Study finds safety test results on children's drugs not always reaching physicians
...lusivity studies are not being widely disseminated outside mandated changes to label information. The team reports its findings in the Sept. 13, 2006 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. There was no grant funding for this study. Between 1998 and 2004, manufacturers conducted 253 stud...SARS: No evidence that any of the treatments worked
...ed to know how these treatments affected the virus outside the body ('in vitro') and whether it helped the co...rther, especially whether they can be extrapolated outside this specific setting. Citation: Tupasi TE, Gupta R, Quelapio MID, Quelapio RB, Mira NR, et al. (20...MRI more accurately determines cancer spread into breast ducts
...f caution by using a surgical margin that is 20 mm outside the radiologically determined tumor margin," said Dr. Shimauchi. Underestimation of the length of the intraductal components by 15 mm or more was significantly less frequent with MRI (30%) compared to MDCT (55%), she said....Multiple sclerosis damage found in 'normal' brain tissue
...renken said. "This may be due to disease activity outside the visible lesions." To gain a better understan...findings demonstrate that in MS, disease processes outside MR-visible lesions are not limited to a few sites but act throughout the brain and affect large frac...USC research shows dogs and smog don't mix
... results, for example that kids with dogs exercise outside more so they have more exposure to air pollution." ...New device may improve vision and mobility for people with tunnel vision
...ion were asked to find targets that were projected outside their residual visual fields. The researchers found that the search directness was greatly improved for all patients when the device was used. They also found a significant reduction in search time (22%) in patients with a visual field wider than 10...Largest review of Loeys-Dietz Syndrome to date
...rmally are found on the cell's surface, facing the outside of the cell, where TGF-beta can be found floating around. The receptors contain specialized domains - dubbed kinase domains -- that, when bound by TGF-beta, add a chemical phosphate group to molecules that set in motion a domino-like effect within...Yale helps organize conference to identify new treatments for Tourette Syndrome
...e conference will bring together scientists in and outside of the TS field to evaluate recent findings in neuroscience to update the current treatment for tics. "We have assembled a group of experts across a range of basic science and clinical fields who probably would not otherwise interact with each oth...Report issued on outbreak of serious eye infection linked with use of certain contact lens solution
...tact lens solution bottles or lens cases occurring outside of the manufacturing or storage processes, perhaps in patients' homes. However, suboptimal contact lens hygiene practices appear unlikely as the major explanation for the outbreak," the researchers write. "Ongoing studies may help to determine if ...Scientists learn more about how roughage keeps you 'regular'
...tes the inside world, if you will, from this nasty outside world. On the cellular scale, roughage, such as gr...ar is like an open door through which calcium just outside the cell rushes in. Too much calcium is lethal but that first taste signals the vulnerable cell it b...Consensus reached on new guidelines for ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death
... term "massive heart attack" is often wrongly used outside the physician community to describe sudden death. The term "heart attack" refers to death of heart muscle tissue due to the loss of blood supply and therefore oxygen, not necessarily resulting in a cardiac arrest or the death of the heart attack vic...Just breathe: Ozone forecaster unveiled at University of Houston, available via Web
... those with respiratory problems, plan their day's outside activities. The Web site is updated daily with the most recent 48-hour local, regional and national forecasts, providing graphical analysis of the onset, intensity, duration and area of poor air quality conditions via access to hourly data from 165 ......clinical trial activity and expansion into markets outside Australia and is inclusive of the impacts of Australian equivalents to International FinancialReporting Standards (AIFRS). Ventracor had cash reserves at 30 June 2006 of $51.87 million (2005: $32.95 million) following the successful recent completi...Study finds cardiac toxicity rates high with herceptin use
... at what happened to patients treated in a clinic, outside of an organized trial, after they used Herceptin for at least a year. "We often give it for several years if patients are responding to the treatment, so we set out to quantify the risks," he says. The study followed 173 patients with metastatic brea...Voluntary household interventions can reduce death and disease burden from pandemic influenza
...ion of actively infected individuals in a location outside the household. This would be the case even if only half of the population complied with such measures. Joseph Wu and colleagues (from the University of Hong Kong) developed a mathematical model to simulate the course of pandemic influenza in a typ...Study demonstrates successful HIV-prevention program for Latino youth
...ticipants were Puerto Rican, with nearly half born outside the mainland United States. Participants averaged 14.9 years of age and 87 percent were students in grades 8 through 11. More than 40 percent reported having engaged in sexual intercourse at least once, with an average age at first intercourse of 13....New hope in cancer vaccines emerges as novel therapies are developed and tested
...s lymph node, and the unique cancer markers on the outside of their cancer cells are identified. To create th...resence of just one type of protein that studs the outside of a glioma tumor. This protein, epidermal growth factor variant III (EGFRvIII), is found on 30 perc...Do close surgical margins predict if breast cancer will return?
...Doctors then examine it under a microscope. If the outside of the tumor, or margin, is free of cancer, it's considered to be a negative margin. If the outside of the tumor has cancer cells present, it's considered a positive margin. When it's unclear, or a ve...ACP tells Congress: Pilot test patient-centered medical home
...d include payment for care coordination that falls outside of an office visit. Payments should be sufficient to support practices in acquiring the needed information technologies. Physicians in a patient-centered medical home should be able to earn higher performance-based payments and share in savings fro...W.M. Keck Foundation announces 2006 class of Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research
...earch staff and a scientific advisory committee of outside scientific experts. The committee carefully evaluated each of the program finalists and recommended the five winners, who were unanimously approved by the Foundation's Board of Directors. ...