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Aboriginal People Less Likely to Use Methadone Therapy

...f their addiction. Dr. Evan Wood and colleagues evaluated factors associated with use of methadone maintenance therapy among 1603 injection drug users from May 1996 to November 2005. At enrolment, 12.4% of Aboriginal participants used methadone, compared with 21.2% of non-Aboriginal participants. Among hero...

EpiCept Accelerates Development of Phase I Clinical Study for Cancer

...on activity (VDA). The compound is currently being evaluated in two Phase II human clinical trials, one in patients with primary brain cancer and the other in brain metastases due to melanoma. EpiCept's licensing agreement with Myriad for Azixa includes milestone payments, and sublicensing income as well as fu...

Autism Children can Be Diagnosed Within One Year of Age

...sorder has ever been diagnosed. The study, which evaluated social and communication development in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) from 14 to 36 months of age, revealed that approximately half of all children with autism can be diagnosed around the first birthday. The remaining half will be diagnosed later, ...

Benefits From the Use of the Internet in Healthcare Applications Highlighted

...t opportunities and industry trends that have been evaluated following extensive interviews with market participants. Interviews with the press are available. Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more t...

Elevated Carbondioxide may Have Negative Impact on Ecosystem

..., and his colleagues conducted tests in which they evaluated this herbivorous attack-defense cycle. They studied soybeans grown in traditional field conditions but with additional exposure to ambient CO2. The results showed that the amount of cysteine proteinase inhibitors (CystPls) expressed in the genes de...

Fat Horses Face Health Problems

...cause of obesity. Fifty-one percent of the horses evaluated during the pioneering research were determined to be overweight or obese and may be subject to serious health problems like laminitis and hyperinsulinemia. And just like people, it appears as though the culprits are over-eating and lack of exercise....

Water Hyacinth is Used for Health Improvements in Africa

...ing non-native predatory species must be carefully evaluated before they are introduced. These risks include invasiveness by the control agents themselves and unintended effects on non-target species. Biocontrol agents must also be carefully monitored after introduction for any unforeseen environmental chang...

Pharmacogenomic Market Gaining Greater Acceptance Across Europe

...t opportunities and industry trends that have been evaluated following extensive interviews with market participants. Interviews with the press are available. Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more th...

Contamination of the Environment by Antibiotics Fed to Livestock

...ournal of Environmental Quality. Plant uptake was evaluated in a greenhouse study involving three food crops: corn, lettuce, and potato. Plants were grown on soil modified with liquid hog manure containing Sulfamethazine, a commonly used veterinary antibiotic. This antibiotic was taken up by all three crops. ...

Tumor Blood Flow can Improve Chemotherapy

...ortant because drugs such as bevacizumab are being evaluated in clinical trials for children with neuroblastoma. However, there are no standard guidelines for how much of the drug to give or when to give it. Such guidelines would be especially helpful for developing combination therapy with both bevacizumab ...

Bed Side Robot Gets You Home Back Faster

...dy, conducted at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Md., evaluated 376 patients who underwent a laparoscopic gastric bypass for morbid obesity. One group of patients (n=284) was assessed by standard bedside physician rounds during the postoperative period. A second group (n=92) was assessed by traditional surgeon be...

Study Shows Positive Results for Zestra(R) Feminine Arousal Fluid

...ual Function Index (FSFI). This Phase 3-type study evaluated the efficacy and safety of Zestra(R) compared to placebo oil in approximately 200 women diagnosed with acquired mixed interest/ desire/ arousal/ orgasm disorders in conditions of home use in conjunction with sexual activities. Of the 296 women scre...

Smokers may Be Motivated to Quit During Interventions in Hospital Stays

...ay quit after leaving the hospital. The reviewers evaluated 33 studies that included nearly 14,500 adults who had smoked cigarettes within the past month. Patients received advice to quit smoking and/or behavioral counseling by a research nurse or a trained smoking cessation counselor. Counseling ranged fro...

Pregnant Women's Contest to Curb Infant Mortality

... and hygiene standards at home. The criteria are evaluated by a couple of doctors from nearby hospitals, NGO members working in the slums and women leaders there. "We check whether they are taking iron tablets or not, getting all the injections required during pregnancy or not. We also see whether they are...

Scientists Identify Previously Undetected Drug-resistant Forms of HIV

...fferent approaches to antiretroviral therapy. It evaluated the long-term clinical and virologic effects of three initial antiretroviral drug regimens for treatment-nave HIV infected persons. The researchers used the Genome Sequencer system and Ultra Deep Sequencing technology, developed by 454 Life Science...

Effective Treatment for Malaria Control

...opical Medicine, Liverpool, England and colleagues evaluated data to assess whether increasing the frequency of IPT with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine during pregnancy could provide a temporary respite in areas in Africa with increasing sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance. The researchers identified four trials...

Global Climate Change and Toxic Chemicals: A Potentialy Lethal Combination

...ironmental Toxicology and Chemistry. The authors evaluated the effects of three organic chemicals commonly found in the environment: endosulfan, chloripyrifos and phenol. The first two are used as agricultural pesticides, and phenol is a common industrial chemical and a component in plant extracts. Four fish...

FDA Approves INTUNIV (guanfacine) for the Treatment of ADHD

...s safety and efficacy in controlling ADHD symptoms evaluated on a once-weekly basis using the ADHD Rating Scale (ADHD-RS-IV), which included both hyperactive/impulsive and inattentive subscales. ADHD-RS-IV is a standardized, validated test for assessing symptoms of ADHD in children and for assessing their resp...

Novel Method to Inhibit Prostate Cancer

...ontaining the toxic agent paclitaxel-palmitate and evaluated the efficiency of these emulsions in laboratory tests on cancerous prostate cells and on mice with induced prostate cancer. He found that this emulsion compound did not cause a hypersensitive reaction upon injection and even yielded better results th...

Software Improvements in Breast MRI Scans

...SCCA. Computer software programs such as the one evaluated in our study can assist us in interpreting breast ...ed suspicious by the radiologist should be further evaluated regardless of the enhancement features determined by CAE, according to the study. Williams said sh...

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