Drug-eluting stent controversy explored in the American Heart Hospital Journal
... common practice used to reduce blood clotting, is unlikely or impossible. Dr. Peter Fitzgerald of Stanford University Medical Center, who writes with his colleagues, Drs. Shimohama and Honda of the Center for Cardiovascular Technology, offers his view of the future of DESs. While first generation DESs plac...Experts predict Tamiflu could halve the pandemic influenza death toll versus no intervention
...f an actual pandemic outbreak, especially as it is unlikely that a vaccine fully matched to the strain will be...termined. The first doses of a matched vaccine are unlikely to become available within the early months of the pandemic, making prophylaxis and treatment with a...Damon Runyon renews its $2.25 million investment to support young clinical cancer investigators
...benefit from interferon therapy from those who are unlikely to respond. Dr. Joel Rubenstein brings basic research to the bedside to address a growing health crisis in the United States - how obesity contributes to cancer. Using novel epidemiological analyses, he will investigate the association between...Aging stem cells in mice may hold answers to diseases of the aged, Stanford study finds
...wever, researchers had thought that mutations were unlikely to underlie aging in blood-forming stem cells because they very rarely divide, and most mutations crop up during division. The infrequent divisions were believed to protect the cells from acquiring new mutations. Rossi, Weissman and the other first...Antipsychotic drugs increase risk of death in older people with dementia
...ic problems or if symptoms, such as wandering, are unlikely to respond to antipsychotic treatment. This study shouldn't lead to a panic about these drugs, said Dr. Gill. The risk for an individual patient is relatively small. But our results are clinically important. I hope this study encourages discuss...New mothers often not asked about depression, UNC survey finds
...e previous three months, 79 percent said they were unlikely to formally screen the patients for depression. An estimated 13 percent of new mothers are affected by postpartum depression. The study will be published June 6, 2007 in the North Carolina Medical Journal. We believe that it is very important that ...How brain pacemakers erase diseased messages
...a condition like epilepsy, however, it's extremely unlikely that a person would have a seizure in the doctor's office," he said. "Therefore, it might take months of trial and error to find the optimal setting." Grill's new model promises to streamline the process. ...Syphilis screening, lithium fights neurodegeneration, monoclonal antibodies against avian flu
... effects outside the brain). Lithium alone is thus unlikely to be a miracle cure for spinocerebellar ataxia, but the research suggests that is might be of some help to patients who currently have no other treatments available, even if (as is usual), their condition is not diagnosed until the disease is quite ...Scavenger cells may have role blocking obesity, Stanford study shows
...dent in Chawla's lab. Macrophages once seemed an unlikely participant in obesity. They are white blood cells that swallow and digest cellular debris and pathogens, triggering other immune cells to aid in the response to a pathogen. But in recent years, macrophages found in fat tissue of obese animals have b...No evidence older women generate new eggs
Tampa, FL (May 8, 2007) -- It is highly unlikely that older women generate new eggs, report researchers at the University of South Florida in collaboration with a center in China. The USF study, published in the March 2007 issue of the journal Developmental Biology and highlighted April 26, 2007...Promising drug fails to improve COPD symptoms
... with the "resoundingly negative results," make in unlikely that a longer trial will be undertaken, according to the accompanying editorial. ...Recommended doses of ginseng, ginko biloba do not interfere with drug absorption
...doses, or the combination of both supplements, are unlikely to alter the pharmacokinetics - by which drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body - of the majority of prescription or over-the counter drugs. Dr. Reeds presentation was part of the scientific program of the American S...Did drug reps encourage doctors to prescribe gabapentin for nonapproved uses?
...doctors who were not neurologists, so who would be unlikely to be prescribing gabapentin for its approved use. Doctors reported that a substantial proportion of the detail visits contained messages relating to non-approved uses of gabapentin. Although the majority of visits lasted 5 minutes or less, nearly ha...Scientists and polar explorers brave the elements in support of CryoSat-2
It is perhaps an unlikely combination an international team of scientists stationed in Svalbard, Norway and two polar explorers crossing the North Pole on foot. Both teams, however, are currently part of a common effort to collect vital data on the ground and from the air in...Eating cured meats frequently can lead to lower lung function and potential COPD
...ociation between cured meats and lung function was unlikely to be explained by potential dietary confounding factors reported in previous studies," said Dr. Jiang. The researchers noted that high dietary nitrite intake warrants further evaluation in prospective longitudinal studies as a novel risk factor fo...Opportunistic chlamydia screening 'not underpinned by sound evidence'
...nying editorial. "Most people who are affected are unlikely to seek sexual health testing and may only be assessed via a proactive approach rather than the opportunistic screening programme currently offered."...Call for greater use of comparative effectiveness studies to help advance disease management
...e effects in this study. "In osteoporosis, it is unlikely that prospective, head-to-head clinical fracture trials will be conducted due to the large number of patients required to show a difference between two effective therapies," said Professor Delmas, REAL study author, Universit Claude Bernard, Lyon. "L...Actigraphy is a useful way to assess and manage sleep disorders
...r where actigraphy may be helpful, and where it is unlikely to be helpful," said Timothy Morgenthaler, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., one of the committee members. "Because there is substantial evidence to indicate actigraphy is indicated for evaluation and management of specific common sleep di...HIV in late childhood and adolescence a growing problem
...survival from birth to adolescence with HIV was so unlikely without treatment as to be negligible. This just doesnt fit with what we see in Zimbabwe and hear from neighbouring counties. "It is now being realised that these earlier assumptions were wrong and that instead somewhere around 1 in 10 infected inf...... unless prompted by the patient or test results is unlikely to assess the patients mental status. "Doctors like to quantify things. We can objectively measure blood pressure, blood sugar or cholesterol, but symptoms of anxiety can be missed in a busy primary care practice. The seven-question GAD-7 and rema...