Ultrasound Helps Pediatric Heart Surgeons After Open Heart Surgery
...dows, you get a better picture." Rodriguez received the Popham Clinical Research Fellowship Award fromChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in 1996 to continue his clinicalinvestigations of brain function during cardiac surgery in children. His colleagues in the study include Drs. Garry Corne...Scientists Track Effectiveness Of Migraine Drugs With Ultrasound
...ar blood flow. The patients in this study received various prescribed drugs formigraines, including propranolol, valproic acids, antidepressants (amitriptylineor paroxetine), aspirin, or combinations of these drugs. Two-thirds of the patients reported clinical improvement, Chung said.The tran...Cancer Protection Compound Abundant In Broccoli Sprouts
... and exposed them and a control group that had not received the extracts toa carcinogen,dimethylbenzanthracene. The rats that received the extracts developed fewertumors, and thosethat did get tumors had smaller growths that took longe...Benefits Of Annual Mammography Outweigh Radiation Risks Of Cancer
...tuberculosis treatment in the 1920s. Such women received up to 2,500 times more radiation than a woman gets during a mammogram. Yet, he says, "there’s still this unfounded concern about getting cancer from mammography radiation." Dr. Feig estimated that based on results from multipl...Women Say Overwhelming Yes To Ultrasound In New Study
...es in Europe, however, have shown that mothers who received an ultrasound bonded better with their child during and after pregnancy and had less stress while they carried the child. "The study confirms that women want ultrasound for their normal, healthy, routine pregnancies," says Kazerooni. "However, ...Drug Regimen Reduces Atrial Fibrillation After Heart Surgery
...days before elective heart surgery and 60 patients received a placebo. One in four of the patients who received the medication suffered atrial fibrillation after surgery, compared with 53 percent of the patients ...Mammography Messages Need To Be Tailored For Older Women
...f Preventive Medicine . About half the women had received a mammogramwithin the past two years. About a thir...gerthan 75, were more educated, were nonsmokers or received fairlyregular medical care. The survey also showed that many women sharedcertain misconceptions a...Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
... substances directly to disease sites. CYTOGEN has received FDA marketing approval for three different anti-cancer compounds....Bi-Monthly Boosts Of Aspirin Benefit Heart
...e survivors were also included inthe study. They received 300 mg of asprin per day. A control group consistedof 200 people who did not take aspirin and 23 individuals who were given asingle 500-mg (considered a regular dose by European standards) dose of aspirin. After three months of aspir...Survey Finds Increasing Popularity Of Acute Stroke Teams In U.S. Hospitals
...NDO, FLA. -- In the past, the brain and heart have received differenttreatment, at least when it comes to emer...ts. To determine how the concept has been received in the medical community,Alberts and his colleagues in the National Acute Stroke Team Group conducte...Heart Attack Survivors Can Lower Stroke Risk By Taking Cholesterol-Lowering Drug, Study Says
...ants treated with the drug ascompared to those who received a placebo. The results were presented here today at the American HeartAssociation's 23rd International Joint Conference on Stroke and CerebralCirculation by Jonathan F. Plehn, M.D., associate professor of medicine atDartmouth Medical School ...Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic Threatens Developing Countries, Global Economy
...developing countries during those same decades has received little attention,"says Reddy. People in developing countries die from cardiovascular disease at younger agesthan those in industrialized societies. In 1990 nearly 47 percent ofcardiovascular disease deaths in developing countries were people younge......ls re-infused into patients. Allthe Duke patients received autologous transplants, while the patients inpublished IPS studies received allogeneic transplants. There are other differences between the Duke patients and previou...Four-Year Study Shows Long-Term Effectiveness Of Proscar In Treating Enlarged Prostates
...lasia (BPH). The study participants either received finasteride or aplacebo. Those taking finasteride had a 55 percent reduced risk ofneeding prostate surgery and 57 percent less risk of developing acuteurinary retention, a painful blockage of the urinary tract requiringcatheterization. "This ......responses and observed their behavior knew who had received theactive drug until the conclusion of the study. Paroxetine is manufactured by SmithKline Beecham and sold under the brand namePaxil. It is one of a class of anti-depressant drugs known as selectiveserotonin re-uptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which h...Study Finds Aspirin Does Not Prevent High-Risk Cases Of Preeclampsia
... 1254were given 60 mg. of aspirin a day while 1249 received a placebo. For theaspirin group, the incidence of preeclampsia was 18 percent and for the placebogroup, 20 percent--a difference that was not statistically significant. Dr. McNellis noted that the study tested the aspirin therapy in the fou...Tighter Chemical Binding = Better Meds
...hitehead Professor ofChemistry at Yale University, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University,where he worked with Professor E. J. Corey in the use of computers todesign synthetic routes for making organic molecules. (Corey laterreceived the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.) While at Harvard, Jorgensendevelop...X-Rays: How Big A Risk To Kids? UF Researchers Seek Answers
...iling newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit received more X-raysthan other patients in critical wards. Doctors give babies more X-rays because they often use medical devicessuch ascatheters in treating the babies and because infants experience much morerapid internalchanges than adults, said J...Exercise, Classroom Instruction Cut Kids' Cholesterol, Study Finds
...to four groups. During the 1995-96 school yearthey received both physical activity and classroom training, either one or theother "intervention" or neither. Physical activity was vigorous and sustained three times a week but didnot require special sports skills. Classroom teaching focused on nutrition......tients. Sixty-nine percent of patients who received thrombolytic therapy withoutthe pump died in the hospital, whereas only 49 percent who were treated with thepump in addition to clot-busting drugs died, Barron found.In contrast, death rates in patients given emergency angioplasties toclear coronary ...