Not enough evidence that multivitamins prevent infections in the elderly
...ections in elderly people, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. Ageing is associated with an increased risk of infection. So, as the number of elderly people in developed nations continues to rise, there has been great interest in the use of supplements to help prevent infections. Researchers id...First head-to-head study to compare lidoderm patch and Celebrex in treating pain
...f Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc., is available online at www.endo.com ....Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
...bration to RSVP by calling 1-800-258-7488. Advance online registration for the symposium is encouraged. More information about both events and online registration can be found at www.polio.pitt.edu ....Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
...ted for the June issue of the journal, were posted online Feb. 28 because of interest in the study. Preliminary results of the trial were presented in June, 2004 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. After only 34 of a planned 164 patients had completed therapy, the trial's Dat...OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
...sults of the research are published in the current online edition of the journal Endocrinology . "We've all seen AIDS and cancer patients who lose their appetites and suffer from involuntary weight loss. They lose muscle mass and become very frail as their disease progresses -- this is what we refer to as...A marker for new blood vessel formation in tumors
In a paper in this month's freely-available online global health journal PLoS Medicine , Roland Haubner and colleagues describe how a compound they have developed can be used together with highly sensitive positron emission tomography (PET) scanning to measure the amount of new blood vessel growth i...... John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the journal is available online via Wiley InterScience at www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/hepatology . Statins are a class of drugs that lower cholesterol levels by inhibiting the liver's production of cholesterol. They have been shown to decrease the risk of artherosclerosis...Novel therapy tested in mice could chase away cat allergies
...t in the April issue of Nature Medicine, available online now. In the future, the investigators say, these promising results could lead to a new therapy not only for human cat allergies, but also possibly for severe food allergies such as those to peanuts. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Di...Hepatitis C and health-related quality of life
... John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the journal is available online via Wiley InterScience at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/hepatology . The authors also found that traditional outcomes measured in patients, including liver histology and ALT levels, do not necessarily correspond with HRQOL differences....Optical technique identifies vulnerable plaques in cardiac patients
... in the journal Circulation and has received early online release at http://www.circulationaha.org/ . "More than 1.2 million people die from coronary artery disease every year, a quarter of them before or soon after arriving at the hospital," says Ik-Kyung Jang, MD, PhD, director of cardiovascular clini...New colorectal cancer screening recommendations for African Americans
...1/ Full text of the recommendations can be found online at the American Journal of Gastroenterology...Alcohol relapse adversely affects 10-year liver transplant survival
...ieties by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and is available online via Wiley InterScience at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/livertransplantation . Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is the second most common indication for liver transplants in the U.S. and Europe. Although reported survival rates after transp...Donor age has no affect on long-term liver transplant survival
...ieties by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and is available online via Wiley InterScience at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/livertransplantation . Patients who undergo liver transplantation for cirrhosis due to hepatitis C are invariably re-infected with the virus after transplantation. When the disease ...College alcohol problems exceed previous estimates
...5 issue of the Annual Review of Public Health, now online at http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/publhealth . "This paper underscores what we had learned from another recent study that excessive alcohol use by college-aged individuals in the U.S. is a significant source of harm," said Ting-Kai Li, M.D...Obtaining patient consent for clinical audit is unworkable without extra resources
...ources are made available, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. The 1998 Data Protection Act strengthened controls on the use of personal data, but the Health and Social Care Act 2001 allows patient identifiable information to be made available in certain circumstances, including medical audit a...Acupuncture relieves pelvic pain during pregnancy
...nts to standard treatment, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. Pelvic girdle pain is a common complaint among pregnant women worldwide, but no cure exists. Researchers in Sweden identified 386 pregnant women with pelvic girdle pain. Women were randomly divided into three groups; one received st...Costs of antidepressants could have funded effective alternatives
...s of proven effectiveness, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. Prescribing of antidepressant drugs has risen dramatically in the United Kingdom since the early 1990s. Cognitive behaviour therapy is an effective alternative to drugs, but has not been developed for widespread use. Using Departmen...Medically supervised drug injection facilities safer for users
... among users, concludes a Canadian study published online by THE LANCET. Public-health officials in Vancouver opened North America's first medically supervised safer injection facility in September 2003. Injection drug users in the facility can access sterile injecting equipment, inject preobtained illicit ...NHS stop-smoking services are insufficient to deliver national smoking targets
...or the poorest communities, says a study published online by the BMJ today. The study examined the effectiveness of NHS smoking cessation services in Northumberland and Tyne and Wear. These areas have populations dominated by manual workers and contain some of the worst health and deprivation in the country...HIV and ID doctors oppose ideologically driven STI prevention policies
...ations have approved a policy statement, available online at www.idsociety.org and www.hivma.org , calling for science-based government policies on preventing HIV and other STIs. The statement comes in response to a spate of ideologically driven federal policies, including evidence that federally funded...