Breakthrough New Therapy Uses Antibody-Targeted Chemotherapy To Fight Leukemia
...e II trial in the U.S.,which involves patients who experienced a relapse following initial AMLchemotherapy. CMA-676 given alone appears to produce remission among 36 percentof patients- a rate comparable to that of standard combination chemotherapyregimens. The data also indicate that CMA-676 has several impor...Treatment-Resistant Depression: Results of Latest Electromagnetic Stimulation Study Show Promise
...pped out of the study and eightpercent of patients experienced a posttreatment headache. The mean age of patients treated was 52 years. " rTMS seems mostpromising for older adults and for treatment-resistant patients withdepression," says Dr. McDonald, who directs the Fuqua Center for Late-LifeDepression......, seventy-five percent of the men in the UCSFstudy experienced more than a 50 percent decline in their PSA levels. Men in thestudy include those who had never received hormonal therapy before(hormone-nave) and patients with hormone-resistant prostate cancer, whosetumors no longer responded to hormonal therapies....Cholesterol Carriers Better Predictors Than Cholesterol For Second Heart Attack
...other blood factorsin 1,045 people who had already experienced recurrent heart attack. Eighty-oneof these individuals had a second heart attack and 25 of them died. Among thepatients studied, only the three proteins -- apo A-I, apo B, and D-dimer -- wereassociated with an increased risk of heart attack. A dir...Testosterone Is Mixed Blessing To Men's Health
...high bloodpressure, 72 percent less likely to have experienced a heart attack, 8 percentless likely to have 3 or more colds in a year, and 45 percent less likely torate their health as fair or poor. On the negative side, men at the higher level were 25 percent morelikely to report one or more injuries, ...DDW Studies Present Evidence That Thalomid (Thalidomide) Is Active In Treating Crohn's Disease
..., two-thirds of the patients treated with THALOMID experienced a"significant improvement in their condition," as measured by the Crohn's DiseaseActivity Index (CDAI). The most common side effects reported were drowsinessand transient peripheral neuropathy. Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG) Corporation'sTHALOMID (thalidom...Impulsive Children More Prone To Injuries
...heir physical abilities as six yearolds. They also experienced more injuries requiring medical attentioncompared ...mate their physical abilities at agesix. They also experienced more injuries requiring medical attention. Thepicture was reversed for those who scored low on extra...Quality Parenting Helps Kids Cope With Inner-City Stress
...ales by their parents andteachers - despite having experienced four or more traumatic events orcircumstances, such as the death of a family member, family alcoholproblems, or neighborhood violence. The remaining students (74) were judged poorly adjusted by their parents andteachers. More than half of the studen...Stress Patterns In Adolescence Differ Between Boys And Girls
... symptoms of depression andanxiety. Girls and boys experienced about the same levels of stress, which tended toincrease with age. Adolescent girls experienced higher levels of stress relatedto their relationships with their parents, friends, or teachers than ...ENBREL (Etanercept) Receives FDA Approval For Treatment Of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
...o. Only six of the 25 patients remaining onENBREL experienced a disease flare (24 percent) compared to 20 of 26 of placebopatients who experienced a disease flare (77 percent). ENBREL acts by binding tumor necrosis factor (TNF). TNF is on...Angina sufferers find significant relief with noninvasive technique
...nhanced external counterpulsation (EECP), patients experienced less frequentangina pain and had less need for nitroglycerin to control pain than did acontrol group of angina patients. The results are published in the June issue of the Journal of the AmericanCollege of Cardiology. Nationally, about 15 million peo...Plant oils reduce levels of 'bad' cholesterol
...e-fat diet, including aspecific type of plant oil, experienced 25% reductions in LDL, or "bad,"cholesterol....Immunex Files Supplemental NDA for NOVANTRONE
...pped, patients who had beentreated with NOVANTRONE experienced a sustained reduction in their number ofattacks, and delay in their disability progression, compared to patients treatedwith placebo. In the study, treatment with NOVANTRONE resulted in generally manageableside effects that were primarily mil...Study links body image to athletes' fertility
...ked. The results showed that athletes who experienced irregular menstrualperiods also had a poorer body image and more excessive exercise schedules thanthe non-athletes. "Anxiety over body image as a manifestation of psychological stress hasbeen related previously to eating disorders in non-athl...Early warning signs of violence often overlooked, study finds
...ne?"Hazler says. "It's difficult for even the most experienced professionals tofigure out for any individual situation whether to take strong action or to letthe kids settle it themselves." Labeling all playground clashes as bullying behavior is a commonmistake, Hazler says. But in fact, bullying is def...Patient complaints may be harmful to GPs' health and practice
...t them. They found that the doctors they studied experienced feelings of shock, panic and a sense of being out ... began to doubt their own clinical competence and experienced conflicts with their families and colleagues, say the authors. This led to many doctors practicing ...No link between oral contraceptives and myocardial infarction
... 2176 aged between 16 and 44 years of whom 448 had experienced a myocardial infarction. Of these women 87 per cent had not been taking any oral contraceptives but 88 per cent had one or more known cardiovascular risk factors. The authors also found that there was no evidence of a difference between second and ......om diminished sexual function, found that thewomen experienced improvements in their sexual function and psychologicalwell-being when small amounts of testosterone were administered with anexperimental skin patch. The patch, which was used in combination with standardestrogen therapy, was an alcohol-free matrix ......ourteen of the 15 individuals taking the high dose experienced adecrease in memory performance after four days of...example, if a student studying for a test has just experienced a major traumasuch as a death in the family, he or she might not be as efficient at learningnew mate......rent treatments. Sixtyfour percent of these women experienced bone mass restored to itspre-osteoporosis levels. There were 26 women in the group that received both parathryroid hormoneand estrogen, and 32 in the placebo group, which received only estrogen. This is the first randomized, placebo-controll...