Training Urged For Mothers Of Children With Cancer
...versity of Rochester,Rochester, NY, and colleagues from the Sibling Adaptation to Childhood CancerCollabor...mothers of children with cancerdiffered in any way from the general population before the diagnosis," theauthors write. "The magnitude and relative rarity o...New Approach To Multidrug Resistance
...ilton at Dartmouth Medical School, with colleagues from themedical school and the Norris Cotton Cancer Cen... for P-glycoprotein isinducible, activated by cues from its environment, investigators were interestedin how it would be affected by cancer chemotherapy dru...... review," said researcherJohn R. Mattox, II, M.S., from the University of Memphis, "is thatpreventative me...a drinkingdriver and to help prevent their friends from driving afterdrinking." Some of the antecedent interventions (primary preventionstrategies that..."Super Aspirin" Holds Long-Term Benefits For Some Patients Who Undergo Balloon Angioplasty
...ory before an angioplasty can prevent platelets from sticking to arterial walls and reclogging vessels after the procedure. Results of a multicenter study published in the August 13 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) demonstrate a favorable effect on long-term...Condemnation May Be Driving Circumcised Women From Health Care
...nintended effect of driving circumcised women away from the healthcare they need. Carol R. Horowit...during the last decade, 93percent of them refugees from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, where more than 80percent of the women are circumcised. "Ther...New Ultrasound Technique Is Alternative To Cerebral Angiography
...ues that can provoke a stroke. Researchers from Brazil and Canada will report that acombination of...ckages lower inthe carotid artery where it emerges from the main artery leading from the heart....3D Ultrasound Gives Better View Of Brain's Arteries
...han on two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound,researchers from Germany will explain on August 14th in a presentat...analyzing the 3D images of transcranial ultrasound from 20patients, Delcker and his colleagues found two things: First, identification of intracran...Ultrasound Helps Pediatric Heart Surgeons After Open Heart Surgery
...ow successful the surgeon has been in removing air from theheart and if further action is needed. ...in Ottawa, Canada, have studied about 60 patients from infants to 18year olds and intend to double this number by the end of the study. The invest...Studies Find Public Policies For Children And Teenagers Not Very Effective
...er,keep teenagers who were already sexually active from having sex orhaving unprotected sex. More research...t examined children's programmingreports that came from 48 stations who submitted license renewalfiles to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Kunke...Psychiatric Symptoms May Signal Brain Damage From Diet Pills
...n neurotoxicity and primary pulmonary hypertension from fenfluramine and its chemical cousin dexfenflurami... the NIMH Intramural Research Program and grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) . NIMH and NIDA are components of the National Institu...Duke Obtains FDA Designation For Pompe Disease Therapy
...lucose, a primary energy source. Patientssuffering from Pompe disease lack sufficient enzyme for that chemical conversion.As a result, glycogen accumulates and destroys skeletal, heart, and lungmuscles. Pompe disease is rare, affecting approximately one child out of every100,000. If symptoms appear durin...New Test May Improve Treatment Of Kidney Disease
...o the puzzle. By harvesting white blood cells from patients, placing the cells in tissueculture plates andexposing them to common steroid and immunosuppressant medications, scientistscan predict in somecases what medications might work best for each patient. If a patient's white blood cells ar...Cancer Protection Compound Abundant In Broccoli Sprouts
...to focus more attentionon efforts to preventcancer from arising," he adds. Fahey and Yuesheng Zhang, ...to Brassica Chemoprotection Laboratory, and grants from the CancerResearchFoundation of America and the American Institute for Cancer Research. Talalay...Study Demonstrates The Benefits Of Mammography In Women Under 50
Women under 50 benefit from screening mammography as much as women over 50, aU...e study was Dr. Jeffrey Bradley, lead study author from theUniversity of Chicago. Dr. Bradley's study focused on 869 women who were both under 50 an...Common Drug-Capsule Coating Not As Inert As Previously Thought
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