Study shows infliximab can maintain long-term remissions in Crohns disease
...ica, Europe, and Israel. All patients received an initial dose of infliximab. The 335 patients (58.5%) who responded to the initial dose were randomized to one of three treatment groups. All three groups received infusions at ...Natural immune response reduces nerve damage; may lead to improved treatment for spinal cord injury
...the cascade of normal damage that occurs after the initial trauma, such as spinal cord injury. In four experiments in rats and mice, Schwarz and colleagues Eti Yoles and Ehud Hauben found that central nervous system trauma evokes a protective immune response that reduces neuronal loss. The authors say that......ith vascular or mixed dementia were enrolled in an initial six-month, "double-blind" clinical study and recei...lacebo had declined upon completion of the study's initial six months. However, after being switched to Reminyl, these patients' cognitive abilities improved; ...COOL AID safe after stroke, may deter side effect of clot-busters
... the brain after an ischemic stroke may limit both initial tissue damage caused by a stroke as well as subsequent damage resulting from the restoration of blood flow after using clot-busting drugs, according to a report in the August issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. The irony is t......ss organizations.In their results, they found that initial procedure times varied across hospitals in the sample. They also found an overall tendency for procedure time to fall with cumulative experience. At the same time, they found statistically significant differences in the learning curves across the sam...Safe effective treatment to stop seizures can be delivered outside of the hospital
...ness. Benzodiazepines are the drugs of choice for initial control of the prolonged type of seizures once the patients are in the hospital, but until now there has been no research evaluating the drugs safety when they are delivered outside of the hospital. The NEJM study reports that the odds that the pat...Pelvic floor exercises can reduce incontinence in women
...women is also greater among those with more severe initial symptoms. Further trials for faecal incontinence are needed, they conclude....News tips from the care and outcomes meeting
...he patients physical and mental functions at their initial assessment and six months later. African-Americans had fewer procedures, 58 percent vs. 71 percent. After accounting for patient demographics, clinical factors and functional status at baseline, they found that while the African-Americans undergo f...Study on teen licensing: N.C. crashes involving 16-year-olds drop dramatically
... of the American Medical Association, examined the initial effects of graduated driver licensing, or GDL, on crashes involving 16-year-old North Carolina drivers. Dr. Robert D. Foss and colleagues at the center compared crash rates from 1996-97 before 16-year-olds were licensed under the GDL system and cra...Annals of Internal Medicine, Tip Sheet, October 2, 2001
...ill be considered an experimental approach for the initial management of aplastic anemia (Editorial, p. 524). Six principles to safeguard adults unable to consent to participate in clinical research (Medicine and Public Issues, p. 514.) The subjective side of scientific reasoning is revealed by convention...Submicrometer-scale metallic barcodes described by Penn State and Surromed
...report on the fabrication, optical properties, and initial application of microscopic metallic barcodes. When coated with biomolecules, these patterned metallic particles enable the simultaneous monitoring of multiple biological reactions in very small volumes of fluid. The researchers prepare these barco...New sensor upgrades artificial bomb sniffers
...hose used in explosives. The sensor containing the initial bead-array detected the compounds with 98 percent accuracy. When beads from the same batch were installed in a different array and tested six months later, they detected the compounds with similar accuracy (94 percent), demonstrating successful odor ...Bangladesh flood and drought forecasting could bring farmers, cholera victims relief
...statistics, each beginning with slightly different initial conditions, said Webster. Fifty-one short-term global forecasts are produced by the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts every day for 10 days. Webster and his team use the data to pinpoint India and South Asian conditions, specifical...New study provides mixed report card on informed consent to cancer clinical trials
...ety and side effects, Phase II studies looking for initial evidence of medical benefit, and Phase III studies in which large numbers of patients are randomly assigned to receive either the standard or investigational therapy in order to evaluate which is better. The researchers found that 71 percent of respo...Smaller hospitals OK for heart bypass surgery - if your risk is small
...tional health care database. "Those patients whose initial risk had been seen as minimal or low did just as well at the low-volume hospitals as at the high-volume ones," says Nallamothu. "But those whose risk was moderate or high were about twice as likely to die in the hospital if they had their operations ...Study: mouthguards work in protecting athletes from expensive injuries to teeth
...ors found. A conservative estimate of the minimum initial cost per dentist referral for treatment of a serious dental injury is $1,000, they said. That does not include the cost of crown replacements about every 10 years. There is no question that this total is substantially more expensive than the cost of...Hospitalist care destined to become dominant model of inpatient care in the US, say UCSF researchers
...must use more refined measures of quality. Despite initial concerns regarding patient acceptance of hospitalists, surveys of patients show high levels of satisfaction, equivalent to that of similar patients cared for by their own primary care physicians or by traditional academic ward attendings. Patients ap......can males. The one-year clinical trial is based on initial HIFU research conducted at Kitasato University in Japan by urologist Toyoaki Uchida, M.D. The ultrasound device used is Sonablate ....Joint meeting on Agent Orange set for March 3-6 in Hanoi
In an initial effort at scientific cooperation on studies of the use of chemical defoliants during the Vietnam War, the U.S.-Vietnam Scientific Conference on Human Health and Environmental Effects of Agent Orange/Dioxins will be held March 3 to 6 at the Daewoo Hot...Computer-assisted detection of proteomic pattern could help screening for ovarian cancer
...erated algorithm identified a pattern that, in the initial assessment, completely segregated cancer from non-cancer. The discriminatory pattern correctly identified all 50 ovarian cancer cases in the masked set, including all 18 stage I cases. Of the 66 cases of non-malignant disease, 63 were recognised as n...