Painless test using teardrops may speed diagnosis of Sjgren's syndrome
... being refined, could be available to consumers in two to three years, he estimates. The development of an accurate and noninvasive diagnostic test [for Sjgrens] would be of considerable value in the clinical field, Tomosugi says. Early diagnosis is considered key to reducing the severity of disease symp...ACHRI study finds CellCept improves survival in pediatric heart transplant patients
... study of nearly 400 pediatric patients, beginning two weeks post-transplant. The study was led by resea...l in 395 pediatric patients surviving greater than two weeks post-transplant, ranging in age from one day to 17.9 years, with initial immunosuppression of ...In years preceding medicare eligibility, many older adults at risk of being uninsured
... 51 to 57 years (n = 6,065) were interviewed every two years from 1992 to 2000. At the time of interview,...ing uninsured over a ten-year follow-up period was two to three times higher than cross-sectional estimates. At least one-quarter of older adults will be u...Older children may benefit from treatment for lazy eye
...ven to 12 in the treatment group were treated with two to six hours a day of patching over the sound eye combined with near visual activities such as playing with a GameBoy, homework, or reading, and one drop daily of atropine for the sound eye. Patients in the older treatment group (aged 13 to 17 years)...Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson disease reduces uncontrolled movements
CHICAGO Deep brain stimulation of two different areas of the brain appears to improve pr...a number of studies have shown that stimulation of two different areas of the brain, the globus pallidus interna (GPi) and the subthalmic nucleus (STN), ca...National trial shows older children benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
..." Children in the study were divided randomly into two groups. One group was fitted with new prescription... amblyopia. Patching was prescribed for periods of two to six hours daily, while the drop was administered daily for the children 7 to 12 years of age. T...News briefs from the journal CHEST, April 2005
... raise the possibility that asthma and GERD may be two common conditions in the same patients. The study appears in the April issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians....Hopkins study shows older children also benefit from 'lazy eye' treatment
...the study, 507 children were randomly divided into two groups. One was fitted with new prescription eyegl...ealthy eye. Patching was prescribed for periods of two to six hours daily, while the eyedrops were administered daily for children. Children wearing patche...Study finds no link between cell phone use and brain tumors
...e calls. But there were no differences between the two groups on how well they portrayed their cell phone use. Johansen said that finding minimizes the possibility of what researchers call "recall bias," or the chance that people with brain tumor may exaggerate or underestimate their past cell phone use....Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...rtant, was not statistically different between the two groups. Similarly, measures of artery stiffness did not improve significantly in either exercisers or non-exercisers. Diastolic reductions were significant, at 3.7 mm/Hg for exercisers and 1.5 mm/Hg for non-exercisers, respectively, indicating a d...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
... mining and burning oil and coal," he says. Number two on the list is agriculture, where science is devel...a, Asia, and Latin America has no clean water, and two million children die each year from water-related diseases, such as diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, and ...Older children can benefit from treatment for childhood's most common eye disorder
... Children in the study were divided randomly into two groups. One group was fitted with new prescription... amblyopia. Patching was prescribed for periods of two to six hours daily, while the eye drops were administered daily for the children seven though 12 yea...Abnormal lung cancer screening results may help smokers quit
...inent from smoking, compared to 28 percent who had two abnormal scans and 24 percent and 20 percent who had one or no abnormal scans, respectively. Factors that contributed to smoking abstinence among baseline smokers were older age, worse baseline pulmonary function, and previous year abnormal CT findin...Grandmothers' smoking linked to grandchildren's asthma decades later
...hey hypothesize that smoke can affect the child in two ways: First, if the child is a girl, her eggs may be affected, which will in turn put her future children at risk; and second, the fetus's mitochondria may be damaged through subtle changes in which genes are turned on or off-changes that may be tran...University of Kentucky physician publishes fibromyalgia study in Arthritis & Rheumatism journal
..., aspirin or symptomatic migraine treatment. The two most common side effects reported by Lyrica-treate...oved Lyrica in December 2004 for the management of two of the most common forms of neuropathic (nerve) pain, diabetic peripheral neuropathy and post herpet...Chemical present in clear plastics can impair learning and cause disease
..., in which hippocampal function is impaired. About two billion pounds of BPA are produced annually in the United States. In addition to its use in plastics, BPA is found in dental sealants and prostheses. BPA derivatives are used as flameretardants in adhesives, paper and textiles....Probable cause sequences for WTC collapses finalized
...he World Trade Center (WTC) towers collapsed after two aircraft were flown into the buildings by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. The study is the most detailed examination of a building failure ever conducted. "Like most building collapses, these events were the result of a combination of factors," said Sh...Columbia research suggests need to rethink causes of heart failure
...atients have been routinely classified into one of two groups - those with hearts that are pumping abnormally, considered systolic heart failure, and those with hearts that pump blood out normally but have trouble filling with blood, which was typically called diastolic heart failure. The patients who ...Adverse outcomes from blood clot therapy may be due to patient characteristics, not dosing errors
...ASSENT-2) trial. Patients were assigned to one of two clot-dissolving fibrinolytic treatments: either tenecteplase (given as a five second bolus; with alteplase placebo) or alteplase (given as a bolus plus infusion, with tenecteplase placebo). The researchers found that incorrect dosing occurred in 4.9 ...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
...ersing the disease's effects on heart structure in two ways and easing their disabling symptoms, research...ived at least a month after the operation. All but two were still alive six months after surgery. The ring was co-invented by Steven Bolling, M.D., the Uni...