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...evious six months,researchers found that those who received diet and exercise counseling andmedication advice ...hieve blood pressurecontrol than were patients who received medical care alone. "A team approach between physicians and pharmacists may have positiveef...Pairing Two Drugs With Angioplasty May Offer Best Success In Treating Heart Attacks
...gioplasties, and of this group, another 80 percent received a stent. It was also unique in that it enrolled patients within 60 minutes ofbeing seen in an emergency department, instead of the standard 90 minutes, Ohmansaid. "That's because 60 minutes is within the time span most patients are sentfor a......r testing. In the study, half the patients received a SPECT (single photon emissioncomputed tomography... test showed no damagedheart muscle, patients then received a standard exercise stress test. If thisexercise stress test also proved negative, the patient was d...PAHO Working With Affected Communities In Central America
...he Americas and in other regions of the world have received training. In Nicaragua, where 800,000 people were affected, 1,848 people have died, 1,287 are missing, and 228 are injured, PAHO is working with national officials to coordinate disaster response, assess damages, and prepare reconstruction ...New Drug Boosts The Power Of Traditional Cancer Therapies, UF Animal Studies Show
...esearcher at Children's Hospital in Boston who has received worldwide attention for his work. "The combretastatin approach is a little different from what Dr. Folkman has been doing," said Siemann. "The majority of research has focused on preventing the growth of new tumor blood vessels, the anti-angiogenesis...Discarded Treatment For Heart Attacks May Yet Prove To Be A Life-Saver
...e vessels toopen clogged blood vessels. People who received GIK infusions had a death rateof 6.7 percent versu...thecombination. However, among the 252 people who received therapy to open cloggedblood vessels, the mortality rate was 5.2 percent in the GIK-treated group,co......ractitioners orgeneral internists, while those who received psychotherapy (N=93) were alsotreated in the primary care setting by a psychiatrist or psychologist. Theresearchers further divided the treatment groups into those with a lower levelof severe depression (N=53) and those with a higher level of severe...New approach supercharges immunotherapy
...nd growing T cells, only eightpatients have so far received their expanded T cells. Six of those eight patients have had what appear to be complete remissions, butit remains unclear how long they will last. After an average of 305 days, two ofthose patients had relapsed. The recurrent disease "in some cases,...Promising New Drug Uses Antibody Targeted Chemotherapy To Fight Leukemia
...IV infusionsfourteen days apart, and many patients received it on an outpatient basis. Similar studies of the new treatment are underway throughout Europe and Canada.......thers had lymphoma orrelated cancers. All patients received G-CSF, and some received TPO as well. Ofthe group receiving both drugs, 94 percent achieved the minimum number of stemcells ......h those in the placebo group, diabetic patientswho received pravastatin had a 25 percent reduction in relative...Sacks says. "Those whowere glucose intolerant and received pravastatin had a lower rate of coronaryevents than those receiving placebo, although because of the...USC Researcher Lights Up The Immune System To Help Heart Transplant Recipients
...ventually kills the cells. Each patient then received an injection of their own inactivated cells were then re-injected into the patient. Photopheresis "changes the way the body views its own cells, so that the immune system will recognize the very cells that are attacking the transplanted organ...Intensive Program Can Help Premature Babies Learn At the Start
...f the children born prematurely and withlow weight received 25 hours a week of center-based care designed to d... children born prematurely and with low weight who received onlythe pediatric care and social support services, but still ran below achievementlevels of those b...Best Use Of Angiostatin May Be To Enhance Radiation Therapy
...he research involved six groups of mice. One group received no treatment,one got angiostatin alone, and one group received radiation therapy. Mice in the other three groups received different combinations of angiostatinand ..."Super" Aspirin Does Super Job In Fighting Heart Attacks
...f about32,000 heart attack patients. Participants received the platelet blocker drugsas part of their treatme...r severe chest pain. Someindividuals in the study received only the platelet blockers while others weretreated with the drug plus angioplasty -- a procedure th...Views Of Tamoxifen And Synthetic Estrogen In Action Provide Clues For Designing Better Drugs
...s. The best known SERM is tamoxifen, whichrecently received FDA approval for breast cancer prevention. But tamoxifen is flawed. It may block the potentially harmful action ofestrogen in the breast, preserve estrogen's beneficial effects for bonemaintenance and some of its cardiovascular effects, but, unfortun...UCSF Study Shows Drug Reduces Risk Of Spine And Hip Fractures By Half In Women With Osteoporosis
...udy of 4432 postmenopausalwomen, 2214 participants received alendronate. New results from the study, partof th...omen, both those with andwithout osteoporosis, who received the drug during the study. After four years of treatment, compared to women who received a placebo ...American Heart Association Comment: Results Of Cardiac Insufficiency Bisoprolol Study II (CIBIS-II)
...tal admissions were 20 percent lessamong those who received the beta-blocker. The results of the study sugges...tics and ACE inhibitors. Half of the patients also received the beta-blocker bisoprolol at a dosestarting at 1.25 milligrams per day, increasing to a maximum do......ere then infused back into the patients. Patients received threeescalating doses of CTLs at two-week intervals and then received two additionalinfusions at one-week intervals of CTLs that had been modified to contain amarker gene...UPMC Study Shows What May Be The Most Effective Treatment For Depressed Elderly
...eeffectiveness of different treatments. One group received both theantidepressant drug nortriptyline, a tricy...onthlyinterpersonal therapy (IPT). A second group received only the medication, whilea third group received only IPT. The fourth group received a placebo. Th...