AIDS Treatments Seek To Eradicate Virus, Restore Immunity
... understandingof how the virus reacts to both drug treatments and novel forms of reconstitutingprotective immunity. "We are pushing the envelope of what is known and what can be imaginedin effective therapy," said Dani Bolognesi, director of the Duke Centerfor AIDS Research, and an expert on the vi...Fertilization Protein Structure To AID in Leukemia Treatment
...markably, the same structure may hold a key to new treatments for leukemia, a kind of cancer that attacks the blood. The research, supported by the National Science Foundation, has revealed a previously unknown relationship between a protein in the eggs of a marine mollusk and a protein on the outside o...It Matters Where, In America, You Suffer A Heart Attack
...ely to be readmitted to the hospital for follow-up treatments during the next six months. For the Mid-Atlantic region, year-long medical expenses cost an average of more than $26,000. The longer length of initial hospitalization may be due to the fact that it took cardiologists a day longer to decide to giv...Drug And Radiation Treatment May Shrink Pancreatic And Gastric Tumors
...r pancreatic andstomach malignancies. No effective treatments for these cancers currentlyexist. Indeed, the five...n certain patients, often within three weeks after treatments began.After two months of treatments, tumors in several patients had decreased to asize to where the...ACTG Protocol 185 Enrollment Halted
... made comparison of the standard and experimental treatments impossible. Pediatric ACTG Protocol 185 was a ran...ommended for all infants exposed to antiretroviral treatments in utero or as newborns, and is being provided for infants born in Pediatric ACTG perinatal clinical...UNC-CH Study Shows State Protects HMO Clients Poorly
...nical criteria used to review the need for certain treatments or services. “This information is especially useful for individuals with special health-care needs who need to choose from competing health plans,” Silberman said. “Now, for example, lots of plans say they will cover services if they...Medicare Approves UM Medical Center For Lung Transplants
...ter offers all of the advancedmedical and surgical treatments available for patients with advanced lungdisease, including transplantation, lung volume reduction surgery for emphysemaand therapies for pulmonary hypertension....Penn Researchers Initiate Ground-Breaking New Trials To Treat
...clinicaltrials are applying innovative combination treatments withphotodynamic therapy (PDT) and surgery for patients who otherwiseare not candidates for surgical treatment. There is a significant population of patients with extensive lungcancer and/or mesothelioma -- cancer of the lining of the lung --who will...Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
...significantly accelerate theprogress of new cancer treatments from laboratory to clinic," said RalphSnyderman, M...ommitted to rapid commercialization of life-saving treatments and a cancer center with areputation for research excellence have proven critical to realizing the p...Organ Rejection Drug Also Shows Promise For The Treatment Of Kidney Disease
...o steroids and other drugs." The traditional treatments for glomerular disease include steroids givenalone or togetherwith cyclosporine or cytotoxic drugs. Despite the effectiveness of thesemedications, Briggssays, some patients cannot tolerate steroids for long periods, suffer serioustoxicities of cytot...Study Finds Incidence Of Stroke Over 40 Percent Higher Than Previously Stated Figures
...oke (NINDS). "With theadvent of new and effective treatments for acute stroke, we can now project withgreater accuracy those parts of the population who will benefit and planaccordingly." Broderick says that this population was selected for the University ofCincinnati study, because it is more represe...Survey Finds Acute Stroke Teams Gaining Prevalence
... Gaining familiarity with stroke and the treatments available for it -such as the use of clot-busting drugs - may be the best possible result for anacute stroke team. Clot-busters such at TPA (tissue plasminogen activator) havebeen utilized in clinical trials at larger medical centers, leaving smalle...Penn Researchers Create Drug To Help Target Attack On Cancerous Tumors
...ped a drug that will help doctors fine-tune cancer treatments to patients. The drug, EF5, permits doctors to effectively determine the oxygen content of a tumor--which subsequently dictates the appropriate course of treatmentto be followed. Cancer clinicians have long known that hypoxic tumors--which thr...Drug Is First In Decade To Show Promise Treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder
...l functioning, he said. Finding effective treatments for GAD and other anxiety disorders shouldbe a priority in psychiatric research, Davidson said, because anxiety disordersare the most common form of mental illness in America. They affect more than 23million people, about the same number of Americans...National Health Study Launched On The Internet
... "The study could identify which drugs and medical treatments aremost effective, as well as drugs that have heretofore unrecognized effects, bothbeneficial and detrimental. It will provide both a national health statusreport and possibly provide an early warning system for drugs or dietarysupplements that have...Clot-Busters As Effective As Surgery To Clear Blockages In Legs
...on, whether patients receivedconventional surgical treatments or the drug. Moreover, thelength of hospital stay was similar in the two groups. The teamdid notice an increased risk of bleeding in the urokinasegroup. The clot-buster the team studied is an experimental compoundknown as recombinant urokinase. ...... to the fact that the drug is cheaper than regular treatments and the shorter period of hospitalisation required. Contact: Dr P Olliaro, Manager, Steering Committee on Drugs for Malaria (CHEMAL), World Health Organisation, UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Disease, 20 A...International Study Raises Hopes For Heart Transplant Patients
...e shortage of organ donors, we need to develop new treatments to prevent organ rejection in heart transplant patients," indicates Dr. Eisen....Cost-Effective Treatment Possible In Africa For HIV-Positive Pregnant Women If Drug Prices Lowered
...ed. The relative costs and benefits of these drug treatments are in the same rangeas other HIV prevention programs, such as blood screening and condom promotionprograms. The drug interventions become still more economical if it is possible toreduce the costs of counseling and testing pregnant women for HIV w......bination, and patients were assigned one ofthe two treatments randomly. All patients had metastatic prostate cancer, and were no longer responsive toconventional hormone therapy. All patients were receiving narcotic analgesicsto treat the significant bone pain resulting from the spread of the cancer tothe bon...