100,000 excess civilian deaths after Iraq invasion
...ial for recall bias among those interviewed. This remarkable piece of work represents the efforts of a courageous team of scientists. To have included more clusters would have improved the precision of their findings, but at an enormous and unacceptable risk to the team of interviewers who gathered the primary...Engineered stem cells can home in on tumors and deliver drug payload in mice
...od and Marrow Transplantation and Leukemia. "It is remarkable that these cells can find tumors wherever they are and become part of them." The new approach uses human mesenchymal stem cells (MSC), the body's natural tissue regenerators. Tissue that is injured sends signals to these unspecialized, progenitor c...Rehabilitation professionals in nationwide survey cite barriers to assistive technology transfer
...w Orleans, November 5, 2004 Despite an upsurge of remarkable advances in assistive technology during the past half-decade, offering new hope for people who desire improved function and independence, large numbers of these same people are being left behind, according to a national survey conducted by Clarkson ...Low cost drug helps reduce deaths, repeat heart attacks
...The reduction in mortality with Reviparin is truly remarkable since no other drug in this class has shown similar benefits and the fact the drug was tested on top of already proven therapies." About 15.5 million people die worldwide from cardiovascular deaths each year and about half of these are due to acute m...Proposed addiction treatment successful, safe in second small trial
...n several consecutive days in the past year, it is remarkable that 16 of 30 avoided using these highly addictive drugs for approximately four consecutive weeks while on GVG," Dewey said. "Of course, the conclusive demonstration of treatment efficacy can only be provided by an appropriately blinded randomized st...Proposed addiction treatment successful, safe in second small trial
...n several consecutive days in the past year, it is remarkable that 16 of 30 avoided using these highly addictive drugs for approximately four consecutive weeks while on GVG," said Dr. Dewey. "Of course, the conclusive demonstration of treatment efficacy can only be provided by an appropriately blinde...Chernobyl disaster caused cancer cases in Sweden
...iation, such as leukemia or thyroid cancer. It is remarkable that an increase in cancer morbidity could have occurred after such a relatively short time following the accident, but just such a short time period has been described for groups exposed to radioactive radiation. If the correlation found here is not...Jefferson scientists use gene therapy to rescue failing hearts in animals
...eart problems are not actually reversed. This is a remarkable rescue and reversal of cardiac dysfunction, with obvious clinical implications for future heart failure therapy." Close to 5 million Americans have heart failure and more than 400,000 new cases are being diagnosed each year. While the overall death t...Novel drugs help solve Gleevec resistance
...ty of Hematology (ASH) meeting. BMS-354825 "shows remarkable activity" In the study conducted at M. D. Anderso...imum tolerated dose, yet we still are showing some remarkable activity," he says. "Very encouraging responses continue to be seen in the new cohort of patients re...Immigration & psychiatric disorders
...founding immigration status and ethnicity. "The remarkable pattern seen in these results defies explanation based on current knowledge," according to George Kunos, M.D., Ph.D., Scientific Director, Division of Intramural Biological and Clinical Research at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholi...U of MN researchers set new standard of care for adult cord blood transplant patients
...ts or those with a prior transplant. "These remarkable results represent a significant advance in the practice of adult cord blood transplantation. These approaches allow us to offer potentially life-saving transplant therapy to many patients who have previously been denied such treatment," said Juliet B...First US SARS vaccine trial opens at NIH
...stem will be primed to neutralize it. "It is truly remarkable that less than two years ago we were facing an unknown global health threat, and now we are testing a promising vaccine that may help us to counter that threat should it re-emerge," Dr. Fauci said. After SARS was identified as a disease, researchers ...Brain imaging reveals new language circuits
...tani. "This method provides another example of the remarkable versatility of MRI technology," said Marsel Mesulam, M.D., of Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, whose editorial will accompany the print publication of the article. "It is theoretically possible to combine diffusion tensor imaging with fu...Potentially fatal toxicities occur with off-label use of cancer drugs
... Thalidomide, banned initially in 1962, has had a remarkable resurgence since 1998 for cancer, although its formal FDA approval is as a treatment of skin complication of the rare illness, leprosy. "Given the current controversies about the FDA and pharmaceutical safety, our findings provide additional evidenc...Tracing the life cycle of a manmade disease
A remarkable story of how a new disease was inadvertently caused by successful medical treatment, ultimately understood, and eventually defeated by scientific innovation is being told a major player in the process. In the December issue of Clinical Orthopedics a...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for January 2005 (first issue)
...a share some clinical and functional features, the remarkable difference in exhaled nitric oxide values suggests that airflow limitation in the two obstructive lung diseases is related to distinctive individual pathophysiologic pathways that ought to be properly identified. Unfortunately, to date, studies on t...Shepherds whistle while they work and brains process sounds as language
The human brain's remarkable flexibility to understand a variety of signals as language extends to an unusual whistle language used by shepherds on one of the Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa. And the way the brain processes these whistles is similar to the wa...Macular degeneration patients benefit from self-management training
...oup, indicating that the program "seemed to have a remarkable influence on preventing new cases of depression," according to the study's authors. "Too often the vision loss that results from this incurable disease is accompanied by anxiety, hopelessness and depression," said Stuart I. Brown, M.D., director of U...Northwestern Memorial chosen to be featured in first-ever mini-med school TV airing on PBS
... with an implantable electronic stimulator and her remarkable recovery. Lifesaving Heart Repair with Dr. Patrick McCarthy (#102) Dr. McCarthy describes the workings of the human heart and the symptoms of heart disease. Using footage of surgery and animation, he leads the students through the innovative op......of laboratory rats, and found that the cells had a remarkable capacity to integrate into damaged pathways, layin...nd was that in laboratory animals the cells have a remarkable capacity to integrate into the damaged roadway, open up the scar, and lay a bridge over the gap. "T...