It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
...ear. "We found evidence of a patient management strategy on the West Coast that seems to strike the best balance between cost and patient outcomes," Mark said. "It combines quick decisions about use of interventions, a moderate use of those procedures and fewer hospital days. How much this is due to the in...New Test May Improve Treatment Of Kidney Disease
...smight assist physicians in developing a treatment strategy for their individualpatients. Further work in this area by the Hopkins team on additional patients hasshown that somepatients -- who previously had not been helped much by medication -- haveresponded quickly tomedications found effective in the ...Researchers Finding May Boost Effectiveness Of Anti-HIV Drugs
... of the protein protecting the virus. That strategy might also reduce the cost of the now-very-expensivetherapy by reducing the dose needed to get enough of the drugs into thebloodstream, where it can attack HIV. "Protease inhibitors work very well and have resulted in many patientsbecoming h...Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
...relationship is an important component to Targon's strategy of leveraging our resources as we become a recognized leader in the field of oncology product development." Duke's Cancer Center is leading-edge from both research and patient care perspectives, and our access to this expertise and pote...Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic Threatens Developing Countries, Global Economy
...tart. Reddy suggests that the most cost-effective strategy would be todiscourage high-risk behaviors in rural areas as soon as possible because theresidents have not acquired adverse behaviors, but they are in imminent dangerof doing so. Other sections (especially urban communities) that have alreadyacquire...Snipping Inflammation In The Bud; New Agents May Provide Relief
...anted inflammatory response. One advantage of this strategy isthat it's not reversible, so cells no longer adhere." The neoglycopolymers work by causing the L-selectin proteins to bunch up on thecell's surface. This activates an enzyme within the cell that, like a chemicalscissors, snips the L-selectin protei...Radio Frequencies Used To Kill Inoperable Liver Tumors At Penn's Cancer Center
...enn and principal investigator of the study. "This strategy to control tumors is the flipside of cryosurgery, which is a technique that has been available for over ten years, where very cold temperatures are used to freeze tumors in the liver. With radio frequency ablation, the heater probe has served advanta...Protecting Breast Feeding From Breast Milk Substitutes
...lation and monitoring are only part of the broader strategy to protect mothers and that positive public opinion towards breast feeding may be even more crucial. He says that training midwives and doctors in lactation counselling (including guidance for HIV positive mothers); breast feeding advertisements; an...Asthma-Airways Clinic Improves Lives, Reduces Medical Costs
...ospitalization and emergencyroom visits. A medical strategy that significantly reduces the need for those services, Briasays, clearly reduces the cost of asthma and increases patients' quality oflife....ONYX Pharmaceuticals Reports Phase II Clinical Trial Results At ASCO Meeting
...utation or to kill thecancer cell. Onyx pursues a strategy of establishing corporate partnershipsthat provide complementary skills in chemistry, drugdevelopment, and marketing and sales. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements with regardto the development of potential human therapeut...New Treatment Targets Most Malignant Brain Tumors
...ll become an important element ofa multi-treatment strategy for bringing to bay the aggressive cancer, whichstrikes some 12,000 adults a year, said Professor of Neuro-oncology HenryFriedman. "GBMs tend to show up as a central mass on MRI scans, but there arealso undetected malignant cells disseminated through...New Radiation Procedure Targets Liver Malignancies
...ue that is irradiated along with cancer cells. The strategy works, McGinn says, by carefully targeting the tumor with external beam irradiation and excluding as much healthy liver tissue as possible. For each patient a dose is then selected which should maximize the potential benefit of radiation without exc...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
...d gum during the first trimester ofpregnancy. This strategy is contrary to popular belief that drugs are mostharmful to the fetus during that early period, said Slotkin. His findings showthat nicotine does most damage to the fetus during the second and thirdtrimesters, meaning that pregnant women have a "wind...ACE-Inhibitors Score High In Reducing Heart Attack Deaths
...t high risk due to other health problems. Asecond strategy is to use the drugs early only in certain high-ris...ure and, possibly,diabetes. "Irrespective of which strategy physicians choose, the results of this analysissupport the use of ACE-inhibitors early in the treatm......ents." Brizel and his colleagues devised a strategy that involves treatingpatients with more radiation, but dividing it into smaller doses. Instead ofhaving one treatment per day, all patients had two treatments per day for fiveto six weeks. At the same time, half of the 116 patients in the study als...Educational Intervention Can Reduce Sexual Behaviors Known To Transmit HIV
...o public health because it identifies a successful strategy toreduce high-risk behaviors and prevent new HIV infections." The largest, randomized, controlled HIV behavioral intervention studyever conducted in the United States, the study enrolled 3,706 men and women in37 inner-city, community-based ...Landmark Study Shows Behavioral Interventions Reduce HIV-Related Sexual Risk Behavior
...w HIV infections. NIMH has identified aneffective strategy that could be adopted by public health and communityorganizations all across America. If these behavioral changes were maintainedfor even one year, there would be a profound, cost-effective, public health impact in the communities that adoptedthis pr...Schizophrenia-Like Behavior In Rats Blocked Via Glutamate
...nstitute ofMental Health grantees to propose a new strategy for treating schizophrenia. Scientists have known for some time that the psychosis-inducing drug PCP(phencyclidine) blocks activation of receptors for the brain messenger chemicalglutamate while stimulating activation of brain dopamine systems. Curr...University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center Researchers Awarded Grant To Fight Leukemia Recurrence
...octors began treating cancer, there's been a basic strategy -that's giving people a very toxic drug that's more toxic to cancer cells thannormal cells," Jordan said. "They are absolutely married to the fact thatthey're going to make people sick, so anything we can do that represents a newapproach, we find ap...DNA-Based Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise To Successfully Treat Melanoma In Mice
...ettering and senior author of thestudy. The same strategy is being tested against prostate, breast and lymphomacancers in mice, as they also share specific proteins with their normal cellcounterparts. "These DNA vaccines are unique because they can trigger immunity where othertypes of vaccines can fail to s...