Immune factor GM-CSF significantly improves Crohn's disease symptoms
...chool of Medicine in St. Louis, a co-author of the current study. A chronic inflammatory bowel disease, Croh...lts from that study, published in 2002, led to the current multicenter investigation. Patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease enrolled in the study a...Duke engineers develop new 3-D cardiac imaging probe
...icture of the whole heart in the time it takes for current ultrasound technology to image a single heart cros... is a safe and fast diagnostic technique. However, current TEE systems can quickly generate only two-dimensional cross-sectional images. This limitation makes ...Recreational use of an erectile dysfunction drug can be risky for some
...diseases (STD's), including HIV. In a study in the current issue of The American Journal of Medicine, researc...t this ongoing public health problem. Although the current evidence of association exists only for Sildenafil, likely due to the relatively recent approval of ...Teenage depression can be enduring, but is more often short-lived
...y of Queensland. About half of the children in the current study who showed depression by age 15 had recurring depression by age 20, and those who did have a distinctive profile, Hammen and Brennan found. Their preliminary analysis indicates the adolescents who showed depression by age 15 and again between ...Tobacco companies designed cigarettes 'to addict women,' according to new study
...ry continues to target female smokers today, their current strategies are more multi-faceted and less readily identifiable than they were decades ago," the authors note. The new paper's analysis suggests that the tobacco industry's behavior has particularly troubling implications for health officials in the ...Many patients at risk of cardiovascular disease not receiving statin treatment
...prescribing were well below the recommendations of current guidelines. They showed that in 2002, statins were prescribed in just 50% of consultations for people at high risk of coronary heart disease and 44% of those at moderate risk. In addition, in less than half the visits patients received counseling ab...Large survey suggests schizophrenia less prevalent than textbooks say
...ventions we can offer." It has been estimated that current interventions can at most reduce 25% of disease burden. Thus, the authors conclude that "this is a powerful argument for investing in applied and basic research." ...Richer nations at more risk of schizophrenia
...ults his team would try to match up new cases with current case data from the same sites and same times to help answer prognosis and illness duration questions. The report is a companion to an earlier study by the same team on the number of new cases of schizophrenia worldwide. It revealed that schizophren...Children in foster care may be underaccounted for in the Medicaid program
... of sampling bias have particular relevance to the current debate about the level of public funding for Medicaid. He adds, "Although our findings were based on data from the mid-1990s, there's no reason to suspect those findings would be different today. As such, policymakers risk underestimating the burden ...Shorter course of radiotherapy effective for palliation of painful bone metastases
...ctive in palliating painful bone metastases as the current U.S. standard treatment course of 30 Gy delivered in 10 daily treatments, according to a new study in the June 1 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Patients with a variety of solid tumor cancers, including lung, breast, and pros...May/June 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...rly controlled, a cluster of three articles in the current issue of Annals tackles important questions about ...s assert that the time required to fully adhere to current guidelines is a fundamental obstacle to the delivery of appropriate and recommended chronic disease ...Mayo Clinic Proceedings studies risk factors for blood clots
...o major surgery, medical researchers report in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. "At medical inst...ter surgery is explored in several articles in the current issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, providing patients and clinicians with valuable advice to consider...ESC emphasizes underestimated effects of tobacco use
...eople die from tobacco use every year. Half of all current tobacco users will eventually die from tobacco-related illnesses. By 2030, the World Bank predicts that smoking will kill about one in six adults globally per year. The World Health Organization cites brief counselling by health professionals on th...Stress may increase long-term success of vaccinations
...ffectiveness. Results from laboratory tests in the current study showed that mice that were psychologically s...swanathan, a doctoral student in oral biology. The current study is one of a number of studies conducted by researchers at Ohio State that examines how stress ...Researchers develop new concept for single molecule transistor
...hat charged site is tuned, which allows electrical current to flow through the molecule from one electrode to another. The current flowing through the molecule can be switched on and off by changing the charge state of the adjacent...NIEHS brings researchers and leaders together to find environmental solutions to childhood obesity
... Lynn Swann, former professional football star and current Chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, Surgeon General Richard Carmona, and Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee will join Schwartz at the conference to: 1. Learn more about how the environment impa...Despite alternatives, addictive drugs most often prescribed for sleep problems
...tential," he said. The study, which appears in the current issue of the journal Sleep, includes data from 94.6 million office visits in the United States over a six-year period. Patients included in the data set sought help for sleep-related difficulties in outpatient physician offices. Balkrishnan and his c...Booster vaccine for adolescents and adults that includes protection against pertussis shows promise
...imilar overall safety profile when compared to the current licensed tetanus-diphtheria vaccine, according to a new study in JAMA . The article was released online today because of its public health implications and will be published in the June 22/29 print issue of JAMA . According to background informati...JAMA study finds whooping cough vaccine effective, safe for teens and adults
...(Td) booster for adolescents and adults and to the current childhood diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis vaccine (DTaP). Researchers found that this Tdap vaccine provided comparable levels of immunity to that of the Td booster, and to the pertussis component of DTaP (licensed pediatric) vaccine. The leve...A study published in the current issue of Health Services Research re-examines the effects of Medicaid payment generosity on access and care. The authors found that higher payments improve the probability of adult beneficiaries having at least one doctor/healthcare professional vis...