Revolutionary HIV drug Fuzeon wins most prestigious award for innovation
...nts Despite this acknowledgement of the drug as a huge technological advance, Roche's latest research sho...aceutical field. The Galien award has grown into a huge event and is now considered as the industry's equivalent of the Nobel prize and the highest accolade...Doctors and patients call on politicians to save lives of cancer patients
...P said, "CancerBACUP's own research has shown that huge variations in access to cancer treatments exist in the UK, depriving patients of vital drugs which could improve their chances of survival." "At present there is no mechanism for ensuring that national guidance on cancer treatments is implemented at...Attention to detail can make kids' hospital stays shorter, less costly & less frequent
...ith a national average of 2.14 days. "That's not a huge difference, but since we were far under the national average for more severe patients, we wanted to improve," says Sedman. After the quality improvement process was in place for three years, the team repeated the comparison. On length of...Simple interventions for accident and emergency patients could help reduce excessive drinking
...ems related to their use of alcohol. This places a huge strain on NHS resources, and this study could provide a way to tackle this growing problem." Dr Mike Crawford, from Imperial College London and Central and North West London Mental Health Trust, and one of the researchers, adds: "Identification and r...Smart lights, nonstick implants and 100th birthday of electronics at science & technology meeting
...ld be made four times as efficient. "We will see a huge transformation in the field of lighting, including the availability of smart lights which will be able to adapt to certain requirements and environments," Schubert said. "I expect great advances from this field." (Paper WL-WEM9, Wednesday, November 1...Seniors reduce or discontinue medications when faced with gap in drug coverage, UCLA study shows
...overing their share of medication costs. Given the huge annual inflation in drug costs, health plans are already hard pressed to provide drug benefits for persons with Medicare. Doctors can help patients make the most of their benefits or keep them from exceeding the cap by identifying when less expensiv...UK university's research throws light on early infant mortality
...ing childbirth is negligent in some way." "In this huge study, we carried out detailed examinations on the brains of newborn infants where the parents consented to autopsy: almost two-thirds of the 137 babies involved. Our group has been able to show that in 36 percent of babies born early and in 61 perce...Teacher-training for hospital residents improves medical students' education, UCI study shows
...many other professional attributes, so they have a huge impact onAmerica's future doctors." For the study, the researchers recruited 62 second-year residents fromUCI Medical Center. Of these residents, 33 were randomly assigned tocomplete a "residents-as-teachers" program. Over six months, theseresidents ...Siblings help children get along with others in kindergarten
... the United States. "We're involved in a huge social change that has ramifications for all of us that are largely 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." Dow...Antioxidant controversy: Scientists seek measurement standards
...ts. "A little difference in methodology can make a huge difference in results," cautioned Finley. "We need to identify the four or five best methods and make them consistent." "As a result of intense debate, we made progress toward developing uniform methods," declared Finley, who is Chief Technical Offic...Patients not sticking to cholesterol drugs -- and the higher their co-pay, the lower their use
... disease. But we didn't -- and the co-pay played a huge independent predicting role in non-adherence among all patients." Ellis' co-author, UMHS Director of Pharmacy Services James Stevenson, Pharm.D., notes that the lack of adherence to cholesterol-lowering drugs might have something to do with the...Status syndrome: How your social standing directly affects your health and life expectancy
... questions and more in an agenda-setting book with huge implications for social and health-care policy and the worlds of education and finance....Researchers explore gene treatment to obliterate HIV before it does damage
...pproach like the one Merigan is testing would be a huge development in the ability to combat HIV. David Evans, an information and advocacy associate for Project Inform, a San Francisco-based national nonprofit working to end the AIDS epidemic, said, "Experiments of this type fall perfectly in line with Pr...Speech recognition experts at OGI School of Science & Engineering receive nearly $700,000 in grants
...er system that automates hearing tests. "There is huge potential for speech technology that is useful for education and health," said van Santen. "We are trying to tap into the market and make our work helpful for the average person who has a learning or medical problem." Speech technology could someday ...GI health affected by consumption of coffee and carbonated drinks
...om India found that soda drinkers, who represent a huge percentage of the American population, may actually have an increased risk of developing esophageal cancer. DDW is the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy ...Dartmouth researchers advance fight against pancreatic cancer
...sease is diagnosed, pancreatic cancer cells have a huge growth advantage over normal cells, which enables them to grow and metastasize very quickly," said Korc. "Our research has focused on determining what factors enable the cells to grow at such a fast rate and then how to slow that rate down and actual...Three Harvard Medical School endowed chairs named simultaneously in sleep medicine
... tools and treatments in the pipeline. "There is a huge need for collaboration between industry and academic medicine to understand the relationship between sleep and disease," said Martin. An esteemed professor was appointed to fill one of these chairs yesterday by the President and Fellows of Harvard Co...New study: Small, frequent doses of caffeine best strategy for staying awake
...ost from their tea or coffee. " Most people take a huge jolt of coffee in the morning to jumpstart their day-they get the super grande latte from Starbucks," said Charles Czeisler, who was recently appointed the Frank Baldino Jr. PhD professor of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School. "Their caffeine l...Conference promotes breast and cervical cancer awareness in Nigeria
..."That ongoing study quickly made us realize what a huge need there was in my home country for better information about breast cancer detection and treatment," Olopade said. "We were trying to follow about 500 young Nigerian women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, but in a very short time, withou...Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist use Botox to treat CP
...erform some of their daily activities. "This is a huge help not only to the patient but to the caregiver, who may have trouble dressing the patient or getting the child into a car seat," Koman said. Most patients experienced peak effect in one to two days after receiving the injections. The injections m...