New marker for early diagnosis of kidney failure identified
...ta apply solely to a small number of children with initially normal renal function who developed acute renal failure after cardiothoracic surgery in a single centre."...New self-help technology set to combat eating disorders
...he internet to adolescent sufferers. The package, initially developed as a CD-ROM cognitive-behavioural self-help tool for the treatment of the eating disorder bulimia nervosa (BN), is set to revolutionise therapy. Bulimia nervosa is a common and disabling condition with significant personal, social and rela...Vitamin E may not prevent cancer or cardiovascular events, but may increase risk for heart failure
... (Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation [HOPE]) was initially conducted between December 21, 1993, and April 15, 1999, and included patients at least 55 years old with vascular disease or diabetes mellitus. This trial was extended (HOPEThe Ongoing Outcomes [HOPE-TOO]) to between April 16, 1999, and May 26, 2003...Helping answer needs by developing specialists in autism
..., creating an intensive training program that will initially be geared to teachers, administrators and other personnel in local school districts. "Professionals who complete HANDS training will receive intensive, hands-on experience in a mock classroom setting and will be better equipped to effectively teach t...Nursing mothers having surgery -- How long a wait to breastfeed safely?
...ery. Propofol is used to put patients to sleep initially as part of a general anesthetic or can be administered at a lower dose as part of a conscious sedation technique along with other intravenously administered agents, including a narcotic for pain and a benzodiazepine for amnesia. The Northwestern res...CAD detects breast cancers that are most challenging to detect
...detect breast cancers a radiologist is more apt to initially miss, a new study shows. Small lesions are very challenging for the radiologist to detect, said Rachel F. Brem, MD, director of breast imaging at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and lead author of the study. The study of 201 women fou...MRI proves useful in assessment of suspected breast cancer patients
...ns could be that many of the cancers may be missed initially with only a conventional work up with mammography and ultrasound. The addition of MRI will improve the accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis," Dr. Wiener said. "Breast MRI using contrast agents has been around for about 15 years," said Dr. Wiener. "B...Study documents initial differences in sexual transmission of HIV between males and females
...showed that only a subset of HIV-1 variants in the initially infected partner was transmitted to the newly infected partner, and the predominant variant in males was not the kind that infected their female partners. And, women infected by men had a greater number of variants than men infected by women. The ...Columbia study finds hemophilia therapy dramatically improves outcomes for bleeding stroke
...o Nordisk. Preliminary results of this trial were initially presented at the Fifth World Stroke Congress in Vancouver, B.C. in June 2004 and, most recently, at the International Stroke Conference in New Orleans in February 2005. Study Results The trial included 399 patients who all underwent a CT scan to co...Researcher explores ways to make hypnosis a more effective therapeutic technique
...rform under hypnosis, "we can get at least half of initially low-hypnotizable subjects to test as high hypnotizing subjects," Lynn said. The team still needs to figure out, though, which elements of the training do the trick. "Is it telling people they should make an active response? Is it the imagination part......ive to treatment. Nearly all patients whose tumors initially respond to the drugs, however, eventually become r...m six patients with non-small cell lung cancer who initially responded to gefitinib or erlotinib but subsequently relapsed. Tumors from all six patients carried ...Diabetes a bigger heart disease risk for women than for men
... inability to produce insulin, or Type 2 diabetes, initially caused by the inability to use the insulin produced. Data from randomized trials of individuals with diabetes would clarify these issues. Besides continuing to seek data on the sex-specific relative risk for CHD related to diabetes, researchers at t...Viagra used in stroke recovery study
...'t follow the normal recovery curve." Dr. Silver initially communicated with her by having her move her eyes up for yes and down for no. "For patients like Rene, the usual treatments would be occupational therapy, speech therapy and physical therapy," says Dr. Silver. "Rene's family asked for anything else b...New highly active agents against sandfly fever
...by chemical synthesis, are analogues of quinolines initially isolated from a Bolivian plant, Galipea longiflora (Rutaceae). Experiments conducted on mice infected by visceral leishmaniasis showed that oral administration of these quinolines was effective for treating this severe form of the disease (2). The ...Murder, eyewitness identification and the limits of human vision
...stance. Loftus and Harley did similar tests using initially blurred images of celebrities and gradually clarified them until the test subjects were able to recognize the celebrities. This time they recorded the amount of blurring that made a face unrecognizable. All of the subjects in the experiments had at...Leukemia drug breakthrough study in New England Journal of Medicine
...inary oncology at the University of South Florida, initially developed the phase I clinical trial of Revlimid for treatment of MDS following his laboratory observations that the agent improved the growth of red blood cell precursors from MDS bone marrow. Celgene will submit the seminal findings of List's phase...Binghamton University launches microelectronics research center
...croelectronics Manufacturing (CAMM). The USDC will initially provide $10 million in equipment to establish CAMM, which will combine resources from the USDC, Binghamton University, Cornell University, Endicott Interconnect Technologies and other academic, government and industry partners to help speed microelec...Illness and medical bills cause half of all bankruptcies
...s - averaging $18,005 - were incurred by those who initially had private coverage but lost it in the course of their illness. Many families were bankrupted by medical expenses well below the catastrophic thresholds of high deductible plans that are increasingly popular with employers. The authors comment tha...New treatment rivals chemotherapy for lymphoma, U-M study finds
... these traditional treatments; even after patients initially have a response to treatment, the disease almost always comes back and becomes more difficult to treat. Bexxar, whose chemical name is tositumomab and iodine I 131 tositumomab, combines an antibody that seeks out cancer cells, and a radioactive fo...Controversial Atkins Diet may be beneficial for people with epilepsy
... therapies amongst the epilepsy community. It was initially devised in 1921 to "mimic the anticonvulsant effects of fasting, which were known to suppress seizures." Because the KD is high in fat and low in carbohydrates, the body is forced to burn fat for energy, a process called ketosis. The review explains...