Bayer and Onyx announce pivotal Nexavar kidney cancer study published in NEJM
...vember 30, 2005. Results showed a continued trend toward improved survival, with a 23% reduction in the risk of death (19.3 months for Nexavar patients versus 15.9 months for placebo patients; hazard ratio 0.77, p=0.02), despite the fact that nearly half of placebo patients had "crossed over" to Nexavar. ...Emory and Finland Public Health Institute to build global health network with $20M Gates grant
...ld basic public health infrastructure and progress toward becoming fully functioning NPHIs. IANPHI was formally launched in January 2006 with 39 founding members and a one-year planning grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The members include the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in...Better review of new technology is needed to reduce health costs
...dures. According to Redberg, in order to evolve toward a more systematic approach and increase value, there first must be an acknowledgement of the importance of evidence-based health policy, and second, an evidence-based approach that includes reevaluation over time must be incorporated into approval an...Over 200 million children under age 5 failing to reach their potential in cognitive development
...experiences to children and families, are targeted toward younger and disadvantaged children, are of longer duration, higher quality, higher intensity, and are integrated with family support, health, nutrition, or educational systems and services. Despite convincing evidence of cost effectiveness, programme...Youth are receiving shorter inpatient stays for mental health treatment
...an what's found in the study, we've seen the trend toward shorter lengths of stay occur over the last decade. It's been necessary to develop rapid and systematic assessments of our child and adolescent patients and to develop comprehensive treatment plans faster than ever before because of the pressure from...Brain studies reveal the mechanisms of the voluntary control of visual attention
...articipants were asked to keep their gaze directed toward the center of a computer screen. They then were pr...the bicyclist suddenly made an unexpected movement toward the car," Woldorff said. "Or, once upon a time, it may have helped our prehistoric ancestors forage...Bottleneck in blood supply makes brain vulnerable to strokes
... and understanding the mechanism is the first step toward understanding how to prevent it." To determine what happens in the brain during a stroke, the researchers created a tiny clot in a blood vessel in the brain of an anesthetized rat. They used focused laser light to excite a dye they had in...Cough and phlegm cause fourfold increase in COPD incidence
...h previous research, we found that the progression toward airflow obstruction is a continuous and gradual process, where sudden changes are extremely unlikely." Among the study group, about 77 percent of the 123 COPD cases were smokers. In the sample as a whole, about 55 percent smoked. The authors note...UCLA study finds a need for services that help homeless youth obtain health insurance
...setting. There is a need for interventions geared toward this group in facilitating health insurance coverage. For instance, homeless shelter operators can help them apply for MediCal. ...CHPA statement regarding 'Monitoring the Future' findings on cough medicine abuse
...ounter cough medicines, we take our responsibility toward public health seriously. We believe strongly in the power of education and are committed to raising awareness about medicine abuse and giving parents and other key influencers in teens' lives the tools they need to stop this preventable problem. ...The future of federally funded food programs -- Can they also fight obesity?
...ment of Agriculture, have made significant strides toward eliminating nutrition-related health disparities between low-income and higher-income groups. Despite this success, federally-funded nutrition programs have faced criticism for potentially contributing to the nation's obesity epidemic. To dispel this...Researchers identify genes that allow brain cancer-causing stem cells to resist treatment
...form and grow," said Yu. "This may be a major step toward designing therapies that use brain cancer stem cells as a target, not only to destroy a tumor but to prevent it from coming back."...Capture study shows safety of carotid stenting in 'real-world' setting
... surveillance studies. "What were really working toward is providing patients with greater access to the t.... Gray said. "The CAPTURE trial is a giant step toward achieving the goal of proving that, in the foreseeable future, nonsurgical carotid stent placement w...UCSD researchers discover internal compass of immune cell
... puzzle of how neutrophils find their way and move toward sites of injury or infection in the body," said se...hain of events necessary to direct the neutrophils toward its goal begins when ATP is released from the region of the cell surface closest to the source of ch...Could the ability to expel worms lead to a future asthma treatment?
...del. A landmark in immunology, it was a major step toward unraveling the systems complexities. Todays study results show how the model continues to define new players in the immune system and to suggest new treatment approaches. "The point of the study is that each new detail in our understanding of the i...Genomic tests improve prediction of breast cancer response to chemotherapy, hormonal therapy
... the drug tamoxifen. "We are moving these tests toward clinical trials, where we can measure improvements in treatment response and track how physicians and patients use this information to make better decisions about treatment," says one of the team leaders, Lajos Pusztai, M.D., Ph.D., associate profes...Mass. General leading international trial of novel breast cancer drug
...r of Tykerb. This trial represents another step toward understanding the role of targeted therapies in extending disease-free survival, said Paul Goss, MD, PhD, director of Breast Cancer Research at the MGH Cancer Center, who proposed the TEACH study and chairs the International Steering Committee. Ab...Congressional action strengthens internal medicine ACP says
...preciate the steps that Congress has taken to move toward reform of both the payment and care-delivery systems, it is essential that the new 110th Congress agree on a longer term fix that would provide positive and stable updates, create sustained incentives for quality improvement, lead to the elimination ...Drug combination slows progression of treatment resistant bone marrow cancer
... The interim analysis also showed an early trend toward increased survival for patients taking the combination treatment, Orlowski said. Additional data on survival and the complete results of this analysis, as well as other factors such as quality of life, will be reported at a later date. More than 11...Hospital performance measures may not make much difference when it comes to mortality
...said Werner. "Medicare has taken an important step toward that goal by publishing hospital performance in all acute care hospitals in the United States on their website, Hospital Compare." This study was conducted to determine whether these quality measures are correlated with and predictive of hospitals r...