Advanced prostate cancer previously considered inoperable may be operable, curable
...confined inside the prostate. Dr. Zincke points to following patients over 15 years post-treatment as a strength of the study. "The highest incidence of prostate cancer death is not reached until 11 years after treatment, so 15-year data is significant," he says. "In contrast, five-year data is less meaningful...Cognitive therapy works as well as antidepressants, but with lasting effect after therapy ends
...ients were less likely to relapse in the two years following the end of treatment. According to the researchers, the return of symptoms might demonstrate that the medication may have blunted the appearance of depression but did not affect underlying disease processes. "Medication is often an appropriate ...Brain region recovery possible in former methamphetamine users
...ls in the longer abstainers. "In the early periods following methamphetamine exposure, the brain may undergo several processes leading to increased membrane turnover. The relative Cho normalization across periods of abstinence suggests that when drug exposure is terminated, adaptive changes occur, which may co...Study shows that a kidney transplant can reverse heart failure
...ping ability returned to normal or close to normal following the transplant. Even more dramatic, the majority o...ose studied) regained significant cardiac function following the transplant, according to Dr. Wali. The investigators also observed major recovery in patients w...Golf-related head injuries in children increasing along with sport's popularity
...dical Center in New York in the three-month period following Mr. Woods' first Masters Championship showed of the eight children who required surgery, half had a depressed skull fracture from a golf club. The MCG study also cited the depressed skull fracture where a portion of the skull is broken on impact and...Once-a-month injectable medication helps treat alcohol dependence
...formulation, which releases naltrexone for 1 month following a single injection, for treatment of alcohol dependence. The 6-month, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was conducted between February 2002 and September 2003 at 24 U.S. public hospitals, private and Veterans Administration clinics, ...Fink receives National Pharmacy Leadership Award
...rd of servant leadership in any one or more of the following areas: education, association work, community service, professional practice or mentoring. "Fink's tireless efforts on behalf of pharmacy became apparent as the committee reviewed the package submitted by your supporters," said Mary L. Euler, Pharm....New health information resource from Tufts for Asian-language speakers
...ns whose native language is not English. It's also following a Tufts tradition providing electronic resources in our international community." "SPIRAL provides a central source of health information for Asian Americans and their physicians/caregivers. We've selected the Web sites with the best medical infor...Dr. Gutin selected as Fulbright Senior Specialist
...istakes and experience of his own and keep it from following in the tracks toward obesity and inactivity. Dr. Gutin came to MCG in 1991 from Columbia University in New York. He earned a master's degree in physical education and a doctorate in higher education from New York University. He completed postdoctoral...OHSU researchers demonstrate how Alzheimer's disease impacts important brain cell function
... of proteins that play various roles prior to, and following these cell transmissions. These proteins are referred to as presynaptic and postsynaptic proteins respectively. Of the seven proteins being studied, data analysis revealed that the presynaptic proteins called synaptophysin and rab 3a and the postsyna...Data show cyclosporine inhalation solution improves long-term survival in lung-transplant patients
...red to other organ transplants, long-term survival following lung transplantation has not improved appreciably ...0s, and is significantly lower than survival rates following other solid organ transplants. About Lung Transplant Rejection Following transplantation there i...Two drugs combined more cost-effective safer for managing arthritis in high-risk patients
...develop patient scenarios and compare costs of the following three therapies often used for treating pain from chronic arthritis: 1) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug alone, such as Naproxen or Ibuprofen; 2) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug combined with an acid-reducing drug (proton pump inhibitor) s...New recommendation encourages more activist approach to lung cancer screening
...s for lung cancer risk to be substantially reduced following smoking cessation," says lead author Gary Strauss,...demonstrate that virtually all long-term survivors following the diagnosis of lung cancer were those who had undergone complete surgical removal of the tumor. I...Location of body fat associated with cardiovascular risk even at normal body weight
...tabolic syndrome if they met at least three of the following criteria: waist circumference greater than about 40.2 inches in men or 34.7 inches in women; elevated blood triglyceride levels; low high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels; high blood pressure, treated or untreated; and elevated blood suga...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
...ge therapies has gotten her answer to questions by following some old advice: she used the library. It's not the kind of library her mother or teacher suggested, but a combinatorial chemistry library of many different protein sequences that some day might help her and her colleagues develop a successf...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
... outcomes. "This study finds that adverse outcomes following modest errors in fibrinolytic dosing are often times not caused by the error, but by clinical factors that may contribute to higher likelihood of the error occurring," Mehta said. The ASSENT-2 trial was funded by Boehringer Ingelheim and Genentech, I...Late-breaking science presented at 57th AAN Annual Meeting
MIAMI BEACH The following are late-breaking scientific abstracts that will be presented during the American Academy of Neurology 57th Annual Meeting held in Miami Beach, Fla., April 9 16, 2005. Rufinamide Reduces Seizures in Treatment-Resistant Lennox-Gastaut Epilepsy Lenn...Jefferson researchers find timing of post-epilepsy surgery seizures predicts outcome
...ers studied 387 patients who had epilepsy surgery, following these patients for an average of 4.4 years. Although about two-thirds of patients experienced at least one seizure some time after surgery, a similar percentage ultimately stopped having seizures. They broke down patients into five groups: those ...Hormone aids recovery in rats with hemorrhagic stroke
...ive effect and improve functional recovery in rats following an intracerebral hemorrhage, which is a type of stroke. "This is the first evidence that erythropoietin has a therapeutic effect in hemorrhagic stroke," said study authors Dong-In Sinn, MD, and Jae-Kyu Roh, MD, of the Stroke & Neural Stem Cell Labora......y at one point in the pregnancy -- Ct-Arsenault is following 82 women with a prior loss throughout their current pregnancies. The women are keeping pregnancy calendars to record their emotional ups and downs during their pregnancies and are completing questionnaires at three points across their pregnancies, on...