Increasing the success of liver transplants by managing levels of anti-rejection drugs
...od levels of CNIs to stay within target ranges for individual patients. The study involved 217 patients, aged 6 months to 21 years, who received liver transplantation at least three months before the start of the study. In the past, doctors relied on their experience to make decisions about how and when to c...National medical and public health groups sue EPA
... Air Act. This proposed trading scheme threatens individual communities with toxic mercury 'hot spots,' local areas of higher mercury concentrations that could result in dangerous levels of human exposure. "Our nation's health and safety is at stake. The EPA can help prevent future brain impairment in Amer...Doctors argue for new ways to resolve health treatment choices
...t be considered the same regardless of whether the individual had six months or six years left to live without it? The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in England and Wales, and the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC), make recommendations about which new treatments should be made available to...Investigating 'brain shrinkage' in alcoholics
...etter and some for the worse, depending on when an individual is studied. Because human alcoholics cannot be fo...ntrolling structure and function and even identify individual proteins that might play a role in cognitive deficits as well as recovery and repair of the brain. ...National Service Framework for heart failure urgently needed
...to 17% of patients. This is not just of concern to individual patients whose lives are being curtailed by lack of treatment, but also to society as a whole, warn the authors. "Heart failure is an enormous consumer of healthcare resources. The largest proportion of these costs is on inpatient hospital care, an...Fine tuning drug levels in neuroblastoma patients is effective, St. Jude researchers show
... a powerful tool for tailoring cancer treatment to individual children, said Clinton F. Stewart, Pharm.D., assoc...esources to repeatedly monitor topotecan levels in individual children and fine tune doses to match each child's needs, he noted. Therefore, his laboratory is now...MRI can help predict breast cancer recurrence
... help us to better tailor treatment strategies for individual patients. A larger multi-center study is currently underway to see if MRI can determine if chemotherapy is working early enough for treatment to be changed," she said....FDA approves first blood test to predict risk for stroke
...ely predict who is at risk for stroke, so that the individual can take proactive and preventative measures, such as lifestyle modification or therapeutic intervention, including statins and daily aspirin." This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) along with funding from GlaxoSmithKlin...Non-invasive MRI technique distinguishes between Alzheimer's and frontotemporal dementia
... arterial spin labeling can be used to diagnose an individual patient. The next step for future research, he sai...tter determine what is normal, and then compare an individual subject with this normal range." Schuff intends to continue his studies using a more powerful MRI sy...Street-level London air pollution warnings coming via mobile phones
...ourAir resolves air pollution down to the scale of individual streets highest levels are often found along routes with heavy traffic or other pollution sources, so information on street-by-street changes in pollution help vulnerable people make informed choices about their travel routes. The prototype servi...UCI researchers create method for predicting most effective use of cancer-fighting drugs
...es of cancer progression and examining the fate of individual mutant colonies during therapy. It then pinpoints under what circumstances these mutant cells become a problem and the therapy stops being effective. The finding will help physicians determine when a combination of drugs will be more effective in fi...Patients may want to skip that cup of coffee before undergoing PET/CT scans
...s Dr. Osman. By avoiding caffeine and exercise, an individual has a better chance of providing a "good view" of his or her body's condition. Patients who had coffee before their scans had a "significantly higher" myocardial uptake than those with low or no caffeine intake, says Dr. Osman. Even average caffeine ...Cedars-Sinai medical tipsheet for June 2005
...astasize. Observing these changes in the tissue of individual patients may offer physicians a way to accurately diagnose breast carcinoma and predict further development. The molecular mechanism itself is seen as a future target for therapy aimed at cutting off the oxygen and nutrients tumors require. AFTER LU...Rice bioengineer wins ASME's Van C. Mow Medal
...2004, the Van C. Mow Medal is given annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of bioengineering through research, education, professional development, leadership in the development of the profession, as a mentor to young investigators and with service to the bioengineering co...Keyhole surgery is a safe option for colon cancer
...rranted to establish the optimum procedure for the individual patient with colon cancer."...New study showed ramelteon helped adults with chronic insomnia fall asleep, sleep longer
...aints of chronic insomnia, a condition in which an individual cannot fall asleep, stay asleep and/or wake up feeling restored or refreshed for at least one month. "Probably more than half of all Americans experience a sleep problem at some time in their lives, and it's a serious problem for many adults. Peopl...Revealed: The true cost to the nation of multiple pregnancies
...by the country, through social security, or by the individual patients themselves. Equal access to high quality treatments is clearly considered as an ethical issue in our societies and, since money is not unlimited, cost is an important choice parameter, even if it is not the only one. "It is also very import...Online analytical toolbox for cancer and other biomedical research
...of knowledge that can be extracted from any of the individual data sets is limited. However, using the online toolbox researchers can perform analyses in an integrated manner that could lead to better disease diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and drug discovery. The toolbox performs information fusion using mul...Unease over guidelines that label 9 out of 10 people as sick
...e part of the population is to become a target for individual and lifelong risk interventions. For instance, the potential benefits for treated patients become less at lower risk levels, whereas the rates of side effects remain similar. Evidence for the long term effectiveness of treatment is also lacking. Fin...Georgetown cancer researchers develop high throughput method
...ndrical core samples of tissue, each taken from an individual patient, into a cube-like paraffin block, which is...ogy uses a simple strategy of stacking "plates" of individual tissue, and bonding them with glue. The multiple stacks are then transversely cut and bonded edge-t...