Most acquisition of meningitis bacteria among students occurs in first week of university term
...curs during the first week of the university term, reports research in this week's BMJ. A study of 2,500 first year Nottingham University students, led by Neal and colleagues of the University's Department of Public Health Medicine, showed that the carriage rate of bacterial meningitis strains had quadruple...New study finds multiple myeloma linked to radiation exposures of nuclear workers
...quested and paid for the study because of previous reports suggesting a link between exposure to ionizing radiation and cases of the cancer at the Hanford site, Wing said. "Our study, which was the largest ever done on this question in U.S. nuclear workers, was intended to include more cases of the disease,...New 'combination therapy' improves survival for malignant melanoma patients
...rcent in those treated with IL-2 alone. Published reports indicate that the 24-month survival for patients treated with high-dose IL-2 was 12 percent in prior studies. Survival Benefit, Efficacy Evaluable Population Patients treated at clinical centers that best followed the study protocol by treating all o...Media coverage of new drugs is often misleading
... experts go undisclosed Newspaper and television reports on new medications tend to exaggerate their benefi...ewed as potentially misleading. For example, 1996 reports on a new osteoporosis drug said it would reduce hip fractures by 50 percent, a relative figure that ...Scientists successfully grow insulin-secreting cells to treat diabetes
...ntation to cure people with diabetes, according to reports presented Sunday, June 11 at the American Diabetes Associations 60th Annual Scientific Sessions in San Antonio. Beta cells are found exclusively in the pancreas, secreting insulin in response to glucose stimulation. When these cells are defective o......al of the American Chiropractic Association (JACA) reports on the growing specialty of chiropractic neurology and new research in the neurological sciences that points to chiropractic as a possible non-drug treatment for a host of baffling disorders. "Chiropractic is neurology," says Dr. Gail Henry. "That's......lopments in Canadian arthritis research as well as reports on initiatives to speed up arthritis research, drug testing and drug approval will be discussed at The Canadian Arthritis Network (CAN)'s Annual Conference 2000. The conference, Arthritis Research - From Bench to Bedside, will be held in Toronto from...Bad neighborhoods can cause depression
...trol and order common in such neighborhoods. Ross reports her findings in the June 2000 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. "Poor, single-parent neighborhoods are distressing to the individuals who live there because they have high levels of disorder. In disadvantaged neighborhoods, residen...Antidepressants impair cognitive function in the elderly
... were on some kind of psychoactive medication. She reports that results clearly show that those on such medications do not function as well with their day-to-day activities. The group of people aged 80 and over is one of the fastest growing segments of the population, and Dellasega believes they need more ......re cholinergic deficit than those who do not. "The reports of associations between ApoE4 genotype, gender and response to cholinesterase inhibitor therapy in AD patients are conflicting. In this recently completed study, a secondary analysis showed that the treatment response to ARICEPT®, a cholinestera...Report in Circulation urges a closer look at cardiotoxicity of cancer drug trastuzumab (Herceptin)
... trastuzumab, anthracycline and cyclophosphamide," reports Arthur Feldman, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Cardiovascular Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and author of the report. "Despite oncologists' enthusiasm for this drug as a cancer treatment, the potential significance of the hi...New research reveals jury bias against whiplash lawsuits
...nd criminal justice at the University of Delaware, reports early results from ongoing research into the attitudes of potential jurors toward those who file whiplash lawsuits. In separate articles published in July in the Tennessee Law Review and Trial, the magazine of the Association of Trial Lawyers of A...New study finds 18 football players died in 1999 season, eight paralyzed
...s, based at UNC-CH. Each year, the center produces reports on deaths and severe injuries from amateur and professional sports. Reports are based partly on newspaper stories from around the United States, along with information from the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Federation of ...Bringing bone to the right places
...anadian researchers may have found such a vehicle, reports the August/September edition of Biotechnology Progress, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The researchers tied small bone-seeking molecules to large proteins capable of stimulating bone ...Living in the pharmaceutical century
...d to know its history." The Pharmaceutical Century reports on the effects of technology, drugs and diseases through the decades. Aspirin, for example, changed people's quality of life when it was first marketed in 1899. Then came penicillin. Later, Watson and Crick found meaning in a double helix. Today, com...Drugs made from polymers, the stuff of plastics
...rritation and other side effects of using aspirin, reports the researcher. She expects human clinical trials to begin within two years. New uses for aspirin, or acetylsalicylic acid, continue to be discovered. Once taken mainly to manage pain caused by headaches and arthritis, the versatile drug now helps pr...Cancer specialist elected to Royal College of Medicine
...0 collegiate members worldwide. The College issues reports and recommendations on a variety of issues ranging from practice standards to the impact of tobacco and alcohol on public health. DuBois, who joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1991, also serves as director of the division of Gastroenterology. He is a...NIDA clinical toolbox provides the latest information about drug treatment strategies
...rom future NIDA-sponsored research. As additional reports and materials are developed, NIDA will disseminate them to the treatment programs for inclusion in the toolbox. This convenient, up-to-date resource for program counselors and managers contains: Three therapy manuals on treatment of cocaine addict...Study evaluates dosage adjustments of Agenerase
...e been associated with Agenerase. There have been reports of spontaneous bleeding in patients with hemophilia A and B treated with protease inhibitors. The majority of adverse events were of mild to moderate intensity (grade 1-2), early to onset and transient. Treatment-limiting (grade 3-4) adverse events ......ed in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, reports the finding of a new antibody that may cause certain disabling disorders of the autonomic nervous system. Autonomic nerves regulate the body's vital automatic functions including blood pressure and heart rate control, sweating and digestion. Autonom...