New Drug Prevents Breast Cancer In Postmenopausal Women, UCSF Researchers Report
...l 43,500. Because breast cancer can take five or more years to become detectable, Cummingssaid that the study will continue for at least another four years to determinethe long-term benefits of raloxifene in women. He added that the women who areparticipating in the clinical trials are making enormous ...ONYX Pharmaceuticals Reports Phase II Clinical Trial Results At ASCO Meeting
...typeof genetic abnormality in cancer, occurring in more than 50 percent of humancancer cases, including more than 70 percent of recurrent and refractory cancersof the head and neck. Onyx Pharmaceuticals was f...UCSF Hospitalists May Be Key To Shorter, Less Costly Hospital Stays
...year. "What you have with the hospitalist model is more direct supervision byindividuals who are more experienced in this attending role, more skilled in itand for whom this role is a larger part of the...Polish Dumpling-Like Particle Has Potential In Drug Delivery
...ne- carrying systems. It makes the particle a lot more versatile and the rubbery core should allow a high...ess a solvent was used. The new core is made of a more flexible material, polyisoprene, which has cross-linking capabilities that give the structure its ru...American Heart Association Comment: Tirofiban -- The Platelet Receptor Blocker For Heart Attack
...t the tip of the iceberg, but individuals may need more ways to fightthe underlying disease -- atheroscler...ical Center, New York. For interviews or more information, please contact Carole Bullock of theAHA's News Media Relations department at (214) 706-...National Office Of Drug Safety Is Needed, Experts Say In JAMA
...anyone else in thegovernment. "It makes no more sense to monitor drug safety without knowing theextent of serious injuries than to have a National Highway Transportation SafetyAdministration that operated without information about automobile accidents or aFederal Aviation Administration (FAA) that...Metrifonate, A New Alzheimer Drug, Helps Behavior Problems
...take drugs in thisclass seem brighter, demonstrate more initiative and are easier to get alongwith in general," says John C. Morris, M.D., the Harvey A. and Dorismae HackerFriedman Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine inSt. Louis. "This is the first controlled study to docume...Advisory: Nasal Spray Influenza Vaccine
...well in cooler nasalpassages and did not mutate to more dangerous forms. From 1973 to the present,in collaboration with NIAID and more recently with Aviron, Maassab has beenrefining the vaccine and proving that it is not virulent to hu...... admissions to coronary care units, accounting for more than 1.4 millionhospitalizations per year in the United States. Tirofiban, a member of a newclass of anti-platelet inhibitors, proved so effective in decreasing theincidence of post-angina heart-attacks that the researchers recommended its useas par...Dermatologists Recommend Raising Age for Insurance Coverage for Acne Drugs to Age 40 -- or Beyond
...undertook their study to give insurance companiesa more rational basis for setting age criteria for tretinoin coverage. They studied data on visits to the doctor gathered as part of theNational Ambulatory Medical Care Survey for 1990 through 1994 to determine theages of people who visited a doctor...How Can Parents Treat Colic In Their Babies?
...ural interventions, such as teaching parents to be more appropriately responsive to their infants and more effectively soothing, may help reduce crying. The authors argue strongly that drug treatment of inf...Drug's Effect On Chromosomes May Explain Second Cancers
...tical -- a guilt-by-association phenomenon.We need more data on what’s actually happening in cells and on whatthe downstream consequences are of telomere-specific damage.”...Wistar Scientist Awarded American Cancer Society Grant For Study Of Tumor Suppressor Proteins
...dent medicalresearch facility in the country. For more than 100 years, Wistar scientistshave been making history and improving world health through their development ofvaccines for diseases that include rabies, German measles, infantilegastroenteritis (rotavirus), and cytomegalovirus; discovery of molecu...Prevalence Of Silicosis Studied In Surface Coal Miners
...that of surface coal miners who worked as drillers more than 20 years, 61percent had silicosis. T...wareness practices. "Silicosis has killed more people in Pennsylvania than any other state.The results of this study demonstrate that silicosis is ...New Treatment Targets Most Malignant Brain Tumors
...ioactiveisotope, Astatine-211, that has been a far more efficient cancer-killer inlaboratory studies. Also...hat travel through only a fewcells, instead of the more penetrating beta particles emitted by Iodine-131. Inaddition, Astatine-211 produces much lower level...New Radiation Procedure Targets Liver Malignancies
...to the therapy. Our prior studies, which involved more than 100 patients, have shown this to be the case," says Cornelius McGinn, M.D., a radiation oncologist and lead investigator on the U-M liver cancer study. For 10 years, U-M researchers William Ensminger , M.D., Ph.D., Theodore Lawrence, M.D., Ph......RH-antagonists could therefore lead to a fasterand more effective therapeutic response than classical antidepressants, andrepresents a completely new mode of action.......ine, and alcohol and the link between nicotine and more severe psychological disturbances such as depressi...mokers, she points out, a cigarette today is worth more than good health 35 years down the road. She notes that in deciding whether or not to quit, smokers...... Children who don't take prescribed medication are more likely to befound in families where affection isn'... "Some of us just don't respondemotionally"-- were more likely to have a child with asthma who did not follow aphysician's instructions for medication use. ...