American Heart Association updates 'mini stroke' guidelines
... an alternative to aspirin for patients who cannot tolerate aspirin or have had a TIA despite aspirin therapy. The new antiplatelet drugs are clopidogrel, which can be used alone, and dipyridamole, which is most effective when used in combination with aspirin. "The addition of these two new antipl......e remission of the disease. Patients were able to tolerate the combined treatment well with some side effects, including difficulty swallowing and skin irritation, says Dr. Suntharalingam. Typically, people at highest risk of head and neck cancer are those who consume large amounts of alcohol and who smoke...UI researchers find way to possibly improve effectiveness of gene transfers
... alter the cell surface with a sugar because cells tolerate a wide variety of sugars and incorporate them into surface proteins. However, the researchers needed a novel sugar, one that would stand out as unique on the cell surface and which could serve as a molecular handle for attaching to the vector. This n...Biologically inspired electronics leads to higher fidelity
...n be effective over a much widerbandwidth, and can tolerate a greater amount of variation in the systemcomponents. The system is based on large networks of interconnected circuits,similar to neuronal networks in the brain. It is known that neurons fire in anoften noisy and irregular pattern in the brain. Also...Behavioral program boosts antibody that fights breast cancer
... "The intervention program helps women tolerate their chemotherapy better so they can stay on track andreceive the full dosage," Andersen said. The program also helped women on a wide variety of ...Double transplant frees patient from need for immunosuppressive drugs
...ansplant, and her kidney failure madeher unable to tolerate the toxicity of standard bone marrow transplantpreparation. After the double transplant from her sister, the patient had normal kidneyfunction with no sign of graft-versus-host disease. While she receivedcyclosporine right after the transplant, the...Elderly should receive the same cancer care as young people
...is need not be the case as some elderly people can tolerate chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy just as well as younger patients. A 75 year old men and women have life expectancies of 8.5 and 11.1 years respectively and this shouldn't be overlooked by patients or healthcare staff. The team conclude that w...Immune system rebounds for some children with AIDS, finds UF study
...and children who can manage thecomplex regimen and tolerate its side effects. While far from a cure, the medications have been credited for a sharp dropin AIDS deaths in the United States and for allowing people with the diseaseto live healthier lives. Most of the research on the medications, however, has bee...Two Beta-Blocker Drugs Equal In Treating Heart Failure
... the majority of stable heart failure patients can tolerate the drug,"says Kukin. Stable patients are those who are not hospitalized, do not havefluid congestion and have a systolic blood pressure above 85 mmHg. The two drugs had parallel benefits. "However, we only can start abeta-blocker with very low do...New Drug For Recurrent Brain Tumors In Tests At UNC
...ointestinal upset, but Ewendnotes that most people tolerate SU101 very well. The second study is a phase II clinical trial, which like the GBM study, also issponsored by Sugen. This preliminary trial will test the effectiveness of SU101against anaplastic astrocytoma, a slightly lower grade malignancy than GBM...UW-Madison Center One Of Two Sites Nationwide Selected For Clinical Trial Of Cancer Drug
... will try todiscover the maximum dose patients can tolerate without undue toxicity.Initially, three to six patients will receive small doses of the drug and willbe carefully monitored for toxic effects. Additional patients will then receivegraduated doses of the drug. All patients will be carefully monitored ...Campaign Targets Oral Complications Of Cancer Treatment
...onditions can be so debilitating that patients may tolerate only lower, less effective doses of anticancer drugs, may postpone scheduled treatments, or may discontinue treatment entirely. Oral side effects can also be the source of systemic infections that may interfere with cancer therapy and even threaten ......atient prefers it, when apatient refuses or cannot tolerate medications. Dr. Schulberg, lead author of the study, notes that "since severelydepressed patients demonstrated equal improvement in a similar time frame witheither treatment, primary care physicians now have greater flexibility in selectin...Encapsulating Insulin-Producing Cells For Possible Diabetes Therapy
...an insulin," she added."We know the human body can tolerate it." Grinstaff's chemistry team also has been studying how well differentsized meshes of crosslinked polymer block entry of IgG antibodies while allowinginsulin and other nutrients to successfully diffuse. For some of theseevaluations, the re...Six Football Players Died In 1997 Season: New Study
..., and thus it is likely players werebetter able to tolerate hot weather. Mueller and other experts strongly recommend pre-practice physicalexaminations for boys -- and the small number of girls -- who want to playfootball. Such exams sometimes reveal hidden conditions that make heavy exertionhazardous...New Radiation Procedure Targets Liver Malignancies
... suggests patients with advanced liver cancer can tolerate high doses of radiation therapy---which will potentially improve their chances of survival. "If you can safely increase the dose of radiation delivered along with chemotherapy, you improve the patient's chance of responding to the therapy. Our prior...Organ Rejection Drug Also Shows Promise For The Treatment Of Kidney Disease
...thesemedications, Briggssays, some patients cannot tolerate steroids for long periods, suffer serioustoxicities of cytotoxicdrugs or even relapse when effective medications are withdrawn. The report's other authors were Michael J. Choi, M.D., and Paul J. ScheelJr., M.D. --JHMI-- Media contact: Karen ...Some Good News In Treating Infection Common To HIV Patients
...reporting a breakthrough in helping those patients tolerate themedication. In the longest running trial of its...6 percent of their HIV study patients were able to tolerate trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (also called Bactrim) after a previous allergic reaction. The results ...Alzheimer's disease center seeks patients for new drug studies
...tion. About 25 percent of Alzheimer's patients can tolerate an adequate dose of Cognex, and a quarter of those have shown improvement, Svetlik said. "After Cognex was approved, we had difficulty recruiting for other drug studies because everyone wanted to be on that drug," she said. "We're now starting to ge...