Drug And Radiation Treatment May Shrink Pancreatic And Gastric Tumors
...veloped aone-two punch of paclitaxel and radiation that was effective against certainlung tumors, an approach that is now used worldwide. Cancers of the lung,stomach and pancreas often share a genetic mutation, labe...Laser Shown Effective In Patients Who Are Not Candidates For Bypass Surgery Or Angioplasty
ANAHEIM, CALIF. -- A laser that pierces new blood-carrying channelsinto ailing hea...or continued treatment with heart medicines, found that 71 percent of thepatients treated with the laser showed significant decrease in chest pain(angina), ...Study Shows Gum Disease Increases Risk Of Future Heart Disease
...a, Ariz., 40 percent of whom have diabetes, showed that periodontal disease was a stronger risk factor in ...or Dental Research. "We have always suspected that periodontal disease was a true risk factor for cardiovascular disease, but our studies have been con...Routine Dental X-ray May Be A Valuable Tool In Stroke Prevention
...ne are the first to show, in a general population, that a standard dental X-ray taken on new patients to e...eries, the large vessels on both sides of the neck that supply blood to the brain. In a review of dental X-rays, they detected calcifications in the ...ACTG Protocol 185 Enrollment Halted
...AZT and standard intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) that does not contain HIV antibodies. Although enrollme...diatric ACTG Protocol 076, the 1994 clinical trial that demonstrated that AZT decreases mother-to-child HIV transmission by two-thirds. The Pediatric ACTG ...Common Carbohydrates May Prove To Be Substitute For Dietary Fiber
...e to be a replacement for part of thedietary fiber that we know is useful, because they do the same things...looligosaccharides enhance digestion. Fahey found that in rats the pool of desirable short-chain fatty acidsincreased significantly in the large bowel and ...Duke Study Uses Tiny Temperature Changes To Probe Water-Exclusion At Protein Binding Sites
SAN FRANCISCO -- In research that could lead to better drug design,a Duke University... Removing this water provides much of the energy that drives a bindingreaction, and determining how much energy this removal provides has previouslybeen i......even patients to undergo an experimental procedure that has brought magnetic resonance imaging into the op...y Duerk, Ph.D. The probe emits radio waves that heat and kill tumor cells. Watching the MRI video monitor, doctors can adjust the instrument to reac...Laser Offers Hope For Heart Patients With No Alternatives
...zation (TMR), opensnew passageways in heart muscle that is still alive, but because of inadequatesupply of...rocedure and after threemonths, we can clearly see that more of the heart muscle is oxygenated andfunctional." During the procedure, surgeons gain...UNC-CH Study Shows State Protects HMO Clients Poorly
...iefly because the organizations have grown so fast that laws and regulations have not kept up, according t...ans across the state. “In general, we found that the North Carolina Department of Insurance does a relatively good job enforcing current state HMO la...Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
...speech in the racket. "We've known for a long time that chronic noise is having a devastating effect on th...se, crowding and air pollution. "This study shows that children don't tune out sound per se, rather they have difficulty acquiring speech recognition skill...Researchers Gain Insights Into Drugs Used For Manic-Depression
...e National Academy of Sciences, thescientists show that both drugs stimulate release of a chemical thattri...s also found to be effective. Cliniciansdiscovered that best results often occurred by using a combination of bothdrugs, especially in patients who have a f...Guidelines Offer Ways To Curb Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
CHAPEL HILL -- Infections caused by organisms that no longer respond to antibiotics are increasing al...eating a patient in intensive care. But until now, that was all anybody had to go by -- the CDC guidelines.” Hoffmann and co-author Irene Kittrell, a...Substance from Grapefruit Juice May Make Medications Safer
...5 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation that grapefruit juice works by decreasing the amount of an enzyme called CYP3A4 that is present in the small intestine. This finding is important because it narrows the search for the ......ost American parents. "The core of the problem is that it is harder for adults to talk about sex than sub... talk to a child of the opposite sex. She believes that if Americans want their children to learn safe and positive sexual behavior, parents have to teach t......vide a quick-search software andfirmware interface that allows this large database to be efficientlysearch...ocalcifications in any of the digitized mammograms that wereproperly calibrated. "In all of the data that's similar to our database data, thisapproach achi...Antimicrobial "Bug Spray" Found In Human Lung Cells
...tic fibrosis (CF) have found a natural "bug spray" that lung cells "squirt" on attacking bacteria. Th...ion people every year. "People have always thought that the lungs only attacked infections via the classical immune system--B cells, T cells and other immun...Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...ity study. Purdue researcher Stanley Hem has found that aluminum hydroxide, a small particle used to carry...nd physical pharmacy. "The most popular theory was that it remained in the muscle for months while the body produced antibodies in response to the antigens ...New Drug For Parkinson's Disease Proves Effective, Study Finds
... to smooth out the highs and lows of motor control that many Parkinson's sufferers experience while on lev...ould be effective, but we were pleasantlysurprised that it works so well. I have many patients who have anxiously waited for this drug to become available."...Researchers have found that Cleopatra might have been right all along -some of...healing of wounds in humans as well. If it passes that test, the scientists say the extract could eventuallyclaim a world market worth anything up to $20 b...