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...t program here in Hawaii and we hope they can have significant impact onprevention behaviors elsewhere, too." Survey questions focused on prevention practices such as: limiting time spendin the sun, avoiding the sun during peak hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., usingsunscreen with a protection factor of 15 or highe......oodpressure, and overall there was a statistically significant inverse correlationbetween measured compliance and ambulatory diastolic blood pressure (r=0.37,p<0.05). The eDEM Monitor, a medication package equipped with an electronic microchip,compiles the dosing histories of patients prescribed oral medi...Less Toxic Bone Marrow Transplant Technique May Have More Powerful Anti-Cancer Effect
... patients have achieved long-termremission without significant graft-versus-host disease, a dangerouscomplication of bone marrow transplantation. "This proof-of-principal study has shown that we can achieve a lastingcombination of donor and recipient immune systems without the kind of toxictreatment usually use...Mother's depression impedes baby's development
...anguage and other skills. Researchers have found a significant difference in associative learningbetween infants who listened to voice samples from women who were depressedand women who were not. "We found that depressed mothers who were trying to interest their infantsin a toy - a stuffed gorilla - said the wor...Controversy Over The Effects Of Passive Smoking
... smoking is a real problem. How can you measurehow significant other factors, such as diet, genetics and exercise, are incausing heart disease, when you don't know how much allowance to make forpassive smoking? The controversial 25 per cent figure, reported in the NEJM by Jiang Heand his colleagues at th...ENBREL (Etanercept) Receives FDA Approval For Treatment Of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
...s the bound TNF biologically inactive, resultingin significant reduction in inflammatory activity. Immunex and Wyeth-Ayerst market ENBREL in North America. OtherWyeth-Ayerst affiliates will market ENBREL outside of North America. Additionalinformation about ENBREL, including full prescribing informatio...Angina sufferers find significant relief with noninvasive technique
...eved by medication or invasive treatments can gain significant painreduction from a little-used medical procedure that appears to increase heartblood supply, a new study has found. In the first controlled trial of the painless, non-invasive treatment known asenhanced external counterpulsation (EECP), patients ex...Circulation publishes phase I study of ENBREL in patients with chronic heart failure
...om baseline. ENBREL was welltolerated without any significant adverse effects. RENAISSANCE Trial Immunex Corporation (NASDAQ:IMNX) and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories began a PhaseII/III clinical trial (called the RENAISSANCE Trial - Randomized ENBREL NorthAmerican Strategy to study Antagonism of Cytokines) with ENBR...Immunex Files Supplemental NDA for NOVANTRONE
...A today showed that NOVANTRONE had a statistically significant impact onrelapse rate and disability progression in patients with secondary progressiveMS. These clinical data were corroborated by positive magnetic resonanceimaging (MRI) data. This multicenter, placebo-controlled, randomized, observer-bli...Summer swimsuit research flash: thigh-reducing creams don't work
...Medicine's annual conference in Seattle, showed no significant differencebetween upper-leg circumference when women rubbed the creams on one thigh everyday and a lotion not touted as fat-reducing on the other. "Manufacturers of these creams rake in the bucks for a product thatdoesn't work," said Dr. Bonit...Aging alone does not affect brain system related to memory loss
...esions. The young rats with lesions still showed a significant increase in ACh releaseof 60 to 120 percent (compa...und in older non-lesioned rats. Sarter said it was significant that young rats, even when they lost part oftheir cholinergic sytems due to lesions, were still able......exiconative of Russian/German ancestry. "There's a significant part of me thatidentifies with Latinos," she explained. "When I came to Los Angeles, I feltthat many of the new immigrants, in particular, had needs related to access tohealth care. I felt I could help and try to make a difference." Dr. Lifshitz is a...Early stroke treatment with t-PA has long-lasting benefit, according to NEJM report
...dicine. "These findings are particularly significant in light of the staggeringtoll stroke can take on those who survive it," says third author MichaelFrankel, M.D., associate professor of neurology at the Emory University Schoolof Medicine and chief of neurology at Grady Memorial Hospital. "Since str......es are curative, it appears that CAMPATH may be of significant benefit in thispatient population. Adding CAMPATH...ic stemcells. CAMPATH therapy is associated with significant lymphopenia. The lymphopenia resolves in some, but not all, patients over weeks to months aftercess......, and 20 percent in women. There was amoderate but significant reduction in body fat (about 5 percent) in both men andwomen. The hormone effects occurred in both men and women, but there weresuggestions that estrogen replacement in women may partially block some of GH'seffects. Effects on sleep and physical capa...Older, disabled women have trouble managing pain
Nearly two-thirds of older, disabled women report significant pain in theirback, knees, hips, and feet, and have considerable difficulty controlling it,according to new findings from the National Institute on Aging's (NIA) Women'sHealth & Aging Study. The analysis, one of the first to look at doses ofmedicatio...7,000 Pharmaceutical scientists to share latest drug developments and discoveries
...rugtherapy and health care and a recap of the most significant advances made in thepharmaceutical sciences over the past century," said AAPS Annual Meeting ProgramChair Jay Sisco, Ph.D. The meeting will offer nine short courses, 17 roundtables and 43 symposiumsessions, which focus on topics such as the future ......h and 40th days of theexperiment. After 40 days a significant difference was found in the amount oftiny vessels known as capillaries in the legs of the rabbits treated withquinaprilat and VEGF, compared to the other animals. The eight rabbits that received quinaprilat had an average capillary density of214 per ......d psychological well-being which werestatistically significant for the higher dose of testosterone when compared toplacebo. There was very little skin irritation observed, and there were onlyminimal effects on facial hair growth and acne. No adverse effects on the levelsof cholesterol, glucose, insulin or on the...Researchers develop better means to diagnose adrenal gland tumors
...do not release the adrenal hormonesregularly or in significant amounts. Drs. Eisenhofer, Linehan, and their colleagues found that these tumors containan enzyme that continually transforms the adrenal hormones epinephrine andnorepinephrine into the chemicals metanephrine and normetanephrine. Onlypheochromocytoma...