New treatment for type 2 diabetes puts insulin back to work
...nd exercise alone. This study found that, after 12 months of treatment, rosiglitazone produced better glycaemic control as measured by fasting plasma glucose. Only 49% of individuals taking the sulphonylurea achieved the target fasting plasma glucose level compared with 74% of individuals taking rosiglitazo...Review identifies factors leading to better outcome for some metastatic breast cancer patients
...tatic breast cancer patients after anaverage of 31 months of follow-up. However, the Duke study has a longe...his trial, published in 1996 with an average of 20 months offollow-up, showed that for patients who got immediate high dose therapy, thedisease took longer to...Keep taking the medicine, diabetes research warns
...gut, had not refilled their prescription in the 12 months after first receiving the drug. In the two other main classes of OADs currently used, metformin (which reduces glucose output from the liver) had a discontinuation rate of 27%, and sulphonylureas (which stimulate insulin production in the pancreas) h...Treatments reduce strep-triggered symptoms of OCD and tics in some children
...om severity at baseline and atone month and twelve months after treatment, using standardized assessments forOCD, tics, anxiety, depression, and normal behavior. Of the 29 children who completed the trial (19 boys, 10 girls), 10 received PEX,9 IVIG, and 10 placebo. Both PEX and IVIG produced substantial im...NICHD funded researchers discover gene for Rett syndrome
...M.D., the study'ssenior author. "At about 6 to 18 months of age, otherwise normal childrengradually stop re... their symptoms do not develop until about 6 to 18 months of age. Specifically, the genetic abnormality responsible for Rett syndromeinterferes with ...For early detection of Alzheimer's, loved ones know best
...ptoms and delayprogression of the disorder for six months or even longer. "I like to starttreatment in the early stages, when a patient's function is still good ratherthan wait until it drops way down," Morris says. Third, promising new treatments are on the horizon. This summer, for example, aSan Francisc...National Cancer Institute awards UNC-CH $5 million for unique prostate cancer studies
...before removal of androgens and regularlyevery few months until their cancers return. "This is provi... like in human patients and thenreturns about five months later and continues to grow in the absence ofandrogen," French said. "We are using the model to try ...... India, visits San Francisco once every fourto six months to chart the progress of the women in the one-year trial. Studyparticipants are prohibited from receiving any other treatments while enrolledin the trial, including both conventional and unconventional therapies. Allpatients will be regularly monitor...Seasons may change heart attack risk
...t fewer studies have related coronarydeaths to the months and the seasons. When University of Southern California researchers looked at deaths fromcoronary artery disease for a 12-year period in Los Angeles, they found therewere 33 percent more deaths in the holiday season of December and Januarycompared to...Fully endoscopic micro-surgery puts a former Jr. Olympic athlete back on the marathon trail
...ly 8,1998. On Dec. 5, 1999, slightly less than 17 months later, Baker, age 29, will dosomething he hasn't done since 1992. He will run a marathon. And not just anymarathon. This is the California International Marathon in Sacramento, aqualifying run for the Boston Marathon. Baker is calling his run "The Tr...Baby walkers may impede child development
...rics. The infants were first tested at 6, 9, or 12 months of age, and again threemonths later, using a stand...mental development wasmeasurable for as long as 10 months after initial use, it is likely that normalinfants who use newer-style walkers will catch up to thei...Discarded thymus tissue provides life for infants with DiGeorge Syndrome
...from babies undergoing surgery who are less than 3 months old. After the thymus has been in culture long enough, and blood samples fromthe donor baby have been collected and checked for infections, the pediatricsurgeons take over. They lay the thymus strips side by side, "like bacon in afrying pan,"...Efforts to tackle obesity should begin in early childhood
... a study of children (at the ages of 24, 49 and 61 months of age) born in the Bristol area between 1991-2, are in line with the evidence that there is a British epidemic of adult obesity say the authors. They call for efforts to prevent obesity to begin in early childhood. Dr John Reilly from the Universit...Cedars-Sinai Medical tip sheet for Oct. 14
...e Institute on July 8,1998. ThisDecember, just 17 months later, Baker will run the California InternationalMarathon to raise money for the nonprofit Skull Base Institute at Cedars-SinaiMedical Center. FREE CONFERENCE ON GENETIC MEDICINE AND THE JEWISH POPULATION TO BE HELD OCT. 24 Cedars-Sinai Medical C......behavioral responses to each dose of AMPH. At six months into the amphetamine exposure, the primates were tested on an array of cognitive tasks ranging from recognition memory, visual discrimination and spatial working memory. Primates previously exposed to amphetamines failed to successfully perform the ...Home exercise equipment increased weight-loss success in study
...level of exercise throughout the final months of the study. Although all 115 participants, aged 25 to 45, were instructed to dothe same amount of brisk walking for exercise each day, only about one-third had the optionof using treadmills installed in their ho...Mayo Clinic investigates new device to regulate beating of the heart and improve pump function
...ants are monitored at one month, three months, six months and every six months thereafter. The study is expected to last between 12 and 24 months. Patients who are interested ...Daughters' vulnerability, source of depression in women at high risk for ovarian cancer
...sments and again at a clinical follow-up six to 12 months later. They found that 33 per cent of the women were depressed at the initial assessment and 38 per cent were depressed at the follow-up. Aside from their own increased risks -- including disfiguring surgery and the loss of child-bearing capacity --...A growth factor reverses nerve damage in diabetic animals
...idt says. After the rats had been diabetic for six months -- enough time for nerve damage to occur -- the researchers gave some of them daily injections of IGF-I for two months. Compared with untreated counterparts, these rats had 80 percent fewer swollen nerve endings in the sympathetic nervous system. An...Time-released capsule delivers 'growth factor' to improve coronary bypass surgery
...n the control group. Nuclear stress testing three months after the surgery showed a worsening in theblood flow of the control group. There was no significant change in blood flowin the 10 microgram group. However, those in the high dose growth factor groupshowed improvement in blood flow. Also, the area...