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...ution may be to create medical emergency teams who respond pre-emptively to airway, breathing or circulation problems. In an accompanying editorial, Christopher Garrard and Duncan Young from the Intensive Care Unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, note that "little will be gained from apportioning b...New Survey Finds Physicians Seek More Clarity In MS Diagnosis And Management
...ressive stateof disease and may be less likely to respond to currently available therapies. By expanding the classification system to include these patients intransition, and by developing specific treatment regimens for this group,experts believe they can give practicing clinicians the tools they ...Anti-Depressants: Miracle Drugs Or Placebos With A Buzz?
...ean that only 25 percent of patients are likely to respond tothe pharmacological properties of the drug. Rather, it means that for a typicalpatient, 75 percent of the benefit obtained from the active drug would also havebeen obtained from an inactiveplacebo," the authors say. And it is possible, they say, t...'Mutual Insurance Pool' Could Improve Transplant Organ Shortage
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...mal cells with stablegenomes around the tumor that respond better than cancer cells to growth signalslike the anti-VEGF therapy." Despite the modest improvements of patients with non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC), which accounts for approximately 70 percent of all lung cancers, theoverall mortality rate for ...Drug Reduces Heart Attack, Death Rates In Patients With Unstable Angina
...des yet another alternative for patients who don't respond to othertreatments," Harrington said. "For every thousand people you treat, you arepotentially avoiding 35 serious events." Eptifibatide was approved for use in angioplasty and for patients withunstable angina in May 1998. The study was fund...Health Promotion: Can Scare Tactics Work?
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... thatthe survival of high risk patients who do not respond well to radiotherapy wasenhanced if they started to take hormone therapy early, rather than later, intheir treatment regimen. Roach found that patients with early stages of prostate cancer and a lowGleason score, a grading system that measures the de...Setbacks To Health Progress In Central America
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...line in a 12-week trial and had continued to respond well in a four-month extended treatment. In ...tinue treatmentprematurely, he said. "If you respond positively to sertraline but discontinue treatment, youhave an extremely high likelihood of re...New drugs, diagnostic tests, software needed to prepare US cities for chemical, biological attacks
...ility of the nation's civilian medical communityto respond to a chemical or biological terrorist attack requires more thansimply providing cities with military training and equipment, according to a newreport from a committee of the Institute of Medicine and the National ResearchCouncil. The committee iden...Views Of Tamoxifen And Synthetic Estrogen In Action Provide Clues For Designing Better Drugs
...encompound, which appears to influence how tissues respond differently to SERMs. In the Cell paper, the researchers describe how tamoxifenalters the normal shape of the receptor in a way that covers up a co-activatorbinding site that is ordinarily exposed by estrogen or by synthetic estrogenssuch as DE...New Theory May Explain Ritalin Action In Hyperactivity
... that required them to remember, pay attention and respond toexternal cues and display appropriate behavioral responses. However, the scientists detected no corresponding rise in dopamine toaccompany the behavioral change, leading them to believe that these changes wereregulated through more than jus...Soy May Decrease Cancer Risks, Wake Forest Researcher Says
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