Disaster funding needs radical reform
...unding mechanisms can undermine efforts for a more sustained approach to reducing the risk of disaster, add World Health Organisation researchers in an accompanying commentary. They believe that new ways must be found to coordinate and invest development and humanitarian funds in fragile states, so that commun...Animal study shows link between nicotine and atrial flutter
...stable wavefront allowing the atrial flutter to be sustained unperturbed" added Karagueuzian. The scientists were able to replicate the findings in computer simulations. According to the American Heart Association, people who smoke a pack of cigarettes a day have more than twice the risk of heart attack than ...Olson family donates $1 million to Arizona Cancer Center
... funding in seeking a cure for ovarian cancer. The sustained resources provided through this endowment will ensure the pursuit of promising new leads in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease and attract the basic science and clinical strength in ovarian cancer research to pursue these discove...Many of George Bush's health policies likely to be controversial
...d, they add. The Bush administration has pursued a sustained campaign against multilateralism, seeking to block action on issues as diverse as global warming and landmines. An example is the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which exists in parallel with, and arguably undermines, the Global Fund to f...Orqis receives FDA approval to expand clinical trial of Cancion CRS therapy to 40 centers
...ion, as well as whether the CRS therapy may have a sustained effect after removal, offering hope for potential therapeutic recovery. ...Spinal cord injury patients show improvement in early device study
...ction. All patients participating in the trial had sustained complete motor and sensory spinal cord injury within 18 days of the surgery. "This isn't a home run, but it warrants additional investigation," said Scott Shapiro, M.D., professor of neurosurgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine. "The big...FDA approves Pfizer's Lyrica for the treatment of the two most common forms of neuropathic pain
...uropathic pain conditions as it provides rapid and sustained pain relief," said Dr. Joseph Feczko, president of...eek of treatment in some patients. Pain relief was sustained in studies of up to 12-weeks duration. The safety of Lyrica was established in over 9,000 patients....A biomarker to predict osteoarthritis
...problems, and cancer. Only one condition showed a sustained independent relationship with elevated HA after statistical adjustment: gout, which, like OA, is marked by joint inflammation and damage. "The results of th...No advantage of combination drug therapy for chronic hepatitis B Infection
...therapy and 35% assigned combination therapy had a sustained viral response (clearance of the hepatitis B e Ag)...d well tolerated for chronic hepatitis B. Rates of sustained viral clearance and reduction of viral load are as high as or higher than those that have previously...Study finds that adherence to diet, not type of diet, more important factor for losing weight
...proximately 25 percent of the initial participants sustained a 1-year weight loss of more than 5 percent of initial body weight and approximately 10 percent of participants lost more than 10 percent of body weight." " we found that a variety of popular diets can reduce weight and several cardiac risk factors u...Social development program in childhood aids in positive functioning as an adult
...se results provide further evidence that early and sustained intervention in the elementary grades can help to put children on a more positive developmental trajectory that is maintained into early adulthood."...FDA approves Enablex for treatment of overactive bladder
...ork Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. "By combining sustained efficacy with a low incidence of central nervous s...hin two weeks of beginning treatment. Efficacy was sustained throughout the 12-week treatment period, and long-term safety was studied for up to one year. "Ma...... in their mortality in relation to smoking. Doll's sustained contribution to medical research is outstanding, second to none in recent generations. The second is Salim Yusuf's INTERHEART study-an incredible feat of epidemiological investigation, drawing together collaborators from 52 countries." Nominations we...Novel p53 gene-based therapy boosts immune system and reduces tumor size
...hat the treatment produced beneficial and possibly sustained local immune responses in the patients tested. "We have nice evidence of a double-acting mechanism of gene therapy, something that has not been seen before in patients treated with only chemotherapy," says Massimo Cristofanilli, M.D., an associate p...SIDS risk linked to lack of experience with tummy-sleeping
...e nose, while complete head turns produced larger, sustained decreases in carbon dioxide. Head lifts also reduced carbon dioxide levels, but the decreases lasted only as long as the baby's head was raised. The researchers suggest that babies learn through experience which head movements decrease the discomfor...Methylphenidate improves attention, behavior of children surviving leukemia, brain tumors
...onner's Continuous Performance Test (selective and sustained attention, reaction time and level of impulsiveness). Each patient who agreed to participate was then randomly assigned to one of six sequences for a three-week course of treatment with MPH. Each sequence included a low dose of MPH (0.3 mg/kg of body...Chronic back pain shrinks 'thinking parts' of the brain, study finds
...arch, Apkarian and colleagues found that back pain sustained for six months or longer is accompanied by abnormal brain chemistry, indicated by chemical changes in the area of the brain known to be important in making emotional assessments, including decision-making and for controlling social behavior. Based on...Urban hospitals bear the brunt of motorcycle injuries
...t crashes. Broken legs were the most common injury sustained among hospitalized riders. Coben and colleagues' nationwide hospital sample agrees with other findings from earlier reports about motorcycle injuries. Men are much more likely than women to be injured on a motorcycle; in 2001, men accounted for 89 p...The NIH funds network to study drug-induced liver injury (DILIN)
...s a result of their injury. Patients who have not sustained liver injury, but who have taken any of the drugs in question, will also be enrolled in the prospective study. "Overall, we believe that the DILIN will bring greater focus and interest to the study of drug-induced liver injury and help to develop b...Ventricular regulation may be key to preventing heart failure
...loped in the animals of the experiment that showed sustained ANP release and high ventricular rates. More research is needed to support this evidence in human models due to interspecies differences and because arrhythmia and/or heart failure is usually present in a clinical situation for many months. ...