International breast cancer prevention study launches in the United States and Canada
...es exemestane under the brand name Aromasin and is providing the drug for the trial. Women looking for more information about the ExCel research study and participating study centers in their community can visit www.excelstudy.com or call toll-free: In the U.S. 1-800-4-CANCER In Canada 1 888 939-3333 ...Pitt marks 50th anniversary of its Salk polio vaccine with reunion, scientific symposium
...and his research team also have come forward, each providing a glimpse of what it was like to participate in medical history. Remembering Polio: The History and Future of Vaccine Development Monday, April 11 and Tuesday, April 12, Alumni Hall Auditorium Speakers and topics for each day are as follows. (See ...Primary care office strategies may increase colon cancer screening
...d changes as effectively without the facilitators' providing attention, support, and technical assistance," the authors wrote. "Overall, our results suggest that use of an office systems approach toward improving CRC screening behavior in real-world primary care practices is feasible and effective enough to wa...Advertising by academic medical centers may risk eroding public trust, says study
...sted the public in making good health decisions by providing balanced and objective information."...Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
... the federal, state and local levels have resisted providing IDUs with easier access to clean needles from phys...ecessarily to death or a living hell. Fortunately, providing IDUs with access to sterile syringes allows us to be responsible, prudent and compassionate admirab...Yale technology translates to sonic golf training tool
... intuitive to golfers and instantly interpretable, providing realtime audio feedback on the tempo, timing and rhythm of the golf swing." A patent was filed through the Yale Office of Cooperative Research and the technology is licensed to his company, Sonic Golf, LLC. He has successfully tested his clubs with...UW research shows risk factors for relapse among health care professionals who abuse drugs
...ence. "Remaining in the same professional role and providing these drugs to legitimately help their patients may be difficult for physicians who have been addicted to abusing these same pain killers," Domino said....Hospitals may now be more willing to partner up with former adversaries
...ad initiated specific interventions, most commonly providing educational materials, benchmark data, and hospital performance data. The majority of respondents, sixty percent, rated QIO interventions as "helpful" or "very helpful." The generally positive view of QIOs suggests that they are poised to take a le...HIV and ID doctors oppose ideologically driven STI prevention policies
...rthermore, US law requires the $15 billion program providing AIDS relief to developing countries to allocate one-third of its prevention funds to abstinence-only education. However, there is very little credible, peer-reviewed, published scientific evidence that abstinence-only sexual health education program...Benign separation process being advanced for pharmaceutical industry
...ws the experiment to be successful. The company is providing her with a fellowship for spring and summer 2005....Drug therapy may be comparable to invasive cardiac procedures for elderly patients with heart attack
...sted difference in 7-year survival between regions providing the highest rates of both invasive and medical management strategies and those providing the lowest rates of both was 6.2 percent." "Our study confirmed that clinicians were more likely to ...New hand-held information system for emergency responders
...ISER has been added as a resource to this network, providing easy access to authoritative chemical information. WISER is also being incorporated into training curricula, such as the Baltimore County, Md. Hazmat Team training program, the Illinois Fire Service Institute, and the Federal Emergency Management Ag...Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
... cost, and long-term outcomes in a single package, providing a valuable tool for stroke outcomes research. This database provides a means to conduct large-scale national-level studies at relatively low cost. ISOD strengths include the centralization of information on inpatient and outpatient services, as well ...Brain imaging studies investigate pain reduction by hypnosis
...er generation of fMRI machines would be capable of providing more answers. "Imaging studies like this one improve our understanding of what might be going on and help researchers ask even more specific questions aimed at identifying the underlying mechanism," Schulz-Stubner said. "It is one piece of the puzzle...New fingerprint visualization method uses X-rays to reveal missing clues
...emical artifacts present in the prints themselves, providing new clues for crime scene analysis. Abnormally high levels of potassium, for instance, may suggest the presence of potassium nitrate, a component of explosives. High levels of sulfur and potassium may suggest gunpowder. Other elements could reveal en...Age shouldn't be a factor in kidney transplantation
...ratta. "Some physicians have ethical concerns that providing elderly patients with scarce donated kidneys may not represent a worthwhile investment." Stratta's research, however, found that by using newer methods to match the kidney with the recipient, the ages of the donors and recipients did not affect eithe...Northwestern Memorial Hospital honored with one of the nation's top awards for quality
... are making significant strides toward our goal of providing the best and safest care for our patients," said Gary A. Mecklenburg, president and chief executive officer, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, Northwestern Memorial Hospital's parent company. "This recognition is very special to us as it comes from ...End AIDS drug waiting lists, HIV care providers tell policymakers
... the nation's primary federal program dedicated to providing care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS. Ryan White includes a constellation of programs designed to fill in gaps in health coverage for uninsured or underinsured people with HIV/AIDS. Ryan White programs provide aid ranging from social an...New data on Orqis Medical's Cancion CRS to be reported at ACC
...el Zile, M.D., who analyzed the research data. "By providing continuous aortic flow augmentation, the therapy enabled patients to experience progressive improvement in key measures such as cardiac index and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure." Dr. Zile's oral presentation (AAC 864-8) is titled "Continuous Aor...Columbia researchers receive $3 million to combat genetic killer of infants & toddlers
...educed barriers in the drug development process by providing open access to mouse models of SMA and has been instrumental in working with both Congress and the National Institutes of Health in creating awareness and increasing federal funding for the disease....