Patients with heart disease can lower cardiovascular risk factors with exercise, stress management
...ther routine medical care (usual care); usual care plus supervised aerobic exercise training for 35 minutes 3 times per week for 16 weeks; or usual care plus weekly 1.5-hour stress management training for 16 weeks. The researchers found that patients in the ...Children's hospital neurologist receives Young Investigator Award in spinal muscular atrophy
...vide Sahin with $85,000 each year for three years, plus an allowance for tuition and research expenses. In a novel approach, the award also provides support for Sahin's mentor, Michael E. Greenberg, PhD, director of the Division of Neuroscience at Children's Hospital Boston and professor of neurology at H...Women with heart attacks benefit from stenting
...loon angioplasty, 528 received balloon angioplasty plus abciximab, 512 received stenting alone, while 524 received stenting plus abciximab. Women represented 27 percent of the study population, and their average age was 66. The...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...e including the usual battery of blood work tests, plus analysis for infectious diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS, hormonal imbalances, even cancer. That remarkable piece of plastic is called a lab-on-a-chip and it is one of the revolutionary products and processes currently emerging from nanotechnolo...Little answers to world's biggest problems
...including the usual battery of "blood work" tests, plus analysis for infectious diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS, hormonal imbalances, even cancer. That remarkable piece of plastic is called a "lab-on-a-chip" and it is one of the revolutionary products and processes currently emerging from nanotechno...Adverse outcomes from blood clot therapy may be due to patient characteristics, not dosing errors
... alteplase placebo) or alteplase (given as a bolus plus infusion, with tenecteplase placebo). The researchers found that incorrect dosing occurred in 4.9 percent of patients who received active alteplase and in 4.6 percent of patients who received corresponding placebo. Patients receiving incorrect doses ...Will cancer vaccine get to all women?
...h contains the same two cancer-causing HPV strains plus two strains that cause genital warts. Merck's official reason for including the warts strains is that they can confuse screening tests, leading to unnecessary scares. But another reason, says Anne Szarewski of the charity Cancer Research UK, who is...Gene expression pattern predicts multiple drug resistance, treatment failure in pediatric leukemia
... Among patients whose ALL cells were ASP-sensitive plus VCR-resistant, the five-year, relapse-free survival rate was 93 percent, compared to 56 percent among patients whose ALL cells were VCR sensitive and ASP resistant. The genes linked to discordant resistance included many that are involved with the fu...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, April 19, 2005
...ed U.S. city suggests that post-attack vaccination plus antibiotic therapy is the most effective and least expensive strategy (Article, p. 601). An editorialist finds the analysis limited because it fails to consider factors such as social panic, disintegration of the medical infrastructure, evacuation an...American Dietetic Association statement on new 'MyPyramid'
...ood Guidance System that includes a graphic symbol plus consumer messages and motivational and educational tools that work together to guide people toward healthy food choices. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines emphasize greater consumption of fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products and whole grains foods t...Jefferson Lab scientists build small-animal imager for German Cancer Research Center
...p with a senior DKFZ scientist, Joerg Peter, was a plus in developing the working relationship. The two researchers have known each other since their years at Duke University Medical Center. "We stayed in touch over the years. Ideas grew up during our conversations during professional conferences, based o...American Academy of Neurology sums up scientific highlights from 57th annual meeting
...ases. [P04.149] Cancer Temozolomide chemotherapy plus radiation is superior to radiation alone in treatment of glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain cancer, according to a new study. Six weeks of treatment led to a better than two-fold increase in survival of patients two years later, which translate...The power of drug advertising: Patients often get what they ask for
...d to take part and were reimbursed $100 per visit, plus $100 for completing surveys and $75 for staff expenses. When doctors agreed to participate and to being secretly audio-recorded, they were only told that the study would involve seeing patients who would present with a "combination of common symptoms...Institute of Medicine news: Changes needed in WIC program
... the links between nutrition and chronic diseases, plus the nation is in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Our proposed revisions would bring the foods provided through WIC up to date with current nutritional science and make it easier for participants to improve their diets and health." WIC -- shorthan...Treating children with chronic hepatitis C
...t treatment with recombinant peginterferon-alfa-2b plus ribavirin in children and adolescents with chronic... to studies using non-pegylated interferon-alfa-2b plus ribavirin, "it is particularly remarkable that all patients infected by genotype 2 and 3 showed perm...Too many doctors fail to follow guidelines and to prescribe best treatments for heart patients
... according to the guidelines for these three drugs plus the two other commonly used drugs, cardiac glycosides and diuretics. "This means there is a high proportion of patients who are not receiving the best possible treatment for their condition, and who suffer worsening symptoms and even death as a resul...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for May 2005 (first issue)
... a nicotine-treated group, and seven to a nicotine plus vitamin C group. The 14 pregnant rhesus monkeys were treated with a pump delivering nicotine bitartrate from gestation days 26 to 160. Seven received 250 mg of vitamin C per day. On gestation day 160 out of a term of 165 days, the fetuses were del...All low-fat diets are not equal, Stanford study shows
...luded the same proportions of fat and cholesterol, plus lots of plant-based foods in accordance with American Heart Association guidelines. Those diners ate such foods as hot grain cereals and vegetable soups. Both diets lowered total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or "bad") cholesterol over the course...CONRAD receives $24 million from Gates Foundation and USAID for HIV microbicide trials
...elopment (USAID), for a total of $24M. This grant plus the USAID award will allow two multi-country Phase III clinical trials of a product to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS. The main goal of the project is to determine if a vaginal microbicide candidate is an effective and safe method for prevent...Stents that release medication appear more effective than traditional stents
...outcomes for the treatments of high-dose tirofiban plus sirolimus-eluting stenting vs. a current preferred... for STEMI treatment, pretreatment with abciximab plus bare-metal stenting. The STRATEGY trial included 175 patients presenting to a single referral center...