New Chest Pain Evaluation Method Saves Lives, Prevents Costly HospitalizationFor Some Patients
...ergency room (ER) with chest pain can be evaluated safely andeffectively in the emergency department without expensive hospitalization. Thestudy will be published in the Dec. 23, 1998, edition of New England Journal ofMedicine. The results were so promising that Mayo Clinic converted the Chest PainObserva......nstrating the ability of twoseries of compounds to safely and effectively inhibit bone resorption in animalmodels of osteoporosis. The drug leads belong to a new class of small moleculecompounds termed selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), also referredto as 'designer estrogens.' SERMs are desig...First Drug Shown Effective For Treating Chronic Forms Of Major Depression
... prescribed under the brand name Zoloft, can safely stop depression from recurring even in the mostchronic sufferers. The findings are the first to suggest an effective drug treatment forpatients with the severest and most disabling forms of chronic depression. For these indiv...Hospital Stays Longer Than Three Days For 'Simple' Heart Attacks May Not Be Cost Effective
...l stay. Uncomplicated patients could be safely transferred out of an intensivecare unit to a "step down" unit after 24 hours. In patients without complications through 72 hours, the estimated costof extending a hospital stay by one day was $141,820 per year of life saved. Ke...Pairing Two Drugs With Angioplasty May Offer Best Success In Treating Heart Attacks
...attack could offer thebest strategy to quickly and safely open clogged arteries, Duke Universityresearchers said at the annual American Heart Association scientific sessions. Results of a dose-ranging trial show that using abciximab and twolow-dose boluses of reteplase 30 minutes apart provided comp...New Short-Acting Anesthetics Cut Recovery Time
...cal techniques, areallowing more and more patients safely to bypass the recovery room and even gohome within...rwent outpatient surgery with new anesthetics were safely able to bypassthe recovery room altogether, up from two percent or less before the study. Speeding r......this areawith the idea that if it were possible to safely increase the total dose or thedose frequency of pl.... Preclinically, we have observed thatBNP7787 can safely and effectively protect against very large increases in thedosage of cisplatin, including lethal dos...Epilepsy Drug Found To Stop Cocaine's Effects In Animals
...rope and Canada, where patients have been using it safely for several years. The Food & Drug Administration has reviewed its safety and effectiveness forpotential use in treating epilepsy in the U.S. It is expected to receive finalFDA approval for epilepsy use this fall. Today's publication is the...... Nearly all providersthought that most women could safely have used the method at home. Women feltsimilarly, although they were less comfortable with the prospect of takingmisoprostol at home than mifepristone.(Preliminary results from an ongoingmultisite study allowing home administration of misoprostol, h...World's First Producer To Repair Brain Damage From Stroke
...tiated,non-dividing neurons (LBS-Neurons) that can safely be used clinical use. Inextensive preclinical testing, transplants of LBS-Neurons reversed cognitive andmotor deficits in animals in which stroke had been induced. The procedure begins with the placement of a stereotactic frame on thehead of...Safe And Effective Treatment For Acute Repetitive Seizures
A unique gel formulation of diazepam safely reduces the severity of acuterepetitive seizure episodes in both children and adults, according to a studypublished in the June 25, 1998, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine*and funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and ...Fact Sheet -- Rectal Administration Of Diazepam For Acute Repetitive Seizures (RADARS) Study
... potential for serious adverse events. Easily and safely administered by caregivers. Drug administration can be performed in most cases despite a patient'slimited ability to cooperate....Study Finds St. John's Wort Can Cut Alcohol Consumption
...ral effective compounds that alter brain chemistry safely probablycould lessen its severity in people motivated to change. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved St. John's wortfor medical purposes. Note: Rezvani can be reached at (919)...New Radiation Procedure Targets Liver Malignancies
...lly improve their chances of survival. "If you can safely increase the dose of radiation delivered along with chemotherapy, you improve the patient's chance of responding to the therapy. Our prior studies, which involved more than 100 patients, have shown this to be the case," says Cornelius McGinn, M.D., ...... effect by BNP7787. We havefound that BNP7787 can safely and effectively protect against up to a 500%increa...carboplatin associated toxicity. Ifwe are able to safely administer higher and more effective doses of cisplatinand carboplatin to cancer patients, this may ...Radio Frequencies Used To Kill Inoperable Liver Tumors At Penn's Cancer Center
...exhibit tumors in the liver that cannot be removed safely while still preserving the remaining organ," explains Frank Spitz, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery at Penn. "Or, a patient may have multiple tumors that make surgical extraction next to impossible." To get at those formerly inaccessible tum...Effects Of 15% Oxygen On Breathing Patterns And Oxygenation In Infants
... in 500 passengers, 750,000 infants have travelled safely over the last ten years, estimates Milner. He concludes by saying that so long as a child is healthy there is no epidemiological evidence to indicate that it is unsafe for it to fly during its first year. Contact: Professor Anthony Milner, Professor...New Ultrasound Technique Is Alternative To Cerebral Angiography
...ely on the measurement of (blockage), youcan do it safely and non-invasively. The combination of the two (ultrasound)methods gives you enough information." However, Hirsch noted, this new method will not find blockages lower inthe carotid artery where it emerges from the main artery leading from the...