Novel approach may roust HIV from its hiding places
...om HIV's hiding places in the brain and testes may offer a new way to enhance antiviral therapy for people with AIDS. The challenge of finding ways to penetrate these sanctuary sites in the body has been critical as scientists try to determine whether HIV ever can be eradicated from the body. In new animal...... from across the country and around the world will offer more than 350 presentations during the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics annual meeting March 15-18 at the Century Plaza Hotel & Tower. They include: Why do Chinese-Americans smoke less than whites? It's one of the ma...Conference to examine nutritional supplements, medicinal herbs for managing health problems
...d in 1993 North Carolina doctors were permitted to offer them -- as long as they were not shown to be harmf...llowing a question and answer session, Endres will offer another herbal walk. UNC-CH sponsors of the conference are the integrative medicine program of the ...UNC-CH study finds N.C. outpatient heart rehabilitation programs mostly under-used
...ities are increased use of nurse case managers who offer counseling and often can monitor heart rhythms over the telephone, she said. Patients need to check with their health maintenance organizations or insurance carriers and doctors to find out whether outpatient cardiac rehabilitation is covered by insu...Rush conducts nationwide study to find genetic markers for depression
..., discovery of the specific genetic sequence would offer new hope for more accurate diagnoses, better treatment, and the possibility for prevention of the disease. Studies have proven that the parents, siblings and children of a person with major depression, which began before age 30, are more likely to h...NHLBI study shows relationship between sleep apnea and hypertension
... "Although these results must be verified, they offer hope that we may be able to reduce cardiovascular mortality in hypertensives by more aggressively diagnosing the apnea," he added. Approximately 12 million Americans have sleep apnea, a breathing disorder characterized by brief interruptions of bre...Hospitals vary in provision of wellness services
... "The bad news is that hospitals do not uniformly offer health promotion and disease prevention services. Many hospitals offer only minimal services, so their communities are at a disadvantage." Data analyzed for the stu...'Handwriting challenged' doctors to take penmanship class at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
.... Hackmeyer said that the medical staff decided to offer this class in response to recent national studies, like that of the Institute of Medicine, which highlight the need to reduce medical errors. He cited a widely publicized 1999 case in Texas where a jury awarded a woman $450,000 because her husband d...Making kidney transplants last longer: Large UM study finds newer drug is better
...results suggest that therapy that includes MMF may offer longer kidney and patient survival than AZA by reducing the risk of both acute and chronic failure." The results, based on data from 66,774 patients who received a new kidney between 1988 and 1997 and whose kidneys survived the first six months af...Drug-psychotherapy combo found highly effective in depression study
...c forms of the illness. "The findings offer hope for the vast number of patients suffering from chronic forms of major depression," Keller said. "The study also underscores the importance of treating patients with combination therapy. These patients are often considered......thdraw before completion of a new therapy that may offer the best hope of improved outcome or survival." To confirm the results of the study, investigators currently are discussing a collaboration with a recently initiated RAND/National Cancer Institute (NCI) study that would involve many more cancer cente...Treatment helps dyslexics significantly improve reading, shows brain changes as children learn
...Learning Disabilities Center. The center does not offer a summer treatment program to the general public. Treatment studies are only open to children of families participating in the dyslexia family genetics and brain imaging project. Other members of the UW research team and co-authors of the study are ...Media coverage of new drugs is often misleading
... 207 stories randomly selected, 40 percent did not offer any numerical analysis of a drug's benefits, leaving the public without any benchmark to judge the overall value of the drug to their health. Of the 124 stories that did, 83 percent reported only relative benefits, a practice that can be viewed as po...Tufts University hosts Britain's Royal Geographic Society
... addressed during the conference too. Experts will offer potential solutions on everything from new fuel cells that create energy without combustion to helping home buyers in urban areas shift some of their mass-transit savings to housing.......easonal Allergic Rhinitis. "Allegra 30-mg tablets offer physicians a safe, nonsedating allergy treatment that can help in the management of children's seasonal allergies." In a study of 411 pediatric patients, Allegra 30-mg tablets BID significantly reduced total symptom scores compared to placebo and was...7,500 pharmaceutical scientists to explore therapies for new millennium
...nd development of new therapies." The meeting will offer more than 70 educational sessions including symposia, short courses, and roundtable discussions. Topics to be presented include: "Predicting human pharmacokinetics"--pharmacokinetics is the study of absorption, distribution, metabolism and excret......hat may challenge the ability of PBMs and plans to offer quality, cost-effective benefits. PBM Issues--The Interactive Poll Express Scripts 2000 Outcomes Conference participants were invited to engage in responding to some of today's most pressing questions, such as "Does consumer-friendly mean no restric......ent (9/146) on Ziagen/Combivir. "These early data offer important information about this triple nucleoside regimen," said Pedro Cahn, M.D., director, Fundacion Huesped, Buenos Aires and principal investigator of the study. Adverse events were experienced by a total of 127 patients on Ziagen/Combivir, 98...Workers' comp: perfect fit for chiropractic
...related injury treated by doctors of chiropractic, offer promising results, according to the JACA article. One study concluded that chiropractic offered consistent 2-to-1 superiority, and another found that treatment costs in cases managed by doctors of chiropractic increased only 12 percent between 1986 ...Pacific Northwest National Laboratory wins three R&D 100 awards
...ensed to Vitex Systems Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., offer extremely high levels of barrier protection that will allow plastic to play a significant role in the display industry. Without these products -- Flexible GlassTM engineered substrates and BarixTM -- coating even the moisture in the air would cause ...