Study Shows Major Savings In Supervising TB Care
...policies that seek only to save money in the short term ultimately may be both inferior toand more expensi...policies that seek only to save money in the short term ultimately may be both inferior to and more expensive than a more comprehensive approach like DOT," ...ACTG 315 Preliminary Results: Drug Cocktail Restores Partial Immune Function
...lso will examine immunologic function after longer term HAART,and after changes in therapy for participants who fail to respond. Data are being analyzed to ascertain the mechanism underlyingrestoration of circulating T cells in patients receiving HAART. "ACTG 315 is the first of aseries of studies develo...Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
...he field of cancer therapy made by Duke during the term of the agreement. Targon will have a period of exclusive review for such inventions. Both parties hope that Targon's early and exclusive review of new technologies will lead to additional interactions between Duke and Targon and to rapid development ...... more evidence that calcium antagonists (preferred term forcalcium channel blockers) may pose risks for certain people, including thosewith diabetes and coronary heart disease. Past studies of short-acting calciumantagonists have also found increased risk of cardiovascular complications. Itwas thought t...Increased Public Access To Defibrillation Could Prove Potentially Cost-Effective And Life-Saving
...ard EMS system. A quality-adjusted life year is a term used to definethe life-extending capabilities of a medical procedure. "We usually consider health programs that cost less than $50,000 perquality adjusted life year to be economically attractive," says Nichol. The researchers state in...UCSF Hospitalists May Be Key To Shorter, Less Costly Hospital Stays
... EnglandJournal of Medicine article, in which the term "hospitalist" was coined. While improving value may not have been a primary focus as little as five yearsago, managed care now forces health care providers to look for ways to cut costswithout harming quality or patient satisfaction, Wachter said. ...Forum Urges Medicare Reform To Emphasize Health Promotion
... an idea worth advancing as part of short and long term Medicare reform."...New Data Show Evista Reduces Spinal Fractures
...e similar to that reported in women receiving long term estrogenreplacement therapy. Evista is contraindicated in women who are or may becomepregnant because preclinical data suggest Evista can cause fetal harm. Evista, currently FDA-approved for the prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosisin the U.S., ...... will continuefor five years to determine the long term effects of raloxifene on women," saidSteven Cummings, MD, UCSF professor of medicine and epidemiology and an authorof the study. "Raloxifene is a promising drug because previous data presentedat the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has s...UCSF Osher Center For Integrative Medicine Symposium
...ce McEwen, PhD, Rockefeller University, coined the term allostatic load,which is the price our bodies pay for the ability to adapt to stress and change.He also documented eight physical indicators of the body that can be measured togive a tangible indication of an individual?s personal stress load. A mo...How Ritalin Enhances Memory: Clues Provided By Brain Scans of ADHD Patients Using The Drug
...memory task. Working memory is a fairly new term that replaces and expands upon theconcept of short-term memory. Researchers have theorized that working memoryserves not only as temporary storage for new information, but also the activemanipulation of this information. Part of the active process ...Discarded Treatment For Heart Attacks May Yet Prove To Be A Life-Saver
...tis at the site of theinjection. Phlebitis is the term used to describe the stiffness, inflammationor pain occurring when a vein is punctured. "If this reduction in heart attack death rates is confirmed in furtherstudies, GIK has the potential to prevent about 75,000 heart attack deaths peryear i...Small Risk Of Pill Disappears After Ten Years
...since their inception in 1959. Although the short term effects of the pill are well documented, less is known about the long term effects. In this week's BMJ, Professor Valerie Beral and colleagues from the Imperial Cancer Resear...Duke Doctors Can Now Cure Most Babies Born With Fatal Immune Disease
... ordeal of children with "bubble boy" disease, the term assigned to DavidVetter, a young Texas patient who lived for 12 years in a plastic, germ-freebubble and died in 1984. Children can now be treated as outpatients without ahospital stay. "This once-fatal disease should be seen as a pediatric em...Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors May Be Another Piece In Alzheimer's Jigsaw
...hat the study "....tells us nothing about the long term impact of acetylcholinesterase inhibitor treatment or the considerable human and economic costs of Alzheimer's disease." Contact: Professor Michael Rsler, Head, Sektion Gerontopsychiatric, Psychiatrische Universittsklinik, Wrzburg, Germany ENTER E-M...MIT Touch Lab Research Explores The Hand
...o three broad categories: human haptics (thelatter term describes all aspects of hands and how they work), machine haptics(robotic devices), and computer haptics (the generation of virtual "objects"that the user can touch and feel). "Think of these areas as roughly analogous tohuman vision, machine vision...'Motion Blindness,' Not Just Poor Memory, Causes Alzheimer's Patients To Lose Their Way
...o interpret the "optic flow field," the scientific term for themotion one sees as a result of one's own movement. Researchsubjects sit in front of computer-generated patterns of dots andpress buttons to indicate which direction the dots seem to bemoving. Together with researchers Sheldon Tetewsky and Hope...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...ing yin and yang functions in everyone." "The very term 'sex,'" she notes, "which in Laqueur's analysis names a physicaldifference between males and females interpreted through the lens of genderideology, appears a misnomer. The Yellow Emperor's body has no sex, onlygender." Furth writes that "rather than......, 1999 - The smallest 3 percent of infants born at term and ofthe same gestational age are at the greater ... infants are bornprematurely, about 40,000 born at term suffer from intrauterine growthrestriction. "No one has known for sure before whether there is a thr...Better Integration Of Long-Term And Acute Care Of Elderly Needed
...study) Better integration between acute and long term care for elderly patients is needed, say researche...ly published figures, UK total expenditure on long term care is estimated to account for 3.6 per cent of gross domestic product and that this figure could r...