Physicians' Opinions Influenced By Drug Industry
...icts. "Medical journals would risk limiting their pool of experts available todebate medical issues if they were to exclude the publication of articles byphysicians with financial relationships with manufacturers," Detsky explains."Physicians and researchers simply need to disclose their finan...Radon, Especially In Combination With Smoking, Contributes To Lung Cancer Deaths
...opulation, including in smokers, can be reduced by limiting exposure to radon. Data should become stronger as molecular and cellular evidence accumulates, as the health of miners continues to be monitored, and as studies are done to measure directly the effects of radon exposure in the general po......ckly," Stone said. "And, by expanding rather than limiting care for peoplewith diabetes, we can help the health care industry reduce the financial burdenof diabetes on the economy." A subsidiary of American Healthcorp, Inc.(Nasdaq/NM:AMHC), DTCA is thenation's leading provider of diabetes services to...Novel Therapy To Treat Lung Cancer Patients Enrolling Patients At UCSF Cancer Center
...PI, called AG3340, will block theseprocesses while limiting the damage that may result from a broad suppression ofMMPs. Invasion is the expansion of tumors into neighboring healthy tissue. MMPs actto break down the matrix structure of the healthy tissue, paving the way for theinvading malignant tumor. Meta...UCSF AIDS Expert Warns Against Early Treatment For HIV Infection
... antiviral drugs starts the clock tickingtoo soon, limiting future options and making therapy a necessity for thelifetime of the person." He adds, "Any decision to stop the drugs could only be made if one hadassurances that all infected cells had been eliminated--now an unlikelyevent--or the immune system h......ependence on correctivelenses for distance vision, limiting the need for glasses or contacts. Thesurgery itself is completed in a matter of seconds, and the healing timegenerally spans less than a week. Segars said the surgery has given him newfound professional freedom."I've always felt my safety as ...Botox Treats Excessive Sweating, According To UCSF Study
... other side effects were not reported. The major limiting factor, said Glogau, is the cost of treatment. Depending onthe amount of Botox® required, costs range between $700 to $1000 and thetreatment needs to be repeated at least once a year. Botox® is manufactured by Allergan in Irvine, CA....Visual Environment Can Affect Even Healthy Eyes --- Nature Works With Nuture For Good Vision
...ity to see fine detail, and general visual acuity, limiting an individual's activities. Both monkeys and humans start life with their eyes not fully developed; the eyeball is too short for the eye's powerful optic capability. As babies grow older, the eyes grow in length so that by age one in monkey...Ablatherm: An Ultrasound Device For Prostate Cancer Therapy
... invasive, cutting the time spent in hospital, and limiting adverseeffects. And if the first treatment course is inadequate, the procedure can berepeated (unlike radiotherapy). Initial clinical evidence of Ablatherm'seffectiveness, published in the Journal of Urology, was obtained in collaboration with Dr Alb...Children Benefit Most From Sun Safety Interventions
...uestions focused on prevention practices such as: limiting time spendin the sun, avoiding the sun during peak hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., usingsunscreen with a protection factor of 15 or higher on a daily basis, wearinghats, shirts, pants and other protective clothing, wearing sun glasses, seekingshade, av......ts the quality of lifeof female cancer patients by limiting their physical abilities and socialactivities. Over 60 percent of a group of 107 women being treated for recurring breast andgynecologic cancers reported that pain interfered with their ability to functionphysically and socially. "Pain is a prominent...Robotic technology to help Ohio State University heart surgeons
... heart bypass surgery, limiting patients' pain andthe healing time normally associated with theseprocedures. The new technique, recently begun in Europe, may be used on the first American patient a...UI researchers identify prostate tumor suppressor
...ed to patients,this discovery raises great hope of limiting the spread of prostate cancerwithin the body and thus improving survival."......sture is concentrated. "The drying process is the limiting factor in the speed ofthe carpet production process," Beckham explained. "If we canimprove the efficiency of the drying process, we can dry morequickly and the manufacturer will be able to produce more carpetin less time. And if we can dry carpet w...Alcohol consumption triggers free-radical damage in the body
...eactivity of these volatile molecules, potentially limiting the injury to organsand tissues. A report on the findings appears in the September 15 issue of theJournal of Clinical Investigation. "These findings show that drinking alcohol activates a mechanism that hasbeen implicated in a number of illnesse...Alcohol researchers confirm molecular culprit of alcohol-induced liver damage
...gh-fat diet with alcoholinto mice without severely limiting their mobility. The research team assessedliver enzyme levels, degree of steatosis (fatty liver), inflammation, andnecrosis as liver damage indicators. "The use of animals lacking TNF-alpha receptors provides a direct way to testthe hypothesis that t...... may continue to affect nearby nerves and axons by limiting their normal movements. "There are a lot of unanswered questions about why what chiropractors are doing is working or not working," Dr. Bove says. "All this pain research is directly relevant to what chiropractors do."...Welfare to work does not improve mental health
...llected before the 1996 welfare reform legislation limiting the amount of time a person can receive benefits. Kneipp, who received her doctorate in nursing science in 1998 from the University of Washington in Seattle, analyzed data collected for the Washington State Family Income Study. Out of a group of ...Animal studies indicate new approach for treating end-stage skin and kidney cancers
...system, the synthetic SOD enzyme addresses a major limiting side effect of current IL-2 therapies. It also appears to work synergistically with IL-2s anti-cancer properties, said Dr. Wolfram Samlowski of the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah. In two separate animal models, as a co-therapy w...UT Southwestern receives $1.7 million grant to study effects of long-term space travel on the heart
... arrhythmias." This condition may be a significant limiting factor for extended space missions, specifically the Mission to Mars, said Dr. Gunnar Blomqvist, professor of internal medicine and physiology and director of the NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training in Physiology at UT Southwestern from ...