Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...mponent of vaccines works within the body has been shot down by a Purdue University study. Purdue researcher Stanley Hem has found that aluminum hydroxide, a small particle used to carry antigens into the body to boost an immune response, begins to dissolve in the muscle immediately after an injection and...Radically New Type Of Surgery Tested On First Patient
...e available: The Magnetic Surgery System Head shot of Dr. Dacey Graphic explaining how the MSS works Dr. Dacey at the computer console of the MSS Computer image showing a path to the patient's tumor Dr. Dacey in front of the MSS The three inventors of the MSS Magnetic Surgery Backgrou...Flu Shots Keep Health Workers On The Job
...cine recipients and of controlsnot getting the flu shot were not altered by a person's vaccine experience inthe previous year. Thus, control subjects who had received the vaccine duringthe previous season were infected at the same rate (15 percent) as controls whohad not been vaccinated during the prior y...Combination HIV vaccine induces diverse immune response
...pread out over six months; each time, they got one shot in each arm. By July 1998, all immunizations were completed. The participants will befollowed for four years. Dr. Belshe will report that the vaccines appear safe. Adverse side effectsassociated with either vaccine were generally mild. The vaccin...Pets can tame high blood pressure
...sponse to the stress, their average blood pressure shot up to 182/126 mm Hg after the math test and 184/129 mm Hg after the speech. Next, all the subjects were given an ACE inhibitor, a common drug known to reduce high blood pressure. The drug, however, does not have any effect on an individual's reactio...New discovery may revolutionize treatment for pain related to surgery, illness and injury
...this new method of delivering pain medication, one shot administered during surgery could alleviate the pain sensations a patient would normally feel for several days. The painkillers will go only to the nerves involved in the surgery, eliminating the negative side effects patients experience from the cur...Free radicals mediate arsenic's harmful effects
... key step in cancer development. The mutation rate shot up still higher when researchers added a chemical that reduced the cells' production of natural antioxidants. This was consistent with previous research suggesting that antioxidants can protect cells from arsenic-induced genetic damage. Close to a mi...Unergrad's invention may deliver life-saving medicine
...eres that are light and do not stick together when shot out of an aerosol device. The spheres must be capable of carrying large molecules such as DNA and proteins deep into the lungs, where they can be released into the body over a prescribed period of time. Krauland hopes to have results ready for submis...One more visit could close demographic gaps in infant immunization efforts
...eir series of shots, and most needed only one more shot to be fully immunized, says Elizabeth T. Luman and her associates at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This was reflected in the finding that children who were fully vaccinated averaged six immunization visits, while children who ......ll. Heart rate and blood pressure of all patients shot up the morning of surgery, Allen said, indicating that ambulatory surgery may be more stressful in this population than commonly believed. These measures of cardiovascular stress dropped significantly in the music group within 10 minutes of tuning i...Pain, price, insurance delays for new vaccines concern kids' doctors
...tely to pay for Prevnar vaccinations could get the shot series for their children without having to pay ou... didn't match the cost to the doctors - making the shot a money-losing proposition for some providers. Even if money were not an issue, some physicians in t...Study proves flu shot safe for asthmatics
...s about possible dangerous side effects of the flu shot in people with asthma. The new study, which appear...y. This study has proven definitively that the flu shot does not trigger asthma attacks even in the worst of asthmatics, said Irvin. Unfortunately, only ab......, create a scaffold for the artificial liver. It's shot through with channels as small as the finest capillaries and as large as the organ's main veins and arteries. The scaffold then has to be seeded with the cells that make up the solid part of the liver. As well as hepatocytes, which perform key liver...American Chemical Society to honor Albert Szent-Gyrgyi
...es. Anti-war all his life, Szent-Gyrgyi apparently shot himself to escape combat and return to school in 1...one day I grabbed my revolver and in despair put a shot through my upper arm. After studying at various European universities, Szent-Gyrgyi accepted a post ...Emory University will conduct clinical trial of anthrax vaccine regimen
...r receive a shot, have an investigator look at the shot site, or have blood drawn. Participants will not ...is new study will simplify the existing dosing and shot regimen for the vaccine and provide more data to convince an anxious public that the vaccine is safe...Do stroke therapies really work?
...lt, the patients' ability to put names to pictures shot up by 35 per cent. "They are not only naming more, they are naming significantly faster," says Pascual-Leone, who presented the unpublished results at a meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Sendai, Japan, this month. Why this hap...Aventis Pasteur ready to meet nation's needs for tetanus and diphtheria vaccine
...ventable. Adults and adolescents require a booster shot every 10 years throughout life to maintain protection against tetanus and diptheria. Almost all reported cases of tetanus are in persons who have either never been vaccinated, or who completed a primary series, but have not had a booster in the prec...Annals of Internal Medicine Aug. 20 tip sheet
... or with chronic illnesses can benefit from a flu shot (Article, p. 225). Analyzing previously published data using a statistical decision model, researchers found that the costs of giving flu vaccine to healthy, working adults, aged 18 to 50, appear worth the benefits in terms of avoiding lost work time...OSU faculty design drug education web program for NCAA
...ntration. He made a tape of himself describing his shot and visualizing the 'swish' of the net. About three weeks later, he set a Kansas record for three-pointers in a game. "The point is," Tricker said, "all athletes can improve. They need to take a hard look at their lifestyles and their own decisions....Possible new cancer therapy shrinks tumors in melanoma patients, Science authors report
...ell transfer, the number of tumor-fighting T cells shot up in more than half of the patients. After the transfer, the cells proliferated and traveled to the tumor sites, the scientists found. "We generated and grew cells in the body to numbers that have never been approached before," Rosenberg said. Four ...