High-power MRI helps Mayo Clinic surgical team predict outcomes in unusual tumor cases
...be performed safely in these rare tumors that were once considered unresectable," he says. "In addition, the same techniques that we have developed have tremendous applications to many patients who have peripheral nerve tumors in more common locations."...Response to anti-HIV therapy improved if treatment begins six months after preventive regimen
...ew England Journal of Medicine. Nevirapine, given once during labor, alone or in combination with a short course of zidovudine (AZT) during pregnancy, provides an inexpensive, effective way to reduce the chances that a pregnant woman will pass HIV on to her child. A single dose of nevirapine is a comm...Study finds unexpected results in acid suppression between two OTC heartburn treatments
...imens: omeprazole magnesium 20.6 mg (Prilosec OTC) once a day; famotidine 10 mg (Pepcid AC) twice a day; and famotidine 20 mg (now available over-the-counter as Maximum Strength Pepcid AC) twice a day. 1 During the study treatment period, the amount of acid production was measured over 24-hours several ti...Brain studies reveal the mechanisms of the voluntary control of visual attention
...ted movement toward the car," Woldorff said. "Or, once upon a time, it may have helped our prehistoric ancestors forage for berries while carefully maintaining attention on a distant, hopefully not too hungry, lion."...Brains can recover from alcoholic damage but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible
...w the brain regained volume and function early on, once alcoholics, who had no complicating factors, had stopped drinking alcohol. It was carried out in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Oxfords Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB) and from the Universit...Could the ability to expel worms lead to a future asthma treatment?
...a, anemia and malnutrition. Stranded soldiers were once advised by field manuals to eat a cigarette or drink a tablespoon of kerosene to stun the worms, but modern antihelminthic drugs (e.g. Albendazole, Ivermectin, Thiabendazole) are effective and much safer. Drug treatments, however, do not reach many l...Nursing home or hospital: State policy has big impact on elderly
... all residents were admitted to hospitals at least once during those five months, with rates varying from a low of 8 percent in Utah to a high of 25 percent in Louisiana. Researchers found a strong link between the size of Medicaid payments and the number of hospital admissions. The higher the Medicaid ...Research offers hope for alcoholics
...cs craving for alcohol, as well as prevent relapse once they have recovered from alcohol addiction. The ...craving for alcohol, as well as preventing relapse once the alcoholic has recovered," he said. Dr Lawrence said that this research could also lead to trea...Higher physical activity associated with reduced risk of breast cancer
... was defined as participation in vigorous activity once per week or moderate activity one to four times per week; and low physical activity included the rest of the women (17,222). Follow-up questionnaires were completed in 1987, 1989, 1992, 1997 and 2002. Information about breast cancer cases, includin...Clinical study results using Aldagen's product to isolate cord blood stem cells presented at ASH
... was 79.5% (p=0.003). The findings of this study once again show the promise of transplanting stem cells from umbilical cord blood to treat children with resistant cancers and genetic diseases, said Dr. Kurtzberg. The infusion of cells enriched with ALDESORT has had no adverse effects and appears to im...Drivers ignore the risk of mobile phone use
...that drivers are engaged in a distracting activity once every six minutes. During a given driving trip, 72% of drivers will report a lack of concentration, 69% will adjust in-vehicle equipment, 58% are distracted by outside events, objects or people and 40% will talk to passengers, all of which account fo...Swedish massage benefits osteoarthritis patients
...a week for four weeks, followed by Swedish massage once a week for the next four weeks at the Siegler Center for Integrative Medicine at the Saint Barnabus Ambulatory Care Center in Livingston, New Jersey. After the first eight weeks of massage therapy, participants had improved flexibility, less pain and...Contact lenses a good choice for children 12 and younger
...r did peer perceptions seem to change dramatically once a child or teen began wearing contact lenses. "Vanity doesn't seem to be a factor in children's or teens' satisfaction with switching to contact lenses," Walline said. Children wore their lenses almost as long as teens parents reported that thei...UW-Madison researchers clear way to stronger glass
...rmally, a piece of glass is allowed to cool all at once and the inner molecules, unable to move freely, tend to be trapped in disarray. Ediger and his team, in collaboration with researchers in the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, designed a new techniq...Enhanced depression care may be cost-effective for employers
...onsisted of screening all employees for depression once and then providing telephone counseling and other depression management strategies for employees with positive results. In the model: Hypothetical employees were 40 years old, the median age of U.S. workers The workers were divided into six gro...Regulatory pathway in brain development possible basis for malformations
...t are often thought of as independent of signaling once they are initiated may really be under tight regulation by signaling-dependent pathways that compete with them for access to factors like Zfp423." He added that development of this mouse could lead to targeted therapies for some genetic brain disord...Drug labels are prescriptions for mistakes
...the label for felodipine (Take one tablet by mouth once each day). - Patients with low literacy were less able to understand the meaning of all five medication labels than those with adequate literacy. - The majority (51.8 percent) of incorrect patient responses reflected an error in dosage (e.g., tab...New breast CT scanner rivals mammography
...ses on digital film or on better follow-up testing once a conventional mammogram raises questions. The big...s to have a commercial scanner on the market soon, once the FDA approves the device, said John Neugebauer, CEO of Koning....Recovering alcoholics with poor sleep perceptions will likely relapse
...e sleep-inducing effects among non-alcoholics, but once drinking becomes chronic, alcohol's effects on sleep become much more negative in nature. New findings indicate that individuals in early recovery from alcoholism who have inaccurate sleep perceptions are more likely to return to drinking. Results ......e plays a role, too. As an impovershed student, he once tried to convince a date that he had bought a bottle of fine wine for their picnic. All he did was have the liquor store clerk switch pricetags, so the poor girl thought she was drinking a $9.50 bottle of good stuff from Normandy instead of some $2 g...