Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
...d outcome. As in all such studies, we will need to wait years to follow the progress of our patient participants," Buzdar says. Details of the trial result, slated for the June issue of the journal, were posted online Feb. 28 because of interest in the study. Preliminary results of the trial were presente...Specific test key to determine whether or not allergy symptoms are really allergy-related
...ollen. With this kind of test, a person often must wait up to two hours to see if there is a reaction. The skin test also requires extensive training and experience to properly interpret the results, which family physicians may not have. "The specific-IgE test requires the time it takes to draw a vial of ...Success of liver transplantation may be most influenced by three risk factors
...could help increase the donor pool and shorten the wait for liver transplantation, the authors suggest. Derek E. Moore, M.D., of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn., and colleagues reviewed data on all adult patients who underwent liver transplant for end-stage liver disease at Vand...Study examines lessons learned at Africa's first public antiretroviral treatment clinic
...ately inundated with patients, some of whom had to wait four or five months to begin ARV treatment. Physical space for consultation and counseling proved to be the first challenge. The facility's 4,000-patient capacity was quickly reached. To handle the influx, additional buildings were erected, and they...Emergency clopidogrel could save thousands of lives46,000-patient heart attack trial results
...y potential hazard, it may generally be prudent to wait until a heart attack patient's condition has stabilised before starting beta-blocker therapy." Professor Liu Lisheng of the Fuwai Hospital, co-chair of the study's steering committee, emphasised the value of such international collaboration. "The fin...Most advanced CT scanner improves imaging of heart, avoids need for surgical inspection
...theterization," he said. "And we no longer need to wait until a patient is stabilized before performing this critical diagnostic test." The new scanner installed at Hopkins is an Aquilon 64 CFX multislice CT scanner, manufactured by Toshiba. Similar devices also are manufactured by Siemens and General E...Hard choices: Pitt researcher presents findings on when to accept organ transplants
...ase of a living donor, how long should the patient wait before accepting the transplant? And in the case of a cadaveric donor, what criteria should one follow in deciding to accept a potential offer? The answers to these questions are not at all obvious, and Schaefer and his colleagues-- Mark S. Roberts,...Mayo Clinic study finds obese kidney donors face few increased risks
...encourages live organ donations. Because a typical wait for a kidney from a deceased donor can range from three to five years, many people will not survive long enough on dialysis to reach transplantation. More than 300,000 Americans suffer from kidney failure requiring dialysis to live. Life expectancie...New study tests amitriptyline for painful bladder syndrome
...e for increasingly longer stretches until they can wait 3 or 4 hours before going to the bathroom. Participants will also regulate when and how much they drink and avoid bladder irritants such as alcohol, acidic foods and carbonated or caffeinated drinks. Staff and patients will find out who received the ...Faster, less expensive test proven more effective in detecting bladder cancer
... outside laboratories for evaluation. Patients may wait as long as a week to receive these results, according to Grossman, while the results of the NMP22 test can be read within 30 to 50 minutes in the doctor's office. The patients also received a cystoscopy, which uses a flexible endoscope to examine the...January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... They took a laissez faire approach, preferring to wait and see what the future held, or 2) They recognized some of the things they should be doing to reduce their risk but were inconsistent in maintaining changes or seeking information. Women's Perceptions of Future Risk After Low-Energy Fractures at M...Changing the timing of cancer vaccines
...ion), Spencer and colleagues found that they could wait until the dendritic cells got to the lymph nodes to activate them. That significantly extends the period during which the cells can remain active and, in turn, activate the immune system's T-cells. Spencer steered graduate student Brent Hanks toward ...Severity of liver disease not a reliable indicator of quality of life
... on their quality of life because of the prolonged wait for transplantation." They suggest that liver disease severity should not be assumed to be an accurate marker for quality of life and that future studies in patients awaiting liver transplants should include quality of life measures as well as surviv...Technology that could double the effectiveness of cancer drugs studied at Yale
...rugs. Currently, physicians select a drug and must wait about six months to see whether it is effective on a particular patient. "These two new assays will take the guesswork out of cancer treatment," said lead investigator, Gil Mor, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive ...More efficient ways of managing patient flow may benefit Los Angeles County/USC hospital
...o need to be admitted to the hospital must further wait for a bed to be freed up, which depends on the spe...e responsible for the patients. So a patient could wait days before his or her surgery is scheduled, or hours for an x-ray." Discharging patients from the h...OHSU researcher says FDA could broaden access to results of clinical drug trials
...n existing infrastructure," said Turner. "While we wait for new proposals, such as the AMA's, to be implemented, we already have at our disposal a trove of in-depth and unbiased information on many, if not most, drugs currently marketed in the United States. This would provide health care providers, resea...Moving admitted ER patients into inpatient beds faster could significantly increase hospital revenue
... who avoided the emergency department based on the wait time or its wait time reputation."...Aromatase inhibitors should be first-line treatment for certain type of breast cancer
... ATAC trial suggest that it is not appropriate to wait to start an aromatase inhibitor. The higher rates of recurrence (especially in years 13), and the increased numbers of adverse events and treatment withdrawals associated with tamoxifen, lend support to the approach of offering the most effective an...Multi-center study finds therapy boosts kidney transplants in 'highly sensitized' patients
...nsitized patient with end-stage renal disease, the wait time for a cadaveric transplantation averages four to five years. For sensitized patients, the odds of being transplanted drop. According to the article, "the higher the PRA, the more difficult it becomes to find an immunologically compatible match. ......isk mothers at six to eight weeks after birth. Why wait until the mothers are depressed? Why not identify symptoms early so that so secondary preventive interventions can be initiated?" Previous research has suggested that 13 per cent of new mothers suffer from postpartum depression. Such depression m...