Novel Therapy To Treat Lung Cancer Patients Enrolling Patients At UCSF Cancer Center
...Participating patients will be followed for twelve months and randomized toreceive infusions of the anti-VEGF antibody once every three weeks along withchemotherapy. Patients who are interested in participating in the trial should contact UCSFCancer Center trial coordinator Greg David at (415) 885-7283....Infants With Eye Problem Sought For NIH-Sponsored Study Of Congenital Esotropia
...esotropia is surgery when the child is between six months and twoyears of age. However, few, if any, of thes...cent studies show that early intervention before 6 months of age mayresult in high-grade binocular vision. This current NIH study is designed tolearn more abo......abies do fine, butothers die within days, weeks or months or have chronic breathing orneurological handicaps such as cerebral palsy. They also can be mentallyretarded or blind." The medical scientists conducted the study exclusively at UNC Hospitals,one of North Carolina's largest tertiary care cent...New Data Show Evista Reduces Spinal Fractures
...an those women takingplacebo with approximately 33 months of follow-up. These effects will befollowed over the longer term. In addition, Lilly will partner with the NationalSurgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project and the National Cancer Institute tosupport the upcoming Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (...Better Survival For Women With Breast Cancer -New Evidence On Chemotherapy
...nds at the time of surgery ("node-positive"), some months of chemotherapytypically prevented about 11 deaths... survival advantage from using more than about 3-6 months ofchemotherapy. Dr Michael Clarke, of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Oxford Unit and thestudy c...UCSF AIDS Expert Warns Against Early Treatment For HIV Infection
...rugs to persons who havebeen infected for several months or years. Many people may be without symptomsand in good health, but as soon as an HIV-positive diagnosis is made, they areusually placed on therapy immediately, he explains. In Levy's view, current drug regimens should be prescribed only for pat...Study Ties Cerebral Palsy To Inflammation And Blood-Clotting Abnormalities
...he disorder. "By the time the child is diagnosed, months or years after birth, the trail isalready cold," says Dr. Nelson. In the new study, the researchers measured concentrations of more than 50substances in dried blood samples from 31 children who had developed CP and 65who had not. Most of the childre...Clinical Trials Announced Using Non-Invasive Innovative MRI To Diagnose Breast Tumors
...en, we believe, women are told to come back in six months to be re-checked," Dr.Kelcz said. "We were very favorably impressed with the excellent results obtained using Prof. Degani's new method of breast imaging. This method shows promise as a consistent, reliable approach to MRI breast diagnosis, perhaps ...UCSF Recruting Breast Cancer Patients For Herbal Therapy Study
...formula.The study will run for approximately 12-18 months and involves 60 women. TheArkay Foundation, a non-profit organization interested in women's health andalternative therapies, helped to fund the clinical trial. It has been approvedby UCSF's Cancer Center Scientific Protocol Review Committee and the ...Hormone Therapy Increases Survival Of High Risk Prostate Cancer Patients
...rm therapy was administered to men for two to four months before andduring radiotherapy and long-term therapy for generally two years or longer. All men in the study had clinically localized prostate cancer, meaning that thedisease had not spread to other parts of the body but was biologically advanced. St...Study Shows Three-Drug "Cocktail" Needed To Keep AIDS Virus Curbed
...haps we could give the more complex therapyfor six months and then reduce it to something simpler and more easily tolerated,"Eron said. "At least in these patients, reducing therapy just didn’t work." The researchers, led by Dr. Diane V. Havlir of the University of California at SanDiego, found that v......e visualized by ultrasonography in the first three months ofintrauterine life. Research suggests that screening by maternal age and thickness of skinat the neck now identifies more than 80 percent of affected fetuses. When thematernal blood proteins free b hCG and PAPP-A at 10- to 14-weeks' gestat...Changing Drug Delivery For Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Increases Effectiveness, Lowers Costs
...entswere on the oral medication for at least three months and then switched andstarted receiving the methotrexate for at least three months by injection. Partially because of side effects, such as nausea, 31 percent chose toswitch t...First Drug Shown Effective For Treating Chronic Forms Of Major Depression
... called sertraline "very well tolerated" over many months atan average daily dose of about 146 mg. Indeed, just one side effect wasfound to be statistically significant. Thirteen sertraline patients complained ofsexual dysfunction compared to two individuals on placebo, a side effectcommon...Physicians Study Whether "Super-Aspirin" Prevents Alzheimer's
...wo years, and patients will be evaluated every few months byphysicians. (Vioxx is manufactured by Merck, which is funding the$6 million nationwide study.) If the drug does work, fewerpatients will develop the disease than physicians would normallyexpect. "This is one of the first studies to look at pos...Discovery: Experiments Confirm Novel Eye Pigment Controls Circadian Rhythm
...r SAD, suffer serious depression during the winter months with short daylight.It may be that SAD patients have a defective gene that doesn't produce thepigment properly or simply suffer from a vitamin B-2 deficiency. Maybe we cantreat some patients with vitamin B-2." Second, industrial accidents suc...... those prescribed NT occurred during the first two months oftreatment. Psychotherapy among those less sever...produceda more gradual improvement, but after four months both groups showed similarclinical improvement. A major purpose of this study was to assess...A New Era In Newborn Screening
...s to mental retardation ifnot treated in the first months of life, were collected in the hospital at threedays of age or later, when the hallmarks of PKU can be detected in the blood bystandard tests. In recent years, however, most mothers and infants have gonehome well before 72 hours, necessitating eithe...... median time inremission before relapse is only 12 months with current treatments. Relapsed patients are t...rter duration than the prior CR (amedian of only 6 months in the case of CR2 patients). The objective of Maxamine Therapy is to treat AML patients in remiss......table,checking serum concentrations once every six months or once every year isgenerally appropriate," he says. Thus, according to Patterson, the study's take-home message for the lay publicis straightforward. "This is a good drug to use in heart failure. It'sinexpensive, it can be given once a day, and it ...