DNA Imaging to Design Better Drugs
...hemical Society nationalmeeting in New Orleans in late March, and have submitted it forpublication in the Proceedings of the National Academy ofSciences . Dr. Jonathan B. Chaires of the <AHREF="http://www.umsmed.edu/">University of Mississippi MedicalCenter's Department of Biochemistry, called...New Test May Improve Treatment Of Kidney Disease
...annualmeeting. The award isnamed in memory of the late McKeen Cattell, first editor of the Journal ofClinical Pharmacology andco-founder of the college. It is presented annually to an author publishing anoutstanding researchpaper in the journal. "Individualizing treatment plans for patients is not ......human clinical trials and a third newcompound into late preclinical development. *** Editor's Note: This release is also available on the Internet at: http://www.noonanrusso.com...UCSF Hospitalists May Be Key To Shorter, Less Costly Hospital Stays
...residents, who are medical school graduates in the late stages oftraining, manage inpatient care in teaching hospitals. The role of the hospitalist is a departure from the way faculty doctorstraditionally have functioned in academic hospitals. Under the traditionalmodel, faculty members serve as advisors...... will be available forpublic review and comment in late July. Individuals wanting a copy of this report, or a non-technical summary,should request it by fax to the number above or by mail to the EMF-RAPIDProgram, NIEHS, NIH, P.O. Box 12233, MD EC-16, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. The report an...About The Care Of Patients Before They Are Admitted To Intensive Care
...ents who were not treated adequately were admitted late into intensive care. The authors discovered that the problems lay in suboptimal management of oxygen therapy, airway, breathing, circulation and monitoring before admission to intensive care which led to increased morbidity, mortality and avoidable a...Timing Of Breast Cancer Surgery Doesn't Appear To Influence Survival Anymore
...vival for womendiagnosed with breast cancer in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But is it stillimportant? We don't know, but the answer seems to be no. In the mid-1980s,something changed. From 1984 to 1988, the latest date covered by our study, thetiming of surgery in the menstrual cycle has been unimport..."Happy Hour" Is Unhappy For Many Cardiac Arrest Victims
...d a high number of calls forcardiac arrests in the late afternoon. Studies, including this one, have shownthat many cardiac arrests occur around 8 a.m. This is the first to show adefinitive peak in the "happy hour" time of day from about 5 to 8 p.m. The fact that the arrests occur at certain times of t..."Green Chemistry" Cleans Up Environment And Renders Synthetic Drugs
...th chemical applicationsfor this process since the late 1980s and leads the research. "You actually have to pay to get rid of the waste," Hudlicky said. "Butifyou convert the waste into something with a high value attached to it ...then you're actually making money on the waste product itself." ...UCSF To Establish Formal Hospitalists Training Program
... residents, whoare medical school graduates in the late stages of training, in academic medicalcenters. Residents work under the supervision of faculty members who rotate inthat role infrequently, often just for one month each year. Patients' primarycare doctors traditionally managed their care in non-tea...Studies Indicate An Effective Treatment For Steroid-Induced Osteoporosis
...pproved by the U.S.Food and Drug Administration in late 1995. It has been prescribed forapproximately 2.4 million people in the United States for the treatment andprevention of post-menopausal osteoporosis and for the treatment of Paget'sdisease of bone....Sunlight Poses Universal Cataract Risk
...rays," says West. "The good news is it's never too late to start protecting youreyes, because the lens change is probably from an accumulated dose over theyears. That's why everyone needs to get into the habit of protecting theireyes." Even inexpensive, plastic sunglasses are good absorbers of UV-......Even for older women with fractures, it is not too late to do somethingabout preventing the progression of osteoporosis." Ettinger will present his interim data today (September 14) at the EuropeanCongress of Osteoporosis. The MORE trial is a multicenter, Eli Lilly and Co. sponsored research study,which...University Of Kentucky One Of First To Use New Technique To Treat Atrial Flutter
...ntrol it with conventional therapy had failed. But late yesterday UK officials termed the new treatment a ... ablation -- approved by the FDA for study only in late August -- has been used outside California, where the first 10 or 12 procedures were performed. UK i...Education Linked To Good Health Habits, Even In Old Age
...cal factors where theseeffects are evident even in late life," writes Laura D. Kubzansky, PhD, and hercoll...d in youngadulthood, to a series of experiences in late adulthood linked more proximallyto poor health." The researchers, from the Harvard School of ...Medication Offers Hope For Relief From Burning Mouth Pain
...agnosis at the CWRUSchool of Dentistry. "Until the late 1980s or early '90s, it was treated as an emotional problem that was thought to beassociated with depression, anxiety, or other neuroses," says Grushka, a pioneer in the treatment ofBMS. Although recent research has focused on various physical explan...National Clinical Trial To Test Effectiveness Of Antibiotic Treatment For Coronary Artery Disease
...ted with thebacteria at some time in life. In the late 1980s, researchers, includingGrayston, identified a possible relationship between Chlamydia pneumoniae andheart disease when the bacteria was identified in samples of diseased coronaryartery tissue. Two small trials evaluating the use of ant...New approach supercharges immunotherapy
...ollowing weeks and months, much too slowly to be a late response toprior chemotherapy, their tumors get smaller and in some cases have disappeared. "We know we are affecting the immune response with this therapy because thetoxicities we have seen after reinfusion look exactly like autoimmunedisorders," (i...Far Few Drugs Are Tested On Children
...sted on children.Doctors did not realise until too late that children's immature livers wereincapable of clearing it from their bodies, and toxic levels quickly built up intheir bloodstream. Astonishingly, children still face similar risks today. The vastmajority of drugs have never been tested on...Duke Doctors Can Now Cure Most Babies Born With Fatal Immune Disease
...ent can run into the millions, and it might be too late to savethe child." In the future, Buckley said she hopes that gene therapy can be perfectedto restore B-cell function, a component of the immune system not corrected bybone marrow transplantation in some SCID children....