Essential 'Allergy Feedback Loop' Discovered By Hopkins
... anti-IgE. "Anti-IgE has the potential to prevent allergies, no matter what you'reallergic to. And it works as long as people stay on it," says Bochner. Anti-IgE, in a version called rhuMAb-E25, is undergoing late-stageclinical trials in hundreds of patients worldwide at several hospitals,in...Balloon Procedure In The Brain? Longest Follow-Up To Date Shows Good Results
...ly used to unblock cloggedarteries in the heart to prevent heart attacks shows promise for openingnarrowed bl...tructed by atherosclerosis. Because angioplasty to prevent stroke is an experimental procedure, relativelyfew people are receiving this therapy. Previous stud......elinda Gatesfor an international health program to prevent one of the most serious, buttreatable health probl...al and international women'sgroups whose aim is to prevent maternal death. "The Gates Foundation gift is of critical importance because of thelong-term...Transplant Pioneer Thomas E. Starzl Most Cited Researcher In Clinical Medicine Over Past 17 Years
...elopment of an even more effective drug therapy to prevent rejection oftransplanted organs. This drug, FK506 or tacrolimus, won U. S. Food and DrugAdministration approval in 1994. In addition to the research and clinicaladvancements he has made with cross-species, cellular and multiple-organtransplantation......ive technology and environmental interventions may prevent and postponemorbidity in the frail elderly," Mann said. "As our agingpopulation grows, obtaining definitive answers on the usefulness and costeffectiveness of these interventions become increasingly important." Additional researchers on the ......ctors have suspected that radiation therapy helped prevent patientsfrom dying of prostate cancer, but had little scientific proof. Now, RichardValicenti, M.D., assistant professor of radiation oncology at Jefferson MedicalCollege of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, and his colleagues havefound th...New Strategy May Succeed At Extending The Life Of Transplanted Kidneys
...e of cyclosporine (Neoral), a widely used drug to prevent rejection, and adding a new anti-rejection drugmyc... meeting in Chicago on May 16. Although both drugs prevent the body's rejection of the new kidney bysuppressing the patient's immune system, they work in diffe...New Anti-Inflammatory Drug Is Easy On The Stomach
...y effects by inhibiting COX-2, but you decrease or prevent thedevelopment of gastrointestinal tract injury by sparing COX-1." In April, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recommended approvalof rofecoxib for treatment of osteoarthritis and acute pain. The brand name ofrofecoxib will be Vioxx, ......ated for melanoma andreceiving high-dose IFNa2b to prevent recurrence of the disease. Sixpatients got a "cocktail" of chemicals, each of which is metabolized by adifferent enzyme in the family of CYP450 enzymes. CYP450 enzymes operate withinthe liver. Results of the study showed that IFNa2b depressed thea...Progress In Cancer-Vaccine Studies: Simpler, Safer Approach Producing Encouraging Results
...disease and to focus instead onvaccines that might prevent recurrence for patients already in remission. We nowthink this approach, once optimized,can have a beneficial effect even onadvanced melanoma."......n patientstreated with high doses of this agent to prevent the recurrence of melanoma. These findings, part o...ffects ofIFNa2b on patients receiving this drug to prevent the recurrence ofmelanoma," said John Kirkwood, M.D., professor of medicine at the University ofPitt......utritionAlternatives (ATHENA). It will attempt to prevent disordered eating and druguse among adolescent fem...an important consideration in designingprograms to prevent drug abuse and to treat addiction," said Alan I. Leshner,Ph.D., director of the NIDA. "It's hoped th...Treating Depression Makes A Healthier Heart
...sants not only treat depression, but can also help prevent heartdisease. The scientists who have made this discovery think that improved moodmakes the difference, rather than direct action by the drugs. People who suffer from severe depression are up to four times as likelyto die from heart disease t...New Procedure Makes A Successful Transplant Possible
...period. They alsotook anti-rejection medication to prevent the antibodies from coming back, usingthree new drugs: Prograf, Cellcept and IVIG. The rejection antibodies were successfully removed from six of the eightpatients. All six went on to have successful kidney transplants from livingdonors between Marc...Study Suggests Inflammation Signs Can Show Who Will Develop Diabetes
...h Carolina, also suggests physicianscould delay or prevent some people getting diabetes through strict weightcontrol since fat cells produce inflammatory mediators. A report on the research appears in the current (May 15) issue of theLancet, a British medical journal. Authors include Drs. Maria Ines ...The 'Break Even' Cost Of Kidney Transplants Is Shrinking
...atientsaveraged $16,043; mostly for medications to prevent rejection. "We have a focused, comprehensive program for our transplant patients and theirfamilies that includes a lot of education and support both before and after thetransplant, which has enabled us to get patients out of the hospital sooner,"say...Impulsive Children More Prone To Injuries
... health workers have sought to develop programs to prevent childhoodinjuries, researchers have begun to explore the psychological factors thatmay play a role. Schwebel and colleague Jodie M. Plumert, Ph.D., evaluated 59 children when theywere 33 months old, 46 months old and six years old. The children compl......compression by emergency colonoscopyor surgery, to prevent ischemia (cutoff of blood supply to the bowel) orperforation of the bowel. Some 3 percent of patients with the condition suffer aperforated bowel and half of those patients die. In this prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, Drs...American Heart Association Media Advisory: Cholesterol Lowering Margarines
...ay be used as part of a treatment plan, they donot prevent the underlying cause of elevated LDL cholesterol levels.Cholesterol, a soft, fat-like substance, gets into the blood stream in two ways. The majority is manufactured in the liver, and a smaller amount can be ingestedin foods derived from animals, su...... researchers report that a drug treatment can help prevent heart attackor sudden death in a certain group of high-risk individuals who are undergoing aprocedure called angioplasty to restore blood flow to an obstructed artery. This group of individuals who have unstable angina -- severe chest pain, even atre...