Cost-Effective Treatment Possible In Africa For HIV-Positive Pregnant Women If Drug Prices Lowered
...on of treatment efficacy of modifiedtherapies; and reduction of high cost components, which in this case is drugprice. Directed by Thomas J. Coates, PhD, who also is a UCSF professor of medicine,epidemiology and biostatistics, the UCSF ARI is an institute without walls thatencompasses all UCSF AIDS programs un...Secondary Prevention Of Heart Disease Should Be Improved
...f their one year study, with less chest pain and a reduction in hospital admissions. Campbell et al conclude that even though there are known benefits to the implementation of secondary care to patients with coronary heart disease, there seems to be plenty of opportunity for improving procedures within general...Compound In Meat Prevents Diabetes, Study Suggests
...," she says. "In obese animals we saw a 10 percent reduction in body fat, and in lean animals we saw a 25 percent reduction in body fat." CLA is available as a dietary supplement at health stores, but people shouldn't rush t......t a compound called suramin offerssubstantial pain reduction and moderate delay in progression of prostate canc...eceiving suramin with hydrocortisone experienced a reduction in pain, incontrast to 28 percent of those with hydrocortisone and a placebo. Moreover,the duration......vistaR forapproximately 32 months had a 54 percent reduction in the incidence of newlydiagnosed breast cancers when compared to their counterparts who were takingplacebo. Raloxifene is an antiestrogen, a drug that works by blocking theestrogen receptors in the breast, thereby preventing the hormone est...Dying To Quit: Why We Smoke And How We Stop
...t to quit, smokers' immediate concerns with stress reduction and the pure pleasure of smoking usually win over the seemingly far-off prospect of eventual ill-health or death at an earlier age. Why can some smokers quit easily while others fail over and over again? Here, Brigham details the myriad behavioral fa...Abstinence Reduces HIV For High-Risk Women - Even Those Who Relapse - Study Shows
.... And two, even when there's a relapse, atemporary reduction in risky behavior can still lead to diminishing th...ge, counseling and testingresult in an initial 15% reduction in risky behavior. The authors usedoperations research techniques in their analysis, including a dyn...Intervention can help reduce risky sexual behavior, according to results published in Science
...ed to attend a small-group, seven-session HIV risk reduction program; theother half attended a one-hour AIDS education session. One year after the intervention, the people who attended the long programreported significantly fewer unprotected sexual acts, had higher levels ofcondom use, and were more likely to ...Landmark Study Shows Behavioral Interventions Reduce HIV-Related Sexual Risk Behavior
...ponse todirectives from Congress to develop a risk reduction intervention based oncurrent best practices in HIV prevention, and to test its efficacy withunderstudied and disadvantaged populations at multiple sites across the U.S. The research is published in the June 19, 1998 issue of Science. Theseven...One-Time Needles Don't Reduce HIV Among Addicts, Study Shows
...er of DTRs introduced must be largerelative to any reduction in the consumption of regular needles. For the num...ntially infectious needles to remain the same, any reduction in regularneedles must be met by an increase in the rate of DTRs that is at least 40%larger. There a......eading to better patient outcomesand a substantial reduction in costs associated with liability claims," said PamLockowitz, president, MMI Risk Management Resources, Inc., the MMI subsidiaryresponsible for implementing and monitoring MMI's clinical risk modificationprograms. MMI's clinical risk modification gu...Voluntary HIV Counseling And Testing Reduce Risk Behavior In Developing Countries
...nics wereHIV-positive.2 "We saw up to a 50 percent reduction in risk behavior in six months, and therewas a clear difference in individual behaviors after counseling," he said. "Forthe couples, the behavior changes depended on whether the partners were the sameserostatus or not." Six months after the counselin...Thousands Of AIDS Deaths Could Be Prevented With Expanded Medicaid Coverage, UCSF Study Concludes
...ot have access through other means. "An 11 percent reduction in HIV drug prices to the Medicaid system wouldgenerate $110 million per year--enough to make this expansion program no cost tothe federal government," Kahn said. "The proposed expansion would increase netdrug sales by nearly $200 million, largely b...Scientists Report Cancer Fighting Drug As Possible Treatment For Multiple Sclerosis
...nal cord tissue from treatedmice showed a striking reduction of scarring and a strong inhibition of myelindestruction. The scientists also looked at the levels of three substances, called cytokines,playing a role in the autoimmune process damaging the CNS in MS: tumor necrosisfactor-a (TNF-a), Fas-ligand (Fas......on of treatment efficacy of modifiedtherapies, and reduction of high cost components, such as drug prices.......son with steroid-resistant asthma receives limited reduction in airwayinflammation and swelling following treatment with oral steroids. Inhaledsteroids are one of the main ways that asthma is controlled. "Asthma can be a progressive disease," Dr. Spahn said. "It's really importantto take medication even whe......SM, show a 12.3 percent or $50per member per month reduction in direct health care costs, according to a studypublished today in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Forhealth plans, this translates into an average savings of $600,000 per 1,000members with diabetes in the first year of operat...Paying Attention To High Blood Pressure Programs A Good Investment In Reducing Stroke Risk
...when compared to the1960s. There was a 42 percent reduction in stroke incidence between the 1960sand the period from 1970 to 1975, a 53 percent reduction when incidence wasmeasured between 1976 and 1981 and a 75 percent decrease when comparing strokeinci...Cereal Lessens Colon Cancer Risk
... The six-month study showed up to a 40 percent reduction in the number ofaberrant crypt cells in the colons of laboratory rats fed a controlled diet ofextrusion-processed wheat bran, according to principal investigators WallaceYokoyama, Ph.D., of the USDA's Western Regional Research Center in Albany,Calif....International Study Finds Statins Raise Good Cholesterol, Wake Forest Physician Reports
...er)increase in HDL corresponds to a 2 to 3 percent reduction in the risk ofdeveloping coronary artery disease. Crouse added, "If HDL is important, then factors that raise HDL may beimportant." According to industry sources, the cholesterol-lowering market is nowvalued at $7.5 billion annually....