Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...itial fluid." Hem also questioned why the body did not create a wall around the particles, as would be ex... amount of aluminum-26, a form of aluminum that is not found in nature. By incorporating aluminum-26 along with aluminum-27 -- the naturally occurring form...New Drug For Parkinson's Disease Proves Effective, Study Finds
...ke current drugs, pramipexole dihydrochloride does not cause lightheadedness resulting from a noticeable ...ith symptoms of early Parkinson's disease who were not being treated with levodopa were randomly divided into five treatment groups.Members of one group re...Milk Extract May Heal Wounds And Smooth Wrinkles
...peed up the healing of wounds. The scientists are not suggesting people should follow the ancient Egyptianqueen's example and take baths in milk. Instead they have extracted a fewof the thousands of substances found in milk, and have found they can greatlyspeed up wound-healing in animals. The extract ...TB Prophylaxis Unnecessary In HIV-Infected People With Anergy, Study Suggests
...rculosis (TB) but without confirmedTB infection do not benefit from preventive treatment with a front-lin...in each group during thesix-month study period did not differ significantly. "Our findings suggest that giving INH to people in this group is probably notw...Mother's Milk: Nutrition And Nurture For Infants -- And The Best Defense Against Disease
... hormones, and growth factors in breast milk would not surviveexposure to the digestive acids. "B...as when the motheris HIV-positive but the child is not -- such cases are rare, they say. In thegreat majority of situations, mothers should be strongly enc...Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine By U-M Researcher Is 93% Effective
...rus that bred well incooler nasal passages and did not mutate to more dangerous forms. From 1973 tothe p...s been refining the vaccine and proving that it is not virulent to humans. Aviron expects to file an application with the Food and Drug Administra...Training Urged For Mothers Of Children With Cancer
... ofdeath that is embodied in the word "cancer," is not a skill which will have beenlearned by most parent... their general well-being and physical health were not as highas reported by mothers who did not have children with cancer. "There is no reason to ......s about gooddriving behavior and traffic safety is not enough to change baddriving. The threat of severe ...education, curfews and raisingthe drinking age are not enough to change bad driving behaviorswithout also including the threat of getting a ticket or losin..."Super Aspirin" Holds Long-Term Benefits For Some Patients Who Undergo Balloon Angioplasty
...ectiveness is vital to understanding whether or not ReoPro™ should be used in lower risk patient populations." Dr. Fischman suggests that further investigation is necessary to address this issue. "Future development of oral agents similar to ReoPro™ promises to further e...Condemnation May Be Driving Circumcised Women From Health Care
... "Blanket condemnation by health workers will not help families decidehow to break a long-standing tradition by choosing not to circumcise theirdaughters," the authors write. "On the contrary, by unwittingly conveyingrevulsi...New Ultrasound Technique Is Alternative To Cerebral Angiography
...United States after heart disease and cancer. When not fatal, stroke can leavebrain functions impaired. A...orm blood clots, leavingpatients at risk of stroke not only during the procedure but for several hoursafterward. And, said Hirsch, "the risk is exponential...Ultrasound Helps Pediatric Heart Surgeons After Open Heart Surgery
.... The echocardiogram has additional risks not present with a non-invasivemethod like the transcr...hat (transcranial Doppler)is just a single window, not enough to see the whole inside of the house, butwith two or three other windows, you get a better pi...Studies Find Public Policies For Children And Teenagers Not Very Effective
... style and drug use with 264 otherstudents who did not participate in the program. Both groups werere-exa... skills indicatethat they do help students who are not sexually active delay theinitiation of sexual activity. These programs did not, however,keep teenage...Scientists Track Effectiveness Of Migraine Drugs With Ultrasound
...ines, evenduring the periods when the patient does not have a headache. Chung will present his findings August 15th at the meeting of InternationalNeurosonology '97 sponsored by the World Federation of Neurology and the BowmanGray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University. C...Psychiatric Symptoms May Signal Brain Damage From Diet Pills
...and hence at risk for serious health problems, but not for a person who just wants to lose a few pounds f...secreting neurons by pruning these axons, which do not grow back in monkeys, although studies show that they do in rodents. And since human brains are mo...New Test May Improve Treatment Of Kidney Disease
... "Individualizing treatment plans for patients is not a new idea inmedicine, but this is the firsttime t...s hasshown that somepatients -- who previously had not been helped much by medication -- haveresponded quickly tomedications found effective in the assays....Cancer Protection Compound Abundant In Broccoli Sprouts
...ays, and exposed them and a control group that had not received the extracts toa carcinogen,dimethylbenzanthracene. The rats that received the extracts developed fewertumors, and thosethat did get tumors had smaller growths that took longer to develop. In a paper published in tomorrow's issue of th...Common Drug-Capsule Coating Not As Inert As Previously Thought
...llinois, however, has revealed that thispolymer is not as inert as researchers thought. Chemical enginee...plications is the requirement that thepolymer does not perturb the various protein structures and trigger an unwantedbiological response that would lead to...A Helping Hand Could Save An Ailing Heart
...d during that yearthan those who had said they did not need any help. Those who had said theyneeded much...kely to have died. Both groups thatfelt they were not receiving sufficient help also showed declining physicalfunction. While the researchers allo......gh, the article notes. These claims, however, may not be supported by scientific evidence demonstrating that the screening tests meet a minimum criteria of effectiveness. For example, the article points out that there is considerable disagreement in the medical community over the routine use of mammogr...