Treatment outcomes of patients with HIV and tuberculosis
... were higher in HIV-infected patients who received intermittent or standard 6-month therapy when compared to those...B drug resistance. They suggest that short-course, intermittent regimens may be necessary in areas where resources are limited, and that additional research on regi...New research supports early testing for prostate cancer
...f continuous androgen deprivation (CAD) therapy to intermittent androgen deprivation (IAD) therapy in these patients to compare both efficacy and patient tolerability between these two forms of hormonal treatment. No statistically significant difference was seen in androgen-independent disease progression betwe...Magnesium loss in patients given monoclonal antibodies
...rly intervention. In addition, Fakih proposes that intermittent treatment schedules could be appropriate for those at high risk. The authors agree with Dr Fakih that identification of these high-risk patients is important and conclude that their study suggests a pivotal role of the EGFR-signalling pathway in re......never smokers (16.1%), always smokers (42.5%), and intermittent smokers (37.6%). When stratified by smoking status, always smokers were shown more likely to have disease progression, having the lowest proportion of patients in the same GOLD stage at baseline and 12 years. Sildenafil May Improve Daily Activitie...Mayo Clinic discovers potential link between celiac disease and cognitive decline
...ans, according to Dr. Murray. Symptoms can include intermittent diarrhea, abdominal pain and bloating, or no gastrointestinal symptoms at all. It can also manifest in weight loss, fatigue, anemia, general weakness, foul-smelling or grayish stools that may be fatty or oily, osteoporosis or stunted growth (in child...Details of solar particles penetrating the Earth's environment revealed
...howed that the magnetic reconnection could also be intermittent and take place in pulses, lasting a few minutes. E...connection occurring at that location. Although intermittent reconnection has been observed in the past, this was one of the longest series of continuous observa...Therapeutic role found for carbon monoxide
...that in extremely low concentrations and for brief intermittent exposures of one hour per day, CO gas might be effectively used as a therapy to treat PAH in a clinical setting," says Otterbein, an investigator in the Transplantation Center at BIDMC and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Pu...Study shows aggressive students often lack psychological evaluations and effective treatment
...ath of a parent). 23 had participated in brief or intermittent psychosocial interventions, 5 of which included hospitalizations. 6 of the 18 students (33%) with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder had never received any kind of treatment for it. These findings reflect the need for health care professiona...Hearing loss and high-speed dental tools
...nnitus, or ringing of the ears, can be constant or intermittent and can include buzzing, hissing or sizzling sounds. Many people experience momentary tinnitus, a high-pitched tone that lasts up to 30 seconds. Acute tinnitus, however, can last days or weeks and is most commonly caused by exposure to loud noise suc...Study shows promise for simplified treatment of HIV infection
...rus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. Treatment cessation, intermittent therapy, and induction-maintenance (a few months of triple therapy followed by simplified therapy) regimens have been evaluated with mostly inferior results, according to background information in the article. Dr. Swindells and colleagues conducted...JCI table of contents: July 3, 2006
...eir thoughts or feelings in more than a limited or intermittent capacity. Our minimal understanding of why some patients recover from these disorders has limited our ability to predict emergence from MCS and optimize the health care options for these individuals. In an accompanying commentary, Steven Laureys from...Man emerges from 19 years in minimally conscious state as brain repairs itself
...eir thoughts or feelings in more than a limited or intermittent capacity. Our minimal understanding of why some patients recover from these disorders has limited our ability to predict emergence from MCS and optimize the health care options for these individuals. In an accompanying commentary, Steven Laureys from...Eating habits of successful weight losers shift
...pants entered the Registry and were monitored over intermittent periods of one year. "We found that participants who enrolled in the Registry in more recent years, reported consuming an increased number of calories from fat, and fewer carbohydrates compared to those who enrolled in 1995," says Phelan. Fro...Preventive treatment reduces risk of malaria in infants
...he long run and might promote drug resistance. But intermittent preventive treatment, a more focused use of antima...er colleagues in Mozambique and Spain explored the intermittent administration of the antimalarial sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) to infants in their first year. In...Natural pine bark extract relieves muscle cramp and pain in athletes and diabetics
...llest veins commonly associated with diabetes), or intermittent claudication (a blood vessel disease that causes the legs to easily cramp).This study also used a two-week pre-trial observation period followed by a week of supplementing with Pycnogenol (200 mg per day for one week), followed by a week of observati...Intermittent explosive disorder affects up to 16 million Americans
...as found. Depending upon how broadly it's defined, intermittent explosive disorder (IED) affects as many as 7.3 percent of adults 11.5-16 million Americans in their lifetimes. The study is based on data from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, a nationally representative, face-to-face household survey ...Advanced prostate cancer remains sensitive to treatment even after holidays from chemotherapy
...d prostate cancer can be treated successfully with intermittent chemotherapy, according to a study conducted by Or... lifetime. Beer will present initial results on intermittent chemotherapy for metastatic prostate cancer from the AIPC Study of Calcitriol Enhancing Taxotere (AS...Type of stress, not duration, key to heart enlargement
...he prevailing wisdom was that since exercise is an intermittent event and high blood pressure is a chronic conditi...rather its nature." Their studies demonstrate that intermittent occurrences of cardiac stress in the form of high blood pressure, or hypertension, initiates a casca......ure causes melanoma or whether it's short, intense intermittent or cumulative. Further more, it's not clear if ultraviolet B (UVB), ultraviolet A (UVA) rays, or both are responsible for causing melanoma. "Regardless, the sun acts as an initiating and promoting agent in causing melanoma, and causes immunosuppressi......udies that evaluate the usefulness of continued or intermittent care of alcohol-dependent individuals over the longer term should be considered," the authors write....