event would occur. Ninth graders and seventh graders thought thechance was not so high - 86 and 81 percent, respectively. Fifth graders rated"will definitely happen" as having only a 69 percent likelihood of occurring.There also was a large range of interp...Stress Speeds Progression To AIDS
...ul life events -equivalent to one severe stressful event or two moderate stressful events - therisk of AIDS... equation together," Leserman says. "The stressful event andsocial support variables seemed to be more robust in relation to progression toAIDS." If there is...ENBREL (Etanercept) Receives FDA Approval For Treatment Of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
...exception of injection site reactions, the adverse event rate over time wassimilar for patients receiving ENBREL or placebo. In children, infections (62percent), headache (19 percent), abdominal pain (19 percent), vomiting (13percent) and nausea (9 percent) occurred more frequently than in adults. Thetyp...... treat such people before a first life-threatening event occurs. "Because sudden cardiac death continues to claim 250,000 people each year in the United States alone, more people at risk need to be identified and treated, especially now that we have such compelling data on the efficacy of internal defibril...