Balloon Procedure In The Brain? Longest Follow-Up To Date Shows Good Results
...strokes in other areas of the brain. All patients received continued medicaltherapy after the procedure. After three years, the patients had an annualstroke rate of 3.2 percent in the area of the blockage and an overall annualstroke rate of 4.8 percent. "It is difficult to know precisely how these stroke r...Clogged Neck Artery May Warn Of Heart Attack As Well As Stroke
...ray of the blood vesselsof the heart. Each person received noninvasive ultrasound tests of the carotidarteries to search both the left and right sides, and branches, forobstructions. Researchers found that severe atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries wasrelated to severe coronary heart disease. Conversel...Relaxation And Music Significantly Reduce Patients' Postoperative Pain
... another group listened to music, and athird group received a combination of relaxation and music. Findings r...gnificantly less pain thanthe control group, which received only pain medication. "Both medication and self-care methods which involve patientparticip......ated 633 RA patients with early, activedisease who received ENBREL or methotrexate, using two primary endpoint...up to 20 mg of methotrexate for 12months. Patients received both ENBREL or placebo twice a week by subcutaneousinjection and methotrexate or placebo once a week......enter and at JFK Partners. About 100 children have received secretin injections as a treatment for autism and to diagnose digestive and gastrointestinal problems that frequently accompany the disorder, according to NICHD. But there have been no published studies evaluating the effectiveness of secretin.. How......of frail elderly, in which half ofthe participants received assistive devices and home adaptations as needed andhalf received "usual care services," has shown that participants in theintervention group sustained a higher level......ively examined the results of 1560 patientswho had received radiation therapy alone for prostate cancer. The p...10) who should havehad the worst prognoses and who received a higher radiation dose, had betterlocal control of their cancer, and were more likely to be disease...Breakthrough New Therapy Uses Antibody-Targeted Chemotherapy To Fight Leukemia
...fusions fourteen days apart, and manypatients have received the drug on an outpatient basis. Unlike standardchemotherapy regimens, which involve multiple drugs, CMA-676 is given alone. Itis thus less likely to produce serious drug-drug interactions. Similar studies of this new therapy are underway through...New Strategy May Succeed At Extending The Life Of Transplanted Kidneys
...ys shows promise. In a study of 60 people who had received kidney transplants and were showingsigns of kidney deterioration, University of Maryland researchers found thatthey could improve the kidney function in the majority of patients by cutting inhalf the dose of cyclosporine (Neoral), a widely used drug...Livers From Children Are Going To Adults, University Of Pittsburgh Review Of National Data Reveals
...one-year graft survival rate than the children who received pediatricorgans, 67.9 percent versus 75.5 percent. About 75 children have died each yearon the waiting list since 1991. Under the current organ allocation system, donated organs are preferentiallyused in the local area where they originate, even if ...Kidney Transplant Recipients Require Less Long-Term Care If They Receive Well-Matched Donor Organs
...caring for patients could drop dramaticallyif more received kidneys closely resembling their own organs. ...dicare claims for the samepatients. All 27,050 had received an organ from a deceased donor between 1992and 1997. They determined the cost of their care from 30 ...Progress In Cancer-Vaccine Studies: Simpler, Safer Approach Producing Encouraging Results
...t had prior therapy. Six of the eight patients who received the optimal IL-12 dose had significantbenefit. One patient with multiple metastatic tumors in both lungs had acomplete response and has been disease free for more than a year. In two other patients, the tumors decreased in size and have remained stab......s 54 percent. Of the 271bone marrow patients, 229 received a single infusion of bone marrow duringtransplant surgery and 42 patients received the bone marrow in three separatedoses -- one during surgery, and one each in the following two days...Intestine Transplant Results Reported At American Society Of Transplantation Meeting
...ongenital conditions. Of the patients reported, 48 received small bowel alone, 58 received liver andsmall bowel and 15 received multiple organs. Surgeons reported that a number of factors hav......evels. Men in thestudy include those who had never received hormonal therapy before(hormone-nave) and patients...luated forpreliminary results. Study participants received nine capsules daily ofPC-SPES. The majority of these men are still enrolled in the clinical trial an...Anti-Depressant Drug Shows Promise As Weight-Loss Treatment
... 13 women who took a placebo. Women using the drug received amaximum of 200 mg twice daily. Subjects who responded to the drug during the first eight weeks appear to belosing additional weight as the treatment is continued past the six-month mark,said Gadde, although researchers have not completed analysis o......and Sports Medicine in the School of Medicine just received grantstotaling nearly $6.5 million with another $3.6 million expected later this year.The grants will fund studies to improve the health of adolescents andfirefighters. The three new studies will look at enhancing the exercise andnutrition of firefig...DDW Studies Present Evidence That Thalomid (Thalidomide) Is Active In Treating Crohn's Disease
...mide) used in theCedar's-Sinai study. The company received U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) clearance t...ide as an antiangiogenic agent. Recently,THALOMIDR received orphan drug designation for multiple myeloma and Crohn'sdisease. Thalidomide is contraindicated in p...New Procedure Makes A Successful Transplant Possible
... unacceptable. In 1993, patients with a low PRAwho received transplants had waited an average of 535 days, while those with thehighest PRA waited 1,974 days for a suitable organ. A person can develop high PRA after having a pregnancy, a previous bloodtransfusion, or an earlier kidney transplant. High PRA pre......der age. That analysis was done on 227patients who received kidneys from living donors from March 1996 to December1998. A separate, detailed analysis by University of Maryland researchers of 184transplant patients came up with the break even point of 2.7 years compared todialysis. That study was published in...