AIDS Treatments Seek To Eradicate Virus, Restore Immunity
... the HIV "viralload" to virtually nil, at the same time destroying the cancer. "Wewant to kill the cells that house the virus as well as the cancer,"said Smith. Then, to restore a healthy immune system, Smith will give the patientsa transplantation of blood stem cells. Another alternative resear...Study Says Machine Sensors Applicable To Human Ills
...oping a "roadmap"to identify the crucial steps and time frame required. Hansen and Hall presented their "roadmap" in a working paper meantto stimulate discussion among the Predictive Diagnostics Team at the BiomedicalTechnology Roadmap Workshop held in Albuquerque, N.M. during April 21-24. "We recogniz...DNA Imaging to Design Better Drugs
...equire us to examine several billion molecules ata time and then make inferences about the behavior of individualmolecules," he said. Fourth-year graduate student Joseph E. Coury, working underBottomley's direction, is responsible for much of the development of thenew assay. Third-year graduate student L...Use Of Surfectant Therapy Widens Gap In Death Rate Of Black And White Newborns
...ce of RDS for whites remained stable duringthe two time periods, the study found the mortality rate for th...rose slightly from 60 to 65 percent during the two time periods.However, Hamvas said the death rate for these newborns fell by only 11percent. Hamvas said t...New Colorectal Cancer Treatment Available
New York, NY, June 17, 1996 -- For the first time in nearly 40 years there is a promising new drug in the United States approved by the FDA for the treatment of colorectal cancer. The drug, called CPT-11 or Camptosar, was cleared on June 14 by the FDA, under its accelerated approval regulations, fo...Study Shows Major Savings In Supervising TB Care
...earchers at Johns Hopkins have shown for the first time that spending more time and money up front to keep tuberculosis patients on strict drug regimens saves money in the long run...Stents Work Well, But Are Costly: Will Hospitals Continue To Use Them?
...ty, hospitals are losingthousands of dollars every time a stent is used. To date, cardiologists have not made decisions on whether to use a stentor not based on how much money their hospitals make or lose, Peterson said.In part, that's because the costs of stenting have fluctuated as the devicesand the ...KUMC Researchers Announce Breakthrough Method For Predicting Epileptic Seizures
...sociate professor of neurology. "This is the first time anyone has been able to predict when a seizure is about to happen. Prior to this, seizures were considered unpredictable," Osorio said. The research is sponsored by funding from the KU Research Development Fund; College of Arts and Sciences; the...UW, Siemens Unveil New Panoramic Ultrasound Imaging Application Using Programmable Technology
...wsultrasound medical imaging systems for the first time to be programmed formultiple diagnostic applicatio...chnology will significantly decrease the amount of time andcost involved in moving an idea for a new ultrasound imaging applicationinto the clinical setting...It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
... of days patients stayed in the hospital the first time they were admitted. Average costs of care (hospital and physician) during the initial hospitalization. Average costs of care (hospital and physician) during the initial hospitalization and for readmissions occurring during the subsequent yea...Postmature Infants Not As Easily Calmed As Other Newborns
... were given only a 1-ccdrop of sugar-solution at a time -- not enough to swallow butenough to taste. While the babies were videotaped, they receivedone drop of solution every 10 seconds for five minutes and werethen observed. After tasting the sugar solution, the postmature infants showedsignificantly mor...Hospital Noise Disrupts Sleep For Patients, In The Critical Care Setting
...pital."The patients spent a huge percentage of the time awake during the night." The authors suggest that hospitals modify the sounds produced in thecritical care setting and find ways to screen patients from noise pollution.The sounds came from various sources, such as loud voices, televisions,equipme...Early Menopause Stress Related In Developing Countries
... tend to have a later age of menopause. "By the time women in developing countries reach their early 40s, they have had repeated pregnancies, breast-fed for most of their adult lives and have a relatively high disease load," Holman told attendees today (Feb. 15) at the annual meeting of the American...Laser Shown Effective In Patients Who Are Not Candidates For Bypass Surgery Or Angioplasty
...an then make it work better." Since it takes time for the new capillaries to grow, patients usuallydo not begin to see major improvements until three months after the procedure,and the improvement typically continues for nine to 12 months, Lowe said. Lowe said it is premature to consider using...Study Shows Gum Disease Increases Risk Of Future Heart Disease
...can block blood vessels. "Weve known for some time that oral bacteria can infect damaged hearts and that certain oral bacteria cause platelets to aggregate," Genco said. "We just recently put these findings together as a possible explanation of how bacteria that cause periodontal disease can also in...Laser Offers Hope For Heart Patients With No Alternatives
...then make it work better." Since it takes time for these new capillaries to grow, patients usuallydo not begin to see major improvements until three months after the procedure,and the improvement usually continues for nine to 12 months, Lowe said. He added that it is too premature to con...Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
... out speech in the racket. "We've known for a long time that chronic noise is having a devastating effect on the academic performance of children in noisy homes and schools," says Gary Evans, an international expert on environmental stress, such as noise, crowding and air pollution. "This study shows tha...... should or shouldn't know," she says. At the same time parents, by and large, don't talk to their children about sex and condoms because they don't feel comfortable discussing them. "We need to teach parents how to talk to their children about sex. That way children get culturally acceptable values from......began the project in 1991, andfew people had taken time to digitize what they had. Dr. DebraMonticciolo, director of breast imaging at <AHREF="http://www.emory.edu/WHSC/">Emory University School ofMedicine's Department of Radiology, provided initial data; the dataBarnes later used was from Nation......at producesP-glycoprotein, producing a "window" of time during which there was an increasein the sensitivity of the cells to the killing effect of the second drug. Theresearchers achieved similar results by priming cells with three othercross-linking drugs. "Opening the window takes about 24 hours, and i...