Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
... down the drain with drug use, that I was going to die soon. This [intervention] got me connected, got me involved in groups and back into things. Now I'm clean and sober." "We did have some opposition at first from the staff, people who come from different therapeutic traditions," Kellogg says. "In gene...Statin simvastatin linked to protection against endothelial dysfunction in diabetic rats
...eral population. Since most patients with diabetes die from some vascular complication, Medical College of Georgia researchers set out to determine the effects of simvastatin on endothelial cell dysfunction, an early pivotal event in atherogenesis and a major cause of the microvascular complications in d...Study: obesity impairs immune response of mice, boosts chances of dying from influenza infection
...e identical, obese mice were 10 times as likely to die when infected with the flu virus. Four percent of lean mice died during the experiments, compared with 40 percent of the extra fat ones. The study, presented in San Diego Saturday (April 2) at an American Society of Nutritional Sciences scientific me...Vaccine against cervical cancer and genital warts shows promise
...es have not been implemented, around 35, 000 women die from the disease every year in Europe and the USA. HPV infections are also responsible for genital warts in 1-2% of young adults. Genital warts can cause sexual dysfunction. Recurrence is common and treatment is painful and expensive. Luisa Villa (...New recommendation encourages more activist approach to lung cancer screening
...eople around the globe each year. More people will die of lung cancer this year in the United States than will die from breast, prostate, colon and pancreatic cancers combined. Lung cancer is usually detected in adv...News briefs from the journal CHEST, April 2005
...f hospital admission were 1.4 times more likely to die during their hospital stay than those who were abl...mitted to the hospital were 4 times more likely to die while hospitalized, when compared to patients who could walk. Researchers also found that drug ther...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...erica has no clean water, and two million children die each year from water-related diseases, such as diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, and schistosomiasis, which result from a lack of adequate water sources and sanitation." Nano-membranes and nano-clays are inexpensive, portable and easily cleaned systems tha...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
...ves but no symptoms were five times more likely to die of a heart problem, and six times more likely to have heart failure or some other serious cardiac problem. Lead researcher Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, M.D., professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic and director of the Mayo Clinic's valvular heart diseas...Women not given same tests for stroke
...e worse outcomes than men they are more likely to die or be disabled in the long term than men are," said study author Melinda Smith Cox, MPH, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. "Our results may give us one reason for that disparity." Smith said the results need to be confirmed by further studi...MR spectroscopy may be superior for determining prostate cancer prognosis
...ears with slow-growing prostate tumors before they die of unrelated causes, and treating such patients could cause more harm than benefit, Cheng notes. So finding a better way to determine which patients need aggressive treatment and which can try watchful waiting has been a major challenge. Another pr...Research reveals emotional trauma parents face when a child is diagnosed with diabetes
...nd were relieved that their child was not going to die and that the diagnosis had enabled them to find a rational explanation for their child's symptoms. "During the first year after diagnosis, parents rebuilt a new model of their world. Normality became a lifestyle adapted to incorporate the needs of a ...Heart failure drug associated with higher risk of death
...ous drug nesiritide were 80 percent more likely to die in the next month than patients who received traditional drugs for acute heart failure symptoms, such as diuretics and vasodilators. The study analyzed clinical trial data obtained from the manufacturer of the drug, which is marketed as Natrecor, and...'Virtual colonoscopy' effective in finding most polyps but may miss small ones
...become malignant so slowly that an individual will die of other causes before colorectal cancer develops, according to the report. But those larger than 10 millimeters are more likely to become malignant. Between six millimeters and 10 millimeters, there was no statistically significant difference betwee...Report reveals need to improve physical health of people with schizophrenia
People with schizophrenia often die prematurely. However researchers from the University of Glasgow and NHS Greater Glasgow assert that much of the excess mortality of schizophrenia is preventable through lifestyle changes and the treatment of common diseases. Schizophrenia, its treatm...Access to mammography may worsen
...gnosed with breast cancer in 2005, and 40,410 will die from the disease. Mammography is currently considered by most experts to be the most effective routine screening tool available for early detection of breast cancer. According to Dr. D'Orsi, steps must be taken to solve the staffing problem, includi...New prostate cancer studies look at hormone and protein connection
... develop the disease, and one in four of them will die from prostate cancer. Damu Tang, assistant professor, Medicine, has received $120,000 to research the newly identified protein PTEN, to see how important it is in preventing prostate cancer progression. In its early stage, prostate cancer requires ...VELCADE for injection receives EU marketing authorisation for second-line use in multiple myeloma
...ve years.(ref 3) More than 18,000 people in the EU die each year from the disease. (ref 2) Professor Jesus San Miguel, Professor of Medicine at the University Hospital in Salamanca, Spain, commented, "The results we've seen in patients who have received VELCADE as the backbone at an earlier stage in the ...Vascular structure and function improve with diet and exercise
... to three-fourths of people with diabetes mellitus die of some form of heart or blood vessel disease, according to the American Heart Association. "For both of these groups, their lifetime risk of developing hypertension is high," Petrella said. "Anything we can do to reduce that is important."...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for May 2005 (first issue)
...decision-making (47.4 percent), who had a relative die in the ICU (50 percent), whose relative died after end-of-life decisions (60 percent) and who shared in those end-of-life decisions (81.8 percent). Post-traumatic stress disorder is a psychological reaction that occurs after experiencing a highly str......likely than white women to get breast cancer, they die of it more frequently," says Paskett, who is associate director for population sciences at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. "Anything we can do to help increase early detection would be helpful."...