Adding Progestins May Negate Heart Protection From Estrogen Replacement Therapy
...use of ERT's anti-aging affectson the endothelium, say the authors. The benefit of ERT plus progestins may come from its effects oncholesterol levels in the blood. Women taking ERT plus progestins did havelower total cholesterol levels and higher levels of the high-densitylipoprotein, the "good"...Increased Public Access To Defibrillation Could Prove Potentially Cost-Effective And Life-Saving
...an Heart Association. The report's authors say that greater availability of public accessdefibril...st-effectiveness of PAD. In addition, they say that AEDs should be distributed at specific siteswhere people often go into cardiac arrest, such as ...Higher Prices Won't Stop Teenage Smokers
...g, a new Cornell University study finds. In fact, say the researchers, higher taxes will have "a stati... decide to start smoking. The Cornell researchers say that a 20-cent a pack tax increase would reduce the number of new teen-age smokers in grades 8-12 b..."TRAMAH" Model Seeks To Improve Emergency Response Paper Uses Maryland As Test Region
...people each year. Background In the past decade, say the authors, substantial progress has been made indeveloping guidelines for the location of trauma care resources. But, they say,political concerns and historical patterns have interfered. In response, theresearchers used operations research to bolst...Beware Of Adverse Drug Reactions
...of adverse drug reactions is often underestimated, say Dr Munir Pirmohamed et al from the Department of P... University of Liverpool in this week's BMJ. They say that such reactions are common, can be life threatening and sometimes unnecessarily expensive. The ...Some Young Children May Grow Out Of Peanut Allergy
...m to grow out of their reaction as they get older, say Dr Jonathan Hourihane et al in this week's BMJ. Based on findings from research conducted at the University of Southampton and South Manchester University Hospitals, the authors stress that children who seem to have a peanut allergy should be e...Compound In Meat Prevents Diabetes, Study Suggests
...imals, at least in the short term. The researchers say CLA appears to work as well as a new class of diabetes-fighting drugs, the thiazolidinediones, or TZDs. Martha Belury, Purdue assistant professor of foods and nutrition, says: "If you inherit a genetic predisposition to adult-onset diabetes and you'r...National Office Of Drug Safety Is Needed, Experts Say In JAMA
...e adverse effectsof prescription drugs, which they say could be the fourth-leading cause of deathin the U....D., of the University of Washington. They say in the commentary that the FDA's focus is on approving newdrugs and not on monitoring drugs after th...Athletes, Fraternity Men Are Top Drinkers
...rnell University: 64 percent of male team leaders say they binge on alcohol, while 61 percent of their teammates report binging. By comparison, 45 percent of males not on intercollegiate sports teams reported that they binge drink. (Binging is defined as consuming five or more drinks in one sitting.)...ACE-Inhibitors Score High In Reducing Heart Attack Deaths
... aperson's odds of surviving after a heart attack, say researchers reporting on astudy of nearly 100,000 heart attack patients that appears in today'sCirculation: Journal of the American Heart Association. The drugs, called an ACE (angiotensin-converting enzyme) inhibitors, interferewith the body's produ...Crystal Structure Of gp120 Reveals HIV In Action
...genetic studies. "We can use mutational analysisto say 'the CD4 binding site must be here.' But with X-ray crystallography, weactually see it," explains Dr. Hendrickson. And what they see in the structureis what the immune system doesn't. "We didn't realize before that there arewhole regions (of the mole...About The Care Of Patients Before They Are Admitted To Intensive Care
...quantity should not be at the expense of quality, say Dr Peter McQuillan et al from intensive care units...lings that McQuillan et al have identified". They say that the findings need to be investigated on a national scale to ascertain the full extent of the pr...One-Time Needles Don't Reduce HIV Among Addicts, Study Shows
...ase. Alternate Solution Also Flawed Alternately, say the authors, DTRs could be distributed rather than...edles by an even greater amount. To prove useful, say the authors, the number of DTRs introduced must be largerelative to any reduction in the consumption...Drug Combination Including New "Super Aspirin" Drug Cuts Risk Of Death Or Second Heart Attack
...ks byover 30 percent. Researchers say the study has yielded "very encouraging"results, and a more focused study using specific doses of lamifiban, based oneach patient's height and weight, is underway. Further study will also explorethe extent of benefit that lamifiban treatment offers ...Promising Results For Woman-Controlled Anti-HIV Product
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Don't say goodbye to condoms yet, but in the worldwide raceto help women protect themselves against AIDS, early studies of vaginalmicrobicides offer some hope for a new kind of protection against HIVtransmission in the genital track. One of the early products ...Timing Of Breast Cancer Surgery Doesn't Appear To Influence Survival Anymore
..., resolved the problem, but weneed more studies to say it is so."...UCSF Researchers Seeing Increased Rates Of Unprotected Sex Among San Francisco Gay Men
...e same HIV status were significantlymore likely to say they had unprotected sex because they were "in love."The researchers first noticed an increase in unprotected sex as they looked atthe responses to the 1995 questionnaire. Ekstrand speculated on several reasons for the increases. Men might be burni......e high rate of mother-to-childtransmission of HIV, say University of California San Francisco AIDSresearchers. In a new study, the UCSF team found that short-course therapy using theantiviral drug zidovudine, or AZT, was economically feasible in both urban andrural populations in these countries. Rese...Anti-Migraine Drugs Might Cause More Pain Than Relief For Those With Heart Disease
...tion is not slowed by heart disease, thescientists say that the migraine drug's contraction effects should not bedangerous. "For most migraine sufferers this is not a problem," says AntoinetteMaassenVanDenBrink, postgraduate student, pharmacology department, ErasmusUniversity. "But if the coronary artery...... pill rather than their effects onbrain chemistry, say two researchers in the US. Irving Kirsch o...ceiving an active drug rather than a placebo. They say that thestudies could have wrongly ascribed this additional effect to a chemical changeinduced by th...