Largest ever overactive bladder study published in leading urology journal
... LA (tolterodine tartrate tablets), reported a 71% reduction in incontinence episodes per week compared to 60% in patients treated with the twice-daily formulation of DETROL. The once-daily formulation was 18% more effective in reducing median incontinence episodes. Published in this months issue of Urology, ...UNC study shows family-directed program can reduce adolescent tobacco, alcohol use
...ay. When all teens in the study were included, the reduction was 16.4 percent. The effort also helped discourage alcohol use. "We had a national sample of pairs of adolescents and parents, which we randomly assigned to receive the program or not receive it," said Dr. Karl E. Bauman, professor of health......h avoided readmission probably represents a larger reduction in episodes of ear infections, including those in children who are not readmitted." Surgical complications, such as nausea and vomiting, were rare in all children receiving tube surgery, but were higher in children receiving adjuvant adenoidectomy - ......havioral therapy produced a clinically significant reduction (≥ 50%) in the Headache Index (a measure of ...k placebos throughout the trial did not report any reduction in headache activity. The study provides the first evidence that chronic tension-type headaches resp...UT Southwestern researcher finds beta-blocking drug reduces heart failure in blacks
...ited States. The researchers reported a 54 percent reduction in both death and hospitalization due to progression of heart failure in the black patients enrolled in the study. Similar results also were reported in nonblack patients. Their findings are reported in today's issue of The New England Journal of Med......echnologies. There are three patents for noise reduction technologies. William R. Saunders and Michael ... on June 20 for an "Adaptive personal active noise reduction system." This invention is an individual noise control system that can be built into a helmet or har...Double-drug therapy may benefit some multiple sclerosis patients
...feron beta-1B, a commonly used treatment, showed a reduction in disease progression when mitoxantrone was added. "Our study, which was the first to test the safety and effectiveness of this combination of drugs, showed that it may be an effective therapy for a significant number of patients," said Douglas J......life, said Lewis. It can also lead to an enormous reduction in health care costs. Diabetes develops when the body cannot effectively control the level of sugar (glucose) in the blood. Diabetes can cause serious health complications including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, and lower-extremity amp...Current interventions fall short for smoking cessation
...s reported almost as much satisfaction and craving reduction from smoking cigarettes that had the nicotine removed as from smoking regular cigarettes. Interestingly, smokers who were established as more dependent were less likely to differentiate between the two types of cigarettes, compared with less dependen......hat the addition of the LAB permitted a 50 percent reduction in ICS dose without significant loss of asthma control. However, complete elimination of the ICS resulted in a 4.3 times higher risk of treatment failure. The Salmeterol or Corticosteroids study also showed the importance of reviewing multiple ...Beta-blocker shown to be ineffective in patients with advanced heart failure
...s found that nonblacks had a nominally significant reduction in mortality while taking bucindolol, while black ...nesses related to heart failure in all patients. A reduction in deaths from cardiovascular disease and a reduction in the combination of death and the need for h...Explosion in numbers of advice calls to hospital since introduction of NHS Direct
...vice takes almost four minutes. So the substantial reduction in calls, if reflected throughout the rest of the UK, could save around 90,000 hours of staff time a year. But equally, the surge in calls to the hospital would require an extra 390,000 hours of staff time, equivalent to 230 full time nurses. A sec...New study highlights impact of bipolar disorder on society
... patients taking the two drugs together achieved a reduction in symptoms of at least 50 per cent, compared to those who received only the mood stabiliser. One of the studies also showed that patients who received Risperdal plus mood stabilisers were more likely to show significant improvement in symptoms than ......apy trial which demonstrated a notably significant reduction in insulin resistance with AVANDIA compared with g...ata and previous studies, it is anticipated that a reduction in insulin resistance may have beneficial consequences for cardiovascular complications by reducing ...Study discovers a way to keep infants safe from second-hand smoke
...rens second-hand smoke could lead to a significant reduction exposure in children. We think a 30-percent reduction in exposure is quite meaningful, says Emmons, adding that the scientists are now conducting analysis......ions." The bottom line, Qureshi said, is that a reduction in the high rate of death and disability associated with intracerebral hemorrhage can't occur without effective preventive measures. "The study demonstrated the presence of factors in the community that easily can be modified to reduce this risk. ...University of Pittsburgh researcher provides first-ever definition of HIV-associated lipodystrophy
...cular disease. Signs of HIV-LS are a wasting, or a reduction in fat (lipoatrophy), in the face, arms, legs and buttocks; and an increase in fat (lipodystrophy) in the abdomen, back of the neck and breasts. The added abdominal fat is primarily visceral fat, which accumulates within the abdominal cavity, around ......e study focused on a single dimension of learning: reduction in the time required to perform the new procedure. Procedure time is the single most important factor driving the total costs of treating and caring for a cardiac surgery patient, the authors write. Procedure time is also a good indicator of the wa...Science, engineering and technology news tips -- August 2001
...lly nicer." The researchers hypothesize that "the reduction in climate variability, increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and increases in rainfall rather abruptly changed the Earth from a regime where agriculture was impossible everywhere to one where it was possible in many places." But developing ag...