Study finds differences between blood pressure medicines and newly-diagnosed diabetes
...omized clinical trials (in which the assignment of initial drugs is based solely on chance, thus balancing the groups regarding other risk factors for diabetes), and have found significant differences between antihypertensive drugs. ACE-inhibitors and the newer angiotensin receptor blockers, or ARBs prevent ...New angiogenesis inhibitor has promise for treating deadly brain tumor
...uthor. "While these are preliminary results of an initial trial, it's looking like these agents may play an ... shrink in most participants within 28 days of the initial AZD2171 dose. Overall, the tumors shrank by at least 25 percent in three-quarters of the study part...Canadian study shows bilingualism has protective effect in delaying onset of dementia by four years
... for the monolingual and bilingual groups at their initial visit to the clinic, indicating comparable levels of impairment. The age of onset of cognitive impairment was determined by the interviewing neurologist at the first clinic visit who asked patients and their families or caregivers when symptoms were ...Emory University announces new Global Health Institute
...'s history of global health partnerships. Emory's initial budget for the new Global Health Institute is $110 million, based on currently identified resources, including $55 million from the University's strategic plan and building funds and $55 million in investment from other sources including Emory school...Benefits of testosterone treatment unknown, research shows
...n testosterone should be prescribed. "One of the initial surprises is how limited the research evidence is regarding whether testosterone is an effective treatment for sexual dysfunction while being safe from the cardiovascular disease standpoint," says Victor M. Montori, M.D., MSc, lead researcher for May...Rice's Drezek wins $3M grant for breast cancer research
...aspects of breast cancer care," Drezek said. "From initial screening and diagnosis to guiding and monitoring therapeutic interventions, doctors use a variety of imaging technologies like x-rays, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI. But all of these technologies provide low-resolution, non-speci...NIAID DNA vaccine for H5N1 avian influenza enters human trial
...d elsewhere that have drifted genetically from the initial strains detected in Southeast Asia. With this study, the investigators hope to learn whether new technologies, such as DNA vaccines, can provide protection against such viruses. "This vaccine is aimed at newer strains of the H5N1 virus that current...Brain studies reveal the mechanisms of the voluntary control of visual attention
...ong and Woldorff, these results indicated that the initial electrical response up to 400 milliseconds mainly ...he head. This pattern of ERP activity suggested an initial start of attentional orienting in frontal areas only, followed by joint activity in both frontal and...Study calculates patient time costs associated with cancer care
...argest component of patient time costs in both the initial year after diagnosis and in the last year of life. "For 2005, the estimated cost for the initial phase of care alone was approximately $2.3 billion," the authors write. These estimates could be com...Health care expenditures significantly higher for children with obesity
...ts that occurred within a year from each patient's initial visit. Health care expenditures were determined by charge data obtained through the billing system of health care resources. Factors associated with the diagnosis of obesity were also examined. Based on the patients' BMI, 17.8 percent were overwei...Women on osteoporosis drug can discontinue use with no risk
...The new findings are from a follow-up study to the initial randomized trial that examined the effect of daily...treatment for postmenopausal osteoporosis. The initial study was named the Fracture Intervention Trial or FIT, and its results were reported in 1996 and 19...Long-term financial costs associated with prostate cancer treatment
...iting to $24,204 for external beam radiation. This initial treatment choice was, not surprisingly, affected by a patient's age and disease risk. Not surprisingly, older, high risk patients often required more expensive therapies, such as external beam radiation and androgen deprivation therapy, while younger...St. Jude, El Salvador create research ethics committee
...conducted according to ethical guidelines. The initial success of the REC approach encouraged other institutions in El Salvador to imitate the Hospital Bloom model and prompted the Salvadoran government to form a national committee to guide ethical research throughout the country. "The collaboration w...Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brain
...elected lines from Shakespeare's plays. In this initial test electrodes were placed on the subject's scalp to measure brain responses. Professor Roberts said: "EEG gives graph-like measurements and when the brain reads a sentence that does not make semantic sense it registers what we call a N400 effect......ere not visible on a mammogram. "Although these initial results are very exciting, we clearly need to image more patients to confirm the promise of the device," says Dr. Rhodes. She says the team hopes to complete the ongoing trial in the next two years....'Clumping' protein linked to return of ovarian cancer
...ancer patients who appear to be disease-free after initial treatment develop recurrent disease, according to the researchers. When the investigators compared levels of NAC-1 among primary and recurrent tumor samples taken from 338 ovarian cancer patients from two hospitals, they found that levels of NAC-1 w...Researchers devise safer way to dose life-saving heart drug
...we sought to develop a new method to determine the initial dose of digoxin in patients with heart failure." ... two older methods frequently used to estimate the initial dose of digoxin, and it was found to be superior. Using the new method, investigators constructed a ...Mass. General leading international trial of novel breast cancer drug
...Tykerb could benefit women several years after the initial diagnosis of breast cancer." ...Molecular structure reveals how botulinum toxin attaches to nerve cells
...ese RCEs has provided a rare atomic glimpse of the initial step one of these toxins takes to gain entry into human neurons. In an advanced online publication of the journal Nature, the scientists show structurally how botulinum neurotoxin B (one of seven toxins the bacterium produces) recognizes receptors...Height loss in older men associated with increased risk of heart disease, death
...nd deaths were tracked through 2005. Between the initial examination and the 20-year follow-up, the men lost an average of 1.67 centimeters of height. The researchers divided the participants into four groups based on how much their height changed: 1,471 lost less than 1 centimeter; 1,330 lost between 1 a...