Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
..., with fewer deleterious effects on patients. Such pinpoint action means that clinical testing of new drugs requires morespecific measures of performance. "For example, Duke researchers will work to develop `surrogate markers' for more precise testing of new drugs. Since traditional anti-tumor drugs k...Study Reveals Possible Clue For Racial Differences In Prevalence Of High Blood Pressure
...ond to a stressful situation. The finding may help pinpoint why blacks are far more susceptible than whites tohigh blood pressure and associated heart disease and illustrates the role ofstress in heart disease, he says. Blacks develop high blood pressure at an earlier age than whites and high bloodpressure te......are that put patients at risk for injury, and also pinpoint areasfor improvement." Identifying missed opportunities for providing better care is an important focusof MMI's data analysis. One compelling example involves tracking unplannedpatient returns to the hospital's Emergency Department. An analysis of d...... to design new polymers to healdamaged tissues and pinpoint the delivery of fragile peptide drugs. And, in thenear future, combinatorial methods may lead to improvements of transdermal drug"patches," currently used for delivering nicotine and other substances throughthe user's skin. Joachim Kohn, a professor ......udy sponsored by thePrice Foundation that may help pinpoint a genetic basis for bulimia nervosa. Research sites at U.S. universities in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York andLos Angeles as well as Canada, Germany and Italy are recruiting 400 women andmen with the disorder who also have a biological relative w...Promising Bone Cancer Therapy Advances To Next Level
...hysicians to usesophisticated imaging equipment to pinpoint where in the body it had traveled. Srivastava's co-inventors are George Meinken, Harold Atkins and LeonardMausner. The U.S. patent on this invention was issued in December 1998 toBrookhaven Science Associates, which manages and operates BNL ...'Motion Blindness,' Not Just Poor Memory, Causes Alzheimer's Patients To Lose Their Way
... of age. We've identified oneability that may help pinpoint that," says Duffy. He is nowsetting up another laboratory to use with patients at theUniversity's main Alzheimer's treatment site at Monroe CommunityHospital, to help monitor patients. Because the veil of confusion that comes with Alzheimer's is...Wake Up To Stroke -- Night Strokes Linked To Long Delays In Care
...e awakens. The exact time ofonset is difficult to pinpoint and the physician can only assume that the strokestarted soon after the individual went to sleep. This, of course, means thatthe delay time is longer than if we knew the exact moment of onset. Without abetter way of pinpointing the onset of nightti...Study: Among Heart Failure Patients, Women Survive Twice As Long As Men
...heart failure." More studies are needed to pinpoint why the survival differences exist,he said. Such information might help boost survival for both sexes, and for menin particular. Others involved in the study were Drs. Mihai Gheorghiade of NorthwesternUniversity, Christopher M. O'Connor and ...New Use of An Old Test Can Help Brain-Injured Patients
...e are using aquasi-experimental simulation to help pinpoint the problems of patients who havesuffered concussions. "The quasi-experimental simulation has been around for decades, butuntil we started this project, it has never been used to assess brain- injuredpatients," explains Siegfried Streufert,......ng tuberculosis; theemergence of autopsies to help pinpoint causes of disease and bring thepossibility of preventing them; the first amputation under general anesthesia;the early use of antisepsis at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh; the moderndevelopment of organ transplant surgery and post-operative care; a......atic mapping. These procedures allow surgeons to pinpoint the SLN where cancer potentiallycould have spread (only 18 percent of all melanoma spreads to a person's lymphnodes) by injecting a blue dye and/or radiocolloid substance that enterslymphatic capillaries and concentrates in the SLNs. A hand-held gam......rovide signposts that could oneday help clinicians pinpoint which patients will benefit from therapy, accordingto the investigators, who are presenting their preliminary findings Monday, May17, at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology inAtlanta. "This is the first attempt to make im......the study. "However, as of yet, we cannotprecisely pinpoint the estrogenic or active anti-cancer ingredients, if any,that PC-SPES may contain." Small reports that 27 (100 percent) of the hormone-nave patients experiencedmore than a 50 percent decline in their PSA levels. Likewise, 19 out of 34 (58 percent) ho...Using spatial illusion to learn how the brain processes sound
...hool. But our auditorysystem lacks the ability to pinpoint the location of narrow-band sounds withjust a few frequencies, like a beeping pager. Middlebrooks and his colleagues at the U-M Kresge Hearing Research Institute aretaking advantage of this inability to localize narrow-band frequencies inresearch des......in both regions. A catheterization helpsphysicians pinpoint the location and extent of heart injury and is key todeciding on the best therapy for many patients, Cohen said. The study also found that despite the lower number of invasive proceduresperformed in the Latin American countries, patients there were m...Lower death rate in Oregon hospitals linked to better care
...ilure care from various medical bodies. "We cannot pinpoint exactly why patient care is better, but we can con... a decade ago," said Ni. This is the first studyto pinpoint quality of care as the major factor in declining mortality rates. The study was conducted as part of...New tests for blood clots, lung cancer use NIDCR patented technology
...quipment. The ability of the peptide-based test to pinpoint the mostdangerous clots can help direct clinicians to a proper treatment course. NeoTectä The NeoTectä kit is the latest to receive FDA approval, given the go-ahead forclinical use on August 4, 1999. The test is intended to help physicia......demands--made it possible for the research team to pinpoint areas of the brain whosenerve cells were used in recalling visual patterns. Sekuler and his collaborators--Randy McIntosh of the University of Toronto andthe Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care; Allison Sekuler, Patrick Bennett, CigdemPenpeci, and Nat...'Chaos' theory empowers researchers to predict epileptic seizures
...s a seizure is on its way. "We may not be able to pinpoint the exact time, but we can determine whether you are in danger,"Sackellares said. Iasemidis noted that their goal is to be able to identify a window of opportunity for preventingseizures. "Predicting exactly when a seizure will occur is not the main...