Stents Work Well, But Are Costly: Will Hospitals Continue To Use Them?
...suggest thatthe repeat procedure rate will need to fall to around 9 percent, Mark said."Ongoing trials including the latest stent technology will help definehow close doctors have come to achieving this level of effectiveness,"he said....ACTG 315 Preliminary Results: Drug Cocktail Restores Partial Immune Function
... data show that the dramatic risein CD4 counts and fall in plasma levels of virus seen early afterstarting HAART are accompanied by partial restoration of the immuneresponse. It remains to be seen after further treatment, saysDr. Lederman, if prolonged virus suppression results in greaterrestoration of i...3D Ultrasound Gives Better View Of Brain's Arteries
...oval is pending and will probably occur during the fall of 1997.) When analyzing the 3D images of transcranial ultrasound from 20patients, Delcker and his colleagues found two things: First, identification of intracranial arteries significantly improvedafter the patients received an intra...Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory collaborates with USDA in development of pasteurization process
...oject. The work is scheduled to begin at ERRC this fall and conclude about six months later. The PPPL team will assist the ERRC researchers in equipping their facility with the necessary RF power source, as well as providing the expertise to enable the measurement of power deposited, power launched, and l...Setting Prescribing Budgets In General Practice
...within which a practice's prescribing costs should fall and calls for a pilot study to test the feasibility of such a notion. Contact: Dr Azeem Majeed, Senior Lecturer in General Practice, Division of General Practice and Primary Care, St George's Hospital Medical School, London a.majeed@sghms.ac.uk Dr...Drug Is First In Decade To Show Promise Treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder
...more gradually. Current therapies for GAD fall into two drug groups: sedatives calledbenzodiazepines, including Valium and Xanax; and buspirone. Davidson said bothdrug categories have serious limitations. While sedatives help reduce symptoms, they can cause physiologicdependence leading ...UB Plants "Seeds" By Investing In Research Projects; Researchers Leverage Investment 14 Times Over
...eep spending just on existing R&D projects, you'll fall behind." Landi noted that investments in new projects often take years to bring in a payoff. "In the research business, what you do or don't do this year, has an impact three to five years from now," he said. He noted, for example, that Lockwood and...Polish Dumpling-Like Particle Has Potential In Drug Delivery
...ed or subjected to force in a system, they tend to fall apart. Knedels, on the other hand, assemble and b...oped new degradable polymers that they can time to fall apart in water anywhere from a few minutes to a few months. Adding this feature to a drug-bearing k...Modafinil Improves The Quality Of Life Of Narcolepsy Patients
...timesleepiness. People who suffer from narcolepsy fall asleep when least expected: during an exam, during a business meeting, or while eating, playing sports ordriving. Many patients are never fully alert and cannot function normally. Thedisorder can take an emotional toll on its victims who are often ......ary occlusion. Finally, the treatment also causeda fall in the concentration of fibrinogen and CRP (C-reactive protein), twoother risk factors for coronary occlusion. Thus, in addition to their well known lipid-lowering activity, fibrates alsohave an anti-inflammatory action. This suggests that fibrates ...Three INEEL Inventions Win International Recognition
...orating their achievementat an awards banquet this fall at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. Anarticle on the winners will appear in R&D Magazine. --INEEL-- Media Advisory for Wednesday, July 8:The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory is planning a pressconference on Wednesday,...Parenting CD-ROM Helps Reduce Children's Behavioral Problems
..." several years ago and converted to CD-ROM in the fall of 1997. After itsinception, Gordon worked with Ohio University's Innovation Center to foundFamily Works, a company created to market the CD-ROM, which sells for $900. Sofar, all proceeds from sales of the product have been used to fund graduateresea...'Mutual Insurance Pool' Could Improve Transplant Organ Shortage
...rogram. In an article to be published this fall in the Journal of HealthPolitics, Policy and Law, SFU business professors Aidan Vining and RichardSchwindt are selling the idea of a "mutual insurance pool" as an alternativeincentive program to their proposed future delivery market for organs, which...UCSF Study In Rats Suggests Synthetic Drug Mimicking Marijuana Might Be Used To Treat Pain
...ced on a rod and the time that it takes forthem to fall off is measured. Rats that received WIN55, 212-2 showed a severeloss of motor coordination. However, after the RVN was shut down, a conditionthat reversed the analgesic effects, rats continued to show a loss of motorcoordination. "This experiment d...Study Ties Cerebral Palsy To Inflammation And Blood-Clotting Abnormalities
... after birth, which normally cause arapid rise and fall of inflammatory cytokines, says Dr. Nelson. It is not yet clear how elevated levels of cytokines might increase the risk ofCP. "These cell signaling factors are usually found only in very small amountsin the blood. What they are doing in relatively...Physicians Slow To Adopt Newer Drugs For Atrial Fibrillation
...ons, which directly address heart rhythm problems, fall into twocategories: rate control medications, which slow the irregular heartbeat, andsinus rhythm medications, which attempt to restore normal heart rhythm. The research team used data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveyfrom 1980 to 1...Women With Cancer Want More Control
... The book focuses on four groups of therapies that fall into two groups:nutritional and metabolic: dietary, supplements (antioxidants, cartilage, soyproducts), nontoxic immunotherapies (bacterial vaccines, laetrile,anti-neoplastons), and herbal (hoxsey formula, essiac tea). The interviewees call for righ...New Surgery At Cedars-Sinai Provides Hope For Epilepsy Patient Who Has Had A Lifetime Of Seizures
...t unable to speak. "I've beenfortunate -- I didn't fall down on the floor or tear my clothes off oranything." But there have been some close calls and frightening moments. Whenthe seizures started up in high school, her sister awoke to find blood comingfrom Mary Kate's mouth. The paramedics were called. ...Cervical Screening Has Reduced Incidence And Mortality From Cervical Cancer
...ths in 1950 to 1,800 deaths in 1987). The rate of fall then trebled and by 1997 the number of deaths was 1,150. These deaths represented two per cent of all cancer deaths in women and 0.4 per cent of all deaths in women say the authors. Quinn et al also report that screening might have prevented 800 de...