Women missing out in heart treatment more needed in clinical trials
...en." Currently, conclusions for women were mostly reached retrospectively via subgroup, post hoc or meta-ana...was unacceptable, she said. Dr Stangl and her team reached their findings after an extensive review of articles on female-specific aspects of drug therapy for ...Newest HIV drugs should be used with FUZEON(R)
...67% of the patients receiving FUZEON plus TMC114/r reached an undetectable viral load TORO Phase III FUZEON ...ng with HIV from London, whose blood levels of HIV reached undetectable within six months of taking FUZEON and boosted tipranavir and has remained undetectable...Postmenopause and periodontal disease
... The age ranged from 45 to 73 and all subjects had reached menopause with the average age at 48.8 years....Surgery is favored treatment for severe hemorrhoids
...s to be considered before definite conclusions are reached about the relative economic effect of the two procedures. The review also made note of stapled hemorrhoidopexy as a new alternative to surgery, indicating that its standing as a treatment alternative awaits evaluation of the long-term results of the ...New report shows female lung cancer death rates in Europe still rising
...the year 20002001. [Rates for women in the USA had reached 24 per 100,000 in the year 2000 and few European countries have comparably high rates]. Only six European countries England, Wales, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia and Ukraine showed a fall over the last decade although in several countries the upward tr......illin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA, has reached epidemic proportions and poses a major threat to the public health. The UCSD team proved for the first time that the golden pigment that coats the surface of Staph is not just for decoration; rather, the molecules that give the bacteria its golden h...Child early intervention programs make for healthier adults
...the child's birth and participated until the child reached kindergarten age. Of 282 children initially enrolled in BEEP, the investigators were able to survey 120 as young adults, and compared them with non-participants from the same school systems. "There were significant impacts in the lower income, high r...Canadian researchers call for more angiograms
... both men and women," said Graham. "We haven't yet reached the optimal rate, but we will know when we do because the rate of testing and the rate of high-risk disease detections will level off--we haven't seen that yet." Graham's research also showed that of the people who received angiograms and fell into t...Dieting linked to increased wealth, study finds
...normal range (BMI 20), white males and Black women reached peak net worth at the upper end of the normal range (BMI 24) and Black males peaked in the obese range (BMI 32). Zagorsky emphasized that participants in this study had to lose quite a bit of weight to show strong improvements in wealth. For example,...New drug is effective in reducing rejection in heart transplantation
...ts, 77 of the 216 patients in the daclizumab group reached the primary end point (rejection, heart dysfunction, death or loss to follow up), compared with 104 of the 218 patients in the placebo group (36 percent versus 48 percent). There was no survival difference between patients who received placebo and da...Genetically modified cells migrate to brain and treat neurodegeneration in St. Jude model
...easing concentrations of the chemokines until they reached the site of the degenerating neurons. Normally, the immune cells recruited to the brain by chemokines would cause inflammation and worsen the damage. But in this case, the genetically modified monocytes restored the beta-galactosidase activity, which...10-year survival after minor stroke established
...ent was highest shortly after the ischaemic event, reached its lowest point at about 3 years, and gradually rose afterwards. Professor Algra concludes: "Throughout our study, the risk of mortality gradually rose, whereas that of stroke fell in the first three years and remained constant thereafterThese find...Key milestone in antifungal treatment for severe asthma
...chester researchers announced today that they have reached a key milestone in their study of the antifungal treatment of asthma. It is hoped that the study, by clinical researchers based at Manchester's Wythenshawe Hospital, will reduce steroid use and serious attacks requiring hospital intervention for as...Chronic infection may contribute to frailty in older women
...ns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Schmaltz can be reached at heidi.schmaltz@calgaryhealthregion.ca ....Newly published summer camp health guideline advises parents, camp directors
...how the camp would respond, and how parents can be reached in an emergency. The new policy statement for the first time advises parents to thoroughly assess whether a camp is right for their child's mental, emotional and physical well-being, as well as their interests and skills. That means, Walton says, t...In those genetically predisposed, 'developmental reprogramming' could explain cancer risk
...productive tract. They found that by the time they reached adulthood (16 months), virtually all of the rats in the experimental group had developed leiomyoma, and the tumors were larger and more numerous than in the control group. In contrast, none of the DES-exposed rats that lacked the genetic defect devel...Colonoscopy: A woman's best defense against colon cancer
...e health of the colon beyond the lower one-quarter reached by the sigmoidoscope," says co-author Andrew Flood, Ph.D., epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota Cancer Center and School of Public Health. "To detect polyps in the upper or proximal portion of the colon, which is where about two-thirds of th...Combo drug controls hypertension in hard-to-treat patients
...easingly stronger doses until their blood pressure reached a desirable goal. At the end of 18 weeks, the participants' systolic blood pressure (the top number) dropped an average of 21.5 points, from 154.4 to 132.9 points. Their diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) fell an average of 10.4 points, fr...Genes may influence nutritional composition of breast milk
...bies who got DHA supplements had better vision and reached development milestones earlier than infants who didn't get the supplements. On the other hand, insufficient DHA has been implicated in developmental disorders such as autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and learning disabilities, Weinbe...Magnetic stimulation treatment for depression helping difficult-to-treat cases at UT Southwestern
...ants. But, thanks to a new weapon, she has finally reached a truce in a 45-year battle. Mrs. Baas says a new treatment for depression is changing her life so much so that she's willing to drive 115 miles five days a week from Decatur to UT Southwestern Medical Center where she is participating in an expe...