Johns Hopkins To Announce AIDS Capitated Care Program
.... "This data base, which was started in 1989, has helped us study theimpact of an integrated network of care using highly specialized services on aspecific group of patients with a medically complex disease." The goal of Moore Options is to provide care for 600 of theapproximately 3,000 Maryland AIDS pa......se. Role-playing and intervention-oriented classes helped the youths develop skills to resistpressures to drink and drive, to resist riding with a drinkingdriver and to help prevent their friends from driving afterdrinking." Some of the antecedent interventions (primary preventionstrategies that attemp...New Test May Improve Treatment Of Kidney Disease
...n that somepatients -- who previously had not been helped much by medication -- haveresponded quickly tomedi...s found effective in the assays. Others have been helped by a lowerdose of medication thanpreviously thought necessary. More investigation still needs t......ant step in their medical training. "This exercise helped me to really think about and analyze patients," says LeoKim, a first-year medical student who participated in the tutorial. "Like verydetailed paintings, the human body is very complex, and learning to look andreally see all the details of a paintin...Clot-Busters As Effective As Surgery To Clear Blockages In Legs
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... that a more intense, community-integrated program helped people muchmore than a minimally-integrated program. Men exposed to the more aggressiveprograms did a better job of controlling their blood pressure and, in turn, hadfewer strokes. Researchers compared the effectiveness of high blood pressure contro...Mini-Pill Increases Risk Of Chronic Diabetes In Women With History Of Diabetes During Pregnancy
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...ions (clozapine, risperidone, olanzapine,etc.) has helped many patients manage their most flagrant symptoms with fewerside effects. However, even the newer antipsychotics act on brain dopaminereceptors, albeit more selectively, and often fail to have much effect on the"negative" cognitive and emotional sym...UCSF Recruting Breast Cancer Patients For Herbal Therapy Study
...rested in women's health andalternative therapies, helped to fund the clinical trial. It has been approvedby UCSF's Cancer Center Scientific Protocol Review Committee and the Committeeof Human Research....Setbacks To Health Progress In Central America
...pared and has anefficient disaster committee, also helped its neighbors. The United States,Mexico, Panama, and Canada, also responded quickly, as did Southern Conecountries like Chile, Argentina, and Brazil, which sent specialized rescue teamswith engineers, helicopters, and dogs. Specialized physicians and...Physicians Study Whether "Super-Aspirin" Prevents Alzheimer's
...r years physicians believed that knocking outcox-1 helped patients feel better, but now most doctors believethat cox-2 is the real pain-causing culprit in many illnesses.Currently drugs targeting cox-2 are being tested as a way totreat arthritis more aggressively with fewer side effects, andthey're being lo...... chemical bond. "The really clever new trick that helped us trap a catalytically active complex was this modified chemistry," Harrison says. The first images of the structure of RT were produced in the early 1990s by HHMI investigator Thomas A. Steitz at Yale University. Steitz's research team used a catal...Study Confirms Safety Of Common Heart Drug
...m pharmaceutical manufacturer Glaxo Wellcome, Inc. helped fund thestudy....Thymus May Hold Clue To Rebuilding Immune System After HIV
... and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDSFoundation helped fund the work....New Theory May Explain Ritalin Action In Hyperactivity
...but whichwe are typically able to control. Ritalin helped control behavior in these miceby boosting serotonin's calming effects on dopamine, rather than by actingdirectly on dopamine, as had long been assumed. "Our findings provide the tantalizing possibility that hyperactivity inADHD patients might...New Surgery At Cedars-Sinai Provides Hope For Epilepsy Patient Who Has Had A Lifetime Of Seizures
... remember," Mary Kate explained. Seizure medicines helped control the episodes for awhile, but as time went onMary Kate required increasing amounts of medication. At one point, while livingin Boston, she was taking several types of anti-seizure medicationssimultaneously. When she moved to California in 1990...