New Approach To Multidrug Resistance
...ers achieved similar results by priming cells with three othercross-linking drugs. "Opening the window takes about 24 hours, and it stays open for another 72 hours -- and that's the period when the second drug is most effective," says Hamilton.The researchers report similar results in drug-resistant cells..."Super Aspirin" Holds Long-Term Benefits For Some Patients Who Undergo Balloon Angioplasty
... remarkable 60 percent reduction in mortality at three years in this select group treated with ReoPro™ compared with the group treated with placebo," said Dr. Fischman. While pretreatment with ReoPro™ is highly effective, its average cost is estimated at $1,350 per patient ...Condemnation May Be Driving Circumcised Women From Health Care
...The researchers interviewed 48 immigrants from the three Africannations, including five men, in their homes and at a refugee clinic, thendeveloped guidelines for caring for circumcised women, illustrated by casestudies. The guidelines include sample questions American physicians should usewhen examining f...Ultrasound Helps Pediatric Heart Surgeons After Open Heart Surgery
... see the whole inside of the house, butwith two or three other windows, you get a better picture." Rodriguez received the Popham Clinical Research Fellowship Award fromChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in 1996 to continue his clinicalinvestigations of brain function during cardiac surgery in c...Ultrasound Detects Pathology In Patients With Whiplash
... of spinaland paraspinal pathology during the past three years. The investigators have used ultrasound in more than 1,000 cases withpost-traumatic spine injury in which the patients' pain has been difficult toevaluate clinically. They have been able to accurately diagnose discbulges/herniations, f...Many Medical Screening Tests May Be Unnecessary.
...umstances. A University of Michigan physician and three co-authors explore that predicament in the article "Ethical Considerations in the Provision of Controversial Screening Tests," in the current issue of the Archives of Family Medicine . Physicians may face this quandary when patients claim entitleme......20 patients who participated in the Phase I trial, three othersalso showed a positive response to the aminopterin: an 8-year-old boy with anerve-sheath tumor, a 10-year-old boy with acute-myelogenous leukemia (AML) anda 4-year-old girl with a neuroectodermal tumor. Kamen presented his findings to ...'Bathtub' Equation Aids Diabetes Research
...four graduate students, two postdoctorate fellows, three technicians and two co-op students at work onvarious aspects of her research. One study may shed light on what triggers the immune system to attack cellsthat make insulin in auto-immune diabetes. Another will focus on how sugarregulates the death of ...NIH Honors Emory Researcher With Merit Award For Work On Renin-Angiotensin System
...ney Center NIHgrant and principal investigator for three other NIH R01 grants. During the past 10 y...." Bernstein's current research focuses on three areas: the intracellularsignals initiated when angiotensin II binds to the AT1 receptor; creating ne...... attending the seminar respondedto the survey. The three NAFTA countries and the United Kingdom were repres...edamong the attendees. The survey covered three areas: forecast methodology, factors affectingmortality improvement, and quantitative assessments ab...Natural Estrogens May Help Protect Women From Brain Damage During Stroke
...stitute on Drug Abuse. The study was supported by three grants fromthe NationalInstitutes of Health....Stress: It's Not Just All In Your Head; Scientists Map The Wear And Tear Of Daily Life
...ed a group of successfully aging elderlypeople for three years using common tests to measure, for example, bloodpressure, blood glucose levels and cortisol and cholesterol levels to determinehow their allostatic load levels affected their health. They found thatthose with the highest allostatic loads were ...Scientific Foundations For Regulating Drug Product Quality
... Regulatory status and scientific foundation of three drug product quality regulatory guidelines; General outline of a biopharmaceutics classification guidance that will be used as a basis for approving waivers for in vivo bioequivalence trials; and Comprehensive coverage and discussion of current re...Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
...Targon's provision of $3.75 million, over the next three years, to support research and further testing of ...s. CYTOGEN has received FDA marketing approval for three different anti-cancer compounds....American Heart Association Comment: Lancet (Jan. 24, 1998) Report
...n 15 individuals who had taken warfarincompared to three who had not. Most of the individuals with stroke had highblood pressure. "Physicians must first make sure that before prescribing thecombination, patients must have their high blood pressure controlled," saysFuster. Researchers say treating 1,000 ...Bi-Monthly Boosts Of Aspirin Benefit Heart
... standards) dose of aspirin. After three months of aspirin treatment, researchers sampled theparticipants' blood to test the platelets' ability to respond to stimuli, whichcauses them to clump. Platelets were tested for clumping in the presence andabsence of red blood cells. Thromboxane l...Survey Finds Increasing Popularity Of Acute Stroke Teams In U.S. Hospitals
...t-busting drugs, which, when given within thefirst three hours of the onset of stroke can reduce and in some cases eliminatethe negative impact of stroke, it is crucial to have well-trained teams that canrespond quickly to stroke patients. To determine how the concept has been received in the medi...Addicted Doctors Need Special Service
...tment from colleagues'. Strang et al suggest that three components of care are essential:- access to treatment should be simple particularly in times of crisis; treatment should be at a dedicated unit with other addicted healthcare professionals and there should be special arrangements for supervision an......oject sponsors, in addition to the Society and the three socialsecurity administrations, were The Actuarial Foundation, the Retirement Research Foundation, the AmericanSociety of Pension Actuaries Education and Research Foundation and the PensionResearch Council. More information on the project is ...MIT Solution To Math Problem Could Lead To Better Dental Implants, More Resistance To Missiles
...h itself are other gradedmaterials. About three years ago Professor Suresh began a program to create novelgraded materials. Once such a material was developed, the researchers planned toexplore how its properties changed along the graded continuum. This proved to bemore difficult than they expecte...