AIDS Treatments Seek To Eradicate Virus, Restore Immunity
...physicians fromacross the medical center campus to treat volunteer patients. The four-year grant i...ntationin AIDS therapy. The team plans to treat about a dozen HIV-infected patients with lymphoma-- patients for whom traditional chemotherapy has ...DNA Imaging to Design Better Drugs
...mycin is amajor anti-cancer drug used primarily to treat leukemia. APF offered an ideal test of the new method because it is anexperimental drug whose mode-of-binding was ambiguous. First synthesizedat Georgia State University , the drugis not yet commercially available but has shown early promise intrea...Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
...ernative to external drug delivery systems used to treat serious pain and may be a potential technique for the management of drug addiction. The button-sized polymer works much like the continuous-release birth control implant. It will be inserted under the skin through a tiny incision made under mild, l...Maternal Exposure To Crack Cocaine Produces Stressed Newborns
...cry or act fussy can further influence how parents treat thebaby. "A baby that isn't cuddly sweet can turn off a parent," Lester said. "For adrug-using mom, this is a real setup for failure, as problems with thebaby and mother can trigger negative parenting. The trick is to get the mothersback on track, wi...Discovery Hints At Multitude Of New Targets For Drugs
...le to develop a testosterone-likecompound that can treat muscle-wasting diseases, but not cause hair loss,acne and aggression that testosterone treatment produces, McDonnell said....Partial Liquid Breathing Improves Lung Function, Chances of Survival in Sick Preemies
...five-center trial of partial liquid ventilation to treat life-threatening respiratory distress syndrome in ...ions of prematurity. Clinical trials using PLV to treat children and adults with severe respiratory distress syndrome are now under way and results are prom...Scientists Produce New Anti-Malarial Compound
... to chloroquine andother traditional drugs used to treat malaria patients. The anti-malarial drug artemisinin, extracted from the plant Artemisiaannua, has been successful in curing malaria patients in China.But plants contain only small amounts of the substance, makingthe drug expensive and impractical. T...KUMC Researchers Announce Breakthrough Method For Predicting Epileptic Seizures
...ating epilepsy. "This may revolutionize the way we treat seizures," Osorio predicted. Currently, seizures are controlled by a number of anti-convulsant drugs. Approximately 60 percent to 80 percent of persons with epilepsy achieve satisfactory control by taking these medications. For the majority o...It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
...he GUSTO trial were not given guidelines on how to treat their patients during the study, he said. He added that patients were treated both at major medical centers and community hospitals. Eisenstein and Mark said the bottom-line messages of the study are: It is possible to reduce cost of care for ...ACTG 315 Preliminary Results: Drug Cocktail Restores Partial Immune Function
...ucts and supports researchto prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as HIV disease andother sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, asthma andallergies. NIH is an agency of the U.S. Department of Healthand Human Services...Study Shows Gum Disease Increases Risk Of Future Heart Disease
...nger association. "There are many reasons to treat periodontal disease," Genco said. "This is a very good one." New dental research being conducted at UB and other institutions is showing a strong relationship between conditions in the oral cavity and many systemic diseases. In this case, bac......ient using an amount of energy that is expected to treat the tumor. Then they follow up with some kind of imaging to see if it was successful. "In our protocol, we can interactively vary the energy and position of the probe with MRI guidance and monitor cell death as it happens," he said. "We can a...UNC-CH Study Shows State Protects HMO Clients Poorly
...h condition may not know if the services needed to treat that condition will be covered before enrolling.” Certificates of coverage -- the handbooks for enrollees -- which should explain covered benefits and exclusions sometimes were incomplete and often confusing, she said. Plans used technical lan...Guidelines Offer Ways To Curb Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
... “It wouldn't make any sense, for example, to treat a patient at home the same way the CDC recommends treating 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, an infection control practitioner at UNC Ho...Substance from Grapefruit Juice May Make Medications Safer
...sants, sedatives, and protease inhibitors (used to treat AIDS). Although the "grapefruit juice effect" was discovered serendipitously almost a decade ago when scientists gave volunteers grapefruit juice to mask the taste of a medication, researchers did not know how the effect worked. Now, Dr. Paul Watki...TB Prophylaxis Unnecessary In HIV-Infected People With Anergy, Study Suggests
...uctsand supports research to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as AIDS andother sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, asthma and allergies. NIH isan agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services....Condemnation May Be Driving Circumcised Women From Health Care
...geries, who will move beyond negativefeelings...to treat women knowledgeably and with dignity." 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......otrexate. The pediatrician doesn't usually treat adults, but Ingrid Cofield, a49-year-old woman from Rowlett, Texas, is glad he made an exception. Cofield was one of several adults Kamen enrolled in a Phase I trial ofthe drug aminopterin last year. Phase I trials usually are condu...Cardiovascular Costs, Deaths Projected To Rise In 1998
.... Andwhile we're developing new and better ways to treat these diseases, thetreatments do cost money." Hospital and nursing home costs - estimated at $119.9 billion - is the largestcategory of direct costs. Physician and other professional services account foranother $25.9 billion. Among indirect costs, t......e of calcium-channelblockers, a medication used to treat high blood pressure and coronary arterydisease, provided an opportunity to study financial conflicts of interest inmedicine." The researchers examined the positions of authors in 70 articlespublished from March 1995 to September 1996 about...