Newer imaging techniques may lead to over-treatment
...nefit ratio of therapy in patients with previously undetectable small clots in the peripheral pulmonary vasculature," he added. Dr. Prologo recommends a large-scale prospective randomized study to determine if patients with small clots need to undergo anticoagulation treatment. "Today a great many more patients a...Cancer research could lead to improved detection methods
...e have shown that early lesions that are virtually undetectable with current clinical methods carry molecular changes or mistakes that may commit cells to develop into a tumour." "Our study emphasizes the need to develop molecular tests for detecting cancer at its pre-clinical stages, when chemoprevention regimes...HIV treatment not affected by hormonal birth control
... approximately 2.7 times more likely to achieve an undetectable viral load than nonusers. "From a public health perspective, our findings alleviate concerns regarding suspected negative effects of hormonal contraceptive use on the response to HAART. However, sexually active HIV-infected women who wish to use hor...Treating children with chronic hepatitis C
...nths later, 39 of the 61 patients (64 percent) had undetectable levels of HCV RNA. Three of these responders relapsed during the 6-month follow-up period, but 36 (59 percent) remained HCV-free. All of the children with HCV genotype 2 or 3 achieved a persistent sustained viral response, in contrast to the fewer th...Mayo Clinic researchers discover genetic glitch in the heart's electrical system
...on." The mutations or genetic glitches in RyR2 are undetectable with a regular electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG). The heart rhythm condition resulting from such genetic glitches is called catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia or CPVT and was first described only 10 years ago. Physicians should consid...Exposure to carcinogenic crop toxin lowered by simple intervention
...0% of individuals in the intervention villages had undetectable aflatoxin levels compared with only 2% of individuals in the control villages at the end of the study....HIV treatment programs in poor countries as effective as in developed countries
...ld showed that about 57 percent of patients had an undetectable level of HIV in their blood one year after startin...RT initiation, nearly 30 percent more patients had undetectable viral levels when they received the drugs at no cost than did those who had to pay. Lead author Loui...Newest HIV drugs should be used with FUZEON(R)
...s facing resistance their best chance of achieving undetectable viral load the optimal treatment goal for all peo...atients facing HIV resistance and failing to reach undetectable viral load." Studies presented this week show that when FUZEON was given in combination with the nov...Penn researchers discover a molecular pathway that leads to recurrence of breast cancer
... the dramatic regression of tumors to a clinically undetectable state. Nevertheless, residual tumor cells lie in a dormant state and later grow out after a month to a year in the mice. Using microarrays, Chodosh's team compared recurrent tumors with the original tumors from which they arose. They found that a v...Liver CRP production linked to atherosclerosis
...iver obtained from atherosclerotic rabbits but was undetectable in vascular cells or macrophages. Again, results were confirmed in human specimens: insignificant mRNA levels found in atherosclerotic aorta compared to high levels in liver. Finally, in vitro analysis revealed that hepatocytes, but not macrophages...Adult stem cells aid recovery in animal model of cerebral palsy
...ave cerebral palsy, with consequences ranging from undetectable to major physical and mental impairment. Currently there is no treatment to repair or reduce the damage of cerebral palsy; tPA was approved in 1996 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the first stroke treatment to reduce the damage of ischemi...New HIV guidelines support use of FUZEON + active boosted PI for treatment-experienced patients
...he suppression of the virus to levels that make it undetectable in the blood, for treatment-experienced patients who show some drug resistance but still have some active antiretroviral agents available. An active drug is one that is still effective against the virus....TPV EU approval provides new HIV active drug to be combined with FUZEON
...ng suppression of the virus to levels that make it undetectable in the blood for these patients....Interferon with ribavirin is safe and effective for children with chronic Hepatitis C
...g 12 mg/kg/day, and 47 percent of 15/mg/kg/day had undetectable levels of HCV in their blood. Side effects were similar among all doses. Based on this data, the researchers selected the dosage 15 mg/kg/day for further study. In all, 118 children with HCV received the optimized treatment--interferon with 15 mg/kg...Pregnant women need HIV testing to protect themselves and their babies
...t lowers the virus load in her body to essentially undetectable levels, which helps protect her from developing AIDS and reduces the risk of transmission to her baby, Dr. Helfgott says. C-sections also are believed to reduce the risk. Babies born to an HIV-positive mother are put on AZT, the first drug approved t...New studies identify advances in treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia
...complete response, with three of them achieving an undetectable level of BCR-ABL transcript. In addition, three p...tion, and two patients (who previously achieved an undetectable level of BCR-ABL transcript) lost the complete molecular response (CMR), but maintained CCyR. This ...Investigational boosted protease inhibitor, TMC114, works better with FUZEON
...e than doubles the proportion of patients reaching undetectable levels of the virus. This latest study provides further evidence that FUZEON now makes undetectable viral loads more achievable for patients failing on their current therapies, when used in combinatio...Treating glaucoma early lowers economic burden
...ages of the disease because symptoms are virtually undetectable without an eye exam. In their study, the team sought to determine whether the costs of managing glaucoma varied as the disease progressed in order to understand the relationship of patients' use of health resources to severity of disease. They analy...Study sets new gold standard for initial antiretroviral treatment of HIV infection
...e combination were able to suppress viral loads to undetectable levels (less than 50 copies per milliliter of blood), compared to 70 percent in the zidovudine-lamivudine group. As viral levels dropped, the immune systems of patients who received the tenofovir-emtricitabine regimen also rebounded most, as measur...Whites more likely than blacks to die soon after spouse's death
...s -- is large and enduring among white couples but undetectable among black couples, suggesting that blacks may somehow manage to extend marriage's well-documented health benefits into widowhood. The results, by Harvard sociologists Felix Elwert and Nicholas A. Christakis, are published in the February issue of A...