Use Of Surfectant Therapy Widens Gap In Death Rate Of Black And White Newborns
...get as muchsurfactant, and therefore didn't have a reduction in mortality," Hamvassaid. "But, actually, we found the differences in surfactant administrationand the changes in the death rate were purely due to the differences in theincidence and severity of RDS. The babies who were sick enough to needsurfactan...Benefits Of New Diet Drug Don't Outweigh Risks
...equently, they have largely agreed that for weight reduction drugs to be effective, people must take them chronically, perhaps for a lifetime. To determine just how much weight people could expect to lose if they took Redux or a similar drug for a long time, Levitsky analyzed the studies from all the articles...Drug And Radiation Treatment May Shrink Pancreatic And Gastric Tumors
...tial activity in thepatients. The result was tumor reduction in 70 percent of the patients withstomach cancers and 31 percent of those with pancreatic cancers. Most pancreatic and stomach tumors are hard to detect at an early stage.When they are found, the tumors have often spread locally into lymph nodes an...ACTG Protocol 185 Enrollment Halted
...mission risk, and the now standard AZT regimen for reduction of perinatal transmission should be part of whatever treatment an infected woman receives during pregnancy for her own health. No short-term serious side effects in either women or infants were observed in either Pediatric ACTG Protocol 185 or 076. ...New Drug For Parkinson's Disease Proves Effective, Study Finds
...mipexole dihydrochloride see an average 20-percent reduction in the severity of their symptoms, according to the first large-scale study of the drug's effects on patients in the early stages of Parkinson's disease. The drug was approved last week by the Food and Drug Administration and will be available i..."Super Aspirin" Holds Long-Term Benefits For Some Patients Who Undergo Balloon Angioplasty
...he Topol study suggests a remarkable 60 percent reduction in mortality at three years in this select group treated with ReoPro™ compared with the group treated with placebo," said Dr. Fischman. While pretreatment with ReoPro™ is highly effective, its average cost is estimated ...Benefits Of Annual Mammography Outweigh Radiation Risks Of Cancer
...ry year and a half would result in a 45 percent reduction in cancer deaths. Dr. Feig calculated that if a..., there might have been as much as a 75 percent reduction in breast cancer deaths. "Considering the reasonable cost and the fact that the benefits ou...Medicare Approves UM Medical Center For Lung Transplants
...ngdisease, including transplantation, lung volume reduction surgery for emphysemaand therapies for pulmonary hypertension....Heart Attack Survivors Can Lower Stroke Risk By Taking Cholesterol-Lowering Drug, Study Says
...nd Recurrent Events (CARE) study found a32 percent reduction in strokes and a 27 percent reduction in either strokes ortransient ischemic attacks (TIAs) -- "miniature" strokes, which can last fromfew......tientsabout how physical activity, diet and weight reduction can help reduce anindividual's risk of cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attack and stroke,which are the country's leading causes of death. Data from 29,273 office visits were collected in the National Ambulatory MedicalCare Survey by the U.S....Radon, Especially In Combination With Smoking, Contributes To Lung Cancer Deaths
...some lung cancers in this country. In fact, radon reduction may benefit smokers more than non-smokers because of the strong combined effects of smoking and radon." The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommends that radon levels in homes should be reduced to at least 4 picocuries per liter ...Diuretic Drugs May Have Clot-Busting Effects
...The goal of treatment should not be limited to the reduction of bloodpressure but, instead, to reduce the death associated with high blood pressure(stroke and coronary thrombosis). Agents that specifically block choridetransport, such as diuretics, may decrease thrombosis (clotting) independent oftheir effect...Four-Year Study Shows Long-Term Effectiveness Of Proscar In Treating Enlarged Prostates
... Patients treated with the drugshowed a 20 percent reduction in the size of their prostates.Prostates of those taking the placebo continued to increase in size. The prostate wraps around the urethra at the point where itleaves the bladder. The gland produces some of the seminal fluid thatcarries sperm...Do Asthma Treatments Affect Childhood Growth?
...o this finding, as this group showed a significant reduction in their stature. Children in this group were shorter and lighter than their contemporaries, but social deprivation seemed to be the dominant influence. Contact: Mr C McCowan, Project Officer, National Asthma Campaign, Tayside Centre for General ...Airport Noise Can Seriously Affect The Health And Psychological Well-Being OfChildren
...levatedlipids and cholesterol, heart disease and a reduction in the body's supply ofdisease-fighting immune cells. Evans' and his colleagues' new study adds powerful evidence to cross-sectionaland animals studies which have shown higher stress levels in children and adultsworking and living in chronically noi...Exercise, Classroom Instruction Cut Kids' Cholesterol, Study Finds
...ere adopted statewide, inthe future we would see a reduction of heart disease in North Carolina." The UNC-CH study showed a larger drop in blood fats than previous work,she said, possibly because physical activity among middle-schoolers tested was more sustained andvigorous. Participating schoo...Clinical Pharmacists Improve Outcomes Of Heart Failure Patients
...statistically significant, there was a significant reduction in the number ofre-admissions to the hospital, the researchers concluded. Patients in the intervention group were more likely to be on a higherdose of ACE-inhibitors, a class of drugs which is very important in reducingfuture events and death...Successful Cancer Therapy May Doom Later Treatments To Failure
.... In fact, withdrawal oftestosterone resulted in a reduction of pore size from 200 nanometers (nm) toless than 7 nm within 48 hours in a testosterone-dependent tumor. "That tells you that you just can't make a drug and expect it to work on alltumors," says Jain. Sue Hobbs and Wayne Monsky, an MD-PhD student a...Studies Look At Threshold Effect Of Cholesterol-Lowering "Statin" Drugs
... less than125 mg/dL is responsible for most of the reduction in heart attacks andsurgery," says Sacks. "A conse... new analysis, the maximum benefit of a 45 percent reduction in heart attack risk was observed in those whose LDL levels dropped 24 percent. However, further re...Health Workers May Experience Costly Dislocation As Health Spending Growth Slows
...der-insured. Fein also points out that the reduction in health spending moves moniesthat were once spent in the "quasi-public" sector into the privatesector--without discussion or debate as to how best to spend these newlyavailable resources. "It would be helpful and responsible to create mechanisms th...