Patent Received On Drug Delivery System
Two researchers have received a patent for a new drug delivery system that couldremove some of the side effects from chemotherapy. Vincent S. Gallicchio, Ph.D., associate dean for research, University ofKentucky College of Allied Health Professions, and Milton Yatvin, Ph.D.,profe...UK Allied Health Professor Receives Patent On Using Lithium With AIDS Drugs
...ean for Research Vincent S. Gallicchio, Ph.D., has received a patent to testwhether current and future anti-viral drug agents can be made more effectivewhen made chemically as a lithium salt. Lithium is known to have a number of immune enhancing properties andcould possibly protect certain cells from ...Reassuring Findings About Infants Exposed To Zidovudine
...the investigators note. The health of children who received AZT (122 children) can be compared with thatof a similar number of children (112) who received a placebo. For the current study, the investigators evaluated the children at regularintervals. The...Managed-Care Incentives Should Be Disclosed, Physician Says
What if your lawyer got paid more if you received a smaller settlement? Or yourmechanic reaped a bonus for withholding service on your car? In an effort to contain health-care costs, many managed-care companies rewarddoctors who restrict medical care. Such financial incentives should be disclosedto ......o teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses, received more than$670,000 in research grants in the past fiscal year. Her primary funders werethe National Institutes for Health/National Institute of Neurological Disordersand Stroke, The National Multiple Sclerosis Society and The American HeartAssociatio...Statistician Keeps Health Researchers Ahead Of The Curve
...reduce painful withdrawalsymptoms. The other group received a placebo. Again, traditional statisticalmethods c...ed a bachelor's degree in mathematics. In 1990, he received a doctoratein statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a facultymember in ...An Ergonomically Redesigned Analgesia Delivery Device Proves Safer And More Efficient
... The order of training and order in which subjects received the programming tasks were each counterbalanced. Procedure In subjects' first session, they were trained on how to use one of the PCA interfaces and were also given 3 practice programming tasks. In the testing that followed, subjects completed 6 more...Study Finds Olestra Chips Don't Generate Gastrointestinal Woes
...ts, who lived in Phoenix and St. Petersburg, Fla., received upto eight free bags of chips per household once a week for six weeks. They didnot know which bags contained the fat substitute, and neither did theresearchers until the study closed. "Overall, people in both the olestra group and the control...Duke Doctors Can Now Cure Most Babies Born With Fatal Immune Disease
...nths of life. All but one of 22 babies who received a transplant in this time framesurvived, according...eventy-seven of the 89 children in Buckley's study received theirparent's bone marrow, and 60 of them have survived. Successful treatment depends on sev...Women Who Have Invasive Cervical Cancer Benefit From Addition Of Chemotherapy To Radiation Treatment
... Cancer Center. "Overall, the patients who received chemotherapy were more likely tosurvive their dise... All of the 386 women evaluated in the study received radiation to thepelvis and abdomen that reached the lymph nodes, where cervical cancer tends tosprea...Interleukin-2 Boosts Cancer Vaccine Effectiveness In Mice
...izu, M.D., U-Mresearch fellow; Ryan C. Fields, who received his U-M undergraduate degree in1998 and is now attending Duke University Medical School; and Martin Giedlin,associate research director for vaccines and gene therapy research at ChironTechnologies. The research was supported by the National Cancer In......ny on 26 colon cancerpatients who had never before received chemotherapy resulted in 15 cases ofcomplete remission, 10 cases of partial remission and only 1 case of progressivedisease. Van Echo's study is only for those patients who already have receivedsome form of chemotherapy. Colorectal ca...In Battle For Attention, Left Side Of Brain Wins Over The Right, UF Researchers Find
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...ontinued, "At the time of the study, most patients received theJohnson & Johnson Palmaz-Shatz" stent -- the first one approved in the UnitedStates. Today's improved stent designs are likely to further magnify thedifference observed here."...When It Comes To Heart Attacks, Size Apparently Does Matter
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... calculate the worth of benefits that would not be received for years,investors tended to undervalue them. Benefits that were more than threeyears away were often seen as worthless. So Roizen began to adapt the economist's ideas to health care. He puttogether a scientific advisory team to comb through the mas...Flu Shots Keep Health Workers On The Job
...ng 0.5 more days of work. Subjects who had received the influenza vaccine reported a total of 28.7days...nthe previous year. Thus, control subjects who had received the vaccine duringthe previous season were infected at the same rate (15 percent) as controls whohad...Heart Valve Abnormalities Examined In Relation To Duration Of Diet Drug Use
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