New Stroke Treatment Likely To Decrease Health Care Costs And Increase Quality Of Life
...or 1,000 t-PApatients, the researchers estimate an initial increase in hospital costs of $1.7million, but an ...PA within the critical 3-hour time window of their initial strokesymptoms were at least 30 percent more likely than untreated patients to recoverfrom their str...Study Shows Child Health Plus Eases Access, But Some Barriers Remain
...s funded by theDepartment of Health as part of its initial legislation to createthe program. "Child Health Plus appears to have leveled the playing field interms of having a medical home," said Laura Pollard Shone, MSW,principal investigator for the study. "However, there are stillsome racial and ethnic disp...Compound In Meat Prevents Diabetes, Study Suggests
...do not know that they have the disease because the initial symptoms can be so mild. (These symptoms may include hard-to-heal infections, blurred vision, tingling in the hands or feet, or dry, itchy skin.) Type II diabetes is caused by the body's inability to use insulin well, which causes a buildup of sugar ...ONYX Pharmaceuticals Reports Phase II Clinical Trial Results At ASCO Meeting
...ts at this point. While weare encouraged by these initial results, we remain cautiouslyoptimistic." "Of course, because this is an ongoing study, we do not yet have informationregarding durability of responses. We will be able to discussthese findings with greater confidence when we have seen them repeat......ide and 190 received paclitaxel/carboplatin. After initial therapy, patients could receive additional chemotherapy. "Survival in the control arm (cisplatin/etoposide) was unexpectedlyhigher, and this could be attributable to multiple factors, includingsecond-line chemotherapy with a taxane-based regi...National Office Of Drug Safety Is Needed, Experts Say In JAMA
...ug-related injuries occurringbecause of inadequate initial testing, a breakdown in post-market surveillance,physician prescribing errors or a lack of patient compliance?" they ask. "The nation needs an office of drug safety with the authority,independence, funds and legal mandate to undertake all fou...New Treatment Targets Most Malignant Brain Tumors
DURHAM, N.C. -- In initial clinical trials, Duke University Medical Centerres...he tumors. The researchers also have begun initial tests using another radioactiveisotope, Astatine-211, that has been a far more efficient cancer-kill...Abstinence Reduces HIV For High-Risk Women - Even Those Who Relapse - Study Shows
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... heart attacks is high even atsix months after the initial attack, he says. The Circulation report, however, indicates that if heart attack patients survivethe first 30 days, the chances of surviving past six months or even a year arebetter if they receive lamifiban compared with standard treatment. "We do...New Guidelines Stress Early Potent Drug Cocktails, Individualized Therapy
...various combinations, now provide more choices for initial therapy ofindividuals with better long-term outcomes. Simpler drug regimens may offergreater compliance and convenience, and more sensitive monitoring of HIV levelsin the blood will allow physicians to detect and react to resistant virusstrains and t...World's First Producer To Repair Brain Damage From Stroke
...s been stable for at least two months. The initial patient, Alma Cerasini, is a 62-year-old former healthcareworker who suffered a major stroke last fall, resulting in paralysis of herright arm and leg. The patient also lost nearly all her ability to speak. The implanted neurons are provided...Three INEEL Inventions Win International Recognition
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...ing her research to discover whether the childrens initial CVD health gains last over time. She is also investigating whether the knowledge or physical activity component of the intervention was more effective, and whether puberty will have an impact on risk factors. Another facet of the CHIC study is test...Mini-Pill Increases Risk Of Chronic Diabetes In Women With History Of Diabetes During Pregnancy
... returned to normal after delivery. During their initial post-partum visits to the High Risk Family Planning Clinicat LAC+USC Women's and Children's Hospital, about half chose to use hormonaloral contraceptives and half chose a non-hormonal contraceptives. Of the womenopting to take birth control pills, 38...Remembering Your Medications: Older Are Wiser
... show, or talking with family members. After these initial assessments, participants received the prescriptions theywere taking in new containers, special bottles with caps containing tinyelectronic monitoring chips that recorded exactly when the bottles were opened. After eight weeks, all the participants t......nother in the first few years following his or her initial heartattack. Beta-blockers often reduce the risk of further damage to the heartmuscle and thereby the risk of another, and potentially fatal, heart attack,Krumholz said. The importance of beta-blockers as preventive therapy after acutemyocar...Brain Regions Identified That Influence What We Remember Or Forget
...thers partly because of differences in the way the initial experience isencoded into the brain. These are the...lems in memory forrecent events occurs due to poor initial encoding -- the memory is never formedin the first place -- or later difficulties of storing or usin...... cut down onthis problem which arises because your initial impulse is to help the baby,"Doron said. "You have to take a step back and say, 'Wait a minute. Is providingthis care really helping'" "One of the suggestions talked about a lot is simply don't starttreating these babies because once you star......a SanFrancisco and 11 other academic centers. The initial phase included 2,027postmenopausal women between the ages of 55 and 82 who had osteoporosis andprevious spine fractures, as detected by X-ray. The second phase of FITincluded 4,432 women with thin bones but no previous spine fractures. More ...