Duke Study Suggests New Class Of Drugs Could Bypass Leptin Loop
...dfat. Specifically, mice on a high-fat diet that received the synthetic noradrenalinestayed as slim as mice on a low-fat diet that received no noradrenaline.Results of this study were reported April 19 in the Journal of BiologicalChemistry....AIDS Treatments Seek To Eradicate Virus, Restore Immunity
...tcell's gene. Ritonavir, a protease inhibitor that received FDA approvalearlier this year, kills HIV by crippling an enzyme crucial to its survival,a mechanism different from other anti-viral compounds. The three drugs are expected to reduce the "viral load" or theamount of HIV in patients' bodies, by 99 pe...Use Of Surfectant Therapy Widens Gap In Death Rate Of Black And White Newborns
...over, the death rate of black and white babies who received surfactantwas not significantly different - 20 per...f white infants and 23percent of black infants who received the therapy died. "On the surface, it looked like black babies didn't get as muchsurfactant, and the...Testosterone May Affect Learning Skills; May Be Put In Tablet Form
... San Francisco. Thirteen men with low testosterone received a testosterone tablet that dissolves in the mouth ...d the men to perform as well sexually as when they received testosterone injections but without prolonged exposure to a high hormone level caused by injections....New Colorectal Cancer Treatment Available
...en treated with chemotherapy or those who may have received adjuvant chemotherapy but have been disease-free f...rate in 41 patients with colorectal cancer who had received no prior therapy. Dr. Saltz has recently reported the ability to give substantial doses of CPT-11 a...Maternal Exposure To Crack Cocaine Produces Stressed Newborns
... from reporting their drug use. All of the mothers received prenatalcare and all of the babies were normal birth weight. The study offers some encouraging news. In contrast to anecdotal reports,the babies are no more difficult to test than non-exposed infants and don'trequire special handling or consoling, t...Alzheimer's disease center seeks patients for new drug studies
... way. Only one Alzheimer's medication, Cognex, has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration. About 25 percent of Alzheimer's patients can tolerate an adequate dose of Cognex, and a quarter of those have shown improvement, Svetlik said. "After Cognex was approved, we had difficulty recruiting f...Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
...ga final four-week withdrawal period, all patients received only as-neededalbuterol. The study showed that even though the average use of albuterol was fivetimes higher in the regular use group than in the as-needed group, therewere no significant differences between the two groups in measures of lungfunctio...UW, Siemens Unveil New Panoramic Ultrasound Imaging Application Using Programmable Technology
...ided by thissystem." Yongmin Kim's research group received seed funding for the projectfrom the Washington Te...rsityin the United States. In 1995, the university received more than $477million from public and private sources. The Ultrasound Group of Siemens,with world he...It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
...heir initial admission. This includes patients who received a catheterization during the initial hospitalizati...their intial admission. This includes patients who received angioplasty or bypass surgery during the initial hospitalization. The average number of days pat...Postmature Infants Not As Easily Calmed As Other Newborns
...ample, during the five-minute period in which they received the sugarsolution, the postmature babies exhibited nearly three times asmany tremors of the arms, legs or hands. Ongoing research has led Smith and her colleagues to thesurprising hypothesis that the sweet taste of sugar sedatesinfants by stimulating...ACTG 315 Preliminary Results: Drug Cocktail Restores Partial Immune Function
...ee consecutive monthsof AZT therapy but never have received 3TC or a protease inhibitor. After a 35-day washout period duringwhich they took no antivirals, the study participants began takingritonavir (Abbott Laboratories) alone, gradually escalating thedose to 600 mg twice a day. Ten days after starting rit...Drug And Radiation Treatment May Shrink Pancreatic And Gastric Tumors
... drug paclitaxel toadminister to patients who also received radiation treatment, the researcherswere surprised...six weeks.After each paclitaxel infusion, patients received radiation. As with any drug,paclitaxel can cause unwanted side effects. Several patients in the stud...Laser Shown Effective In Patients Who Are Not Candidates For Bypass Surgery Or Angioplasty
...gina. "The mortality rate for the group that received primary TMR was3.0 percent, while the rate for those who crossed over from the medicalgroup was 40.0 percent," Lowe said. "For this reason, TMR shouldbe offered only to patients before their disease progresses to unstableangina." It is expecte...ACTG Protocol 185 Enrollment Halted
...reventive treatment regimen. The comparison group received AZT and standard intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG)...s greater than or equal to 200/mm3 and only 5% had received any AZT prior to the current pregnancy. In contrast, in Pediatric ACTG Protocol 185, 23% had baseli...UNC-CH Study Shows State Protects HMO Clients Poorly
... Overall, North Carolina's HMO consumer protection received a “C-minus” when compared with other sta... its financial solvency requirements, she said. It received “D-minuses” for both how much consumers participate in HMO governance and how consumers ca...New Drug For Parkinson's Disease Proves Effective, Study Finds
...ed into five treatment groups.Members of one group received a placebo, while those in the otherfour groups received daily doses of pramipexole dihydrochloride. Physicians measured a patient's condition bymonitoring t...TB Prophylaxis Unnecessary In HIV-Infected People With Anergy, Study Suggests
...sk HIV-infected people with anergyinto groups that received either daily INH or placebo. They found that thenumber of cases of active TB disease that developed in each group during thesix-month study period did not differ significantly. "Our findings suggest that giving INH to people in this group is probabl...Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine By U-M Researcher Is 93% Effective
...is Jr., founderof the U-M epidemiology department, received his Ph.D. from the School of PublicHealth in 1956. Just four years later, he isolated the Influenza Type A-AnnArbor virus and by 1967 had developed a cold-adapted virus that bred well incooler nasal passages and did not mutate to more dangerous form...... arteries significantly improvedafter the patients received an intravenous contrast agent. Second, with the 3D images generated by the prototype workstation, theresearchers were able to make follow-up measurements that were more accuratethan measurements made on 2D images. According to Delcker...