NCEP issues major new cholesterol guidelines
...) becomes a major heart disease risk factor; a new set of "Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes," with more power to improve cholesterol levels; a sharper focus on a cluster of heart disease risk factors known as "the metabolic syndrome;" and increased attention to the treatment of high triglycerides. The new......estimated it in the low-risk group. The model was set up to calculate mortality for three months, but a lot of patients wait [for a transplant] for two years, said Timothy McCashland, M.D., who will present the results at DDW. Theres still a big spread on what the model predicts and what actually happen...Glow-in-the-dark zebrafish helping Jefferson scientists uncover cholesterol genes
... the resulting mutations. Each family has a unique set of mutations. The researchers then mate brothers and sisters of those families to each other. They then feed the fluorescent molecule to resulting zebrafish embryos carrying various mutations and watch it light up in the digestive tract, liver and ev...Use or non-use of beta blockers provides clues for improving healthcare quality in hospitals
...ement; use of data concerning B-blocker use, and a set of modifying variables. "We found several important areas that distinguished efforts at these hospitals," said Elizabeth Bradley, first author and assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. "The hospitals with the be...... without diabetes, but no guidelines exist to help set goals for two of the most important risk factors f... people with cardiovascular disease. Investigators set the goals based on their analysis of data from the Pittsburgh Epidemiology of Diabetes Complications...Researchers to test skeletal muscle as replacement for damaged human heart muscle in humans
...ork in humans with damaged hearts. Safety trials set begin soon at the University Hospital Dykzigt in Rotterdam will be using an approach pioneered by Duke molecular biologist and heart researcher Doris Taylor. Another trial using a different delivery approach is underway at Hospital Bichat in Paris. T...Failure at nonconscious goals explains negative 'mystery moods'
... who had the hard test. "We set up the experiment so some participants would have a goal of succeeding at the anagram task - even though they didn't consciously know they had such a goal," Chartrand said. "For these par...Study discovers a way to keep infants safe from second-hand smoke
...ted. The intervention proved more effective than a set of self-help materials given to a comparison group of smoking parents. In those smokers homes, nicotine levels actually rose during the study. There havent been many previous studies on reducing second-hand smoke, and virtually none of them showed a ...New data support the efficacy and safety of the novel oral anticoagulant Exanta
...upport the efficacy and safety of Exanta, which is set to be the first new oral anticoagulant since warfarin was introduced over 50 years ago. Exanta, an oral direct thrombin inhibitor, is currently under investigation in an extensive phase III clinical trials programme in a number of key therapeutic are...Effective surgery fails to attract patients unless costs are low
...ope their findings will encourage policy makers to set up local surgery clinics, thus making it easier for people with trichiasis to get the corrective surgery. The study first identified 158 persons in The Gambia with trichiasis and then offered half the patients surgery in local health centers and the ...This summer, Camp Calcium is where the boys are
... Research from this year's Camp Calcium will help set dietary guidelines for men that will help slow the...n and health classes and educational opportunities set up by the chemistry and physics departments and the School of Veterinary Medicine. Researchers also ...University of Pittsburgh researcher provides first-ever definition of HIV-associated lipodystrophy
...V-associated lipodystrophy syndrome (HIV-LS)-- the set of physical and metabolic changes that many individuals develop primarily while on HIV drug therapy. Lawrence Kingsley, Dr. P.H., proposed the definition in Chicago at the 2001 Sessions of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAP...U-M, World Health Organization host telemedicine symposium
... Perspective" in late August, in order to set the direction for the orderly deploy...rch agenda and action plan that will set the strategic direction for telemedicine and telehealth for the next five to ten years...Patent rights stimulate R&D, but fall short in helping poor countries obtain lifesaving drugs
...ing to the researchers, certain guarantees must be set in place for differential pricing to be implemente...id not agree on how differential pricing should be set up or implemented. Some experts recommend that the World Health Organization (WHO) or the World Bank......herese A. Stukel, PhD; and Chaing-Hua Chang, MS -- set out to determine the geographic distribution of neonatalogists in the United States. "Despite rapid growth in neonatal intensive care, there is little information about whether services tend to be located where newborn needs are greatest, and whethe...Science, engineering and technology news tips -- August 2001
...s built a mathematical model of prion growth. They set rules for how a few infectious prions convert normal PrP proteins around them. As more proteins are altered and can affect their neighbors, the damage spreads at an increasing rate. The change in protein folding takes less than a billionth of a seco...Practical guidance for treatment of heart failure is launched
...e for heart failure treatment is now available. A set of recommendations, developed by a leading group of clinical experts in the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure, provide practical, stepwise guidance for non-specialists to support the implementation of evidence-based therapy, including ACE inhi......g. Exanta , an oral direct thrombin inhibitor, is set to be the first new oral anticoagulant since warfarin was introduced over 50 years ago. Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia in clinical practice,² with incidence approximately doubling with each decade of adult life.³ F......time they go to the pharmacy - a small "copayment" set by insurers to cover part of the prescription. This attractive benefit has allowed many easy access to drugs that enhance their health, and has earned the envy of those - including millions of seniors on Medicare - who pay for their drugs out of pock......l information regarding risks and uncertainties is set forth in the current Annual Report on Form 20-F of Aventis on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis Overview Glucocorticoid steroids are used to treat a wide variety of allergic and inflammatory disea...