Phase II study shows combination improves survival of metastatic melanoma patients
...a cases has continued to rise at a rate of about 5 percent to 10 percent each year since the 1970s, Dr. Markovic says. Why" One cause, he says, is depletion of the ozone lay...Tumor cell activity may provide clues for treating breast cancer in young women
...diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, and about 22 percent -- or approximately 46,000-- were under the age of 50. The numbers are expected to be comparable in 2007....Gene variations point to why lung cancer drugs work better in Japanese vs. US patients
...ity. The U.S. group was predominantly Caucasian; 2 percent were Asian-Americans. To find clues to the differences, the scientists examined six genes in DNA samples from the patients. They found differences in four. In patients with certain variations in the CYP3A4 gene, it took 2.75 times longer for their ...Protein may be linked to melanoma recurrence
... the Melanoma Center at UPCI. We know that only 30 percent of these patients benefit from treatment long-term. The goal of our study was to identify better predictors of who will benefit most from treatment with interferon and who is most at risk of their cancer returning. The study also found that patien...VEGF Trap shows activity in patients with advanced ovarian cancer
...ted States. Favorable results were reported for 85 percent of participants after one month: 8 percent showed tumor shrinkage and 77 percent had stable disease. After fourteen weeks, 41 percent of patien...OHSU Cancer Institute shows findings of immunotherapy vaccine in prostate cancer patients
...tors found the rate at which PSA was rising was 30 percent to 48 percent slower in patients who received sipuleucel-T compared to those who received placebo. After patie...Dasatinib shows high early response rate as first treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
...Leukemia, evaluated their data. They found that 77 percent of patients at three months, 92 percent at six months and 95 percent at one year had a complete cytogenetic response. This rapid response ...MRI detects cancers missed by mammography in breast cancer patients
...at MRI detected tumors missed by mammography in 16 percent of 390 patients. Women with MRI-detected ipsilater...tumors were different from the primary tumor in 29 percent of patients. This is an important finding because breast cancer tends to be more aggressive when d...Adding medication improves recovery for elderly with depression, says Pitt School of Medicine study
... of the American Psychiatric Association. Up to 84 percent of the elderly who experience depression either fa... caused the likelihood of recovery to rise from 40 percent to 60 percent. Recovery was slower in those who did not respond to the original treatment. Depre...Getting the word out: Babies are born to be breastfed
...lodeon and Soap TV. The campaign worked: Almost 69 percent of men and 46 percent of women surveyed reported that they would be comfortable with having their child breastfed in publi...Highlights from the June 2007 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...n Quebec, Canada. The researchers found nearly 7 percent of children who didnt drink sugar-sweetened bevera... 4 were overweight at 4 years old compared to 15.4 percent of children who did drink them four to six times or more per week. Parents should be encouraged to...Journal Sleep: Longer CPAP use at night can normalize one's daytime functioning
...se, middle-aged men. The AASM estimates that four percent of men and two percent of women have OSA, and millions more remain undiagnosed. Safe and effective treatments are avail...VA tops private hospitals in infection-control study
...barrier precautions (MSB) to prevent infection: 84 percent of VA hospitals and 71 percent of non-VA hospitals. Ninety-one percent of VA hospitals regularly used chlorhexidine gluconate as an...Treatment outcomes of patients with HIV and tuberculosis
...ate for HIV-infected patients was found to be 6.6 percent versus 0.8 percent in uninfected/unknown patients. This finding was in contrast to other studies that did not find any ...OHSU Cancer Institute researcher identifies protein marker for prostate cancer survival
...(Taxotere), on survival, producing an estimated 49 percent improvement in survival (p=0.035), while reducing the frequency of serious adverse events by 34 percent (p=0.023) as compared to the use of Taxotere alone. Because this was the first time CRP has been l......probability of a MANPADS attack is greater than 40 percent over 10 years; 2) the economic losses are very large (greater than $75 billion); and 3) the countermeasures are relatively inexpensive (less than $15 billion) to implement. This analysis by Von Winterfeldt was a widely admired achievement of CREATE...International studies show high efficacy for HPV vaccine
... aimed at preventing cervical cancer is nearly 100 percent effective against the two types of the human papil...This is a much larger combined study that shows 99 percent efficacy, a clear reduction of pre-cancerous cervical lesions. We demonstrated significant protecti...Older motorists improve driving performance with physical conditioning
...ree months. Intervention drivers also committed 37 percent fewer critical errors. We found that this was a safe, well-tolerated intervention that maintained driving performance, said Marottoli, who is also Medical Director of the Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Having...Study: Directly observed HIV therapy for children is promising
...e program were about $5 per child per month, or 15 percent more than the price of the medications. Calculated...xtra money, we could be sure that children had 100 percent adherence to their medications, Pugatch said. We know that a high degree of adherence reduces the ch......he study. The success rate for CPR ranges from 5 percent to 10 percent, depending on how quickly it is admi... every minute lost in applying CPR results in a 10 percent decrease in successful resuscitation," Geddes said. "Time is the enemy. After 10 minutes, very few a...