New data show SPIRIVA significantly reduces COPD exacerbations and related health resource burden
...g was observed compared to placebo: Significantly fewer unscheduled physician visits and phone calls to ph...atient per year (-27%, p>0.05) Significantly fewer patients required additional respiratory medications for their exacerbations (30.5% vs 42.5%, p Sig...NJIT business incubator helps start-up companies move out of the lab and into the marketplace
...en to for-profit New Jersey enterprises, operating fewer than four years, which offer new technologies and are likely to benefit from the EDC's three-year tenancies. With some 45 companies in residence, EDC's goal is to reduce risk for fledgling entrepreneurs, ultimately creating businesses that will gener...Riverbank filtration pulls pollutants from drinking water
...es that with riverbank filtration, we wind up with fewer of these dangerous disinfection byproducts in the drinking water." Bouwer added, "Riverbank filtration doesn't completely eliminate the need for water treatment. But it should lower the treatment costs and reduce the risks of mixing chlorine with the...Blueberry compound shows promise of lowering cholesterol as effectively as drug
...ely as a commercial drug and has the potential for fewer side effects, according to a researcher with the U...ich targets a specific receptor, is likely to have fewer side effects, Rimando says, adding that the compound did not show any signs of cell toxicity in prel...Chemists honor 'Heroes' for biotechnology achievements in health
...ither therapy alone. Mylotarg has substantially fewer side effects than standard chemotherapy. The 3M award winners: John F. Gerster, Ph.D., retired in 1999 as a corporate scientist at 3M, but continues to consult for the company on a part-time basis. He received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Ariz...VA beats managed care for diabetes, study finds
... half having blood pressure levels 140/90 and even fewer below the stricter recommended levels. Beginning i...d care organizations are working individually with fewer resources and often must implement change one step at a time. In addition to Kerr and Mangione, stud...GSK'S Requip(R) (ropinirole HCl) significantly reduces periodic leg movements in patients with RLS
...h periodic leg movements during sleep (PLMS), have fewer awakenings resulting from involuntary kicks when t...tions in the number of leg movements, resulting in fewer awakenings from sleep." PLMS are involuntary movements of the legs during sleep and are a feature se...Getting relief from pain can be shocking
...g SCS therapy visit hospitals less frequently, use fewer narcotics and opiates, and lead more healthy and active lifestyles. [2] While technology has helped to improve the SCS devices and make them more flexible, it has challenged researchers and medical engineers to develop an adaptable system with an in...Lower drug prices could eliminate coverage gap in Medicare prescription drug plan
... are lowered. However, the trade-off could be that fewer new drugs would be introduced into the market because drug companies wouldn't be able to afford as much biomedical research." The researchers compared the average wholesale price of 30 drugs from the United States that are also sold in other c...Siblings help children get along with others in kindergarten
... unexplored," he said. "People are growing up with fewer siblings as our families get smaller. It's worthwhile to ask what the societal implications of this change are." Downey noted that his previous research showed a positive impact of smaller family sizes. That research showed school achieveme...New Investigator Award presented at the 2004 AIUM Annual Convention
...fellow, faculty member, or sonographer in practice fewer than 5 years) who presents the best scientific abstract. Mr. Wu, along with the 5 other nominees, presented his abstract on Tuesday, June 22, and the winner was announced later that evening at the AIUM Board of Governors banquet. The names o...Naltrexone injections for alcohol dependence: once-a-month treatment helps maintain sobriety
...form of naltrexone. Recipients had significantly fewer drinking days and a greater likelihood of total ab...ng-acting formulation of naltrexone: significantly fewer drinking days and a greater likelihood of total abstinence during the three-month study period. "...Hospital standards for high-risk surgeries save lives
...en heart surgery alone would result in about 4,000 fewer deaths, and procedures such as angioplasty would see another 3,000 fewer deaths if all patients were treated at hospitals meeting these standards, according to the study. Re...Lifesaving potential of mammograms lost due to underuse
...well as women from lower economic status receiving fewer mammograms. Having regular mammograms was clearly found to reduce the risk of death from breast cancer. Among women who were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, women who had prompt annual mammograms have a lower risk of death (11.97 percent) than...Handwashing program decreases incidence of diarrhea among children in Pakistan
...andwashing promotion and plain soap had 39 percent fewer days with diarrhea vs. infants living in control n...andwashing promotion and plain soap had 42 percent fewer days with diarrhea vs. severely malnourished children in the control group," the authors write. The ...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, June 1, 2004
...but started taking statins in the hospital had far fewer deaths than those who never took statins. An editorial writer raised cautions about using observational studies to determine the effectiveness of medical therapies. In this study, physicians may have been more likely to start or continue statin thera...Mouse study could aid vaccine designers
...most strongly stimulate cross-priming. Conversely, fewer peptides should mean less cross-priming. To test this prediction, Dr. Yewdell and his colleagues created virus-infected cells that were genetically or chemically prevented from producing peptides and injected those cells into mice. They found the opp...More than one-third of US adults use complementary and alternative medicine
...s of CAM use to date, the various surveys included fewer choices of CAM therapies. In addition, they often surveyed smaller population samples primarily relying on telephone or mail surveys versus in-person interviews used for this survey. Thus, the results from the CAM portion of the NHIS provide the most...Aspirin use associated with reduced risk of breast cancer
...isk]. The results for ibuprofen, which was used by fewer women on a regular basis, were generally weaker [22 percent lower risk for less than 3 times per week vs. 8 percent lower risk for 3 times or more per week]. Use of acetaminophen, an analgesic that does not inhibit prostaglandin synthesis, was not as...... pain medications, the study said, they were given fewer drugs, on average, than white patients. The study offers a glimpse into the problem of racism in this country's health care system, Kposowa said from his office at UC Riverside. "If it is clear from something as simple as this, what is the larger pi...