Cholesterol lowering margarine may not benefit those already eating a healthy diet
...on in total cholesterol of 7.4 per cent over a six month period and after 12 months saw a 10.2 per cent fall. This reduction translates into a 13 per cent decrease in the risk of coronary disease over 10 years, says the author. However, a separate trial has shown that people with a low intake of fat and ...Chronic, heavy cocaine use associated with long-lasting impaired function
...ividualswho had used cocaine at least four times a month for one year or longer and gavea urine sample positive for cocaine at the time of admission into the study. This group was compared to a control group of 21 individuals with no history ofdrug use except perhaps nicotine, who said they had not had mor...Senior volunteering indicates well-being
... 45 percent ofmen volunteered more than 10 hours a month compared with 62 percent of women. -- Many retired men -- about one-third -- continued to work after retirement,compared with only about one-fifth of female retirees. Paid employment afterretirement was linked to well-being for men but not for wome...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...aper, glass, metal, or other householdtrash in the month before the survey. Urban residents and those with the mosteducation are the most active in this regard. Many citizens are not happy withwater and air quality. As in past years, 30 percent rate Virginia's waterquality as fair or poor, and 29 percent g...Renowned researcher in prenatal diagnostics joins Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
...so we weren't alarmed based on that." But about a month before Eagan's birth, researchers announced that high/normalresults were often being associated with heart defects. Eagan did, in fact, havea heart condition, called transposition of the great vessels, which was detectedwith a subsequent ultrasound. ...Cedars-Sinai is first site in California offering LDL apheresis to treat severehypercholesterolemia
...rapy usually must be performedone or two times per month for the remainder of a patient's life. Researchershope, however, that advances in drug therapy may someday allow the frequency oftreatments to be reduced. The technique is similar to plasmapheresis. Blood is separated into plasma andred cells, with...Mitral valve repair at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center gets Los Angeles dentist on the road to recovery
...exercising to prevent the tissue from scarring." A month after surgery, Dr. Bredberg had already officiated at a wedding and was looking forward to returning to his part-time dental practice in another week. He was gradually increasing his exercise, walking about half an hour each day and climbing 400 to 5......ch and were nearly twice as likely to die within a month of beinghospitalized for heart problems than were patients treated in North America. The study also found that the Latin American patients received far fewerdiagnostic procedures and only half as many angioplasties and cardiac bypasssurgeries as did ...New HIV drug intervention cheap and effective
...revented 603 infections during the hypothetical 12 month period. This was about one-tenth the cost of the most expensive treatment, the AZT/lamivudine trial begun during pregnancy, which cost nearly $900,000 and prevented 315 HIV infections. The targeted nevirapine program was the second cheapest and effe...New links found between an 'iron' gene mutation and increased risk for heart attack and stroke
...art, because their iron reserves are depleted each month duringmenstruation. Researchers studied 12,239 middle-aged women living in Utrecht, Netherlands. Thewomen were followed for 16 to 18 years. "Testing for the hemochromatosis genemay play a critical role in predicting a postmenopausal woman's risk forc...U.S., Mexican scientific societies honor former Penn State professor
... societies in the U.S. and Mexico join forces this month to honor aformer Penn State professor for his landmark work to develop a cheaper way tomass produce the hormone progesterone. The work later led to the wideavailability of such products as oral contraceptives and cortisone, a treatmentfor rheumatoid...Treatments reduce strep-triggered symptoms of OCD and tics in some children
...chers rated symptom severity at baseline and atone month and twelve months after treatment, using standardi...; PEX alsoimproved tic symptoms. Ratings done one month after treatment revealed thatpatients in both the PEX and IVIG groups were much improved. In contra...Engineering pits beneath London Underground tracks are helping to save lives
...alling or jumping in front of trains during the 15 month period between January 1996 to March 1997. They found that of the 25 patients who survived, 18 had been involved in an incident at a station with a pit. and only five had lived after falling or jumping at stations with no pit (for two patients the e...UI-led study indicates surgery is the best treatment for severe Bell's palsy paralysis
...end the patients to someone within two weeks,not a month or six months." Results from the UI-led Bell's palsy investigation appear in a recent issue ofThe Laryngoscope....'Biochemical storm' following brain trauma, an important factor in treatment
...ant structural proteins in the brain for up to one month afterward -- weeks longer than previously suspected, according to a University of Florida Brain Institute researcher. The finding, based on studies in rats, suggests that treatment for traumatic brain injury must take into account tissue damage that ...Drug trends among American teens
...roportion reporting any alcohol consumption in the month prior to the survey. These rates stand at 24 percent, 40 percent, and 51 percent in grades eight, 10, and 12, respectively. There may have been a slight one-year "uptick" in binge drinking---consuming five or more drinks in a row sometime in the pr...Colorado most dangerous state in nation for avalanche fatalities
...alanche fatalities have been recorded during every month of the year in Colorado. * The highest number of fatalities occur in January, February and March, when the snowfall amounts are highest in most mountain areas. A significant number of deaths occur in May and June, demonstrating the hidden dange...Growing blood vessels around clots in leg arteries may treat painful walking
...e drug or a "dummy" substance delivered twice, one month apart, by injection into arteries in both legs near the patient's hipbone. Chiron Corp., makers of rFGF-2, is funding the Phase II clinical trial, which is being dubbed "TRAFFIC" - Therapeutic Angiogenesis with FGF For Intermittent Claudica...New study underscores effectiveness of methadone maintenance as treatment for heroin addiction
... the first 6 months of maintenance, and 1 hour per month of individual therapy. Patients in the detoxification group received methadone only for the first 180 days of their treatment. During their first 6 months of treatment, the detoxification group was required to attend 2 hours per week of substance a...