Major new study finds long-acting calcium channel blockers inferior to other antihypertensive drugs
... "Blood pressure reduction, by itself, contributes substantially to protecting the heart and preventing blood vessel disease, which is the goal of antihypertensive therapy," said Michael H. Alderman, M.D., professor of epidemiology and social medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and one of the researche...Testosterone skin patch improves sexual functioning in surgically menopausal women
...d sexual functioning and psychological well-being substantially more than did placebo treatment. This study was part of a Phase II clinical development program for the testosterone patch conducted by Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals and Watson Laboratories. Enrollment is currently under way for a larger ...NIH awards grant to MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals to study novel pain treatments
... research documenting that MetaPhore's SOD mimetic substantially reduced tissue damage due to inflammation and reperfusion - the latter involving the return of blood flow to an organ following removal of a blockage, such as after a heart attack. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien...FDA awards grant to metaphore pharmaceuticals to study septic shock in humans
...d research documenting that MetaPhores SOD mimetic substantially reduced tissue damage due to inflammation and reperfusion the latter involving the return of blood flow to an organ following removal of a blockage, such as after a heart attack. MetaPhore recently announced that it has received an SBIR grant from...Researchers identify new genetic risk factor for HIV infection
...em gene called RANTES can be a double-edged sword, substantially increasing one's susceptibility to HIV infection, but subsequently slowing down the disease's progress. "This study offers the first genetic evidence that RANTES affects the risk of HIV transmission," says Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of ...New antipsychotic drugs combined with nicotine patch help schizophrenics quit smoking
...e from nicotine. "Besides having the quit rates substantially elevated, we actually did an objective measure of smoking, checking carbon monoxide levels (a by-product of cigarette smoke), Schizophrenics and Smoking)and found a substantial reduction in carbon monoxide levels in patients who were prescribed ...VA trial to weigh aspirin against other anti-clotting drugs in heart disease patients
...rin. That figure will either increase or decrease substantially depending on the results. Aspirin is widely used in patients with coronary heart disease, the leading cause of heart failure. However, there is some evidence that aspirin may have negative effects in heart failure patients under some circumstances....Common heart failure drugs can be safely used at higher, more effective doses, study says
...ith preexisting kidney dysfunction, did not have a substantially higher risk. "Even in these high risk categories, more than 95 percent of patients can continue to tolerate their assigned dose of the drug," Massie said. The "high" dose of 35 mg used in this study is higher than the 20 mg dose usually recommende...Free radicals mediate arsenic's harmful effects
...in the Southwest, says Dr. Hei. And the problem is substantially worse in some other countries. One study showed arsenic contaminates 27 percent of drinking wells in certain parts of Bangladesh and India, at levels more than 10 to 20 times higher than the maximum level the EPA has deemed safe. Arsenic, a natural c...Aspirin and other non-specific COX inhibitors may slow atherosclerosis
...icals known as non-specific COX inhibitors may aid substantially in preventing heart disease, slowing the build-up of plaque in blood vessels by more than 50 percent. "This study suggests that a product of the cyclooxegenase enzyme known as COX-1 -- which is the form targeted by aspirin in the prevention of heart ...Animal studies indicate new approach for treating end-stage skin and kidney cancers
... demonstrated that MetaPhores synthetic SOD enzyme substantially reduces tissue damage due to inflammation and reperfusion injury the latter involving the return of blood flow following removal of blockade, such as after an ischemic heart attack or stroke....UNC study shows family-directed program can reduce adolescent tobacco, alcohol use
...." Related findings suggested the program also substantially reduced the number of adolescents who drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes, Bauman said. A report on the continuing research appears in the April issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Besides Bauman, authors are Dr. Vangie A. Foshee, Dr....UC Davis recycling expert wins Stockholm Water Prize
... worldwide. In recent years, Asano has contributed substantially furtherto this area by improving techniques for assessing the riskof microbial contamination in reused water. Asano recognized early that developing countries in arid andsemi-arid regions in the world, with fast-growing populationsand limited economi...Highest known catalytic rate for superoxide dismutation achieved
...trated that MetaPhores original SOD enzyme mimetic substantially reduces tissue damage due to inflammation and reperfusion injury the latter involving the return of blood flow following removal of blockade, such as after an ischemic heart attack or stroke....NCEP issues major new cholesterol guidelines
...riglycerides. The new guidelines are expected to substantially expand the number of Americans being treated for high cholesterol, including raising the number on dietary treatment from about 52 million to about 65 million and increasing the number prescribed a cholesterol-lowering drug from about 13 million to a...Gender differences apparent in psychological factors that predict later hypertension
...mens incidence of hypertension 20 years later rose substantially in relation to psychological factors such as feeling socially alienated, depression and low-status work. In men, job insecurity was associated with a 50 percent increase in hypertension, unemployment a 130 percent increase and feeling that they......a positive note, the quality of trials did improve substantially from the 1950s to the 1990s, Kidwell said. This indicates a growing sophistication of trial methodology and the realization that stroke must be treated very quickly, optimally within the first three to six hours, for medical interventions to be effec...Drug war strategy: First fund enforcement then switch to treatment, says O.R. paper
...ir model recommends optimal solutions that involve substantially varying the mix of interventions over time. They explain that when policy makers become aware of the existence of a new drug problem, they must decide whether to pursue a policy of moderating its growth or more aggressively attempt to eradicate the u...Effective surgery fails to attract patients unless costs are low
...productivity from those additional surgeries would substantially exceed the costs of setting up local clinics." The researchers said they hope their findings will encourage policy makers to set up local surgery clinics, thus making it easier for people with trichiasis to get the corrective surgery. The study first....... They found that the neonatology workforce varied substantially across neonatal intensive care regions. The number of neonatologists per 10,000 live births ranged from 1.2 to 25.6 with a median of 5.8. Cities such as Washington, DC and Newark, NJ had high numbers, while Lebanon, NH and Omaha, NE were low. Li...