Scientists discover way to control allergic reactions
...ial in helping to alleviate the worst effects." To date the team have carried out these studies in small groups of volunteers, but over the summer they are looking to organise a much larger clinical trial in conjunction with Circassia, a company spun out from Imperial....Early stage breast-cancer rates are rising as incidence of invasive cases are leveling
...ngs, based on the most comprehensive assessment to date of age-specific incidence rates of in situ breast cancer, while encouraging, also pose a particular challenge to health-care professionals. "There is good news in that it appears we are detecting breast cancer at an earlier stage. However, the increa...Charter activation brings space dimension to European emergency exercise
...ponding to major natural or man-made disasters. To date the Charter has been activated more than 70 times. Following the UNISPACE III conference held in Vienna, Austria in July 1999, the Charter was initiated by ESA and CNES, with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Other members include the Indian Space Re...Delay in Alzheimer's disease onset seen for first time
...sease treatment, in that this is the only study to 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 Al...Stanford gut check shows diversity of intestinal ecosystem
...ic medicine, conducted the most extensive study to date surveying the inhabitants of the lower digestive tract. In the three healthy subjects he studied, he found 395 unique bacterial species. "The intestinal flora is critical to human physiology and a wide spectrum of disease, but the first step in study...Easing the anxiety of pregnancy after miscarriage
...as going to have a baby. Six weeks before the due date someone sent me a baby present and I said, 'They think I'm having a baby.' And my husband said 'I think you are, too.' I started crying because I hadn't let myself think that at all." Ct-Arsenault's research addresses several concerns: the primary ...Variant in gene associated with telomeres predicts longer survival of deadly brain tumor
...s, which the researchers believe is the largest to date of patients with glioblastoma multiforme, found that the 36 patients (about 11 percent) who had the "SS" variant genotype of hTERT survived an average of 25 months, compared to about 14 months for those who had either the "SL" or "LL" genotypes. The ...New research pinpoints best treatment for stroke
...and Hospitals today presented the largest study to date on the utility of computed tomography (CT) perfusion imaging of the brain in determining and predicting stroke outcomes. Results will help better identify patients who are suitable candidates for treatment utilizing either clot busting medicines or c...'Fickle' enzyme helps protect, but also can promote heart failure, animal study shows
...ss Professor of Cardiology at Hopkins. Research to date is limited on BH4, but the cofactor is being used as a treatment for phenylketonuria, a rare genetic disorder in children that results from a deficiency in the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase. Loss of this enzyme can lead to mental retardation, org...Institute of Medicine news: Changes needed in WIC program
...s would bring the foods provided through WIC up to date with current nutritional science and make it easier for participants to improve their diets and health." WIC -- shorthand for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children -- is one of the largest nutrition programs in ...Doctor voices concerns over new NHS IT system
... patient waits. This has a national implementation date of the end of December 2005. "The application screens are slow, and the computers often fail to pick up the programs. There is no integration with existing clinical systems or with Microsoft Outlook," he writes. But the "really frightening module" is...Obese workers' pay lower due to health costs, Stanford study finds
...e study provides perhaps the strongest evidence to date that the costs of employer-sponsored health insurance are, in fact, passed on to workers through lower wages. By implication, insured workers should be just as alarmed by rising health-care costs as their employers are. "When employers give you healt...Hyperhidrosis and its treatment becoming better understood
...e description and definition of excessive sweating date back to Hippocrates in the 4th century B.C. Today, the diagnosis and treatment of severe cases command a stepwise, multidisciplinary approach from the primary care physician, the dermatologist, the neurologist, and the surgeon. Variables include the ...PENN researchers use robotic surgery
...two studies the most comprehensive and largest to date that demonstrate the effective use of the daVinci...deficits for patients. "The research we've done to date suggests that TORS has great potential to improve the way we treat head and neck cancer patients," s...Obesity linked to colorectal and esophageal cancers
... normal controls five years prior to the interview date or at age 21, showing no link between higher BMI and BE. There was also no correlation established between smoking and BE. Conversely, patients with esophageal cancer were more likely than controls to report a higher BMI five years prior to the stu...Latest generation lineal accelerator for radiotherapy
...r parts of tumours with much greater precision. To date laminas of 1 cm have been used, in which the dosimetric yield is less precise in the case of small lesions. The new system enables the application of very exact and precisely-adapted treatment such as radiosurgery, radiotherapy stereotactics or radio...ESC releases new chronic heart failure guidelines
...g cardiology journal. The Guidelines offer up to date practical recommendations on the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of Chronic Heart Failure and have been specifically formulated for use in clinical practice, as well as in epidemiological surveys and clinical trials, featuring a new chapter on th...As morphine turns 200, drug that blocks its side effects reveals new secrets
...al Oncology annual meeting. Progenix has a target date of New Drug Application submission in late 2005. Meanwhile, Moss and his University colleagues have identified multiple uses of MNTX, beyond the original discovery by Goldberg. Some of these additional uses of MNTX include treatment of post-operativ...Students who get drunk weekly have higher risk of injuries
...r are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape, that almost a third (31 percent) of college students meet the criteria for a diagnosis of alcohol abuse and that 2.8 million college students drove under the influence of alcohol last year....New national effort seeks a more rational organ allocation system for kidney transplants
...Identify Solutions to Tough Questions Hearings to date have addressed many difficult issues involved in kidney transplantation. Among them are: ethical issues; barriers that may prevent patients from having equitable access to the organ allocation system; medical issues about tissue typing and immune sys...