Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...em says. The findings will appear in the September issue of the British scientific journal Vaccine. During the 1930s, researchers discovered that using aluminum hydroxide to carry antigens into the body resulted in a greater production of antibodies than could be produced by the antigen alone. Antibodies a...TB Prophylaxis Unnecessary In HIV-Infected People With Anergy, Study Suggests
...found. The study is reported in the July 31, 1997 issue of The NewEngland Journal of Medicine. "Clinicians...idelines, whichwere published in the June 27, 1997 issue of Morbidity and Mortality WeeklyReport. "The low rates of TB in both the treatment and placebo grou...Training Urged For Mothers Of Children With Cancer
...heir most recent study are published in the August issue ofthe Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. "Solving problems associated with dealing with hospital personnel,therapy protocols, pain management, disfigurement, and the perceived threat ofdeath that is embodied in the word "can..."Super Aspirin" Holds Long-Term Benefits For Some Patients Who Undergo Balloon Angioplasty
... a multicenter study published in the August 13 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Associa...who should receive it," said Dr. Fischman. "The issue of cost-effectiveness is vital to understanding whether or not ReoPro™ should be used in lo...Psychiatric Symptoms May Signal Brain Damage From Diet Pills
...chemical cousin dexfenfluramine, in the August 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. An estimated 50 million people have taken the drugs, often in combination with phentermine (hence "fen/phen"), an amphetamine-like diet drug that counteracts the fenfluramines' tendency to indu...Cancer Protection Compound Abundant In Broccoli Sprouts
...o develop. In a paper published in tomorrow's issue of the Proceedings of the NationalAcademy ofSciences, Talalay and his coworkers describe their successful efforts to buildon their 1992discovery of sulforaphane's chemoprotective properties. Work described in thestudy is thesubject of issued and pen...Common Drug-Capsule Coating Not As Inert As Previously Thought
...d and Sheth discussed their findings in the August issue of theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....Many Medical Screening Tests May Be Unnecessary.
... of Controversial Screening Tests," in the current issue of the Archives of Family Medicine . Physicians ...ostate specific antigen tests in men. The ethical issue becomes more complicated when doctors provide controversial screening tests because they fear a futu...Affordable, Hand-Held Biosensor For Diagnostics
...nterferometric Biosensor,"was published in today's issue of the journal Science. According to M. Reza Ghadiri, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department ofChemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, TSRI, and studyco-author, "It is exciting to be able to adapt such inexpensive and readi...Some Good News In Treating Infection Common To HIV Patients
...reaction. The results are reported in the November issue of the journal Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Bactrim is considered by the Centers for Disease Control to be the medication of choice in treating pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. However, there is a high incidence of fever and rash that forces up t...Targeted Protein Toxin Effective Against Persistent Brain Tumors
...ansferrin-CRM107, will appear in the December 1997 issue of Nature Medicine. In the clinical trial(1), res...or marketapproval. In a related study in the same issue of Nature Medicine,(2) NINDS investigatorsled by Dr. Oldfield and colleagues from the National Canc...Benefits Of Annual Mammography Outweigh Radiation Risks Of Cancer
...his point in an editorial he wrote in the December issue of the journal Cancer , in which Swedish scientists reported the results of a study performed in Gothenburg, Sweden. The study showed that performing mammography screening in women between ages 39 to 49 every year and a half would re...Mammography Messages Need To Be Tailored For Older Women
...o found that fear of pain during a mammogram wasan issue for some women. During the exam, a woman's breast ispressed between two plates to get a good X-ray image of breasttissue. This pressure often causes a feeling of tightness andmay cause discomfort. Skinner notes that any uneasiness will beshort-lived,...Natural Estrogens May Help Protect Women From Brain Damage During Stroke
... Results of the study are published in the January issue of the journalStroke. They show that infemale rats, endogenous estrogens, those naturally produced by menstruatingfemales, support bloodflow to the brain during stroke and limit brain tissue damage. "What we have is a possible explanation for t...Physicians' Opinions Influenced By Drug Industry
...he results of the study are published in the Jan.8 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. "The pharmaceutical industry provides substantial financial support forresearch and medical education," says lead investigator Professor Allan Detskyof the departments of health administration and medici...Stress: It's Not Just All In Your Head; Scientists Map The Wear And Tear Of Daily Life
...equences. In a paper published in the January 15 issue of the New England Journalof Medicine , Bruce S. McEwen, PhD, of Rockefeller University, identifieseight physical indicators in the body - from blood pressure to cortisollevels to abdominal fat- that can be measured to give a tangible indicationof a...Rats Receiving Ginkgo Biloba Learn Quicker, Live 20 Percent Longer Than Controls, UB Study Finds
... Results of the study appear in the current issue of Physiology and Behavior. Ginkgo biloba is available in the U.S. as a dietary supplement, but is not approved by the FDA as a medical treatment. It is prescribed widely by physicians in Germany and France in the form of EGb 761 -- a complex ...Researchers Finding May Boost Effectiveness Of Anti-HIV Drugs
...rticle and accompanying editorialin the January 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, published bythe American Society for Clinical Investigation. In cell cultures that express large quantities of Pgp, the VUMCresearchers found that protease inhibitors were not readily absorbed by thece...Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Enhances Short-Term Brain Plasticity
... and Stroke (NINDS), is published inthe February 1 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience (1). Many studies in the last two decades have shown that the braincontinually responds to changes in stimuli by reorganizing itself. Thesechanges are often beneficial. For example, people who have been blind......search was reported as the cover story in a recent issue of thejournal Science. The Berkeley Lab is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory locatedin Berkeley, California. It conducts unclassified scientific research and ismanaged by the University of California....