CellCept's cardioprotective profile reinforced
...oxic agents. Roche in transplantation Roche is strongly committed to improving the long-term outcomes of transplantation and enhancing the quality of life of transplant recipients. Roche has developed innovative therapies that improve graft and post-transplant health: CellCept is the cornerstone of low to...Clinic-based intervention program improves smoking cessation rates, study says
...ce Guideline, which recommends that all clinicians strongly advise patients who smoke to quit and instructs them in methods to help their patients successfully quit. Many physicians, however, do not advise their patients to stop smoking because they do not believe it will work. In addition, physicians may lac...Black women with high blood pressure during pregnancy have higher homocysteine levels
...tablished, she said. Blood homocysteine levels are strongly influenced by diet and genetic factors. Folic acid and vitamins B6 and B12 help break down homocysteine. Folic acid is found in green, leafy vegetables such as spinach, turnip greens and kale, while B6 and B12 come from grains and other types of fo...Exposure to food increases brain metabolism
...n that controls drive and pleasure, also correlate strongly with self-reports of desire for food and hunger. "These results could explain the deleterious effects of constant exposure to food stimuli, such as advertising, candy machines, food channels, and food displays in stores," says Brookhaven physician Ge...Storage limits on our visual hard drive
...led that activity in the posterior parietal cortex strongly correlated with the number of objects the subjects were able to remember. The magnitude of the neural response in this brain area increased with the number of objects viewed up to about four and leveled off after that, even when additional objects we...Vision loss from eye diseases will increase as Americans age
...r significant findings from the study: AMD is strongly associated with increasing age, particularly after age 60. AMD rises dramatically in whites over age 80; more than one in 10 white Americans over age 80 has vision loss from AMD. Glaucoma is almost three times as common in African Americans as in w...Rapid workplace expansion linked to long-term sickness absence
...change has shown that rapid workplace expansion is strongly associated with an increased risk of long-term sickness absence and hospital admissions-especially among women working in the public sector. Previous studies have focused on the negative health effects of downsizing, but there have been no extensive ...Cell research uncovers intriguing clues to 'Trojan horse' gene in HIV infection
...were associated with cell survival. "Our evidence strongly suggests that a gene called HALP plays a crucial role in protecting HIV-infected cells," said Dr. Finkel. The gene had been discovered previously in humans, she added, but the current research is the first to describe HALP's role in HIV infection. Cl...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, April 6, 2004
...ound that the severity of cognitive impairment was strongly associated with decreased survival. Walking disturbances, falling, congestive heart failure and diabetes were also associated with decreased survival. An editorial writer says that the diagnosis of dementia and Alzheimer disease is a sentinel event, ...Breast cancer patients with BRCA 1/2 mutations twice as likely to choose double mastectomy
...e opposite breast. Although a positive test result strongly influenced a woman's treatment choice, a physician's recommendation was the single most important factor affecting her decision. "Patients whose physicians recommended that they undergo genetic testing or consider a double mastectomy were significan...Number of breaths given during CPR may be linked to survival
... cardiac arrests in only one city, the researchers strongly believe that hyperventilation could occur nationwide. As a result of their findings, the authors urge that all hospitals and emergency medical services assess whether hyperventilation is a problem in their units. If it is, they suggest reducing ven...Schizophrenia patients don't take medications regularly
...Both psychiatric and medical hospitalizations were strongly related to the degree of drug adherence; Older i...'s Findings: Psychiatric hospitalization was strongly related to the degree of drug adherence, with those considered non-adherent two and one-half times m...Tropical medicine: A brittle tool of the new imperialism
This week's Lancet editorial is strongly critical of the way that tropical medicine remains structured on outdated colonial lines and calls for the discipline to 'resist contemporary imperialistic forces that hide under the folded veils of counterterrorism and corporate colonialism'. THE LA...MIT reports new insights in visual recognition
...n to be activated by clear images of faces is also strongly activated by very blurred images, just so long as surrounding contextual cues (such as a body) are present. "In other words, the neural circuitry in the human brain can use context to compensate for extreme levels of image degradations," Sinha said. ...Latest cancer research features small molecule therapy, and the preventative benefits of sunshine
... of 1.0. Outdoor time on days off work was most strongly related to reduced risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The upper quartile of "sun worship" had an odds ratio of 0.47--a whopping 53 percent reduction in risk of the disease. High exposure to the sun during vacations also reduced risk cancer risk by 4...Lack of parental support during childhood is associated with poorer adult mental & physical health
... early old age. The association appears to be more strongly linked to mental health than physical health problems, which may be due to differences in how these problems develop over time, according to the authors. "These findings are important because they not only reveal a strong association between early pa...New drug may help fight some lung cancers
...icipants who had never smoked. Because BAC is less strongly associated with tobacco smoke than other lung cancers, these tumors may be associated with fewer molecular abnormalities and may provide a better 'target' for EGFR specific therapy. "We'll be watching the never-smokers in our study to see if this h...Blood test heralds speedy stroke diagnoses
...roke. The company found a combination of six that strongly indicates someone has had a stroke. The test is three times as sensitive as CT scans for diagnosing strokes caused by clots, Biosite told investors at a recent presentation. Laskowitz has already published similar results for a set of four markers (S...Radiation therapy effective for some patients with recurrent cancer after radical prostatectomy
...ence relapse after radical prostatectomy should be strongly considered for salvage radiotherapy, even those with high-grade disease and/or a rapid PSADT. We have developed a predictive model to estimate the likelihood of treatment success for a given individual that will help guide physicians in the selection......elease of excess reactive oxygen species (ROS) are strongly implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory periodontitis. The destructive activities of ROS are neutralized by anti-oxidants, which constitute the body's natural defence against excess ROS release. Anti-oxidant mechanisms vary, but radical scaven...