Anabolic Steroids May Help Dialysis Patients Fight Fatigue And Gain Lean Body Mass
...lic steroids appears to increase leanbody mass and significantly reduce fatigue (another common side effect) inkidney disease patients receiving dialysis. A team of University of California San Francisco researchers, led by Kirsten L.Johansen, M.D., UCSF assistant professor of medicine, epidemiology &biostatisti...AVANT Atherosclerosis Vaccine Raises HDL, Reduces Atherosclerosis In Vaccinated Animals
...ults showed that CETP-vaccinated rabbits exhibited significantly reducedCETP activity and changes in plasma lipopro...called plaque on blood vessel walls. Thiscondition significantly increases the risk of many forms of cardiovasculardisease including heart attack, stroke and periphe...Oregon's Terminally Ill Patients More Likely to Have End-Of-Life Choices Respected, Study Finds
... of ten had a Do Not Resuscitate order in place, a significantly higherpercentage than in other states. The study also evaluated whether the POLST formhelped patients receive the amount of medical treatment the wanted at the end oflife. Of 91 persons from the sample group who died during the year, only 5 diedin th......e overallincidence of acute cellular rejection was significantly less in the bone marrowpatients (52 percent) as compared to the control group (67 percent). Moreimportantly, most of the rejection episodes in the group of bonemarrow-augmented patients were mild as compared to moderate to severe in thecontrol recip...Study Reveals Gender Affects Lung-Cancer Development
...at high risk." The scientists found that men had a significantly higher incidence ofprecancerous lesions in the large central airways than women. They also foundthat fewer women than men had high-grade preinvasive lesions. Because womendevelop more cancers in the peripheral (outer) parts of the lung than men do,Ga......hold weight belowwhich morbidity and mortality are significantly greater or whether thatthreshold varies at different developmental stages," Bloom said. "We suspectthat the tenth percentile is too high a threshold because too many babiesnormally destined to have lower birth weights are included instead of just tho...Newest Depression Medications Widely Prescribed For Children
...availability to mental health specialists alsowere significantly more likely to prescribe SSRIs. "There is a fear that these medications will supplant or replace othermulti-modal therapies - counseling, family intervention, behavioral therapies,which at least in adults and adolescents have been shown effe...UI Study Suggests Promising Treatment For Diabetic Pregnancies
... micetreated with the encapsulated islet cells had significantly lower blood glucoselevels throughout their pregnancies and were significantly less likely to givebirth to pups with malformations (3.0 - 5.4 percent in the treated diabetic micev...A therapeutic approach that appears to significantly reduce the rejection riskof transplanted organs is currently being studied in multi-center clinicaltrials but already has been adopted as an effective tool by most majortransplant centers throughout the country. The therapy, infusion of intravenous i...Balloon Procedure In The Brain? Longest Follow-Up To Date Shows Good Results
...ased on these data, it appears thatangioplasty has significantly reduced the stroke rate. "This study indicates a need for additional studies comparing the usefulness ofangioplasty versus medication alone," Marks says. "At this point there is noother proven therapy to treat this problem, especially for patients ...Relaxation And Music Significantly Reduce Patients' Postoperative Pain
...hat, after surgery, the three treatment groups had significantly less pain thanthe control group, which received only pain medication. "Both medication and self-care methods which involve patientparticipation are needed for relief," said Dr. Good. "These relaxation andmusic self-care methods provide mor...... animal models for human diabetes andfound that it significantly lowered the mice's blood sugar. The development of a pill that can be used in human diabetics will require muchmore research. Scientists must now tinker with the molecule to see if they canmaximize its effectiveness while keeping it safe. Zhang and ...Women May React To General Anesthesia Differently Than Men
...ring surgery thanmen, and indicates women may need significantly more anesthesia than men to keepthem asleep." "No one ever thought gender would be a variable in deliveringanesthetics to patients, but we now need to consider adding a patient's sex intothe equation," added the other Duke co-author, anesthe...Irritable Bowel Syndrome The Focus Of Three UNC-CH Reports At Digestive Diseases Conference
...All forms of abuse,in childhood or adulthood, were significantly associated with self-reporteddepression and self-reported suicide attempts. Prior studies using intensiveinterviews in GI clinics have identified a history of early sexual abuse inabout 45 percent of IBS patients. IBS is characterized by a combinatio...Transplant Pioneer Thomas E. Starzl Most Cited Researcher In Clinical Medicine Over Past 17 Years
...re recent contributions to transplant science have significantly enhanced the understanding of transplantimmunology, particularly with respect to how and why organs are accepted. "Dr. Starzl is responsible for transplantation's transition from an experimentalprocedure to a viable treatment for patients with end-st......nth study. The treatment group also spent significantly less on health care -- anaverage of $14,173 per pe...a relatively inexpensive intervention canresult in significantly lower health-related expenses," said William C. Mann,Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of...Near-Sightedness In Children Linked To Light Exposure During Sleep Before Age Two
...eir bedrooms at night before theage of 2 may be at significantly higher risk of developing myopia -near-sightedness - when they become older than children who sleep as infants inthe dark at night, according to a collaborative study by researchers at theUniversity of Pennsylvania Medical Center and The Children's H...British Adolescents Need Government Support To Help Clean Up Their Act
...of adolescents in England and Wales worsened quite significantly between 1995-6. In 1996 teenage females accounted for 20 per cent of all pregnancy terminations and nine per cent of births. Girls aged 16-19 years had the highest rates of gonorrhoea, genital chlamydia infection and warts, of all women. These fin...Treatment-Resistant Depression: Results of Latest Electromagnetic Stimulation Study Show Promise
...tsbefore, during and after the new treatment "were significantly improved at alltime points compared to baseline," says first author Yvonne M. Greene, M.D., in the abstract; Dr.Greene is a neurosciences fellow at the Emory University School of Medicine andhas collaborated on the open trial with William McDonald, ......first examples of a new generation of NSAIDscauses significantly fewer ulcers than do standard non-steroidalanti-in...00 milligrams of ibuprofenthree times a day showed significantly more stomach and duodenal ulcers onendoscopic examination than did those who took 50 or 25 milligram...