Johns Hopkins scientists uncover clues to 'disappearing' precancers
...e likely to regress and potentially avoid surgery, plus provide the opportunity to treat early-stage disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control, an estimated 20 million people in the United States are infected with HPV and up to three-quarters of these have viral strains that are linked to cerv...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for July 5, 2005
... soybean protein amounts to about one 'soy burger' plus one to two cups of soy milk. Many people may not be able to consume this much soy protein every day and no one knows if that amount is safe, the writers say. Both the study authors and the editorial writers cite some evidence of an association betwe...Women report various symptoms after stopping hormone therapy
...on of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) estrogen plus progestin (E + P) trial findings that the overall ...esterone [CEE + MPA] or placebo) when the estrogen plus progestin intervention (part of the WHI study) was stopped. Surveys were mailed 8 to 12 months afte...Hepatitis C responds best to combo of ribavirin and interferon, study concludes
... compared to 58 percent of those gettinginterferon plus ribavarin. Among those who had relapsed after previous treatment 87 percent ofinterferon-only patients did not respond, compared to 51 percent whowere on combination therapy. Of the patients who had not responded at all to previous therapy, 95percent...Virtual colonoscopy reveals diseases outside the colon, as well
...spleen, gall bladder, adrenal glands, and bladder, plus the lower part of the lungs. In men, the scan includes the prostate; in women, the uterus and ovaries. "Typically, these are patients who are not symptomatic for their extracolonic lesion; that's not what brought them in for a CT scan," Yee notes. "A...Newest HIV drugs should be used with FUZEON(R)
...ble the proportion of patients who received FUZEON plus tipranavir/r showed a 90% drop in viral load compa...ble the proportion of patients who received FUZEON plus TMC114/r achieved a viral load below 50 copies/ml compared with patients not receiving FUZEONA remar...Cognitive therapy reduces repeat suicide attempts by 50 percent
...nts. However, the combination of cognitive therapy plus case management services was effective in preventing suicide attempts." He suggests that cognitive therapy's short-term nature makes it a good fit for treatment of suicide attempters at community mental health centers. "Suicide and suicide attempts a...'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for improving health, environment
...mula contains a broad-spectrum antibacterial agent plus a special combination of polymers to deliver it. The total cost of dental diseases in the United States is expected to reach nearly $90 billion by the end of 2005. This toothpaste has been shown to reduce gingivitis by 88 percent. ExxonMobil and A...Survey finds many Katrina evacuees had chronic health problems and no health insurance
..., 2005. The margin of error for overall results is plus or minus 4 percentage points.The survey was conducted and analyzed jointly by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health. Interviews were conducted by 28 professional, Houston-based interviewers under t...New tools used to control foodborne hepatitis A outbreaks related to green onions
...l RNA sequences from patients in the three states, plus patients involved in a subsequent outbreak in Pennsylvania in October 2003 (the latter recently described in the Sept. 1 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine), were slightly different from each other. The viral sequence from each outbreak, ho...CryoSat launch will be blast from the Cold War past
...wo-stage intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) plus a Breeze-KM third stage to place the payload in its final orbit. Codenamed 'Stiletto' by NATO, around 300 SS-19s were manufactured between the mid 1970s and 80s to serve as a major part of the old Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal. The liquid-fuelled I...PRESERVE- 2-year study of initial combo therapy with nateglinide or glyburide + metformin
...earchers also observed that treatment with Starlix plus metformin was weight neutral, while participants i... the body's natural response to meals, the Starlix plus metformin group had greater reductions in post-meal glucose levels (post prandial glucose or PPG) th...Long-term smoking is associated with up to 40 percent increased risk of breast cancer
... combination hormone-replacement therapy (estrogen plus progestin) to the mix increase their odds of getting breast cancer by 110 percent: more than double that of women who've never smoked or taken HRT. These findings, by Christopher I. Li, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues, appear online and will be published...National funding goes to Johns Hopkins to advance research on stem cell therapies for heart attack
...00 new cases of heart attack in the United States, plus an additional 300,000 cases of recurrent heart attack. More than 3 million Americans suffer from congestive heart failure, a common target of the myoblast stem cell therapy. Myoblasts are the stem cells found in muscles....Only one-third of women take vitamin to help prevent serious birth defects, survey finds
...able to sampling and other random effects could be plus or minus two percentage points. The also survey found: Nearly 90 percent of women surveyed believe there are things they can do to prevent births defects. These women cited avoiding alcohol and drugs and not smoking as the top two things that cou...Cancer treatment illustrates UI, private sector partnership
...ual inventors and their respective academic units, plus an institution-wide research enrichment fund administered at the discretion of the UI Vice President for Research. The UIRF has also received a share of the earnings to fund its continued operations....Use of pulmonary artery catheterization does not show benefit for severe heart failure patients
...ated to PAC use, and no difference for in-hospital plus 30-day mortality (10 [4.7 percent] vs. 11 [5.0 percent]). Exercise and quality of life end points improved in both groups with a trend toward greater improvement with the PAC, which reached significance for the time trade-off at all time points after...GSK accused of misleading FDA on safety of asthma drug
... interim analysis included events from the 28-week plus 6-month period and were provided to an independent DSMB [Data Safety Monitoring Board], not to GSK. The interim analysis suggested worse outcomes in salmeterol-treated patients, mainly African-AmericansAfter discussions with the DSMB, GSK was provide...Curcumin halts spread of breast cancer in mice
... while the group using curcumin alone and curcumin plus Taxol "significantly reduced" both the incidence and numbers of visible lung metastases. Microscopic metastasis, or metastasis that is visible only when using a microscope, was found in the lungs of 28 percent of mice treated with the combination of...Radiation and hormone therapy after surgery cures breast cancer
... radiation therapy (with a boost to the tumor bed) plus hormone therapy (either Tamoxifin or Arimidex) after surgery and one receiving only hormone therapy following surgery. The results show a significant reduction in cancer returning in the breast among the patients who received radiation. Only one rel...