USC Researcher Lights Up The Immune System To Help Heart Transplant Recipients
...of surgery, who led an international, multi-center trial of the therapy. "It is a much more targeted therapy than the current triple-drug regimen that transplant patients receive. Instead of suppressing the entire immune system, photopheresis potentially allows us to suppress only those immun......e (STAR) trial, a landmarkbreast cancer prevention trial comparing the ability of tamoxifen and raloxifeneto prevent breast cancer. The STAR trial will determine the safety andeffectiveness of raloxifene in reducing the occurrence of breast cancer...Magnetic Surgery System Tested Successfully On First Patient
...ive patients willparticipate in the first clinical trial of the Magnetic Surgery System atBarnes-Jewish Hos...and treatment outcomes," said Hogg. "Thisclinical trial is an important step in demonstrating the effectiveness of thisnew model of interventional medicine....Views Of Tamoxifen And Synthetic Estrogen In Action Provide Clues For Designing Better Drugs
...o willbe compared head-to-head in a large clinical trial beginning next year. "Both are useful drugs but neither is ideal," said Greene. "As we learn moreabout how they interact with the estrogen receptor, we should be able to enhancetheir benefits and reduce their drawbacks." Greene's Chicago predecessor ...American Heart Association Comment: Results Of Cardiac Insufficiency Bisoprolol Study II (CIBIS-II)
...al that accompanied the study, says, "The CIBIS-II trial is an importantturning point. Small studies have ...blockers for patients with heart failure, but this trial provides the firstreal convincing evidence that patients with mild or moderate heart failure livelon...So Near And Yet So Far. . . FDA Approves Laser Vision Correction For Farsightedness
...r with equally positive results in6 other regional trial centers, led to the FDA approval for the VISX systems. "It is exciting to me that farsighted people will now be able to see clearly,"Dr. Salz said. "The clinical results that I've experienced with the VISX STAR(TM) laser have been truly outstanding ...UNC Researchers Testing First In New Class Of AIDS Drugs
...iders the population that enrolled inthis clinical trial is extremely difficult to treat." The infectious d...f blood. Butaccording to Eron, patients in the new trial taking higher T-20 doses showed upto 90 percent reductions in viral load without major side effects....Combination Nicotine Replacement Therapies Are The Most Effective Means To Quit Smoking
...h nicotine patch for smoking cessation: randomised trial with six year follow up) Combined methods of nicotine replacement therapy are more effective than using just one, says a study in this week's BMJ. Dr Thorsteinn Blondal and colleagues from National University Hospital in Iceland, along with resear...Promising Bone Cancer Therapy Advances To Next Level
Encouraging initial results, clinical trial report presented at national meeting UPTON, NY -...s, called Metastron, is being used in the clinical trial oftin-117m DTPA to allow comparison of the effects of the two drugs. In the early 1990s, BNL......dy suffered an acute heart attack. In a clinical trial involving1,400 patients, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center scientists, as well ascollaborators at two facilities in Israel and three in Europe, are testing theeffectiveness of the common antibiotic, Azithromycin, in preventing recurrentheart attacks. $5 ...Interleukin-2 Boosts Cancer Vaccine Effectiveness In Mice
...archers have requested approval to begin a PhaseII trial of the cancer vaccine with IL-2 in adults with advanced metastaticmelanoma. Dendritic cells alert the immune system to cancer by presenting pieces ofdigested tumor proteins called antigens to white blood cells calledT-lymphocytes. When the dendritic...Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors May Be Another Piece In Alzheimer's Jigsaw
...d colleagues report the finding of the first large trial of another acetylcholinesterase inhibitor used by ...mainly European population. The authors' six month trial involved the drug rivastigmine and they found that it was effective in treating some of the symptoms...Routine Use Of Coronary Stents Found To Yield Better Outcomes, Be More Cost-Effective
...erfect balloon angioplastyoutcomes. Results of the trial were presented at the American College of Cardiologyscientific sessions in New Orleans by W. Douglas Weaver, M.D., co-director ofthe Henry Ford Heart and Vascular Institute in Detroit who headed the study. A stent is a small, slotted, stainless steel...When It Comes To Heart Attacks, Size Apparently Does Matter
...from the recently completed 10,948-patient PURSUIT trial of the drug eptifibatide (Integrilin), which was f...els, ECG tests and other clinical data. After the trial was completed, the Duke researchers later went back and looked at the peak blood levels of an enzyme...The first clinical trial in the Bay Area to test the effectiveness of anAID...techcompany based in Brisbane, Calif. The overall trial is being carried out atmore than 50 locations throughout North America with the goal of enrolling 5,...National Pilot Study To Test Whether Soy Can Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk
...t who have normal prostate biopsies, she said. The trial will measure theeffect of the soybean supplements on clinical markers -- such as changes in thePSA level and the size of the prostate -- and other signs of prostate cancerrisk. They'll also be measuring the effect of the soy protein on bloodpressure,...