$2.8 million public-private partnership to examine how surroundings can encourage active lifestyles
...rchitecture, recreation, crime prevention, traffic safety and education, as well as key groups concentrating on land use, public transit, non-motorized travel, public spaces, parks, trails, and architectural practices that advance physical activity. The program establishes innovative approaches to increase...Vioxx should have been withdrawn 4 years ago
...volving Vioxx to establish whether the drug's poor safety profile was evident earlier than September 2004. T... available. Instead, Merck continued to market the safety of rofecoxib." The Lancet is critical of both Merck and the FDA for their role in the Vioxx affair....UCSF receives $21 million NIH contract for sexually transmitted infection research
...be conducting the initial human testing -- Phase I safety trials -- of the most promising and safest vaccine, microbicide, STI treatment and diagnostic products in the pipeline. Our goal is to get new products, if proven safe, into efficacy trials faster and then, if efficacious, into the populations that ...Study of cancer trials finds significant safety improvement
...has been so much concern in recent years about the safety of clinical trials. We wanted to see if the increased attention to patient safety had made a difference and if the addition of targeted therapies, which tend to be less toxic, had al...Pediatricians can help immigrant mothers by explaining child development, NICHD study suggests
...lth practices concerning their children's physical safety as did the European American mothers. "New parents...tal milestones, as well as knowledge of health and safety guidelines. The researchers found that immigrant mothers tended to score lower on the test than did ...Twenty-Year prospective study of pregnant women with inflammatory bowel disease finds healthy babies
...n cohort studies and registry data. Moreover, the safety of medications in pregnancy has been substantiated only in retrospective and cohort studies," explained Flavio Habal, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Habal and his colleague Dr. Samir Grover matched 138 women with IBD who gave birth with 83 non-pregnant females wit...Dana-Farber receives CDC grants to develop health promotion/prevention programs in the work place
...lding on their own training programs in health and safety and strong sense of community, to study the effectiveness of a smoking cessation intervention for their apprentices," says the study's principal investigator DFCI's Elizabeth Barbeau, ScD, MPH and Assistant Professor at Harvard School of Public Healt...Study shows weight-based REBETOL dosing in combination with PEG-INTRON significantly improves ...
...o important to note that in this study the overall safety of weight-based ribavirin dosing was similar to th...ates. The community-based study is evaluating the safety and efficacy of weight-based PEG-INTRON in combination with fixed or weight-based REBETOL in a diver...FOSRENOL (R) maintains bone health status of end-stage renal disease patients
....3% (159) were >75. No overall differences in safety or effectiveness were observed betweenpatients ... Studies with Treatment Periods of 4-6 Weeks. The safety of FOSRENOL was studied in two long-term clinical trials that included 1215patients treated with FOS...Screening for virus RNA could increase safety of organ & tissue transplantation
...echnique should be routinely used to improve viral safety of grafts. They studied 2236 organ donors, 636 tis...ng of organ and tissue donors might increase viral safety in the transplantation setting. Implementation of systematic NAT screening of tissue (and cell) dono...Study questions safety of heart procedures at hospitals without cardiac surgery programs
HANOVER, NH Rekindling a debate on the safety of performing an increasingly popular non-surgical heart procedure in hospitals that do not have onsite cardiac surgery programs, a study led by Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) concluded that patients who undergo the procedure in hospitals without car...FDA approves Fosrenol(R) in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients
...erapies have numerous shortcomings from long-term safety issues to high pill burdens and poor intestinal to...-day schedules and has shown reliable efficacy and safety in a number of well designed clinical trials". In clinical trials, patients treated with FOSRENOL ac...'Going through the motions' to better treat dementia
...ication and information technologies for security, safety and lifestyle enhancements. The grant was awarded to Leibovici and the Center for Future Health through the Everyday Technologies for Alzheimer Care (ETAC) Consortium, which was founded last year by Intel and the Alzheimer's Assn. This awar...Use of stomach acid-suppressive medications associated with increased risk of pneumonia
... "Because of their efficacy and impressive safety profile that has far exceeded original expectation...ut potential adverse effects. Concerns for patient safety should guide initial prescribing and perhaps more importantly, chronic use of even the most apparent...DepoDur found to be innovative option for postoperative pain relief
... Annual Meeting in Las Vegas this week support the safety and efficacy of DepoDur TM (morphine sulfate exte...s, efficacy was assessed for at least 48 hours and safety was assessed for up to 30 days after DepoDur TM administration. As with all opioids, th...American College of Chest Physicians announces new Critical Care Institute
... care workforce shortage and corresponding patient safety issues. These issues will affect professionals in nearly every health-care specialty, making it essential for an interdisciplinary model of collaboration in addressing these imminent concerns," said Richard S. Irwin, MD, FCCP, Immediate Past-Preside......ngdom), the senior investigator of the study. "The safety profile was excellent and the efficacy data provide a first indication of the levels of cellular immunogenicity that will be required for preventing infection," he says. The researchers recruited volunteers from 13 Gambian villages that were close t...Outstanding efficacy of Crestor (TM) in treating range of patient populations at risk of CVD
...efit:risk profile of CRESTOR and confirms that the safety profile is similar to other currently marketed statins. CRESTOR 10mg is the usual recommended start dose for patients new to statin treatment and also for those switching to CRESTOR from other statins regardless of prior dose.......sed on a single defined protein, that has a strong safety profile and which provides protective immunity whe...rax vaccine formulation that will provide the best safety profile (or fewest side effects), while providing the highest level of protection (or best immune re...Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announces macugen data on treating macular degeneration
...nic treatment beyond one year and to establish the safety of longer term treatment. In ...year group; p Based on preliminary analyses of the safety data, Macugen is well-tolerated after two years of treatment. The safety profile of the second year...