Cure For Abnormal Heart Rhythm Available To More People
...With the upgraded technique, physicians insert the multiple electrode-bearingcatheter into a person's blood vessel and guide it into the heart to search forthe tissue housing the abnormal rhythm. Once the abnormal heart tissue isdetected, radiowaves heat and destroy the tissue. "The multielectrode ba...Margin Width The Key To Control Of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Of The Breast
...ng the best possible cosmetic result. At USC weuse multiple guide wires in surgeries to localize all DCIS lesions followed bycomplete and sequential tissue processing," says Silverstein. "It's verydifficult to remove a DCIS and achieve an adequate margin using a single wire,which is the current standard throu...... Thecorrelation, while small, has been reported in multiple studies. And because, onaverage, men's bodies are bigger than women's, their heads too are larger thanwomen's. So, one might reasonably expect men to be more intelligent than women.This is not the case, however - men and women consistently score equa...Breakthrough New Therapy Uses Antibody-Targeted Chemotherapy To Fight Leukemia
...nlike standardchemotherapy regimens, which involve multiple drugs, CMA-676 is given alone. Itis thus less likely to produce serious drug-drug interactions. Similar studies of this new therapy are underway throughout Europe and Canada,and the developers of CMA-676 eventually hope to adapt their groundbreaki...Kidney Transplant Recipients Require Less Long-Term Care If They Receive Well-Matched Donor Organs
...ent's other organs. Previous studiessuggested that multiple differences in the surface markers, called HLA markers,had little effect on kidney rejection of transplanted kidneys. In the new study of 27,050 kidney transplants, the investigatorsdemonstrated a significant increase in the need for care wit...Progress In Cancer-Vaccine Studies: Simpler, Safer Approach Producing Encouraging Results
...L-12 dose had significantbenefit. One patient with multiple metastatic tumors in both lungs had acomplete response and has been disease free for more than a year. In two other patients, the tumors decreased in size and have remained stable formore than a year. Three patients had some of their tumors shrink an......also suggest. Moreover, those patients who receive multiple infusions of bone marrow have thelowest risk of ac...rrow, the risk ofacute rejection for those who had multiple infusions was 54 percent. Of the 271bone marrow patients, 229 received a single infusion of bone ma...Intestine Transplant Results Reported At American Society Of Transplantation Meeting
..., 58 received liver andsmall bowel and 15 received multiple organs. Surgeons reported that a number of factors have contributed to improved one-yearsurvival, including: improved management of rejection with a three-drugcocktail of tacrolimus, steroids and daclizumab; refined donor and recipientselection crit...Abgenix Reports Positive Survival Data From A Phase II Trial Of ABX-CBL In Graft Versus Host Disease
...resulting in GVHD. Ittypically involves damage to multiple organ systems, including the skin, liverand intest...herapy. Abgenix has collaborative arrangementswith multiple pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies involving its XenoMousetechnology. In addition, Abgenix ...DDW Studies Present Evidence That Thalomid (Thalidomide) Is Active In Treating Crohn's Disease
...tly,THALOMIDR received orphan drug designation for multiple myeloma and Crohn'sdisease. Thalidomide is contraindicated in pregnant women and women capable of becomingpregnant. Even a single capsule taken by a pregnant woman can cause severebirth defects or death to an unborn baby. The major adverse drug rea...Can a terminally ill person want to hasten death and be mentally competent?
...vey respondents include the need for assessmentsat multiple points in time and mandatory psychotherapy or trials withantidepressants. However, Oregon's experience to date shows that a substantialfraction of the people who have made requests for hastened death have not livedthrough the required 15-day waiting...Researchers develop better means to diagnose adrenal gland tumors
...in 26patients with VHL disease and 9 patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type2 (MEN2), another rare genetic disease characterized by pheochromocytomas. Useof the new test detected 97 percent of the tumors, whereas the other testsdetected only 47 to 74 percent of tumors. Although particularly useful i...Faculty research contributes to new cervical cancer treatment
...nd South America. There are believed to be multiple causes. Chief among the risk factorsare the Human Papilloma (or wart) virus, sexual activity during adolescence, andcigarette smoking. However, many women without these risk factors developcervical cancer, and most women who carry Human Papilloma nev...Follow-up care can reduce hospital readmission rate, cost
...tervention group (6.2percent vs. 14.5 percent) had multiple readmissions. The patients receiving nurse follow-up also were able to remain out ofthe hospital longer before being readmitted. The difference in total Medicare costs between the two groups also wassignificant -- $1.2 million for the control group v......d die of secondary causes includinghemorrhages and multiple lesions (encephalic, cardiac, pulmonary,intra-abdominal)."...3-D magnetic resonance imaging safer way to diagnose heart disease
... Boston andsenior author of the study. "We have multiple methods to try to determine if our patients have coronaryheart disease," says Manning. "However, we have no methods to image thecoronary arteries themselves that do not require injecting a dye into a bloodvessel." Manning and his research colleagues...... of an irregularly shapedheart, and often requires multiple images which are time-consuming to acquiresince the image is presented one section, or slice, at a time. In addition to using 3-D echocardiography, a cardiologist can acquire adigital copy of the entire heart in a single beat, eliminating ...NOVANTRONE application for multiple sclerosis granted priority review by FDA
...hetreatment of patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) on June7, 1999. "This is an important milestone in the development of NOVANTRONE as apotential treatment for people with secondary progressive MS," said Peggy V.Phillips, senior vice president, pharmaceutical development for Im...Scientists can now see sense of smell
...mpare such responses to multipleconcentrations and multiple chemicals in the same animal, because the onlytechnique available was to use tracers that could only detect response to asingle odorant," said Katz. "Also, that technique required killing the animaland doing detailed analyses that took weeks." ......thma, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, inflammatorybowel disease, psoriasis and cancer....