Amoxicillin use during infancy may be linked to tooth enamel defects
...w.jamamedia.org .) Editor's Note: This study was sponsored by grants from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Editorial: Amoxicillin and Fluorosis Too Soon to Cap the Medicine Bottle? In an editorial accompanying the article, Paul S. Casamassimo, D.D.S., M.S., of the Ohio State University Coll...Mayo Clinic research collaboration discovers why some DNA repair fails
...ati, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School. Their work was sponsored by grants from the National Institutes of Health....Breast cancer increases while experts disagree on causes - Debate in crisis say academics
...risk, the Economic and Social Research Council has sponsored a detailed investigation of the issues involved here. A research team led by Laura Potts, Reader in Public Health and Environment, York St. John College has undertaken a project (ESRC Report "Divided we stand: bridging differential understandings of ...Immune therapy could treat leukemias, autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection
...athan Poe in Tedder's laboratory. The research was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are those created to target a specific protein. In their studies, the Duke researchers used mAbs targeting a protein called CD19 that is found on the surface of B cells. As their expe...New rheumatoid arthritis drug developed at UCSD promises improved treatment options
...Clinical Investigation Symposium." The symposium, sponsored by the CII and Nature Medicine, was held in La Jol...ective in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, which took place between 2000 and 2005 and involved 160 patien...New study results suggest better outcomes with the CYPHER Stent than brachytherapy
...nts who received brachytherapy. The SISR trial was sponsored by Cordis Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson company. "The efficacy and safety results from this study were significantly better in the drug-eluting stent arm of the study," said Principal Investigator David R. Holmes, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medicine ...Hopkins scientist to direct international studies of antibiotic as new treatment for tuberculosis
...most hard by the duel epidemics. CREATE, which is sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has three community-based studies under way in Africa and Brazil....Dual therapy works best for controlling asthma
...both Ni Croinin and Greenstone and colleagues were sponsored by the manufacturers of either LABA medications or inhaled steroids. Francine Ducharme, M.D., an author on both reviews, has received speaking and consulting fees from AstraZeneca (producer of formoterol and the steroid budesonide), GlaxoSmithKline (...Three-year SAPPHIRE and US carotid feasibility trials demonstrate durability of carotid stenting
.... Cordis Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson company, sponsored the SAPPHIRE and USFS clinical trials. Jay S. Yadav, M.D., the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and a principal investigator for the SAPPHIRE trial said, "The SAPPHIRE trial demonstrated CAS was non-inferior to CEA. This is important new data which sug...Herceptin treatment lowers recurrence rate in early breast cancer
...tant to many chemotherapy agents. The HERA trial, sponsored by Roche, the manufacturer of Herceptin, and carried out by the Breast International Group (BIG), a federation of international breast cancer clinical trial cooperative groups, began enrolling patients in 2001. The aim is to determine whether Hercept...Testosterone therapy improves sexual function in post-menopausal women
...nd Organon and has received honoraria for lectures sponsored by the last two companies. By Lise Stevens, Contributing Writer Health Behavior News Service...Findings of new Gallup survey on sleep in older adults to be released
...d Healthy Aging Scientific Consensus Conference is sponsored by the International Longevity Center-USA and made possible by an unrestricted educational grant from Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc....PLoS Medicine publishes first trial of effect of male circumcision on HIV infection
...a team of French and South African researchers and sponsored by ANRS (the French National Agency of Research on AIDS), took place in the Orange Farm area near Johannesburg, where male circumcision in adulthood is a common but not universal practice. The researchers offered young sexually active uncircumcised...Decline in breast cancer deaths explained by use of screening and adjuvant therapies
...ng Network (CISNET), a consortium of investigators sponsored by the NCI whose purpose is to measure the effect of cancer-control interventions on the incidence of and risk of death from cancer in the general population. The seven breast cancer teams involved in this study are from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ...Institute of Medicine news: Report on mental illnesses and drug addictions
...mpared with general health care. The study was sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation; CIGNA Foundation; U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Institu...Vitamin D, taxotere combination extends the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer
...ey role in the development of the drug. ASCENT was sponsored by Novacea, maker of DN-101, with support from Sanofi-Aventis, maker of Taxotere. Based on ASCENT results, Novacea plans to begin a phase III clinical trial in early 2006. Beer and OHSU have a significant financial interest in Novacea, a compa...Oxford Open first quarter results show marked differences in uptake across disciplines
...unded open access (Journal ofExperimental Botany); sponsored open access, Evidence-based Complementaryand Alternative Medicine (eCAM); and full open access, Nucleic AcidsResearch (NAR). NAR, one of the first major science journals of such statureand prestige to move to a full open access model in January 2005,...Evacuation of elders during disasters to be addressed at GSA's upcoming annual meeting
...al origins and implications of this trend. Session sponsored by the GSA Task Force on Women. Monday, November 21 at 3:15 p.m. Civic Engagement in an Older America: In 2004, GSA launched the "Civic Engagement in an Older America" project, a five-year initiative funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. One of t...Measurement and standards issues in telemedicine
... of a series on the U.S. Measurement System (USMS) sponsored by NIST to assess and document the nation's priority measurement and measurement-related standards needs for technological innovation, U.S. industrial competitiveness, safety and security, and quality of life. Registration information is available at...Fewer heart failure patients die when hospitals make efforts to improve care
...co-led by U-M heart specialists. Both projects are sponsored by the American College of Cardiology as part of its Guidelines Applied in Practice or GAP project, which seeks to ensure that all hospitalized heart patients receive proven treatments, counseling for lifestyle changes and education that can help the...