NIAID Stops AIDS Study Prematurely Because Drug 'Cocktail' Boosts Survival
...eceiving those two drugs and indinavir, they found only 33 such events. "There were 18 deaths in the dou... participated in the trials," Eron said. "They not only have done something that will improve their own care, but they have volunteered to do something that...Laser Shown Effective In Patients Who Are Not Candidates For Bypass Surgery Or Angioplasty
...Lowe said. "For this reason, TMR shouldbe offered only to patients before their disease progresses to unstableangina." It is expected that the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) willdecide later this year on whether to approve the laser for clinical use. "At this point, we do not know...Study Shows Gum Disease Increases Risk Of Future Heart Disease
...ase in the succeeding 10 years." Diabetes was the only factor that showed a stronger association. "There are many reasons to treat periodontal disease," Genco said. "This is a very good one." New dental research being conducted at UB and other institutions is showing a strong relationship be...Routine Dental X-ray May Be A Valuable Tool In Stroke Prevention
... most of these patients had no stroke symptoms and only three had a history of transient ischemic attacks, or mini-strokes, many had several risk factors for atherosclerosis. Interviews with patients who had carotid calcifications determined that 35 percent were obese; 34 percent had high blood pressure;...ACTG Protocol 185 Enrollment Halted
...ducing perinatal HIV transmission, the results not only confirm the effectiveness of AZT in preventing suc...T cell counts greater than or equal to 200/mm3 and only 5% had received any AZT prior to the current pregnancy. In contrast, in Pediatric ACTG Protocol 185...Common Carbohydrates May Prove To Be Substitute For Dietary Fiber
... Instead of 15 grams of fiber a day, a person need only eat about 3 gramsof oligosaccharides, said George C. Fahey Jr., a professor of animal sciencesand of nutrition at the University of Illinois. "Oligosaccharides may prove to be a replacement for part of thedietary fiber that we know is useful, becaus...Duke Study Uses Tiny Temperature Changes To Probe Water-Exclusion At Protein Binding Sites
...e a complex combination of reactions involving not only the proteinsand ligands but also the water that those molecules interact with. Separating the effect of protein-ligand interactions from changes inprotein-water and ligand-water interactions remains "one of the mostdaunting barriers to predicti...... discomfort." Until recently, MRI was used only for diagnosis. Now doctors in a handful of medical centers around the country are experimenting with the imaging technology as a tool in the operating room. The Case Western group, funded in part by a $736,000 Whitaker Foundation grant, is a...Laser Offers Hope For Heart Patients With No Alternatives
...ventional forms of treatment. Duke is the only medical center in the Southeast using the laser system,which has demonstrated promising results for the eight patients treatedat the medical center since October. "The laser gives us another tool for helping patients for whom wecould do noth...Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
...her's education. "Interestingly, the findings were only significant for speech perception amidst noise, not sound perception" says Maxwell. "This implies that language acquisition is an underlying, intervening mechanism that accounts for some of the noise-reading deficit link." Evans and Maxwell also su......ex, but they don't. Instead, children largely see only the seamy side of sex, and see it as something use... used by teens," says Morrison, "and virtually the only one they use when they have sex for the first time. Few teenage girls go on birth control pills bef......is high resolution data and cue the radiologist to only thesuspect regions of the mammogram. The high resolution data might permita more precise discrimination between benign and malignant tumors imagedin mammograms. "We don't know yet if our system can reduce unnecessary biopsies,but we do have reason ...Antimicrobial "Bug Spray" Found In Human Lung Cells
...y year. "People have always thought that the lungs only attacked infections via the classical immune system--B cells, T cells and other immune cells," says Pete Pedersen, Ph.D., Hopkins professor of biological chemistry. "But lung cells apparently have their own first-line defense mechanism--they shoot ...Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...mmune response from vaccines. Currently, it is the only adjuvant approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in human vaccines. The FDA limits the dosage to 0.85 milligrams per vaccine to minimize exposure to aluminum. "There's been some interest in other materials, but no one has proven them saf...Milk Extract May Heal Wounds And Smooth Wrinkles
...d into cheese. They say 1,000litres of whey yields only about 30 grams of the precious powder. The secret... extract provessuccessful, he says, it will be the only substance of its kind in the world. "There's nothing on the market which actually stimulates wound ...TB Prophylaxis Unnecessary In HIV-Infected People With Anergy, Study Suggests
...t withanother individual with active TB." Although only 10 percent of healthy people infected with TB bact...njecting TB-derived proteins below theskin, is the only method available for diagnosing inactive, or latent, TBinfection. Palpable swelling at the site of ...New Ultrasound Technique Is Alternative To Cerebral Angiography
...blood clots, leavingpatients at risk of stroke not only during the procedure but for several hoursafterward. And, said Hirsch, "the risk is exponential depending on their age andtheir history of stroke." Hirsch and other studied 72 patients. On each they performed cerebralangiography, transcranial...3D Ultrasound Gives Better View Of Brain's Arteries
...ard, ultrasound is being applied in ways that were only dreams a few yearsago. Why are these dreams coming true today? As Delcker explained in aninterview, new computer workstations are allowing 2D ultrasound data sets to beelectronically reconstructed as 3D images. Ultrasound is also les...Studies Find Public Policies For Children And Teenagers Not Very Effective
...ks at the program's long-term effects. "The only clear effect that D.A.R.E. had six years after the...ational," said Dr. Kunkel. "We found that only 0.4 hours per week of so-called"educational programs" actually targeted a limited age range of thech......earlater in childhood, but life expectancy extends only into the second orthird decade in such cases. Adults can be affected by a milder form of thedisease but are still incapacitated due to respiratory insufficiency. Initially, the therapy developed at Duke will be tested in infants withthe most severe ...