ACC/AHA release revised UA/NSTEMI guidelines
...s discharged from the hospital to reduce risk of a recurrent heart attack. We are emphasizing the use of ACE in...ecause platelets are thought to play a key role in recurrent heart attack, the anti-platelet therapy clopidogrel is now recommended for at least one year after p...Electric fields have potential as a cancer treatment
...e technique was applied to ten human patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a form of brain can... results compared favorably to historical data for recurrent GBM, in which the time for tumor progression is approximately 10 weeks and the typical survival time...Benefits of trastuzumab are lasting, reducing both HER2 + breast cancer deaths and recurrence
...emotherapy are living longer and with less risk of recurrent disease, compared to patients treated with chemoth...atients in the chemotherapy group have developed a recurrent tumor or have died, compared to only 222 in the trastuzumab group. These results mean that the ha...Hot flashes may be welcome sign in women with breast cancer, study says
...ted having hot flashes were less likely to develop recurrent breast cancer than those who did not report hot flashes, according to a study from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Moreover, hot flashes were a stronger predictor of outcome than age, hormone receptor sta...Vorinostat shows anti-cancer activity in recurrent gliomas
...he drug vorinostat shows activity in patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme. These findings were prese...nterventions have minimal impact on the outcome of recurrent glioblastoma multiforme patients," Dr. Galanis says. "Using vorinostat to treat glioblastoma multifo...GSK's Pazopanib shows positive results in patients with advanced RCC and ovarian cancer
...ents will respond initially to first-line therapy, recurrent disease remains a considerable problem....Flaxseed stunts the growth of prostate tumors
...eness of flaxseed supplementation in patients with recurrent prostate cancer, and ultimately to study its role as a preventative agent. ...VEGF Trap shows activity in patients with advanced ovarian cancer
... Trap (aflibercept) show activity in patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) who had received three or four prior chemotherapy regimens and had become resistant to platinum-based chemotherapy agents. The findings, which are being presented today at the American Society of Clinical Oncologys ann...OHSU Cancer Institute shows findings of immunotherapy vaccine in prostate cancer patients
...eucel-T, or Provenge, in patients with early stage recurrent prostate cancer who have a rising serum prostate s... men, all of whom had prostatectomies and then had recurrent cancer as detected by a rise in the serum tumor marker, PSA. After three months of hormone therapy, ...Wide range of sleep-related disorders associated with abnormal sexual behaviors, experiences
...rome (KLS), a rare sleep disorder characterized by recurrent and unusually long episodes of hypersomnia. 1. Broad range of hypersexual and deviant sexual arousal and behaviors B. Severe chronic insomnia 1. Increased libido, genital arousal, compulsive sexual behaviors C. Restless legs syndro...New biodegradable magnesium stents for coronary arteries
...get lesion vascularisation within 12 months due to recurrent ischaemia (lack of blood flow to the tissues). The authors say: "This study showed that absorbable magnesium stents can be delivered and expanded at high pressure in artherosclerotic coronary arteries, providing good mechanical scaffolding and achi...Innovative device to treat brain cancer shows promise in early studies
...the median overall survival rates in patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common and aggressive type of malignant brain tumor. These survival rates observed in the data were compared to historical data. This research, which includes the results of cell culture, animal and early phase...Syphilis screening, lithium fights neurodegeneration, monoclonal antibodies against avian flu
...atient who had surgery over many months because of recurrent epilepsy, the researchers were able to detect an antigen (HHV-6 gp116/54/64), which is specific for HHV-6B, in astrocytes (primary brain cells). Finally, the authors showed that infection of cell cultures of astrocyes infected with HHV-6 showed a mar...NHLBI Asthma Clinical Research Networks and ALA ACRC Network to present at ATS 2007
...ed to be at high risk of asthma include those with recurrent wheezing in the first three years of life, as well as those with eczema or a parent with asthma. A second presentation on the PEAK study will look at whether there are ways to predict which high-risk children will do poorly with their asthma. "Some ...When it comes to preventing amputation in diabetics, site, not size, matters
...lp physicians and their patients predict dangerous recurrent wounds that precede amputations in persons with di...y factors that dramatically increased the risk for recurrent wounds in these patients, thereby increasing their risk for gangrene and amputation. These findings ...New research supports early testing for prostate cancer
... disease progression and the hormonal treatment of recurrent disease. A special session for media highlighting this research was held on May 20 at 9:00 a.m. PDT and was moderated by AUA spokesman Christopher L. Amling, M.D. A SINGLE PSA MEASUREMENT IN MIDDLE AGE PREDICTS DIAGNOSIS OF ADVANCED PROSTATE CAN...Patients with 'bleeding' strokes less likely to get prevention treatment
...y to receive medications and counseling to prevent recurrent strokes compared to patients with an ischemic (clot-caused) stroke, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's 8th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke. These findings are the re...JCI table of contents: May 10, 2007
...eukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD) III suffer from recurrent infections and an increased tendency to bleed. The... by B cell defects, low immunoglobulin levels, and recurrent bacterial infections. Recently, Raif Geha and colleagues from Harvard Medical School reported that t...Combined molecular-targeted and hormonal therapies offer promise in treating ovarian cancer
...ials have confirmed the role of hormone therapy in recurrent ovarian cancer treatment, especially in patients w...apy has proven to be generally ineffective against recurrent ovarian cancer, which has led researchers to investigate novel treatments. "While a cure is unlike...HCV patients survival after liver transplantation is not improving
...ut the cumulative probability of developing severe recurrent disease remained unchanged," the authors report. They pinpointed the combination of a female recipient receiving an old graft as a strong risk factor for a severe recurrence. An accompanying editorial by Marina Berenguer of Hospital La Fe in Valenc...