Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
...s costly method of treating patients who have been maintained successfully on methadone for several years. Currently, Grossman says, 117,000 people are enrolled in federally funded methadone management programs at an annual cost to the taxpayer of $4,500 per person. In addition to Grossman and Rhodes, other par......alRegistry of Myocardial Infarction 2, a data base maintained by Genentech.The researchers identified 21,718 patients who had acute heart attacks andwho arrived at the hospital with cardiogenic shock or else developed thecondition while in the hospital. Of the 21,178 patients studied, 6993received the balloon ...Anti-Depressants: Miracle Drugs Or Placebos With A Buzz?
...on about whyand how public enthusiasm and faith is maintained in thesetreatments. This is a research question whose importance may even exceed thatof the specific effects of the drugs themselves." Article: "'Listening to Prozac but Hearing Placebo: A Meta-Analysis ofAntidepressant Medication," by Irving Kirs......tient and the general acceptancethat health can be maintained have helped to shift medical practice. "No longer will a patient sit quietly while a doctor treats them," saysSamuel. "The patients want to know what is wrong with them, what will be done tothem, what the potential consequences are and what the...New Data Show Evista Reduces Spinal Fractures
...ented at the meeting. These datashowed that Evista maintained favorable effects on BMD at the spine, hip andtotal body and lowered total and LDL or "bad" cholesterol levels withoutstimulating uterine tissue after three years of follow-up. MORE study evaluates benefits and risks beyond bone A selective estroge...First Drug Shown Effective For Treating Chronic Forms Of Major Depression
...xtended treatment. In the study, 77 patients maintained sertraline use for 76more weeks, while 84 patients took a placebo daily. A research team found that patients receiving sertraline were 4.1 timesless likely to suffer depression recurrence than those taking a placebo. The rese......ereported complete remissions and two achieved and maintained partial remissions. Four patientstreated from six months to more than a year ago remain disease free, and twopatients, in partialremission, continue to improve after more than a year. In addition, allpatients were able todecrease their doses of medi...Decline In Vaccination Could Lead To Resurgence Of Rubella
... that if high uptake of the rubella vaccine is not maintained a resurgence of the disease could be seen in the UK. The authors remind readers of the potentially devastating effects of rubella infection and warn pregnant women that an immune' result after a routine antenatal test, does not necessarily preclude ...Children Of Smokers Suffer Negative Health Effects Later In Life
...ls of environmentaltobacco smoke (ETS) as children maintained higher blood pressure, mean arterialpressure, and ... students who grew up in smoking homesconsistently maintained a higher baseline blood pressure, arterial pressure, andheart rate than did their counterparts. Even......nounced today that LEUKINER (sargramostim; GM-CSF) maintained viralsuppression and extended the duration of antiretroviral therapy utility inpatients with AIDS whose viral loads were less than 30,000 copies/mL at studyentry. In addition, while LEUKINE did not decrease "AIDS clinical events"including opportunis...DDW Studies Present Evidence That Thalomid (Thalidomide) Is Active In Treating Crohn's Disease
...Dr. Vasiliauskas. "In addition, these scores were maintained in mostpatients, even after steroids were tapered. Decreased fistula drainage andfistula closure was also observed in some patients. The data suggest that aPhase III study using thalidomide to treat Crohn's disease, should beconducted." Dr. Vasili...UCSF HIV/AIDS web site honored by Smithsonian Institution
A web site dedicated to HIV/AIDS and maintained by the University of CaliforniaSan Francisco was h...eb site on HIV disease that iswritten, edited, and maintained by frontline AIDS experts from a health sciencesinstitution. One of its features is a question-and-......the researchers looked at only those women who had maintained a steadyweight during adulthood -- those who weigh...ined weight," says Carpenter. "But among women who maintained astable weight, the breast cancer risk was substantially reduced." Because women want to know how ma...Hospital study shows more patients could qualify for free care coverage
...ty numbers and reportedback to DHCFP in a way that maintained the anonymity of individual patients. Data were provided by seven hospitals - two disproportionate-share hospitals(DSH -- those designated by the federal government to care for a large number ofpoor and uninsured patients) from the Boston area and fi...Children CATCH on to heart-health messages
...ealth promotion intervention in grades 3 through 5 maintained a diet significantly lower intotal fat and saturated fat and continued to pursue more vigorous physicalactivity levels compared to the students in the control groups. These resultssuggest that schools can be an important place to help youth establish...Red wine can help maintain immune system, UF researcher finds
...ssed immune response,while the mice who drank wine maintained normal immunity. "We found that the animals that consumed straight ethanol had lower levels ofwhite blood cells than any other group," Percival said. "However, the sameamount of alcohol, consumed as red wine, resulted in no suppression of theimmune r...Decline in awareness and treatment of high blood pressure could pose a serious public health threat
...rcent. The number ofpatients whose blood pressure maintained a controlled reading of 140/90 mm Hg or below increased almost three-fold, from 10 percent to 29 percent. However, the trends changed in the early 1990s, according to the 1993 nationwidestudy by the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Evaluation ...Doppler ultrasound can reduce hospital stays
...oss. The fluidlevels of half of the patients were maintained using information gained from theDoppler ultrasound, while the other 50 patients were monitored conventionally. "By optimizing the administration of fluids to our patients, we canreduce the rate of post-operative complications," Gan said. "T...Photodynamic therapy reduces risk of vision loss in some macular degeneration patients
.... Of those who received a placebo, only 39percent maintained vision. Results of the study are published in the October issue of the journalArchives ofOphthalmology. Photodynamic therapy has been submitted to the U.S. Food andDrugAdministration for approval. Photodynamic therapy works like a smart m......o has consequencesfor peripheral function that, if maintained chronically, could have long termadverse health effects." Funding for this study was supplied by the Research Network on Mind-Body <AHREF="http://www.macfound.org/research/hcd/hcd_9.htm">Interactions of theMacArthur Foundation (Chicago), the...