Promising results for malaria vaccine trial
...compared with children given control vaccines; 58% fewer children developed severe malaria. In the second cohort, vaccine efficacy for extending time to first infection was 45%. Professor Alonso comments: "Our results indicate the feasibility of development of an effective vaccine against malaria. They al...Scientists find new clues underlying mood disorders
...isms are impaired so that more specific drugs with fewer side effects can be developed, according to Jones. "Targeted therapeutics made possible by these new technological approaches offer the dream of 'personalized medicine,' in which knowing each person's genetic make-up can help determine how h...UMHS researchers help hone use of substance to improve lung function in premature infants
... immediately after receiving it, but they required fewer doses than the babies treated with Survanta. Because these medications are extremely expensive, there's a substantial cost savings when we use less," Donn says. The study appears in the October issue of the Journal of Perinatology . Respiratory dist...Summa study finds portion control induces greatest weight loss
... "The message in the study is that you have to eat fewer calories and/or burn more calories if you want to ...t cuts. However, there are multiple ways of eating fewer calories and/or burning more calories. The trick is to find a way of eating and exercising that work...U-M professor to test flu shot and nasal spray flu vaccine side by side
...le who get the nasal spray sometimes might develop fewer antibodies---the body's front-line warriors called up for duty in the presence of a threat---than people who get the shot, but they might still be protected. What he doesn't understand yet is whether other substances developed in response to th...New way of controlling cholesterol may help treat Alzheimer's
...do not affect secretases, ACAT inhibitors may have fewer side effects." Kovacs is an assistant professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. ...Flu crisis need not cost lives
...ing of the US's flu vaccine supply, there could be fewer deaths than normal this winter if people follow of...et vaccinated as a result, there could actually be fewer flu deaths this winter. A lot will depend on how virulent this season's flu strain turns out to be. ...Interactive breathing device found effective in lowering high systolic blood pressure
October 12, 2004 With fewer than 1 in 3 Americans with hypertension successfully controlling his or her blood pressure, medication, diet and exercise might not be enough. Now, a promising new non-drug treatment offers an additional approach. High blood pressure was significant...New system translates improved diagnostic information to target radiation at tumors
...te of recurrence should be lower and there will be fewer complications affecting the normal tissue. Patients should also experience fewer side effects from the treatment." Information on the work, "Combined Modality Treatment Advances...Immune therapy appears to reduce risk of second attack of multiple sclerosis symptoms
...lacebo group. Patients in the IVIg group also had fewer brain lesions as seen on MRIs. "Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment for the first year from onset of the first neurological event suggestive of demyelinative disease significantly lowers the incidence of a second attack and reduces disease activity ...Hunt for autism genes to be led by Hopkins researchers
...might stem in part from "dose defects" -- extra or fewer copies of genes that arise because sections of chr...uman disease genes have tended to look at 1,000 or fewer markers because no one was sure they'd be able to make sense of the results of bigger studies. "Now...Botox could play a key role in pain control during breast reconstruction
...spital stay reduced by one day, and required three fewer physician visits than the control group to achieve the targeted tissue expansion before placing the breast implant. "Many general surgeons could clearly see the relief my patients received when I administered Botox to the affected muscles," said D...Child heart deaths at Bristol fall below national average
...e. The fall in mortality did not seem to be due to fewer high risk procedures or an increase in the numbers of low risk cases. Mortality at Bristol has fallen markedly after the changes there, say the authors. Nationally, mortality has also fallen. "Improved quality of care may account for the drop in mort...Air rather than oxygen for babies requiring ventilation after delivery
...en the trials were combined in a meta-analysis, 5% fewer babies given air died compared with babies given 100% oxygen. No differences were found in long-term neurological outcomes, though the only study attempting longer-term follow-up was found to have methodological weaknesses. Dr Davis comments: "One d...Breathing problems during sleep may affect mental development in infants and young children
...t one year of age than did infants who experienced fewer or no such episodes. The episodes were often associated with drops in oxygen levels. The lower mental development scores persisted even after data were adjusted to correct for other factors known to affect mental development in preterm infants. The s...Simple interventions for accident and emergency patients could help reduce excessive drinking
...eferred to the health worker had an average of 0.5 fewer visits to A&E. Professor Robin Touquet from Imperial College London and St Mary's Hospital, and one of the researchers comments: "With levels of alcohol consumption in Britain rising, particularly among the young, medical staff are increasingly havin...Twice daily imatinib could improve outcome for people with specific form of gastro-intestinal cancer
.... Whether a similar outcome could be achieved with fewer side-effects by making use of the reduction in drug clearance over time--eg, with a starting dose of 400 mg daily followed by stepwise dose escalation to 400 mg twice a day--is still a matter for further clinical investigations." In an accompanyin...A glass of red wine a day may keep prostate cancer away
...cts of overall alcoholuse on prostate-cancer risk, fewer studies have attempted to compare the effects of wine versus beer versus hard liquor, and only one previous study has compared the impact of red versus white wine on prostate-cancer risk, said Stanford, also a professor of epidemiology at the Univers...The art of happiness...Is volunteering the blueprint for bliss?
...ve higher GCSE grades and their communities suffer fewer burglaries. Professor Paul Whiteley, Programme Director of the ESRC Democracy & Participation Research Programme that produced the findings explains "The research has revealed an interesting link between helping others and enjoying a good quality of ...Hib infections on the rise in adults despite child vaccination programme
...posure to the disease for adults, and consequently fewer infections. But adults' reduced exposure to the disease also meant their antibody levels or 'natural' immunity - was no longer being boosted. When the disease began to rise once again amongst children, some adults found themselves less equipped th...