Study finds HIV breastfeeding risk highest in early months after birth
...rough breastfeedingis highest during the first few months of life, according to a new studyconducted among H...ly half(21) of the infections occurred within five months after birth. Another 15babies became infected between postnatal months 6 and 11, and seven more bet...First medication to target PCP addiction is reported by Arkansas researchers
...t least two weeks-a periodequivalent to one to two months in humans, Owens said. This fast-acting therapy could make a profound difference in the way PCP addictsare treated, enabling doctors to offer addicts an effective anti-addictionmedication that works immediately. By contrast, antibody-based approa...Emergency angioplasty or bypass surgery saves lives of heart attack patients with cardiogenic shock
...c shock experience an improvement in survival at 6 months when treatedwith balloon angioplasty or coronary bypass surgery compared to patients whoreceive intensive medical care to stabilize their condition, according to astudy funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). The resu...Alcohol researchers identify new medication that lessens relapse risk
...ately one-half of whomrelapse within the first few months of most behavioral treatments." Severalpharmaceutical companies have approached the University of Miami to review thenalmefene data in support of a new drug application to the FDA, Dr. Mason said. "As neuroscience research advances knowledge of how ...Behavioral program boosts antibody that fights breast cancer
... cortisol at four and eight months after surgery than did brea... antibody levels rebound at eight and 12 months aftersurgery. But antibody levels remained low for non-participants. ...Mitral valve repair at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center gets Los Angeles dentist on the road to recovery
...s then put on a fairly low dose of digoxen for six months and then, a few months later, I woke up with fibrillation again." Another EKG was ordered, and a subsequent angiogram indic...Selective and nonselective beta-blockers equally effective in preventing sudden death
...ograms (ECG) of the patientsbefore and after three months of therapy with either a selective beta-blocker,which inhibits the beta 1 receptor, or a nonselective beta-blocker, whichinhibits both the beta 1 and the beta 2 receptors. Congestive heart failure kills more than 43,000 people in the UnitedSt...Heart failure deaths reduced by 30 percent with new drug regimen
...ecember, 1999, the RALES trial was halted afull 18 months early. The Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB), an independentoversight committee, concluded that the results were so statistically andclinically significant that it would have been unethical to continue the trial. Among the 1,663 patients randomiz...Health plays a crucial role in California labor market, according to UCSF researchers
...oblems. In addition, those who lost jobs in the12 months prior to the 1998 survey were twice as likely to experience worsened health and onset of disability than those who did not lose their jobs, according to researchers. The California Work and Health Survey, led by Yelin and co-principal investigator, ...Turning off cancer shield may allow safer cancer therapy
...nthad developed tumors or other lesions even seven months later. "The results of our study may translate into a new concept for using p53 incancer treatment that would help cancer patients who suffer from incapacitatingside effects," Gudkov said. "This is a novel concept--to be able to suppress the damage o...Research shows low lead in body can cause spontaneous abortion
...rty-six of 562subjects still participating at five months gestation already had lost theirbabies. "We did not find many infections that could cause spontaneous abortions,but we did find a dose response for lead," said Hertz-Picciotto, also a fellowat UNC-CH's Carolina Population Center. "That means...Some HIV patients show no viral rebound after stopping drugs
...t one of thesubjects had begun therapy within four months of infection with HIV, so thevirus was suppressed ...nts, the virus remained low for between fourand 24 months after stopping drug therapy. The other three subjects had thevirus rebound significantly. The rese...Breaking the worst possible news in the best possible manner
...ews were conducted with 50 family members aboutsix months following the death of a loved one who was treated in the EmergencyRoom or the TICU. The findings were presented Sept. 17 at the AmericanAssociation of the Surgery for Trauma in Boston by Dr. Gregory Jurkovich, chiefof trauma at Harborview Medical Ce...UI study suggests variable effects of fetal alcohol syndrome on brain
...ions to .17 to.27 mg percent) for several weeks or months had more axons in their corpuscallosums than did control animals. These axons conduct signals from one side ofthe brain to the other. In contrast, Miller said, the research on humansaffected by fetal alcohol syndrome was generally based on extreme ca...Pacemaker for larynx allows patients to breathe easier
... she could breathe.The IPG device was implanted 16 months ago and doctors have been watching herprogress. After repeated tests, including pulmonary function tests and treadmill tests (to measure breathing capacity) and endoscopic tests (to view thestimulated movement of the vocal folds), Burns tracheotomy t...Fire ants can attack humans in homes or health care facilities
.... Onedied five days after the attack, the other 13 months later. Both facilities hadbeen treated by pest control services in the previous days. Fire ants arrived in the U.S. about 60 years ago and have spread across theSoutheastern U.S. and Puerto Rico. They have consumed most of the native blackant populat...Study finds concussions affect brain behavior in hockey players
...diagnosis, andrepeated at two weeks, one and three months following the injury. All injured players were diagnosed with mild concussions, withconditions ranging from no loss of consciousness to brief unconsciousness. Somespent a day or two in the hospital. Gaetz is currently ...'Plug and patch' method of hernia repair an effective replacement for old surgical methods
...nt is under general anesthesia. Recovery can take months and is oftenaccompanied by discomfort and reduced activity. With the "plug and patch" method, surgeons make a two-inch incision near thegroin area, and then cut away the underlying tissue to access the hole. Whilecarefully avoiding crucial nerves a...Breast milk only for first four months helps protect against asthma and atopy
...er than breast milk until a child is at least four months of age may protect against asthma and atopy (a pre... had been exclusively breast fed for at least four months after they were born. Oddy et al speculate that the protective effect of breast feeding may operate ......PEP) Projectbecame infected with HIV more than six months after their initial exposure tothe virus because o...ents have subsequently becomeinfected at least six months after their initial exposure to the virus. Threeexperienced seroconversion, the point at which HIV ...