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...gative. In the second phase, 2,144 women received the visual inspection, a Papsmear and the reference test in the same day. In this phase, visual inspectioncorrectly identified about 77 percent of the 207 serious precancerous orcancerous cases in this group. Visual inspection yielded a number of f...Lo-Cal Diet Slows Prostate Cancer In Animals, New Research Finds
... ratexperiment, one group received total dietary restriction, whilethe second and third groups were restricted by fat andcarbohydrates. All experiments ran for 16 weeks. Non-castrated ratsfrom the first experi...UW-Madison Center One Of Two Sites Nationwide Selected For Clinical Trial Of Cancer Drug
...Endostatin's potential value as a cancer treatment received worldwide attentionafter a May 1998 New York Times article described early results in mice in thelaboratory of Dr. Judah Folkman of Harvard Medical School. In May 1998, the NCIcalled animal studies on the compound "encouraging" and later announced it...UI Study Finds Social Support May Increase Longevity Of People With Schizophrenia
.... "The physical health of psychiatric patients has received relatively littleattention from researchers," Christensen said. "The tendency has been to focuson the patients' psychiatric health, yet these individuals don't live as long asthe general population. We hope the study is a step toward examining factor...Improved Fitness Lowers Mortality Risk Of Male Heart-Attack Survivors
... and at every six months of the trial,participants received a physical examination and performed a multi-stage gradedexercise test on a treadmill to estimate oxygen uptake, an indication offitness, at different levels or stages of exertion. The highest stage completedand oxygen uptake at the end of the trial...Debilitating Body Image Disorder Often Begins In Teens; Likely To Be Missed
...nerally ineffective, and 36 percentof subjects who received surgical treatment for their perceived flaws had no improvement in symptoms. Diagnosis of BDD in young people often requires inquiries about specificBDD symptoms because young people are often too embarrassed to divulge them, say t...Research Links Healthy Biological Clock To Longevity
Aging hamsters who received a new biological clock had their lifespan increasedby 20 per cent, proving the importance of circadian rhythms to the health andlongevity of an organism. Once the biological clock of a hamster begins to deteriorate, death occurswithin three months. H...Marijuana Not A Factor In Driving Accidents
...owever, the more cautiousbehaviour of subjects who received marijuana decreases the drug's impact onperformanc...propriate to their impairment, whereassubjects who received alcohol tend to drive in a more risky manner." Smiley, who has studied transportation safety for ove...Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Nursing Administrator Receives Nursing Excellence Award
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...to three groups and treatedfor 16 weeks. One group received endostatin, another TNP-470, and the third wasinjected with saline solution and served as a control group. At age 36 weeks,the average cholesterol levels of the three groups were about the same. However, there was a significant difference i...... spent nine hours a day in theprogram. Each child received one of the following medications twice a day, ever...cess in meeting targeted behavioralgoals, and each received a daily report card. These adult supervisors alsoindicated daily if they thought the child was medi...NICHD-Funded Researchers Show Estrogen Effects On Brain After Menopause
...ation for postmenopausal women, and the other half received a placebo. The brain functioning of both groups was then observed with fMRI technology. Atthe end of 21 days, all the women went through a 14 day "washout period" wherethey did not receive either estrogen or placebo. In the second phase of thestudy...UI Study Finds Many Physicians Withhold Pain Medication
...ndently withoutcoercion. The individuals must have received appropriate, comprehensibleinformation. At the time of consent, the patients must be able to communicatetheir decisions. The informed consent definition raises two questions, Graber said. One,does administering pain medication void patients' ......stically significant relative to the subjects that received eitherpaclitaxel or cisplatin without BNP7787. The...nt neurotoxicity. This includes patients who have received more than 7cycles of paclitaxel and cisplatin, and more than 9 cycles of single agentcisplatin. The...Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Now Offers Microwave Thermotherapy For Treatment Of Prostate Disease
...on® is manufactured by EDAP Technomed, Inc and received FDA approval inMay, 1996. For more information, or for a free referral to a physician whoperforms the Prostatron® procedure, please call 1-800-CEDARS-1 (1-800-233-2771). Patient benefits to Prostatron® Therapy include: Fewer complications...Sex And Survival: In Some Matters Of The Heart Women Have The Edge
...between men and women in the type oftreatment they received and the length of time they had the disease. The only form of cardiovascular disease that is increasing dramaticallyin the population is congestive heart failure, a condition in which the heartcannot pump enough blood to meet the demands of t...Study Finds Combining Exercise With Male Hormone Therapy Benefits Men With HIV-Wasting Disease
...ection. In addition, one group of 11 patients received oxandrolone, a synthetichormonal agent belonging ...ogens called anabolic steroids.Another 11 patients received a placebo, an inactive substance used as acomparison. The study was "double-blind," so during ...Anabolic Steroids May Help Dialysis Patients Fight Fatigue And Gain Lean Body Mass
...tientswho got the placebo. Also, the patients who received the steroid reported lessfatigue and scored better on physical performance tests. The researchers'results are published in the April 14 issue of the Journal of the AmericanMedical Association (JAMA). Hemodialysis, the most common form of dialysis in...New Teacher Award Honors NSF Program Director
...ne Corsentino (Place Middle School, Denver, Colo.) received theLawrence A. Scadden Outstanding Teacher Award o...n committee chose two finalists in February. Each received acheck, certificate and plaque at the annual meeting of the National ScienceTeachersAssociation meet...Oregon's Terminally Ill Patients More Likely to Have End-Of-Life Choices Respected, Study Finds
...irwishes. Patients with POLST forms who later died received very high levels ofcomfort care at the end of life...n satisfied with theamount of are their loved ones received at the end of life. Only 2 percent offamilies reported "too little" care was given. Tolle an...