Lifetime stroke risk higher for women, those with high blood pressure
...rol of blood pressure," she said. "People who had stage one hypertension, which is defined as a systolic blood pressure of 140 mmHg or higher or a diastolic blood pressure of 90 mmHg or higher had more than twice the risk for stroke than people who had normal blood pressure," she said. Seshadri and colle...Home-based therapy beneficial for stroke patients
... at present that can provide this increase at this stage of recovery. The exact nature and content of therapy-based rehabilitation services is not answered by our review; neither is the most effective way to structure provision of these services, nor their economic benefits. What does seem clear is that th...Jan/Feb 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... that the decrease in medical visits occurred at a stage in life when the incidence of many late effects of cancer therapy, including most second cancers, cardiovascular disease, osteoperosis and endocrinopathies, are increasing. The authors suggest that these findings have important implications for ca...First US tuberculosis vaccine trial in 60 years begins
...sponse. If the vaccine proves safe in this initial stage of testing, it will be further tested for evidence of efficacy in larger clinical trials. The currently available TB vaccine, called BCG, offers some protection against the form of TB most often contracted by very young children. But the vaccine's ef...Two proteins may help prevent Alzheimer's brain plaques
... these proteins also have been implicated in a key stage of plaque formation. The study appears in the Jan. 22 issue of the journal Neuron. "This is one of the first demonstrations in living animals that these proteins affect amyloid clearance," says David H. Holtzman, M.D., the Andrew B. and Gretchen P. J...JAMA study confirms drug can help improve memory and cognition in advanced Alzheimer's patients
...an provide substantial benefit to patients at this stage of the disease, either alone or in combination wit...million people currently suffering at the advanced stage of Alzheimer's." Today, more than 4.5 million Americans suffer with Alzheimer's, a progressive dise...Leading AIDS experts criticize US-sponsored HIV vaccine trial in Thailand
...ringing truly promising vaccine candidates to this stage of development," said Lederman, "otherwise we risk eroding public confidence in the research." The authors of the paper are from many of the leading medical schools and research institutions in the nation, including Case, Harvard, Cornell, University...Cancer markers news backgrounder: Future of cancer diagnosis, treatment lies in tumor 'barcode'
...ey might be able to predict which women with early stage breast cancer could be cured by using a particular...s." Using breast cancer cells taken from 24 early stage breast cancers, Pusztai and his colleagues discovered 74 genes associated with a cure when a common ...Urgent action required to prevent 500k deaths/yr worldwide from pregnancy-related causes
...cluding the injection of oxytocin during the third stage of labour could have a substantial effect in reducing morbidity and mortality from postnatal haemorrhage; the widespread distribution of magnesium sulphate could dramatically reduce illness and death from pre-eclampsia. In the final paper, (9) Lin...Whole-body PET/CT scan appears useful for determining tumor stage
...regional lymph nodes, and distant metastasis (TNM) stage was correctly determined in 75 with PET/CT (77 percent) and in 53 with MRI (54 percent). "Compared with MRI, PET/CT had a direct impact on patient management in 12 patients. Results from MRI changed the therapy regimen in 2 patients compared with PET...Spreading cancer survives via signals from nearby blood vessels long before new vessels are grown
...ved in cancer survival and growth at a far earlier stage than we had originally believed," said Dewhirst. "This discovery energizes our efforts to block these signals from being released and to inhibit new blood vessels from forming." Such a strategy is called anti-angiogenesis. The two-way dialogue begins...UB, military collaborate on design, testing of first drug to prevent noise-induced hearing loss
...f acetaminophen. Bringing it to the clinical trial stage for use against noise-induced hearing loss involved a series of studies begun in 1995 and a collaboration between UB scientists and military physicians. Donald H. Henderson, Ph.D., professor of communicable disorders and sciences, and Bo Hua Hu, M...Antibiotic use on swine farms increases efficiency, profits
...educe swine death rates during the growth-finisher stage of production. Swine farmers operating a 1,020-head finishing barn, researchers found, realize a profit of 59 cents per pig in annual returns. "Antibiotics used for growth promotion have a positive impact on production efficiency and producer prof...World Summit on the Information Society
...to all, including those who are at a less advanced stage in the information revolution". Space and the information society ESA used the opportunity of the Summit and the associated conferences to bring three of its many projects to the attention of participants. The projects singled out on this occasi...Study finds fewer than half of early stage breast cancer patients get full chemotherapy doses
...er treatment -- less than half of women with early stage breast cancer whose records were evaluated receive... that 56 percent of 20,799 women treated for early stage breast cancer nationwide received less than 85 percent of their prescribed chemotherapy dose intensi...Drug prolongs lives of chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients
...blood tests; average age at diagnosis is 62. Early stage patients can live 10 years or more, but patients with more advanced disease may live only 18 months to three years. Rituximab is a monoclonal antibody that targets a protein known as CD20 found on immune cells known as B lymphocytes. Scientist...Early treatment of blinding eye disease in infants can prevent severe vision loss
...r vision when therapy is administered in the early stage of the disease. This treatment approach was found to be better than waiting until ROP reached the traditional treatment threshold. Just as importantly, the study also established the value of an improved risk assessment model to more accurately ident...Higher dose of Gleevec leads to increased remission in CML patients
...se Gleevec in patients with newly diagnosed, early stage CML. Initial dose-escalating studies conducted with CML patients who had failed traditional interferon treatment suggested that patients treated with higher doses of the drug did well, even though a 400-milligram dose was "arbitrarily" selected as t...Fertility worries common in young breast cancer survivors
...or future children regardless of their age or the stage of their cancer." Breast cancer in young women, defined here as age 40 and under, is not common, but accounts for over 11,000 cases a year in the U.S. alone. Chemotherapy administered following surgery can cause early menopause and infertility. In ad......ced the relative risk of death in women with early stage breast cancer by 30 percent and lowered the relati...er, and this study indicates that women with early stage breast cancer and their physicians should seriously consider a Taxotere-based treatment, like the TA...