Study finds radiation therapy for prostate cancer nearly doubles risk for rectal cancer
...apy for prostate cancer ask their doctor about the approved screening methods, regardless of their age. Researchers used data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Registry to evaluate the effect of radiation on development of cancer in the rectum. More than 8...Radiation therapy for prostate cancer nearly doubles the risk of rectal cancer
...r are advised to ask their doctor about one of the approved screening methods, regardless of their age. More information about colorectal cancer screening is available at www.gastro.org ....Six organizations vie for INFORMS 'science of better' innovation prize
...LIMTA was profoundly improved. In 2004, ALIMTA was approved both in the U.S. and the European Community for tr...r mesothelioma - ALIMTA is the first and only drug approved - and, with initial chemotherapy, for lung cancer after disease progression. ALIMTA is now under bro...Injectable drug, combined with counseling, shows promise in treating alcohol dependence
...ho suffer from alcohol dependence." Naltrexone was approved in pill form by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1994 for treating alcohol dependence. It belongs to a class of drugs called opioid antagonists, for treating alcohol dependence. Although many clinical trials have shown that oral naltrexone ...Risk of HIV transmission highest in early stage of infection
...ns University in the United States. The study was approved by human subjects ethics boards in Uganda and the United States. All participants were offered HIV counseling and testing, health education on HIV prevention, condoms and access to STD treatment, all provided at no cost. In an accompanying editorial...Exposed: Tobacco companies efforts to influence industry privatisation
...nternational Monetary Fund the Moldovan government approved a bill to privatise its tobacco industry. Anna Gilmore (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) and colleagues analysed internal tobacco industry documents on Moldova made public through litigation. The documents suggest that although a ...ACP releases 5th Edition of its respected ethics manual
...e reviewed by more than 24 experts. The manual was approved by the ACP Board of Regents in July 2004. For further information about the ACP Ethics Manual, call Lois Snyder, JD, director of the ACP Center for Ethics and Professionalism (215-351-2835). The ACP Ethics Manual is available on the ACP Website at ......elopment of Rituxan, the first monoclonal antibody approved to treat cancer. Dr. Levy's talk will be "Immunology: From science to therapy." V. Craig Jordan, Ph.D., D.Sc. , Vice President and Scientific Director of the Medical Science Division of the Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Jordan is a ...ACHRI study finds CellCept improves survival in pediatric heart transplant patients
... became the only children's hospital in the nation approved as a Medicare cardiac transplant center and one of only three approved by the BlueCross BlueShield Association....Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
...called the SPY Intra-operative Imaging System, was approved in January by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in coronary artery bypass surgery, the most common open-heart surgery in the country with more than 300,000 patients undergoing the procedure every year. The system, made by Novadaq Technolo...University of Kentucky physician publishes fibromyalgia study in Arthritis & Rheumatism journal
... as many as six million Americans, yet there is no approved treatment that relieves its core symptoms," said C...round The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Lyrica in December 2004 for the management of two of the most common forms of neuropathic (nerve) pa...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
...from the device's sale. The GeoForm ring has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in tightening leaky mitral valves. But the new data are the first indication that it also re-shapes the left ventricle, which often becomes distended and misshapen after a heart attack or infection att...Mesotherapy not proven as a safe alternative to liposuction
... exercise and nutritional supplements. No drug is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in mesotherapy. Although the practice of mesotherapy has been around for decades in Europe, it has only recently been introduced in the United States. There are no published scientific studies demon...Patients' lives at risk from substandard drugs say heart specialists
...or instance, on withdrawal by the same agency that approved the initial marketing, or on reports by the manufacturers. Also, current post-marketing control to curb the making and trading of substandard or counterfeit medicines was insufficient. "The WHO estimates that up to a tenth of the world's drug trade a...Some Alzheimer's patients can benefit from drug memantine
...olleagues write. The Food and Drug Administration approved memantine for the treatment of moderate to severe ...pean Agency for the Evaluation of Medical Products approved the drug for similar indications in 2002. Manufacturers of the drug in Europe and the United States ...Heart failure drug associated with higher risk of death
...cs and vasodilators," Aaronson says. "When the FDA approved nesiritide, they acknowledged that it could be associated with a 50 percent increased risk of death," he adds. "But it seems the FDA believed that physicians could judge how to balance the risks and benefits for individual patients. Our meta-analysis...Used in a new way, RNA interference permanently silences key breast cancer gene
...n because lentivirus delivery systems haven't been approved for human use yet, and because of the many problems associated with treating metastatic breast cancer. But he says that proof that RNAi can be used to permanently silence such critical genes as STAT3 "has potential application for treating breast can...Monoclonal antibody cures West Nile virus-infected mice
...ibody against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is approved for use as a prophylactic treatment in children at risk of the disease in hospitals. Unlike the West Nile virus antibody, though, the RSV antibody has to be given prior to infection. West Nile virus belongs to a family of viruses known as flaviviruse...UT Southwestern lead site for study of a new multiple sclerosis drug
...testing Rituxan a therapeutic monoclonal antibody approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1997 for treating some forms of cancer. "It's an exciting study and the patients are really enthusiastic about this," Dr. Hawker said. The primary progressive form of MS is characterized by a slow, steady onset...Guava and AHF Global Immunity bring low cost AIDS diagnosis to resource-limited countries
...ts a good, significantly lower cost alternative to approved "gold-standard" flow cytometry methods. The Guava assays offer comparable accuracy and reproducibility to flow cytometry-based tests, but are much simpler and up to 20 times more affordable to use. Moreover, the Guava EasyCD4 TM system offers the ab...