Limitations of current evaluation techniques for the cost-effectiveness of treatments
...ntial long-term effectiveness and costs of new and promising interventions. ...News tips for Tuesday, November 9, 2004
...nosis). Thus IL-12 vaccine blockade may become "a promising strategy for the treatment of atherosclerosis," the scientists said. 4:30 p.m. Abstract 3775 Women's coffee drinking may reduce insulin secretion marker in blood. Regular coffee consumption is associated with reduced risk of diabetes and poss...Brookhaven Lab and BioSET develop a synthetic peptide that enhances the effect of BMP-2
...haven/BioSET collaboration continues to yield very promising results aimed at replicating human growth factors, and we look forward to further validating the potential of these peptides to enhance the body's healing capacity, especially when combined with orthopedic implants." He ad...St. Jude scientist to lead NCI Pediatric Preclinical Testing Program
...consistent manner to select those agents that have promising activity for treatment of childhood cancer," Houghton said. "The program builds upon extensive work undertaken at St. Jude and elsewhere that indicates the value of preclinical models, where tumors from children are grown in immune-deficient mice to ...Low cost drug helps reduce deaths, repeat heart attacks
...efit. "It is important to conduct large studies of promising agents to determine whether or not they are of value," said Dr. Mehta. "While demonstrating that something is of benefit is wonderful, reliably excluding agents are not helpful is equally important as it will avoid their unnecessary use and associate...Doctors transplant ovary to woman's arm to preserve fertility
...tamoses in animal models and human cases have been promising but hampered by large follicle loss due to ischemia. However, animal models with anastamoses have demonstrated success, but there has been only one prior successful human autotransplant. In this second successful human trial, C. Hilders, M.D., Ph.D.,...Percutaneous edge-to-edge mitral valve repair shows favorable preliminary results
...any, and the sponsor of the trial. Based on these promising results, a larger, Phase II safety and efficacy trial may be initiated later this year. Dr. Herrmann presented an update of the trial's findings today at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2004 in New Orleans during a presentation e...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...ther electronics, and are at the heart of the most promising nuclear fusion devices that may someday lead to an abundance of cheap, clean, and safe power sources. The APS Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting is the world's largest yearly gathering of plasma physicists, with more than 1500 attendees presen...Mayo Clinic discovers one mechanism for why men and women differ in immune response
...So these results of our experiment are really very promising for unraveling this gender difference in the immune system." He emphasizes that further research is needed to validate these findings before they can be used in human patients in the clinic. Background Biology Dr. Kwon frequently cares for patient...Research on fabrics and cancer-fighting foods featured at ACS meeting
..., more comfortable sports uniforms are some of the promising developments offered by materials research. These and other developments, including a presentation on genetically-engineered spider silk for use in ultra-strong fabrics, will be highlighted in a daylong symposium, New Developments in Textile Chemistr...UCSF receives $21 million NIH contract for sexually transmitted infection research
...an testing -- Phase I safety trials -- of the most promising and safest vaccine, microbicide, STI treatment and diagnostic products in the pipeline. Our goal is to get new products, if proven safe, into efficacy trials faster and then, if efficacious, into the populations that need them," said principal inves...University of Pittsburgh researcher gets CDC grant to study youth violence
...red research scientist awards are designed to help promising young investigators become experts in a particular field. Dr. Fabio's research project titled, "Why Some Generations Are More Violent Than Others A Contextual Model for Understanding Crime Trends," seeks to determine the role of social influence on ...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...ther electronics, and are at the heart of the most promising nuclear fusion devices that may someday lead to an abundance of cheap, clean, and safe power sources. The APS Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting is the world's largest yearly gathering of plasma physicists, with more than 1500 attendees prese...Engineered stem cells can home in on tumors and deliver drug payload in mice
...in mice, that shows this kind of strategy could be promising when developed for human use. "This is the most effective homing strategy seen to date, much better than any viral delivery strategy tested so far," says Michael Andreeff, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Departments of Blood and Marrow Transplantatio...A key to pregnancy-associated malaria
...traps infected cells in the placenta may provide a promising new target for a vaccine against pregnancy-associated malaria (PAM). Salanti and colleagues show that the malaria protein VAR2CSA is displayed on malaria-infected cells that bind to the placenta, as they report in the November 1 issue of The Journal...... by the AGA, virtual colonoscopy was found to be a promising treatment with limitations, such as the inability to consistently detect flat polyps or those smaller than one centimeter. The Harvard study's projected decrease in traditional colonoscopies varied depending on the polyp size "threshold" or the...Studies demonstrate positive data in treatment of hepatitis C
...esearchers with sufficient evidence to demonstrate promising results for hepatitis C patients who have not resp...rials. Combining NM283 with interferon also showed promising activity, according to Afdhal....Global strategies for improving child health under scrutiny
...n determining the amount of progress attainable by promising horizontal approaches."...Six new Roybal Centers for Applied Gerontology established by National Institute on Aging
...Edward R. Roybal, the Centers are designed to move promising social and behavioral basic research findings out of the laboratory and into programs, practices and policies that will improve the lives of older people and the capacity of society to adapt to societal aging. Established for 5 years, the Centers wi...Radiotherapy + cetuximab significantly improve disease control and survival in head and neck cancer
...explained Dr. Giralt. "These results are extremely promising and represent a major step forward in the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck," said Dr. Giralt. "This combination treatment should be explored in other common epithelial malignancies that demonstrate EGFR overexpression in whic...