Trusts perform better on chemical incidents but protective suits and tents still imperfect
...CPPE) and 83% had trained staff in its use. Of the responding hospital trusts, 98% had CPPE and 82% had trained staff to use them. Following the simulated incidents, staff interviewed were critical of the CPPE suits, saying they were 'very fiddly and cumbersome to assemble' it took train...Clinical trial of gefitinib for advanced lung cancer closes early
... as compared to placebo in patients with stable or responding disease. These patients had inoperable stage III NSCLC and already had completed the combined chemotherapy regimen of cisplatin and etoposide with radiation, followed by docetaxel. A total of 672 patients in this study were to be randomized to one ...Measuring enzymes at end of cancer pathway predicts outcome of Tarceva, Taxol
...possible to accurately assess whether patients are responding to these agents, as well as potentially others, within days of beginning therapy. In two different studies being presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the research team will describe how the test meas...Columbia research suggests need to rethink causes of heart failure
...mate cause of the syndrome, but rather it could be responding to conditions outside heart failure in patients with normal ejection fractions....Charter activation brings space dimension to European emergency exercise
...put resources at the service of rescue authorities responding to major natural or man-made disasters. To date the Charter has been activated more than 70 times. Following the UNISPACE III conference held in Vienna, Austria in July 1999, the Charter was initiated by ESA and CNES, with the Canadian Space Agency ...Metabolic side effects of antipsychotics are known, but rarely monitored
... Psychiatric Association in Georgia, Ohio and Iowa responding to a survey said they considered metabolic side effects serious or very serious, say researchers from the Medical College of Georgia, University of Iowa and Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare in Ohio. However monitoring for these problems including ge...