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Long-term Use of Herceptin Does Not Increase Heart Failure in Patients

...at although Herceptin provides a clear and notable benefit to women with HER-2 positive breast cancer, it also causes an increased risk for congestive heart failure a 4.1 percent incidence of congestive health failure was reported in the Herceptin and chemotherapy group compared to a 0.8 percent increase in...

Combination Improves Survival of Metastatic Melanoma Patients: Phase II Study

...n private practice in Minneapolis. "The clinical benefit may seem small, but in the world of melanoma where there is very little progress, this is certainly a strong indication that the combination of chemotherapy with an antiangiogenic agent may be a valid treatment strategy for these patients. But the on...

Cell Genesys Reports Additional Data From Phase 2 Clinical Trial of GVAX Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer

...al data further showed that the potential additive benefit of GVAX following surgery and adjuvant therapy was present during the first three years of the study although GVAX dosing did not continue beyond 18 months, suggesting that ongoing booster administrations of GVAX should be evaluated. Immunologic find...

Marriage Could Lift One Out of Depression, New Study

...ressed to have worse marital quality and therefore benefit less from a transition into marriage. The findin... people do have unhappier marriages. The depressed benefit more from a transition into marriage despite their having, on average, worse marital quality, Frech ...

AAPPO Launches ACT on Diabetes Initiative to Promote Improved Diabetes Care

...formation on talking with employers on health care benefit design strategies that improve access to diabetes services....

PET/CT: The Best Test for Women With Ovarian Cancer

...ates the extent of the disease, so women who could benefit from additional surgery are difficult to identify," he added. "This is the largest prospective study thus far undertaken with PET/CT," said Fulham, indicating that 90 women, from three states in Australia, underwent standard tests and a PET/CT scan...

New Probiotic Supplement, Promotes Digestive Health and Boosts Immune System

...cial to everyone, people of all ages (over 12) can benefit from taking a probiotic supplement like Sustenex with GanedenBC30 daily," said Lefkowitz. Sustenex is currently available at Walgreens, Meijer and Discount Drug Mart and online at drugstore.com, amazon.com, rofay.com and doctorvicks.com....

Women of Child-Bearing Age Urged to Take a Multivitamin With Folic Acid

...relative risk of stroke by 18 percent or more. The benefit was even greater in those trials involving a longer treatment duration or in those subjects who had no previous history of stroke. The study also found that in countries and population groups that did not already have access to increased amounts of f...

Clinical Outcomes of Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer Patients can Be Classified by New Algorithms

...equate methods for determining which patients will benefit from treatment with certain drugs. The new models could help physicians decide who will benefit from certain treatment options. The studies are published in the June 6 Journal of the National Ca...

"Pre-treatment Blood Test" A New Guide to Lung Cancer Therapy

...real clinical need to identify which patients will benefit from targeted therapies, said David Carbone, M.D.,...ib (Tarceva), studies have demonstrated a survival benefit for 30 to 40 percent of lung cancer patients, but there has been no method for identifying these pat...

New Bacterium Discovered - Related to Cause of Trench Fever

...is enables us to use our work in the laboratory to benefit patients in the clinics and hospital. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research received by Koehler....

GAB2-A New Alzheimers Gene Identified

...tion of patients and at-risk people most likely to benefit from those treatments, said Dr. Eric Reiman, the studys first author and Executive Director of the Banner Alzheimers Institute. After finding an association between a form of the GAB2 gene and Alzheimers disease in three separate groups, the resear...

CRN Emphasizes Importance of Folic Acid Benefits

...owing a potential benefit. The lack of an observed benefit in this study may have resulted because folic acid was used like a drug to treat pre-existing disease, rather than as a nutrient. "It's not surprising that folic acid alone may not prevent the recurrence of adenomas," said Dr. Shao. "Perhaps in combi...

Second CyberKnife(R) System to Meet Growing Demand for Radiosurgery

...atients, establish a stronger referral network and benefit financially is evidence that the investment in a versatile technology, such as the CyberKnife System, is a wise one," said Euan S. Thomson, Ph.D., president and CEO of Accuray. "The fact that multiple centers have purchased a second system demonstrat...

Zimbabwe Receives 15m Dollars of AIDS Drugs from US

...by the end of the year. Dell said the deal would benefit people who are already benefitting from free anti-retroviral programmes. "We hope that during that time, other donors and the (UN) Global Fund will be in a position to provide additional assistance," he said. Zimbabwe's HIV prevalence rate has drop...

Bush Administration Allows Returning Soldiers to Disintegrate, Say Critics

...lion since 2001. Tricare's psychological health benefit is "hindered by fragmented rules and policies, inadequate oversight and insufficient reimbursement," the Defense Department's mental health task force said last month after reviewing the military's psychological care system. The Tricare office tha...

Targeted HIV Testing An Effective Way to Screen HIV Patients

..., the data shows there would be substantially more benefit from a more targeted program that includes rather than discards risk reduction counselingincluding more diagnosed infections and more transmissions prevented,' said Holtgrave, who is professor and chair of the Bloomberg Schools Department of Health, ...

Vaccines On Your Plate

...of which have rice as a staple food, are likely to benefit most. Says Kiyono: "We are considering rice as a new vaccine production and storage system, and natural vaccine delivery vehicle. The vaccine expressed in rice, or rice-based vaccine, will become a new form of vaccine production and delivery to [...

Drugs may Help Turn on Gene Switched Off in Cancer

... new class of targeted therapies with potential to benefit many different cancer types. During the study, the researchers found that a gene called Brahma (BRM) was silent, but not missing, in some cancer cells. They found that the gene was turned off in about 15 percent of tumours studied, including cells ...

Research Shows How Women Deal With the Stress When Trying for a Baby!

... a separate ovarian reserve test would be of great benefit to them so they can assess their fertility levels when it suits them. Unlike any other test that is available for use at home Fertell assesses the quality of the eggs released. Almost a third of fertility issues are due to female factors2 and early...

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