Who should have heart bypass surgery? New guidelines will help doctors, patients decide together
...nd benefits together," says Eagle. "Weeven address newer procedures, such as minimally invasive bypass, for which weurge caution in the face of uncertainty over success rates and complications." The guidelines also present the best ways to prevent problems such as infection,heart rhythm problems and stroke...To build a better artificial hip, UD prof says, mimic Mother Nature
...r side of the bone,the lateral cortex region. This newer strategy has reportedly been successful so far, Santare says. But,Miller says, inserting bolts into the femur could increase the risk of cracks. Taking a tip from nature To reduce stress shielding and prevent bone atrophy, Santare and Advani first...... most frequently prescribed implant treatment, but newer therapies have emerged, includingPalladium-103. Prostate cancer implant programs using either Iodine-125 or Palladium-103 radioactive seeds have been extremelysuccessful in treating early prostate cancer. About 30,000 prostate implants will be perfor...Study examined switching rates between Allegra® (fexofenadine HCl) and Claritin®
...tched from Allegra to Claritin. "Usage data about newer therapies is important for managed care organizations to analyze so they can understand physician and patient preferences," said Lewis Roht, M.D., Director of Drug Surveillance and Epidemiology at Hoechst Marion Roussel. Other Studies Other data pr......, its author says, older Americans appear drawn to newer long-term care options, including assisted living and care provided within their own homes. While it bodes ill for the struggling nursing home industry, the trend may hearten those who have long fought the institutionalization of elders with disabili...Eastman gives Clemson University $38 million fiber technology
... to sit on a shelf and gradually lose its value to newer technology Clemson is a recognized leader in engineered-fiber research through its School of Textiles, Fiber and Polymer Science. The school is a participant in the Clemson-based Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films, one of the nation's...Wake Forest study shows women suffer from 'gender gap' in treatment of severe psoriasis
...finally address this inequity, Fleischer said. The newer drugs do not carry risk of birth defects or premature delivery. Psoriasis is a chronic disease that leaves the skin red and scaly. The affected areas are uncomfortable and easily irritated. Anyone with psoriasis covering more than 10 percent of th......ir families. We now know the profound impact that newer antipsychotic medications can have on improving patients' lives. We should be working towards the widespread adoption of new therapies, including the new atypical antipsychotics, which have proven benefits in terms of cost and outcomes" said Gary Hog...ACP-ASIM issues guidelines for precribing antidepressant drugs
...ernal Medicine (ACP-ASIM), say that both older and newer antidepressant drugs are effective, and that St. J...ting major depression, such as tricyclics, and the newer drugs, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), have different side effects, interac...Ritalin and Prozac: Study finds more kids using both drug types together
...chigan. The new study also documents the rise of a newer phenomenon: kids who are prescribed both kinds of ...y percent of children in the study who were on the newer type of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, also took stimulan...25-minute test distinguishes between different types of schizophrenia
...oup have shown it can be recovered with the use of newer antipsychotic drugs. In the current study, information processing deficits (PPI scores) in early onset schizophrenia were shown to be more severe and less amenable to antipsychotics. The implications from the research findings suggest that people wit...11th July 2000, Brussels -- Treatment with the newer antipsychotic medication Risperdal® (risperido...eness (1,901 patients, 61 centres, 9 countries) of newer treatments for schizophrenia and showed that treating patients with schizophrenia with Risperdal, ve......d effort to examine risk protection offered by the newer preparations. "Until now, few women taking the low-dose preparations had passed through the critical 20- to-30-year window during which the incidence of ovarian cancer rises," explained Dr. Ness. "Ours is the first study to observe a sufficiently lo...New antipsychotic drugs combined with nicotine patch help schizophrenics quit smoking
New Haven, Conn. Schizophrenics who took the newer anti-psychotic drugs along with the nicotine patch...less motor side effects. "This confirms that the newer medications used to treat schizophrenia also might be helpful for these patients in treating smoking...VA trial to weigh aspirin against other anti-clotting drugs in heart disease patients
...se two old drugs against each other, and against a newer drug called clopidogrel, to see which of them prevents more heart attacks, strokes, and deaths in patients with chronic heart failure. Unlike most international clinical trials in recent years, the 4,500-patient study will not be predominantly funde...Newer form of 'gold standard' drug helps kidney transplant patients do better in long term
...plant patients fare better over the long term with newer form of "gold standard" drug, study finds ANN AR...sort out which had been treated with the older and newer forms of cyclosporine, and how they fared during the first four years after their transplant. Since......s method will serve as the control against which a newer strategy insulin sensitization will be tested. Insulin sensitization uses drugs such as metformin or rosiglitazone to lessen the bodys resistance to insulin, thus allowing the body to properly use the insulin it normally produces. All patients will...Gasoline additive interferes with alcohol breath analyzers
...e the presence of alcohol in the breath, while the newer Alcotest uses electrochemical and infrared absorpt...unable to create a false positive reading with the newer more advanced Alcotest. This instrument successfully identified the interference invalidating the te...UNC expands national clinical trials of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's drugs
... act primarily on the brain's dopamine system, the newer drugs being studied by the CATIE project also act on serotonin and nonrepinephrine systems. They also cost at least 10 times more than the first generation anti-psychotics. CATIE results will help determine if they are effective and whether they are ......he findings may redirect research into many of the newer treatments designed to prevent memory problems. The study, published in todays Annals of Neurology, found that in older people with MCI, the brain produces more choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), an enzyme that is important in memory and cognitive fun...