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...opausal women with intact uteruses. A group of 243 symptomatic women were measured by the number and severity of their hot flashes and their vaginal maturation index (VMI), which assesses vaginal changes. The women were instructed to take two tablets - one was CEE or matching placebo, the other was a mixture of...High-tech scan for blocked arteries matches conventional tests in finding root of symptoms
...h other methods of detecting arterial blockages in symptomatic patients," says lead author Brahmajee Nallamothu, ...ave an indication that this test is worthwhile for symptomatic patients, we hope our result will lead others to study its cost effectiveness, and its accuracy in d...AstraZeneca reaffirms belief in CHARM study
...ith Atacand in patients suffering mild-to-moderate symptomatic heart failure. The placebo-like tolerability in patients with heart failure who had proven to be intolerant to ACE inhibitors is also noteworthy.5 The CHARM study programme will also help to determine if differences in characteristics of individua...Silver-coated catheters cut infections & may save money, analysis finds
...r even thousands of dollars can be saved for every symptomatic infection prevented. Additionally, preventing this...r-coated catheters could decrease the incidence of symptomatic UTI by 47 percent, and the incidence of bacteremia 44 percent. The cost savings could be substant......cially in patients with advanced disease, and with symptomatic myopathy after prolonged use. The most serious adverse event associated with Ziagen® is a hypersensitivity reaction that can be life threatening and has been fatal in some cases. In more than 25,000 patients who have taken Ziagen® in clinic...Report in Circulation urges a closer look at cardiotoxicity of cancer drug trastuzumab (Herceptin)
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...six months of the study we'll see thesame kind of symptomatic improvement we've seen in previous studies with GM1,as well as a small increase in the number of dopamine terminals shown insubsequent SPECT scans," Dr. Schneider says. "The second part of the trial will examine whether long-term use of GM1ac...UNC-CH study shows compressed air sleeve prevents blood clots during hip replacement
...at UNC-CH'sPeripheral Vascular Laboratory found no symptomatic deep vein clots while thosepatients were hospitalized. Only three patients showed partial lung blockagesduring hospitalization, but no one died from blood clots trapped in the lungs. Fewer than 5 percent of patients showed any clot formation,...Report: tuberculosis control programs inadequate in developing countries
...st).Screening of house mates and family members of symptomatic tuberculosispatients, and of households with HIV-positive members, is also needed. Because hospital-acquired strains of tuberculosis tend to be morevirulent and drug resistant, special care should be taken to separateHIV-positive patients fro...British Adolescents Need Government Support To Help Clean Up Their Act
...in a linked editorial. These factors, he says are symptomatic of a wider malaise in British adolescents and he calls upon health professionals to welcome the government's move to address these issues in their entirety rather than tackling them on an individual basis. In their paper Dr Angus Nicoll and colleague...Stent Procedures May Be Unnecessary In Some Heart Cases
...holdopen newly unclogged arteries in patients with symptomatic coronary arterydisease may be unnecessary. The arteries were unclogged by an angioplasty procedure in which a tinyballoon is inflated at the site of arterial blockage, pushing the blockingplaque aside and restoring blood flow to the heart. Stents ar...American Heart Association Comment: Results Of Cardiac Insufficiency Bisoprolol Study II (CIBIS-II)
... trial recruited 2,647 individuals who had stable, symptomatic heartfailure (New York Heart Association Class II-IV). All individuals had leftventricular systolic dysfunction (an impaired left ventricle, the main pumpingchamber of the heart) with an ejection fraction less than 35 percent, anindication that the ......esses, thusoffering unique alternatives to current symptomatic treatments. Dynavax has developed a strong patent portfolio including allowed patents andpatent applications. The company has key proprietary positions on ISS sequencesthat are active in multiple species including primates and on the use of thosesequ...What Makes Tics Tick? Clues Found In Tourette Twins' Caudates
...D2 caudate binding accounted for almost all of the symptomatic variance within each twin pair. Previously, preoccupation with the motoric aspects of Tourette Syndrome had led researchersto search for clues in the putamen, according to Weinberger. Subtle changes in receptor availability in one small area appe...