Restless legs syndrome has complex genetic involvement
...d for six other families. The researchers compared clinical features of the syndrome in affected individuals from the different families to see if those differences correlated with the differences in linkage. They found that one feature, periodic leg movements during sleep, was significantly greater for affec...Older children may benefit from treatment for lazy eye
...lazy eye", showed improvement after treatment in a clinical trial reported in the April issue of Archives of O...t trial of 507 older children with amblyopia at 49 clinical sites. All the patients were provided with optimal optical correction (children who already had glas...National trial shows older children benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
Surprising results from a nationwide clinical trial show that many children age seven through 17...responded well to treatment, as well as many other clinical studies of amblyopia at eye centers nationwide....Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...wart, Ed.D., professor of medicine and director of clinical and research exercise physiology programs at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart Institute. "But current exercise guidelines were based on studies that had several limitations, including that they were not tested in older a...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...earchers at China's Tsinghua University have begun clinical tests for a bone scaffold based on nanotechnology which gradually disintegrates as the patient's damaged skeletal tissue heals. This application of nanotechnology is especially relevant for developing countries, where the number of skeletal injuries ...Older children can benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
Surprising results from a nationwide clinical trial show that many children age seven through 17...responded well to treatment, as well as many other clinical studies of amblyopia at eye centers nationwide. Dr. Sieving also commented that the current study r...Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
...ng number of in situ cancers presents an important clinical challenge, since in some cases the treatments that...sible to gather enough cases to conduct randomized clinical trials to determine whether women would benefit from treatment. "Some small studies do indicate that...Technology helps Stanford shed new light on coronary bypass surgery
... heart surgeons is spearheading a large nationwide clinical trial to systematically assess the effectiveness of SPY as well as compare it with the other ways of assessing blood flow during surgery. The research team will also track and report on how often grafts are not optimal on the first try. Beyo...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
DURHAM, N.C. The deaths or clinical complications in heart attack patients given poten...fibrinolytic agents, have been proven effective in clinical trials in breaking apart blood clots in coronary arteries, restoring blood flow to heart and saving ...Adverse outcomes from blood clot therapy may be due to patient characteristics, not dosing errors
..., such that sicker patients with an unstable early clinical course could be more likely to receive incorrect d...nto dosing errors, with the same rigor as in other clinical research, to better understand factors related to such errors and their impact on patient outcome," ...The world's leading researchers in clinical immunology to gather for FOCIS 2005
The world's leading researchers in clinical immunology will gather in Boston, May 12-16, 2005,.... Topics that will be touched upon: Advances in clinical immunology in five thematic areas Antibodies in disease pathogenesies of lung allograft rejection ......AAFA also can refer reporters to a physician for a clinical perspective on the IMPACT study...'Nanoshells' simultaneously detect and destroy cancerous cells
...a molecular marker that may indicate a significant clinical problem, but you can't do anything about it [just through imaging]," says Drezek. "We don't want to simply find the cancerous cells. We would like to locate the cells, be able to make a rational choice about whether they need to be destroyed and, if ...Will cancer vaccine get to all women?
...ome clear. Vaccines are producing good results in clinical trials, and the first could be licensed as early a... already surfaced. India is planning to do its own clinical trials, but will not test the vaccine in young girls. "This is not possible until around the age of ...New LASIK research reveals unexpected finding: Key to better-than-20/20 vision is in the flap
...refractive and cataract surgery, and vice chair of clinical ophthalmology at University of California, Irvine....tion, and with it the visual outcome. Multiple clinical studies show the IntraLase laser provides for better vision by creating an optimal corneal surface u...Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's may be delayed, says major clinical trial
... the first to suggest than any agent can delay the clinical diagnosis of AD in people with MCI. The effects of...r's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS), a nationwide clinical trials consortium supported by the NIA, a component of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Depar...Delay in Alzheimer's disease onset seen for first time
...o date to demonstrate the ability to push back the clinical diagnosis of the disease," says Ronald Petersen, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic neurologist and lead investigator of the trial. "This may be the sign of new horizons to come in attempting to alter the Alzheimer's disease process as early as possible, buyin...Study shows symptom-driven therapy may be ok for some adults with mild persistent asthma
...on for mild persistent asthma was based largely on clinical trials that showed that anti-inflammatory therapy ...de that, overall, the three treatments had similar clinical effects in this study of mild asthma." Other reports have noted that many asthma patients do not fol...The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners hosts 20th Annual National Conference
...o four and a half days, the new format offers more clinical and expert faculty presentations, workshops and special programs than ever before. In addition, an exhibit hall filled with a variety of pharmaceutical, medical supply and equipment companies, recruiters and publishing houses will showcase the lates...Northwestern Memorial researchers release study on smart-pump technology
...doses against preset limits specific to a drug and clinical location. "The objectives of the study were to determine the actual types, frequency and severity of medication errors associated with IV pumps, and also determine if errors could have been prevented with the smart pump technology alone," says Marl...