ACTG 315 Preliminary Results: Drug Cocktail Restores Partial Immune Function
...iretroviraldrug cocktail show that immunity can be partially restored, accordingto preliminary results from AID...feration assays (to assessimmune memory), was only partially restored. The team is still evaluating thevirologic effects of HAART on lymphoid tissue. Follow-up ...Drug And Radiation Treatment May Shrink Pancreatic And Gastric Tumors
...an, breast and lung cancer. The study was funded partially by a grant from the National Institutes ofHealth. Safran and colleagues recently presented their findings to researchersat Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York and MD Anderson Cancer Centerin Houston. Further clinical studies of the paclitax...Drug Regimen Reduces Atrial Fibrillation After Heart Surgery
...lso contributed to the study. The project was partially funded by Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories , which manufactures amiodarone under the trade name Cordarone....Researchers Study 'Natural' Screen For Cancer
...rs when light enters the tooth it bounces andonly partially comes out. We found a way to measure only the light which exits.In the same way, we can precisely measure the pigmentation of the skin and moreeasily diagnose the presence of melanoma." Rawicz says all of the group's projects grew from resear...States Must Be Held Accountable For New Health Plans For Children
... declined in the past decade; thisdecline has been partially offset by an increase in the number of childrenenrolled in Medicaid, which now reaches a quarter of all children in the UnitedStates. The committee's examination of the relationship between insurance coverage andhealth revealed that uninsured childre...Abstinence Reduces HIV For High-Risk Women - Even Those Who Relapse - Study Shows
... reducetheir high-risk behavior eventually relapse partially or completely. Small Changes, Big Impact Results of math modeling show that success is highest among a targeted group ofintravenous drug users. The researchers modeled a group of 10,000 intravenousdrug using women over a two-year period. If there ...Controlling Collagen Levels May Be Key To Fighting Organ Failure Caused By High Blood Pressure
...) toprotect individuals from organ damage might be partially due to the drug'scapacity to stimulate collagen degradation," says Diez. The researchers also found that people who had enlarged hearts beforeentering the study had smaller, more normal-sized hearts after treatment withACE-inhibitors. ...National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
...est-beds for studying real-time decision making in partially observable environments. Multiscale Modeling of Defects in Solids (NCC) Award Number: 9873214 Investigators: James P. Sethna, Christopher R. Myers, Paul R. Dawson, Anthony R. Ingraffea Cornell University-Ithaca, NY The deformation and failure o...Prescription Counseling Necessary For Hospital Patients
... Hospital in Columbus. The research was partially funded through a grant from the Central Ohio Society of Health-System Pharmacists....UNC-CH Studies Show Medicine Can Reverse Osteoporosis From Transplants, Cystic Fibrosis
...onate indicate that thedrug is highly effective in partially reversing the bone weakening known asosteoporosis due to drugs taken after various transplants, including lungtransplants in cystic fibrosis patients. The studies, described at the 12th Annual North American Cystic FibrosisConference in Montr...U-M Researcher Addresses Changes In The Heart As It Ages
...ttack, Boluyt said. "Regular exercise can delay or partially reverse some of these changes in theheart and improve the reserve capacity while reducing the risk of heart disease. Exercise can keep you and your heart younger. It won't ever be as young as itonce was, but it'll keep you healthier," he said. Heart...Study Offers Hope For Immune Reconstitution After HIV Infection
... the thymus is activein adults and potentially can partially reconstitute an HIV-infectedindividual's T cells after his or her viral load has been driven down by highlyactive antiretroviral therapy (HAART)," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci,M.D. "Moreover, the technique developed to track newly produced ...... the Society of Actuaries. Frees' researchwas also partially supported by a professorship funded by the Time InsuranceCompany and the U.S. Social Security Administration.The Halmstad Prize has been awarded annually since 1978 for the best paper onactuarial research published in the 12 most prestigious English-...Depressed Older Women At Greater Risk For Fractures
...sed, older women, the greater number of falls only partially accountedfor the increased risk of fracture among women with depression. "Why women withdepression have an increased risk of fracture is not yet clear," theinvestigators said. The researchers point out, however, that depression may belinked with fra...Poor Health In Pregnancy And After Childbirth Tied To History Of Abuse
...s positive toward their pregnancy. "And thatmay be partially because of the traumas they have had," Leserman says. According to Leserman, the new findings have implications for healthprofessionals. "In a general medical population, at 20-30 percent of women aregoing to have physical and/or sexual abuse histori...Wake Up To Stroke -- Night Strokes Linked To Long Delays In Care
...The type of treatment a stroke patient receives is partially determined by thelength of time since the stroke began. When a stroke starts during sleep, theperson may only be aware of symptoms after he or she awakens. The exact time ofonset is difficult to pinpoint and the physician can only assume that the s...Neurobiologists Show How The Brain Processes Signals From Pheromones
...baerts suggests thatthe replacement of neurons may partially account for the stochastic property ofthe system. "Pheromonal information bypasses the cortex and goes straight to other brainstructures such as the amygdala and the hypothalamus, affecting behavior andregulating hormone production," Mombaerts says. ...A new tool in the fight against obesity?
...Zavoral, and Louis J.Aronne. Orlistat, a drug that partially blocks the body's absorption of dietary fat,shows promise as a tool to help successful dieters keep weight off, according tothe first long-term study of the drug, appearing in June's American Journal ofClinical Nutrition. Two accompanying editorials......suggestions that estrogen replacement in women may partially block some of GH'seffects. Effects on sleep and physical capacity are still being evaluated inthis ongoing study. The investigators noted that the effect of the injections seemed to lastonly two to three hours. They speculated that a longer-a...Hypothyroidism during pregnancy linked to lower IQ for child
...ording to a studyconducted by Dr. James Haddow and partially funded by the National Institute ofChild Health and Human Development (NICHD) and reported in the August 19 issueof the New England Journal of Medicine. However, children whose mothers werebeing treated for the condition scored almost the same as ch...