New Treatment Targets Most Malignant Brain Tumors
...represent a proof ofconcept of this technique, and offer the potential for significant improvementin survival time for patients with this aggressive cancer." According to Bigner, the Duke treatment, which was done on 34 patients,began with the careful surgical removal of a patient's main tumor mass...Abstinence Reduces HIV For High-Risk Women - Even Those Who Relapse - Study Shows
...ditor. She and othercontributors to the issue will offer papers and oral presentations at the 12thWorld AIDS Conference in Geneva from June 28 to July 3. Screening and Counseling Women The study evaluates the effectiveness of three different kinds of programs:programs that target (1) women who are intra...One-Time Needles Don't Reduce HIV Among Addicts, Study Shows
... A number of contributors to the special issuewill offer papers and oral presentations at the convention. Plausible But Wrong With at least half of new HIV infections in the U.S. occurring among addicts whotake drugs intravenously, methods for preventing HIV transmission via needlereuse have received con...New Guidelines Stress Early Potent Drug Cocktails, Individualized Therapy
...nt combination antiretroviral therapies continueto offer the best hope for preventing AIDS in people infected with HIV,according to updated recommendations from International AIDS Society-USApresented at a media briefing Saturday, June 27, in Geneva. Two years ago, the panel of independent physicians and s...Promising Results For Woman-Controlled Anti-HIV Product
...against AIDS, early studies of vaginalmicrobicides offer some hope for a new kind of protection against HIVtransmission in the genital track. One of the early products in the drug development pipeline, called BufferGel,just cleared its first hurdle, according to Phase I study results reported byKenneth May...Scientists Report Cancer Fighting Drug As Possible Treatment For Multiple Sclerosis
...ndings, published in the July Annals of Neurology, offer a newavenue for treatment of this disease. "We have shown that a class of drugs called matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors(MMPIs) are effective in treating a mouse model of multiple sclerosis," saysWolfgang Liedtke, M.D., lead author of the paper. "...... Their analysis also suggests that antidepressants offer no advantageover drugs such as anxiolytics and tra...27), hebelieves that the advantage antidepressants offer over placebos is just 15 to 20per cent. But a psychiatrist commentating on the new analysis ......monly used to treat benign prostate disease, might offer men a way to cuttheir risk of developing prostate cancer. Yet, "it appears that finasteride may not be effective as a chemopreventiveagent against prostate cancer, at least in men with high PSA levels," saysRonald K. Ross, M.D., USC professor of pre...Repairing Cranio-Facial Deformities From The Inside Out
... Temple University Hospital are among the first to offer patients adistraction device implanted completely ...of only three sites in the U.S. to be the first to offer thedevice to patients. Smith will be among a small group of surgeons that willtrain in Venezuela a...Tiny Pellets Could Deliver Alzheimer's Drugs
...eculates that this drug delivery system might well offer a one-time treatment that would remain in the brain for the remainder of a patient's life. The polymer-pellet delivery system, he says, could in theory deliver drugs directly to the areas of the brain implicated in a number of degenerative diseases,......operating room, other medical schools will startto offer a skills curriculum," Jones said....Prescription Counseling Necessary For Hospital Patients
... the dispensing pharmacist should offer information about newly prescribed drugs. "Currently, hospital pharmacists aren't legally bound tooffer information to patients," Schommer said. He added thatmany ......contrast,biocombinatorial chemistry is expected to offer the public optimally effective,safe medications quickly," he added. Biocombinatorial chemistry exploits the discovery of genes and theirproteins, which serve as molecular targets for drugs because they controlbiological processes that often ......d that public health departments shouldcontinue to offer anonymous HIV testing and in some cases even enhanceavailability. Study co-investigators are Dennis Osmond, PhD; Frederick M. Hecht, MD; KarenVranzian, MA, and Dennis Keane, MPH, all of UCSF; Arthur Reingold, MD, of UCBerkeley; and J. Stan Lehman, M...Future Workers Will Receive MSAs
...r offerregular health insurance but, instead, will offer employees medical allowances. Whatever is not spen...t the sametime, they would give employers a way to offer a benefit plan in which they nolonger bear most of the risk of rising premium costs, providing bette...Why Do We Make It Difficult For Students To Hear In Class?
...rooms with intelligible speech . Finally,they will offer practical solutions to the administrative, financial andpolitical obstacles to implementing good classroom acoustics. Registration for the workshop is $100 and includes lunch onSaturday. For registration information, contact Elaine ...Medication Offers Hope For Relief From Burning Mouth Pain
...outh syndrome, low doses of the drugclonazepam may offer significant relief, according to a study by a Case Western ReserveUniversity professor in the November issue of Oral Surgery. About 1.3 million American adults, mostly postmenopausal women, are afflicted with burningmouth syndrome (BMS), a chronic, o...Pairing Two Drugs With Angioplasty May Offer Best Success In Treating Heart Attacks
...sty for patients experiencing a heart attack could offer thebest strategy to quickly and safely open clogge...nical trial,pairing the drugs with angioplasty may offer a new standard of care for heartattacks, said the trial leader, Dr. Magnus Ohman, a cardiologist at ...'Alternative' Medicine Becoming Mainstream, UF Study Finds
... About half of U.S. medical schools, including UF, offer elective courses onalternative therapies, Neims said. At UF, some required courses includediscussion of the topic. Additionally, a UF family practice clinic offersacupuncture, massage therapy, hypnosis and relaxation techniques. "There is a tremendou...Mechanism By Which Estradiol Protects Women From Heart Disease Suggested By Emory Team
...aseluded researchers. Emory University researchers offer an explanation at this week's 71st ScientificSessions of the American Heart Association, suggesting that high levels ofestradiol are associated with increased levels of the prooxidant enzyme myeloperoxidase (MPO) -- and that MPO protein oxidizes LD...