American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (first issue)
... with rifampin throughout." The article about the remarkable history of tuberculosis treatment appears in the first issue for April 2005 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ....Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...d 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 nanotechnology research with the potential to transform the lives of billions of the world's most vulnerable inhabitants. Ac...Little answers to world's biggest problems
...d 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 nanotechnology research with the potential to transform the lives of billions of the world's most vulnerable inhabitants. I...Bad outcomes related to, but not caused by, misdosing of clotbusters in heart attack patients
...h worse outcome," Granger said. "This is clearly a remarkable finding, as well as a reason to pause whenever we see a relationship between a treatment and an outcome, we must be careful in ascribing cause and effect. Other factors may also be involved, and additional studies are needed to better understand wha...Brain imaging study explains Williams syndrome language gifts
...ed, thickened cortical region in language areas is remarkable because patients with Williams syndrome show marked strengths in language and related abilities. The ability to map these abnormalities in living patients demonstrates how genes control development of the human cortex, and also aids clinical prognosi...Lessons to be learnt from life at the very limit
...ith physiological and environmental extremes a few remarkable people are somehow able to adapt and find the will to climb this mountain. But how in this seemingly lethal hypoxic environment is it possible? For a molecule upon which all human life depends our understanding of oxygen and its physiological role i...Specific behaviors seen in infants can predict autism, new research shows
...fants as young as 12 months that can predict, with remarkable accuracy, whether a child will develop autism. The preliminary findings, published this month in the International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, were taken from an ongoing study of 200 Canadian infants, the largest study of its kind in the...Fiber supplements may lower cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetics
...dy its effect in people with type 2 diabetes. "The remarkable observation is that this works on two sides: It decreased LDL and increased HDL by significant amounts at 90 days," said the study's lead author, Peter J. Verdegem, Ph.D., chief science officer at Unicity International. "This approach is virtually f...Treating children with chronic hepatitis C
...rferon-alfa-2b plus ribavirin, "it is particularly remarkable that all patients infected by genotype 2 and 3 showed permanent response." The authors also emphasized the importance of the high viral response rate of children whose liver enzyme tests were normal before treatment began, which suggests that such c...Stents that release medication appear more effective than traditional stents
...ppropriate long-term antiplatelet therapies. It is remarkable to see how STEMI management has evolved over the last decade. With use of increasingly sophisticated stent technology, patients with STEMI are now enjoying substantial benefit by virtue of improved reperfusion with primary PCI, fewer ischemic complic...The role of the Royal Society should be reviewed
...s the subversive subject of science and to witness remarkable experimentsBut the Royal Society today is a lazy institution, resting on its historical laurels. Instead of being the intellectual hub of European scientific culture, it has reinvented itself as something far more self-serving and parochial. It is li...As morphine turns 200, drug that blocks its side effects reveals new secrets
...econic) and with a new alkaline base (morphium), a remarkable substance." As he predicted, chemists and physicians soon grew interested in his discoveries. Serturner's crystallization of morphine was the first isolation of a natural plant alkaloid. It sparked the study of alkaloid chemistry and hastened the...Experimental therapies and vaccines for Ebola and Marburg viruses focus of Academy meeting
...nfections in Africa have been characterized by two remarkable features they have been unusually sustained and have maintained extremely high fatality rates. These two features have underscored the need to expand our current understanding of these fatal hemorrhagic diseases and to accelerate progress towards p...Use of high hydrostatic pressure to inactivate Hepatitis A virus in oysters studied
...tion of oysters. Several studies have demonstrated remarkable concentration and persistence of HAV in shellfish exposed to the virus through their surrounding seawater. Even with depuration, HAV may persist in oysters for several weeks after exposure. The virus also is fairly resistant to heating and may remain...Study confirms intensive treatment of diabetic patients significantly reduces heart disease
... to participate in the DCCT/EDIC study (which is a remarkable 93% of the original volunteer base), the intensively treated patients had a 57% reduction in the number of serious cardiovascular events such as heart attacks and strokes -- compared to the conventionally treated group. According to the ADA, the risk...Tight glucose control lowers CVD by about 50 percent in diabetes
...T participants published in 2003. But what's most remarkable about intensive control, the researchers say, is its long-lasting value. After 6 years of the DCCT, HbA1c levels averaged 7 percent in the intensively treated group and 9 percent in the conventionally treated group. When the study ended, the convent...Ten million Africans treated by international disease treatment programme
...ge London, adds: "Alan and his team have managed a remarkable feat in treating so many people in such a short period of time. These figures show how initiatives such as the SCI can make a real difference in tackling serious problems in the developing world." About schistosomiasis Schistosomiasis is a chronic ...Majority of ALS patients are not depressed
...ely to become depressed as death approached. "It's remarkable that a majority of ALS patients have a more positive attitude toward life even as the inevitability of death is imminent," Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, MD, PhD, wrote with her colleague and mentor Richard K. Olney, MD, in an accompanying editorial. Olney ...Newest HIV drugs should be used with FUZEON(R)
...es/ml compared with patients not receiving FUZEONA remarkable 67% of the patients receiving FUZEON plus TMC114/r reached an undetectable viral load TORO Phase III FUZEON trials Over 24 weeks, double the proportion of patients who received FUZEON plus lopinavir/r achieved an undetectable viral load (<50 c...Tsunami raises questions about disaster mental health, Science reports
...red that many people in the region also have shown remarkable resilience. He also found that the massive international effort to provide "psychosocial aid" has had its share of problems. In an interview, he describes travels among the survivors and teams of mental health workers-and the human repercussions of t...