Changing Drug Delivery For Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Increases Effectiveness, Lowers Costs
...umatoid arthritisby injection, rather than orally, significantly improved the patients' healthand at a dramatically reduced cost. "We found that 73 percent of patients switched from the oral method tothe injection because they were not satisfied with the way they were feeling.Two-thirds of those patients n...Medication Offers Hope For Relief From Burning Mouth Pain
...atients in the group that got the most relief were significantly younger thanthose in the group that had some relief, but side effects. Those who got the most relief also hadshorter histories of BMS and got relief with lower doses of clonazepam than either of the other twogroups. Since a total of 70 percent of sub...How Ritalin Enhances Memory: Clues Provided By Brain Scans of ADHD Patients Using The Drug
...ttention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are significantly different fromscans of adults without ADHD, yet few difference are noted between scans ofthese two groups once the ADHD patients begin to take the drug Ritalin(methylphenidate), report researchers from Emory University at this week'smeeting of the So...Pairing Two Drugs With Angioplasty May Offer Best Success In Treating Heart Attacks
... have shown that using a clot-busting drugalone is significantly less effective in restoring full blood flow (46 percentof patients), compared with using the right dose of a clot-buster and a "superaspirin" (63 percent of patients in this study had full blood flow after anhour). Abciximab, known under the...This Week's Forecast May Be A Heart Attack
...ks and for all ages." The risk of heart attack was significantly greater for people who had suffered aprevious heart attack. When atmospheric pressure dropped 10 millibars below the1,016 figure, for example, the risk of a recurrent heart attack rose 30 percent. Similarly, an 18° F (10° C) drop in temperat...'Alternative' Medicine Becoming Mainstream, UF Study Finds
...remedies or biofeedback. Women facultymembers were significantly more likely than men to have tried alternativetherapies. Faculty from the colleges of Health Professions and Nursing were thehighest users of alternative medicine -- at 76 and 74 percent,respectively. Of College of Medicine respondents, 52 percent h...Drip And Ship: Start Drug Early, Especially If Plan To Transfer Heart Patient To Larger Hospital
...Journal of Medicine, demonstratedthat eptifibatide significantly reduced the 30-day incidence of death or heartatta...ithout beingtransferred. As it turned out, significantly fewer patients who had been randomizedto eptifibatide ended up being transferred. Since the decisio...Low Socio-Economic Status Heart Patients Need More Than Just Aggressive Cardiac Procedures
...he functional status oflower SES patients remained significantly impaired one year after treatment. "We expected all patients to feel bad at the beginning, but we alsoexpected them to get much better," Tung said. "What is so striking is afterrevascularization how much worse the low SES people felt compare...Researchers Splice Severed Spinal Cords
...he nerve fibers carrying nerve impulses,you'll get significantly more than 5 percent back in terms of restoredbehavior," says Richard B. Borgens, professor of developmental anatomy atPurdue. He and his colleague, assistant professor Dr. Riyi Shi, both of Purdue'sCenter for Paralysis Research in the School of Veter......ational and leisureactivities. They also reported significantly better health status scores andgreater satisfaction with medication compared with the placebo group. All thesedifferences were shown to be statistically significant. When treating influenza with the currently available antiviral agents, such asamant......ons, patients treated withprotease inhibitors were significantly more likely to report engaging in riskysex. There were significant differences, however, by sexual preference. Within the study group, men who had sex with men (MSM) and were being treatedwith protease inhibitors were 3.8 times more likely to repo...Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women
...he average number of cigarettes smoked per day was significantly lowerfor French women of all ages (12.3) than for American women (18.2).This apparentirony can be traced in part to the fact that younger smokers may be lessaddicted to nicotine than older smokers: i.e. they need fewer cigarettes tosatisfy their habi...Fructose Consumption May Accelerate Aging: Skin's Elasticity And Softness May Be Affected
...ests found that rats fed fructose for a yearshowed significantly greater age-related alterations, manifested in the... fructose, cholesterol andclycated hemoglobin were significantly higher in fructose-fed rats. Fructose also affects skin collagen crosslinking by increasi...... The UB prototype provides images that are significantly clearer than canbe produced by any current system, and may allow the viewing of even the tiniestblood vessels in the circulation system, Stephen Rudin, Ph.D., UB professor ofradiology and physics, reported here today (Dec. 2, 1998). The prototype an...New approach supercharges immunotherapy
...ltered the natural history of the disease, to have significantly slowedprogression in selected patients." The co-stimulation technology, which uses tiny magnetic beads covered withmonoclonal antibodies to CD3 and CD28, was developed and patented by Thompson atthe University of Chicago and Dr. Carl June at the Unif......dthat TPO, administered in conjunction with G-CSF, significantly boosts the oddsof stem cells migrating into the bloodstream in sufficient numbers to stimulatere-growth of blood cells. The majority of patients in the study had breast cancer; others had lymphoma orrelated cancers. All patients received G-CSF, and ...Intensive Program Can Help Premature Babies Learn At the Start
...weight peers. While the early intervention significantly improved the short-termachievements of children with low birth-weight, long-term outcomes need furtherinvestigation, the researchers say, because by age 9 the benefits were fading. The researchers note that at this point, "The children had no...Study Offers Hope For Immune Reconstitution After HIV Infection
...researchers also found that TREC quantity declines significantly with age. Still, they detected TREC-containing T c...cted individuals showed thattheir TREC levels were significantly lower than TREC levels in blood fromage-matched healthy individuals. After receiving HAART, however...UCSF Study Shows Drug Reduces Risk Of Spine And Hip Fractures By Half In Women With Osteoporosis
...mpared to 43in the alendronate group. Alendronate significantly increased the BMD of all women, both those with andwithout osteoporosis, who received the drug during the study. After four years of treatment, compared to women who received a placebo andlost .8 percent of BMD at the neck, women who received alendr...