Shark-Liver Substance May Slow Growth Of Brain Tumors
...a role with chemotherapy, radiation and surgery in treating brain cancer and other solid tumors in people, say scientists from Hopkins and Magainin Pharmaceuticals, which processes squalamine and funded the studies. Hopkins scientists added squalamine, a hormone-like chemical concentrated in the liver of the ...Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
...ould be a more effective and less costly method of treating patients who have been maintained successfully on methadone for several years. Currently, Grossman says, 117,000 people are enrolled in federally funded methadone management programs at an annual cost to the taxpayer of $4,500 per person. In addition...Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
...year debateabout appropriate use of medication for treating mild asthma. The results show that the commonly prescribed inhalant drug, albuterol,should be used only on an as-needed basis for patients with mild asthma.Regularly scheduled use of albuterol is not risky, but neither is it necessary,according to c...A Surgical Semiconductor Laser With More Precision And Power
...ght replace more powerful and costly gas lasers in treating a variety of medicalconditions: removing warts, moles, unwanted hair, and tumors, for instance, performing gum surgery, or treatingglaucoma. The work, done by graduate student <AHREF="http://www.optics.rochester.edu:8080/users/John_Marciante...It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
...d-Atlantic region was the most expensive region in treating heart attacks through one year of follow-up, and that the Mountain and Pacific states, where managed care was reputedly more widespread during the study period, rated the best for both the initial hospitalization and up to a year later. "This coul...Guidelines Offer Ways To Curb Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
... 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 Hospitals, identified nine health-care settings needing contr...New Drug For Parkinson's Disease Proves Effective, Study Finds
...er gains, suggesting that the drugmay be useful in treating mild to moderate cases of Parkinson'sdisease," Dr. Kieburtz says. Physicians have begun a two-year study of 300 patientsfunded by Pharmacia & Upjohn and led by the University of Rochester to study the long-term effects of the drug. The rese...Scientists Track Effectiveness Of Migraine Drugs With Ultrasound
... an objectivemethod for determining the success of treating patients who get migraines, evenduring the periods when the patient does not have a headache. Chung will present his findings August 15th at the meeting of InternationalNeurosonology '97 sponsored by the World Federation of Neurology and t...Duke Obtains FDA Designation For Pompe Disease Therapy
.... Commenting on the FDA action, Chen said, "After treating patientswho have very little hope and working on this therapy for so many years,I look forward to working with the FDA to bring this therapy into the clinic.This is a major milestone in our efforts to develop an effective treatmentof this fatal disea...DALLAS -- Oct. 16, 1997 -- Success in treating stubborn cancers with a drug thatwas shelved 50 ye...k at the drug to see if it might proveeffective in treating patients -- particularly children with leukemia -- whosecancer does not respond to methotrexate. ...Some Good News In Treating Infection Common To HIV Patients
ANN ARBOR--For many AIDS patients, treating a common type of pneumonia is problematic because ...Disease Control to be the medication of choice in treating pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. However, there is a high incidence of fever and rash that forces up ...American Heart Association Comment: Lancet (Jan. 24, 1998) Report
...pressure controlled," saysFuster. Researchers say treating 1,000 men with the drugs would avoid five heart attacksa year....Survey Finds Increasing Popularity Of Acute Stroke Teams In U.S. Hospitals
...s ofpatients repetitively, they will get better at treating them," he said....Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic Threatens Developing Countries, Global Economy
...ations. Even at current levels, the high costs of treating thesediseases consume a disproportionate share of health-care spending in countriesthat also are battling pre-industrialized infectious and nutritional deficiencydiseases. In 1990 cardiovascular disease caused an estimated 5.3 million deaths ......th BMT is becoming an increasinglyimportant way of treating breast cancer. Chemotherapy kills dividing cells,particularly cancer cells and immune system cells. To avoid killing immunecells, physicians remove the bone marrow that produces them before beginningtreatment. After the course of chemoth...Snipping Inflammation In The Bud; New Agents May Provide Relief
...f synthetic molecules that offer a newstrategy for treating pain, swelling and the other hallmarks of injury orillness. Writing this week (March 5) in the scientific journal Nature, University ofWisconsin-Madison chemist Laura L. Kiessling describes a new family of compoundsthat packs a novel one-two punch th...Tighter Chemical Binding = Better Meds
...incells, which makes them excellent candidates for treating spinal cordinjuries as well as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. FKBP also playsa role in transplant rejection, making it a doubly important protein tocontrol. Jorgensen and his co-workers have performed calculations on FKBPwith a series of pot...X-Rays: How Big A Risk To Kids? UF Researchers Seek Answers
... they often use medical devicessuch ascatheters in treating the babies and because infants experience much morerapid internalchanges than adults, said Jon Williams, chief of pediatric radiology atShands. Because children's cells divide rapidly as they grow, they are far moresensitive than adults to t...Drug Is First In Decade To Show Promise Treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder
...rescribed for depression has shown greatpromise in treating a serious, yet highly under-recognized condition calledGeneralized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), according to new study led by Dukepsychiatrist Dr. Jonathan Davidson. Davidson said the anti-depressant drug, venlafaxine extended release(XR), is th......nosidine (paromomycin) v sodium stibogluconate for treating visceral leishmaniasis in North Bihar, India) Bihar in north east India accounts for half the annual worldwide cases of visceral leishmaniasis (a disease transmitted by sandfly bites). Dr P Olliaro of the World Health Organisation worked alongsi...