First trial of endostatin shows biological activity
... it's not surprising. For first generation drugs, progress is often incremental, but research should go on," says the studies' lead author, James Abbruzzese, M.D., professor and chairman of the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology at M. D. Anderson. "Endostatin may well find a future place in th...Caesarean rates unaffected by level of nursing care
...received usual care in which a nurse checked their progress periodically and offered advice but was not present on a continual basis. Researchers found caesarean rates were almost identical between the two groups (12.5 per cent in the continuous care group and 12.6 per cent in the usual care group). The findi...Duke and federal government partner to create innovative health care model
...nt and coach will be used to measure the patient's progress in achieving individual goals. Group meetings focusing on specific aspects of health planning will also be offered to intervention patients. Patients will be encouraged to share their strategic health plans with their primary care physicians. Patient...New test predicts pregnancy problems long before they happen
...in in the urine. In some cases, the condition may progress to eclampsia, a series of potentially fatal seizures. In cases where the condition does not progress to eclampsia, children born to mothers with preeclampsia may be born prematurely or have low birth w...Fred Hutchinson receives $12.7 million to lead prostate-cancer consortium
... which prostate-cancer patients are most likely to progress to advanced disease. The researchers will follow m... to understand the mechanisms that cause tumors to progress from being androgen-dependent and treatable to androgen-independent and drug-resistant. Deciphering ...'Slice' scanner latest advance in early detection of heart disease
...blems," he says. In the past decade, considerable progress has been made in noninvasive imaging with MRI, electron beam computed tomography (EBCT), and, most recently, MSCT. During MSCT, a contrast dye is injected through a vein in the arm while the scanner rotates around the body. The reconstruction of mu...Dartmouth researcher Michael B. Sporn, M.D. honored for pioneering work in cancer prevention
...public attention to the extraordinatry efforts and progress being made through laboratory-based cancer prevention efforts." Dr. Sporn will present a major lecture titled 'Chemoprevention: An Essential Approach for Control of Cancer--Some New Thoughts on This Problem' during the first AACR Frontiers in Cancer ...Fred Hutchinson oversees two grants of nearly $8 million to develop blood test for breast cancer
...ancer Center of Excellence aims to accelerate such progress by bringing together laboratory investigators, informatics specialists, clinicians and outcomes researchers, among others, to facilitate the translation of laboratory findings to clinical use. Supporting communication among the 10 participating insti...Combining two types of radiation therapy better for treating brain cancer
...g quality of life. "It's a substantial problem and progress in their management has been quite slow," says Walter Curran, Jr., M.D., professor and chair of radiation oncology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and clinical director of Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center. ...UW awarded $1 million grant from The Paul G. Allen Foundation for Medical Research
...ngton and Dr. Berger have demonstrated encouraging progress in their previous research, which will not only have a significant impact on the daily lives of many people in our communities, but can be leveraged in other health care facilities and by physicians across the country." This grant opens the opportun...NHLBI funds new heart-health education projects in high-risk communities
...ms through regular discussion forums. Tracking of progress is helped by a series of built-in evaluation measures. The new EDUCs and their strategies are: The Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC), is partnering with Morgan State University and the Maryland State Department of Housing and Urban Deve...$12 Million SPORE grant spurs head and neck cancer research
... "With this grant, we want to rapidly increase our progress in the basic understanding of the disease, so we c...work, and with this addition, we hope to make more progress in reducing head and neck cancer and ensure that patients with these diseases receive state-of-the-a...Antibiotic slows atherosclerosis in people with Chlamydia pneumonia antibodies
...t. 15 Long-term antibiotic treatment may slow the progress of early atherosclerosis in stroke patients who have antibodies to a pneumonia-causing bacteria in their bloodstream, scientists report in today's rapid access issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. "Our data imply for the ...Immediate treatment helps delay progression of glaucoma
.... Heijl said that the time it took for glaucoma to progress varied greatly among patients and was sometimes rather short, even in treated patients. "This shows that in many patients with rapidly progressing glaucoma, the treatment used in this study was insufficient to halt progression of the disease," Dr. He...20% of mammogram-detected cancers are in situ lesions of unknown aggressiveness
...CIS to help us identify which disease is likely to progress to invasive cancer, and also to better tailor treatment," said Karla Kerlikowske, MD, UCSF associate professor of medicine and epidemiology and biostatistics. Kerlikowske, who is also director of the Women Veterans Comprehensive Health Center at the ...Mammography frequently detects noninvasive tumors
...at percentage of such lesions, if untreated, would progress to invasive breast cancer. Studies have shown that...ed by lumpectomy (removal of the lump) alone later progress to invasive cancer. Thus, there is a concern that diagnosis and treatment of many DCIS cases may not...Study exposes dangers of snuff for smokers wanting to quit
...public health because it has potential to undo the progress of workplace smoking restrictions," said Henningfield, who also is vice president of research and health policy for Pinney Associates, a health consulting, issues management, and research and data analysis firm located in Bethesda, Md. "These restric...Vitamins valuable for baby boomers eye disease
...ies used to treat the 'wet' form of AMD, which can progress from the dry form." Since many insurance companies don't list high-dose vitamin supplementation as a benefit, patients may not receive this form of prevention, he adds. A professor of ophthalmology, and community health and epidemiology at Queen's, ...New hope for vaccine to fight rheumatoid arthritis, other autoimmune diseases
... side effects and can only slow, but not stop, the progress of the diseases. They are also effective mostly at very early stages of each disease. The new approach, in contrast, tries to rally one part of the immune system to fight the part that is attacking the body's tissues. "We know that, in autoimmune d...