Testosterone May Affect Learning Skills; May Be Put In Tablet Form
...et that dissolves in the mouth or a placebo. Three months later, the men receiving the hormone tablets had normal sexual function and performed significantly better than those getting the placebo, the results showed. The tablets allowed the men to perform as well sexually as when they received testosterone ...Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
... goodresponse to inhaled beta-agonists, even after months of daily use, contraryto earlier reports. Principal investigator Vernon M. Chinchilli, Ph.D., professor of biostatisticsat Hershey, masterminded the design for collection, management and analysisof the data from patients at five medical centers. The......olleagues, in their study of 232 infants below six months of age. While the thymus organ, located in the chest, becomes virtually nonfunctional in older age, it serves the important function in children of producing T lymphocyte immune cells. In particular, it produces the CD4+ helper T cells that are dep...It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
...0 percent of the bill. The lowest costs for 12 months of heart attack care belonged to the Pacific state...re readmitted for a catheterization during the six months following their initial admission. This includes patients who received a catheterization during the ...Premature Birth Sometimes Can Adversely Affect Infant's Ties To Mother
...y.All of the infants had spent an average of three months in intensive careat the University of Michigan Hospital and had survived without seriousphysical or neurological complications. Most troubling, Mangelsdorf said, was a decline in the rates of secure parent-infantrelationships in the first two years....Program Provides Treatment For Prison-Released HIV-Positive Women
... year had recidivism rates of 12percent within six months and 17 percent within 12 months. For comparison, a...gram had recidivism rates of 27 percent within six months and 39percent within one year. Forty-one HIV-negative women who had release dates andcharges that ma...ACTG 315 Preliminary Results: Drug Cocktail Restores Partial Immune Function
...ely advancedHIV disease who were treated for three months with an antiretroviraldrug cocktail show that immunity can be partially restored, accordingto preliminary results from AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG)315, supported by the National Institute of Allergy and InfectiousDiseases (NIAID). The drug comb...Drug And Radiation Treatment May Shrink Pancreatic And Gastric Tumors
...ithin three weeks after treatments began.After two months of treatments, tumors in several patients had decreased to asize to where they could be removed surgically. "Paclitaxel makes tumors much more sensitive to being killed by radiation,"said Safran, an assistant professor of medicine in the Brown Unive...Laser Shown Effective In Patients Who Are Not Candidates For Bypass Surgery Or Angioplasty
...do not begin to see major improvements until three months after the procedure,and the improvement typically continues for nine to 12 months, Lowe said. Lowe said it is premature to consider using TMR as a routine surgicaloption for patients with coronary artery disease. "Right now, the outcomes ......efit from chemotherapy. They are usually given six months to live. "So for these patients, we have set the clock back," Lewin said. "And they can go back to work in a day or so with a minimum of discomfort." Until recently, MRI was used only for diagnosis. Now doctors in a handful of medical...Laser Offers Hope For Heart Patients With No Alternatives
...do not begin to see major improvements until three months after the procedure,and the improvement usually continues for nine to 12 months, Lowe said. He added that it is too premature to consider using TMR as a routine surgicaloption for patients with coronary artery disease. "Right now, t...Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...ular theory was that it remained in the muscle for months while the body produced antibodies in response to ... for the antigen and stayed in the muscle for many months while the body continually produced antibodies," Hem says. Though this explanation was generally acc...Scientists Track Effectiveness Of Migraine Drugs With Ultrasound
...fore the patients receivedmedication and after six months treatment. The transcranial Doppler measures the speed at which the blood flowsthrough their arteries in the brain. Migraine patients usually have a highvelocity of blood flow, even without a headache, because their blood vesselsare constric...Psychiatric Symptoms May Signal Brain Damage From Diet Pills
...nkeys' brains continued to show signs of damage 17 months after taking a course of the drug. Much like the branches of a tree, neurons contain extensions called axons that transport messenger chemicals like serotonin and form synapses -- connections with other neurons. Fenfluramines damage serotonin-se...Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory collaborates with USDA in development of pasteurization process
... to begin at ERRC this fall and conclude about six months later. The PPPL team will assist the ERRC researchers in equipping their facility with the necessary RF power source, as well as providing the expertise to enable the measurement of power deposited, power launched, and launch efficiency. In addition,...Rats Receiving Ginkgo Biloba Learn Quicker, Live 20 Percent Longer Than Controls, UB Study Finds
...nimals, and unexpectedly, lived an average of five months longer. Winter found a significant positive relationship between the amount of active ingredient and degree of learning. The standard dose during most of the study was 50 mg/kg. However, one sub-group of animals was assigned to receive EGb ...Bi-Monthly Boosts Of Aspirin Benefit Heart
...ards) dose of aspirin. After three months of aspirin treatment, researchers sampled theparticipants' blood to test the platelets' ability to respond to stimuli, whichcauses them to clump. Platelets were tested for clumping in the presence andabsence of red blood cells. Thromboxane levels i...... combined. A second survey conducted five months after the first was used to assessthe effectiveness of the campaign. An additional 1,216 people were randomlysampled. The results of the second survey revealed a significant increase inpublic knowledge of stroke warning signs. For example, only 22 ...Do Deaths Of Babies From Birth Asphyxia Vary Depending On When They Are Born?
...h rare, seem to be more common at night and during months when annual leave is popular, suggest Stewart et al in this week's BMJ. The authors raise concerns about the variability of care around the time of delivery and from their study of 79 babies' deaths from birth asphyxia in Wales between 1993-5, the ...Airport Noise Can Seriously Affect The Health And Psychological Well-Being OfChildren
...re the airport was completed as well as six and 18 months after it opened. The children in the chronic noi...areasexperienced no significant changes. Eighteen months after the airport opened,the children exposed to the chronic aircraft noise also reported a signific...