Pioneer In Nuclear Medicine Wins Lifetime Award
...on thepublic health implications of radiation, and received an appointment at theHopkins School of Public Health in 1961. In that capacity, he has served on theMaryland Governor's Panel on the Impact of Nuclear Energy and he conducted aninvestigation of the nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island. "When...Crystal Structure Of gp120 Reveals HIV In Action
...ial of another variation on the gp120 vaccinetheme received the Food and Drug Administration's go-ahead in early June. Futuretrials could target other portions of the molecules that the new crystalstructure reveals to be crucial to infection. The crystal structure also reveals potential new drug targe...About The Care Of Patients Before They Are Admitted To Intensive Care
...heir confidential inquiry into the quality of care received by 100 patients admitted to intensive care. They found that 54 of the 100 patients received suboptimal care and nearly half of these (48 per cent) patients died (almost twice the rate of thos...One-Time Needles Don't Reduce HIV Among Addicts, Study Shows
...r preventing HIV transmission via needlereuse have received considerable attention. One proposal is engineering anddistributing syringes that are not easily shared. Currently, there are severaldifferent possible designs of difficult-to-reuse syringes, also known as DTRs. Mathematical modeling, the key tool em...Drug Combination Including New "Super Aspirin" Drug Cuts Risk Of Death Or Second Heart Attack
...n,or standard heparin alone therapy. All patients received aspirin. "The additive role of heparin remains uncertain, but appears morefavorable with low-dose lamifiban," Moliterno says. After 30 days there was a minor difference in the number of deaths or secondheart attacks among the low-dose lamifi...Modafinil Improves The Quality Of Life Of Narcolepsy Patients
...tioning and overall performance,while patients who received 200 mg doses of modafinil reported more than a 50p...day performances and social functioning. Thosewho received the 400 mg of modafinil reported even more improvements in theirenergy level. They had fewer diffic...Fact Sheet -- Rectal Administration Of Diazepam For Acute Repetitive Seizures (RADARS) Study
...reated withrectal diazepam gel. Pediatric patients received two doses--one at onset of seizures and a second4 ...er--and were observed for 12 hours. Adult patients received three doses--one at onset of seizures, the second 4hours later, and the third 12 hours later--and we...Only Eight Percent Of San Francisco HIV-Positive Urban Poor Receive Protease Inhibitors
...co, the researchers found: Only about 28 percent received any anti-retroviral drugs at all--compared to almost 90 percent of middle-class people infected with HIV--andonly eight percent were on protease inhibitors prescribed by the San Franciscopublic health system. Although these people are HIV positive, ...Scientists Report Cancer Fighting Drug As Possible Treatment For Multiple Sclerosis
...cluding the president,Torsten N. Wiesel, M.D., who received the prize in 1981. The university recentlycreated six centers to foster collaborations among scientists to pursueinvestigations of Alzheimer's disease, of biochemistry and structural biology,of human genetics, of immunology and immune diseases, of se...World's First Producer To Repair Brain Damage From Stroke
...s will also be conducted. The patient will received cyclosporine, an anti-rejection drug, for oneweek prior to surgery, and will continue to receive it for two months aftersurgery. Other co-investigators on the study are Howard Yonas, M.D., PeterJannetta professor of neurological surgery and c......ion period. Serious side effects were rare. Women received surgical interventions whenrequested, when the drugs failed to terminate the pregnancy completely, whenwomen did not want to wait for the medical abortion to occur, or whenintervention appeared medically needed. What Women Liked and Disliked about t...Anti-Depressants: Miracle Drugs Or Placebos With A Buzz?
...he placebo effectcaused by the fact that those who received medication (rather than a dummy pill)could tell by the side effects that they had takensomething. This result was seen in all the studies in the meta-analysis, includingthose involving drugs not considered to be anti-depressants,but which wer...Parenting CD-ROM Helps Reduce Children's Behavioral Problems
...s,Hocking and Washington counties in Ohio. Parents received either the parentingCD-ROM or were assigned to a control group. Prior to their participation, parents completed several questionnaires,including the Eyeberg Child Behavior Inventory, a tool widely used byresearchers to measure behavioral diso...Studies Indicate An Effective Treatment For Steroid-Induced Osteoporosis
...us, long-term sideeffect." Patients in the studies received either an oral dose of alendronate (5 mg to 10mg) ...st in post-menopausal women not taking estrogenwho received 10 mg of alendronate, the researchers noted. Post-menopausal womentaking steroid treatments are amo...... than half of the patients most inneed of the drug received it. "If the American College of Cardiology/AmericanHeart Association guidelines had been followed in the treatment of the 75,173patients in the study with congestive heart failure or left ventricular ejectionfraction, 1,800 lives could have been sav......with finasteride for one year, while the otherhalf received no treatment. At the end of the study, a second biopsy revealedthat eight of the 27 men who took the drug had developed tumors, compared toonly one of the 25 men in the observation-only group. To evaluate the drug's ability to block tumor development...New Elementary School Program Lowers Cardiovascular Risks In Children
..., 4% other). The classroom-wide intervention group received instruction twice a week, provided by regular clas... to select heart-healthy foods. The children also received an aerobically focused physical education program three times a week. The small groups consisted of...Epilepsy Drug Found To Stop Cocaine's Effects In Animals
...at rodents spentin areas where they had previously received cocaine. Such behavior is importantin human drug addiction. But GVG did not stop animals' routine functions such as learning, eatingand moving; nor did it cause other obvious side effects. "We are extremely excited about our result...Controlling Collagen Levels May Be Key To Fighting Organ Failure Caused By High Blood Pressure
...om 26 people with untreated highblood pressure who received lisinopril, an ACE-inhibitor, and compared theirfindings to blood samples from a "control" group of 23 people with normal bloodpressure who were not given any drugs. Before treatment, the people with highblood pressure had more collagen in their blo...