Study examines limited-field radiation for early breast cancer
...eated with limited-field radiation therapy and 199 matched control women treated with whole-breast radiation ...treated with breast-conserving surgery; women were matched by age, tumor size, lymph-node status, margins of excision, estrogen receptor status, and use of adj...Drug may eliminate transfusions in patients with blood disorder
...ergo bone marrow transplantation with cells from a matched normal donor. However, this treatment is not available for all patients and entails significant risk. According to the Cooley's Anemia Foundation, it is estimated that more than two million people in the United States carry the genetic trait for tha...College students get better grades when they take psychological principals courses
...of Achievement" class and 226 matched controls. The students taking the class were matched on gender, ethnicity, year in school and prior cumulative GPA to students not t...Oestrogen-replacement therapy from skin patches not associated with venous blood clots
... 63 with deep venous thrombosis), and 381 controls matched for centre, age, and time of recruitment were studied. 21% of women with VTE and 7% of controls were current users of oral ERT, whereas 19% of women with VTE and 24% of controls were current users of transdermal ERT. After adjustment for potential co...UCLA study examines origins of fatigue in breast cancer survivors
...atus in 20 fatigued breast cancer survivors and 19 matched non-fatigued breast cancer survivors. Fatigued survivors, compared with non-fatigued survivors, had statistically significantly increased numbers of circulating T lymphocytes, with pronounced elevation in the numbers of CD4+ T lymphocytes and CD56+ e...Other highlights in the August 6 issue of JNCI
...atus in 20 fatigued breast cancer survivors and 19 matched non-fatigued breast cancer survivors. Fatigued survivors, compared with non-fatigued survivors, had statistically significantly increased numbers of circulating T lymphocytes, with pronounced elevation in the numbers of CD4+ T lymphocytes and CD56+ ...Innovations in hearing loss detection & treatment
...es life and family satisfaction, pg 119Thirty-four matched pairs of individuals with traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, severe burn, or intra-articular fracture were interviewed five years post-injury to assess the relationship of social integration (SI) to life satisfaction and family satisfaction....Researchers find way to improve musical performance
...hird group consisted of a scholastic grade and age matched no-training group, which served as a control grade. In the second experiment, a different cohort of students were randomly allocated to one of six training groups: alpha/theta neurofeedback, beta1 neurofeedback, SMR neurofeedback, physical exercise, ...'Pointing and showing' problems for autistic children
...ey played games with an adult. The two groups were matched for mental age. A computer-based digital video analysis system was used to measure the use of voice and touch by an adult when playing with the child and instances of pointing and showing by the child itself. The technique enabled the researchers to ...Physicians not 'easy marks' for drug sales reps, argues O.R. study
...t of comparing drugs." If patients are incorrectly matched to a drug, the paper observes, they lose money and suffer the lack of physical relief from their ailment. Providing free samples helps reduce out-of-pocket cost to patients and alleviates some of the non-financial costs, as well.Their findings also s...Is a picture worth a thousand words? Not for young children
... because they knew the sound and image no longer matched properly, Sloutsky said. However, he said the adults "made the strategic choice" that the right visual was most important. The children in the study, however, gave no indication that the ...People only slightly more likely to die after episodes of stagnant air
... of weather reports in Seattle ending in 1995, and matched the weather data to mortality data. The study found 0.5 percent more deaths from cardiovascular events one day after an increase in stagnant weather, and 2 percent more deaths from respiratory problems and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease four d...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for January (second issue)
... with the condition (ages 11 to 46), along with 23 matched female controls, using a variety of cardio- respiratory tests, the investigators said that their ventilatory, cardiovascular, and cerebro-vascular responses to inadequate amounts of available oxygen in the blood were blunted, while their responses to...Heart gone haywire blamed in some sudden infant deaths
... were absent in the genes of 200 healthy, racially matched control subjects. "Long Q-T syndrome is sometimes called the perfect killer, because it leaves no clues," says Ackerman. "Neither does SIDS. Our goal is to discover the truth. SIDS will probably turn out to have 20 different underlying causes," h...Why trends in stroke death in 20th century appeared different to death from heart disease
.... Trends in death from cerebral infarction closely matched those for coronary heart disease death over the same timeframe. Debbie Lawlor comments: "These results resolve the paradoxical discordance between the epidemiology of stroke and that of coronary heart disease. The closely related trends in cerebral i...Aging lowers activity in brain's language areas; performance unaffected
...seline task, which was measured while participants matched consonant letter strings, e.g., "zqqpf" and "zqqpf." The comparison between each language task and the control task allowed the demonstration of brain regions more specifically devoted to language as opposed to low-level functions such as vision and ...Prenatal stem cell transplants may open door to organ transplants, treating genetic diseases
...stem cells, even though the donor animals were not matched with the recipients. "This was the first time that complete chimerism was achieved across mismatched donors and recipients without using toxic therapy," said Dr. Flake. "If this strategy can be made to work in people, there are broad implications for...Significantly lower physical activity levels in obese adolescents contribute to continued obesity
... to participate in the study and were individually matched by age and sex with 18 normal-weight (BMI The TEE of the two groups was not significantly different, nor were their resting metabolic rates. However, accelerometry indicated that the intensity and duration of physical activity and total amount of p...$2 million federal grant to study cancer drug action
...ds and Technology and makes annual grants that are matched by industry. GNS was founded two years ago, and ju...n the 2002 annual competition. The awards will be matched by industry cost-sharing of $92 million if carried through to completion. GNS was one of three New Y...Costs for surgical treatment of GERD not offset by savings on medications
...tients. The records of 123 surgical patients were matched to the records of 246 GERD patients managed without surgery. Patients were matched according to age, sex, and other factors. Slightly more than one-half (54 percent) of patients wer...